DFDV 8-K
DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV)
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Item 8.01 Other Events.
On July 17, 2025, the Company issued a press release announcing the launch of its global expansion through strategic treasury franchising model. Under the strategic treasury franchising model the Company will provide franchise partners with operational, strategic and technical infrastructure while retaining equity stakes in each regional vehicle.
A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements. Except for historical information contained in the press release attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto, the press release contains forward-looking statements that involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these statements. Please refer to the cautionary note in the press release regarding these forward-looking statements.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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SIGNATURES
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.
| DEFI DEVELOPMENT CORP. | ||
| Date: July 17, 2025 | By: | /s/Joseph Onorati |
| Name: | Joseph Onorati | |
| Title: | Chairman & Chief Executive Officer | |
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Exhibit 99.1
DeFi Dev Corp. Announces Global Expansion Through Strategic Treasury Franchising Model - DFDV Treasury Accelerator
Partnerships with Kraken, Pantera, Arrington, RK Capital, and Borderless Capital to Power Global Rollout
BOCA RATON, FL — July 17, 2025 — DeFi Development Corp. (Nasdaq: DFDV) (the “Company”), the first public company with a treasury strategy built to accumulate and compound Solana (“SOL”), today announced the launch of its international expansion initiative: a strategic franchise model designed to support regional public Solana treasury vehicles around the world.
This initiative, branded as the DFDV Treasury Accelerator, is launching with support from a consortium of global partners – Kraken, Pantera, Arrington, RK Capital, and Borderless Capital – who are expected to support the launch of new regional vehicles through potential investment, strategic guidance, and infrastructure.
DFDV is actively developing five Treasury Accelerator regions and onboarding new geographies into the pipeline each week.
Under this framework, DFDV will provide franchise partners with operational, strategic, and technical infrastructure - including validator and asset management solutions, treasury and fundraising guidance, and brand alignment - while retaining equity stakes in each regional vehicle. These structures are designed to provide partners the benefit of the DFDV playbook while aligning long-term incentives through board representation, validator delegation, and equity ownership.
“This model allows us to scale globally and support SOL accumulation without taking on any share dilution,” said Joseph Onorati, CEO of DeFi Dev Corp. “We’re exporting our framework for Solana treasury accumulation, while bringing global partners into the DFDV orbit, all aligned through economics, staking, and shared infrastructure. The opportunity is massive.”
This initiative represents a new frontier for crypto-native capital formation and deepens DFDV’s role as a Solana-native financial platform. With validator revenue, equity participation, and onchain integration across franchisees, this model adds structural reinforcement to DFDV’s core mission: maximizing SOL per share (SPS) over time.
“Most crypto treasury vehicles today are following the MicroStrategy model. What excites us about DFDV is that they’re not just copying the playbook. They’re evolving it,” said Cosmo Jiang, General Partner at Pantera Capital. “By combining validator infrastructure, capital markets innovation, and now international expansion via a global franchising model, DFDV is building something structurally different and ahead of the curve.”
DFDV expects to provide further updates on its franchising efforts, including additional partner announcements in the weeks ahead.
About DeFi Development Corp.
DeFi Development Corp. (Nasdaq: DFDV) has adopted a treasury policy under which the principal holding in its treasury reserve is allocated to SOL. Through this strategy, the Company provides investors with direct economic exposure to SOL, while also actively participating in the growth of the Solana ecosystem. In addition to holding and staking SOL, DeFi Development Corp. operates its own validator infrastructure, generating staking rewards and fees from delegated stake. The Company is also engaged across decentralized finance (DeFi) opportunities and continues to explore innovative ways to support and benefit from Solana’s expanding application layer.
The Company is an AI-powered online platform that connects the commercial real estate industry by providing data and software subscriptions, as well as value-add services, to multifamily and commercial property professionals, as the Company connects the increasingly complex ecosystem that stakeholders have to manage.
The Company currently serves more than one million web users annually, including multifamily and commercial property owners and developers applying for billions of dollars of debt financing per year, professional service providers, and thousands of multifamily and commercial property lenders, including more than 10% of the banks in America, credit unions, real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), debt funds, Fannie Mae® and Freddie Mac® multifamily lenders, FHA multifamily lenders, commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”) lenders, Small Business Administration (“SBA”) lenders, and more. The Company’s data and software offerings are generally offered on a subscription basis as software as a service (“SaaS”).
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements in this release include statements regarding the Company’s SPS objectives and can be identified by words such as: “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “project,” “estimate,” “expect,” strategy,” “future,” “likely,” “may,”, “should,” “will” and similar references to future periods. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based only on the Company’s current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions regarding the future of its business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy, and other future conditions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks, and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of the Company’s control. The Company’s actual results and financial condition may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, among others, the following: (i) fluctuations in the market price of SOL and any associated losses that the Company may incur as a result of a decrease in the market price of SOL; (ii) the Company’s ability to earn SOL staking rewards; (iii) our ability to access sources of capital, including debt financing and other sources of capital to finance SOL acquisitions, operations and growth; (iv) volatility in our stock price, including due to future issuances of common stock and securities convertible into common stock; (v) the effect of and uncertainties related to the ongoing volatility in interest rates; (vi) our ability to achieve and maintain profitability in the future; (vii) the impact on our business of the regulatory environment and complexities with compliance related to such environment including changes in securities laws or other laws or regulations; (viii) changes in the accounting treatment relating to the Company’s SOL holdings; (ix) our ability to respond to general economic conditions; (x) our ability to manage our growth effectively and our expectations regarding the development and expansion of our business; and (xi) other risks and uncertainties more fully in the section captioned “Risk Factors” in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result of these matters, changes in facts, assumptions not being realized, or other circumstances, the Company’s actual results may differ materially from the expected results discussed in the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are made as of this date, and the Company undertakes no duty to update such information except as required under applicable law.
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