Circular Documentation
  • Getting Started
  • Introduction
    • Introducing Circular
  • Circular's Mission
  • Circular's Technology
    • Certificates & Data Anchoring
    • Multi-Chain Architecture
    • Certified Nodes & Jurisdictional Deployment
    • HyperCode & GPU Accelerated Processing
    • Proof of Reputation Consensus Mechanism
  • Certified Intelligence
  • Developer Tools
    • Enterprise APIs
      • Javascript
        • CEP_Account.open()
        • CEP_Account.setNetwork()
        • CEP_Account.setBlockchain()
        • CEP_Account.update()
        • CEP_Account.submitCertificate()
        • CEP_Account.getTransactionOutcome()
        • CEP_Account.getTransaction()
        • CEP_Account.close()
      • Node.JS
        • CEP_Account.open()
        • CEP_Account.setNetwork()
        • CEP_Account.setBlockchain()
        • CEP_Account.update()
        • CEP_Account.submitCertificate()
        • CEP_Account.getTransactionOutcome()
        • CEP_Account.getTransaction()
        • CEP_Account.close()
      • PHP
        • CEP_Account.open()
        • CEP_Account.setNetwork()
        • CEP_Account.setBlockchain()
        • CEP_Account.updateAccount()
        • CEP_Account.submitCertificate()
        • CEP_Account.getTransactionOutcome()
        • CEP_Account.getTransaction()
        • CEP_Account.close()
      • Python
        • CEP_Account.open()
        • CEP_Account.set_network()
        • CEP_Account.set_blockchain()
        • CEP_Account.update_account()
        • CEP_Account.submit_certificate()
        • CEP_Account.get_transaction_outcome()
        • CEP_Account.get_transaction()
        • CEP_Account.close()
      • Java
        • CEP_Account.open()
        • CEP_Account.setNetwork()
        • CEP_Account.setBlockchain()
        • CEP_Account.updateAccount()
        • CEP_Account.submitCertificate()
        • CEP_Account.getTransactionOutcome()
        • CEP_Account.getTransaction()
        • CEP_Account.close()
  • SDK
  • CLI & Tooling
  • Core Concepts
    • Overview
    • Certificates
  • Accounts
  • Private Chains
  • Data Management
  • Fees
  • Nodes
  • Private Keys
  • Recovery Phrases
  • Tutorials & Examples
    • Circular Connect Guide
      • Create an Organisation Account
      • Create a Blockchain Account
      • Purchase Certificates
      • Using the Explorer & Viewing Certificate Details
    • Create Your First Certificate
  • Industry Use Cases
    • Industry Use Cases - Overview
    • Clinical Trials
    • Medical Devices
    • Public Health
    • Pharma Supply Chains
    • Research and Academia
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  • A New Foundation for Trust and Compliance
  • Rising Pressure Across Regulated Industries
  • Modern Challenges Require Modern Tools
  • AI & Verifiable Data Foundations
  • Why Circular?
  • 1. Built from the Ground Up for Compliance
  • 2. Decentralized Trust
  • 3. Verifiable Infrastructure
  • 4. Plug-and-Play Integration
  • 5. Tailored for Regulated Sectors
  • What You Can Do with Circular
  • Learn More
  1. Introduction

Introducing Circular

Circular is a decentralized OS for trust, traceability, and compliance in healthcare, pharma, and AI, enabling verifiable data exchange where integrity is non-negotiable.

A New Foundation for Trust and Compliance

Circular is a decentralized operating system purpose-built for regulated industries such as healthcare, pharmaceuticals, scientific research, and AI. It provides a secure, auditable, and tamper-proof infrastructure for storing and validating data at scale.

Unlike traditional systems that rely on centralized databases or siloed data warehouses, Circular enables cross-organizational collaboration while maintaining strict data integrity and regulatory compliance. In a world where data is increasingly critical, and increasingly scrutinized, Circular offers an architecture that meets the demands of both security and transparency, without forcing trade-offs.

Rising Pressure Across Regulated Industries

Enterprises today are navigating a storm of new challenges: global data regulations continue to evolve, clinical trials are moving toward decentralized and multinational models, AI is under increasing pressure to explain and validate its training data, and public institutions face growing expectations for accountability and interoperability. At the same time, public trust in institutions is eroding, fueled by data breaches, manipulated findings, and lack of transparency in decision-making.

Modern Challenges Require Modern Tools

Regulators themselves are under pressure. As data volumes explode and technologies like AI advance rapidly, they need new tools, not just new policies, to effectively assess compliance, trace data provenance, and ensure long-term accountability. Legacy systems built for static record-keeping are no longer sufficient to uphold trust in this high-stakes environment.

Circular provides the technical and structural foundation for this new reality. It equips institutions and regulators with infrastructure designed for verifiability at scale, enabling real-time auditability and cryptographic guarantees without compromising privacy.

AI & Verifiable Data Foundations

Whether it’s clinical trial records, AI training data, or pharmaceutical supply chains, Circular ensures that every data point is verifiable, timestamped, and securely stored across a distributed network. More than a tool for trust, it is a platform for operational confidence in complex environments.

As artificial intelligence is integrated into increasingly sensitive workflows, ranging from diagnostics to drug discovery to patient triage, it becomes essential that these systems are built on verifiable foundations. AI trained on unverifiable, biased, or tampered data poses significant risks to public safety, clinical accuracy, and regulatory integrity. Circular addresses this directly, enabling organizations to certify datasets, establish data lineage, and ensure reproducibility, providing the transparency needed for AI to be safely deployed across regulated domains.

Why Circular?

1. Built from the Ground Up for Compliance

Circular is engineered to meet the highest global standards, including HIPAA, GDPR, ICH GCP E6(R3), and other leading data protection and clinical governance frameworks. Its architecture supports compliant data handling across jurisdictions, enabling organizations to operate with confidence in multi-region and multi-actor ecosystems. By automating auditability and reducing manual reporting overhead, Circular helps teams remain compliant even as regulations evolve.

2. Decentralized Trust

By eliminating reliance on central authorities or third-party validators, Circular enables direct, cryptographically secure verification between organizations. This decentralized model doesn’t just improve security, it fosters collaboration, reduces latency in cross-border workflows, and increases transparency among stakeholders. In regulated industries, where trust must be earned and proven, Circular distributes trust by design.

3. Verifiable Infrastructure

Every action taken on Circular, whether certifying a document, publishing a dataset, or validating a trial result is recorded immutably and can be independently verified. These cryptographic audit trails ensure that data remains accountable and defensible, which is essential in settings like clinical trials, regulatory filings, and AI reproducibility. Circular transforms everyday data interactions into permanent, tamper-proof proofs of record.

4. Plug-and-Play Integration

Circular is built to integrate with the real-world systems organizations already use. Through robust APIs and developer SDKs, institutions can onboard quickly and begin issuing digital certificates, validating shared datasets, or anchoring operational records without redesigning their existing stack. Circular is infrastructure that works alongside your current systems—not against them.

5. Tailored for Regulated Sectors

From hospitals and CROs to pharmaceutical R&D and national AI initiatives, Circular’s features are purpose-built for environments where data integrity, traceability, and operational accountability are non-negotiable. Its architecture supports private chains with public validation, cross-border compliance enforcement, and auditability baked into the core. This makes it uniquely suited to support the challenges of digital transformation in critical industries.

What You Can Do with Circular

  1. Certify and timestamp clinical trial documents, protocols, and results, reducing reliance on fragmented paper records and central repositories.

  2. Validate AI training datasets for regulatory readiness, ensuring models are built on trustworthy, auditable data.

  3. Share and synchronize sensitive information across hospitals, labs, CROs, and sponsors, while preserving jurisdictional control.

  4. Prove authorship, originality, or access to research and IP, without revealing the underlying content.

  5. Comply with evolving digital standards across regions, while reducing audit preparation workload and maintaining verifiability in real time.

Learn More

Explore how the Circular OS supports your organization’s compliance, security, and innovation goals through the sections on the left.

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