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Intangible Assets
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]  
Intangible Assets

NOTE 5. Intangible Assets

 
As of June 30, 2025, the net book value of the intangible assets was $18,071,075, which was made up of the assets described below.

 

Software to be Sold, Leased, or Marketed 

 

In March 2023 the Company paid, through OAG (a related party), $84,000 to Oktane Media, a Company owned by Ken Park, the Company’s Chief Marketing Officer, for Nodalium Channel Partnership Agreement & Transaction Costs, through which the Company obtained a certain license that allowed the Company to resell the license. The license fee covered one year. The asset was amortized over the twelve months starting in April 2023. The Company amortized $0 and $21,000 during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The asset was fully amortized as of June 30, 2025.

 

 

Internal-use Software

 

In January 2023, the Company entered into a service agreement with Nodalium, Inc. (“Nodalium”) through which Nodalium would provide workflow automation for the KYC and AML onboarding of gold reserves. The consideration for this project was $80,000. During the six and three months ended June 30, 2025, the Company recognized amortization of $13,333 and $6,667, respectively, and the remaining balance of the assets was $26,667 as of June 30, 2025. Having participated in the planning and development of the Company’s Core Architectural Platform and Digital Asset Ecosystem, I-ON will further develop and expand upon the Nodalium technology by adding new AI and web3-based workflow management components that have been additionally developed by other technology partners like Instruxi Limited. 

 

In March 2023, the Company signed an agreement with Instruxi Limited, through which Instruxi Limited was to build a technology stack for the tokenization of precious metal, mineral, and/or commodity asset rights for unextracted deposits. The technology stack allows the Company to provide specialist consultation, through its ION’s Digital Architecture & Hybrid Blockchain Platform. The Company paid $329,142 for this software. During the six and three months ended June 30, 2025 the Company recognized amortization of $54,857 and $27,428, respectively, and the remaining value of the assets was $164,571 as of June 30, 2025. 

 

The Company expects to record amortization of $68,190 and $123,047 for the years ending December 31, 2025 and 2026, respectively. 

 

Indefinite-lived Intangible Assets 

 

In February 2023, ION Acquisition Corp., a company owned 100% by Carlos Montoya, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and controlling stockholder, signed a purchase agreement with Nahla Jacobs and Nahla Saleh Jacobs Trust and Orebits Acquisition Group LLC, to purchase 180 Orebits AU Certificates, valued at $335,700. ION Acquisition Corp. paid $85,700 in cash and issued 1,136,364 shares of its common stock for the transaction. ION Acquisition Corp. then contributed the 180 Orebits AU Certificates to the Company. In October 2023, the Company assessed the value of the Orebits AU Certificates and determined there was an impairment of $8,199, reducing the asset value to $327,501 as of December 31, 2023. 

 

In December 2023, the Company obtained 9,699.7082 Orebits AU Certificates through the acquisition of Orebits as a result of the Contribution and Exchange Agreement with OAG, an entity owned and controlled by Carlos Montoya, CEO (see NOTE 1). Pursuant to the agreement, I-ON Digital Corp. issued 910,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock in exchange for Orebits’ 100% ownership of 910,000 Orebits’ shares. The Company, having independently built the underlying ION Digital Hybrid Blockchain & Workflow Platform in anticipation of onboarding the Orebits AU certificates as a Gold Backed Digital Asset, recorded the 9,699.7082 Orebits AU Certificates at $17,643,284 ($1,818.95 per Orebits AU Certificate). 

 

In July 2024, the Company sold 50 units of the Orebits AU Certificates in exchange for 2 units of Bitcoin (“BTC”). The selling price was $116,630 based on the value of BTC on the date of sale, and the carrying value of the 50 Orebits AU Certificates was $90,948, so the gain on exchange of the intangible assets was $25,682. On September 30, 2024, the Company sold the 2 units of BTC for cash of $120,425, which was the BTC selling price on the date of sale, resulting in a gain on sale of intangible assets of $3,795

 

The Orebits AU Certificates have been determined to have an indefinite life, therefore no amortization has been recognized, instead the asset is evaluated for impairment in accordance with the Company’s policy for such. During the six months ended June 30, 2025 no impairment was recognized, therefore as of June 30, 2025, the value of the indefinite-lived intangible assets were $17,879,837. As of June 30, 2025 489 Orebits AU Certificates were pledged as collateral for the Company’s loans payable (see NOTE 7).