Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001193125-25-126208
Chunk: 267

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 267
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 of base salary and target bonus |     | Benefit continuation                                                                                                    
 Continuation of medical and welfare benefits at Circle’s cost for the two-year period following the date of termination |     | Equity awards                                                    
 100% acceleration of outstanding time-based equity awards        |
|:---------------|:----|:---------------------------------------------|:----|:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:----|:-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| All other NEOs |     | 1.5x the sum of base salary and target bonus |     | Continuation of medical and welfare benefits at Circle’s cost for the 18-month period following the date of termination |     | 100% acceleration of outstanding time-based equity awards Vested 
 options will remain exercisable for 12 months                    |

The Executive Severance Guidelines also include a “best net” provision such that if the amounts to be received upon a termination of employment in connection with a change in control would trigger the excise tax on parachute payments, either the payments will be lowered so as not to trigger the excise tax, or they will be paid in full subject to the tax, whichever produces the better net after-taxposition. Quantification of termination payments and benefits The table below sets forth the estimated payments and benefits that each fiscal year 2024 NEO would have been entitled to receive upon a qualifying termination of employment by the Company and/or the occurrence of 188

a change in control, in each case assuming the relevant event occurred on December 31, 2024. Due to the number of factors that affect the nature and amount of any potential payments or benefits, actual payments and benefits may differ from those presented in the table below. Note that the following table of potential payments and benefits represents the severance provisions set forth in the NEO’s individual employment agreements or offer letters in effect as of December 31, 2024, and does not take into account the provisions of our current Executive Severance Guidelines discussed above, which were implemented effective January 1, 2025. However, the potential payments and benefits included in the table below do not differ materially from the potential payments and benefits available under our amended Executive Severance Guidelines, as amended for fiscal year 2025.

| Name                |     | Benefit                              |     | Termination Without Cause 
 or Resignation for Good   
 Reason Other than Change  
 in Control                |           |     | Termination Without Cause 
 or Resignation for Good   
 Reason in Connection with 
 a Change in Control       |            |
|:--------------------|:----|