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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 | 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                                                                                    |

| • |     | overseeing the process of evaluating the performance of our board of directors. |

Risk committee The members of our risk committee will be Craig Broderick (chair), Bradley Horowitz, P. Sean Neville, David Orfao, and Danita Ostling. Our risk committee is responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | overseeing our approach to enterprise risk management and related policies, practices, and guidelines; |

| • |     | overseeing our approach to maintaining and enhancing our compliance program; and |

| • |     | together with the audit committee, reviewing the internal audit results regarding the effectiveness of our risk governance     
 framework, significant compliance matters, and our policies and practices with respect to risk assessment and risk management. |

Strategy committee The members of our strategy committee will be Bradley Horowitz (chair), Jeremy Allaire, Craig Broderick, and P. Sean Neville. Our strategy committee is responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | overseeing the development and implementation of our corporate strategy, including short- and long-term strategic planning 
 and related operational decision-making and of our assessment of the competitive environment;                              |

| • |     | overseeing and making recommendations to our board of directors about investments and go-to-market plans; and |

| • |     | reviewing and making recommendations to our board of directors about strategic transactions. |

Code of conduct and ethics Our board of directors has adopted a code of business conduct and ethics that applies to all of our employees, officers, and directors. Upon completion of this offering, the full text of our code of business conduct and ethics 165

will be posted on the investor relations section of our website. We intend to disclose future amendments to our code of business conduct and ethics, or any waivers of such code, on our website or
in public filings.

Compensation committee interlocks and insider participation

None of our executive officers has served as a member of a compensation committee (or if no committee performs that function, the board of directors) of any other entity
that has an executive officer serving as a member of our board of directors.

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Compensation discussion & analysis The purpose of this “Compensation discussion and analysis” section (