Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-126208
Chunk: 249

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 249
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| • |     | overseeing and reviewing our internal audit function; |

| • |     | overseeing our financial statements and certain other external disclosures, including reviewing and discussing with                     
 management and our independent registered public accounting firm our annual and quarterly financial statements and related disclosures; |

| • |     | overseeing and reviewing our control and risk management systems; |

| • |     | establishing procedures for, reviewing, and overseeing our investigation of reported concerns related to accounting,                                                           
 internal controls, and internal or financial auditing matters and the anonymous submission by employees of concerns regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters; and |

| • |     | reviewing, and if appropriate, approving related-party transactions. |

Compensation committee The members of our compensation committee will be Rajeev Date (chair), Bradley Horowitz, David Orfao, and Danita Ostling. Each member of this committee is a non-employeedirector, as defined by Rule 16b-3promulgated under the Exchange Act, and meets the requirements for independence under the NYSE listing standards and SEC rules and regulations. Our compensation committee is responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | reviewing and approving the compensation of our executive officers (other than our chief executive officer for whom the 
 compensation committee reviews and recommends said compensation to the board of directors);                             |

| • |     | reviewing, approving, and administering our incentive compensation plans; |

| • |     | evaluating and recommending to our board of directors the compensation of our directors; |

| • |     | reviewing our overall compensation philosophy; |

| • |     | reviewing and discussing with management compensation-related risks; and |

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| • |     | overseeing practices and strategies relating to human capital management. |

Nominating and corporate governance committee The members of our nominating and corporate governance committee will be M. Michele Burns (chair), Rajeev Date, and P. Sean Neville. Each member of our nominating and corporate governance committee is an independent director under the NYSE listing standards. Our nominating and corporate governance committee is responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | identifying and recommending candidates for membership on our board of directors; |

| • |     | reviewing and overseeing compliance with our corporate governance guidelines and code of business conduct and ethics and 
 reviewing proposed waivers of our code of business conduct and ethics for directors and executive officers;              |

| • |     | overseeing our corporate governance practices, including our corporate governance framework and corporate social 
 responsibility practices; and                                                                                    |

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