Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 28

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
Chunk 28
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 venues and clearing houses. In February 2025, we entered into a memorandum of understanding with ICE, where we agreed to explore (i) collaborating on certain market activities to promote Circle stablecoins, USYC, and related products within 
 ICE’s trading, clearing, and data ecosystem, (ii) integrating Circle stablecoins and USYC as collateral, settlement, and co-branded exchange traded products across ICE’s capital and derivative markets, and (iii) developing                   
 co-branded trading and investment products.                                                                                                                                                                                                      |

| • |     | Custodians. Most major corporate and institutional end-users of stablecoins seek to store and custody                                                                                                                                                
 their USDC with sophisticated digital asset custody providers, many of whom are regulated as digital asset custody firms under various state and national regulatory and supervisory arrangements around the world. Leading digital asset custodians 
 including Anchorage Digital, BitGo, Coinbase, Fireblocks, and Copper provide robust support for USDC and the Circle stablecoin network infrastructure.                                                                                               |

| • |     | Blockchain networks. Core blockchain network infrastructure is crucial for operating the Circle stablecoin                                                                                                    
 network, and through native support for 24 blockchains, we enable developers and customers to integrate and use USDC within a wide array of wallets and products that are built on these blockchain networks. |

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

| Blockchains with native support for USDC include Algorand, Aptos, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Celo, Codex, Ethereum, Hedera, Linea, NEAR, Noble, OP Mainnet, Polkadot, Polygon PoS, Sei, Solana, 
 Sonic, Stellar, Sui, Unichain, Worldchain, XRPL, and ZKsync, with more expected in the future.                                                                                                  |

| • |     | Blockchain protocols. Most blockchain networks support developing and deploying smart contracts that can                                                                                                                                                  
 act as onchain protocols. These protocols can offer a wide array of building blocks for financial and commercial applications, such as exchange, lending, invoice payments, micro-payments, treasury management, and more. Leading protocols that support 
 USDC and the Circle stablecoin network include projects such as the Uniswap Protocol, Aave, OpenSea, and Safe.                                                                                                                                            |

| • |     | Banks and neo-banks. Banks and neo-banks play