UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):
September 23, 2026, 2026 (
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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On September 20, 2026, Cuentas, Inc. (the “Company” or “Cuentas”) entered into a Power-as-a-Service and Colocation Services Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Power Upp USA, Inc., a Florida corporation (“PWRU”). The Agreement provides for PWRU to provide the Company with power-as-a-service, including the supply of generated electrical energy, and onsite colocation hosting for Company-provided equipment at PWRU’s West Texas powered-land project site located in Seminole, Texas.
Under Service Order No. 1 to the Agreement (the “Service Order”), PWRU will provide power-as-a-service for up to ten (10) container sets, with each container set having contracted demand of 2.4 megawatts (2,400 kWe). If all ten container sets are deployed, the aggregate maximum contracted demand will be 24.0 megawatts. Each container set is expected to accommodate approximately 420 ASIC miners, with an anticipated total of approximately 4,200 ASIC miners across ten container sets.
Deployment is contemplated on a staged basis, with one container set targeted for deployment every 90 days following the Service Commencement Date for the first deployed container set, subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement and Service Order. Each container set will have its own Service Commencement Date when it has been installed, energized, commissioned and made available for delivery of power and colocation services, subject to applicable conditions precedent.
The commercial terms provide for a one-time charge of $500,000 per container set for 432 customer-owned ASIC miners procured, staged, configured and commissioned for the Company, together with a $90,000 security deposit allocation per container set, unless otherwise agreed in writing. If all ten container sets are deployed, the aggregate anticipated one-time charges are $5.0 million for the ASIC miners and $900,000 for security deposits. Mobilization fees are included.
Recurring charges per container set include a colocation and administration charge equal to 5% of Gross Mining Revenues attributable to the applicable container set plus $2,500 per month, an energy charge of $0.05 per kilowatt-hour delivered to the Company’s ASIC miners, subject to contractual adjustments, and applicable pass-through taxes. The Agreement provides for annual CPI-based adjustments to the energy charge and fixed monthly colocation and administration charge, subject to specified minimum and maximum adjustments, as well as certain fuel-cost adjustment rights.
The Agreement also includes a minimum utilization and take-or-pay requirement. The Company is required to maintain minimum utilization of 80% of the contracted demand for each deployed container set, subject to specified excused shortfalls. In a shortfall month, the Company generally remains responsible for the energy charge applicable to the quantity required to satisfy the minimum utilization requirement.
The Agreement provides the Company with a limited Bitcoin price-related suspension right if the closing price of Bitcoin is below $55,000 for 15 consecutive trading days. Subject to the parties’ mutual written agreement, the Company may suspend all or part of its mining operations for up to one calendar month and pay a $7,500 suspension fee for the suspended operations. If, at the end of the suspension period, Bitcoin remains below $55,000, either party may terminate the Agreement and applicable Service Order without an early termination fee, subject to accrued obligations and equipment removal costs.
The initial term of the Agreement is 36 months, followed by automatic 12-month renewal periods unless either party provides at least 90 days’ prior written notice of non-renewal.
The Company is required to maintain specified insurance coverage, including commercial general liability insurance of at least $2.0 million per occurrence and $4.0 million annual aggregate, property insurance covering Company equipment, and workers’ compensation and employers’ liability insurance as specified in the Agreement. The Company also is required to maintain a $90,000 security deposit per container set and certain revenue-control arrangements intended to permit PWRU to recover amounts payable from Gross Mining Revenues, subject to the terms of the Agreement.
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The Agreement contains customary provisions concerning operations, site access and security, ownership and risk of loss, confidentiality, indemnification, limitation of liability, events of default, remedies, force majeure, dispute resolution and other matters. The Agreement is governed by Florida law, with state and federal courts located in Miami-Dade County, Florida having exclusive jurisdiction over disputes.
The foregoing description of the Agreement and Service Order does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Agreement and Service Order, which will be filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 2.03. Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
The information set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03. The Company has undertaken material payment and performance obligations under the Agreement, including the one-time charges, security deposits, recurring colocation and administration charges, energy charges and minimum utilization/take-or-pay obligations described above. The amounts payable under the Agreement will depend in part upon the number of container sets deployed, electricity consumed and Gross Mining Revenues attributable to the Company’s equipment.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 10.1 | Power-as-a-Service and Colocation Services Agreement, dated as of August 20, 2026, by and between Power Upp USA, Inc. and Cuentas, Inc., together with Service Order No. 1. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and embedded within the Inline XBRL document). |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| CUENTAS INC. | ||
| Date: September 23, 2026 | By: | /s/ Shalom Arik Maimon |
| Shalom Arik Maimon | ||
| Chief Executive Officer | ||
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