Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0000950123-25-001965
Chunk: 235

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: DRS/A
Chunk 235
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| • |     | 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 (chair), , and . 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. |

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

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 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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CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. PURSUANT TO 17 C.F.R. § 200.83 Compensation Discussion & Analysis The purpose of this “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” section (the “CD&A”) is to provide a description of our executive compensation programs, including our pay-for-performance philosophy and long-term value strategy, the elements we use in our program, and the considerations used by our Compensation Committee of the board of directors (the “Compensation Committee”) to make sound compensation decisions. This CD&A should be read together with the compensation tables and related disclosures set forth below. This CD&A may contain forward-looking statements that are based on our current plans, considerations, expectations, and determinations regarding future compensation programs. Actual compensation programs that we adopt following the completion of this offering