Solana Co 10-Q for FY2025 Q3
Solana Co (HSDT)
About this 10-Q
Solana Co filed this 10-Q on November 18, 2025, covering the quarter ended September 30, 2025 (FY2025 Q3).
Headline figures
Quarter ended September 30, 2025, as reported in this filing, compared with the same period a year earlier where the filing states it.
- Revenue
- $697K
- up 1266.7% from $51K a year earlier
- Net loss
- $352.77M
- compared with a net loss of $3.69M a year earlier
- Diluted EPS
- -$32.89
- compared with -$744.35 a year earlier
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SOLANA COMPANY
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1. Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Solana Company
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
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Digital assets, at fair value | |
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Digital assets, restricted, at fair value | | | | | | — |
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LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ (DEFICIT) EQUITY | |
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Total liabilities and stockholders' equity | | $ | | | $ | |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Solana Company
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss
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Loss on derivative liability | | | ( | | | — | | | ( | | | — |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Solana Company
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ (Deficit) Equity
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Balance as of July 1, 2025 | | | | $ | | | $ | | | $ | ( | | $ | ( | | $ | |
Issuance of common stock in at-the-market public offering | | | | | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | |
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Balance as of September 30, 2025 |
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Balance as of September 30, 2024 |
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Solana Company
Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ (Deficit) Equity
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Issuance of common stock and common stock in public offering | | | | | | | | | | | — | | | — | | | |
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Balance as of September 30, 2025 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Solana Company
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Deferred offering costs reclassified to equity upon public offering | | $ | | | $ | |
Digital assets received in-kind from private placement | | $ | | | $ | — |
Share issuance costs included in accounts payable | | $ | | | $ | — |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Solana Company
Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
1. BUSINESS ORGANIZATION, NATURE OF OPERATIONS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION
Solana Company (together with its wholly owned subsidiaries the “Company”), formerly known as Helius Medical Technologies, Inc., is a U.S. publicly listed company building a long-term strategic digital asset treasury of Solana tokens (“SOL”). The Company is working to provide its shareholders with simplified exposure to the Solana network with institutional level investment management. At the same time, the Company continues to execute the commercialization of the PoNS device.
SOL is the native token of the Solana network. Solana is fast, cheap and accessible, processing
Beginning in September 2025, the Company used the proceeds from its capital raising activities to acquire and deploy SOL to earn staking yield.
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 that was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 25, 2025 (“2024 10-K”). Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP") have been condensed or omitted.
There have been no material changes to the Company's significant accounting policies from those described in the 2024 Form 10-K other than those described in Note 2 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
In the opinion of management, the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments necessary for a fair statement of the results for the interim periods presented. All such adjustments, unless otherwise noted herein, are of a normal, recurring nature. The results of operations for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations to be expected for the full year.
Reverse Stock Splits
On April 21, 2025, at the annual meeting of stockholders the stockholders of the Company approved a potential reverse stock split at a ratio of 1-to- to 1-to-. The Board subsequently approved a reverse stock split of 1-for-, which became effective on May 2, 2025 (the “May 2025 Reverse Stock Split”).
On May 23, 2025, at a special meeting of stockholders the stockholders of the Company approved a potential reverse stock split at a ratio of 1-to- to 1-to-. The Board subsequently approved a reverse stock split of 1-for-, which became effective on July 1, 2025 (the “July 2025 Reverse Stock Split” and together with the May 2025 Reverse Stock Split, the “Reverse Stock Splits”). Refer to Note 6 for additional information.
All issued and outstanding common stock and per share amounts contained in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the Reverse Stock Splits for all periods presented. In addition, a proportionate adjustment was made to the per share exercise price and the number of shares issuable upon the
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exercise of all outstanding stock options and warrants to purchase shares of common stock. A proportionate adjustment was also made to the number of shares reserved for issuance pursuant to the Company’s equity incentive compensation plans to reflect the Reverse Stock Splits. Any fraction of a share of common stock that was created as a result of the Reverse Stock Splits was rounded down to the next whole share and stockholders received cash settlement equal to the market value of the fractional share, determined by multiplying such fraction by the closing sales price of the Company’s common stock as reported on Nasdaq on the last trading day before the Reverse Stock Splits effective dates. The authorized shares and par value of the common stock and preferred stock were not adjusted as a result of the Reverse Stock Splits.
Management’s Liquidity Plans
The Company’s primary source of liquidity has historically been cash generated from equity offerings. Under ASC Subtopic 205-40, Presentation of Financial Statements—Going Concern, the Company has the responsibility to evaluate whether conditions and/or events raise substantial doubt about its ability to meet future financial obligations as they become due within one year after the date that these financial statements are issued. Since the Company’s inception, it has had a history of recurring net losses from operations, recurring use of cash in operating activities.
As disclosed in the Company’s December 31, 2024 Form 10-K, there was substantial doubt about the ability of the Company to continue as a going concern for at least one year from the date the financial statements were issued. This was based on significant historical losses and the need to raise additional funds to meet the Company’s obligations and sustain its operations. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company raised significant capital through at-the-market offerings and the September 2025 private placement discussed in more detail in Note 6 to the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. A significant amount of the proceeds generated from these capital raises was used to purchase digital assets in connection with the launch of the Company’s new long-term strategic treasury of Solana tokens (“SOL”). These actions have alleviated the substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern that existed at the time the Company filed its December 31, 2024 Form 10-K.
As of September 30, 2025, the Company had unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of approximately $
The Company’s financial condition is substantially dependent on the market price and liquidity of SOL, which are subject to extreme volatility and limited trading venues. Substantially all of the Company’s treasury assets are concentrated in SOL, the native cryptocurrency of the Solana protocol. SOL has experienced significant price volatility, and the Company’s financial results and carrying value of its digital assets will fluctuate materially based on SOL token price movements. The Company depends on the continued success and adoption of the Solana protocol for the value of its treasury holdings.
The Company plans to continue to pursue additional capital through its at-the-market offering programs in the future, however, such funding may not be available on terms acceptable to the Company or at all. Although Management believes that such capital sources will continue to be available, there can be no assurances that financing will be available to the Company when needed, or if available, on terms acceptable to the Company. If the Company is unable to obtain adequate financing on terms that are satisfactory to the Company, when the Company requires it, the Company’s ability to continue to grow or support the business and to respond to business challenges could be significantly limited, which may adversely affect the Company’s business plans.
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2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Digital Assets
Effective July 1, 2025, the Company early adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-08, Accounting for and Disclosure of Crypto Assets (“ASU 2023-08), which requires entities to measure crypto assets at fair value with changes recognized in net income each reporting period. The Company’s digital assets are within the scope of ASU 2023-08 and as the Company did
As of September 30, 2025, the Company held $
The Company received locked, staked SOL (“Locked SOL") as part of its capital raising activities and has commenced native staking with acquired SOL in September of 2025. The Locked SOL is subject to a long-term monthly vesting schedule for which the principal balance and earned staking rewards can be claimed and for which the Company is contractually restricted from transferring that SOL onchain. The Company could still transfer ownership offchain via a wallet ownership transfer with the custodian. Due to the transfer restriction and monthly vesting schedule, the Company has classified Locked SOL under Digital assets, restricted, at fair value on the consolidated balance sheets.
Purchases of digital assets are reflected as cash flows from investing activities in the consolidated statements of cash flows. Contributions of digital assets received as part of the consideration received in the PIPE are presented as noncash financing activities in the consolidated statements of cash flows. The Company reflects digital assets held at fair value on the consolidated balance sheets within the Digital assets, at fair value and Digital assets, restricted, at fair value line items.
Solana Staking
Beginning in September 2025, the Company used the proceeds from its capital raising activities to acquire and deploy SOL in staking activities, which can include native staking or locked/vesting staking. The Company has entered into separate contractual agreements with various third-party entities to facilitate its SOL staking activities.
The Company participates in native staking on the Solana network by delegating both unrestricted and locked/vesting SOL to third-party validators. The lockup or vesting conditions applicable to certain tranches of SOL are contractual rather than protocol-imposed, and the Company is able to sell or otherwise transfer both the locked/vesting SOL and the associated economic rights to future staking rewards off-chain at any time.
Staking rewards on Solana are created and distributed only upon completion of each network epoch. Prior to distribution, the amount of rewards, if any, is not known and remains subject to validator performance and other protocol-governed factors outside the Company’s control. Accordingly, under the variable consideration constraint in ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, which the Company applies by analogy, the Company does not accrue staking rewards during the epoch for either unrestricted or locked/vesting SOL.
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The Company recognizes revenue from staking activities when the rewards are deposited into the Company’s custodial wallets, which is the point at which the rewards (i) are created and assigned by the Solana protocol, (ii) have a determinable amount, and (iii) are controlled by the Company. The Company also measures the rewards at their fair value at the time of distribution, as this is the point at which the rewards first exist and the Company can reliably determine their fair value. Any contractual lockup applicable to the underlying SOL does not affect the timing of revenue recognition, as it does not prevent the Company from transferring the economic rights associated with the locked/vesting SOL or the related rewards.
Segment Information
Operating segments are components of an enterprise for which separate financial information is available and are evaluated regularly by the Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) in deciding how to allocate resources and assessing performance. The Company’s CODM is its Executive Chairman. The Company’s Executive Chairman views the Company’s operations and manages its business based solely on consolidated financial results and does not evaluate these operating segments separately, therefore, the Company has a single reporting segment and the determination of the single segment is consistent with the information provided to the CODM. The CODM reviews assets as presented on the consolidated balance sheets and reviews significant segment expenses in the same manner that they are reviewed on the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
In November 2024, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”). ASU 2024-03 requires interim and annual tabular disclosure of disaggregated information for certain income statement expense captions. The annual disclosures required by ASU 2024-03 are effective for the Company beginning in its fiscal year ending December 31, 2027, with interim disclosures effective beginning in its fiscal year ending December 31, 2028. The provisions of ASU 2024-03 are to be applied prospectively, although retrospective application is permitted. Early adoption is also permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the ASU to determine its impact on the Company’s disclosures.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. The guidance requires expanded annual disclosures including the standardization and disaggregation of income tax rate reconciliation categories and the amount of income taxes paid by jurisdiction. The guidance is effective for the Company beginning in its fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. The Company is currently evaluating the ASU to determine its impact on the Company’s disclosures.
3. DIGITAL ASSETS
The following table presents the Company's significant digital assets holdings as of September 30, 2025:
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SOL | | | | | | $ | | | $ | |
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Total digital assets | | | | | | $ | | | $ | |
As of September 30, 2025, the Company held approximately
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As of September 30, 2025, the Company’s holdings of SOL were concentrated to
The following table presents a roll-forward of SOL fair value for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 (in thousands):
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SOL as of December 31, 2024 | | $ | - | | $ | - | | $ | - |
In-kind receipts from capital raise | | | - | | | | | | |
Purchases of SOL | | | | | | - | | | |
Staking rewards | | | | | | | | | |
Net change in fair value of SOL | | | ( | | | ( | | | ( |
SOL fair value as of September 30, 2025 | | $ | | | $ | | | $ | |
Master Loan Agreement
In connection with the closing of the Company’s 2025 private offerings as discussed in Note 6, the Company agreed to use the net proceeds from the sale to fund the acquisition of SOL, establish a SOL treasury operation, pay transaction fees and expenses, and for working capital and general corporate purposes. To advance the Company’s planned SOL treasury operation, on September 18, 2025, Marvel Operations Corp., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a Master Loan Agreement with a third-party lender to provide short-term financing in U.S. Dollars or digital currency for initial purchases of SOL.
The MLA does not specify a maximum borrowing limit; loans may be requested from time to time at the lender’s discretion and are subject to execution of individual Loan Term Sheets. Each loan must be secured by collateral in the form of U.S. Dollars, digital currency, or securities, with a minimum collateral ratio of
As of September 30, 2025, Marvel Operations Corp., has
4. SUPPLEMENTAL BALANCE SHEET DISCLOSURES
Components of selected captions in the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets consisted of the following:
Inventory (in thousands)
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Accrued and other current liabilities (in thousands)
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Total accrued and other current liabilities | | $ | | | $ | |
5. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. Fair value of an asset or liability considers assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability, including consideration of non-performance risk. The inputs used to determine fair values are categorized in one of the following three levels of the fair value hierarchy:
Level 1 – Quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2 – Inputs, other than quoted prices in active markets, that are observable, either directly or indirectly.
Level 3 – Unobservable inputs that are not corroborated by market data.
The Company’s digital assets are subject to fair value measurements on a recurring basis and the level of inputs used for such measurements were as follows:
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Assets: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
SOL digital assets | | $ | | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | |
SOL digital assets, restricted | | | — | | | — | | | | | | |
Total assets | | $ | | | $ | — | | $ | | | $ | |
SOL digital assets are measured at fair value on a recurring basis using quoted prices in its principal market (Level 1 inputs). As of September 30, 2025, the price per SOL was $
The Company’s derivative liability warrants are subject to fair value measurements on a recurring basis and the level of inputs used for such measurements were as follows:
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Liabilities: | | | | | | | | | | | | |
2025 Stapled Warrants | | | — | | | — | | | | | | |
Total liabilities | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | | | $ | |
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The derivative liabilities relating to the August 2022 and September 2025 warrants are classified as Level 3 within the fair value hierarchy and is required to be recorded at fair value at inception and on a quarterly recurring basis.
The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include financial instruments for which the fair market value of such instruments may differ from amounts reflected on a historical cost basis. As of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, financial instruments of the Company consist of cash equivalents, which were comprised of deposits of excess cash in an unrestricted money market savings account and a money market mutual fund. The carrying value of cash equivalents generally approximates fair value due to their short-term nature.
6. COMMON STOCK AND WARRANTS
September 2025 Private Placements
On September 15, 2025, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Cash Purchase Agreement”) with certain investors (the “Cash Purchasers”) pursuant to which the Company sold, in a private placement (the “Cash Offering”), an aggregate offering of (i) either shares (the “Cash Shares”) of Common Stock at an offering price of $
On September 15, 2025, we also entered into securities purchase agreements (the “Cryptocurrency Purchase Agreements,” and together with the Cash Purchase Agreements, the “Purchase Agreements”) with certain investors (the “Cryptocurrency Purchasers,” and together with the Cash Purchasers, the “Purchasers”) pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell to the Cryptocurrency Purchasers in a private placement (the “Cryptocurrency Offering,” and together with the Cash Offering, the “2025 PIPE Offerings”) (i) pre-funded warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock at an offering price of $
Clear Street LLC (“Clear Street”) served as lead placement agent and Maxim Group LLC (“Maxim”) served as co-placement agents in the 2025 PIPE Offerings, pursuant to the terms of a placement agency agreement and received aggregate compensation of $
The aggregate gross proceeds to the Company were $
September 2025 Advisory Warrants
On September 15, 2025, the Company entered into a Strategic Advisory Agreement (the “Strategic Advisory Agreement”) with Pantera Capital Management LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Pantera”) and Summer Wisdom Holdings Limited (“Summer” and with Pantera, the “Advisors”). In connection with the closing of the Offering, on September 18, 2025, the Company issued warrants to purchase
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of Common Stock equal to their respective portion of
Pursuant to the Strategic Advisory Agreement, Pantera agreed not to sell, transfer, pledge, hedge, or otherwise dispose of any shares underlying the Strategic Advisory Warrants for
June 2025 Offering
On June 6, 2025 (the “Issuance Date”), we completed the issuance and sale of an aggregate of
Following the issue date of the 2025 Warrants, a holder of the 2025 Common Warrants has the right to receive, without payment of any additional cash to the Company (the “Zero Cash Provision”), an aggregate number of shares equal to the product of (x) the aggregate number of shares of common stock that would be issuable upon a cash exercise of the common warrant and (y)
At inception, the 2025 Warrants provisions were analyzed under Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 718, ASC 480 and ASC 815 and the Company concluded that the 2025 Common Warrants did not meet the guidance for being classified as an equity instrument due to the Zero Cash Provision. The fair value of the 2025 Common Warrants as of the Issuance Date and as of each 2025 Common Warrant exercise was determined using a Monte Carlo simulation model, which uses multiple input variables to determine the probability of a price reset. The gross proceeds were allocated based on the fair value as of the Issuance Date resulting in a derivative liability at the Issuance Date of $
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The following table includes the share price and the inputs used to estimate the fair value of the warrants at the Issuance Date and as of each exercise date and before and after each exercise price and share reset:
| | Stock price | | Warrant term | | Expected volatility | | Risk-free interest rate | | Dividend rate | | |
June 6, 2025 - Issuance | | $ | | | | % | % | % | ||||
June 9, 2025 | | | | | | | | | ||||
June 11, 2025 - Pre-reset | | | | | | | | | ||||
June 11, 2025 - Post-reset | | | | | | | | | ||||
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June 13, 2025 | | | | | | | | | ||||
June 16, 2025 - Pre-reset | | | | | | | | | ||||
June 16, 2025 - Post-reset | | | | | | | | | ||||
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June 18, 2025 | | | | | | | | | ||||
June 20, 2025 | | $ | | | | % | % | % | ||||
Maxim Group LLC served as the placement agent in the 2025 Offering, pursuant to the terms of a placement agency agreement and received
The aggregate gross proceeds to the Company were $
April 2025 Private Placement
On April 24, 2025, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with certain investors (the “Purchasers”) pursuant to which the Company sold, in a private placement (the “2025 Private Placement”), unsecured
Maxim Group LLC served as the placement agent in the 2025 Private Placement, pursuant to the terms of a placement agency agreement and received
The aggregate gross proceeds to the Company were $
2024 Public Offering
On May 9, 2024, the Company closed on a registered public offering consisting of
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The Pre-funded Warrants have an exercise price of $
The 2024 Public Warrants have an exercise price of $
Warrant inducement
On January 21, 2025, the Company entered into warrant exercise inducement offer letters (the “Inducement Letters”) with certain holders (the “Holders”) of its existing 2024 Public Warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s Class A common stock (the “Existing Warrants”), pursuant to which the Holders agreed to exercise for cash their Existing Warrants to purchase an aggregate of
On April 21, 2025, stockholder approval was obtained for the issuance of the Inducement Warrants at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders.
2025 At-The-Market Offering
On September 15, 2025, the Company entered into a Sales Agreement (the “2025 Sales Agreement”) with Clear Street and Maxim, as co-sales agents, to create an at-the-market offering program (the “2025 ATM”) under which the Company may offer and sell shares with an aggregate offering price of up to $
2023 At-The-Market Offering
On June 23, 2023, the Company entered into a Sales Agreement (the “2023 Sales Agreement”) with Roth to create an at-the-market offering program (the “2023 ATM”) under which the Company may offer and sell shares with an aggregate offering price of up to $
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September 2025 Warrants
In connection with the Company’s 2025 PIPE Offerings that closed on September 18, 2025, the Company issued the 2025 Stapled Warrants to purchase an aggregate of
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Stock price | | $ | | | | $ | | |
Soft Call Threshold | | $ | | | | $ | | |
Warrant term (in years) | |
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Expected volatility | |
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Risk-free interest rate | |
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The fair value of the derivative liability associated with the 2025 Stapled Warrants as of September 30, 2025 was $
The following table provides a roll-forward of the fair value of the derivative liabilities described above:
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| 2025 Common Warrants |
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| Total Warrant | ||||
Balance at December 31, 2024 | | $ | | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | |
Issuances | |
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Exercises | |
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| ( | |
| — | |
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Loss (gain) on change in fair value | | | ( | | | | | | ( | | | ( |
Balance at September 30, 2025 | | $ | — | | $ | — | | $ | | | $ | |
The following table provides a roll-forward of the number of shares of common stock underlying warrants issued during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and the nine months ended September 30, 2024:
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| 2025 Stapled |
| Base Advisor |
| 2022 Public |
| 2025 Common Warrants |
| Other Equity |
| Total |
Classification | | Equity(1) | | Liability | | Equity(1) | | Liability | | Liability | | Equity(1) | | |
Exercise Price ($) | | | | | | | Various(4) | | | |||||
Expiration Date | | N/A | | Jun-2028(6) | | TBD(7) | | Aug-2027 | | Dec-2027 | | Various(5) | | |
Balance at December 31, 2023 | | - | | - | | - | | | | - | | | | |
Issuances | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - | | | | |
Exercises | | - | | - | | - | | ( | | - | | ( | | ( |
Balance at September 30, 2024 | | - | | - | | - | | | | - | | | | |
Exercises | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - | | ( | | ( |
Balance at December 31, 2024 | | - | | - | | - | | | | - | | | | |
Issuances | | | | | | | | - | | | | | | |
Exercises(2)(3) | | ( | | - | | - | | ( | | ( | | ( | | ( |
Expirations | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - | | ( | | ( |
Balance at September 30, 2025 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| (1) | The Company’s outstanding equity-classified warrants as of September 30, 2025 have a weighted average exercise price of $ |
| (2) | During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, |
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| (3) | In connection with the exercise of the 2025 Common Warrants, |
| (4) | Exercise prices for outstanding other equity warrants as of September 30, 2025 range from $ |
| (5) | Expiration dates for outstanding other equity warrants as of September 30, 2025 range from February 2026 to April 2030. |
| (6) | The Cryptocurrency Stapled Warrants were approved by stockholders on October 30, 2025 at a special meeting of the stockholders and will expire July 2028. |
| (7) | The Base Advisor Warrants were approved by stockholders on October 30, 2025 at a special meeting of the stockholders and will expire October 2030. |
7. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
The Company may issue stock-based compensation awards under the Helius Medical Technologies, Inc. 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended, the “2022 Plan”) or the Helius Medical Technologies, Inc. 2021 Inducement Plan (as amended, the “Inducement Plan”), as described more fully in the 2024 10-K. On January 1, 2023, pursuant to the automatic increase provision of the 2022 Plan, the number of shares authorized for issuance increased from
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company granted
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The grant date fair values of the stock options were estimated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model using the following weighted average assumptions:
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Fair value, per share | | $ | | | $ | | | | $ | | | $ | | |
There were
As of September 30, 2025, there were an aggregate of
Total stock-based compensation expense was as follows (in thousands):
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Cost of sales | | $ | ( | | $ | | | $ | | | $ | |
Selling, general and administrative | |
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Research and development | | | ( | | | | | | | | | |
Total stock-based compensation expense | | $ | | | $ | | | $ | | | $ | |
On September 18, 2025, the Board approved a resolution to accelerate vesting for all options outstanding under the 2022 Plan to November 30, 2025. As the vesting acceleration only affected the timing of when the options vest and not the calculation to determine fair value of the underlying options, no modification to the fair value of the underlying grants was required and the Company will accelerate recognition of the remaining expense as of September 30, 2025 in accordance with the accelerated vesting schedules. As of September 30, 2025, the total remaining unrecognized compensation expense related to nonvested stock options was $
8. BASIC AND DILUTED LOSS PER SHARE
The table below presents the computation of basic and diluted loss per share (in thousands, except share and per share information):
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| 2024 | | 2025 |
| 2024 | ||||
Basic and diluted: | | |
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Net loss available to common stockholders | | $ | ( | | $ | ( | | $ | ( | | $ | ( |
Weighted average common shares outstanding — (1)(2)(3) | |
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Loss per share | | $ | ( | | $ | ( | | $ | ( | | $ | ( |
| (1) | In May 2024, in connection with the 2024 Public Offering, the Company issued and sold Pre-funded Warrants exercisable for an aggregate of |
| (2) | The weighted average number of common shares outstanding as of September 30, 2025 includes the Abeyance Shares from the exercise of the Existing Warrants, the exercise of which was fully paid by the Holders and requires no further consideration for the delivery of the shares of common stock. Therefore, the |
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| Abeyance Shares are included in the computation of basic and diluted loss per share as of the exercise date. The Abeyance Shares were subsequently issued at the direction of the Holder. |
| (3) | In September 2025, in connection with the 2025 PIPE Offerings, the Company issued and sold 2025 Pre-funded Warrants exercisable for an aggregate of |
The following outstanding securities, presented based on amounts outstanding as of the end of each period, were not included in the computation of diluted net loss per share for the periods indicated, as they would have been anti-dilutive due to the net loss in each period.
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| 2024 | | 2025 |
| 2024 |
Stock options | | | | | | | | |
Warrants (1) | | | | | | | | |
| (1) | Common Warrants outstanding of |
9. RELATED PARTIES
Strategic Advisory Agreement
In connection with the 2025 PIPE Offerings, the Company entered into the Strategic Advisory Agreement with Pantera and Summer. Pantera and Summer are leading investment companies in the digital asset industry. Under the terms of the agreement, the Advisors will provide strategic advisory services in connection with the expansion and diversification of the Customer’s core business through integration of cryptocurrency and digital asset strategies in its product offerings and as part of its SOL treasury management strategy for
During the three and nine months ended the Company recognized pass-through expenses from Summer, which is permissible under the Strategic Advisory Agreement and is classified under selling, general and administrative operating expense in the statement of operations. As of September 30, 2025 the Company has a balance of $
Trading Advisory Agreement
In connection with the 2025 PIPE Offerings, the Company entered into a Trading Advisory Agreement (the “Trading Advisory Agreement”) with Pantera, pursuant to which the Company engaged Pantera to manage the investment of substantially all of Company’s digital assets, digital asset derivatives, cash and other assets for an initial term of ten (
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 the Company recognized $
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10. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
Digital Assets
Subsequent to September 30, 2025, the Company continued to accumulate SOL through a combination of purchases of liquid SOL, purchases of interest to locked SOL in staking pools, and a purchase of an interest in a locked SOL fund. Subsequent to September 30, 2025 the Company purchased a net
2025 At-The-Market Offering
Subsequent to September 30, 2025, the Company sold
2025 Stapled Warrants
As of November 17, 2025, certain provisions of the 2025 Stapled Warrants related to adjustments of the Black-Scholes inputs in determining the warrant value in the event of a fundamental transaction were amended.
Share Repurchase Program
On November 3, 2025, Company’s board of directors approved a stock repurchase plan to acquire up to $
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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Unless otherwise specified or the context otherwise requires, references to “we,” “us,” “our,” or “Company” mean Solana Company, formerly known as Helius Medical Technologies, Inc., and its wholly owned operating subsidiaries, Marvel Operations Corp., Helius Medical, Inc., Helius Medical Technologies (Canada), Inc. and Revelation Neuro, Inc. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and this Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations should be read in conjunction with the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2024, and the related Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, both of which are contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 25, 2025 (the “2024 10-K”). All financial information is stated in U.S. dollars unless otherwise specified. Our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”).
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements regarding the Company’s market, strategy, competition, capital needs, business plans and expectations. Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical facts may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may”, “will”, “should”, “expect”, “plan”, “intend”, “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “predict”, “potential” or “continue”, the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements are made, without limitation, in relation to the Company’s future growth and operational progress, the Company’s compliance with Nasdaq requirements, expected enrollment, developments and future plans regarding regulatory entities, receipt of prescriptions and progress of commercialization of the PoNS device in the U.S., the impacts of the current global macroeconomic environment on the Company, product development activities, the safety and effectiveness of the Company’s product, the manufacturing plans for the Company’s product, sufficiency of cash and availability of funds and operating costs and the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern and future liquidity. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, known and unknown, including capital requirements to achieve the Company’s business objectives, the impact on the Company of global macroeconomic conditions including effects from supply chain constraints, logistics challenges, labor shortages, disruptions in the banking system and financial markets, high levels of inflation and increased interest rates on the Company’s ability to operate its business and access capital markets, the success of the Company’s business plan, including the Company’s ability to secure contracts with rehabilitation clinics, obtain national Medicare coverage at an acceptable rate so that the PoNS device is covered by Medicare and Medicaid, to build internal commercial infrastructure, secure state distribution licenses, build a commercial team and build relationships with Key Opinion Leaders, neurology experts and neurorehabilitation centers, market awareness of the PoNS device, availability of funds, manufacturing, the Company’s ability to maintain and enforce its intellectual property rights, clinical trials and the clinical development process, the product development process, the regulatory submission review and approval process, the Company’s operating costs and use of cash, and the Company’s ability to achieve significant revenues and other factors discussed in the section entitled “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our 2024 10-K and those described from time to time in the Company’s future reports filed with the SEC. While these forward-looking statements, and any assumptions upon which they are based, are made in good faith, based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and reflect the Company’s current judgment regarding its business plans, the Company cannot guarantee future results, events, levels of activity, performance or achievement and its actual results will almost always vary, sometimes materially, from any estimates, predictions, projections, assumptions or other future performance suggested herein. The Company does not intend, and undertakes no obligation, to update or revise any of the forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise or to conform these statements to actual results, except as required by applicable law, including the securities laws of the United States.
The following discussion and analysis of the Company’s financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with its unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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Company Overview
We are a listed digital asset treasury (“DAT”) dedicated to acquiring and holding Solana tokens (SOL). Created in partnership with Pantera Capital Management L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Pantera”) and Summer Wisdom Holdings Limited (“Summer”), Solana Company’s DAT objective is to maximize SOL per share through strategic use of capital markets and onchain opportunities, offering public market investors direct exposure to Solana’s secular growth.
In addition to being a Solana-centric digital asset treasury company, we are a neurotechnology company focused on neurological wellness. Our purpose is to develop, license or acquire non-implantable technologies targeted at reducing symptoms of neurological disease or trauma, and integrating blockchain technology allows us to build a more secure, scalable, and efficient platform.
Strategic digital asset reserves like SOL lay the groundwork for a future where global payments, credentialing, and personalized learning can be powered by decentralized infrastructure, enhancing how we grow our company. We believe that Solana represents a uniquely scalable, high-performance blockchain platform that aligns with our long-term vision of integrating innovative technologies into our services. By investing in and participating in the Solana ecosystem, we aim to both enhance our treasury strategy and create strategic optionality for product innovation in our core business.
Our product, known as the Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator, or PoNS®, is an innovative non-implantable medical device, inclusive of a controller and mouthpiece, which delivers mild electrical stimulation to the surface of the tongue to provide treatment of gait deficit and chronic balance deficit. PoNS Therapy® is integral to the overall PoNS solution and is the physical therapy applied by patients during use of the PoNS device. PoNS has marketing clearance in the U.S. for use as a short-term treatment of gait deficit due to mild-to-moderate symptoms for multiple sclerosis (“MS’) and is to be used as an adjunct to a supervised therapeutic exercise program in patients 22 years of age and over by prescription only. We began accepting prescriptions for PoNS in the U.S. in March 2022, and commercial sales of PoNS commenced in April 2022. PoNS is authorized for sale in Canada for three indications: (i) as a short term treatment (14 weeks) of chronic balance deficit due to mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury and is to be used in conjunction with physical therapy; (ii) as a short term treatment (14 weeks) of gait deficit due to mild and moderate symptoms from MS and it is to be used in conjunction with physical therapy; and (iii) as a short term treatment (14 weeks) of gait deficit due to mild and moderate symptoms from stroke, to be used in conjunction with physical therapy. It has been commercially available in Canada since March 2019. PoNS is authorized for sale as a Class IIa medical device in Australia and we have been seeking a business partner to commercialize and distribute PoNS in Australia.
Recent Developments
On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) was signed into law, making various amendments to the Internal Revenue Code. Based on our ongoing assessment, the Company does not expect OBBBA to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
Corporate Updates
Strategic Digital Asset Treasury
In connection with the closing of the 2025 PIPE Offerings, the Company has implemented a digital asset treasury strategy to acquire SOL, the native cryptocurrency of the Solana blockchain. SOL will serve as the Company's primary treasury reserve asset. Solana has historically been the fastest growing blockchain, leading the industry in transaction revenue and processing more than 3,500 transactions per second. The network is also the most widely adopted, averaging about 3.7 million daily active wallets and surpassing 23 billion transactions year to date. SOL is financially productive by design, offering a ~7% native staking yield, whereas assets like BTC are non-yield-bearing. The Company intends to leverage the native yield-generating properties of Solana's architecture and capture opportunities in DeFi and broader onchain activity.
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In the coming months, the Company expects to:
| ● | Build an initial SOL position with plans to significantly scale holdings over the next 12–24 months via a best-in-class capital markets program, incorporating ATM sales and other proven strategies. |
| ● | Evaluate staking, lending and other opportunities throughout the ecosystem to generate revenue from the SOL Treasury. |
Additionally, on September 29, 2025, following receipt of approval from its Board, the Company filed an amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation with the Delaware Secretary of State and amended the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws to reflect a corporate name change from “Helius Medical Technologies, Inc.” to “Solana Company.” The Company’s ticker symbol for its Class A common stock, HSDT, remains the same.
Advisory Agreements
On September 15, 2025, the Company entered into a Strategic Advisor Agreement (the “Strategic Advisor agreement) with Pantera Capital and Summer (the “Advisors”), pursuant to which the Company engaged each of Pantera and Summer to provide strategic advice and guidance relating to the Company’s business, operations, growth initiatives and industry trends in the crypto technology sector for an initial term of two (2) years, which term automatically renews for successive periods of one (1) year each. Either the Company or the Advisors may terminate the Strategic Advisor Agreement upon written notice of a material breach by the other party that has not been cured within thirty (30) days of receipt of the written notice. The Strategic Advisor Agreement also contains customary representations and warranties, confidentiality provisions and limitations on liability. Refer to Note 6 for details on the terms of the Advisor Warrants issued by the Company in connection with the Strategic Advisor Agreement.
Additionally, on September 15, 2025, the Company entered into a Trading Advisory Agreement (the “Trading Advisory Agreement”) with Pantera, pursuant to which the Company engaged Pantera to manage the investment of substantially all of Company’s digital assets, digital asset derivatives, cash and other assets for an initial term of ten (10) years, which term automatically renews for successive periods of one (1) year each, subject to the mutual agreement of the Company and Pantera. The management fees pursuant to the Trading Advisory Agreement shall be equal to: (a) 1.0%, if the Client’s Assets Under Management is less than or equal to $1 billion, (b) 0.75% per annum of assets under management (“AUM”) if AUM is more than $1 billion but less than or equal to $5 billion and (c) 0.50% per annum of AUM if AUM is more than $5 billion.
Master Loan Agreement
In connection with the closing of the Company’s 2025 private offerings (the “2025 PIPE Offerings”), as discussed in more detail in Note 6 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, the Company agreed to use the net proceeds from the sale to fund the acquisition of SOL, and the establishment of a SOL treasury operation, as well as pay transaction fees and expenses, and for working capital and general corporate purposes of the Company. To advance the Company’s planned SOL treasury operation, on September 18, 2025, Marvel Operations Corp., a Delaware limited liability company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a Master Loan Agreement with a third-party lender (the “Master Loan Agreement”) to provide a short-term loan to make initial purchases of SOL. As of September 30, 2025, Marvel Operations Corp., has no outstanding loans with the third-party lender under the Master Loan Agreement.
Financing and Stock
On September 18, 2025, the Company completed the issuance and sale of an aggregate of 38,049,671 shares of the Company’s common stock at an offering price of $6.881 and accompanying pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 36,261,239 shares of common stock at a price of $6.881 less $0.001 and stapled warrants to purchase up to 73,941,196 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $10.134. The Company also issued warrants to its Advisors to purchase up to 7,394,119 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.001 subject to shareholder approval. As of November 17, 2025, certain provisions of the stapled warrants related to adjustments of the Black-Scholes inputs in determining the warrant value in the event of a fundamental transaction were amended.
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On September 15, 2025, the Company entered into a Sales Agreement (the “2025 Sales Agreement”) with Clear Street and Maxim, as co-sales agents, to create an at-the-market offering program (the “2025 ATM”) under which the Company may offer and sell shares with an aggregate offering price of up to $92.8 million. Clear Street and Maxim are entitled to a fixed commission rate equal to up to 2% of the gross proceeds pursuant to the 2025 Sales Agreement.
On June 6, 2025, the Company completed the issuance and sale of an aggregate of 55,372 shares of the Company’s common stock and accompanying common warrants to purchase up to 55,372 shares of common stock, at an offering price of $163.50 per share of common stock and accompanying common warrants generating gross proceeds of $9.1 million before repayment of the previously issued promissory notes of $1.56 million and cash issuance costs of $1.2 million (the “2025 Offering”). The Company also issued warrants to the placement agent to purchase 2,769 shares of common stock on the same terms as the common stock warrants. See Note 6 in our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for more details.
On May 23, 2025, the stockholders of the Company approved a potential reverse stock split in a ratio of 1-to-2 to 1-to-250. The Board of Directors subsequently approved a reverse split at a ratio of 1-for-50, which became effective July 1, 2025 (the “July 2025 Reverse Stock Split”) as discussed further in Note 6 in our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. On April 24, 2025, the Company sold, in a private placement, unsecured 20% original issue discount promissory notes (the “Notes”) and issued 1,760 shares of common stock of the Company generating gross proceeds of $1.3 million with cash share issuance costs of $0.1 million for net proceeds of $1.2 million as discussed further in Note 6 in our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
On April 21, 2025, the stockholders of the Company approved a potential reverse stock split in a ratio of 1-to-2 to 1-to-30. The Board of Directors subsequently approved a reverse split at a ratio of 1-for-15, which became effective May 2, 2025 (the “May 2025 Reverse Stock Split”) as discussed further in Note 6 in our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. On January 21, 2025, the Company entered into warrant exercise inducement offer letters with certain holders of existing Series A warrants and Series B warrants (together, the “Existing Warrants”) to exercise their Existing Warrants in exchange for the issuance of new Series C warrants and Series D warrants on substantially the same terms as the Existing Warrants generating gross proceeds of $3.7 million as discussed further in Note 6 in our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Nasdaq Compliance
On August 9, 2024, we received written notice (the “Notification Letter”) from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) notifying us that the Company was not in compliance with the minimum bid price requirements set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2)(the “Minimum Bid Price Requirement”) for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market. Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) requires listed securities maintain a minimum closing bid price of $1.00 per share, and Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A) provides that a failure to meet the minimum closing bid price requirement exists if the deficiency continues for a period of 30 consecutive business days. Based on the closing bid price of the Company’s Class A common stock (“Common Stock”) for the 30 consecutive business days prior to the date of the Notification Letter, the Company did not meet the minimum closing bid price requirement. In accordance with Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), we had a period of 180 calendar days from August 9, 2024, or until February 5, 2025, to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement.
On February 7, 2025, we received a letter from the Listing Qualifications Department (the “Staff”) of Nasdaq indicating the Company’s continued non-compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement. The letter further informed the Company that the Company’s Common Stock would be delisted from the Nasdaq Capital Market unless the Company appeals the Staff’s delisting determination by requesting a hearing before the Nasdaq Hearings Panel (the “Panel”). The Company had a hearing with the Nasdaq Hearing Panel on March 18, 2025. At the hearing, we presented our plan for regaining compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement and requested a further extension so that we may complete the execution of our plan.
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On March 31, 2025, Company received written notice (the “Notice”) from Nasdaq stating that the Company no longer complied with the minimum stockholders’ equity requirement under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(1)(the “Stockholders’ Equity Requirement”) for continued listing on Nasdaq Capital Market because the Company’s stockholders’ equity, as reported in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2024, had fallen below $2.5 million. The notice also indicated that the Company did not meet the alternative compliance standards.
On April 1, 2025, the Company received an additional letter from Nasdaq notifying the Company that, following the hearing process with respect to the Company’s deficiency with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement, Nasdaq granted the Company an extension until June 30, 2025 to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement as well as the Stockholders’ Equity Requirement.
On June 3, 2025, the Company received formal notification from Nasdaq confirming that we had regained compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement following the May 2025 Reverse Stock Split.
On July 7, 2025, the Company received formal notification from Nasdaq that, following the completion of the 2025 Offering, the Company has regained compliance with the Stockholders Equity Requirement. Consequently, following receipt of such notification, the Company is now in compliance with all applicable criteria for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, and pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5815(d)(4)(B), the Company will be subject to a Mandatory Panel Monitor until July 7, 2026.
If we fail to meet the applicable continued listing requirements for the Nasdaq Capital Market, Nasdaq may delist our Common Stock. If such delisting should occur, it would likely have a negative effect on the price of our Common Stock and would impair an investor’s ability to sell or purchase our Common Stock when desired. In the event of a delisting, we can provide no assurance that any action taken by us to restore compliance with listing requirements would allow our Common Stock to become listed again, stabilize the market price or improve the liquidity of our Common Stock, prevent our Common Stock from dropping below the Nasdaq minimum bid price requirement, or prevent future non-compliance with Nasdaq’s listing requirements. Additionally, Nasdaq rules allow an expedited delisting of securities of companies that have had one or more reverse stock splits with a cumulative ratio of one for 250 or more shares over the prior two-year period. Under these rules, if a company falls out of compliance with the $1.00 minimum bid price after completing reverse stock splits over the immediately preceding two years that cumulatively result in a ratio one for 250 shares, the company will not be able to avail itself of any compliance periods and Nasdaq will instead require the issuance of a Staff delisting determination, which is appealable to a hearings panel. Our ability to remain listed on Nasdaq may be negatively impacted by this Nasdaq rule.
PoNS Commercialization
Reimbursement
We are pursuing commercial insurance coverage for PoNS within the Durable Medical Equipment benefit category. On February 29, 2024, CMS assigned HCPCS Level II codes to the PoNS controller and PoNS mouthpiece, effective April 1, 2024. On May 2, 2024, CMS published a proposed fee schedule payment rates for the PoNS controller and PoNS mouthpiece to be discussed at CMS' bi-annual Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (“HCPCS”) public meeting to be held on May 29, 2024. For the PoNS Controller (HCPCS Code A4593), CMS preliminarily set pricing by mapping reimbursement to existing code E0745, (Neuromuscular stimulator, electronic shock unit), resulting in a capped fee of $1,206.53. For the PoNS Mouthpiece (HCPCS code A4594), CMS based pricing on the previously offered, temporary, cash pay price of $4,500, resulting in a total capped payment of $3,075.53.
The Company subsequently provided CMS additional information to support reimbursement economics and presented that information at the public meeting with CMS on May 29, 2024 for consideration by CMS for determination of the final reimbursement amount for each of the PoNS controller and mouthpiece.
On October 7, 2024, CMS posted the final payment rate for the PoNS Mouthpiece (HCPCS code A4594) at $2,963.30, which became effective January 1, 2025 and deferred final national determination of the payment rate for the PoNS Controller (HCPCS Code A4593) to the next payment cycle. At the Company’s request, Company management
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subsequently met with CMS in December 2024 prior to PoNS Mouthpiece pricing taking effect on January 1, 2025 to request that they revisit the starting point for the gap filling process to more appropriately use the market pricing established through negotiation with the VA and an insurance carrier.
On October 8, 2024, CMS published the preliminary rate for the PoNS Controller (HCPCS Code A4593) at the capped total payment of $519.80, based on its view that the product is comparable to devices reported with HCPCS code E0730 (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) device, four or more leads, for multiple nerve stimulation) effective April 1, 2025. At the Company’s request, Company management subsequently met with CMS in December 2024 to request that they revisit the gap-filling capped rental fee for the Controller to more appropriately use the market pricing established through negotiation with the VA and an insurance carrier.
On January 13, 2025, CMS posted final Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies fee schedule payment rates for the PoNS Controller (HCPCS Code A4593) at the capped total payment of $532.27 and no changes to the previous final determination for the PoNS Mouthpiece (HCPCS code A4594) were made.
On March 11, 2025, the Company announced its first reimbursement payment from a major healthcare payer, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, for its PoNS Device.
On May 12, 2025 the Company announced its second reimbursement approval from a major healthcare payer, United Healthcare.
On June 11, 2025, the Company announced its third reimbursement approval from a major healthcare payer, Aetna Healthcare.
On June 16, 2025, the Company announced an additional authorized claim for payment from Anthem Multiplan and CignaHealth.
We also intend to provide broad access and reimbursement for the PoNS Therapy over time through commercial insurers. Prior to broad commercial payer coverage, we anticipate the primary source of sales will be self-pay and VA patients. We expect to support the cost of the PoNS Therapy by working with advocacy groups and charitable organizations to help self-pay patients access our technology. In general, we anticipate that it will take at least 24 months to obtain broad coverage and reimbursement among government and private payers from the date that the HCPCS codes became effective.
Partnership with Lovell Government Services
During the first quarter of 2024, the Company partnered with Lovell Government Services (“Lovell”), an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, to make the PoNS device available to federal healthcare systems. In May 2024, PoNS became available on the Veteran Affairs Federal Supply Schedule and General Services Administration Advantage Contracts at $23,843.72 for the PoNS device and $7,344.97 for the PoNS mouthpiece. In July 2024, PoNS became available to the Department of Defense and U.S. Military facilities on the Distribution and Pricing Agreement at $23,724.50 for the PoNS device and $7,308.25 for the PoNS mouthpiece. In December 2024, the first PoNS System sale to the VA Healthcare System through Lovell was delivered at the contracted price of $23,844, comprised of $16,499 for the PoNS Controller and $7,345 for the PoNS Mouthpiece. In March 2025, pricing for PoNS under the Veteran Affairs Federal Supply Schedule and General Services Administration Advantage Contracts increased to $26,228.09 for the PoNS device and $8,079.48 for the PoNS mouthpiece. In July 2025, the second PoNS System sale to the VA Healthcare System through Lovell was delivered at the increased price.
In June 2024, the Company began establishing sales representative agreements with organizations and individuals to sell PoNS devices to Veterans Affairs (“VA”) facilities in the U.S. The Company has since established agreements with representatives covering facilities in various states throughout the country.
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Canadian Commercialization
On July 11, 2025, the Company successfully secured a product listing agreement with HealthPro, Canada’s leading group purchasing organization representing over 2,000 hospitals. This listing enables the Company to actively promote PoNS to participating healthcare institutions across Canada.
On July 28, 2025, the company increased its cash paying price of PoNS Device to $24,029 CAD while maintaining its List price at $28,270.
The company continues to advance efforts toward securing major insurance coverage and recently facilitated treatment for a catastrophic concussion patient at full list price through an insurance settlement.
Strategically, the company remains focused on expanding PoNS access by engaging with injury law firms and supporting patients in returning to work from long term disability, reinforcing the therapy’s clinical and economic value.
Revelation Neuro
On March 11, 2025, we established Revelation Neuro, Inc. to pursue the development of a new gold standard of care for personalized neurorehabilitation using a non-implantable AI powered brain computer interface combining our newly developed intellectual property with the Company’s existing intellectual property.
Stroke Study
During the first quarter of 2024, leveraging the Breakthrough Designation, the Company reached alignment with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) on the registrational program to evaluate the therapeutic benefit of PoNS on gait and balance deficits in chronic stroke subjects, which originally included two initial studies. The first was an investigator-initiated randomized placebo-controlled trial (“IIT”) in approximately 60 subjects, led by Dr. Steven Kautz at the Medical University of South Carolina (“MUSC”) and Dr. Mark Bowden at Brooks Rehabilitation. The second study was a sponsor-initiated single arm (open-label) study (“OLS”), in approximately 30 subjects. Following guidance from FDA, the Company added, in May 2024, a third sponsor-initiated randomized placebo-controlled trial (“SIT”) in approximately 60 subjects, as the pivotal study, along with the OLS, for the registrational program. All three clinical trials enrolled patients from the same patient population and shared the same study structure/endpoints aimed at establishing the efficacy and safety of PoNS in people with gait deficit due to chronic stroke.
Enrollment of the stroke registrational studies started at MUSC for the IIT in August 2023 and, at Brooks Rehabilitation, in August 2024. In June 2024, the Company started enrollment of the OLS at five U.S. Centers of Excellence for Neurorehabilitation including Shepherd Center, MGH-IHP, REHABOLOGYM, Brooks Rehabilitation and New England Neurological Center. Enrollment continued, with the SIT, in July 2024 at Neuro-Concept Rehabilitation Center, Neuphysio, Synaptic Health, Bergin Motion in Canada and REHABOLOGYM in the U.S.
The Company started the SRP in March 2024 after a positive interaction with the FDA on the data development program, study design, and endpoints. The SRP includes two pivotal Sponsor-initiated clinical studies: a double-blind, randomized controlled trial and a single-arm trial, which began in April 2024. The SRP is also supported by a pilot investigator-initiated, double-blind randomized controlled trial by Dr. Steve Kautz and Dr. Mark Bowden of MUSC (SC) and Brook Rehabilitation (FL) respectively, which began late in the fall of 2023. All three clinical trials enrolled patients from the same patient population and shared the same study structure/endpoints aimed at establishing the efficacy and safety of PoNS in people with gait deficit due to chronic stroke.
A total of 159 patients were enrolled across the three studies, with 130 patients completing both the 12-week study treatment phase and the 12-week post treatment follow-up period, at 10 clinical sites including centers of excellence for stroke rehabilitation across the US and Canada. Study participants received the (active or sham) study treatment in combination with physical therapy according to the current guidelines for functional rehabilitation of people with chronic stroke.
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The primary endpoints for all three studies included improvement of gait and/or balance deficit after 12 weeks of study treatment with two key multiplicity-controlled secondary endpoints assessing risk of falling and 12-week durability of effect. The double-blind randomized clinical trial met the primary endpoint of demonstrating statistically significant greater improvements in gait deficit due to stroke with active PoNS therapy including additional data from an open label study using statistical methods to balance baseline characteristics. The studies also demonstrated minimal incidence of adverse events and confirmed good treatment tolerability.
On July 21, 2025, the Company announced the positive outcome of the Portable Neuromodulation Stimulator (“PoNS”) Stroke Registrational Program (“SRP”) and planned upcoming FDA submission seeking an indication for gait and balance deficit in patients with chronic symptoms of stroke under the current Breakthrough Device Designation.
On September 25, 2025, the Company issued a press release announced the filing of its FDA 510(k) submission for the PoNS device label expansion seeking an indication for gait and balance deficit in patients with chronic stroke symptoms. The submission was made with data generated in the Company’s Stroke Registrational Program and was filed under its current FDA Breakthrough Device Designation.
Material Trends and Uncertainties
Our historical financial condition and results of operations for the periods presented may not be comparable, either from period to period or going forward, due to the recent deployment of our new blockchain-native treasury management business, primarily with Solana tokens. As a result, the periods presented in our historical financial statements may not be comparable to one another and our future results of operations and financial results may differ.
Price of SOL
Our treasury management business is expected to be heavily dependent on the price of SOL, which has historically experienced significant volatility. As of September 30, 2025, we held 1,739,355 SOL, valued at $350.2 million based on a market price of $208.70 per token. SOL is valued at fair value at the end of each reporting period, with changes in fair value recognized in net income. As a result, fluctuations in the price of SOL may significantly impact our results of operations.
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Results of Operations
Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 compared to the Three Months Ended September 30, 2024
The following table summarizes our results of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 (in thousands):
| | Three Months Ended September 30, |
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| 2025 |
| 2024 |
| Change | |||
Revenue: |
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Staking rewards | | $ | 342 | | $ | — | | $ | 342 |
Other revenue | |
| 355 | |
| 51 | |
| 304 |
Total revenue | |
| 697 | |
| 51 | |
| 646 |
Cost of revenue | |
| 103 | |
| 187 | |
| (84) |
Gross profit (loss) | |
| 594 | |
| (136) | |
| 730 |
Operating expenses: | |
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| |
|
| |
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Selling, general and administrative expenses | |
| 4,646 | |
| 2,857 | |
| 1,789 |
Research and development expenses | |
| 858 | |
| 1,077 | |
| (219) |
Unrealized loss on digital assets | | | 30,540 | | | — | | | 30,540 |
Total operating expenses | |
| 36,044 | |
| 3,934 | |
| 32,110 |
Loss from operations | |
| (35,450) | |
| (4,070) | |
| (31,380) |
Nonoperating income | |
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| |
|
| |
|
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Interest expense | | | (1) | | | (1) | | | — |
Other (expense) income | |
| (154) | |
| 233 | |
| (387) |
Loss on derivative liability | | | (545,733) | | | — | | | (545,733) |
Change in fair value of derivative liability | |
| 423,313 | |
| 152 | |
| 423,161 |
Financing costs | | | (194,743) | |
| — | |
| (194,743) |
Nonoperating (loss) income, net | |
| (317,318) | |
| 384 | |
| (317,702) |
Loss before provision for income taxes | | | (352,768) | | | (3,686) | | | (349,082) |
Provision for income taxes | | | — | |
| — | |
| — |
Net loss | | $ | (352,768) | | $ | (3,686) | | $ | (349,082) |
Revenue
The increase in staking rewards income is the result of our staked SOL earning staking yield. The increase in total net product sales was primarily attributable to an increase in unit volumes for U.S. sales of PoNS systems to Lovell for resale at the VA, approved insurance claims and cash pay patients. The increase in other revenue was attributable to the recognition of deferred revenue as a result of the termination of our exclusive distribution agreement with Health Tech Connex Inc. due to a material breach of agreement as discussed in more detail in Note 3 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Cost of Revenue
The cost of revenue for the third quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period in the prior year decreased primarily due to decreased inventory reserve and production scrap expense.
Gross Profit (Loss)
Gross profit for the three months ended September 30, 2025 was $594 thousand compared to gross loss of $136 thousand for the same period in the prior year. Increased revenues in the third quarter of 2025 from staking rewards income and PoNS product sales with cost of revenues decreasing were the primary reasons for the year-to-year variance.
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Selling, General and Administrative Expense
Selling, general and administrative expenses in the third quarter of 2025 were up as compared to the same period in prior year primarily due to a $1.5 million discretionary bonus resulting in an increase in employee wages and benefits, a $0.5 million increase in professional fees, a $0.2 million increase in trading advisory and custodian costs to support the DAT business partially offset by a $0.5 million decrease in stock-based compensation.
Research and Development Expense
The decrease in research and development expenses for the three months ended September, 30, 2025 was driven primarily by a decrease in employee wages and benefits offset by an increase in product development costs associated with enhancing the PoNS software cybersecurity as required by the FDA.
Unrealized Loss on Digital Assets
The unrealized loss on digital assets represents the unrealized mark-to-market for our digital asset holdings to record digital assets at fair value due to the decline in value of SOL.
Nonoperating income (expense)
Interest Expense
Net interest expense for the three months ended September 30, 2025 was primarily attributable to interest expense from the Company’s insurance premium financing.
Other (Expense) Income
Other (expense) income for the three months ended September 30, 2025 was primarily attributable to dividend income earned on investments of excess cash in money market mutual funds offset by foreign exchange loss due to fluctuations in the Canadian to U.S. dollar exchange rates.
Loss on Derivative Liability
Loss on derivative liability for the three months ended September 30, 2025 was primarily attributable to a charge as the result of the gross proceeds allocation from the 2025 PIPE Offerings to the derivative liability from the related stapled warrants. See Note 6 in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for more detail on the stapled warrant derivative liability.
Change in Fair Value of Derivative Liability
As discussed in more detail in Note 6 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, the stapled warrants issued in connection with the 2025 PIPE Offerings completed on September 18, 2025 are being accounted for as a derivative liability instrument. The loss on change in fair value of derivative liability for the three months ended September 30, 2025 of $423.0 million was primarily due to a decrease in our stock price.
Financing Costs
Financing costs consist of $14.9 million of cash financing costs from the 2025 PIPE Offerings and non-cash financing costs from the issuance of advisory warrants and the issuance of common stock to the placement agent of $179.8 million.
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Nine months ended September 30, 2025 compared to the Nine months ended September 30, 2024
The following table summarizes our results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 (in thousands):
| | Nine Months Ended September 30, |
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| 2025 |
| 2024 |
| Change | |||
Revenue: |
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Staking rewards | | $ | 342 | | $ | — | | $ | 342 |
Other revenue | |
| 447 | |
| 368 | |
| 79 |
Total revenue | |
| 789 | |
| 368 | |
| 421 |
Cost of revenue | |
| 320 | |
| 428 | |
| (108) |
Gross profit (loss) | |
| 469 | |
| (60) | |
| 529 |
Operating expenses: | |
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| |
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| |
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Selling, general and administrative expenses | |
| 10,089 | |
| 7,961 | |
| 2,128 |
Research and development expenses | |
| 2,625 | |
| 2,735 | |
| (110) |
Unrealized loss on digital assets | | | 30,540 | |
| — | | | 30,540 |
Total operating expenses | |
| 43,254 | |
| 10,696 | |
| 32,558 |
Loss from operations | |
| (42,785) | |
| (10,756) | |
| (32,029) |
Nonoperating income | |
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| |
|
| |
|
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Interest expense | | | (635) | | | (14) | | | (621) |
Other income (expense) | |
| 503 | | | (71) | |
| 574 |
Loss on derivative liability | | | (545,733) | | | — | | | (545,733) |
Change in fair value of derivative liability | |
| 417,394 | | | 3,027 | |
| 414,367 |
Financing costs | | | (195,185) | | | — | |
| (195,185) |
Nonoperating (loss) income, net | |
| (323,656) | |
| 2,942 | |
| (326,598) |
Loss before provision for income taxes | | | (366,441) | | | (7,814) | | | (358,627) |
Provision for income taxes | | | — | | | — | | | — |
Net loss | | $ | (366,441) | | $ | (7,814) | | $ | (358,627) |
Revenue
The increase in staking rewards income is the result of our staked SOL earning staking yield. The decrease in total net product sales was primarily attributable to decrease in Canada sales as a result of the material breach of agreement as discussed in more detail in Note 3 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, partially offset by an increase in unit volumes for U.S. sales of PoNS systems at a higher unit price, and further offset by an increase in other revenues attributable to the recognition of deferred revenue as a result of the termination of our exclusive distribution agreement with Health Tech Connex Inc.
Cost of Revenue
The cost of revenue through the nine months ended September 30, 2025 as compared to the same period in the prior year decreased primarily due to decreased inventory reserve and production scrap expense.
Gross Profit (Loss)
Gross profit for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was $469 thousand compared to gross loss of $60 thousand for the same period in the prior year. Increased revenues through the third quarter of 2025 with cost of revenues decreasing from the prior year were the primary reasons for the year-to-year variance.
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Selling, General and Administrative Expense
Selling, general and administrative expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 were up as compared to the same period in prior year primarily due to a $1.7 million increase in employee wages and benefits including a $1.5 million discretionary bonus, a $0.5 million increase in professional fees, a $0.2 million increase in trading advisory and custodian costs to support the DAT business in the third quarter of 2025, partially offset by a $0.3 million decrease in stock-based compensation.
Research and Development Expense
The decrease in research and development expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was driven primarily by a decrease in employee wages and benefits and stock-based compensation offset by stroke clinical trial costs, and further offset an increase in product development costs associated with enhancing the PoNS software cybersecurity in the third quarter of 2025 as required by the FDA.
Unrealized Loss on Digital Assets
The unrealized loss on digital assets represents the unrealized mark-to-market for our digital asset holdings to record digital assets at fair value due to the decline in value of SOL.
Nonoperating income (expense)
Interest Expense
Net interest expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was primarily attributable to interest expense related to the Notes and to a lesser extent interest expense from the Company’s insurance premium financing. See Note 6 in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for more detail on the Notes.
Other Income (Expense)
Other income for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was primarily attributable to dividend income earned on investments of excess cash in money market mutual funds and foreign exchange gain due to fluctuations in the Canadian to U.S. dollar exchange rates.
Loss on Derivative Liability
Loss on derivative liability for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was primarily attributable to a charge in the third quarter of 2025 as the result of the gross proceeds allocation from the 2025 PIPE Offerings to the derivative liability from the related stapled warrants. See Note 6 in the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for more detail on the stapled warrant derivative liability.
Change in Fair Value of Derivative Liability
As discussed in more detail in Note 6 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, the stapled warrants issued in connection with the 2025 PIPE Offerings completed on September 18, 2025 are being accounted for as a derivative liability instrument and the warrants issued in connection with the public offering completed on August 9, 2022 and the 2025 Offering completed on June 6, 2025 are being accounted for as a derivative liability instrument. The gain on change in fair value of derivative liability for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 of $417.4 million was primarily due to a decrease in our stock price offset by the exercise reset provisions on the derivative liability warrants from the 2025 Offering.
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Financing Costs
Financing costs consist of warrant-related offering costs expensed from the 2025 Offering of $0.5 million, $14.9 million of cash financing costs from the 2025 PIPE Offerings and non-cash financing costs from the issuance of advisory warrants and issuance of common stock to the placement agent of $179.8 million.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The following table summarizes our cash and cash equivalents and working capital as of the end of the periods indicated in the table below (in thousands):
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| September 30, | | December 31, | ||
| | 2025 | | 2024 | ||
Cash and cash equivalents | | $ | 124,051 | | $ | 1,088 |
Working capital | | | 122,524 | | | 1,261 |
Our available capital resources have been primarily used to increase our digital asset holdings, expand our U.S. commercialization efforts, fund manufacturing activities for the PoNS device, conduct clinical trials and for working capital and general corporate purposes. Our primary sources of cash and cash equivalents have been proceeds from public and private offerings of our Common Stock which most recently included $374.9 million in net proceeds we received from the 2025 PIPE Offerings as discussed in more detail in Note 6 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Prior to the 2025 PIPE Offering, our operations were primarily financed through sales of common stock in private placement and public offering transactions. As previously disclosed, we had expressed substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern due to recurring losses and negative operating cash flows. With the successful completion of the 2025 PIPE Offerings, we believe that substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern has been alleviated for at least the next twelve months.
In 2024, the Company received $5.5 million in net proceeds from a public offering of our Common Stock and warrants completed in May 2024 (“May 2024 Public Offering”) as discussed in more detail in Note 6 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
As discussed in more detail in Note 6 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, the Company entered into a sales agreement related to the 2025 ATM under which we may offer and sell shares having gross proceeds up to $92.8 million. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company issued and sold shares with net proceeds of $8.8 million under the 2025 ATM. Subsequent to September 30, 2025, the Company issued and sold shares with net proceeds of $15.4 million under the 2025 ATM.
In 2025, the Company received $7.9 million in net proceeds from a public offering of our Common Stock and warrants completed in June 2025 (the “June 2025 Public Offering”) as discussed in more detail in Note 6 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
As discussed in more detail in Note 6 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, the Company entered into a sales agreement related to our at-the-market offering program (the “2023 ATM”) under which we may offer and sell shares having gross proceeds up to $2.0 million. During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company issued and sold shares with net proceeds of $1.3 million under the 2023 ATM and during the nine months ended September 30, 2025, the Company issued and sold shares with net proceeds of $0.1 million under the ATM. In July 2025, the Company updated the prospectus supplement to increase the capacity under the 2023 ATM to $25.0 million and subsequently sold 379,040 shares generating net proceeds after commissions of $5.0 million.
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On January 21, 2025, the Company entered into warrant exercise inducement offer letters and new warrant issuance which generated $3.4 million in net proceeds as discussed in more detail in Note 6 to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
In addition, the Company received net proceeds of $0.2 million from the issuance of shares upon the exercise of warrants for the year ended December 31, 2024.
On April 24, 2025, the Company sold, in a private placement, unsecured 20% original issue discount promissory notes and issued 1,760 shares of Common Stock of the Company generating gross proceeds of $1.3 million with cash share issuance costs of $0.1 million for net proceeds of $1.2 million as discussed further in Note 6 in our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Statement of Cash Flows
The following table summarizes our cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 (in thousands):
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| 2025 |
| 2024 |
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Net cash used in operating activities | | $ | (10,337) | | $ | (8,663) | | $ | (1,674) |
Net cash used in investing activities | |
| (267,383) | |
| (5) | |
| (267,378) |
Net cash provided by financing activities | |
| 400,682 | |
| 6,954 | |
| 393,728 |
Effect of foreign exchange rate changes on cash | |
| 1 | |
| — | |
| 1 |
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents | | $ | 122,963 | | $ | (1,714) | | $ | 124,677 |
Net Cash Used in Operating Activities
The higher level of cash used in operating activities in the nine months ended September 30, 2025 primarily resulted from the purchase of SOL as the Company began to deploy net proceeds from the 2025 PIPE Offerings as compared with the same period in the prior year.
Net Cash Used in Investing Activities
Our investing activities in the nine months ended September 30, 2025 are primarily related to the purchases of SOL as we deployed capital to begin to execute our digital asset treasury strategy.
Net Cash Provided by Financing Activities
During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, $3.4 million in net proceeds were generated from entering into a warrant inducement with current warrant holders, net proceeds of $5.1 million from issuance and sales of shares under the 2023 ATM, net proceeds of $8.8 million from issuance and sales of shares under the 2025 ATM, the Company sold, in April 2025 Private Placement, promissory notes and issued shares of Common Stock generating net proceeds of $1.2 million, the Company generated, in the June 2025 Public Offering, $7.9 million in net proceeds from an offering of Common Stock and warrants, and in the September 2025 PIPE Offerings, the Company issued shares of Common Stock generating net proceeds of $374.9 million. The Company repaid the promissory notes of $1.56 million.
Critical Accounting Estimates
Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements that have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. This preparation requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities.
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Our critical accounting estimates are described in Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” of our 2024 10-K. There have been no changes in critical accounting estimates in the current year from those described in our 2024 10-K.
ITEM 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
Not applicable.
ITEM 4. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As required by Rule 13a-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, under the direction of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, we have evaluated our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this report. Our management has concluded that the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q present fairly, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There has not been any change in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
From time to time, we are subject to litigation and claims arising in the ordinary course of business. We are not currently a party to any material legal proceedings, and we are not aware of any pending or threatened legal proceeding against us that we believe could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results or financial condition.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
Our business is subject to risks and events that, if they occur, could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations and the trading price of our securities. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, our risk factors have not changed materially from those risk factors previously disclosed in our 2024 10-K except as set forth below. You should carefully consider the risk factors discussed in Part I, “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our 2024 10-K. The risks described in our 2024 10-K are not the only risks facing us. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial also may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and/or operating results.
Our Solana strategy exposes us to various risks, including risks associated with Solana.
Our Solana strategy exposes us to various risks, including the following:
Solana is a highly volatile asset. Solana is a highly volatile asset that has traded below $140 per Solana and above $240 per Solana on the Coinbase exchange (a major U.S.-based crypto exchange) in the 12 months preceding the date of this Current Report on Form 10-Q to which this exhibit is filed. The trading price of Solana significantly decreased during prior periods, and such declines may occur again in the future.
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Solana does not pay interest or dividends. Solana does not pay interest or other returns and we can only generate cash from our Solana holdings if we sell our Solana or implement strategies to create income streams or otherwise generate cash by using our Solana holdings. Even if we pursue any such strategies, we may be unable to create income streams or otherwise generate cash from our Solana holdings, and any such strategies may subject us to additional risks.
Our Solana holdings may significantly impact our financial results and the market price of our common stock. Our Solana holdings may significantly affect our financial results and if we increase our overall holdings of Solana in the future, may have an even greater impact on our financial results and the market price of our common stock.
Our assets will be concentrated in Solana. The vast majority of our assets will be concentrated in our Solana holdings. The concentration of our assets in Solana may limit our ability to mitigate risk that could otherwise be achieved by holding a more diversified portfolio of treasury assets.
We intend to purchase Solana using primarily proceeds from equity and debt financing. Our ability to achieve the objectives of our treasury strategy depends in significant part on our ability to obtain equity and debt financing. If we are unable to obtain equity or debt financing on favorable terms or at all, we may not be able to successfully execute on our treasury strategy.
Our treasury strategy has not been tested over an extended period of time or under different market conditions. We will implement a treasury strategy following the closing of the private placement. We intend to continually examine the risks and rewards of our strategy to acquire and hold Solana. This strategy has not been tested over an extended period of time or under different market conditions. For example, although we believe Solana, due to its fixed supply, has the potential to serve as a hedge against inflation in the long term, the short-term price of Solana has declined in recent periods during which the inflation rate increased. If Solana prices were to decrease or our Solana strategy otherwise proves unsuccessful, our financial condition, results of operations, and the market price of our common stock would be materially adversely impacted.
We will be subject to counterparty risks, including in particular risks relating to exchanges where we intend to purchase Solana and our custodians. Although we have implemented or intend to implement various measures that are designed to mitigate our counterparty risks, including purchasing Solana through reputable U.S.-based third-party exchanges with industry standard policies and procedures and by storing substantially all of the Solana we will own in custody accounts at U.S.-based, institutional-grade custodians and negotiating contractual arrangements intended to establish that our property interest in custodially-held Solana is not subject to claims of our custodians’ creditors, applicable insolvency law is not fully developed with respect to the holding of digital assets in custodial accounts. If our custodially-held Solana were nevertheless considered to be the property of our custodians’ estates in the event that any such custodians were to enter bankruptcy, receivership or similar insolvency proceedings, we could be treated as a general unsecured creditor of such custodians, inhibiting our ability to exercise ownership rights with respect to such Solana, or delaying or hindering our access to our Solana holdings, and this may ultimately result in the loss of the value related to some or all of such Solana, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition as well as the market price of our listed securities.
The broader digital assets industry is subject to counterparty risks, which could adversely impact the adoption rate, price, and use of Solana. A series of recent high-profile bankruptcies, closures, liquidations, regulatory enforcement actions and other events relating to companies operating in the digital asset industry have highlighted the counterparty risks applicable to owning and transacting in digital assets. Although these bankruptcies, closures, liquidations and other events have not resulted in any loss or misappropriation of our Solana, nor have such events adversely impacted our access to our Solana, they have, in the short-term, likely negatively impacted the adoption rate and use of Solana. Additional bankruptcies, closures, liquidations, regulatory enforcement actions or other events involving participants in the digital assets industry in the future may further negatively impact the adoption rate, price, and use of Solana, limit the availability to us of financing collateralized by Solana, or create or expose additional counterparty risks.
The broader digital assets industry, including the technology associated with digital assets, the rate of adoption and development of, and use cases for, digital assets, market perception of digital assets, and the legal, regulatory, and
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accounting treatment of digital assets are constantly developing and changing, and there may be additional risks in the future that are not possible to predict.
This will be the first digital asset treasury strategy for the Company and our historical financial statements do not reflect the potential variability in earnings that we may experience in the future relating to our treasury strategy and Solana holdings.
We intend to implement our treasury strategy immediately. Because we are only beginning to enact our treasury strategy, our historical financial statements do not reflect the potential variability in earnings that we may experience in the future from holding or selling significant amounts of Solana. The price of Solana has historically been subject to dramatic price fluctuations and is highly volatile.
Additionally, in the future we may expand our operations beyond the legacy PoNS system and the Solana treasury strategy to include other income streams and otherwise generate funds using our Solana holdings. At this time, we do not have any definitive agreements or plans in place to expand beyond acquiring and holding Solana. However, if we do expand such operations, additional risks related to such strategies and business, including counterparty risks, could arise.
Our Solana strategy exposes us to risk of non-performance by counterparties.
Our Solana strategy exposes us to the risk of non-performance by counterparties, whether contractual or otherwise. Risk of non-performance includes inability or refusal of a counterparty to perform because of a deterioration in the counterparty’s financial condition and liquidity or for any other reason. For example, our execution partners, custodians, or other counterparties might fail to perform in accordance with the terms of our agreements with them, which could result in a loss of Solana, a loss of the opportunity to generate funds, or other losses.
Our primary counterparty risk with respect to our Solana is custodian performance obligations under the custody arrangements we have entered into. A series of relatively recent high-profile bankruptcies, closures, liquidations, regulatory enforcement actions and other events relating to companies operating in the digital asset industry, including the filings for bankruptcy protection by Three Arrows Capital, Celsius Network, Voyager Digital, FTX Trading and Genesis Global Capital, among others, and the filing and subsequent settlement of a civil fraud lawsuit by the New York Attorney General against Genesis Global Capital, its parent company Digital Currency Group, Inc., and former partner Gemini Trust Company have highlighted the perceived and actual counterparty risk applicable to digital asset ownership and trading. Although these bankruptcies, closures and liquidations have not resulted in any loss or misappropriation of our Solana, nor have such events adversely impacted our access to our Solana, legal precedent created in these bankruptcy and other proceedings may increase the risk of future rulings adverse to our interests in the event one or more of our custodians becomes a debtor in a bankruptcy case or is the subject of other liquidation, insolvency or similar proceedings.
While our custodians are subject to regulatory regimes intended to protect customers in the event of a custodial bankruptcy, receivership or similar insolvency proceeding, no assurance can be provided that our custodially-held Solana will not become part of the custodian’s insolvency estate if one or more of our custodians enters bankruptcy, receivership or similar insolvency proceedings. Additionally, if we pursue any strategies to create income streams or otherwise generate funds using our Solana holdings, we would become subject to additional counterparty risks. Any significant non-performance by counterparties, including in particular the custodians with which we custody substantially all of our Solana, could have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects, financial condition, and operating results.
We may be subject to regulatory developments related to crypto assets and crypto asset markets, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
As Solana and other digital assets are relatively novel and the application of state and federal securities laws and other laws and regulations to digital assets is unclear in certain respects, it is possible that regulators in the United States or foreign countries may interpret or apply existing laws and regulations in a manner that adversely affects the price of Solana. The U.S. federal government, states, regulatory agencies, and foreign countries may also enact new laws and regulations, or pursue regulatory, legislative, enforcement or judicial actions, that could materially impact the price of Solana or the ability of individuals or institutions such as us to own or transfer Solana.
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If Solana is determined to constitute a security for purposes of the federal securities laws, the additional regulatory restrictions imposed by such a determination could adversely affect the market price of Solana and in turn adversely affect the market price of our common stock. Moreover, the risks of us engaging in a Solana treasury strategy have created, and could continue to create complications due to the lack of experience that third parties have with companies engaging in such a strategy, such as increased costs of director and officer liability insurance or the potential inability to obtain such coverage on acceptable terms in the future.
Our Solana strategy subjects us to enhanced regulatory oversight.
Several spot Solana exchange-traded products (“ETPs”) have received tacit approval from the SEC to list their shares on a U.S. national securities exchange with continuous share creation and redemption at net asset value. Even though we are not, and do not function in the manner of, a spot Solana ETP, it is possible that we nevertheless could face regulatory scrutiny from the SEC or other federal or state agencies due to our Solana holdings.
In addition, there has been increasing focus on the extent to which digital assets can be used to launder the proceeds of illegal activities, fund criminal or terrorist activities, or circumvent sanctions regimes, including those sanctions imposed in response to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. While we have implemented or intend to implement and maintain policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote compliance with applicable anti-money laundering and sanctions laws and regulations and take care to only acquire our Solana through entities subject to anti-money laundering regulation and related compliance rules in the United States, if we are found to have purchased any of our Solana from bad actors that have used Solana to launder money or persons subject to sanctions, we may be subject to regulatory proceedings and any further transactions or dealings in Solana by us may be restricted or prohibited.
Although our Solana holdings do not currently serve as collateral securing any of our outstanding indebtedness as of the date hereof, we may incur indebtedness or enter into other financial instruments in the future that may be collateralized by our Solana holdings. We may also consider pursuing strategies to create income streams or otherwise generate funds using our Solana holdings. These types of Solana-related transactions are the subject of enhanced regulatory oversight. These and any other Solana-related transactions we may enter into, beyond simply acquiring and holding Solana, may subject us to additional regulatory compliance requirements and scrutiny, including under Federal and state money services regulations, money transmitter licensing requirements and various commodity and securities laws and regulations.
Additional laws, guidance and policies may be issued by domestic and foreign regulators following the filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection by FTX, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, in November 2022. While the financial and regulatory fallout from FTX’s collapse did not directly impact our business, financial condition or corporate assets, the FTX collapse may have increased regulatory focus on the digital assets industry. Increased enforcement activity and changes in the regulatory environment, including changing interpretations and the implementation of new or varying regulatory requirements by the government or any new legislation affecting Solana, as well as enforcement actions involving or impacting our trading venues, counterparties and custodians, may impose significant costs or significantly limit our ability to hold and transact in Solana.
In addition, private actors that are wary of Solana or the regulatory concerns associated with Solana have in the past taken and may in the future take further actions that may have an adverse effect on our business or the market price of our listed securities.
Regulatory change reclassifying Solana as a security could lead to our classification as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and could adversely affect the market price of Solana and the market price of our common stock.
Under Sections 3(a)(1)(A) and (C) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), a company generally will be deemed to be an “investment company” for purposes of the 1940 Act if (1) it is, or holds itself out as being, engaged primarily, or proposes to engage primarily, in the business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities or (2) it engages, or proposes to engage, in the business of investing, reinvesting, owning, holding or trading in securities and it owns or proposes to acquire investment securities having a value exceeding 40% of the value of its total assets (exclusive of U.S. government securities and cash items) on an unconsolidated basis. We do not believe that we are an
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“investment company,” as such term is defined in the 1940 Act, and are not registered as an “investment company” under the 1940 Act as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K.
A significant portion of our assets will be concentrated in our Solana holdings. While senior SEC officials have not stated their view as to whether Solana is or is not a “security” for purposes of the federal securities laws, a contrary determination by the SEC, or a determination that our Solana is being offered and sold as a security, could lead to our classification as an “investment company” under the 1940 Act, if the portion of our assets consists of investments in Solanas exceeds 40% safe harbor limits prescribed in the 1940 Act, which would subject us to significant additional regulatory controls that could have a material adverse effect on our business and operations and our ability to execute our treasury strategy and may also require us to change the manner in which we conduct our business.
We monitor our assets and income for compliance under the 1940 Act and seek to conduct our business activities in a manner such that we do not fall within its definitions of “investment company” or that we qualify under one of the exemptions or exclusions provided by the 1940 Act and corresponding SEC regulations. Furthermore, if Solana is determined to constitute a security for purposes of the federal securities laws, we would take steps to reduce the percentage of Solanas that constitute investment assets under the 1940 Act. These steps may include, among others, selling Solanas that we might otherwise hold for the long term and deploying our cash in non-investment assets, and we may be forced to sell our Solanas at unattractive prices. We may also seek to acquire additional non-investment assets to maintain compliance with the 1940 Act, and we may need to incur debt, issue additional equity or enter into other financing arrangements that are not otherwise attractive to our business. Any of these actions could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition. Moreover, we can make no assurance that we would successfully be able to take the necessary steps to avoid being deemed to be an investment company in accordance with the safe harbor. If we were unsuccessful, and if Solana is determined to constitute a security for purposes of the federal securities laws, then we would have to register as an investment company, and the additional regulatory restrictions imposed by 1940 Act could adversely affect the market price of Solana and in turn adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
In the future we may expand our business beyond the PoNS system and the treasury strategy to include other income streams and otherwise generate funds using our Solana holdings, including acquiring interests in other entities. At this time, we do not have any definitive agreements or plans in place to expand beyond acquiring and holding Solana. However, if we do acquire minority interests in other entities, this could lead to our classification as an “investment company”, which would subject us to additional regulatory controls and could have a material adverse impact on our results of operations.
We are not subject to legal and regulatory obligations that apply to investment companies such as mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, or to obligations applicable to investment advisers.
Mutual funds, ETFs and their directors and management are subject to extensive regulation as “investment companies” and “investment advisers” under U.S. federal and state law; this regulation is intended for the benefit and protection of investors. We are not subject to, and do not otherwise voluntarily comply with, these laws and regulations. This means, among other things, that the execution of or changes to our Treasury Reserve Policy or our Solana strategy, our use of leverage, the manner in which our Solana is custodied, our ability to engage in transactions with affiliated parties and our operating and investment activities generally are not subject to the extensive legal and regulatory requirements and prohibitions that apply to investment companies and investment advisers. Our board of directors has broad discretion over the investment, leverage and cash management policies it authorizes, whether in respect of our Solana holdings or other activities we may pursue, and has the power to change our current policies, including our strategy of acquiring and holding Solana.
The lack of legal recourse and insurance for digital assets increases the risk of total loss in the event of theft or destruction.
Digital assets that we acquire will not be insured against theft, loss or destruction. If an event occurs where we lose our digital assets, whether due to cyberattacks, fraud or other malicious activities, we may not have any viable legal recourse or ability to recover the lost assets. Unlike funds held in insured banking institutions, our digital assets are not protected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. If our digital assets are
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lost under circumstances that render another party liable, there is no guarantee that the responsible party will have the financial resources to compensate us. As a result, we and our stockholders could face significant financial losses.
Digital asset lending arrangements may expose us to risks of borrower default, operational failures and cybersecurity threats.
Although we are not initially planning to lend our digital assets, from time to time, we may generate income through lending of digital assets, which carries significant risks. The volatility of such digital assets increases the likelihood that borrowers may default due to market downturns, liquidity crises, fraud or other financial distress. These lending transactions may be unsecured and so may be subordinated to secured debt of the borrower. If a borrower becomes insolvent, we may be unable to recover the loaned bitcoin, leading to substantial financial losses.
Additionally, digital asset lending platforms are vulnerable to operational and cybersecurity risks. Technical failures, software bugs or system outages could disrupt lending activities, delay transactions or result in inaccurate record-keeping. Cybersecurity threats, including hacking, phishing and other malicious attacks, pose further risks, potentially leading to the loss, theft or misappropriation of our loaned bitcoin. A successful cyberattack or security breach could materially and adversely impact our financial position, reputation and ability to conduct future lending activities.
We will be subject to significant competition in the growing digital asset industry and our business, operating results, and financial condition may be adversely affected if we are unable to compete effectively.
Following the launch of our proposed digital asset treasury strategy, we will operate in a competitive environment and will compete against other companies and other entities with similar strategies, including companies with significant holdings in Solana and other digital assets, and our business, operating results, and financial condition may be adversely affected if we are unable to compete effectively.
Staking Solana may limit our liquidity and restrict our ability to access capital in a timely manner.
As part of our digital asset treasury strategy, we may stake a portion of our Solana holdings with validators in order to earn staking rewards. Staked tokens are generally subject to “lock-up” or “unbonding” periods during which they cannot be transferred, traded, or otherwise used. Although such lock-up periods are intended to protect the stability of the protocol, they may materially reduce our immediate access to liquidity. If we need to liquidate our Solana holdings to meet operational requirements, satisfy obligations, or respond to adverse market conditions, the inability to rapidly access staked tokens could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows. Furthermore, because staking rewards are paid in additional Solana tokens, rather than cash, our ability to convert those rewards into fiat currency may depend on prevailing market liquidity and trading volumes for Solana, which could be volatile or insufficient at times.
Our financial results and the market price of our common stock may be affected by the prices of Solana.
As part of our capital allocation strategy for assets that are not required to provide working capital for our ongoing operations, we have invested and will continue to invest in Solana tokens. The price of Solana has historically been subject to dramatic price fluctuations and is highly volatile. Moreover, digital assets, such as Solana, are relatively novel and the application of securities laws and other regulations to such assets is unclear in many respects. It is possible that regulators may interpret laws in a manner that adversely affects the liquidity or value of Solana.
Any decrease in the fair value of Solana below our carrying value for such assets could require us to incur a loss due to the decrease in fair market value, and such charge could be material to our financial results for the applicable reporting period, which may create significant volatility in our reported earnings. Any decrease in reported earnings or increased volatility of such earnings could have a material adverse effect on the market price of our common stock. In addition, the application of generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, with respect to Solana, may change in the future and could have a material adverse effect on our financial results and the market price of our common stock.
In addition, if investors view the value of our common stock as dependent upon or linked to the value or change in the value of our Solana holdings, the price of Solana may significantly influence the market price of our common stock.
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Additionally, if the price of Solana falls, and our common stock price falls as a result, then the Notes may not be converted and we may, in certain situations, need to repay them in cash. To the extent the value of the Notes exceeds the value of the Solana held as collateral, we may need to obtain additional financing, which might not be available on satisfactory terms or at all. Any deficiency could substantially exceed the value of our other assets and could be many multiples of our historical earnings.
Due to the unregulated nature and lack of transparency surrounding the operations of many Solana trading venues, Solana trading venues may experience greater fraud, security failures or regulatory or operational problems than trading venues for more established asset classes, which may result in a loss of confidence in Solana trading venues and adversely affect the value of our Solana.
Solana trading venues are relatively new and, in many cases, unregulated. Furthermore, there are many Solana trading venues which do not provide the public with significant information regarding their ownership structure, management teams, corporate practices and regulatory compliance. As a result, the marketplace may lose confidence in Solana trading venues, including prominent exchanges that handle a significant volume of Solana trading and/or are subject to regulatory oversight, in the event one or more Solana trading venues cease or pause for a prolonged period the trading of Solana or other digital assets, or experience fraud, significant volumes of withdrawal, security failures or operational problems.
The SEC has also brought recent actions against individuals and digital asset market participants alleging that such persons artificially increased trading volumes in certain digital assets through wash trades, or repeated buying and selling of the same assets in fictitious transactions to manipulate their underlying trading price. Such reports and allegations may indicate that the Solana market is significantly smaller than expected and that the United States makes up a significantly larger percentage of the Solana market than is commonly understood. Any actual or perceived wash trading in the Solana market, and any other fraudulent or manipulative acts and practices, could adversely affect the value of our Solana. Negative perception, a lack of stability in the broader Solana markets and the closure, temporary shutdown or operational disruption of Solana trading venues, lending institutions, institutional investors, institutional miners, custodians, or other major participants in the Solana ecosystem, due to fraud, business failure, cybersecurity events, government-mandated regulation, bankruptcy, or for any other reason, may result in a decline in confidence in Solana and the broader Solana ecosystem and greater volatility in the price of Solana. As the price of our listed securities is affected by the value of our Solana holdings, the failure of a major participant in the Solana ecosystem could have a material adverse effect on the market price of our listed securities.
The concentration of our Solana holdings enhances the risks inherent in our Solana strategy.
We have and intend to purchase Solana and increase our overall holdings of Solana in the future. The intended concentration of our Solana holdings limits the risk mitigation that we could achieve if we were to purchase a more diversified portfolio of treasury assets, and the absence of diversification enhances the risks inherent in our Solana strategy. The price of Solana experienced a significant decline in 2022, and any similar future significant declines in the price of Solana could have a more pronounced impact on our financial condition than if we used our cash to purchase a more diverse portfolio of assets.
We face risks relating to the use of third-party exchanges in connection with our Solana strategy.
We intend to use third-parties exchanges, which we believe are reputable, such as Kraken, Anchorage and Coinbase, to purchase Solana for our treasury. As part of our process in determining transactions with third-party exchanges, we search for reputable exchanges that have industry standard policies and procedures in place regarding data security and customer diligence related to anti-money laundering (“AML”), Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) and know-your client (“KYC”) rules and regulations. If any of these third-party exchanges no longer meet our standards or if there is a decrease in reputable third-party exchanges, we may need to find additional counterparties and enter into additional agreements that could be on less favorable terms, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or the results of our operations.
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We face risks relating to the custody of our Solana tokens, including the loss or destruction of private keys required to access our Solana tokens and cyberattacks or other data loss relating to our Solana tokens, including smart contract related losses and vulnerabilities.
We hold our Solana tokens with a single regulated custodian that has duties to safeguard our private keys. In light of the significant amount of Solana tokens we anticipate that we will hold, we may need to engage additional custodians to achieve a greater degree of diversification in the custody of our Solana tokens as the extent of potential risk of loss is dependent, in part, on the degree of diversification. However, multiple custodians may utilize similar wallet infrastructure, cloud service providers or software systems, which could increase systemic technology risk.
If there is a decrease in the availability of digital asset custodians that we believe can safely custody our Solana tokens, for example, due to regulatory developments or enforcement actions that cause custodians to discontinue or limit their services in the United States, we may need to enter into agreements that are less favorable than our current agreements or take other measures to custody our Solana tokens, and our ability to seek a greater degree of diversification in the use of custodial services would be materially adversely affected. While we will conduct due diligence on our custodians and any smart contract platforms we may use, there can be no assurance that such diligence will uncover all risks, including operational deficiencies, hidden vulnerabilities or legal noncompliance.
Currently, the insurance that covers losses of our Solana holdings may cover none or only a small fraction of the value of the entirety of our Solana holdings, and there can be no guarantee that such insurance will be maintained as part of the custodial services we have or that such coverage will cover losses with respect to our Solana. Moreover, our use of custodians exposes us to the risk that the Solana our custodians hold on our behalf could be subject to insolvency proceedings and we could be treated as a general unsecured creditor of the custodian, inhibiting our ability to exercise ownership rights with respect to such Solana. Any loss associated with such insolvency proceedings is unlikely to be covered by any insurance coverage we maintain related to our Solana. The legal framework governing digital asset ownership and rights in custodial or insolvency contexts remains uncertain and continues to evolve, which could result in unexpected losses, protracted recovery processes or adverse treatment in insolvency proceedings.
Solana tokens are controllable only by the possessor of both the unique public key and private key(s) relating to the local or online digital wallet in which the Solana is held. While the Solana blockchain ledger requires a public key relating to a digital wallet to be published when used in a transaction, private keys must be safeguarded and kept private in order to prevent a third party from accessing the Solana held in such wallet. To the extent the private key(s) for a digital wallet are lost, destroyed, or otherwise compromised and no backup of the private key(s) is accessible, neither we nor our custodians will be able to access the Solana held in the related digital wallet. Furthermore, we cannot provide assurance that our digital wallets, nor the digital wallets of our custodians held on our behalf, will not be compromised as a result of a cyberattack. The Solana and blockchain ledger, as well as other digital assets and blockchain technologies, have been, and may in the future be, subject to security breaches, cyberattacks, or other malicious activities.
As part of our treasury management strategy, we may engage in staking, restaking, or other permitted activities that involve the use of “smart contracts” or decentralized applications. The use of smart contracts or decentralized applications entails certain risks including risks stemming from the existence of an “admin key” or coding flaws that could be exploited, potentially allowing a bad actor to issue or otherwise compromise the smart contract or decentralized application, potentially leading to a loss of our Solana tokens. Like all software code, smart contracts are exposed to risk that the code contains a bug or other security vulnerability, which can lead to loss of assets that are held on or transacted through the contract or decentralized application. Smart contracts and decentralized applications may contain bugs, security vulnerabilities or poorly designed permission structures that could result in the irreversible loss of Solana tokens or other digital assets. Exploits, including those stemming from admin key misuse, admin key compromise, or protocol flaws, have occurred in the past and may occur in the future.
Our Solana holdings are and will be less liquid than our existing cash and cash equivalents and may not be able to serve as a source of liquidity for us to the same extent as cash and cash equivalents.
Historically, the Solana market has been characterized by significant volatility in price, limited liquidity and trading volumes compared to sovereign currencies markets, relative anonymity, a developing regulatory landscape, potential
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susceptibility to market abuse and manipulation, compliance and internal control failures at exchanges, and various other risks inherent in its entirely electronic, virtual form and decentralized network. During times of market instability, we may not be able to sell our Solana at favorable prices or at all. For example, a number of Solana trading venues temporarily halted deposits and withdrawals in 2022, although the Coinbase exchange (a major U.S.-based crypto exchange) has, to date, not done so. As a result, our Solana holdings may not be able to serve as a source of liquidity for us to the same extent as cash and cash equivalents. Further, Solana we hold with our custodians and transact with our trade execution partners will not enjoy the same protections as are available to cash or securities deposited with or transacted by institutions subject to regulation by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. Additionally, we may be unable to enter into term loans or other capital raising transactions collateralized by our unencumbered Solana or otherwise generate funds using our Solana holdings, including in particular during times of market instability or when the price of Solana has declined significantly. If we are unable to sell our Solana, enter into additional capital raising transactions, including capital raising transactions using Solana as collateral, or otherwise generate funds using our Solana holdings, or if we are forced to sell our Solana at a significant loss, in order to meet our working capital requirements, our business and financial condition could be negatively impacted.
If we or our third-party service providers experience a security breach or cyberattack and unauthorized parties obtain access to our Solana, or if our private keys are lost or destroyed, or other similar circumstances or events occur, we may lose some or all of our Solana and our financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
Substantially all of the Solana we own is held in custody accounts at U.S.-based institutional-grade digital asset custodians. Security breaches and cyberattacks are of particular concern with respect to our Solana. Solana and other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies and the entities that provide services to participants in the Solana ecosystem have been, and may in the future be, subject to security breaches, cyberattacks, or other malicious activities. For example, in October 2021 it was reported that hackers exploited a flaw in the account recovery process and stole from the accounts of at least 6,000 customers of the Coinbase exchange, although the flaw was subsequently fixed and Coinbase reimbursed affected customers. Similarly, in November 2022, hackers exploited weaknesses in the security architecture of the FTX Trading digital asset exchange and reportedly stole over $400 million in digital assets from customers. A successful security breach or cyberattack could result in:
| ● | a partial or total loss of our Solana in a manner that may not be covered by insurance or the liability provisions of the custody agreements with the custodians who hold our Solana; |
| ● | harm to our reputation and brand; |
| ● | improper disclosure of data and violations of applicable data privacy and other laws; or |
| ● | significant regulatory scrutiny, investigations, fines, penalties, and other legal, regulatory, contractual and financial exposure. |
Further, any actual or perceived data security breach or cybersecurity attack directed at other companies with digital assets or companies that operate digital asset networks, regardless of whether we are directly impacted, could lead to a general loss of confidence in the broader Solana ecosystem or in the use of the Solana network to conduct financial transactions, which could negatively impact the market price of Solana and in turn negatively impact our financial condition and results of operations and the market price of our common stock.
Attacks upon systems across a variety of industries, including industries related to Solana, are increasing in frequency, persistence, and sophistication, and, in many cases, are being conducted by sophisticated, well-funded and organized groups and individuals, including state actors. The techniques used to obtain unauthorized, improper or illegal access to systems and information (including personal data and digital assets), disable or degrade services, or sabotage systems are constantly evolving, may be difficult to detect quickly, and often are not recognized or detected until after they have been launched against a target. These attacks may occur on our systems or those of our third-party service providers or partners. We may experience breaches of our security measures due to human error, malfeasance, insider threats, system errors or vulnerabilities or other irregularities. In particular, we expect that unauthorized parties will attempt to gain access to our systems and facilities, as well as those of our partners and third-party service providers, through various means, such as
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hacking, social engineering, phishing and fraud. Threats can come from a variety of sources, including criminal hackers, hacktivists, state-sponsored intrusions, industrial espionage, and insiders. In addition, certain types of attacks could harm us even if our systems are left undisturbed. For example, certain threats are designed to remain dormant or undetectable, sometimes for extended periods of time, or until launched against a target and we may not be able to implement adequate preventative measures. Further, there has been an increase in such activities due to the increase in work-from-home arrangements. The risk of cyberattacks could also be increased by cyberwarfare in connection with ongoing or future armed conflicts, including potential proliferation of malware into systems unrelated to such conflicts. Any future breach of our operations or those of others in the Solana industry, including third-party services on which we rely, could materially and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
The Blockchain protocols, including some of the networks and protocols of the Solana tokens we hold, are supported by foundations and/or founding teams that may influence the development of our the Blockchain protocols and could adversely affect the value of the Solana tokens we hold in our treasury.
The Blockchain protocols, including certain of the networks and protocols of Solana tokens we hold, are supported by foundations and/or founding teams. In contrast to certain Blockchain assets where governance decisions are largely made by a decentralized group of individuals, the development of Solana tokens and protocols may be disproportionately influenced by these foundations and/or founding teams. For example, Solana Labs, Inc. (“Solana Labs”) and the Solana Foundation support the Solana project and play a significant role in advancing the overall growth and development of the ecosystem. They can propose amendments to the Solana network’s source code, but implementation generally depends on adoption by the network’s validators and users. To the extent Solana Labs and/or the Solana Foundation propose any amendments to the Solana network’s source code that are adopted by users of the Solana network, the Solana network will be subject to new source code that may adversely affect the value of SOL. As a result, their decisions could negatively impact the value of the Solana tokens we hold in our treasury.
We face significant risks relating to disruptions, forks, 51% attacks, hacks, network disruptions, or other adverse events or other compromises to the cryptocurrency blockchains, which could materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Blockchain networks are maintained by decentralized networks of participants, and as such are susceptible and vulnerable to a variety of risks, including disruptions, security breaches, and fundamental technical issues. Both networks are vulnerable to attacks by malicious actors who gain control of a significant portion of the network’s mining hash rate, a scenario commonly referred to as a 51% attack. In such an event, the attacker could double-spend transactions, reverse previously confirmed transactions, or otherwise disrupt the normal operations of the network. Successful 51% attacks have historically undermined trust in affected blockchain networks and could materially decrease the value of cryptocurrency assets.
Additionally, forks, or splits in the underlying protocol, may occur when participants fail to reach consensus on proposed upgrades or changes. Forks can lead to the creation of duplicate networks, confusion among market participants, dilution of the original network’s value, and disruption of the network’s operations. Hard forks, in particular, can materially and adversely impact the perceived stability and value of digital assets, leading to reduced demand and price declines.
Further, hacks and other security breaches targeting the core infrastructure of blockchain networks or major participants, such as exchanges and custodians, could severely impact the reputation and market confidence in these networks. Exploits of protocol-level vulnerabilities could also compromise the integrity of the cryptocurrency blockchains, resulting in a substantial loss of value.
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The success and growth of cryptocurrency assets depend significantly on their continued security, stability, and scalability. Any technical failures, consensus breakdowns, governance disputes, or regulatory interventions that diminish confidence in the networks or impair their functionality could lead to a material decline in their market prices, which could materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations. A sustained or significant decrease in the price or liquidity of cryptocurrencies, whether due to 51% attacks, forks, hacks, network disruptions, or other adverse events, could negatively impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Furthermore, even the perception that any of these events could occur may lead to significant market volatility and price declines, adversely affecting our business, financial condition and results of operations
We face other risks related to our Solana treasury reserve business model.
Our Solana treasury reserve business model exposes us to various risks, including the following:
● Solana and other digital assets are subject to significant legal, commercial, regulatory, and technical uncertainty, and our Solana strategy subjects us to enhanced regulatory oversight; |
| | ● regulatory changes could impact our ability to operate validators or receive rewards; |
● regulatory scrutiny of the Company’s activities may increase, potentially limiting our operations; | ||
| | potential litigation risks exist related to smart contract vulnerabilities, validator operations, or our business activities; |
| | ● uncertainty around Solana’s regulatory status may impact our ability to list on certain exchanges; |
| | ● changes in political administration may not guarantee a favorable regulatory environment for Solana; and |
| | ● increased regulatory focus on Layer-1 blockchains beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum could result in new compliance requirements. |
The foregoing factors could lead to disruption in the market for Solana, which could adversely affect the market price of Solana and in turn adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
The Tokenization of our Class A common stock could introduce risks and uncertainties that adversely affect the market for, and the trading price of, our Class A common stock, among other potential consequences.
We are evaluating the feasibility of enabling on-chain holding and trading of our Class A common stock (“Tokenized HSDT”). While Tokenized HSDT would provide an additional mechanism for investors to hold and trade shares in the Company, which may improve settlement efficiency and increase accessibility, it could also introduce new risks and uncertainties that could adversely affect the market for, and the trading price of, both Tokenized HSDT and Nasdaq-listed Class A common stock (“Traditional HSDT”).
The market for tokenized securities is nascent, and there can be no assurance that a liquid or orderly market for Tokenized HSDT will develop or be sustained. Blockchain-based mechanisms, like decentralized exchanges, may have significantly less liquidity, volume, transparency or regulatory oversight compared to national securities exchanges, such as Nasdaq. This could fragment liquidity across platforms, impair price discovery, widen bid-ask spreads, and lead to prolonged price discrepancies between Tokenized and Traditional HSDT—especially where arbitrage is limited by operational or regulatory constraints.
On October 17, 2025, we entered into a Digital Transfer Agency Agreement with Superstate Services LLC as our digital asset transfer agent, pursuant to which it has agreed to create and maintain an “Allowlist” of wallet addresses of individuals and entities who have completed onboarding requirements and are permitted to hold, transfer and facilitate transfers of Tokenized HSDT. As a result, access to Tokenized HSDT will be restricted to holders who meet the
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onboarding requirements of our digital transfer agent, potentially limiting investor participation and market depth, and resulting in greater price volatility.
Furthermore, market intermediaries may face unclear or evolving obligations when interacting with tokenized securities such as Tokenized HSDT, and the application of the U.S. federal securities laws and other regulations to the trading of tokenized securities remains uncertain. This may prevent or discourage market intermediaries from holding, transacting, or facilitating transactions in Tokenized HSDT, further limiting liquidity. Reduced liquidity in Tokenized HSDT, whether due to general investor unfamiliarity, uncertain demand, operational friction, inefficient linkages between the markets for Tokenized HSDT and Traditional HSDT or otherwise, could result in lower trading prices for Tokenized HSDT, and such negative price signaling from the market for Tokenized HSDT could adversely impact the trading price of Traditional HSDT. In addition, if regulatory authorities determine that the platforms, mechanisms or participants involved in the secondary trading of Tokenized HSDT do not comply with applicable law, we or such intermediaries could face enforcement actions or fines or be required to unwind or restructure aspects of the project. These risks could lead to diminished investor confidence, reduced participation in the trading of Tokenized HSDT, and corresponding negative effects on the trading price, volatility and/or liquidity of Traditional HSDT.
Tokenized HSDT would also be subject to the broader risks associated with digital assets, including cybersecurity, technological failures, and operational risks, which could affect our reputation, financial condition, and operating results.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
None.
Item 3. Defaults upon Senior Securities
Not applicable.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
Item 5. Other Information
Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans – Directors and Section 16 Officers
During the nine months ended September 30, 2025,
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Item 6. Exhibits
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101.INS# | | Inline XBRL Instance Document |
101.SCH# | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document |
101.CAL# | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document |
101.LAB# | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document |
101.PRE# | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document |
101.DEF# | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document |
104# | | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101). |
# | Filed herewith. |
* | These certifications are being furnished solely to accompany this quarterly report pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, and are not being filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the registrant, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing. |
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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, thereunto duly authorized.
| SOLANA COMPANY | |
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Dated: November 18, 2025 | By: | /s/ Dane C. Andreeff |
| | Dane C. Andreeff |
| | President and Chief Executive Officer |
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Dated: November 18, 2025 | By: | /s/ Jeffrey S. Mathiesen |
| | Jeffrey S. Mathiesen |
| | Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary |
| | Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) |
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EXHIBIT 31.1
CERTIFICATIONS
I, Dane C. Andreeff, certify that:
Date: November 18, 2025 |
| /s/ Dane C. Andreeff |
| | Dane C. Andreeff |
| | Chief Executive Officer |
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EXHIBIT 31.2
CERTIFICATIONS
I, Jeffrey S. Mathiesen, certify that:
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Date: November 18, 2025 | | /s/ Jeffrey S. Mathiesen |
| | Jeffrey S. Mathiesen |
| | Chief Financial Officer |
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EXHIBIT 32.1
CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
SOLANA COMPANY
FORM 10-Q FOR THE QUARTER ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2025
PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED
PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I am the Chief Executive Officer of Solana Company, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). I am delivering this certificate in connection with the Form 10-Q of the Company for the quarter ended September 30, 2025 and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Form 10-Q”).
Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, I hereby certify that, to the best of my knowledge, the Form 10-Q fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and that the information contained in the Form 10-Q fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
Date: November 18, 2025 |
| /s/ Dane C. Andreeff |
| | Dane C. Andreeff |
| | Chief Executive Officer |
EXHIBIT 32.2
CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
SOLANA COMPANY
FORM 10-Q FOR THE QUARTER ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2025
PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED
PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I am the Chief Financial Officer of Solana Company, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). I am delivering this certificate in connection with the Form 10-Q of the Company for the quarter ended September 30, 2025 and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Form 10-Q”).
Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, I hereby certify that, to the best of my knowledge, the Form 10-Q fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and that the information contained in the Form 10-Q fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
Date: November 18, 2025 | | /s/ Jeffrey S. Mathiesen |
| | Jeffrey S. Mathiesen |
| | Chief Financial Officer |