Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0000950123-25-001965
Chunk: 29

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: DRS/A
Chunk 29
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 Circle stablecoins on open blockchain networks and protocols, we have been able to build and become part of a broad global ecosystem of companies, products, and technologies that make up the new internet financial system. The value of the Circle stablecoin network grows as more companies and services connect into our network and infrastructure, growing the reach and utility of our network. To understand the scale and scope of our value, it is important to also understand the broader Circle stablecoin ecosystem. Altogether, thousands of companies are part of the Circle stablecoin ecosystem, providing products and technologies that integrate with the Circle stablecoin network in various ways.

| • |     | Wallets and consumer apps. A primary way that end-users interact with USDC and the Circle stablecoin network                                                                                                                                         
 is through consumer applications and digital wallets. Collectively, these consumer applications reach hundreds of millions of end-users, and provide a primary means to hold and use USDC. Examples include products from Coinbase, Robinhood, Grab, 
 Revolut, MetaMask, Mercado Libre, Nubank, and Coins.ph.                                                                                                                                                                                              |

| • |     | Exchanges. Hundreds of digital asset exchanges around the world support the trading and exchange of                                                                                                                                              
 USDC for other digital assets and fiat currencies. USDC is one of the most actively traded digital assets in the world, and through these exchanges—which range from large global exchanges such as Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, and OKX, to major 
 regional and national exchanges—USDC is made available to hundreds of millions of retail and institutional end-users.                                                                                                                            |

| • |     | Custodians. Most major corporate and institutional end-users of stablecoins seek to store and custody their                                                                                                                                              
 USDC with sophisticated digital asset custody providers, many of whom are regulated as digital asset custody firms under various state and national regulatory and supervisory arrangements around the world. Leading digital asset custodians including 
 Anchorage Digital, BitGo, Coinbase, Fireblocks, and Copper provide robust support for USDC and the Circle stablecoin network infrastructure.                                                                                                             |

| • |     | Blockchain networks. Core blockchain network infrastructure is crucial for operating the Circle stablecoin                                                                                                                                             
 network, and through native support for 16 blockchains, we enable developers and customers to integrate and use USDC within a wide array of wallets and products that are built on these blockchain networks. Blockchains with native support for USDC 
 include Algorand, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Celo,