Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0000950123-25-006942
Chunk: 316

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: DRS
Chunk 316
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1) offer, pledge, sell,
contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option, or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Class A common
stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Class A common stock (including, without limitation, Class A common stock or such other securities which may be deemed to be beneficially owned by such
lock-up parties in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC and securities which may be issued upon exercise of a stock option or warrant (collectively with the Class A common stock, the “lock-up securities”)), or
(2) enter into any hedging, swap, or other agreement or transaction that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the lock-up securities, whether any such transaction described in clause (1)
or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of lock-up securities, in cash or otherwise, in each case, without the prior written consent of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. The lock-up parties have further acknowledged and agreed not to make any
demand for, or exercise any right with respect to, the registration of any lock-up securities, or publicly disclose the intention to do any of the foregoing, in each case, without the prior written consent of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. J.P. Morgan
Securities LLC may waive the requirements of the lock-up agreements at any time in its sole discretion. We have agreed that we will not waive the market standoff provision in any stockholder agreement without the prior written consent of J.P. Morgan
Securities LLC.

On or prior to the date of this prospectus, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC has released shares of Class A
common stock from the foregoing restrictions, including an aggregate of shares of Class A common stock released to the selling stockholders in connection with this offering and an aggregate of up to 1.9 million
shares of Class A common stock released on August 13 as part of the employee early release (as further described in the “Underwriting” section). As a result, substantially all of the remaining approximately
shares of Class A common stock outstanding will become eligible to be sold on the earlier of (i) 180 days following the date of the IPO prospectus and (ii) the date that is the second trading day after we
publicly announce our earnings for