Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 263

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
Chunk 263
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 Achievement %                  |     |           | 82 | % |     |        | 125 | % |     |         | 158 | % |
| Payout %                       |     |           | 50 | % |     |        | 100 | % |     |         | 150 | % |

Additionally, for the 2H STIP, the non-financial business performance goals, each weighted equally, were as follows:

| • |     | Close three enterprise-scale commercial partnerships; |

| • |     | Enable three new monetization streams; |

| • |     | Open accounts with three new reserve banks; |

| • |     | Lay groundwork in three new strategic markets; and |

| • |     | Launch three critical components of major blockchain infrastructure. |

For the non-financial business performance goals, threshold payout of 50% is based on achievement of two of the goals, target payout is based on achievement of three of the goals, and maximum payout is based on achievement of all five of the goals. For purposes of the STIP, STIP Adjusted EBITDA is defined as our Adjusted EBITDA, plus one-time severance and retention costs, less digital assets gains and impairment, less other non-recurring income derived from non-core operations. For the 1H STIP for 2024, the STIP Adjusted EBITDA Goal was achieved at $160M, resulting in a payout percentage of 150% for the financial component, and all four non-financial business performance goals were achieved, resulting in a payout percentage of 150% for the non-financial component, and an aggregate achievement for the 1H STIP of 150% of target levels. For the 2H STIP for 2024, the STIP Adjusted EBITDA 162

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

Goal was achieved at $123M, resulting in a payout percentage of 99% for the financial component, and three non-financial business performance goals were achieved, resulting in a payout percentage
of 100% for the non-financial component, and an aggregate achievement for the 2H STIP of 99% of target levels. The resulting aggregate funding level under the 2024 STIP was 124.5%. Accordingly, payouts to the NEOs were as follows:
(i) Mr. Allaire