Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-132755
Chunk: 273

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-02
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 273
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 law, including Section 157(c) of the Delaware General Corporation Law.

As of March 31, 2025, options to purchase 21,648,694 shares at a weighted average exercise price of $8.79 per share plus 25,329,947 RSUs were outstanding under the
2024 Plan and 4,355,629 shares remained available for future issuance under the 2024 Plan.

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2025 Omnibus Incentive Plan

The board of directors and our stockholders have approved the adoption of the Circle Internet Group, Inc. Omnibus Incentive Plan, which will be effective as of the date
of this prospectus. The following summary describes the material terms of the Omnibus Incentive Plan.

Types of Awards. Awards under the Omnibus
Incentive Plan include stock options (including options intended to qualify as incentive stock options under Section 422 of the Code (“ISOs”) and nonqualified stock options (“NSOs”)), share appreciation rights (“SARs”),
restricted stock, RSUs, performance awards, other cash-based awards and other share-based awards (together, the “Awards”).

Plan Administration. The Omnibus Incentive Plan will be administered by the Compensation Committee, unless another committee is designated by the board of directors. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Compensation Committee may
delegate some or all of its authority under the Omnibus Incentive Plan, including the authority to grant Awards (other than to participants covered by Section 16 of the Exchange Act), to a subcommittee or subcommittees or to other persons or groups
of persons as it deems necessary, appropriate or advisable.

Eligibility. Employees, prospective employees who have accepted an offer of employment,
non-employee directors, consultants and any person who has accepted an offer of service or consultancy of the Company or any of its subsidiaries are eligible to be selected to participate in the Omnibus Incentive Plan.

Authorized Shares. Subject to adjustment as described below, the total number of shares of our Class A common stock authorized for issuance under the
Omnibus Incentive Plan will not exceed 28,265,461 shares (the “Omnibus Plan Share Pool”). The maximum number of shares that may be issued upon the exercise of ISOs under the Omnibus Incentive Plan will be equal to the Omnibus Plan Share
Pool. The number of shares reserved for issuance under the Omnibus Incentive Plan will be increased automatically on the