11/12/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/12/2025 05:11
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
General Overview
As used in this current report and unless otherwise indicated, the terms "we", "us" and "our" mean Upexi, Inc.
Upexi, Inc., a Delaware corporation, originally formed as a Nevada corporation in September of 2018. The Company has seven active subsidiaries that are part of the Company. We are in the cryptocurrency industry and the management of cash assets through a cryptocurrency portfolio, primarily focused in Solana tokens and staking of those tokens. We continue to be a brand owner specializing in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of consumer products.
Operating Segments
The Company's financial reporting is organized into a single segment that includes production, sales and distribution of branded products, following the sale of E-Core, Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries. Other sources of revenue and related costs are aggregated and viewed by management as immaterial or have similar economic characteristics, products, production, distribution processes and regulatory environment as the other product sales or directly support the Company's single segment.
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
Our Company
We are in the cryptocurrency industry and the management of cash assets through a cryptocurrency portfolio, primarily focused in Solana tokens and staking of those tokens. We continue to be a brand owner specializing in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of consumer products.
Our Solana Treasury Strategy
Early in 2025, we updated and modified our cash management and treasury strategy to include holding digital currency assets directly on our balance sheet. This was a shift from before when we held excess cash primarily in FDIC-insured interest-bearing accounts. The change to adopt this strategy results from our intention to obtain the highest yield on excess cash. Under our new approach, our treasury policy focuses primarily on Solana ("SOL"). The approach involves applying a public-market treasury model to an asset that is considered earlier in its lifecycle than, with respect to both development and usage, as well as institutional adoption, Bitcoin. Management will focus its resources on this digital asset strategy and a significant portion of the balance sheet will be allocated to holding Solana in the Company's digital asset treasury. Currently our treasury is exclusively dedicated to the SOL digital asset and currently we do not intend to dedicate any of the treasury allocated capital to other digital assets. We will stake the vast majority of the Solana in our treasury to earn a staking yield and turn the treasury into a productive asset. Currently we are staking approximately 95% of our SOL treasury, and intend to maintain a similar or higher percentage going forward. We do not hedge our SOL and do not have plans to hedge our SOL in the future.
Our treasury is intended to bring value to our shareholders in these ways:
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We plan to utilize intelligent capital markets issuance - including the issuance of both equity and convertible debt - where we may issue capital in an accretive fashion for the benefit of shareholders to purchase and hold more Solana. |
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We will stake the majority of the Solana in our treasury to earn a staking yield and turn the treasury into a productive asset. |
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We will purchase locked Solana at a discount to the current spot price, which will provide higher gains for our shareholders as the discount moves to par over time. |
Note that we are underpinned by Solana, which we believe is the leading high-performance blockchain and may see its price rise in the future. If this occurs, our Solana treasury will move up in value, also benefiting shareholders.
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Our Staking Program
Pursuant to our treasury strategy, we will use our SOL in the treasury to generate a return through various opportunities with the most significant portion being allocated to our Staking Program. We will utilize several validators in the Staking Program to reduce our risk with a single validator and maximize the overall yield from the Staking Program. We will also dedicate a portion of the SOL in our staking program to utilize smaller validators to help improve the overall Solana ecosystem. These Validators are scrutinized through our due diligence program and are initially only given a small amount of SOL for the Company to be able to verify the expected performance and yield, and to ensure that the validator should be included in our future allocation of SOL to validators. Management evaluates the validators on a routine basis around performance, yield, and economics, and makes monthly adjustments on the overall allocation of the SOL in the treasury based on our evaluation. Currently we have approximately 95% of our SOL treasury staked and target a similar or higher percentage in the future.
We maintain possession and control of the SOL when it is staked at all times. Native staking is generally considered a safe activity, as it is done in-protocol (i.e.. is built into Solana itself), and as, unlike other networks, Solana has not implemented "slashing" penalties for validators that either intentionally misbehave or perform their duties poorly. As such, the major risk with staking is that we choose a validator with poor performance who realizes a low staking yield. Additionally, as part of the "activating" and "exiting" processes of SOL staking, any staked SOL will be inaccessible for a period of time determined by a range of factors, resulting in certain liquidity risks that we manage.
Process of Staking
Management has bi-weekly meetings to evaluate treasury operations, including the staking of the Company's SOL. Based on these meetings, management determines the allocation of the SOL treasury to the Staking Program and determines the amount of allocation to each validator, ensuring that no single validator has such a large percentage of our stake that it represents concentration risk.
If it is determined to reduce the amount of the SOL dedicated to the Staking Program or it is determined to change the allocation of SOL to a validator, we will initiate an unstaking process and notify the validator of the change, which effectively reverses the delegation of the SOL from the applicable validator node.
Solana has a cooldown period known as the "deactivation period," which is the time it takes for the unstaked SOL to become fully liquid. During this period, the tokens are not actively earning rewards, but they are also not yet available for transfer or use. The length of this period can vary based on network conditions, but is generally expected to be 48 hours or less. Once the cooldown period is complete, the Company will have complete control over the SOL, including the ability to sell the SOL or transfer it as determined by management.
Liquidity Management
The Company's Staking Program involves the temporary loss of the ability to transfer, assign a new validator or otherwise dispose of the SOL. Under normal conditions, the Company will regain complete control over its unstaked SOL within two days of initiating the unstaking. However, there can be no guarantee that such process will result in the Company regaining complete control of its SOL in time to satisfy its current obligations. We maintain a certain amount of liquid SOL in the treasury, classified as current digital assets at fair value and a certain amount of cash to ensure that the Company is able to satisfy its current obligations.
How We Earn Staking Rewards
To earn staking rewards, we delegate our SOL to leading Solana validators via Solana's in-protocol delegation system. This means we deposit our SOL tokens into a staking account, which is then delegated to a validator's vote account. We utilize native staking only, and stake to top validators who have demonstrated a track record of high performance, high yield generation, and attractive delegator economics. We use multiple validators to both maximize the return on our Solana treasury and to mitigate the risk of having only one or two validators for our treasury staking.
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SOL and the Solana Network
SOL is a digital asset that is created and transmitted through the operations of the peer-to-peer Solana network (the "Solana blockchain" or "Solana network"), which is a decentralized network of computers operating the implementation of the Solana protocol. While certain entities such as Solana Labs, Inc. ("Solana Labs") and the Solana Foundation have influence over the Solana network's development and governance (which was particularly true during the network's early years), no single entity owns or operates the Solana network, the infrastructure of which is collectively maintained by a decentralized user base. The Solana network allows the creation and exchange of tokens, including SOL, which are recorded on the Solana network. SOL can be used to pay for goods and services, including to send a transaction on the Solana network, or it can be swapped to other tokens or converted to fiat currencies, such as the U.S. dollar, at rates determined on digital asset trading platforms or in individual end-user-to-end-user transactions under a market-based system. Furthermore, the Solana network allows users to write and implement general purpose code known as smart contracts or programs that create decentralized applications, and for users to openly interact with said decentralized applications. Using programs, users can create decentralized applications covering a variety of categories and subsectors, including borrow/lend protocols, decentralized exchanges, social applications, web3 gaming, tokenized assets, AI agents, decentralized physical infrastructure networks, and many more. As such, the Solana network expands blockchain use well beyond just a peer-to-peer money system.
The Solana protocol introduced the proof-of-history timestamping mechanism. Proof-of-history is not a consensus mechanism, but a cryptographic clock that enables greater organization without extensive communication, thereby increasing throughput. Proof-of-history enables leaders to know when it's their turn to produce a block, rather than requiring the entire network to first come to an agreement on the prior block before the leader can begin their work.
In addition to the proof-of-history mechanism, the Solana network uses a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism to incentivize SOL holders to validate transactions. Unlike proof-of-work, in which miners expend computational and energy resources to be the miner to propose a block and receive the block reward, in proof-of-stake, validators pledge or "stake" coins, perform duties such as proposing or validating blocks, and receive staking rewards generally in proportion to the amount of coins staked. A validator that performs its duties poorly, whether maliciously or unintentionally, would receive fewer or no rewards. Proof-of-stake is viewed as more energy efficient and scalable than proof-of-work. Proof-of-history combined with a proof-of-stake consensus model are some of the components on Solana that enable high throughput and low-latency transaction processing.
Overview of the Solana Network
In order to own, transfer or use SOL directly on the Solana network on a peer-to-peer basis (as opposed to through an intermediary, such as a custodian or centralized exchange), a person generally must have internet access to connect to the Solana network and set up a wallet, which is the software that safeguards a user's keypair (public key plus secret key). SOL transactions may be made directly between end-users without the need for an intermediary. To transact on the Solana network, a user, typically through an application such as a wallet or smart contract, will board the transaction to the current leader, who will organize the transactions into shards before the network processes and validates such transactions. Using cryptography and its proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, the Solana network can come to a shared state of the network in a decentralized fashion and without a centralized leader. Blocks are built on top of prior ones by subsequent leaders, continuing the process.
Prior to transacting on Solana, a user generally must first install on his computer or mobile device a software program that will allow the user to generate a private and public key pair such as a wallet. The wallet also enables the user to connect to the Solana network, interact with decentralized applications, and transfer or swap tokens with other users or applications.
Each user has his own key pair that is stored in such software, like a wallet. To receive SOL in a peer-to-peer transaction, the SOL recipient must provide its public key to the party initiating the transfer. This activity is analogous to a recipient for a transaction in U.S. dollars providing a routing address in wire instructions to the payor so that cash may be wired to the recipient's account. The payor approves the transfer to the address provided by the recipient by "signing" a transaction that consists of the recipient's public key with the private key of the address from where the payor is transferring the SOL. The recipient, however, does not make public or provide to the sender its private key (though the network can still verify the validity of the signature - i.e. that it was signed by the holder of the private key - using cryptography). With cold storage, our Custodian maintains all of the private keys.
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Neither the recipient nor the sender reveal their private keys in a peer-to-peer transaction because the private key authorizes transfer of the funds in that address to other users. Therefore, if a user loses their private key, the user may permanently lose access to the SOL contained in the associated address. Likewise, SOL is irretrievably lost if the private key associated with them is deleted and no backup has been made. When sending SOL, a user's Solana network software program must validate the transaction with the sender's associated private key. In addition, since every computation on the Solana network requires processing power, there is a mandatory transaction fee involved with the transfer that is paid by the payor. The resulting digitally validated transaction is sent by the user's Solana network software program to the Solana network validators to allow transaction confirmation.
Solana network validators record and confirm transactions when they validate and add blocks of information to the Solana blockchain. When a validator is selected to validate a block, it creates that block, which includes data relating to (i) the verification of newly submitted and accepted transactions and (ii) a reference to the prior block in the Solana blockchain to which the new block is being added. The validator becomes aware of outstanding, unrecorded transaction requests through peer-to-peer data packet transmission and distribution discussed above.
Upon the addition of a block of SOL transactions, the Solana network software program of both the spending party and the receiving party will show confirmation of the transaction on the Solana blockchain and reflect an adjustment to the SOL balance in each party's Solana network public key, completing the SOL transaction. Once a transaction is confirmed on the Solana blockchain, it is irreversible.
Some SOL transactions are conducted "off-blockchain" and are therefore not recorded on the Solana blockchain. These "off-blockchain transactions" involve the transfer of control over, or ownership of, a specific digital wallet holding SOL or the reallocation of ownership of certain SOL in a pooled-ownership digital wallet, such as a digital wallet owned by a digital asset trading platform. If a transaction takes place through a centralized digital asset exchange or a custodian's internal books and records, it is not broadcast to the Solana network or recorded on the Solana blockchain. In contrast to on-blockchain transactions, which are publicly recorded on the Solana blockchain, information and data regarding off-blockchain transactions are generally not publicly available. Therefore, off-blockchain transactions are not truly SOL transactions in that they do not involve the transfer of transaction data on the Solana network and do not reflect a movement of SOL between addresses recorded on the Solana blockchain. For these reasons, off-blockchain transactions are not immutable or irreversible as any such transfer of SOL ownership is not cryptographically protected by the protocol behind the Solana network or recorded in, and validated through, the blockchain mechanism.
Since inception, transaction fees on the Solana Network have comprised of a fixed rate of 0.000005 SOL per transaction, plus a variable fee component based on the computation resources used during the transaction. SOL holders can also pay an additional prioritization fee to expedite their transaction.
Validators
In proof-of-stake, validators risk or stake coins to be randomly selected to validate transactions and are rewarded for performing their responsibilities and behaving in accordance with protocol rules. Malfunctions that cause validators to go offline and, in turn, inhibit them from performing their duties can result in financial penalties. Any malicious activity, such as making incorrect attestations or otherwise violating protocol rules results may result in lower rewards or the lost opportunity to gain rewards. The penalty varies depending on the type of offense and correlation to potential offenses by other validators.
Validators are typically professional operations that design and build dedicated machines and data centers, including "clusters," which are groups of validators that act cohesively and combine their processing to confirm transactions. When a validator confirms a transaction, the validator and any associated stakers receive a fee. During the course of ordering transactions and validating blocks, validators may be able to prioritize certain transactions in return for increased transaction fees, an incentive system known as "Maximal Extractable Value" or "MEV." For example, in blockchain networks that facilitate DeFi protocols in particular, such as the Solana network, users may attempt to gain an advantage over other users by offering greater transaction fees.
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Validators less commonly capture MEV in the Solana network because, unlike the Ethereum network, it does not publicly expose transactions before they are accepted by a validator.
Staking rewards on the Solana network are determined by the protocol and are distributed to validators and their associated stakers based on the proportion of their stake relative to the total active stake in the network. The rewards are funded by inflationary issuance of new tokens and transaction fees collected on the network. The specific amount each validator and staker receives depends on, among other things, their share of the total stake, the validator's uptime and performance, and the overall network conditions.
The historical range of staking rewards on the Solana network has varied due to differing levels of network congestion and protocol parameters. The actual annualized reward rate has fluctuated over time, reflecting changes in network activity, inflation rates, and protocol adjustments.
Staking rewards on Solana are distributed at regular intervals. At the end of each epoch, with one epoch being roughly two days, the reward is calculated. The reward is automatically distributed at the beginning of the subsequent epoch. This regular reward frequency ensures that participants receive their share of rewards in a timely manner, reflecting their contribution to network security and transaction validation.
How We Purchase or Sell Digital Assets
Our Management team reviews the Company's short-term obligations and excess cash available to dedicate to the Treasury Strategy. When it is determined that the Company has excess cash available to dedicate to the Treasury Strategy, we deploy that capital into one of our custodians and through acquisition strategies with the custodians and our asset manager. We acquire the SOL over several days or weeks to maximize the number of SOL that is acquired with the capital deployed. If it is determined that the treasury needs to liquidate part of its SOL, the same process of selling the SOL into the market would be used. The Company has not reduced its treasury or sold any of its SOL staking rewards to date.
Use of Custodians and Storage of SOL Tokens
We do not self-custody and only utilize third-party qualified custodians to hold our Solana. We use qualified custodians that utilize risk management and operational best practices around items like hot vs. cold storage, access controls, custody technology, insurance, etc. Our primary custodian is BitGo Trust Company, Inc. ("BitGo"). We also maintain a custodial relationship with Coinbase, Inc. and are in the process of distributing our treasury to different custodians and onboarding other qualified custodians to ensure that we mitigate our Solana treasury risk through the use of several qualified custodians.
Storage of Our Digital Assets in our SOL Treasury
The Custodians
The Custodians are responsible for safekeeping all of the SOL owned by the Company. We maintain multiple Custodians to reduce the risk of a single failure, and we plan to expand to additional custodians as our Treasury grows. The Custodian accounts are all opened by the Company, this segregates our assets into an individual custodian account owned by the Company and access is monitored and controlled by the Company. Our Asset Management Company is given access to the Custodian accounts with established controls to ensure transactions require consensus of a minimum of two individuals when assets are being transferred between wallets and additional controls if an asset of the Treasury is moved out of the Custodians control. The assets go through the Custodians Trust Company, which maintains its own insurance and is regulated by their respective state where the trust is incorporated in.
Our primary custodian is currently BitGo Trust Company, Inc. a South Dakota corporation ("BitGo") and is regulated by the state of South Dakota. On May 1, 2025, we entered into a Custodial Services Agreement with BitGo (the "BitGo Agreement") to hold our digital currency. The term of the BitGo Agreement is for one year with successive one-year renewals unless prior notice of non-renewal is given by either party. The Company pays BitGo a monthly digital asset storage fee based upon the market value of the assets in storage, plus $500. The BitGo Agreement is terminable by either the Company or BitGo on thirty days' notice as a result of a breach of the Agreement and may be suspended by BitGo if the Company violates the intended use of the account or due to a change in the applicable law, litigation or bankruptcy.
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Our secondary custodian is Coinbase Inc., a subsidiary of Coinbase Global, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which is primarily used for the acquisition of digital assets. On May 5, 2025, the Company entered into an Institutional Client Agreement with Coinbase (the "Coinbase Agreement"). The Coinbase Agreement is terminable at will by either the Company or Coinbase. The Company pays Coinbase its regularly scheduled fees based on the dollar trading volume over a thirty-day period. The Coinbase Agreement is terminable by either the Company or Coinbase on ten days' notice as a result of a breach of the Agreement and may be suspended by Coinbase if the Company violates the intended use of the account or due to a change in the applicable law, governmental proceeding, litigation or bankruptcy. Coinbase may also close the Company's account if it has been inactive for more than one year.
BitGo maintains a $250,000,000 policy against loss, theft and misuse. Currently we have approximately $253,000,000 of treasury value at Bitgo, based on the SOL price of $202.51 per token. Coinbase has an insurance policy for any cash held in the account of $250,000. We currently have less than $250,000 of cash held at Coinbase and less than $6,000,000 in SOL value, based on the SOL price of $202.51 per token. At the current price of SOL as of the date of this report, these policies are not adequate to fully cover the full loss of our SOL.
Solana, as with all digital assets, can be highly volatile. Management reviews the account balances and the total value held with custodians to allocate the Company's holdings between multiple accounts and custodians to mitigate risk. We do not use self-storage for any of the SOL treasury assets.
Private keys are generated by the Custodian in key generation ceremonies at secure locations using offline devices that have never been connected to a network. Private keys are generated according to detailed procedures using specialized offline devices and within these secure facilities to mitigate risk of hacks, errors, or other unintended external exposure. Key ceremony processes are highly controlled, require segregation of duties across multiple parties and are reviewed and witnessed by designated oversight personnel. Thorough validations and signoffs are performed to verify the integrity and security of key generation ceremonies.
The Custodians hold a majority of SOL in cold storage and provide a user interface for the Company to manage the allocation of SOL between cold and hot storage for the wallets. The Company maintains more than 98% of its SOL treasury in cold wallets.
The Custodians have multiple, redundant cold storage sites, which are geographically distributed including sites within the United States. Cold storage locations of the Custodian are monitored by 24x7 on-site security, video surveillance and alarms, hardened room structures, and access to these facilities is controlled by multi-person controls, multi-team access rules, and multi-factor authentication. The locations of the cold storage sites may change at the discretion of the Custodian and are kept confidential by the Custodian for security purposes. Transactions from cold to hot storage require physical access, according to the above controls, to one or more cold storage facilities, as well as systematically enforced approvals and integrity verifications, before the secure device can be used to cryptographically complete the transaction. At no point during this process is the private key removed from the secure device(s) nor the cold storage facility. Once these security processes have been completed, a transfer on the Solana network can be executed, as signed using the private keys held offline in cold storage.
The Custodians also maintain geographically dispersed backups of private keys, which are cryptographically generated into shards and stored in separate locations; multiple locations must be accessed to reconstruct a single key. The storage facilities are highly secured, and include 24x7 on-premises security presence, video surveillance, and alarms for unexpected entry. Access to facilities is controlled by multi-person controls, multi- team access rules, and multi-factor authentication.
All of our Custodians have SOC type 2 reports that the Company has reviewed and we get regular bridge reports from our Custodians to help ensure the controls are being maintained. Our Custodians maintain their own insurance policies to cover our loss, which is in addition to the policies that we maintain ourselves. We currently have two qualified Custodians that we have approved for our treasury use and we are in the process of onboarding a third as part of our risk management process.
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The Company is charged for storage fees, staking fees and transaction fees for services specifically requested by the Company or the Asset Management Company. Except as set forth above, the contract terms of the agreements are typically for one to three years and can be terminated upon 30-day notice and payment of all fees due and one month of additional fees.
SOL - the Token of the Solana Blockchain
Solana (SOL) is the native token of the Solana blockchain. According to Solana Compass - a popular website covering the Solana ecosystem that also runs a Solana validator - Solana was created with an initial supply of 500m SOL, though much of the initial supply was locked or earmarked for various use cases such as for the community, investors, foundation, team, etc. New Solana tokens are brought into existence primarily through inflationary rewards distributed to validators (and delegators). Solana currently has a total supply of 606.5m SOL, a circulating supply of 538.2m, and no maximum supply. The Solana staking yield is made up of three primary components: inflationary rewards, transaction/priority fees, and maximal extractable value (MEV). Inflationary rewards started out at 8.0%, currently sit at 4.3%, and will fall 15% every epoch-year until it reaches a long-term floor of 1.5%. There are currently 27.2m locked SOL, representing 6.7% of the total SOL supply with various vesting schedules. Historically, 50% of all transaction fees were burned (with the other 50% going to the validator), but now all transaction fees go to the validator after the passage and adoption of Solana Improvement Document 96 (SIMD-96).
How SOL is Used
SOL is used as part of Solana's proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. In general, proof-of-stake blockchains have block producers called validators that run nodes, bond or stake the protocol's native token, propose blocks when chosen to do so, and validate/sign the transactions and blocks of others when not. Validators are chosen to produce a block in proportion to their stake, which makes it extremely costly for bad actors to attempt to control the network and add invalid transactions to the blockchain. Validators receive staking rewards for the work they perform, which further incentivizes validators to behave properly, as they would otherwise miss out on such rewards. Other proof-of-stake networks often "slash" some or all of a validator's stake if it intentionally or unintentionally performs its duties poorly, for example, by double-signing a transaction, though Solana has not implemented slashing at this time. In addition to its use within consensus, SOL is also a "gas token", meaning that users of the Solana blockchain pay SOL to validators (and delegators) as compensation for processing their transactions. As such, the value of SOL may increase if/as the Solana blockchain sees greater usage.
We see three particularly notable items giving Solana a technical advantage compared to many smart contract blockchain peers. First, Solana's proof-of-history gives validators a notion of time and enables them to produce blocks when it's their turn without requiring the network to first agree upon the current block. This results in immense speed advantages. Second, unlike peer blockchains that often use single-threaded virtual machines, Solana enables parallel transaction execution to increase throughput and advantage of future hardware improvements resulting from an increasing CPU core counts. Lastly, Solana optimized for speed and security, and is naturally growing into decentralization as hardware and bandwidth costs fall over time, optimally positioning it well along the Blockchain Trilemma.
The Solana Ecosystem
As one of the first "second-generation" high performance blockchains, Solana uniquely enjoys both the best-in-class technology described above, as well as strong network effects that have attracted a large, growing, and vibrant ecosystem of users, developers, and decentralized applications. Indeed, while Solana is focused on bringing global finance onchain (commonly referred to as "onchain Nasdaq" or "Internet Capital Markets"), Solana's performance and technical capabilities enable a plethora of use cases from decentralized finance ("DeFi") to decentralized physical infrastructure networks ("DePIN"), AI agents, social media, gaming, stablecoins, real-world assets ("RWA"s), and more. Moreover, according to Electric Capital's 2024 Developer Report, Solana is the #1 ecosystem for new developers, growing 83% in 2024, with this metric often considered a leading indicator of blockchain growth. Lastly, we note that Solana often leads all blockchains in key metrics such as daily active users, decentralized application revenues, and decentralized exchange volumes, sometimes putting up better metrics than all other chains combined.
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Asset Management Agreement
On April 23, 2025, the Company entered into an Asset Management Agreement (the "Asset Management Agreement") with GSR Strategies LLC (the "Asset Manager"), pursuant to which the Asset Manager shall provide discretionary investment management services with respect to the Company's cryptocurrency treasury (the "Account Assets"). According to the Asset Management Agreement, the Asset Manager will invest the Account Assets, including any funds raised in accordance with the funding allocation provided in the Asset Management Agreement, principally with a long-only strategy primarily in Solana, including staking (and restaking0 Solana to improve returns (the "SOL Treasury Strategy").
The Company shall pay the Asset Manager an asset-based fee (the "Asset-based Fee") equal to 1.75% per annum, of the assets under the Asset Manager's management, which shall be calculated and paid in advance as of the first business day of each calendar month, as determined by the Asset Manager in a commercially reasonable manner and in good faith, by reference to, where applicable, available prices on Coinbase as of 12:00 UTC on such day. For any asset prices not available on Coinbase, the Asset Manager shall determine the value of such assets in a commercially reasonable manner and in good faith by reference to reputable industry sources.
As compensation for services rendered by the Asset Manager, the Company issued warrants (the "GSR Warrants") to the Asset Manager ( to purchase 2,192,982 shares of Common Stock at various prices per share of common stock as follows: (i) 877,193 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $2.28 per share of Common Stock; (ii) 438,596 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $3.42 per share of Common Stock; (iii) 438,596 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $4.56 per share of Common Stock; (iv) 438,597 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $5.70 per share of Common Stock.
The Asset Management Agreement will, unless early terminated in accordance with its terms, continue in effect until the twentieth (20th) anniversary of April 23, 2025. The Asset Management Agreement may be terminated by the Company without cause solely upon a two-thirds majority vote of the Company's common stockholders to terminate the SOL Treasury Strategy. If the Company terminates the Asset Management Agreement for any other reason other than for cause, the Company shall pay the Asset Manager an early termination fee (the "Termination Fee) in the amount equal or greater of (i) five (5) times the aggregate amount of the management fees paid by the Company to the Asset Manager over the prior ten (10) year period, or (ii) $15 million. The Asset Management Agreement may be terminated for Cause (i) by the Company upon at least thirty (30) days prior written notice to the Asset Manager and (ii) by the Asset Manager upon at least sixty (60) days prior written notice to the Company.
Critical Accounting Estimates
During the three months ended September 30, 2025, there were no material changes to our critical accounting policies as disclosed in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations-Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2025.
Results of Operations
The following summary of the Company's operations should be read in conjunction with its unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, which are included herein.
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Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2024
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Revenue |
$ | 3,156,128 | $ | 4,356,515 | $ | (1,200,387 | ) | |||||
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Digital asset revenue |
6,083,617 | - | 6,083,617 | |||||||||
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Cost of revenue |
956,745 | 1,426,447 | (469,702 | ) | ||||||||
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Sales and marketing expenses |
1,067,555 | 1,041,425 | 26,130 | |||||||||
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Distribution costs |
887,596 | 1,455,725 | (568,129 | ) | ||||||||
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General and administrative expenses |
9,257,208 | 1,367,690 | 7,889,518 | |||||||||
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Unrealized (gain) on digital assets |
(77,996,124 |
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(77,996,124 |
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Other operating expenses |
5,911,490 | 400,393 | 5,511,097 | |||||||||
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Other expenses |
2,407,153 | 290,412 | 2,116,741 | |||||||||
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Net income (loss) |
$ | 66,748,122 | $ | (1,625,577 | ) | $ | 68,373,699 | |||||
Revenue declined by approximately $1.2 million, or 28%, as compared with the same period last year. Management's focus is on the digital asset strategy and resources are allocated accordingly. We do not expect significant increases to these revenue sources in future quarters.
Digital asset revenue increased by approximately $6.1 million as compared with the same period last year as the Company began its investments in digital assets toward the end of fiscal year 2025. The Company earns staking revenue by delegating its digital assets to third-party validators on proof-of-stake blockchain networks. The digital asset revenue is expected to increase as the number of SOL tokens the Company has staked, the overall increase in the price of SOL and the Company's continued expansion of it digital asset strategy.
Cost of revenue decreased by approximately $0.5 million, or 33%, as compared with the same period last year. The gross margin was approximately 69.7% and 67.3% for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectfully, an increase of approximately 2.4%, as compared with the same period last year.
Sales and marketing expenses increased marginally by $26,000, or 3%, as compared with the same period last year. Management expects the sales and marketing expense to remain consistent, quarter over quarter for the year.
Distribution costs decreased by approximately $0.6 million, or 39%, as compared with the same period last year. The decrease in distribution costs was primarily related to the overall decline in revenue.
General and administrative expenses increased approximately $7.9 million, or 577%, as compared with the same period last year. The increase is mainly a result of expenses in connection with the change in the business to hold digital assets as parts of its treasury. This included an increase of approximately $2.9 million in compensation expense, an increase of approximately $2.4 million in public company expenses, an increase of approximately $0.5 million in travel expenses and an increase of approximately $1.6 million in management and other fees related to the digital asset treasury.
Unrealized gain on digital assets increased by approximately $78.0 million as the Company began its investments in digital assets toward the end of fiscal year 2025. The gains mainly result from the price changes on SOL over the recorded cost of SOL during the three months ended September 30, 2025.
Other operating expenses increased by approximately $5.5 million, or 1,376%, as compared with the same period last year. The increase was primarily due to increased stock compensation.
Other expenses increased by approximately $2.1 million, or 729%, as compared with the same period last year. The increase was primarily due to increased debt used in the purchase of SOL for the digital asset treasury and was offset by approximately $300,000 for interest revenue or short term gains from cash management.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
Working Capital
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As of September 30, 2025 |
As of June 30, 2025 |
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Current assets |
$ | 220,341,167 | $ | 56,778,043 | ||||
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Current liabilities |
64,629,034 | 32,563,906 | ||||||
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Working capital |
$ | 155,712,133 | $ | 24,214,137 | ||||
Cash Flows
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Three Months Ended September 30, |
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2025 |
2024 |
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Cash flows used in operating activities |
$ | (9,780,221 | ) | $ | (1,974,592 | ) | ||
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Cash flows (used in) provided by investing activities |
(30,344,568 | ) | 5,838,106 | |||||
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Cash flows provided by (used in) financing activities |
39,386,862 | (2,734,538 | ) | |||||
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Net change in cash during the period |
$ | (737,927 | ) | $ | 1,128,976 | |||
On September 30, 2025, the Company had cash of $2,237,223, a decrease of $737,927 from June 30, 2025. The primary changes resulted from financing obtained to implement and grow the Company's digital asset strategy that was deployed to acquire digital assets.
Net cash flows used in operating activities was $9,780,221 for the three months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to net cash flows used in operating activities of $1,974,592 for the three months ended September 30, 2024. The digital asset revenue of approximately $6.1 million and the unrealized gain of approximately $78 million are non-cash. The primary cash change from prior periods were attributable to general and administrative expenses, which were $9,257,208 and $1,367,690, respectively, for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectfully. Various costs were incurred in connection with beginning, implementing and growing the Company's digital asset strategy and are expected to continue.
Net cash flows used in investing activities was approximately $30.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to net cash flows provided by investing activities of approximately $5.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024. The primary use of funds was the acquisitions SOL for the digital assets treasury during the three months ended September 30, 2025. In the three months ended September 30, 2024, the primary driver was the cash collected in connection with the sale of a building and the collection of the purchase price for E-core.
Net cash flows provided by financing activities was approximately $39.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to net cash flows used in financing activities of approximately $2.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024. The primary driver of the change was the financing obtained from a capital raise for purposes of executing the Company's digital asset strategy in the three months ended September 30, 2025. This capital raise was offset by the expenses incurred for the capital raise and the expenses incurred for the convertible note obtained in a swap transaction for SOL. In the three months ended September 30, 2024, the primary driver of cash used in financing activities was the payment on a note in connection with the sale of a building.
We estimate that we will have sufficient working capital to fund our operations over the twelve months following the date of the issuance of these condensed consolidated financial statements and meet all of our debt obligations.
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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
There are no off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that is material to investors.