Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001193125-25-070481
Chunk: 294

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: S-1
Chunk 294
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 issued in reliance on Rule 701 are restricted
securities and, subject to the contractual restrictions described below, beginning 90 days after the date of this prospectus, may be sold by persons other than “affiliates,” as defined in Rule 144, subject only to the manner of sale
provisions of Rule 144 and by “affiliates” under Rule 144 without compliance with the minimum holding period requirement.

Equity incentive plan

We intend to file one or more registration statements on Form S-8 under the Securities Act to register all shares of
Class A common stock issued or issuable pursuant to the exercise of outstanding options or vesting of outstanding RSUs and reserved for issuance under our stock-based compensation plans. We expect to file the registration statement or statements,
which will become effective immediately upon filing, upon or shortly after the date of this prospectus. Shares covered by these registration statements will then be eligible for sale in the public markets, subject to vesting restrictions and any
applicable holding periods, any applicable lock-up agreements described below, and Rule 144 limitations applicable to affiliates.

Lock-upagreements

All of our
directors and executive officers, the selling stockholders, the Circle Foundation, and the holders of of our capital stock have agreed, subject to limited exceptions, for a period ending on the earlier of (i) the
date that is the second trading day after we publicly announce our earnings for the quarter ending September 30, 2025 and (ii) the date that is 180 days after the date of this prospectus, not to (1) offer, pledge, sell, contract to
sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option, or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Class A common stock or any
securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Class A common stock (including, without limitation, Class A common stock or such other securities which may be deemed to be beneficially owned by such lock-up parties in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC and securities which may be issued upon exercise of a stock option or warrant (collectively with the Class A common stock, the “lock-up securities”)), (2) enter into any hedging, swap, or other agreement or transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the lock-up securities, whether