---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001876042-26-000159"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CRCL"
cik: "0001876042"
company_name: "Circle Internet Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-05-18T21:04:45+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T21:08:42.718739+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Circle Internet Group stockholders elect directors and approve executive compensation at 2026 annual meeting

## Summary
- Jeremy Allaire re-elected with 141,019,305 votes for, Craig Broderick with 141,175,675, and P. Sean Neville with 130,218,145.
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation approved with 144,019,384 votes for, 1,267,823 against.
- Stockholders favored holding future advisory votes on executive compensation every one year (144,874,849 votes for one year).
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent auditor for 2026 approved with 201,551,710 votes for, 154,559 against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001876042-26-000159
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CRCL
- cik: 0001876042
- company_name: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-05-18T21:04:45+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1876042/000187604226000159/0001876042-26-000159-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1876042/000187604226000159/crcl-20260514.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Circle Internet Group, Inc. shareholders approved Advisory Vote to Approve Named Executive Officer Compensation at the 2026-05-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-14
  source text: Proposal 2: Advisory Vote to Approve Named Executive Officer Compensation
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1876042/000187604226000159/0001876042-26-000159-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Circle Internet Group, Inc. shareholders approved Advisory Vote to Approve the Frequency of Future Advisory Votes on Named Executive Officer Compensation at the 2026-05-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-14
  source text: Proposal 3: Advisory Vote to Approve the Frequency of Future Advisory Votes on Named Executive Officer Compensation
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1876042/000187604226000159/0001876042-26-000159-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Circle Internet Group, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of the Appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2026-05-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-14
  source text: Proposal 4: Ratification of the Appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1876042/000187604226000159/0001876042-26-000159-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Circle Internet Group, Inc. shareholders approved Election of Class I Directors at the 2026-05-14 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-14
  source text: Proposal 1: Election of Class I Directors
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1876042/000187604226000159/0001876042-26-000159-index.htm

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