Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-132755
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Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form: S-1/A
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 developers and customers to integrate and use USDC within a wide array of wallets and products that are built on these blockchain networks. Blockchains with native support for USDC 
 include Algorand, Aptos, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Celo, Ethereum, Hedera, Linea, NEAR, Noble, OP Mainnet, Polkadot, Polygon PoS, Solana, Sonic, Stellar, Sui, Unichain, and ZKsync, with more expected in the future.                                |

| • |     | Blockchain protocols. Most blockchain networks support developing and deploying smart contracts that can act                                                                                                                                          
 as onchain protocols. These protocols can offer a wide array of building blocks for financial and commercial applications, such as exchange, lending, invoice payments, micro-payments, treasury management, and more. Leading protocols that support 
 USDC and the Circle stablecoin network include projects such as the Uniswap Protocol, Aave, OpenSea, and Safe.                                                                                                                                        |

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| • |     | Banks and neo-banks. Banks and neo-banks play an increasingly important role in the Circle stablecoin                                                                                                                                                    
 ecosystem, providing settlement and reserve infrastructure for Circle stablecoins. They are also important end-users of our stablecoin infrastructure. We are seeing growth in startup banks and neo-banks in many emerging markets focused on providing 
 digital dollar payment and settlement services using USDC and the Circle stablecoin network.                                                                                                                                                             |

| • |     | Payments companies. Increasingly, leading payments companies are integrating the Circle stablecoin                                                                                                                                                
 network into their offerings as a means of settlement (directly or indirectly) for their customers. As the global digital assets ecosystem grows, these companies are building products that are “future proof” and enabled for increasing        
 integration with the financial system. This includes payment processors, credit card networks, and money remittance services. We are working with leading payments companies like Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Worldpay, and MoneyGram to facilitate 
 stablecoin settlement on the Circle stablecoin network.                                                                                                                                                                                           |

| • |     | Market makers and liquidity providers. Stablecoins such as USDC are made widely available through                                                                                                                                                        
 hundreds of retail and institutional platforms around the world. As a wholesale market infrastructure, we do not directly provide stablecoin liquidity to all of these venues and distribution channels; instead, we depend upon a global network of     
 market makers and over-the-counter liquidity providers to supply USDC. These institutional trading firms play