Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 266

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
Chunk 266
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 subject to the satisfaction of certain eligibility requirements. These benefits include our medical, dental, and vision insurance, and life and disability insurance plans. In structuring these benefit plans, we seek to provide an
aggregate level of benefits that are comparable to those provided by similar companies.

Perquisites and personal benefits

We do not view perquisites or other personal benefits as a significant component of our executive compensation program. Accordingly, we do not provide
significant perquisites or other personal benefits to our executives, including our NEOs, except as generally made available to our employees, or in situations where we believe it is appropriate to assist an individual in the performance of his or
her duties, to reward long-standing service to us, to make our executives more efficient and effective, or for recruitment and retention purposes.

In
fiscal year 2024, we provided payment for the expenses for personal security during personal travel and at his residence to Mr. Allaire to address safety concerns arising as a result of his position with the Company. We required these security
and privacy measures for Circle’s benefit because of the importance of Mr. Allaire’s role to our Company, and we believe that the scope and costs of these security measures are appropriate and necessary. We report the aggregate
incremental cost to the Company for these services in the “All Other Compensation” column of “Executive Compensation—Summary Compensation Table” below.

Employment arrangements with NEOs

We have entered
into offer letters with each of our NEOs. In fiscal year 2025, we also adopted executive severance guidelines (the “Executive Severance Guidelines”), which provide for certain payments and benefits in the event of a termination of
employment, including an involuntary termination of employment in connection with a change in control of Circle. All of our NEOs are eligible for severance benefits under the Executive Severance Guidelines and the terms of the Executive Severance
Guidelines replace the severance provisions in such NEO’s offer letters, if any. The terms and conditions relating to the Executive Severance Guidelines are set forth below in “—Executive Compensation—Potential Payments Upon
Termination or Change in Control.”

Offer letters

The material terms of the applicable offer letters with Mr. Allaire, Mr. Fox-Geen, Ms. Carpenter, Mr. Tarbert, and Mr. Chandhok are
described below.

Jeremy Allaire. We entered into an offer letter with Mr. Allaire, dated February 1, 2025 (the “Allaire Offer
Letter”), which