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Registered Direct Offering
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Registered Direct Offering

Note 16: Registered Direct Offering

 

Registered Direct Offering

 

On or about August 12, 2025, the Company entered into securities purchase agreements (the “Registered Offering Purchase Agreements”) with certain institutional investors, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue to the Purchasers (as defined therein), in a registered direct offering (the “Registered Offering”), an aggregate of 100,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”), at a purchase price of $7.50 per share.

 

The Company intends to use up to $10.0 million of the net proceeds from the Registered Offering to settle existing litigation, pay existing debt, and fund the Company’s existing business operations. The balance of the net proceeds was used to fund the acquisition of $WLFI tokens from World Liberty Financial, Inc. (the “Lead Investor”), pursuant to a Token Purchase Agreement, and the establishment of the Company’s cryptocurrency treasury operations. The shares of Common Stock issued in the Registered Offering were issued pursuant to a prospectus supplement, which was filed with the SEC on August 11, 2025, in connection with a takedown from the Company’s shelf registration statement on Form S-3, as amended, (File No. 333-289176), which was declared effective by the SEC on August 8, 2025.

 

Private Placement Offering

 

Also, on August 12, 2025, the Company consummated transactions resulting from a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Private Placement Purchase Agreement” and, together with the Registered Offering Purchase Agreements, the “Purchase Agreements”), with the Lead Investor, pursuant to which the Company received $750 million of $WLFI tokens and issued to the Lead Investor, in a concurrent private placement (the “Private Placement” and together with the Registered Offering, the “Offerings”), 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock at a purchase price of $7.50 per share (the “PIPE Shares”), and pre-funded warrants (the “PIPE Pre-Funded Warrants”) to purchase up to 99,000,000 shares of Common Stock at a purchase price of $7.499 per PIPE Pre-Funded Warrant (the “PIPE Pre-Funded Warrant Shares”). Each of the PIPE Pre-Funded Warrants is exercisable for one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.001 per share. The PIPE Pre-Funded Warrants were not exercisable until the Company had (i) obtained stockholder approval to allow the issuance of shares underlying the PIPE Pre-Funded Warrant in excess of 19.99% of the shares of common stock outstanding immediately prior to the execution of the Purchase Agreement (the “Exchange Cap”) and (ii) filed an amendment to its Articles of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock (the “Amendment”), both of which occurred in October 2025. Accordingly, the PIPE Pre-Funded Warrants may be exercised at any time until all have been exercised in full, subject to certain contractual beneficial ownership limitations.

 

Pursuant to the Private Placement Purchase Agreement, the Lead Investor was issued Common Stock Purchase Warrants (the “Lead Investor Warrants”) to purchase up to 10% of the number of shares of Common Stock or pre-funded warrants sold in the offering, or 20 million shares of Common Stock. The Lead Investor Warrants are exercisable for (i) 8,000,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $7.50 per share of Common Stock; (ii) 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $8.25 per share of Common Stock; (iii) 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $9.00 per share of Common Stock; and (iv) 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $9.75 per share of Common Stock, subject to adjustment. The issuance of the shares of Common Stock underlying the Lead Investor Warrants (the “Lead Warrant Shares”) was also subject to stockholder approval of the Exchange Cap and the Amendment, which, as noted above, occurred in October 2025.

 

 

The issuance and sale of the PIPE Shares, the PIPE Pre-Funded Warrants, the Lead Investor Warrants, and the Lead Investor Shares (collectively, the “PIPE Securities”) were not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or any state securities laws. The PIPE Securities were, or will be, as relevant, issued in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder for transactions not involving a public offering. Pursuant to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement (as defined herein), the Company is required to file a registration statement providing for the resale of the PIPE Securities within 15 days of the closing of the Private Placement. As of the date of this Quarterly Report, the registration statement has not yet been filed.

 

The Registered Offering resulted in gross proceeds of $750 million and the Private Placement resulted in the receipt of $750 million of WLFI tokens, in each case before deducting placement agent commissions and other offering expenses. The closing of the Offerings occurred on August 12, 2025.

 

Pursuant to the Purchase Agreements, the Company has agreed not to issue, enter into any agreement to issue, or announce the issuance or proposed issuance of any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock equivalents, or file any registration statement or any amendment or supplement thereto, for a period of thirty (30) days after the initial registration statement was declared effective, subject to certain customary exceptions, including the use of the Sales Agreement (as defined herein), without the consent of the Purchasers, the Lead Investor, and the Placement Agent.

 

Placement Agency Agreements

 

The Company entered into a Placement Agency Agreement with A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners (the “Placement Agent”), dated August 11, 2025, pursuant to which the Placement Agent acted as the exclusive placement agent for the Company in connection with the Registered Offering (the “RD Placement Agency Agreement”). Pursuant to the RD Placement Agency Agreement, the Company paid the Placement Agent a cash fee of 3% of the gross proceeds from the Registered Offering and issued to the Placement Agent (or its designees) warrants to purchase that number of shares of Common Stock equal to 3% of the securities sold in the Registered Offering, which are exercisable beginning 180 days following the closing date, and have an initial exercise price per share of Common Stock of $8.25 (the “Placement Agent Warrants”). In addition, the Company reimbursed the Placement Agent for up to $475,000 of its fees and expenses, and up to $10,000 in non-accountable expenses, in connection with the Registered Offering.

 

The Company also entered into a Placement Agency Agreement with the Placement Agent, dated August 11, 2025, pursuant to which the Placement Agent acted as the exclusive placement agent for the Company in connection with the Private Placement (the “PIPE Placement Agency Agreement”). Pursuant to the PIPE Placement Agency Agreement, the Company paid the Placement Agent (or its designees) a cash fee of (i) $6.5 million for all tokens paid for the securities sold in the Private Placement in excess of $500 million and (ii) 3% of the gross proceeds of cash paid for the securities sold in the Private Placement Offering by the Placement Agent, and issued to the Placement Agent, Placement Agent Warrants equal to 3% of the securities sold in the Private Placement, which are exercisable beginning 180 days following the closing date, and have an initial exercise price per share of Common Stock of $8.25. In addition, the Company reimbursed the Placement Agent for up to $475,000 of its fees and expenses, and up to $10,000 in non-accountable expenses, in connection with the Private Placement.

 

The issuance of the Placement Agent Warrants and the shares of Common Stock underlying the Placement Agent Warrants (the “Placement Agent Warrant Shares”) will not be registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws. The Placement Agent Warrant Shares will be issued in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder for transactions not involving a public offering.

 

 

The Placement Agency Agreement contains customary representations, warranties, and agreements by the Company, customary conditions to closing, indemnification obligations of the Company, other obligations of the parties, and termination provisions.

 

On December 30, 2025, the Company entered into an agreement (the “Placement Agent Subsequent Agreement”) with the Placement Agent that modified certain of the terms of the Placement Agent Agreements. The parties agreed, subject to certain limitations, to extend the Placement Agent’s irrevocable right of first refusal to act as sole investment banker, sole book-runner, sole sales agent, and/or sole placement agent, at its sole discretion, for the Company’s future public and private equity and debt offering, including all equity linked financings, through December 31, 2026, on terms customary to the Placement Agent. The fee tail period, as provided in the Placement Agent Agreements, was also extended from August 12, 2026 through December 31, 2026. In connection with such extensions, the Placement Agent (i) paid the Company the sum of one million dollars and (ii) agreed that, once it has received one million dollars in fees paid to it by the Company with respect to any financing consummated during the extended right of first refusal period or in respect of the extended fee tail period, the Company may allocate 35% of the fees otherwise to be associated therewith to another bank and/or broker-dealer or, if no other bank or broker-dealer would be entitled to any such fees, then the Placement Agent will reduce its customary and reasonable fees associated therewith during such periods by 35%. The Company also generally released the Placement Agent from all claims or other obligations through the date of the Placement Agent Subsequent Agreement.

In connection with the Placement Agent Subsequent Agreement, on December 26, 2025, the Company entered into an agreement with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (“KBW”), that superseded and terminated the parties’ May 14, 2025 and June 16, 2025, agreements, which provided that KBW would render certain financial advisory and investment banking services to the Company. Under this agreement, the Company agreed to pay to KBW the sum of three million dollars, one-third of which was paid on or about December 31, 2025 and the remaining amounts in equal payments on or before March 31, 2026 and May 31, 2026. KBW had asserted that it was due $37.8 million in advisory fees connection with the Registered Offering and the Private Placement. The parties also generally released each other from all claims or other obligations in respect of the May 14, 2025 and June 16, 2025 agreements and any transactions related thereto.

 

Registration Rights Agreement

 

On or about August 11, 2025, the Company and the Lead Investor entered into a Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company agreed to file a registration statement (the “Resale Registration Statement”), providing for the resale of the PIPE Securities within 15 days of the closing of the Private Placement, to have such registration statement declared effective with 30 days of the filing date (or 60 days, if the SEC conducts a full review) (the date of such effectiveness, the “Effective Date”), and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement. As of the date of this Quarterly Report, the registration statement has not yet been filed.

 

Asset Management Agreement

 

Further, on or about August 11, 2025 (the “AMA Commencement Date”), the Company entered into an Asset Management Agreement (the “Asset Management Agreement”) with Kraken (the “Asset Manager”), pursuant to which the Asset Manager agreed to provide discretionary investment management services with respect to the Company’s cryptocurrency treasury. The term of the Asset Management Agreement was for thirty (30) days renewable upon the mutual consent of the parties. The Asset Manager received a nominal fee as compensation for its services under the Asset Management Agreement, which was not renewed.

 

Lock-Up Agreements

 

Pursuant to the Purchase Agreements, the Company will not issue, enter into any agreement to issue, or announce the issuance or proposed issuance of any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock equivalents, or file any registration statement or any amendment or supplement thereto, for a period of 30 days after the Effective Date, subject to certain customary exceptions, including the use of the Sales Agreement (as defined herein), without the consent of the Purchasers, the Lead Investor and the Placement Agent.

 

 

In addition, each of the Company’s directors and executive officers are subject to a lock-up agreement, which prohibits them from offering for sale, pledging, announcing the intention to sell, selling, contracting to sell, granting any option, right or warrant to purchase, or otherwise transferring or disposing of, 50% of their shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock for a period of 90 days following the Effective Date and the remaining 50% upon the later of ninety (90) days after the Effective Date or the effective date of the Stockholder Approval. It is contemplated that the lock-up agreements will not prohibit our directors and executive officers and the selling stockholder from transferring shares of our common stock for bona fide estate or tax planning purposes, subject to certain requirements, including that the transferee be subject to the same lock-up terms.