Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 265

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
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 $7,500,000, and
(iv) Mr. Chandhok, $6,000,000. For Mr. Tarbert, $1,500,000 represents a one-time promotional grant.

The 2025 Annual Grants have both
time-based and performance-based vesting conditions. The time-based vesting condition is 25% after one year, then monthly thereafter for the next 36 months. The performance-based vesting condition was based upon the achievement of a qualifying
change in control event or public listing of the Company, and was deemed satisfied in connection with our public offering.

One time IPO-related compensation

In connection with the efforts undertaken to prepare Circle for our initial public offering and to continue executing upon critical
business initiatives thereafter, each of our NEOs who was serving as an executive officer at such time (Messrs. Allaire, Fox-Geen, Tarbert, and Chandhok) received a cash bonus of $1,000,000, to be paid in quarterly installments over two years
beginning in March 2025.

Other compensation and benefits

Company 401(k) plan

Our executives, including our NEOs,
may participate in our tax-qualified 401(k) retirement plan, which provides eligible U.S. employees with an opportunity to save for retirement on a tax-advantaged basis. Plan participants are able to defer eligible compensation subject to the
applicable annual limits set forth in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). In fiscal year 2024, we matched 100% of the first 3% of contributions

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

by plan participants, and 50% of the next 2% of contributions by plan participants, subject to annual contribution limits set forth in the Code. The 401(k) plan is intended to be qualified under
Section 401(a) of the Code and its related trust is intended to be tax exempt under Section 501(a) of the Code. As a tax-qualified retirement plan, contributions to the 401(k) plan and earnings on those contributions are not taxable to the
employees until distributed from the 401(k) plan.

Health and welfare benefits

Our executives, including our NEOs, are eligible to receive the same health and welfare benefits that are generally available to all of our full-time
employees,