Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0000950123-25-001965
Chunk: 239

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: DRS/A
Chunk 239
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 base salaries for Messrs. Allaire, Fox-Geen, Tarbert, and Chandhok remain unchanged. 164

CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED BY CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. PURSUANT TO 17 C.F.R. § 200.83 Short-Term Incentive Plan (“STIP”) The STIP is a cash-based annual bonus plan that rewards our NEOs and other executives for the achievement of key short-term objectives established by our Compensation Committee over two six-monthperformance periods. For the 2024 plan year (the “2024 STIP”), the target annual bonuses for Mr. Allaire, Mr. Fox-Geen, Ms. Carpenter, Mr. Tarbert, and Mr. Chandhok were 140%, 110%, 110%, 110%, and 75%, respectively, of each applicable NEO’s annual base salary (which were the same bonus targets as for 2023 and 2025, with the exception of Mr. Chandhok, whose target increased from 60% to 75% from 2023 to 2024 and from 75% to 110% for 2025). Bonuses under the 2024 STIP were payable between 0% and 150% of target levels, determined as follows: (i) for the January 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024 performance period, based on the achievement against STIP Adjusted EBITDA (70%) and non-financial business performance goals (30%) (the “1H STIP”) and (ii) for the July 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024 performance period based on the achievement of the following corporate performance goals: STIP Adjusted EBITDA (70%) and non-financial business performance goals (30%) (the “2H STIP”). For the 1H STIP, the STIP Adjusted EBITDA performance targets and potential payout opportunities were as follows:

|                                |     | Threshold |     |     | Target |      |     | Maximum |      |
| STIP Adjusted EBITDA Goal ($M) |     |           |  80 |     |        |  107 |     |         |  140 |
| Achievement %                  |     |           | 80% |     |        | 107% |     |         | 140% |
| Payout %                       |     |           | 50