Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-084832
Chunk: 212

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 212
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 in September 2023, we and BlackRock entered into a license agreement that granted each party a revocable non-exclusive license to use the other party’s specified trademarks for permitted purposes.

Prior to the expiration of the MOU, we entered into a new memorandum of understanding with BlackRock in March 2025 (as amended and restated, the “New MOU”),
which substantially replaces the MOU. Under the terms of the New MOU, we agreed to treat BlackRock as our preferred partner for managing stablecoin reserves and agreed to prioritize, where possible, holding our reserves for the issuance of Circle
stablecoins and other products with BlackRock. In particular, we committed to maintaining at least 90% of our U.S.-managed fiat reserves for USDC (excluding bank deposits) with BlackRock managed products, unless legal, regulatory, or operational
requirements mandate otherwise. Furthermore, BlackRock agreed to prioritize and prefer USDC and all Circle stablecoins for all U.S. dollar payment stablecoin-related use cases and committed not to develop and launch a competitive payment stablecoin,
provided that we continue to fulfill our payment obligations for reserve management. The New MOU remains in effect for a four-year term.

Our unique culture

Our mission and values form the core of our workplace culture and serve as a “North Star” that continuously motivates and inspires our global team.

Our mission “to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value” is driven by a dedicated, global employee base of more
than 900 highly talented professionals from across industries, many of whom are at the top of their field. Our mission is deeply resonant with all Circle employees, who envision a better, more inclusive global economic future.

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This mission has also led us to join Pledge 1% and have reserved 2,682,392 shares of our Class A common stock to drive the impact of our Circle Foundation, which represented 1% of our outstanding capital stock at the date it was approved by our board of directors. Our valuesguide both what we deliver and, importantly, howwe deliver it. We are:

| • |     | High integrity. We seek open and honest communication and hold ourselves to very high moral and ethical                                                      
 standards. Our customers and partners implicitly experience us as high integrity, and our customer-centric choices demonstrate this to them again and again. |

| • |     | Future Forward. We embrace a transformative vision for the future, and this future forward energy is core