NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL) today announced results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2025.
“The fourth quarter marked another step forward in Circle’s mission to build the infrastructure for an open, programmable internet financial system,” said Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman at Circle. “USDC adoption continued to expand globally as more enterprises, developers, and public institutions integrated digital dollars into real-world payments, treasury, and onchain financial workflows. We saw strong engagement across our platform, meaningful progress toward launching Arc mainnet, continued growth in CPN TPV, and growing momentum for EURC and USYC. With increasing collaboration across traditional finance, fintech, and the public sector, Circle is helping build the infrastructure for a more open and resilient global financial system.”
Key Financial Results and Operating Indicators
The following table presents our key results and operating indicators, as well as the relevant GAAP measures, for the periods indicated:
Fourth Quarter 2025 Financial Highlights and Operating Results
To give investors insight into our business and expectations, management is providing guidance on the following key performance indicators.
Conference Call and Livestream Information
Circle will host a conference call to discuss the results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2025 on February 25, 2026 at 8:00 am ET. Circle’s Investor Relations website at https://investor.circle.com will provide access to the live webcast, as well as a replay of the call and transcript shortly following earnings.
In addition to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Circle uses its Investor Relations website (https://investor.circle.com), its blog (https://www.circle.com/blog), press releases (https://www.circle.com/pressroom), public conference calls and webcasts, its X feed (https://x.com/circle), and its Linkedin page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/circle-internet-financial) as a means of disclosing material nonpublic information, announcing upcoming investor conferences and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Accordingly, investors should monitor these sites in addition to following Circle’s SEC filings.
Forward-Looking Statements
This communication contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our future operating results and financial position, including our guidance for the year ending December 31, 2026; our plans with respect to the anticipated future expenses and investments; expectations relating to certain of our key financial and operating metrics; our business strategy and plans; expectations relating to legal and regulatory proceedings; expectations relating to our industry, the regulatory environment, market conditions, trends and growth; expectations relating to customer behaviors and preferences; our market position; potential market opportunities; and our objectives for future operations. The words “believe,” “may,” “will,” “estimate,” “potential,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “expect,” “could,” “would,” “project,” “plan,” “target,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s expectations, assumptions, and projections based on information available at the time the statements were made. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, including, but not limited to: intense and increasing competition; periods of uncertainty, loss of trust, or systemic shocks resulting in the potential for rapid redemption request, redemption delays and USDC reserves being insufficient to meet all redemption requests; operational challenges and risks related to the new innovation of digital assets and the blockchains that support them, including due to surges in demand; impact of disruptions in secondary marketplaces that facilitate the purchase and sale of digital assets; negative developments regarding other stablecoins that could adversely affect our business; impact of negative publicity regarding digital assets or the broader industry; impact of the GENIUS Act on our payment stablecoin ecosystem; impact of other laws and regulations, including the U.S. securities laws, that affect digital assets; impact of risks associated with the issuer, manager, and custodian of the Circle Reserve Fund, which holds a substantial amount of our USDC reserves; impact of tax examinations or disputes, or changes in tax laws; our failure to develop new products and services that gain market adoption and the substantial expenditures required to bring new products and services to market; impact of a significant disruption in our partners’ technology; our failure or our providers’ failure to safeguard customer funds and digital assets; impact of the loss or destruction of keys required to access any digital assets in custody for our own account or for our customers; our inability to maintain existing relationships with financial institutions and similar firms or enter into new relationships; the impact of credit risks with respect to our counterparties; our inability to maintain existing distribution and partnership arrangements or enter into additional distribution or partnership arrangements on less favorable financial terms; risks related to the Arc blockchain network, including that it may not be successful, and any potential launch of a native token poses additional risks; our dependence on a few key distributors of our digital assets; impact of the use of our products and services to exploit third parties or facilitate illegal activity; impact of any potential ineffectiveness of our compliance program, risk management methods, or internal controls; risks related to minting and redeeming; the importance of our brand, reputation, and intellectual property to our business and the cost of protecting them; impact of a disruption, failure or breach of our networks or systems, including as a result of cyber incidents or attacks; impact of the fluctuation of interest rates and currency exchange rates on our business; the fact that we are subject to an extensive and highly evolving regulatory landscape; impact of economic uncertainty or instability caused by political or geopolitical developments; and the fact that insiders continue to have substantial control over our business and could limit a stockholder’s ability to influence the outcome of key transactions, including a change of control. In light of these risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, our actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. Further information on risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from forecasted results are, or will be included, in our filings we make with the SEC from time to time, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 to be filed with the SEC following the date hereof. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons if actual results differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements.
About Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through programmable blockchain infrastructure, digital assets, and payment applications. Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation.
CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. – CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
CIRCLE INTERNET GROUP, INC. – CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
Quarterly & Annual Results of Operations
The following table summarizes certain key financial performance measures derived from our unaudited quarterly consolidated statements of operations data for each of the three months ended December 31, 2024, March 31, 2025, June 30, 2025, September 30, 2025, and December 31, 2025. The information for each of these periods has been prepared on the same basis as our audited annual consolidated financial statements and, in the opinion of management, reflects all adjustments of a normal, recurring nature that are necessary for the fair statement of the results of operations for these periods.
