Critical incident

Circle: MW wallet paymaster temporarily unavailable

Current status of Circle: Partial outage — live Circle status

Timeline

1. Oct 8, 2026, 16:47 UTC
   investigating
   Modular Wallets functionality is temporarily paused across all networks configured for the production service: Arbitrum, Polygon PoS, Ethereum, Unichain, Base, Optimism, Avalanche, Arc, and Monad, including their configured test networks. We are investigating the issue and will provide updates as they become available.
2. Oct 8, 2026, 21:56 UTC
   identified
   Modular Wallets service has been re-enabled. Circle’s paymaster functionality, which sponsors transaction gas fees, remains temporarily paused. During this pause, please configure a third-party paymaster to sponsor gas fees for your Modular Wallets transactions. We will provide updates as they become available.
3. Oct 10, 2026, 03:39 UTC
   resolved
   Circle's paymaster functionality for Modular Wallets has been fully restored. Gas fee sponsorship is operating normally across all affected chains. Customers who configured a third-party paymaster during the pause may revert to Circle's paymaster at their convenience. No further action is required. We apologize for the disruption.

Updates as published by Circle (original).