Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
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Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
Chunk 269
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 director or the executive officer or non-employee director’s immediate family
members residing in the same household, will count toward the executive officer or non-employee director’s stock holdings. Performance-based restricted stock, RSUs that are unearned (i.e., performance-based

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CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. PURSUANT TO 17 C.F.R. § 200.83 awards for which the applicable performance conditions have not been satisfied), and unexercised stock options, including vested in-the-money options, are not counted for purposes of compliance. Until the stock ownership requirements are achieved, each applicable individual is expected to retain at least 50% of the total number of shares acquired by them following the grant, exercise, or settlement of any equity award, as applicable, on a net basis, and excluding any shares held subject to a 10b5-1 sales plan in existence as of the effectiveness of our initial public offering. Clawback policy We maintain an executive compensation recoupment policy intended to comply with the requirements of Section 10D of the Exchange Act and the rules of the stock exchange on which our securities are listed (our “Clawback Policy”), under which the Compensation Committee must recover certain excess incentive-based compensation paid to executives in the event of a restatement of our financial statements due to our material noncompliance with any financial reporting required under U.S. federal securities laws. Hedging & pledging policies Transactions in derivative securities may reflect a short-term and speculative interest in our securities and may create the appearance of impropriety. Trading in derivatives may also focus attention on short-term performance at the expense of our long-term objectives. Therefore, our Insider Trading Policy prohibits our directors, officers, and employees from engaging in any derivative transactions that are designed to hedge or speculate on any change in the market value of our securities. Options and other securities issued pursuant to our compensation plans or other compensatory arrangements with us are not subject to this prohibition. In addition, our Insider Trading Policy also prohibits our directors, officers, and employees from pledging our securities, including purchasing our securities on margin or holding our securities in a margin account. Compensation and risk management Our Compensation Committee, our compensation consultant, and our management team each play a role in evaluating and mitigating potential risks associated with our compensation program, practices, and policies. Our Compensation Committee, with input and support from our compensation consultant and management, has performed a compensation risk assessment. In particular, this assessment considered compensation