Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 315

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
Chunk 315
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 applicable. Rule 701 In general, under Rule 701, any of our employees, directors, officers, consultants, or advisors who purchased shares from us in connection with a compensatory stock or option plan or other written agreement before our initial public offering is entitled to resell such shares 90 days after the date of our initial public offering in reliance on Rule 144, without having to comply with the holding period requirements or other restrictions contained in Rule 701. 198

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

The SEC has indicated that Rule 701 will apply to typical stock options granted by an issuer before it
becomes subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, along with the shares acquired upon exercise of such options, including exercises after the date of our initial public offering. Securities issued in reliance on Rule 701 are
restricted securities and, subject to the contractual restrictions described below, beginning 90 days after the date of our initial public offering, may be sold by persons other than “affiliates,” as defined in Rule 144, subject only to
the manner of sale provisions of Rule 144 and by “affiliates” under Rule 144 without compliance with the minimum holding period requirement.

Equity incentive plan

We have filed an effective
registration statement on Form S-8 under the Securities Act to register all shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock issued or issuable pursuant to the exercise of outstanding options or vesting of outstanding RSUs and reserved
for issuance under our stock-based compensation plans. Shares covered by the registration statement are eligible for sale in the public markets, subject to vesting restrictions and any applicable holding periods, any applicable lock-up agreements
described below, and Rule 144 limitations applicable to affiliates.

Lock-up agreements

In connection with our initial public offering, all of our directors and executive officers, the selling stockholders and holders of substantially all of our
capital stock agreed in lockup agreements with the underwriters (such persons, the “lock-up parties”) or in stockholder agreements with us, subject to limited exceptions, for a period ending on the earlier of (i) the date that is the
second trading day after we publicly announce our earnings for the quarter ending September 30, 2025 and (ii) the date that is 180 days after the date of the prospectus for our initial public offering, not to (