Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-121234
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Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form: S-1/A
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 own users, products, and services. We aspire for every individual worldwide with a connected device to be able to easily access and use the Circle stablecoin network,with seamless end-user experiences, through many applications providing valuable products and services, including applications they likely already use frequently today. Growth in the use of USDC across a growing number of products and services is core to the growth of the Circle stablecoin network. Our growth strategy to achieve this goal includes the following elements:

| • |     | Partner with leading at-scale consumer-facing businesses and applications to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 bring the Circle stablecoin network to their users.  We do not directly face individuals (other than by redeeming USDC and EURC in our role as the redeemer of last resort). To achieve widespread distribution and grow the utility of the                                                                                                                                                                                               
 Circle stablecoin network, we partner with a growing number of leading at-scale consumer-facing businesses and applications, bringing Web3 capabilities such as Circle stablecoins and related products and                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
 services to their users, and hence growing the reach (potential end-users) and actual end-users, utility, and value of our network. Examples include digital asset exchanges and marketplaces (e.g., Coinbase, Binance, OKX), neo-banks, brokerages (e.g., Robinhood), and payments providers (e.g., Block), remittance providers (e.g., MoneyGram), superapps (e.g., Grab), and commerce companies (e.g., Mercado Libre). We manage such 
 partnerships through the Circle Alliance Program, our global partnership and alliance program, as well as worldwide industry and event sponsorships. The Circle Alliance Program was established based on our recognition that we do not have sufficient                                                                                                                                                                                  
 resources to partner directly with all (or even a majority) of the companies that are interested in using or offering Circle stablecoins and related products and services.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |

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| Through the Circle Alliance Program, we manage and seek to expand our partnerships (see “—Our platform, products, and ecosystem—The Circle stablecoin ecosystem” for examples 
 of the partners and parties in the Circle stablecoin ecosystem) and intend to allow smaller companies to co-market and co-brand with us.                                      |

| • |     | Broaden and deepen our banking infrastructure globally, so that network participants can mint and redeem                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
 Circle stablecoins with maximum speed and efficiency.  Certain end-users of Circle stablecoins need to rapidly move between stablecoins and fiat currency. To enable this seamless