Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001193125-25-070481
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Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: S-1
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the “CD&A”) is to provide a description of our executive compensation programs, including our pay-for-performance philosophy and long-term value strategy, the elements we use in our program, and the considerations used by our Compensation Committee of the board of directors (the “Compensation Committee”) to make sound compensation decisions. This CD&A should be read together with the compensation tables and related disclosures set forth below. This CD&A may contain forward-looking statements that are based on our current plans, considerations, expectations, and determinations regarding future compensation programs. Actual compensation programs that we adopt following the completion of this offering may differ materially from the currently planned programs summarized in this discussion. This discussion focuses on our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and the three most highly compensated executive officers (the “NEOs”) for fiscal year 2024 who are listed in the table below. While this CD&A focuses primarily on the compensation of our NEOs for fiscal year 2024, this CD&A also includes, where noted, relevant compensation information for our NEOs in fiscal year 2025.

| Jeremy Allaire         |     | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer                 |
| Jeremy Fox-Geen        |     | Chief Financial Officer                              |
| Elisabeth Carpenter(1) |     | Chief Operating Officer                              |
| Heath Tarbert          |     | Chief Legal Officer and Head of Corporate Affairs(2) |
| Nikhil Chandhok        |     | Chief Product Officer(3)                             |

| (1) |     | Effective January 1, 2025, Ms. Carpenter became our Chief Strategic Engagement Officer and was no longer considered an executive officer of our Company, but remains a non-executive officer employee and member of our 
 executive leadership team.                                                                                                                                                                                              |

| (2) |     | Effective January 1, 2025, Mr. Tarbert was promoted to “President” and remains “Chief Legal Officer.” |

| (3) |     | Effective January 1, 2025, Mr. Chandhok was promoted to “Chief Product and Technology Officer.” |

Executive summary Our compensation philosophy and objectives Circle promotes a compensation philosophy to ensure competitive, fair, performance-driven total rewards packages for our executives, while simultaneously creating long-term value for our stockholders. The objectives of this philosophy are to:

| • |     | Align the total rewards programs at Circle with Circle’s mission, performance, and the interests of our stockholders, 
 particularly with respect to key executives who are best positioned to drive long-term value