Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 255

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
Chunk 255
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ii) each of Ms. Ostling, Mr. Broderick, Ms. Burns, and Mr. Date is an “audit committee financial expert” as defined in Item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Act. This designation does not impose any duties, obligations, or liabilities that are greater than are generally imposed on members of our audit committee and our board of directors. Our audit committee is directly responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | overseeing our accounting and financial reporting processes and internal controls, as well as the audit and                                                                                                                                         
 integrity of our financial statements, including: appointing, overseeing the work of, and approving the compensation of our independent registered public accounting firm; reviewing and approving the scope and timing of the audit; reviewing and 
 discussing with our independent registered public accounting firm the results of the audit; and evaluating the qualifications, performance, and independence of our independent registered public accounting firm;                                  |

| • |     | overseeing and reviewing our internal audit function; |

| • |     | overseeing our financial statements and certain other external disclosures, including reviewing and discussing                               
 with management and our independent registered public accounting firm our annual and quarterly financial statements and related disclosures; |

| • |     | overseeing and reviewing our control and risk management systems; |

| • |     | establishing procedures for, reviewing, and overseeing our investigation of reported concerns related to                                                                                   
 accounting, internal controls, and internal or financial auditing matters and the anonymous submission by employees of concerns regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters; and |

| • |     | reviewing, and if appropriate, approving related-party transactions. |

Compensation committee The members of our compensation committee are Rajeev Date (chair), Bradley Horowitz, David Orfao, and Danita Ostling. Each member of this committee is a non-employee director, as defined by Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act, and meets the requirements for independence under the NYSE listing standards and SEC rules and regulations. Our compensation committee is responsible for, among other things:

| • |     | reviewing and approving the compensation of our executive officers (other than our chief executive officer for 
 whom the compensation committee reviews and recommends said compensation to the board of directors);           |

| • |     | reviewing, approving, and administering our incentive compensation plans; |

| • |     | evaluating and recommending to our board of directors the compensation of our directors; |

| • |     | reviewing our overall compensation philosophy;