17. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Advisory Services Agreement

On August 7, 2025, the Company entered into an advisory services agreement (the “Advisory Services Agreement”) with Kingsway Capital Partners Limited (“Kingsway”), a firm controlled by Manuel Stotz, the Company’s Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Pursuant to the Advisory Services Agreement, Kingsway provides advisory and consulting services related to the expansion and diversification of the Company’s business its TON Treasury Strategy. In consideration for these services, the Company agreed to pay Kingsway, (i) a one-time set-up fee having a notional value of $3,000 and (ii) an annual advisory fee equal to 2.0% of the Company’s market capitalization payable in 12 monthly installments. Payments may be made in either TON or cash, as mutually agreed between the parties. If paid in TON, the amount due is determined based on the weighted-average TON execution price as of the last day of each month. The Company will also reimburse Kingsway for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with the services provided. The Advisory Services Agreement has an initial 20-year term and may be renewed for successive one-year periods upon mutual agreement, unless earlier terminated. The Company capitalized the one-time set-up fee as a prepaid asset and is amortizing over the contractual term of the agreement. For the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company recognized $61 related to the amortization of the setup fee and recorded $2,939 in advisory fees paid or accrued under the monthly installments of the annual advisory fee. Transactions with Kingsway are considered related party transactions due to the control relationship with the Company’s Executive Chairman. See Note 18 – Subsequent Events.

Blockchain.com Agreements

On July 31, 2025, the Company entered into a master custody agreement with Blockchain.com pursuant to which Blockchain.com has custody of digital assets held by the Company and executes digital asset transactions on behalf of the Company. Manuel Stotz, the Company’s newly appointed Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Kingsway serves as director on the Board of Directors of Blockchain.com PLC, Blockchain.com’s parent company (“Blockchain Parent”), and entities affiliated with Kingsway hold an approximate 9% ownership in Blockchain Parent. Nicholas Cary currently sits on the Board of Directors of TON Strategy Company and is co-founder and serves as Vice Chairman and an employee of Blockchain Parent and holds an approximate 3% ownership interest in Blockchain Parent.

On November 24, 2025, the Company entered Addendum No. 1 (the “Addendum”) to the master custody agreement with Blockchain.com. Under this Addendum, for all unlocked Toncoin (i.e., non-smart contract locked Toncoin), the master custody agreement was amended for the following: (i) the custody services fee was reduced from 50 basis points to 5 basis points per annum, (ii) the rewards fee for staking rewards was reduced from 25% to 10%, (iii) the term of the Addendum and the master custody agreement is twelve months. The Company can terminate both the Addendum and master custody agreement early and incur an early termination fee equal to the monthly average of all fees paid by the Company multiplied by the number of months remaining in the term.

Pursuant to the master custody agreement, for the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company incurred custody fees, staking service fees and staking rewards fees in an aggregate amount of $1,025.

PIPE In-kind Contributions

Certain subscribers to the PIPE including Kingsway, Blockchain.com, and Vy Capital Management Company Limited (“Vy Capital”), a greater than 5% owner of the Company, contributed cash as well as in-kind contributions. Kingsway contributed $118,141 across eight entities consisting of: (i) $35,000 of cash (ii) 8,952,656 unlocked or unrestricted Toncoin, and (iii) 16,047,344 Toncoin restricted through a smart contract. The restricted Toncoin were contributed in-kind through the transfer of publicly viewable smart contracts on the TON blockchain containing embedded vesting logic. The tokens are not transferable until automatically released pursuant to the programmed vesting conditions. The smart contract addresses transferred by Kingsway as part of its in-kind contribution are:

Merkle Tree Markets Ltd., a subsidiary of Blockchain.com contributed $19,977 consisting of: $10,000 of cash and (ii) 3,000,000 Toncoin restricted through a smart contract. The smart contract address transferred by Merkle Tree Markets Ltd. as part of its in-kind contribution is:

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Vy Capital contributed $58,257 across two entities consisting of: (i) $25,000 of cash and (ii) 10,000,000 of unlocked or unrestricted Toncoin.