Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 287

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
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 by a participant during a single offering period may not exceed 2,500 shares, subject to adjustment (the “Offering Period Limit”).

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CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. PURSUANT TO 17 C.F.R. § 200.83

Withdrawal. Participants may withdraw from an offering by submitting a revised enrollment form
indicating his or her election to withdraw at least 15 days before the purchase date. The accumulated payroll deductions held on behalf of the participant in his or her notional account will be paid to the participant as soon as administratively
feasible following such withdrawal, and the participant’s option will be automatically terminated. A participant’s election to withdraw from an offering period will not have any effect on his or her eligibility to participate in succeeding
offering periods.

Termination of Employment; Change in Employment Status; Transfer of Employment. On termination of a participant’s
employment for any reason, or a change in the participant’s employment status following which the participant is no longer an eligible employee, the participant will be deemed to have withdrawn from the ESPP effective as of the date of such
termination of employment or change in status, the accumulated payroll deductions remaining in the participant’s notional account will be returned to the participant, and the participant’s option will be automatically terminated.

Oversubscribed Offerings. If the Compensation Committee determines that, on a particular purchase date, the number of shares with respect to which
options are to be exercised either exceeds the number of shares available under the ESPP or the maximum aggregate number of shares that may be purchased in an offering (to the extent such a limit is imposed by the Compensation Committee), the shares
will be allocated pro rata in a uniform manner as practicable and as the Compensation Committee deems equitable.

Changes in Capitalization. In the
event of any dividend or other distribution, recapitalization, stock split, reorganization, merger, consolidation, spin-off, combination, repurchase, or exchange of shares or other securities of our company or other change in our
company’s structure affecting our Class A common stock, then in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits intended to be made available under the ESPP, the Compensation Committee will make equitable adjustments to the number
and class of shares that may be issued under the ESPP, the purchase price per share, the number of shares covered by each outstanding option and applicable numerical plan limits. In the event of a corporate transaction (