Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-126208
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Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: S-1/A
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 blockchain industry, I believe Circle stands out from the rest of the crowd. I believe that the path we took toward our mission statement (“to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value”) differentiates us from others. We knew that to achieve this mission, to build a world where dollar digital currency was possible at scale, we needed to take a different approach than those focused on growing investments and trading in speculative cryptocurrencies. There were several key principles that informed the development of Circle:

| 1. |     | Walking in through the front door of regulators and policymakers.  We have always believed in and practiced an approach to walk in the front door of regulators and policymakers globally. As part of                                                  
 our engagement with regulators and policymakers and to help governments understand these new and complex technologies, we have testified before legislators in the United States and in other countries. In addition, we routinely submit comments and 
 responses to regulators’ and policymakers’ proposals and consultations related to stablecoins and the digital assets ecosystem. In the end, our strong belief is that continuing to work with regulators and policymakers will be essential to         
 building an internet financial system.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

| 2. |     | Mastering a platform-first approach to technology.  As we built our core digital currency technology stack, we approached it as if we were building a platform for others to build on. This approach blossomed 
 into the creation and success of USDC and now a much broader surface of platform services from Circle.                                                                                                         |

| 3. |     | Meeting the market where it is.  Each step of this journey would require calibrating to both where the technology was and where the market was—the latter not always where we wanted it to be. What you               
 build for very early missionary adopters is dramatically different from what you build for mainstream-scale global finance and commerce. We therefore took small steps, carefully, but with a long-term focus always. |

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| 4. |     | Using compliance as a competitive advantage.  Our vision was to integrate the existing financial system with the new internet financial system, which meant that crypto was not an island, but instead a                                                 
 technology to be harnessed to bridge these worlds. Doing this means that we have made and intend to continue to invest significantly in our compliance infrastructure, consistent with our regulatory-first posture, which we believe contributes to our 
 regulatory engagement and advocacy efforts and increases our attractiveness to potential partners, customers, and end-users.                                                                                                                             |

Alto