On October 8, 2026, Nikhil Chandhok, Chief Product & Tech. Officer at Circle Internet Group, Inc. ($CRCL), sold 26,668 shares of common stock in an open-market transaction at $79.59 per share. The sale totaled $2,122,506.12. Chandhok filed the Form 4 on October 9, one day after the trade, and reported holding 715,331 shares after the transaction. The most recent $CRCL close on record before the trade was $83.30 on October 5.
The filing was the latest in a series of open-market $CRCL sales by Chandhok. Earlier in 2026, he sold 26,666 shares at $67.15 per share on August 10, 26,666 shares at $63.90 per share on July 8, and 10,000 shares at $111.00 per share on May 21. His prior 2026 $CRCL sales also included 10,000 shares at $104.00 on April 21 and 10,000 shares at $123.08 on March 23. The five prior sales shown in the filing history totaled 83,332 shares and $6,875,379.30.
$CRCL insiders as a group reported multiple open-market sales from July through October. Since July 1, Form 4 records showed four insiders with $CRCL sales: Chandhok at $5.62 million across three sales, CFO Jeremy Fox-Geen at $4.69 million across two sales, CEO Jeremy Allaire at $3.88 million across 14 sales, and Chief Commercial Officer Hossein Razzaghi at $812,311.86 across two sales. The combined value was about $15.0 million. Razzaghi's October 2 sale of 1,830 shares at $85.78 was filed on October 5, and his September 2 sale of 7,458 shares at $87.87 was filed on September 3. Fox-Geen's August 21 sale of 45,000 shares at $90.00 was filed on August 24, and his August 13 sale of 8,476 shares at $75.00 was filed on August 14.
Circle Internet Group is a technology-sector company with a market capitalization of about $20.6 billion. In congressional records, Representative Rob Bresnahan, a Republican, reported a $CRCL purchase dated June 24, 2025, with a midpoint value of $1,001; the disclosure was filed on July 8, 2025, 14 days later. Congressional dollar figures are midpoint estimates of bracketed ranges.
The October 8 sale carried a larger dollar value than Chandhok's August 10 sale of $1,790,621.90 and his July 8 sale of $1,703,957.40. It was also larger than the May 21 sale of $1,110,000, the April 21 sale of $1,040,000, and the March 23 sale of $1,230,800. His post-sale holding of 715,331 shares meant the 26,668 shares sold represented about 3.7% of the position he reported after the trade.