Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-08-12
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001193125-25-178989
Chunk: 313

Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-12
Form: S-1
Chunk 313
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, but this clause (ii) will not apply to the sale if such person has beneficially owned such shares for at least one year. Persons who have beneficially owned shares of common stock that are restricted securities for at least six months but who are our affiliates at the time of, or any time during the 90 days preceding, a sale, would be subject to additional restrictions, by which such person would be entitled to sell within any three-month period only a number of shares of common stock that does not exceed the greater of either of the following:

| • |     | 1% of the number of shares of Class A common stock then outstanding; or |

| • |     | the average weekly trading volume of shares of Class A common stock on the NYSE during the four calendar weeks preceding the filing of a notice on Form 144 with respect to the sale; |

provided, in each case, that we are subject to, and in compliance with certain of, the Exchange Act periodic reporting requirements for at least 90 days before the sale. Such sales must also comply with the manner of sale and notice provisions of Rule 144 to the extent applicable. Rule 701 In general, under Rule 701, any of our employees, directors, officers, consultants, or advisors who purchased shares from us in connection with a compensatory stock or option plan or other written agreement before our initial public offering is entitled to resell such shares 90 days after the date of our initial public offering in reliance on Rule 144, without having to comply with the holding period requirements or other restrictions contained in Rule 701. 202

The SEC has indicated that Rule 701 will apply to typical stock options granted by an issuer before it becomes subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, along with the shares acquired upon exercise of such options, including exercises after the date of our initial public offering. Securities issued in reliance on Rule 701 are restricted securities and, subject to the contractual restrictions described below, beginning 90 days after the date of our initial public offering, may be sold by persons other than “affiliates,” as defined in Rule 144, subject only to the manner of sale provisions of Rule 144 and by “affiliates” under Rule 144 without compliance with the minimum holding period requirement.

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We have filed an effective registration statement on Form S-8 under the Securities Act to register all shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock issued or issuable pursuant to the exercise of outstanding options