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Circle to Offer 10 Million Class A Shares at $130 Each

The price is more than quadruple the June IPO price of $31 when the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange.

Aug 15, 2025, 9:40 a.m.
Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte (left) and CEO Jeremy Allaire (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte (left) and CEO Jeremy Allaire (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

What to know:

  • Circle plans to offer 10 million shares in a secondary stock sale at a price of $130 per share.
  • The stablecoin issuer is selling 2 million shares itself, and existing shareholders are selling the other 8 million.
  • The price is more than quadruple CRCL's IPO price of $31 when the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in June.

Circle (CRCL) plans to offer 10 million shares in a secondary stock sale priced at $130 per share, more than four times to price of its initial public offering in June.

The stablecoin issuer behind the USDC token is itself offering 2 million shares of Class A common stock, it said in a Tuesday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Existing shareholders putting up the other 8 million.

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The company will use the proceeds from the sale of its shares for general corporate purposes. It won't receive any proceeds from the shareholders' sale.

The shares debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in early June after being priced at $31. They soared on trading, rising as much as 235% on the first day before closing at $83. The stock hit a record $298.99 on June 23 and closed Thursday at $139.23, a loss of over 9% on the day.

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CRCL shares were recently 1.63% lower at $136.98 in pre-market trading.

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