Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 308

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
Chunk 308
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| • |     | removal of our incumbent officers and directors. |

These provisions, as well as our ability to issue preferred stock, are designed to discourage coercive takeover practices and inadequate takeover bids. These provisions are also designed to encourage persons seeking to acquire control of us to first negotiate with our board of directors. We believe that the benefits of increased protection give us the potential ability to negotiate with the proponent of an unfriendly or unsolicited proposal to acquire or restructure us, and that the benefits of this increased protection outweigh the disadvantages of discouraging those proposals, because negotiation of those proposals could result in an improvement of their terms. Registration rights Pursuant to the Investors’ Rights Agreement, and from time to time, in connection with business arrangements with our partners, certain of our stockholders and their permitted transferees are entitled to the following rights with respect to the registration of such shares for public resale under the Securities Act. If exercised, these registration rights would enable holders to transfer these shares under the registration statement without restriction under the Securities Act. 193

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

Demand registration. Commencing 180 days following our initial public offering, these holders may
request in writing that we effect a resale registration under the Securities Act with respect to all or any portion of their shares subject to registration rights, subject to certain exceptions. If the holders requesting registration intend to
distribute their shares by means of an underwriting, the managing underwriter of such offering will have the right to limit the numbers of shares to be underwritten for reasons related to the marketing of the shares. We are not obligated to effect
more than two such demand registrations.

Piggyback registration. In the event that we propose to register any of our securities under the
Securities Act, either for our account or for the account of our other security holders, holders will be entitled to certain piggyback registration rights allowing each to include its shares in the registration, subject to certain marketing and
other limitations. As a result, whenever we propose to file a registration statement under the Securities Act, other than with respect to a demand registration or a registration statement on Form S-4, F-4, or S-8, these holders will be entitled to
notice of the registration and will have the right to include their registrable securities in the registration, subject to certain limitations.

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