Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-084832
Chunk: 291

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 291
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 purchase additional shares in full), and no shares of Class C common stock outstanding. All shares sold in this offering will be freely transferable without restriction or registration under the Securities Act, except for any shares purchased by one of our “affiliates,” as that term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act. The remaining outstanding shares will be “restricted securities” as defined in Rule 144. Restricted securities may be sold in the public market only if registered or if they qualify for an exemption from registration under Rule 144 or 701 of the Securities Act. After the expiration of the contractual lock-upperiod described below, to the extent applicable, these shares may be sold in the public market only if registered or pursuant to an exemption under Rule 144 or 701, each of which is summarized below. Rule 144 In general, a person who has beneficially owned shares of common stock that are restricted securities for at least six months would be entitled to sell such shares, providedthat (i) such person is not deemed to have been one of our affiliates at the time of, or at any time during the 90 days preceding, the sale and (ii) we are subject to, and in compliance with certain of, the Exchange Act periodic reporting requirements for at least 90 days before the sale, but this clause (ii) will not apply to the sale if such person has beneficially owned such shares for at least one year. Persons who have beneficially owned shares of common stock that are restricted securities for at least six months but who are our affiliates at the time of, or any time during the 90 days preceding, a sale, would be subject to additional restrictions, by which such person would be entitled to sell within any three-month period only a number of shares of common stock that does not exceed the greater of either of the following:

| • |     | 1% of the number of shares of Class A common stock then outstanding; or |

| • |     | the average weekly trading volume of shares of Class A common stock on the NYSE during the four calendar weeks preceding 
 the filing of a notice on Form 144 with respect to the sale;                                                             |

provided, in each case, that we are subject to, and in compliance with certain of, the Exchange Act periodic reporting requirements for at least 90 days before the sale. Such sales must also comply with the manner of sale and notice provisions of Rule 144 to the extent applicable. Rule 701 In general, under Rule 701, any of