NOTE 8 – EQUITY

Common stock

As of December 31, 2024 the Company had 19,000,000,000 shares of $0.001 common stock authorized. As of December 31, 2024 there were 3,032,746,878 and 565,709,873 shares of common stock outstanding, respectively.

Preferred A Stock

Effective September 5, 2024, the Company amended its Articles of Incorporation (the “Articles”), to amend and restate Sections 1 and 2 of Article 4 of the Articles to increase the number of authorized shares of the Company’s common stock (“Common Stock”) from 2,000,000,000 to 19,000,000,000 and create a new class of stock, par value $0.001 per share, designated as Series A Preferred Stock consisting of 10 authorized shares, as set forth in Certificate of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation (the “Amendment”). Pursuant to the Amendment, Common Stock and Preferred Stock are identical in all respects, except that each share of Common Stock is entitled to one vote and each share of Preferred Stock is entitled to 950,000,000 votes. The shares are not convertible to common stock

On the same date the Company entered into a stock agreement (the “Stock Agreement”) with, the Company’s CEO Ronald Levy pursuant to which the Company issued a total of ten (10) shares of the Company’s Series A preferred stock (“Preferred Stock”) Mr. Levy also serves Interim Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chairman of the Board, Secretary, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Company.

Although the shares are not convertible to common stock these Series A Preferred Shares enable Mr. Levy to exercise control over the Company, so the company used the equity methos to value the shares. The 10 Series A Preferred shares convertible shares can be converted into 9,500,000,000 voting shares. as of December 31, 2024 the Company had 3,032,746,878 shares outstanding. The company estimated that the voting shares could not exceed the number of shares outstanding and used that level of shares to value the common stock which was trading at $0.001 resulted in stock based compensation of $3,032,710 which was also equivalent to the market capitalization on that date,

Stock Options

On July 21, 2017, the Company’s board of directors adopted The Crypto Company 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), which was approved by its stockholders on August 24, 2017. The Plan is administered by the board of directors (the “Administrator”). Under the Plan, the Company may grant equity awards to eligible participants which may take the form of stock options (both incentive stock options and non-qualified stock options) and restricted stock awards. Awards may be granted to officers, employees, non-employee directors (as defined in the Plan) and other key persons (including consultants and prospective employees). The term of any stock option award may not exceed 10 years and may be subject to vesting conditions, as determined by the Administrator. Options granted generally vest over eighteen to thirty-six months. Incentive stock options may be granted only to employees of the Company or any subsidiary that is a “subsidiary corporation” within the meaning of Section 424(f) of the Internal Revenue Code.

During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company issued 500,000 stock options to members of its board of directors, 1,250,000 stock options to employees, and 170,000 stock options to non-employees. No stock options were issued in 2024.

5,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock are reserved for issuance under the Plan. As of December 31, 2024, there are outstanding stock option awards issued from the Plan covering a total of 2,281,349 shares of the Company’s common stock and there remain reserved for future awards 2,718,651 shares of the Company’s common stock.

SCHEDULE OF STOCK OPTIONS ACTIVITY

The Company recognized $-0- and $-0- of compensation expense related to stock options for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. As of December 31, 2024 these options had no intrinsic value since they were all out of the money as of December 31, 2024.

The determination of the fair value of share-based compensation awards utilizing the Black-Scholes model is affected by the Company’s stock price and a number of complex and subjective assumptions, including stock price, volatility, expected life of the equity award, forfeitures rates if any, risk-free interest rates and expected dividends. Volatility is based on the historical volatility of comparable companies measured over the most recent period, generally commensurate with the expected life of the Company’s stock options, adjusted for future expectations given the Company’s limited historical share price data.

The risk-free rate is based on implied yields in effect at the time of the grant on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon bonds with remaining terms equal to the expected term of the stock options. The expected dividend is based on the Company’s history and expectation of dividend pay-outs. Forfeitures are recognized when they occur. During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company recorded $4,383,005 and $6,761 in share based compensation to its employees.

Warrants

As of December 31, 2024 the following warrants were outstanding

 SCHEDULE OF OUTSTANDING WARRANTS TO PURCHASE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK