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| Commitments and Contingencies | Note 9 – Commitments and Contingencies Temporary HAUS Agreements The Company entered its first HAUS Agreement on September 12, 2025 with Credo Cayman, which was subsequently terminated in January 2026. The Company linked 100,000 of its owned and staked HYPE tokens to the trading wallet of Credo Cayman, allowing Credo Cayman to receive reduced trading fees on the Hyperliquid decentralized exchange, and entitling the Company to earn a portion of those fee savings as income, plus 100% of staking rewards. On October 28, 2025, the Company entered into a HAUS Agreement with Felix Foundation (“Felix”) to support the deployment of a perpetual futures market on the Hyperliquid protocol. Under the agreement, the Company allocated 500,000 HYPE tokens to a multi-signature wallet controlled jointly by Hyperion DeFi and Felix. These tokens are presented as “Digital assets” on the condensed balance sheets and “HYPE digital assets” (see Note 6), with a fair value of approximately $18.3 million as of March 31, 2026. These tokens are staked to satisfy the HIP-3 deployment requirements for launching a perpetual futures market (“HIP-3 Market”). The Company will retain full ownership of the allocated HYPE tokens, and Felix is prohibited from transferring, encumbering, or otherwise alienating the allocated HYPE tokens. Further, under the agreement, the Company will receive a share of HIP-3 Market revenues based on trading volume tiers, plus 100% of staking rewards. The agreement has an initial term of 52 weeks and is automatically renewable for successive 26-week periods unless terminated with 30 days’ notice; in addition, the Company may terminate the agreement for any reason upon 90 days’ prior written notice. On November 19, 2025, the Company entered into a Temporary Use Agreement with Native Markets, Inc., for 300,000 HYPE tokens. Under this agreement, 300,000 of the Company’s HYPE tokens are staked at a deployer address to meet certain requirements of the Hyperliquid blockchain which unlocks more favorable economics for the USDH stablecoin. In return, the Company receives a fee for the use of its tokens by Native Markets, Inc., and the Company is entitled to receive all staking rewards on the tokens. The Temporary Use Agreement contains a six-month initial term, which has been subsequently extended for an additional six-month term. The agreement automatically renews for successive six-month periods unless either party provides 90 days’ notice of non-renewal. Upon termination or expiration of the Temporary Use Agreement, Native Markets must immediately return all tokens to the Company. These tokens are presented as digital assets receivable on the condensed balance sheets. On March 18, 2026, the Company entered into a HAUS Agreement with Silhouette AG (“Silhouette”). The Company agreed to link 100,000 of its owned and staked HYPE tokens to the trading wallet of Silhouette, allowing Silhouette to receive reduced trading fees for traders using its platform, and entitling the Company to earn a portion of those fee savings as income, plus 100% of staking rewards. These tokens are presented as “Digital assets” on the Condensed Balance Sheets and “HYPE digital assets” (see Note 6), with a fair value of approximately $3.7 million as of March 31, 2026. The agreement has an initial term of 52 weeks and is automatically renewable for successive 52-week periods unless either party provides notice of termination within 30 days prior to the end of the initial term; in addition, the Company may terminate the agreement for any reason upon 90 days’ prior written notice. HyperLend Revenue-Sharing Agreement In connection with the Company’s Revenue-Sharing Agreement executed with HyperLend on March 31, 2026, the Company is contractually limited in its ability to sell its HPL tokens for two years. Initially, the Company is required to stake its 10 million HPL tokens for one year; 1 million of the Company’s HPL tokens have been deposited into liquid staking activities in exchange for sHPL as of March 31, 2026, and the Company’s remaining 9 million HPL tokens were subsequently deposited into liquid staking activities in exchange for sHPL on April 1, 2026. After the one year staking requirement, sale restrictions on the HPL tokens received shall release linearly over a subsequent 12-month vesting period, with becoming freely transferable on the first day of each calendar month. If the Company does not abide by the staking and vesting requirements, the Company contractually must repay to HyperLend the unvested portion of the HPL tokens in-kind or in USDC equivalent, plus a penalty of 25%. OTC HYPE Options As of March 31, 2026, the Company’s outstanding OTC HYPE covered call contracts referenced 250,000 HYPE with strike prices ranging from $45.0 and $48.3 and maturities extending through April 30, 2026. These contracts are collateralized by 20,000 of the Company’s HiHYPE and 230,000 of the Company’s kHYPE, which have been transferred to institutional counterparties. These 250,000 tokens are presented in aggregate as approximately $8.9 million in “Digital intangible assets receivable, net” on the condensed balance sheets. Joint Validator Operators’ Agreement On October 27, 2025, the Company entered into a Joint Validator Operators’ Agreement (the “Joint Validator Agreement”) with Kinetiq and Pier Two, effective retroactively to June 25, 2025. The Joint Validator Agreement formalizes the parties’ collaboration in jointly operating a co-branded KxH validator node on the Hyperliquid Layer-1 blockchain (“Hyperliquid”). Under the Joint Validator Agreement, Hyperion initiated the validator with 10,000 HYPE and agreed to provide staking capital from its treasury of HYPE tokens, so that the validator enters Hyperliquid’s active set of validators and it is eligible to produce and attest blocks in the Hyperliquid consensus protocol. Hyperion is contractually required to keep 10,000 HYPE tokens at the validator, and these tokens are presented as “Digital assets” on the Condensed Balance Sheets and “HYPE digital assets” within Note 6 – Digital Assets, with a fair value of $366,200 as of March 31, 2026. Kinetiq will contribute validator operations support, smart contract infrastructure, and stake-routing tooling via its liquid staking protocols, and Pier Two will host and manage the validator infrastructure, including uptime, monitoring and security, and is responsible for maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and System and Organization Controls 2 compliance. The Joint Validator Agreement outlines shared responsibilities for validator operations, governance, incident response, and performance monitoring. It includes a revenue-sharing arrangement whereby staking commissions and other validator-level rewards are allocated among Hyperion, Kinetiq and Pier Two, with specific overrides for referred delegations. The Joint Validator Agreement is effective for an initial term of one year and will automatically renew annually unless terminated by any party with 90 days’ notice. Litigations, Claims and Assessments In the normal course of business, the Company may be involved in legal proceedings, claims and assessments arising in the ordinary course of business. The Company records legal costs associated with loss contingencies as incurred and accrues for all probable and estimable settlements. |