Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-12
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001193125-25-178989
Chunk: 247

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-12
Form: S-1
Chunk 247
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| • |     | overseeing our approach to maintaining and enhancing our compliance program; and |

| • |     | together with the audit committee, reviewing the internal audit results regarding the effectiveness of our risk governance framework, significant compliance matters, and our policies and practices with respect to risk assessment and risk management. |

Strategy committee The members of our strategy committee are Bradley Horowitz (chair), Jeremy Allaire, Craig Broderick, P. Sean Neville, and Adam Selipsky. Our strategy committee is responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | overseeing the development and implementation of our corporate strategy, including short- and long-term strategic planning and related operational decision-making and of our assessment of the competitive environment; |

| • |     | overseeing and making recommendations to our board of directors about investments and go-to-market plans; and |

| • |     | reviewing and making recommendations to our board of directors about strategic transactions. |

Code of conduct and ethics Our board of directors has adopted a code of business conduct and ethics that applies to all of our employees, officers, and directors. The full text of our code of business conduct and ethics is posted on the investor relations section of our website. We intend to disclose future amendments to our code of business conduct and ethics, or any waivers of such code, on our website or in public filings. Compensation committee interlocks and insider participation None of our executive officers have served as a member of a compensation committee (or if no committee performs that function, the board of directors) of any other entity that has an executive officer serving as a member of our board of directors. 158

COMPENSATION DISCUSSION & ANALYSIS The purpose of this “Compensation discussion and analysis” section (the “CD&A”) is to provide a description of our executive compensation programs, including our pay-for-performance philosophy and long-term value strategy, the elements we use in our program, and the considerations used by our Compensation Committee of the board of directors (the “Compensation Committee”) to make sound compensation decisions. This CD&A should be read together with the compensation tables and related disclosures set forth below. This discussion focuses on our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and the three most highly compensated executive officers (the “NEOs”) for fiscal year 2024 who are listed in the table below. While this CD&A focuses primarily on the compensation of our NEOs for fiscal year 2024, this CD&A also includes, where noted, relevant compensation information for our NEOs in fiscal