Related to Our Business
−Removed: expect our results of operations to fluctuate on a quarterly and annual basis, which could cause our stock price to fluctuate or decline.
+Added: Related to Our Toy and Souvenir Business
+Added: expect the results of operations of our toy and souvenir business to fluctuate on a quarterly and annual basis, which could cause our
+Added: stock price to fluctuate or decline.
results of operations are difficult to predict and may fluctuate substantially from quarter-to-quarter or year-to-year for a variety
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Other factors that could affect our quarterly and annual operating results include, but are not limited to:
−Removed: in the pricing policies of, or the introduction of new products by, us or our competitors;
−Removed: ● introductions
−Removed: of new technologies and changes in consumer preferences that result in either unanticipated
−Removed: or unexpectedly rapid product category shifts;
−Removed: or negative growth in the toy, souvenir, theme park, and related markets;
−Removed: shifts in end-market demand for our products;
−Removed: in the introduction of new products by us or market acceptance of these products;
−Removed: ● unanticipated
−Removed: decreases or delays in purchases of our products by our significant retailers, distributors
−Removed: and other channel partners;
−Removed: constraints from our vendors;
−Removed: ● unanticipated
−Removed: increases in costs, including air freight, associated with shipping and delivery of our products;
−Removed: inability to maintain stable operations by our suppliers and other parties with whom we have
−Removed: commercial relationships;
−Removed: of security vulnerabilities in our products, services or systems, leading to negative publicity,
−Removed: decreased demand or potential liability;
−Removed: currency exchange rate fluctuations in the jurisdictions where we transact sales and expenditures
−Removed: in local currency;
−Removed: levels of inventory and low turns;
−Removed: in or consolidation of our sales channels and wholesale distributor relationships or failure
−Removed: to manage our sales channel inventory and warehousing requirements;
−Removed: or failure to fulfill orders for our products on a timely basis;
−Removed: or failure of our retailers, distributors and other channel partners to purchase at their
−Removed: historic volumes or at the volumes that they or we forecast;
−Removed: in tax rates or adverse changes in tax laws that expose us to additional income tax liabilities;
−Removed: and international tax policy, including changes that adversely affect customs, tax
−Removed: or duty rates, as well as income tax legislation and regulations that affect the countries
−Removed: where we conduct business;
−Removed: ● operational
−Removed: disruptions, such as transportation delays or failure of our order processing system, particularly
−Removed: if they occur at the end of a fiscal quarter;
−Removed: ● disruptions
−Removed: or delays related to our financial and enterprise resource planning systems;
−Removed: inability to accurately forecast product demand, resulting in increased inventory exposure;
−Removed: for doubtful accounts exposure with our existing retailers, distributors and other channel
−Removed: partners and new retailers, distributors and other channel partners, particularly as we expand
−Removed: into new international markets;
−Removed: ● geopolitical
−Removed: disruption, including sudden changes in immigration policies, leading to disruption in our
−Removed: workforce or delay or even stoppage of our operations in manufacturing, transportation, technical
−Removed: support and research and development;
−Removed: of our contracts with channel partners or suppliers that cause us to incur additional expenses
−Removed: or assume additional liabilities;
−Removed: increase in price protection claims, redemptions of marketing rebates, product warranty and
−Removed: stock rotation returns or allowance for doubtful accounts;
−Removed: involving alleged patent infringement;
−Removed: or widespread product failure, or unanticipated safety issues, in one or more of our products;
−Removed: to effectively manage our third-party customer support partners, which may result in customer
−Removed: complaints and/or harm to the SRM brand;
−Removed: inability to monitor and ensure compliance with our code of ethics, our anti-corruption compliance
−Removed: program and domestic and international anti-corruption laws and regulations, whether in relation
−Removed: to our employees or with our suppliers or retailers, distributors or other channel partners;
−Removed: unrest at facilities managed by our third-party manufacturers;
−Removed: or human rights violations in certain countries in which our third-party manufacturers or
−Removed: suppliers operate, which may affect the SRM brand and negatively affect our products’
−Removed: acceptance by consumers;
−Removed: ● unanticipated
−Removed: shifts or declines in profit by geographical region that would adversely impact our tax rate;
−Removed: to implement and maintain the appropriate internal controls over financial reporting, which
−Removed: may result in restatements of our financial statements;
−Removed: changes in accounting rules.
+Added: changes in the pricing policies of, or the introduction of new products by, us or our competitors;
+Added: introductions of new technologies and changes in consumer preferences that result in either unanticipated or unexpectedly rapid product
+Added: category shifts;
+Added: slow or negative growth in the toy, souvenir, theme park, and related markets;
+Added: seasonal shifts in end-market demand for our products;
+Added: delays in the introduction of new products by us or market acceptance of these products;
+Added: unanticipated decreases or delays in purchases of our products by our significant retailers, distributors and other channel partners;
+Added: supply constraints from our vendors;
+Added: unanticipated increases in costs, including air freight, associated with shipping and delivery of our products;
+Added: the inability to maintain stable operations by our suppliers and other parties with whom we have commercial relationships;
+Added: discovery of security vulnerabilities in our products, services or systems, leading to negative publicity, decreased demand or potential
+Added: foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations in the jurisdictions where we transact sales and expenditures in local currency;
+Added: excess levels of inventory and low turns;
+Added: changes in or consolidation of our sales channels and wholesale distributor relationships or failure to manage our sales channel inventory
+Added: and warehousing requirements;
+Added: delay or failure to fulfill orders for our products on a timely basis;
+Added: delay or failure of our retailers, distributors and other channel partners to purchase at their historic volumes or at the volumes that
+Added: they or we forecast;
+Added: changes in tax rates or adverse changes in tax laws that expose us to additional income tax liabilities;
+Added: changes in U.S.
+Added: and international tax policy, including changes that adversely affect customs, tax or duty rates, as well as income tax
+Added: legislation and regulations that affect the countries where we conduct business;
+Added: operational disruptions, such as transportation delays or failure of our order processing system, particularly if they occur at the end
+Added: of a fiscal quarter;
+Added: disruptions or delays related to our financial and enterprise resource planning systems;
+Added: our inability to accurately forecast product demand, resulting in increased inventory exposure;
+Added: allowance for doubtful accounts exposure with our existing retailers, distributors and other channel partners and new retailers, distributors
+Added: and other channel partners, particularly as we expand into new international markets;
+Added: geopolitical disruption, including sudden changes in immigration policies, leading to disruption in our workforce or delay or even stoppage
+Added: of our operations in manufacturing, transportation, technical support and research and development;
+Added: terms of our contracts with channel partners or suppliers that cause us to incur additional expenses or assume additional liabilities;
+Added: an increase in price protection claims, redemptions of marketing rebates, product warranty and stock rotation returns or allowance for
+Added: doubtful accounts;
+Added: litigation involving alleged patent infringement;
+Added: epidemic or widespread product failure, or unanticipated safety issues, in one or more of our products;
+Added: failure to effectively manage our third-party customer support partners, which may result in customer complaints and/or harm to the Company’s
+Added: our inability to monitor and ensure compliance with our code of ethics, our anti-corruption compliance program and domestic and international
+Added: anti-corruption laws and regulations, whether in relation to our employees or with our suppliers or retailers, distributors or other
+Added: channel partners;
+Added: labor unrest at facilities managed by our third-party manufacturers;
+Added: workplace or human rights violations in certain countries in which our third-party manufacturers or suppliers operate, which may affect
+Added: the Company’s brand and negatively affect our products’ acceptance by consumers;
+Added: unanticipated shifts or declines in profit by geographical region that would adversely impact our tax rate;
+Added: failure to implement and maintain the appropriate internal controls over financial reporting, which may result in restatements of our
+Added: financial statements;
+Added: any changes in accounting rules.
a result, period-to-period comparisons of our results of operations may not be meaningful, and you should not rely on them as an indication
of our future performance.
−Removed: use of third-party manufacturers to produce our products presents risks to our business.
+Added: use of third-party manufacturers to produce our products presents risks to our toy and souvenir business.
use third-party manufacturers to manufacture all of our products and have historically concentrated production with a small number of
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from our international operations.
−Removed: business may be harmed by the imposition or threat of tariffs, including reciprocal or retaliatory tariffs, in markets in which we operate
−Removed: which could increase our product costs and other costs of doing business, impact consumer spending, or lower our revenues and earnings.
+Added: toy and souvenir business may be harmed by the imposition or threat of tariffs, including reciprocal or retaliatory tariffs, in markets
+Added: in which we operate which could increase our product costs and other costs of doing business, impact consumer spending, or lower our
+Added: revenues and earnings.
current global tariff environment is uncertain.
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of tariffs imposed on our products, including any changes to our supply chain, logistics capabilities, sales policies or pricing of our
−Removed: levels of competition and low barriers to entry make it difficult to achieve, maintain, or build upon the success of SRM’s brands,
−Removed: products, and product lines.
−Removed: faces competitors who are also constantly monitoring and attempting to anticipate consumer tastes, seeking ideas which will appeal to
−Removed: consumers, and introducing new products that compete with SRM’s products.
+Added: levels of competition and low barriers to entry make it difficult to achieve, maintain, or build upon the success of the Company’s
+Added: brands, products, and product lines.
+Added: Company faces competitors who are also constantly monitoring and attempting to anticipate consumer tastes, seeking ideas which will appeal
+Added: to consumers, and introducing new products that compete with the Company’s products.
In addition, competition for access to entertainment
−Removed: properties has and may continue to lessen SRM’s ability to secure, maintain, and renew popular licenses to entertainment products
−Removed: developed by other parties and licensed to SRM, or require SRM to pay licensors higher royalties and higher minimum guaranteed payments
−Removed: to obtain or retain these licenses.
−Removed: As a licensee of entertainment properties, SRM has no guarantee that a particular property or brand
−Removed: will translate into a successful toy, game, or other product.
−Removed: In addition, the barriers to entry for new participants in the toy products
−Removed: industry and entertainment industry are low.
−Removed: In a very short period of time, new market participants with a popular product idea or entertainment
−Removed: property can become a significant source of competition for SRM and its products.
−Removed: Reduced demand for SRM’s brands, products, and
−Removed: product lines as a result of these factors may adversely affect SRM’s business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: properties has and may continue to lessen the Company’s ability to secure, maintain, and renew popular licenses to entertainment
+Added: products developed by other parties and licensed to the Company, or require the Company to pay licensors higher royalties and higher
+Added: minimum guaranteed payments to obtain or retain these licenses.
+Added: As a licensee of entertainment properties, the Company has no guarantee
+Added: that a particular property or brand will translate into a successful toy, game, or other product.
+Added: In addition, the barriers to entry
+Added: for new participants in the toy products industry and entertainment industry are low.
+Added: In a very short period of time, new market participants
+Added: with a popular product idea or entertainment property can become a significant source of competition for the Company and its products.
+Added: Reduced demand for the Company’s brands, products, and product lines as a result of these factors may adversely affect the Company’s
+Added: business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Some of our competitors may have greater resources than the Company.
−Removed: In order to compete successfully, SRM may have to lower prices and
−Removed: increase marketing expenses which could result in reduced margins.
−Removed: is not always able to successfully identify and/or satisfy consumer preferences, which could cause its business, financial condition,
+Added: to compete successfully, the Company may have to lower prices and increase marketing expenses which could result in reduced margins.
+Added: Company is not always able to successfully identify and/or satisfy consumer preferences, which could cause its business, financial condition,
and results of operations to be adversely affected.
−Removed: business and operating results depend largely upon the appeal of its products, driven by both innovation and marketing.
−Removed: Consumer preferences
−Removed: are continuously changing.
−Removed: SRM is not always able to identify trends in consumer preferences or identify and satisfy consumer preferences
−Removed: in a timely manner.
−Removed: Significant, sudden shifts in demand are caused by popular toys which steer trends, which are often unpredictable.
−Removed: SRM offers a diverse range of products for all ages and families that includes, among others, toys for toddlers and preschoolers, toys
−Removed: for school-aged children, toys for all ages, and media-driven products.
−Removed: SRM competes domestically and internationally with a wide range
−Removed: of large and small manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of toys, and consumer goods, as well as retailers, which means that SRM’s
−Removed: market position is always at risk.
−Removed: SRM’s ability to maintain its current product sales and increase its product sales or establish
−Removed: product sales with new, innovative toys, depends on SRM’s ability to satisfy play preferences, enhance existing products, develop
−Removed: and introduce new products, and achieve market acceptance of these products.
−Removed: These challenges are intensifying due to trends towards
−Removed: shorter life cycles for individual toy products, the phenomenon of children outgrowing traditional toys at younger ages, an increasing
−Removed: use of more sophisticated technology in toys, and an evolving path to purchase.
−Removed: economic conditions may have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: Company’s business and operating results in the toy and souvenir segment depend largely upon the appeal of its products, driven
+Added: by both innovation and marketing.
+Added: Consumer preferences are continuously changing.
+Added: The Company is not always able to identify trends in
+Added: consumer preferences or identify and satisfy consumer preferences in a timely manner.
+Added: Significant, sudden shifts in demand are caused
+Added: by popular toys which steer trends, which are often unpredictable.
+Added: the Company offers a diverse range of products for all ages and families
+Added: that includes, among others, toys for toddlers and preschoolers, toys for school-aged children, toys for all ages, and media-driven products.
+Added: The Company competes domestically and internationally with a wide range of large and small manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of toys,
+Added: and consumer goods, as well as retailers, which means that the Company’s market position is always at risk.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: ability to maintain its current product sales and increase its product sales or establish product sales with new, innovative toys, depends
+Added: on the Company’s ability to satisfy play preferences, enhance existing products, develop and introduce new products, and achieve
+Added: market acceptance of these products.
+Added: These challenges are intensifying due to trends towards shorter life cycles for individual toy products,
+Added: the phenomenon of children outgrowing traditional toys at younger ages, an increasing use of more sophisticated technology in toys, and
+Added: an evolving path to purchase.
+Added: economic conditions may have an adverse impact on our toy and souvenir business, financial condition or results of operations.
results can be impacted by a number of macroeconomic factors, including but not limited to consumer confidence and spending levels, tax
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results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: to successfully implement new initiatives or meet product introduction schedules can have an adverse effect on SRM’s business,
−Removed: financial condition, and results of operations.
−Removed: has in the past announced, and in the future may announce, initiatives to reduce its costs, optimize its manufacturing footprint, increase
−Removed: its efficiency, improve the execution of its core business, globalize and extend SRM’s brands, catch new trends, create new brands,
−Removed: offer new innovative products and improve existing products, enhance product safety, develop people, improve productivity, simplify processes,
−Removed: and maintain customer service levels, as well as initiatives designed to drive sales growth, capitalize on SRM’s scale advantage,
−Removed: and improve its supply chain.
−Removed: These initiatives involve investment of capital and complex decision-making as well as extensive and intensive
−Removed: execution, and the success of these initiatives is not assured.
−Removed: Failure to achieve any of these initiatives could harm SRM’s business,
−Removed: financial condition, and results of operations.
−Removed: time to time, SRM anticipates introducing new products, product lines, or brands at a certain time in the future.
−Removed: There is no guarantee
−Removed: that SRM will be able to manufacture, source, ship, and distribute new or continuing products in a timely manner and on a cost-effective
−Removed: Unforeseen delays or difficulties in the development process or significant increases in the planned cost of development for new
−Removed: SRM products may cause the introduction date for products to be later than anticipated or, in some situations, may cause a product or
−Removed: new product introduction to be discontinued.
−Removed: Failure to successfully implement any of these initiatives or launches, or the failure of
−Removed: any of these initiatives or launches to produce the results anticipated by management, could have an adverse effect on SRM’s business,
+Added: to successfully implement new initiatives or meet product introduction schedules can have an adverse effect on the Company’s business,
financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: Company has in the past announced, and in the future may announce, initiatives to reduce its costs, optimize its manufacturing footprint,
+Added: increase its efficiency, improve the execution of its core business, globalize and extend the Company’s brands, catch new trends,
+Added: create new brands, offer new innovative products and improve existing products, enhance product safety, develop people, improve productivity,
+Added: simplify processes, and maintain customer service levels, as well as initiatives designed to drive sales growth, capitalize on the Company’s
+Added: scale advantage, and improve its supply chain.
+Added: These initiatives involve investment of capital and complex decision-making as well as
+Added: extensive and intensive execution, and the success of these initiatives is not assured.
+Added: Failure to achieve any of these initiatives could
+Added: harm the Company’s business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: time to time, the Company anticipates introducing new products, product lines, or brands at a certain time in the future.
+Added: guarantee that the Company will be able to manufacture, source, ship, and distribute new or continuing products in a timely manner and
+Added: on a cost-effective basis.
+Added: Unforeseen delays or difficulties in the development process or significant increases in the planned cost
+Added: of development for new products of the Company may cause the introduction date for products to be later than anticipated or, in some
+Added: situations, may cause a product or new product introduction to be discontinued.
+Added: Failure to successfully implement any of these initiatives
+Added: or launches, or the failure of any of these initiatives or launches to produce the results anticipated by management, could have an adverse
+Added: effect on the Company’s business, financial condition, and results of operations.
or extreme weather conditions and forecasts of bad or mixed weather conditions, which may be due to climate change, can adversely impact
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impact our results of operations.
−Removed: business is highly seasonal, and its operating results depend, in large part, on sales during the relatively brief traditional holiday
−Removed: Events that disrupt SRM’s business during its peak demand times can adversely and disproportionately affect SRM’s
−Removed: business, financial condition, and results of operations.
−Removed: business is subject to risks associated with the underproduction of popular toys and the overproduction of toys that are less popular
−Removed: with consumers.
−Removed: SRM attempts to manage their inventories tightly, which requires SRM to ship products closer to the expected date SRM
−Removed: sells the products to consumers.
−Removed: This in turn results in shorter lead times for production.
−Removed: These factors may decrease sales or increase
−Removed: the risks that SRM may not be able to meet demand for certain products at peak demand times or that SRM’s own inventory levels
−Removed: may be adversely impacted by the need to pre-build products before orders are placed.
−Removed: addition, as a result of the seasonal nature of SRM’s business, SRM may be adversely affected, in a manner disproportionate to
−Removed: the impact on a company with sales spread more evenly throughout the year, by unforeseen events, such as public health crises and pandemics,
−Removed: terrorist attacks, economic shocks, severe weather due to climate change or otherwise, earthquakes or other catastrophic events, that
−Removed: harm the retail environment or consumer buying patterns during its key selling season, or by events, such as strikes, disruptions in
−Removed: transportation, or port delays, that interfere with the manufacture or shipment of goods during the critical months leading up to the
−Removed: purchasing season.
+Added: Company’s toy and souvenir business is highly seasonal, and its operating results depend, in large part, on sales during the relatively
+Added: brief traditional holiday season.
+Added: Events that disrupt the Company’s business during its peak demand times can adversely and disproportionately
+Added: affect the Company’s business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: Company’s toy and souvenir business is subject to risks associated with the underproduction of popular toys and the overproduction
+Added: of toys that are less popular with consumers.
+Added: The Company attempts to manage their inventories tightly, which requires the Company to
+Added: ship products closer to the expected date the Company sells the products to consumers.
+Added: This in turn results in shorter lead times for
+Added: These factors may decrease sales or increase the risks that the Company may not be able to meet demand for certain products
+Added: at peak demand times or that the Company’s own inventory levels may be adversely impacted by the need to pre-build products before
+Added: orders are placed.
+Added: addition, as a result of the seasonal nature of the Company’s business, the Company may be adversely affected, in a manner disproportionate
+Added: to the impact on a company with sales spread more evenly throughout the year, by unforeseen events, such as public health crises and
+Added: pandemics, terrorist attacks, economic shocks, severe weather due to climate change or otherwise, earthquakes or other catastrophic events,
+Added: that harm the retail environment or consumer buying patterns during its key selling season, or by events, such as strikes, disruptions
+Added: in transportation, or port delays, that interfere with the manufacture or shipment of goods during the critical months leading up to
+Added: the purchasing season.
could be subject to future product liability suits or product recalls which could have a significant adverse effect on our financial
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any of which could have a significant adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: business depends in large part on the success of its vendors and outsourcers, and SRM’s brands and reputation are subject to harm
−Removed: from actions taken by third parties that are outside SRM’s control.
−Removed: In addition, any significant failure, inadequacy, or interruption
−Removed: from such vendors or outsourcers could harm SRM’s ability to effectively operate its business.
−Removed: a part of its efforts to cut costs, achieve better efficiencies, and increase productivity and service quality, SRM relies significantly
+Added: Company’s toy and souvenir business depends in large part on the success of its vendors and outsourcers, and the Company’s
+Added: brands and reputation are subject to harm from actions taken by third parties that are outside the Company’s control.
+Added: any significant failure, inadequacy, or interruption from such vendors or outsourcers could harm the Company’s ability to effectively
+Added: operate this business.
+Added: a part of its efforts to cut costs, achieve better efficiencies, and increase productivity and service quality, the Company relies significantly
on vendor and outsourcing relationships with third parties for services and systems including manufacturing, transportation, logistics,
and information technology.
−Removed: Any shortcoming of a SRM vendor or outsourcer, particularly an issue affecting the quality of these services
−Removed: or systems, results in risk of damage to SRM’s reputation and brand value, and potentially adverse effects to SRM’s business,
−Removed: financial condition, and results of operations.
−Removed: In addition, problems with transitioning these services and systems to, or operating
−Removed: failures with, these vendors and outsourcers cause delays in product sales and reduce the efficiency of SRM’s operations, and significant
−Removed: capital investments could be required to remediate the problem.
−Removed: depends on key personnel and may not be able to hire, retain, and integrate sufficient qualified personnel to maintain and expand its
−Removed: future success depends partly on the continued contribution of key executives, designers, and technical, sales, marketing, manufacturing,
−Removed: entertainment, and other personnel.
−Removed: The loss of services of any of SRM’s key personnel could harm SRM’s business.
−Removed: and retaining skilled personnel is costly and highly competitive.
−Removed: In addition, changes to SRM’s current and future work environments
−Removed: may not meet the needs or expectations of its employees or be perceived as less favorable compared to other companies’ policies,
−Removed: which could negatively impact SRM’s ability to hire and retain qualified personnel.
−Removed: If SRM fails to retain, hire, train, and integrate
−Removed: qualified employees and contractors, SRM may not be able to maintain or expand its business.
+Added: Any shortcoming of a vendor or outsourcer of the Company, particularly an issue affecting the quality of
+Added: these services or systems, results in risk of damage to the Company’s reputation and brand value, and potentially adverse effects
+Added: to the Company’s business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: In addition, problems with transitioning these services
+Added: and systems to, or operating failures with, these vendors and outsourcers cause delays in product sales and reduce the efficiency of
+Added: the Company’s operations, and significant capital investments could be required to remediate the problem.
+Added: Company depends on key personnel and may not be able to hire, retain, and integrate sufficient qualified personnel to maintain and expand
+Added: its toy and souvenir business.
+Added: Company’s future success depends partly on the continued contribution of key executives, designers, and technical, sales, marketing,
+Added: manufacturing, entertainment, and other personnel.
+Added: The loss of services of any of the Company’s key personnel could harm the Company’s
+Added: Recruiting and retaining skilled personnel is costly and highly competitive.
+Added: In addition, changes to the Company’s current
+Added: and future work environments may not meet the needs or expectations of its employees or be perceived as less favorable compared to other
+Added: companies’ policies, which could negatively impact the Company’s ability to hire and retain qualified personnel.
+Added: If the Company
+Added: fails to retain, hire, train, and integrate qualified employees and contractors, the Company may not be able to maintain or expand its
loss of any member of our senior management team, or of any other key employees, or the inability to successfully complete planned management
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these expenses in the future.
−Removed: in SRM’s manufacturing operations or supply chain due to political instability, civil unrest, or disease could adversely affect
−Removed: SRM’s business, financial position, sales, and results of operations.
−Removed: primarily utilizes third-party manufacturers and suppliers throughout Asia.
−Removed: The risk of political instability and civil unrest exists
−Removed: in certain of these countries, which could temporarily or permanently damage the manufacturing operations of SRM and/or its third-party
−Removed: manufacturers located there.
+Added: in the Company’s manufacturing operations or supply chain due to political instability, civil unrest, or disease could adversely
+Added: affect the Company’s toy and souvenir business, financial position, sales, and results of operations.
+Added: Company primarily utilizes third-party manufacturers and suppliers throughout Asia.
+Added: The risk of political instability and civil unrest
+Added: exists in certain of these countries, which could temporarily or permanently damage the manufacturing operations of the Company and/or
+Added: its third-party manufacturers located there.
Outbreaks of communicable diseases have also been known to occur in these countries.
−Removed: For example, the COVID-19
−Removed: pandemic began in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China and has caused supply chain disruption for SRM, its suppliers, and its customers that
−Removed: contributed to lower net sales in the first half of 2020 and may cause lower net sales to the extent they remain issues in the future.
−Removed: Other disruptions from public health crises such as these result from, among other things, workers contracting diseases, restrictions
−Removed: on factory openings, restrictions on travel, restrictions on shipping, and the closure of critical infrastructure.
−Removed: The design, development,
−Removed: and manufacture of SRM’s products could suffer if SRM’s employees or the employees of its third-party manufacturers or their
−Removed: suppliers contract communicable diseases, or if SRM, SRM’s third-party manufacturers, or their suppliers are adversely affected
−Removed: by other impacts of such diseases.
−Removed: In addition, the contingency plans SRM has developed to help mitigate the impact of disruptions in
−Removed: its manufacturing operations and supply chain may not prevent its business, financial position, sales, and results of operations from
−Removed: being adversely affected by a significant disruption to its manufacturing operations or suppliers.
+Added: example, the COVID-19 pandemic began in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China and has caused supply chain disruption for the Company, its suppliers,
+Added: and its customers that contributed to lower net sales in the first half of 2020 and may cause lower net sales to the extent they remain
+Added: issues in the future.
+Added: Other disruptions from public health crises such as these result from, among other things, workers contracting
+Added: diseases, restrictions on factory openings, restrictions on travel, restrictions on shipping, and the closure of critical infrastructure.
+Added: The design, development, and manufacture of the Company’s products could suffer if the Company’s employees or the employees
+Added: of its third-party manufacturers or their suppliers contract communicable diseases, or if the Company, the Company’s third-party
+Added: manufacturers, or their suppliers are adversely affected by other impacts of such diseases.
+Added: In addition, the contingency plans the Company
+Added: has developed to help mitigate the impact of disruptions in its manufacturing operations and supply chain may not prevent its business,
+Added: financial position, sales, and results of operations from being adversely affected by a significant disruption to its manufacturing operations
+Added: or suppliers.
in our supply chain for materials and components and the resulting increase in equipment and logistics costs could adversely affect our
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not generally have binding commitments from them.
−Removed: channel partner agreements generally do not require minimum purchases;
−Removed: retailers, distributors and other channel partners can stop purchasing and stop marketing
−Removed: our products at any time;
−Removed: channel partner agreements generally are not exclusive.
+Added: our channel partner agreements generally do not require minimum purchases;
+Added: our retailers, distributors and other channel partners can stop purchasing and stop marketing our products at any time;
+Added: our channel partner agreements generally are not exclusive.
our expenses are based on our revenue forecasts, a substantial reduction or delay in sales of our products to, or unexpected returns
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for any given period will continue to depend on large orders from a small number of channel partners.
−Removed: relies extensively on information technology in its operations, and any material failure, inadequacy, interruption, or security breach
−Removed: of that technology could have an adverse effect on its business, financial condition, and results of operations.
−Removed: relies extensively on information technology systems across its operations, including for management of its supply chain, sale and delivery
−Removed: of its products and services, reporting its results and various other processes and transactions.
−Removed: Many of these systems are managed by
−Removed: third-party service providers.
−Removed: SRM uses third-party technology and systems for a variety of reasons, including, without limitation, encryption
−Removed: and authentication technology, employee email, content delivery to customers, back-office support, and other functions.
−Removed: A small and growing
−Removed: volume of SRM’s consumer products and services are web-based, and some are offered in conjunction with business partners or such
−Removed: third-party service providers.
−Removed: SRM’s ability to effectively manage its business and coordinate the production, distribution, and
−Removed: sale of its products and services depends significantly on the reliability and capacity of these systems and third-party service providers.
−Removed: faces risks related to protecting its proprietary intellectual property and information and is subject to third-party claims that SRM
−Removed: is infringing on their intellectual property rights, either of which could adversely affect SRM’s business, financial condition,
−Removed: and results of operations.
−Removed: value of SRM’s business depends on its ability to protect its intellectual property and information, including its trademarks,
+Added: Company relies extensively on information technology in its operations, and any material failure, inadequacy, interruption, or security
+Added: breach of that technology could have an adverse effect on its business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: Company relies extensively on information technology systems across its operations, including for management of its supply chain, sale
+Added: and delivery of its products and services, reporting its results and various other processes and transactions.
+Added: Many of these systems
+Added: are managed by third-party service providers.
+Added: The Company uses third-party technology and systems for a variety of reasons, including,
+Added: without limitation, encryption and authentication technology, employee email, content delivery to customers, back-office support, and
+Added: other functions.
+Added: A small and growing volume of the Company’s consumer products and services are web-based, and some are offered
+Added: in conjunction with business partners or such third-party service providers.
+Added: The Company’s ability to effectively manage its business
+Added: and coordinate the production, distribution, and sale of its products and services depends significantly on the reliability and capacity
+Added: of these systems and third-party service providers.
+Added: Company faces risks related to protecting its proprietary intellectual property and information and is subject to third-party claims
+Added: that the Company is infringing on their intellectual property rights, either of which could adversely affect the Company’s business,
+Added: financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: value of the Company’s business depends on its ability to protect its intellectual property and information, including its trademarks,
trade names, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, and rights under intellectual property license agreements and other agreements with
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From time to time, third
−Removed: parties may in the future try to challenge, SRM’s ownership of its intellectual property in the United States and around the world.
−Removed: Responding to any infringement claim, regardless of its validity, may be costly and time-consuming and may divert management and key
−Removed: personnel from business operations.
−Removed: Findings of infringement on the intellectual property rights of any third party by SRM, its distributors,
−Removed: its licensors, or its manufacturers may require obtaining a license to use those rights, which may not be obtainable on reasonable terms,
−Removed: addition, SRM’s business is subject to the risk of third parties counterfeiting its products or infringing on its intellectual
+Added: parties may in the future try to challenge, the Company’s ownership of its intellectual property in the United States and around
+Added: Responding to any infringement claim, regardless of its validity, may be costly and time-consuming and may divert management
+Added: and key personnel from business operations.
+Added: Findings of infringement on the intellectual property rights of any third party by the Company,
+Added: its distributors, its licensors, or its manufacturers may require obtaining a license to use those rights, which may not be obtainable
+Added: on reasonable terms, if at all.
+Added: addition, the Company’s business is subject to the risk of third parties counterfeiting its products or infringing on its intellectual
property rights.
−Removed: The steps SRM has taken may not prevent unauthorized use of its intellectual property, particularly in foreign countries
−Removed: where the laws may not protect its intellectual property as fully as in the United States.
−Removed: SRM may resort to litigation to protect its
−Removed: intellectual property rights, which could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources.
−Removed: SRM’s failure to protect its
−Removed: proprietary intellectual property and information, including with respect to any successful challenge to SRM’s ownership of its
−Removed: intellectual property or significant infringements of its intellectual property, could have an adverse effect on SRM’s business,
−Removed: financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: The steps the Company has taken may not prevent unauthorized use of its intellectual property, particularly in foreign
+Added: countries where the laws may not protect its intellectual property as fully as in the United States.
+Added: The Company may resort to litigation
+Added: to protect its intellectual property rights, which could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: failure to protect its proprietary intellectual property and information, including with respect to any successful challenge to the Company’s
+Added: ownership of its intellectual property or significant infringements of its intellectual property, could have an adverse effect on the
+Added: Company’s business, financial condition, and results of operations.
rely on a combination of copyright, trademark, patent and trade secret laws, nondisclosure agreements with employees, consultants and
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that could materially affect our future effective tax rates include but are not limited to:
−Removed: in tax laws or the regulatory environment;
−Removed: in accounting and tax standards or practices;
−Removed: in the composition of operating income by tax jurisdiction;
−Removed: operating results before taxes.
+Added: changes in tax laws or
+Added: the regulatory environment;
+Added: changes in accounting and
+Added: tax standards or practices;
+Added: changes in the composition
+Added: of operating income by tax jurisdiction;
+Added: our operating results before
are subject to income taxes in the United States and numerous foreign jurisdictions.
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may be subject to anti-corruption, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, economic sanctions and other similar laws and regulations, and
−Removed: non-compliance with such laws and regulations could subject SRM to civil, criminal and administrative penalties, remedial measures and
−Removed: legal expenses, all of which could adversely affect SRM’s business, prospects, results of operations, financial condition and reputation.
−Removed: is or will be subject to laws with respect to anti-corruption, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, financial and economic sanctions
−Removed: and other similar laws and regulations in various jurisdictions in which SRM conducts, or in the future may conduct, activities, including
+Added: non-compliance with such laws and regulations could subject the Company to civil, criminal and administrative penalties, remedial measures
+Added: and legal expenses, all of which could adversely affect the Company’s business, prospects, results of operations, financial condition
+Added: and reputation.
+Added: Company is or will be subject to laws with respect to anti-corruption, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, financial and economic sanctions
+Added: and other similar laws and regulations in various jurisdictions in which the Company conducts, or in the future may conduct, activities,
+Added: including the U.S.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and other anti-corruption laws and regulations.
−Removed: The FCPA prohibits SRM and
−Removed: its officers, directors, employees and business partners acting on its behalf, including agents, from offering, promising, authorizing
−Removed: or providing anything of value to a “foreign official” for the purposes of influencing official decisions or obtaining or
−Removed: retaining business or otherwise obtaining favorable treatment.
−Removed: The FCPA also requires companies to make and keep books, records and accounts
−Removed: that accurately reflect transactions and dispositions of assets and to maintain a system of adequate internal accounting controls.
−Removed: violation of these laws or regulations could adversely affect our business, prospects, results of operations, financial condition and
+Added: The FCPA prohibits
+Added: the Company and its officers, directors, employees and business partners acting on its behalf, including agents, from offering, promising,
+Added: authorizing or providing anything of value to a “foreign official” for the purposes of influencing official decisions or
+Added: obtaining or retaining business or otherwise obtaining favorable treatment.
+Added: The FCPA also requires companies to make and keep books,
+Added: records and accounts that accurately reflect transactions and dispositions of assets and to maintain a system of adequate internal accounting
+Added: A violation of these laws or regulations could adversely affect our business, prospects, results of operations, financial condition
+Added: and reputation.
one or more of our major customers were to experience difficulties in fulfilling their obligations to us, cease doing business with us,
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107 of the JOBS Act also provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section
−Removed: 7(a) (2)(B) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for complying with new or revised accounting
−Removed: We have opted for taking advantage of the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards
−Removed: pursuant to Section 107(b) of the Jobs Act.
−Removed: are required to comply with various regulatory and reporting requirements, including those
−Removed: required by the SEC.
−Removed: Complying with these reporting and other regulatory requirements is
−Removed: time-consuming and results in increased costs to us and could have a negative effect on our
−Removed: results of operations, financial condition or business.
−Removed: of our stockholders hold a significant percentage of our outstanding voting securities, which
−Removed: could reduce the ability of minority stockholders to effect certain corporate actions.
+Added: 7(a) (2)(B) of the Securities Act, for complying with new or revised accounting standards.
+Added: We have opted for taking advantage of the
+Added: extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards pursuant to Section 107(b) of the Jobs Act.
+Added: We are required to comply with various regulatory and reporting requirements, including those required by the SEC.
+Added: Complying with these
+Added: reporting and other regulatory requirements is time-consuming and results in increased costs to us and could have a negative effect on
+Added: our results of operations, financial condition or business.
+Added: Certain of our stockholders hold a significant percentage of our outstanding voting securities, which could reduce the ability of minority
+Added: stockholders to effect certain corporate actions.
+Added: We may face risks relating to the lack of PCAOB
+Added: inspection on our auditor.
+Added: We may face risks relating to the lack of the PCAOB
+Added: inspection on our auditor, which may cause our securities to be delisted from a U.S.
+Added: stock exchange or prohibited from being traded over-the-counter
+Added: in the future under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, or the HFCAA, if the SEC determines that we have filed any annual report
+Added: containing an audit report issued by a registered public accounting firm that the PCAOB has determined it is unable to inspect or investigate
+Added: completely for three consecutive years beginning in 2021.
+Added: On June 22, 2021, the U.S.
+Added: Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies
+Added: Accountable Act and on December 29, 2022, a legislation entitled “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023” (the “Consolidated
+Added: Appropriations Act”) was signed into law by President Biden, which contained, among other things, an identical provision to Accelerating
+Added: Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and amended the HFCAA by requiring the SEC to prohibit an issuer’s securities from trading
+Added: stock exchanges if its auditor is not subject to PCAOB inspections for two consecutive years instead of three, thus reducing
+Added: the time before our securities may be prohibited from trading or delisted.
+Added: The delisting or the cessation of trading of our securities,
+Added: or the threat of their delisted or prohibited from being trade, may materially and adversely affect the value of your investment.
+Added: On December 16, 2021, the PCAOB issued a determination
+Added: report which found that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate completely registered public accounting firms headquartered in:
+Added: (1) mainland China of the PRC;
+Added: and (2) Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC, because of positions taken by PRC authorities
+Added: in those jurisdictions, which determinations were vacated on December 15, 2022.
+Added: Our current auditor, M&K CPAS, PLLC, is headquartered
+Added: in Texas, the United States, and was not identified by the PCAOB in its report on December 16, 2021 as a firm subject to the PCAOB’s
+Added: determinations, which determinations were vacated on December 15, 2022.
+Added: If the PCAOB in the future determines it is unable
+Added: to inspect and investigate completely our auditor, then the lack of access to the PCAOB inspection would prevent the PCAOB from fully
+Added: evaluating audits and quality control procedures of our auditor.
+Added: As a result, investors could be deprived of the benefits of such PCAOB
+Added: The inability of the PCAOB to conduct inspections of our auditor would make it more difficult to evaluate the effectiveness
+Added: of these accounting firms’ audit procedures or quality control procedures, which could cause existing and potential investors in
+Added: our stock to lose confidence in our audit procedures and reported financial information and the quality of our financial statements.
+Added: our auditor was not identified by the PCAOB in its report as a firm subject to the PCAOB’s determinations, which determinations
+Added: were vacated on December 15, 2022, should the PCAOB be unable to fully conduct inspection of our auditor’s work papers, this could
+Added: adversely affect us and our securities for the reasons noted above.
+Added: Our auditor, the independent registered public
+Added: accounting firm that issues the audit report included elsewhere in this Annual Report, as an auditor of companies that are traded publicly
+Added: and a firm registered with the PCAOB, is subject to laws in the U.S.
+Added: pursuant to which the PCAOB conducts regular inspections
+Added: to assess our auditor’s compliance with the applicable professional standards.
+Added: Our auditor is headquartered in Texas, the United
+Added: States and has been inspected by the PCAOB on a regular basis.
+Added: However, the recent developments would add uncertainties to our offerings
+Added: and we cannot assure you whether Nasdaq or regulatory authorities would apply additional and more stringent criteria to us after considering
+Added: the effectiveness of our auditor’s audit procedures and quality control procedures, adequacy of personnel and training, or sufficiency
+Added: of resources, geographic reach or experience as it relates to the audit of our financial statements.
+Added: after August Warrant Exercise in connection with the June Securities Purchase Agreement, Bravemorning held approximately 86.6% of the
+Added: Company’s outstanding Common Stock, and also Preferred Stock Shares which vote together with the Common Stock and increased Bravemorning’s
+Added: aggregate voting power to 92.5%.
+Added: Bravemorning holds supermajority voting power and may take actions that may not be in the best interests
+Added: of our other stockholders.
+Added: August 29, 2025, in connection with the August Warrant Exercise, the Company issued 220,000,000 shares of Common Stock to Bravemorning,
+Added: making it the holder of approximately 86.6% of the Company’s outstanding Common Stock.
+Added: Upon the August Warrant Exercise in connection
+Added: with the June Securities Purchase Agreement, Bravemorning also held 100,000 Preferred Stock Shares, which are convertible into an additional
+Added: 200,000,000 shares of Common Stock and which vote on an as-converted basis with the Common Stock;
+Added: and Bravemorning’s ownership
+Added: of Common Stock and Preferred Stock gave it an aggregate voting power of 92.5%.
+Added: As a result, Bravemorning is able to control the management
+Added: and affairs of the Company and matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and approval of significant
+Added: corporate transactions.
+Added: The interests of Bravemorning may not be the same as or may even conflict with your interests.
+Added: For example, Bravemorning
+Added: could attempt to delay or prevent a change in control of us, even if such change in control would benefit our other stockholders, which
+Added: could deprive our stockholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their Common Stock as part of a sale of us or our assets, and
+Added: might affect the prevailing market price of our Common Stock due to investors’ perceptions that conflicts of interest may exist
+Added: As a result, this concentration of ownership may not be in the best interests of our other stockholders.
+Added: may regularly encounter potential conflicts of interest, and our failure to identify and address such conflicts of interest could adversely
+Added: affect our business.
+Added: face the possibility of actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest in the ordinary course of our business operations.
+Added: of interest may exist between (i) our different businesses;
+Added: (ii) us and our stakeholders;
+Added: or (iii) us and our affiliates.
+Added: expand the scope of our business it is critical for us to be able to timely address potential conflicts of interest, including
+Added: situations where two or more interests within our businesses naturally exist but are in competition or conflict.
+Added: We have put in
+Added: place internal control and risk management procedures that are designed to identify and address conflicts of interest, including a
+Added: procedure for presenting potential conflicts of interest to the audit committee of our Board.
+Added: However, appropriately identifying and
+Added: managing actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest is complex and difficult, and our reputation and our
+Added: stakeholders’ confidence in us could be damaged if we fail, or appear to fail, to deal appropriately with one or more actual,
+Added: potential, or perceived conflicts of interest.
+Added: It is possible that actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest could also
+Added: give rise to client dissatisfaction, litigation, or regulatory enforcement actions.
+Added: Regulatory scrutiny of, or litigation in
+Added: connection with, conflicts of interest could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, which could materially and adversely
+Added: affect our business in a number of ways, including a reluctance of some potential counterparties to do business with us.
+Added: foregoing could materially and adversely affect our reputation, business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: conflict of interest occurs when an individual’s private interest (or the interest of a member of his or her family or close friend(s)
+Added: or business associate(s)) interferes, or even appears to interfere, with the interests of our company as a whole.
+Added: A conflict of interest
+Added: can arise when an employee, officer or director (or a member of his or her family or a close friend(s) or business associate(s)) takes
+Added: actions or has interests that may make it difficult to perform his or her work for our company objectively and effectively.
+Added: of interest also arise when an employee, officer or director (or a member of his or her family or close friend(s) or business associate(s))
+Added: receives improper personal benefits as a result of his or her position in our company.
+Added: potential conflicts of interest may arise from the following relationships:
+Added: we engaged BiT Global,
+Added: a licensed Trust or Company Service Provider and registered trust company in Hong Kong, to set up the Treasury Wallet.
+Added: Our director,
+Added: Zhihong Liu, is one of the directors of BiT Global.
+Added: some of our directors have
+Added: certain ties with the TRON blockchain ecosystem.
+Added: For example, Weike Sun is the father of Justin Sun, the founder of TRON.
+Added: Liu has been the senior advisor to TRON DAO since 2021.
+Added: Zi Yang holds senior position for Tronscan, the official blockchain explorer
+Added: for Tron protocol.
+Added: and executive officers must seek determinations and prior authorizations or approvals of potential conflicts of interest exclusively
+Added: from our audit committee.
+Added: All other employees are required to approach our Chief Executive Officer or our Chief Financial Officer if
+Added: they have any questions about reporting a suspected conflict of interest.
+Added: Related to Our TRX Token Strategy and Holdings
+Added: TRX token is a highly volatile asset, and fluctuations in the price of the TRX token are likely to affect our financial results and the
+Added: market price of our listed securities.
+Added: digital assets, including the TRX token, are highly volatile assets, and fluctuations in the price of the TRX token are likely to continue
+Added: to affect our financial results and the market price of our listed securities.
+Added: The trading price of the TRX token has experienced substantial
+Added: volatility historically.
+Added: In 2021, the trading price of the TRX token reached a high of approximately $0.18 in April, but it declined
+Added: to a low of approximately $0.05 in November 2022, representing a drawdown of approximately 75%.
+Added: More recently, during 2024, the TRX token
+Added: appreciated significantly, rising from approximately $0.11 in January 2024 to a high of approximately $0.44 in December 2024, a gain
+Added: of approximately 309%.
+Added: After significant price correction, the trading price of the TRX token
+Added: reached approximately $0.284271 by the end of 2025.
+Added: As of March 18, 2026, the closing price of the TRX token was approximately $0.304394,
+Added: which was an increase of approximately 7% from the price by the end of 2025.
+Added: These figures are non-exhaustive examples that illustrate that the market price of TRX token has exhibited, and may
+Added: continue to exhibit, rapid and substantial increases or decreases over relatively short periods, which could materially and adversely
+Added: affect the value of our holdings directly and the trading price of our securities indirectly.
+Added: The price figures and percentage change
+Added: figures above are based on the historical data file downloaded from the CoinMarketCap TRON Historical Data page.
+Added: financial results and the market price of our listed securities would be adversely affected, and our business and financial condition
+Added: would be negatively impacted, if the price of TRX tokens decreased substantially, including as a result of:
+Added: decreased user and investor
+Added: confidence in the TRX token, including due to the various factors described herein;
+Added: investment and trading
+Added: activities, such as (i) trading activities of highly active retail and institutional users and investors;
+Added: and (ii) actual or expected
+Added: significant dispositions of TRX tokens by large holders, including the expected liquidation of digital assets associated with entities
+Added: that have filed for bankruptcy protection and the transfer and sale of TRX tokens associated with significant hacks, seizures, or
+Added: negative publicity, media
+Added: or social media coverage, or sentiment due to events in or relating to, or perception of, TRON blockchain, TRX tokens or the broader
+Added: digital assets industry, for example, (i) public perception that blockchains can be used as a platform to circumvent sanctions, including
+Added: sanctions imposed on Russia or certain regions related to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, or to fund criminal or
+Added: terrorist activities, such as the purported use of digital assets by Hamas to fund its terrorist attack against Israel in October
+Added: (ii) expected or pending civil, criminal, regulatory enforcement or other high profile actions against major participants in
+Added: the TRON ecosystem, if any;
+Added: and (iii) additional filings for bankruptcy protection or bankruptcy proceedings of major digital asset
+Added: industry participants, such as the bankruptcy proceeding of FTX Trading and its affiliates;
+Added: changes in consumer preferences
+Added: and the perceived value or prospects of the TRX token;
+Added: competition from other
+Added: digital assets that exhibit better speed, security, scalability, or energy efficiency, that feature other more favored characteristics,
+Added: that are backed by governments, including the U.S.
+Added: government, or reserves of fiat currencies, or that represent ownership or security
+Added: interests in physical assets;
+Added: a decrease in the price
+Added: of other digital assets, including stablecoins, or the crash or unavailability of stablecoins that are used as a medium of exchange
+Added: for TRX token purchase and sale transactions, such as the crash of the stablecoin Terra USD in 2022, to the extent the decrease in
+Added: the price of such other digital assets or the unavailability of such stablecoins may cause a decrease in the price of TRX tokens
+Added: or adversely affect investor confidence in digital assets generally;
+Added: developments relating to
+Added: the TRON protocol, including (i) changes to the TRON protocol that impact its security, speed, scalability, usability, or value,
+Added: such as changes to the cryptographic security protocol underpinning the TRON blockchain, changes to the maximum number of TRX tokens
+Added: outstanding, changes to the mutability of transactions, changes relating to the size of blockchain blocks, and similar changes, (ii)
+Added: failures to make upgrades to the TRON protocol to adapt to security, technological, legal or other challenges, and (iii) changes
+Added: to the TRON protocol that introduce software bugs, security risks or other elements that adversely affect TRX tokens;
+Added: disruptions, failures,
+Added: unavailability, or interruptions in service of trading venues for TRX tokens, such as, for example, the announcement by the digital
+Added: asset exchange FTX Trading that it would freeze withdrawals and transfers from its accounts and subsequent filing for bankruptcy
+Added: protection and the SEC enforcement action brought against Binance Holdings Ltd., which initially sought to freeze all of its assets
+Added: during the pendency of the enforcement action and has since resulted in Binance discontinuing all fiat deposits and withdrawals in
+Added: the filing for bankruptcy
+Added: protection by, liquidation of, or market concerns about the financial viability of digital asset custodians, trading venues, lending
+Added: platforms, investment funds, or other digital asset industry participants, such as the filing for bankruptcy protection by digital
+Added: asset trading venues FTX Trading and BlockFi and digital asset lending platforms Celsius Network and Voyager Digital Holdings in
+Added: 2022, the ordered liquidation of the digital asset investment fund Three Arrows Capital in 2022, the announced liquidation of Silvergate
+Added: Bank in 2023, the government-mandated closure and sale of Signature Bank in 2023, the placement of Prime Trust, LLC into receivership
+Added: following a cease-and-desist order issued by the Nevada Department of Business and Industry in 2023, and the exit of Binance from
+Added: market as part of its settlement with the Department of Justice and other federal regulatory agencies;
+Added: regulatory, legislative,
+Added: enforcement and judicial actions that adversely affect the price, ownership, transferability, trading volumes, legality or public
+Added: perception of TRX tokens, or that adversely affect the operations of or otherwise prevent digital asset custodians, trading venues,
+Added: lending platforms or other digital assets industry participants from operating in a manner that allows them to continue to deliver
+Added: services to the digital assets industry;
+Added: recent resolution of a March 2023 civil enforcement action brought by the U.S.
+Added: Securities and Exchange Commission that had been pending
+Added: in the Southern District of New York (the “SEC Action”).
+Added: Among other claims, the SEC Action had alleged that certain contests,
+Added: giveaways, and secondary market trading involving TRX tokens in 2018 and 2019 constituted unregistered securities offerings under the
+Added: In February 2025, the SEC Action was stayed by the Court at the request of the parties.
+Added: On March 9, 2026, pursuant to a global
+Added: agreement to resolve the matter, the Court entered final judgment which, among other things, dismissed with prejudice the unregistered
+Added: securities offerings claims concerning TRX tokens;
+Added: transaction congestion
+Added: and fees associated with processing transactions on the TRON network;
+Added: macroeconomic changes,
+Added: such as changes in the level of interest rates and inflation, fiscal and monetary policies of governments, trade restrictions, and
+Added: fiat currency devaluations;
+Added: developments in mathematics
+Added: or technology, including in digital computing, algebraic geometry and quantum computing, that could result in the cryptography used
+Added: by the TRON blockchain becoming insecure or ineffective;
+Added: changes in national and
+Added: international economic and political conditions, including, without limitation, federal government policies, trade tariffs and trade
+Added: disputes, the adverse impacts attributable to the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the economic sanctions adopted
+Added: in response to the conflict, and the broadening of the Israel-Hamas conflict to other countries in the Middle East.
+Added: importantly, our TRX token strategy has not been tested over an extended period of time or under different market conditions.
+Added: we are and will be continually examining the risks and rewards of our TRX token strategy, if TRX token prices were to decrease or our
+Added: TRX token strategy otherwise proves unsuccessful, the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, and the market price
+Added: of our listed securities would be materially adversely impacted.
+Added: TRX token and other digital assets are novel assets, and are subject to significant legal, commercial, regulatory and technical uncertainty
+Added: TRX token and other digital assets are relatively novel and are subject to significant uncertainty, which could adversely impact their
+Added: The application of state and federal securities laws and other laws and regulations to digital assets is unclear in certain respects,
+Added: and it is possible that regulators in the United States or foreign countries may interpret or apply existing laws and regulations in
+Added: a manner that adversely affects the price of the TRX token or the ability of individuals or institutions (including the Company) to own
+Added: or transfer TRX tokens.
+Added: federal government, states, regulatory agencies, and foreign countries may also enact new laws and regulations, or pursue regulatory,
+Added: legislative, enforcement or judicial actions, that could materially impact the price of the TRX token or the ability of individuals or
+Added: institutions (including the Company) to own or transfer TRX tokens.
+Added: For example, within the past several years:
+Added: President Trump signed
+Added: an executive order instructing a working group comprised of representatives from key federal agencies to evaluate measures that can
+Added: be taken to provide regulatory clarity and certainty built on technology-neutral regulations for individuals and firms involved in
+Added: digital assets, including through well-defined jurisdictional regulatory boundaries;
+Added: the European Union adopted
+Added: Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (“MiCA”), a comprehensive digital asset regulatory framework for the issuance and
+Added: use of digital assets;
+Added: in June 2023, the SEC filed
+Added: complaints against Binance Holdings Ltd.
+Added: and Coinbase, Inc., and their respective affiliated entities, relating to, among other claims,
+Added: that each party was operating as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, dealer, and clearing agency;
+Added: in November 2023, the SEC
+Added: filed a complaint against Payward Inc.
+Added: and Payward Ventures Inc., together known as Kraken, alleging, among other claims, that Kraken’s
+Added: crypto trading platform was operating as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, dealer, and clearing agency;
+Added: in June 2023, the United
+Added: Kingdom adopted and implemented the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (“FSMA 2023”), which regulates market activities
+Added: in “cryptoassets;”
+Added: in November 2023, Binance
+Added: Holdings Ltd.
+Added: and its then chief executive officer reached a settlement with the U.S.
+Added: Department of Justice, CFTC, the U.S.
+Added: of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control, and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to resolve a multi-year investigation
+Added: by the agencies and a civil suit brought by the CFTC, pursuant to which Binance Holdings Ltd.
+Added: agreed to, among other things, pay
+Added: $4.3 billion in penalties across the four agencies and to discontinue its operations in the United States;
+Added: in China, the People’s
+Added: Bank of China and the National Development and Reform Commission have outlawed cryptocurrency mining and declared all cryptocurrency
+Added: transactions illegal within the country.
+Added: is not possible to predict whether, or when, new laws will be enacted that change the legal framework governing digital assets or provide
+Added: additional authorities to the SEC or other regulators, or whether, or when, any other federal, state or foreign legislative bodies will
+Added: take any similar actions.
+Added: It is also not possible to predict the nature of any such additional laws or authorities, how additional legislation
+Added: or regulatory oversight might impact the ability of digital asset markets to function, the willingness of financial and other institutions
+Added: to continue to provide services to the digital assets industry, or how any new laws or regulations, or changes to existing laws or regulations,
+Added: might impact the value of digital assets generally and TRX tokens specifically.
+Added: The consequences of any new law or regulation relating
+Added: to digital assets and digital asset activities could adversely affect the market price of TRX tokens, as well as our ability to hold
+Added: or transact in TRX tokens, and in turn adversely affect the market price of our listed securities.
+Added: the risks of engaging in a TRX token strategy are relatively novel and have created, and could continue to create, complications due
+Added: to the lack of experience that third parties have with companies engaging in such a strategy, such as increased costs of director and
+Added: officer liability insurance or the potential inability to obtain such coverage on acceptable terms in the future.
+Added: growth of the digital assets industry in general, and the use and acceptance of the TRX token in particular, may also impact the price
+Added: of the TRX token and is subject to a high degree of uncertainty.
+Added: The pace of worldwide growth in the adoption and use of TRX tokens may
+Added: depend, for instance, on public familiarity with digital assets, ease of buying, accessing or gaining exposure to TRX tokens, institutional
+Added: demand for TRX tokens as an investment asset, the participation of traditional financial institutions in the digital assets industry,
+Added: consumer demand for TRX tokens as means of payment, and the availability and popularity of alternatives to the TRX token.
+Added: Even if growth
+Added: in TRX token adoption occurs in the near or medium-term, there is no assurance that TRX token usage will continue to grow over the long-term.
+Added: the TRX token has no physical existence beyond the record of transactions on the TRON blockchain, a variety of technical factors related
+Added: to the TRON blockchain could also impact the price of the TRX token.
+Added: For example, malicious attacks by hackers, hard “forks”
+Added: of the TRX token blockchain into multiple blockchains, and advances in digital computing, algebraic geometry, and quantum computing could
+Added: undercut the integrity of the TRON blockchain and negatively affect the price of the TRX token.
+Added: The liquidity of the TRX token may also
+Added: be reduced and damage to the public perception of the TRX token may occur, if financial institutions were to deny or limit banking services
+Added: to businesses that hold TRX tokens, provide TRX token-related services or accept the TRX token as payment, which could also decrease
+Added: the price of the TRX token.
+Added: Actions by U.S.
+Added: banking regulators, such as the issuance in February 2023 by Federal banking agencies of
+Added: the “Interagency Liquidity Risk Statement,” which cautioned banks on contagion risks posed by providing services to digital
+Added: assets customers, and similar actions, have in the past resulted in or contributed to reductions in access to banking services for cryptocurrency-related
+Added: customers and service providers, or the willingness of traditional financial institution to participate in markets for digital assets.
+Added: The liquidity of the TRX token may also be impacted to the extent that changes in applicable laws and regulatory requirements negatively
+Added: impact the ability of exchanges and trading venues to provide services for TRX tokens and other digital assets.
+Added: significant decrease in the market value of our TRX token holdings could adversely affect our ability to satisfy our financial obligations.
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2025, our toys and souvenir business did not generate positive cash flow from operations.
+Added: If our toys and
+Added: souvenir business does not generate cash flow in future periods sufficient to satisfy our financial obligations, including our debt and
+Added: cash dividend obligations, we intend to fund our obligations using cash flow generated by equity or debt financings.
+Added: Our ability to achieve
+Added: the objectives of our TRX token strategy depends in significant part on our ability to obtain equity and debt financing.
+Added: If we are unable
+Added: to obtain equity or debt financing on favorable terms or at all, we may not be able to successfully execute on our TRX token strategy.
+Added: ability to obtain equity or debt financing may in turn depend on, among other factors, the value of our TRX token holdings, investor
+Added: sentiment and the general public perception of TRX tokens, our strategy and our value proposition.
+Added: Accordingly, a significant decline
+Added: in the market value of our TRX token holdings or a negative shift in these other factors may create liquidity and credit risks, as such
+Added: a decline or such shifts may adversely impact our ability to secure sufficient equity or debt financing to satisfy our financial obligations,
+Added: including our debt and cash dividend obligations.
+Added: These risks could materialize at times when the TRX token is trading below its carrying
+Added: value on our most recent balance sheet or our cost basis.
+Added: As TRX tokens constitute the vast bulk of assets on our balance sheet, if we
+Added: are unable to secure equity or debt financing in a timely manner, on favorable terms, or at all, we may be required to sell TRX tokens
+Added: to satisfy these obligations.
+Added: Any such sale of TRX token may have a material adverse effect on our operating results and financial condition,
+Added: and could impair our ability to secure additional equity or debt financing in the future.
+Added: Our inability to secure additional equity or
+Added: debt financing in a timely manner, on favorable terms or at all, or to sell our TRX tokens in amounts and at prices sufficient to satisfy
+Added: our financial obligations, including our debt service and cash dividend obligations, could cause us to default under such obligations.
+Added: Any default on our current or future indebtedness or preferred stock may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition.
+Added: historical financial statements do not reflect the potential variability in earnings that we may experience in the future relating to
+Added: our TRX token holdings.
+Added: that we have only started adopting the TRON (TRX) treasury strategy since June 2025, our historical financial statements do not reflect
+Added: the potential variability in earnings that we may experience in the future from holding or selling significant amounts of TRX tokens.
+Added: The price of the TRX token has historically been subject to dramatic price fluctuations and is highly volatile.
+Added: Our TRX token holdings
+Added: are expected to significantly affect our financial results and if we continue to increase our overall holdings of TRX tokens in the future,
+Added: they will have an even greater impact on our financial results and the market price of our listed securities.
+Added: Going forward, we will
+Added: evaluate and adopt appropriate accounting standards and policies for the preparation of our financial statements, in particular to areas
+Added: relating to our TRX token holdings.
+Added: TRX token strategy subjects us to enhanced regulatory oversight.
+Added: has been increasing focus on the extent to which digital assets can be used to launder the proceeds of illegal activities, fund criminal
+Added: or terrorist activities, or circumvent sanctions regimes, including those sanctions imposed in response to the ongoing conflict between
+Added: Russia and Ukraine.
+Added: While we have implemented and maintain policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote compliance with applicable
+Added: anti-money laundering and sanctions laws and regulations and take care to only acquire our TRX tokens through entities subject to anti-money
+Added: laundering regulation and related compliance rules in the United States, if we are found to have purchased any of our TRX tokens from
+Added: bad actors that have used TRX tokens to launder money or persons subject to sanctions, we may be subject to regulatory proceedings and
+Added: any further transactions or dealings in TRX tokens by us may be restricted or prohibited.
+Added: may incur indebtedness or enter into other financial instruments in the future that may be collateralized by our TRX token holdings.
+Added: We may also consider pursuing strategies to create income streams or otherwise generate funds using our TRX token holdings.
+Added: of TRX token-related transactions are the subject of enhanced regulatory oversight.
+Added: These and any other TRX token-related transactions
+Added: we may enter into, beyond simply acquiring and holding TRX tokens, may subject us to additional regulatory compliance requirements and
+Added: scrutiny, including under federal and state money services regulations, money transmitter licensing requirements and various commodity
+Added: and securities laws and regulations.
+Added: laws, guidance and policies may be issued by domestic and foreign regulators following the filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
+Added: by FTX, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, in November 2022.
+Added: While the financial and regulatory fallout from
+Added: FTX’s collapse did not directly impact our business, financial condition or corporate assets, the FTX collapse may have increased
+Added: regulatory focus on the digital assets industry.
+Added: Increased enforcement activity and changes in the regulatory environment, including
+Added: changing interpretations and the implementation of new or varying regulatory requirements by the government or any new legislation affecting
+Added: TRX tokens, as well as enforcement actions involving or impacting our trading venues, counterparties and custodians, may impose significant
+Added: costs or significantly limit our ability to hold and transact in TRX tokens.
+Added: addition, private actors that are wary of the TRX token or the regulatory concerns associated with the TRX token have in the past taken
+Added: 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.
+Added: to the unregulated nature and lack of transparency surrounding the operations of many TRX token trading venues, TRX token trading venues
+Added: may experience greater fraud, security failures or regulatory or operational problems than trading venues for more established asset
+Added: classes, which may result in a loss of confidence in TRX token trading venues and adversely affect the value of our TRX token.
+Added: token trading venues are relatively new and, in many cases, unregulated.
+Added: Furthermore, there are many TRX token trading venues which do
+Added: not provide the public with significant information regarding their ownership structure, management teams, corporate practices and regulatory
+Added: As a result, the marketplace may lose confidence in TRX token trading venues, including prominent exchanges that handle a
+Added: significant volume of TRX token trading and/or are subject to regulatory oversight, in the event one or more TRX token trading venues
+Added: cease or pause for a prolonged period the trading of TRX token or other digital assets, or experience fraud, significant volumes of withdrawal,
+Added: security failures or operational problems.
+Added: concentration of our TRX token holdings enhances the risks inherent in our TRX token strategy.
+Added: vast majority of our assets are concentrated in our TRX token holdings.
+Added: As of March 18, 2026, the Company holds approximately
+Added: 549,676,892 Staked TRX (sTRX) tokens and approximately 9,769,626 TRX tokens in the Treasury Wallet.
+Added: We intend to purchase additional TRX tokens and increase our overall holdings of TRX tokens in the future.
+Added: The concentration
+Added: of our TRX token holdings limits the risk mitigation that we could achieve if we were to purchase a more diversified portfolio of
+Added: treasury assets, and the absence of diversification enhances the risks inherent in our TRX token strategy.
+Added: holdings of sTRX tokens are subject to risks associated with smart contracts and the TRON blockchain, which could adversely affect their
+Added: received and hold sTRX tokens, which are issued and redeemable through a smart-contract protocol.
+Added: The use of sTRX entails risks inherent
+Added: in smart contracts, including the possibility of coding errors, security vulnerabilities, or malicious exploits that could result in
+Added: the partial or total loss of sTRX or the underlying TRX.
+Added: In addition, risks relating to the TRON blockchain itself, such as congestion,
+Added: outages, or consensus failures, could disrupt transfers, redemptions, or yield distributions.
+Added: Further, the staking yield of sTRX consists
+Added: of standard staking rewards and energy rental income on the TRON blockchain, therefore, any changes to TRON protocol parameters could
+Added: alter yields, redemption mechanics, or fees in ways that negatively affect the value of sTRX.
+Added: Any of these risks could materially and
+Added: adversely affect the value of our sTRX holdings and, by extension, our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: Due to Justin Sun’s role as the founder
+Added: of TRON and his continued association with the TRON blockchain system, his actions and statements may potentially impact the price of
+Added: TRX, which could in turn impact the Company and the effectiveness of its treasury strategy.
+Added: As the founder of TRON,
+Added: and due to his continued association with the TRON blockchain system, Justin Sun ’ s
+Added: actions and statements may potentially impact the price of TRX.
+Added: While the Company is not aware of any past action or statement by Justin
+Added: Sun which has had a significant impact on the price of TRX, it is theoretically possible that the market could have interpreted in the
+Added: past, or interpret in the future, his statements and actions (whether incorrectly in whole or in part) as a factor that could impact the
+Added: price of TRX.
+Added: Any such occurrence that impacts the price of TRX would likely also affect the value of the Company ’ s
+Added: Common Stock or other securities.
+Added: emergence or growth of other digital assets, including those with significant private or public sector backing, could have a negative
+Added: impact on the price of TRX tokens and adversely affect our business.
+Added: a result of our TRX token strategy, our assets are concentrated in our TRX token holdings.
+Added: Accordingly, the emergence or growth of digital
+Added: assets other than the TRX token (such as Bitcoin and Ethereum) may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition.
+Added: alternative digital assets that compete with the TRX token in certain ways include “stablecoins,” which are designed to maintain
+Added: a constant price because of, for instance, their issuers’ promise to hold high-quality liquid assets (such as U.S.
+Added: dollar deposits
+Added: and short-term U.S.
+Added: treasury securities) equal to the total value of stablecoins in circulation.
+Added: Stablecoins have grown rapidly as a
+Added: medium of exchange and store of value, particularly on digital asset trading platforms.
+Added: As of December 31, 2025, two of the eight largest
+Added: digital assets by market capitalization were U.S.
+Added: dollar-pegged stablecoins.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: the introduction of a government-issued digital currency could eliminate or reduce the need or demand for private-sector issued cryptocurrencies,
+Added: or significantly limit their utility.
+Added: National governments around the world could introduce central bank digital currencies, which could
+Added: in turn limit the size of the market opportunity for cryptocurrencies, including TRX tokens.
+Added: TRX token holdings are less liquid than our existing cash and cash equivalents and may not be able to serve as a source of liquidity
+Added: for us to the same extent as cash and cash equivalents.
+Added: TRX tokens are mainly traded on centralized and decentralized cryptocurrency exchange platforms.
+Added: During times of market instability,
+Added: we may not be able to sell our TRX tokens at favorable prices or at all.
+Added: As a result, our TRX token holdings may not be able to serve
+Added: as a source of liquidity for us to the same extent as cash and cash equivalents.
+Added: Further, TRX tokens we hold and transact with our trade
+Added: execution partners does not enjoy the same protections as are available to cash or securities deposited with or transacted by institutions
+Added: subject to regulation by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.
+Added: TRX tokens may be “staked” on various platforms, including centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, or directly on decentralized
+Added: “Staking” is a crypto-related process that allows network participants to earn rewards by locking their tokens
+Added: The TRX tokens in the Treasury Wallet are currently “staked” on JustLend, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol,
+Added: in exchange for Staked TRX (sTRX) tokens.
+Added: sTRX token is a derivative token that represents the “staked” TRX tokens, which
+Added: can automatically generate yield for the token holders.
+Added: For the avoidance of doubt, the sTRX token does not generate discrete staking
+Added: Instead, the economic benefit of staking is reflected through a floating conversion rate between TRX and sTRX, which increases
+Added: over time based on accrued protocol rewards.
+Added: While “staking” can generate yields and rewards, there are inherent risks such
+Added: as (i) smart contract risk – any vulnerabilities of the smart contract may potentially lead to loss of funds, and the redemption
+Added: of “staked” tokens which is governed by smart contract may be modified by the operator;
+Added: (ii) interest rate fluctuations –
+Added: rates can change rapidly based on market conditions, and therefore the amount of yields or rewards is not guaranteed;
+Added: and (iii) liquidity
+Added: risk – it may take days or even weeks to release TRX tokens from “staking”.
+Added: Other than yields and rewards generated
+Added: from “staking” of the TRX tokens, the TRX token itself does not pay interest or other returns and we can only generate cash
+Added: from our TRX token holdings if we sell our TRX tokens or implement strategies to create income streams or otherwise generate cash by
+Added: using our TRX token holdings.
+Added: Even if we pursue any such strategies, we may be unable to create income streams or otherwise generate
+Added: cash from our TRX token holdings, and any such strategies may subject us to additional risks.
+Added: TRX tokens staked through JustLend have been voted to super representative nodes on the TRON blockchain.
+Added: According to Tronscan (the explorer
+Added: of TRON blockchain), as of March 18, 2026, the TRX tokens which were staked into Staked TRX (sTRX) have been casted votes for the following
+Added: super representatives:
+Added: Abra Capital Management, Poloniex, BlockAnalysis, Crypto Labs, and TRONALLIANCE.
+Added: The voting power was allocated
+Added: on an approximately equal basis among these nodes.
+Added: These nodes are identifiable on the TRON blockchain explorer, and the Company does
+Added: not exercise discretion over the selection beyond the delegation carried out through the JustLend protocol.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: we may be unable to enter into term loans or other capital raising transactions collateralized by our unencumbered TRX tokens or otherwise
+Added: generate funds using our TRX token holdings, including in particular during times of market instability or when the price of TRX tokens
+Added: has declined significantly.
+Added: If we are unable to sell our TRX tokens, enter into additional capital raising transactions, including capital
+Added: raising transactions using TRX tokens as collateral, or otherwise generate funds using our TRX token holdings, or if we are forced to
+Added: sell our TRX tokens at a significant loss, in order to meet our working capital requirements, our business and financial condition could
+Added: be negatively impacted.
+Added: face risks relating to the security of the wallets holding our TRX tokens, including the loss or destruction of private keys required
+Added: to access our TRX tokens and cyberattacks or other data loss relating to our TRX tokens.
+Added: tokens are controllable only by the possessor of both the unique public key and private key(s) relating to the local or online digital
+Added: wallet in which a TRX token is held.
+Added: While the TRON blockchain ledger requires a public key relating to a digital wallet to be published
+Added: when used in a transaction, private keys must be safeguarded and kept private in order to prevent a third party from accessing the TRX
+Added: tokens held in such wallet.
+Added: To the extent the private key(s) for a digital wallet are lost, destroyed, or otherwise compromised and no
+Added: backup of the private key(s) is accessible, we will not be able to access the TRX tokens held in the related digital wallet.
+Added: we cannot provide assurance that our digital wallets will not be compromised as a result of a cyberattack.
+Added: limited rights of legal recourse available to us, and our lack of insurance protection expose us and our stockholders to the risk of
+Added: loss of our digital assets.
+Added: digital assets are not insured.
+Added: If our digital assets are lost, stolen or destroyed under circumstances rendering a party liable to us,
+Added: the responsible party may not have the financial resources sufficient to satisfy our claim.
+Added: For example, as to a particular event of
+Added: loss, the only source of recovery for us might be limited, to the extent identifiable, to other responsible third parties (which may
+Added: include a thief or terrorist), some or all of which may not have the financial resources (including liability insurance coverage) to
+Added: satisfy a valid claim or may be beyond the reach of available legal recourse.
+Added: Furthermore, the TRX token is not subject to Federal Deposit
+Added: Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or Securities Investor Protection Corporation protection, which is the protection afforded
+Added: to depositors at banking institutions.
+Added: Therefore, a loss may be suffered with respect to our digital assets for which no recourse is
+Added: available, which could adversely affect our operations and, consequently, an investment in our securities.
+Added: we or our third-party service providers experience a security breach or cyberattack and unauthorized parties obtain access to our TRX
+Added: tokens, we may lose some or all of our TRX tokens and our financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely
+Added: breaches and cyberattacks are of particular concern with respect to our TRX tokens.
+Added: Blockchain-based digital assets have been, and may
+Added: in the future be, subject to security breaches, cyberattacks, or other malicious activities.
+Added: A successful security breach or cyberattack
+Added: could result in a partial or total loss of our TRX tokens.
+Added: Such a loss could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition
+Added: and results of operations.
+Added: of March 18, 2026, the TRON blockchain and TRX tokens have not experienced any material security breaches or protocol-level cyberattacks
+Added: that compromised the integrity of the network.
+Added: TRON currently maintains a public bug bounty program on HackerOne and has undergone an
+Added: external security audit of its Java-Tron node software by ChainSecurity.
+Added: However, the TRON blockchain and TRX token, similar to other
+Added: digital assets and blockchain technologies, may in the future be, subject to security breaches, cyberattacks, or other malicious activities.
+Added: For example, in November 2022, hackers exploited weaknesses in the security architecture of the FTX Trading digital asset exchange and
+Added: reportedly stole over $400 million in digital assets from customers.
+Added: A successful security breach or cyberattack could result in:
+Added: a partial or total loss
+Added: of our TRX tokens;
+Added: harm to our reputation
+Added: improper disclosure of
+Added: data and violations of applicable data privacy and other laws;
+Added: significant regulatory
+Added: scrutiny, investigations, fines, penalties, and other legal, regulatory, contractual and financial exposure.
+Added: any actual or perceived data security breach or cybersecurity attack directed at other companies with digital assets or companies that
+Added: operate digital asset networks, regardless of whether we are directly impacted, could lead to a general loss of confidence in the broader
+Added: TRON blockchain ecosystem or in the use of the TRON blockchain to conduct financial transactions, which could negatively impact us.
+Added: upon systems across a variety of industries are increasing in frequency, persistence, and sophistication, and, in many cases, are being
+Added: conducted by sophisticated, well-funded and organized groups and individuals, including state actors.
+Added: The techniques used to obtain unauthorized,
+Added: improper or illegal access to systems and information (including personal data and digital assets), disable or degrade services, or sabotage
+Added: systems are constantly evolving, may be difficult to detect quickly, and often are not recognized or detected until after they have been
+Added: launched against a target.
+Added: These attacks may occur on our systems or those of our third-party service providers or partners.
+Added: We may experience
+Added: breaches of our security measures due to human error, malfeasance, insider threats, system errors or vulnerabilities or other irregularities.
+Added: In particular, unauthorized parties have attempted, and we expect that they will continue to attempt, to gain access to our systems and
+Added: facilities, as well as those of our partners and third-party service providers, through various means, such as hacking, social engineering,
+Added: phishing and fraud.
+Added: In the past, hackers have successfully employed a social engineering attack against one of our service providers
+Added: and misappropriated our digital assets, although, to date, such events have not been material to our financial condition or operating
+Added: Threats can come from a variety of sources, including criminal hackers, hacktivists, state-sponsored intrusions, industrial
+Added: espionage, and insiders.
+Added: In addition, certain types of attacks could harm us even if our systems are left undisturbed.
+Added: For example, certain
+Added: threats are designed to remain dormant or undetectable, sometimes for extended periods of time, or until launched against a target and
+Added: we may not be able to implement adequate preventative measures.
+Added: Further, there has been an increase in such activities due to the increase
+Added: in work-from-home arrangements since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: The risk of cyberattacks could also be increased by cyberwarfare
+Added: in connection with the ongoing Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas conflicts, or other future conflicts, including potential proliferation
+Added: of malware into systems unrelated to such conflicts.
+Added: Any future breach of our operations or those of others in the digital asset industry,
+Added: including third-party services on which we rely, could materially and adversely affect our business.
+Added: federal regulations, there is a possibility that the TRX token (either on its own or when offered and sold as part of or subject to an
+Added: investment contract) may be classified as a “security.” Any such classification of TRX token as a “security”
+Added: would subject us to additional regulation and could materially impact the operation of our business.
+Added: assets are concentrated in our TRX token holdings.
+Added: While neither the SEC nor any other U.S.
+Added: federal or state regulator has publicly stated
+Added: whether they agree that the TRX token, either on its own or when offered and sold as part of or subject to an investment contract, is
+Added: a “security”, if the TRX token is determined to be a “security” in the future, it could lead to our classification
+Added: as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”),
+Added: which would subject us to significant additional regulatory controls that could have a material adverse effect on our ability to execute
+Added: on our TRX token strategy, and our business and operations and may also require us to substantially change the manner in which we conduct
+Added: our business.
+Added: (for the reasons discussed below) we believe that TRX token, whether on its own or when offered and sold as part of or subject to an
+Added: investment contract, is not a “security” within the meaning of the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws, and registration of the
+Added: Company under the Investment Company Act is therefore not required under the applicable securities laws, we acknowledge that a regulatory
+Added: body or federal court may determine otherwise.
+Added: Our belief, even if reasonable under the circumstances, would not preclude legal or regulatory
+Added: action based on such a finding that TRX token, whether on its own or when offered and sold as part of or subject to an investment contract,
+Added: is a “security” which would require us to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.
+Added: have also adapted our process for analyzing the U.S.
+Added: federal securities law status of the TRX token and other cryptocurrencies over time,
+Added: as guidance and case law have evolved.
+Added: As part of our U.S.
+Added: federal securities law analytical process, we take into account a number of
+Added: factors, including the various definitions of “security” under U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and federal court decisions interpreting
+Added: the elements of these definitions, such as the U.S.
+Added: Supreme Court’s decisions in the Howey and Reves cases, as well
+Added: as court rulings, reports, orders, press releases, public statements, and speeches by the SEC Commissioners and SEC Staff providing guidance
+Added: on when a digital asset or a transaction to which a digital asset may relate may be a security for purposes of U.S.
+Added: federal securities
+Added: Our position that TRX token, whether on its own or when offered and sold as part of or subject to an investment contract, is not
+Added: a “security” is premised, among other reasons, on our conclusion that the TRX token does not meet the elements of the Howey
+Added: Among the reasons for our conclusion that the TRX token is not a security is that holders of TRX tokens do not have a reasonable
+Added: expectation of profits from our efforts in respect of their holding of TRX tokens.
+Added: Also, TRX token ownership does not convey the right
+Added: to receive any interest, rewards, or other returns.
+Added: acknowledge, however, that the SEC, a federal court or another relevant entity could take a different view.
+Added: Application of securities
+Added: laws to the specific facts and circumstances of digital assets is complex and subject to change.
+Added: Our conclusion, even if reasonable under
+Added: the circumstances, would not preclude legal or regulatory action based on a finding that the TRX token, or any other digital asset we
+Added: might hold, is a “security.” As such, we are at risk of enforcement proceedings against us, which could result in potential
+Added: injunctions, cease-and-desist orders, fines, and penalties if the TRX token was determined to be a security by a regulatory body or a
+Added: Such developments could subject us to fines, penalties, and other damages, and adversely affect our business, results of operations,
+Added: financial condition, and prospects.
+Added: Sections 3(a)(1)(A) and (C) of the Investment Company Act, a company generally will be deemed to be an “investment company”
+Added: if (i) it is, or holds itself out as being, engaged primarily, or proposes to engage primarily, in the business of investing, reinvesting,
+Added: or trading in securities or (ii) it engages, or proposes to engage, in the business of investing, reinvesting, owning, holding, or trading
+Added: in securities and it owns or proposes to acquire investment securities having a value exceeding 40% of the value of its total assets
+Added: (exclusive of U.S.
+Added: government securities, shares of registered money market funds under Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, and
+Added: cash items) on an unconsolidated basis.
+Added: Rule 3a-1 under the Investment Company Act generally provides that notwithstanding the Section
+Added: 3(a)(1)(C) test described in clause (ii) above, an entity will not be deemed to be an “investment company” for purposes of
+Added: the Investment Company Act if no more than 45% of the value of its assets (exclusive of U.S.
+Added: government securities, shares of registered
+Added: money market funds under Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, and cash items) consists of, and no more than 45% of its net income
+Added: after taxes (for the past four fiscal quarters combined) is derived from, securities other than U.S.
+Added: government securities, shares of
+Added: registered money market funds under Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, securities issued by employees’ securities companies,
+Added: securities issued by qualifying majority owned subsidiaries of such entity, and securities issued by qualifying companies that are controlled
+Added: primarily by such entity.
+Added: We do not believe that we are an “investment company” as such term is defined in either Section
+Added: 3(a)(1)(A) or Section 3(a)(1)(C) of the Investment Company Act.
+Added: respect to Section 3(a)(1)(A), following the June PIPE Offering, our ownership or holding of TRX tokens is in excess of 40% of our total
+Added: Since we believe that the TRX token is not an investment security, we do not hold ourselves out as being engaged primarily, or
+Added: propose to engage primarily, in the business of investing, reinvesting, or trading in securities within the meaning of Section 3(a)(1)(A)
+Added: of the Investment Company Act.
+Added: respect to Section 3(a)(1)(C), we believe we satisfy the elements of Rule 3a-1 and therefore are deemed not to be an investment company
+Added: under, and we intend to conduct our operations such that we will not be deemed an investment company under, Section 3(a)(1)(C).
+Added: that we are not an investment company pursuant to Rule 3a-1 under the Investment Company Act because, on a consolidated basis with respect
+Added: to wholly-owned subsidiaries but otherwise on an unconsolidated basis, no more than 45% of the value of the Company’s total assets
+Added: (exclusive of U.S.
+Added: government securities, shares of registered money market funds under Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act, and
+Added: cash items) consists of, and no more than 45% of the Company’s net income after taxes (for the last four fiscal quarters combined)
+Added: is derived from, securities other than U.S.
+Added: government securities, shares of registered money market funds under Rule 2a-7 of the Investment
+Added: Company Act, securities issued by employees’ securities companies, securities issued by qualifying majority owned subsidiaries
+Added: of the Company, and securities issued by qualifying companies that are controlled primarily by the Company.
+Added: tokens and other digital assets, as well as new business models and transactions enabled by blockchain technologies, present novel interpretive
+Added: questions under the Investment Company Act.
+Added: There is a risk that assets or arrangements that we have concluded are not securities could
+Added: be deemed to be securities by the SEC or another authority for purposes of the Investment Company Act, which would increase the percentage
+Added: of securities held by us for Investment Company Act purposes.
+Added: The SEC has requested information from a number of participants in the
+Added: digital assets’ ecosystem, regarding the potential application of the Investment Company Act to their businesses.
+Added: in an action unrelated to the Company, in February 2022, the SEC issued a cease-and-desist order under the Investment Company Act to
+Added: BlockFi Lending LLC, in which the SEC alleged that BlockFi was operating as an unregistered investment company because it issued securities
+Added: and also held more than 40% of its total assets, excluding cash, in investment securities, including the loans of digital assets made
+Added: by BlockFi to institutional borrowers.
+Added: we were deemed to be an investment company, Rule 3a-2 under the Investment Company Act is a safe harbor that provides a one-year grace
+Added: period for transient investment companies that have a bona fide intent to be engaged primarily, as soon as is reasonably possible (in
+Added: any event by the termination of such one-year period), in a business other than that of investing, reinvesting, owning, holding, or trading
+Added: in securities, with such intent evidenced by the company’s business activities and an appropriate resolution of its board of directors.
+Added: The grace period is available not more than once every three years and runs from the earlier of (i) the date on which the issuer owns
+Added: securities and/or cash having a value exceeding 50% of the issuer’s total assets on either a consolidated or unconsolidated basis
+Added: or (ii) the date on which the issuer owns or proposes to acquire investment securities having a value exceeding 40% of the value of such
+Added: issuer’s total assets (exclusive of U.S.
+Added: government securities and cash items) on an unconsolidated basis.
+Added: Accordingly, the grace
+Added: period may not be available at the time that we seek to rely on Rule 3a-2;
+Added: however, Rule 3a-2 is a safe harbor and we may rely on any
+Added: exemption or exclusion from investment company status available to us under the Investment Company Act at any given time.
+Added: reliance on Rule 3a-2, Section 3(a)(1)(C), or Rule 3a-1 could require us to take actions to dispose of securities, limit our ability
+Added: to make certain investments or enter into joint ventures, or otherwise limit or change our service offerings and operations.
+Added: to be deemed an investment company in the future, restrictions imposed by the Investment Company Act — including limitations on
+Added: our ability to issue different classes of stock and equity compensation to directors, officers, and employees and restrictions on management,
+Added: operations, and transactions with affiliated persons — likely would make it impractical for us to continue our business as contemplated,
+Added: and could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and prospects.
+Added: are not subject to legal and regulatory obligations that apply to investment companies such as mutual funds and exchange-traded funds,
+Added: or to obligations applicable to investment advisers.
+Added: funds, ETFs and their directors and management are subject to extensive regulation as “investment companies” and “investment
+Added: advisers” under U.S.
+Added: federal and state law;
+Added: this regulation is intended for the benefit and protection of investors.
+Added: subject to, and do not otherwise voluntarily comply with, these laws and regulations.
+Added: This means, among other things, that the execution
+Added: of or changes to our Treasury Reserve Policy or our TRX token strategy, our use of leverage, the manner in which our TRX tokens are custodied,
+Added: our ability to engage in transactions with affiliated parties and our operating and investment activities generally are not subject to
+Added: the extensive legal and regulatory requirements and prohibitions that apply to investment companies and investment advisers.
+Added: although a significant change to our Treasury Reserve Policy would require the approval of our Board, no shareholder or regulatory approval
+Added: would be necessary.
+Added: Consequently, our Board has broad discretion over the investment, leverage and cash management policies it authorizes,
+Added: whether in respect of our TRX token holdings or other activities we may pursue, and has the power to change our current policies, including
+Added: our strategy of acquiring and holding TRX tokens.
+Added: TRX token strategy exposes us to risk of non-performance by counterparties in the future.
+Added: of the date hereof, the Company does not have any material agreements with counterparties relating to the purchase or sale
+Added: of TRX tokens.
+Added: However, this may change in the future.
+Added: Our TRX token strategy exposes us to the risk of non-performance by counterparties,
+Added: whether contractual or otherwise.
+Added: Risk of non-performance includes inability or refusal of a counterparty to perform because of a deterioration
+Added: in the counterparty’s financial condition and liquidity or for any other reason.
+Added: For example, our execution partners, or other
+Added: counterparties might fail to perform in accordance with the terms of our agreements with them, which could result in a loss of TRX tokens,
+Added: a loss of the opportunity to generate funds, or other losses.
+Added: we pursue any strategies to create income streams or otherwise generate funds using our TRX token holdings, we would become subject to
+Added: additional counterparty risks.
+Added: Any significant non-performance by counterparties could have a material adverse effect on our business,
+Added: prospects, financial condition, and operating results.
+Added: the broader digital assets industry is subject to counterparty risks, which could adversely impact the adoption rate, price, and use
+Added: of TRX tokens.
+Added: A series of recent high-profile bankruptcies, closures, liquidations, regulatory enforcement actions and other events
+Added: relating to companies operating in the digital asset industry have highlighted the counterparty risks applicable to owning and transacting
+Added: in digital assets.
+Added: Although these bankruptcies, closures, liquidations and other events have not resulted in any loss or misappropriation
+Added: of our TRX tokens, nor have such events adversely impacted our access to our TRX tokens, they have, in the short-term, likely negatively
+Added: impacted the adoption rate and use of the TRX tokens.
+Added: Additional bankruptcies, closures, liquidations, regulatory enforcement actions
+Added: or other events involving participants in the digital assets industry in the future may further negatively impact the adoption rate,
+Added: price, and use of the TRX token, limit the availability to us of financing collateralized by TRX tokens, or create or expose additional
+Added: counterparty risks.
+Added: Changes in the accounting treatment of our TRX token holdings could have significant accounting impacts, including
+Added: increasing the volatility of our results.
+Added: broader digital assets industry, including the technology associated with digital assets, the rate of adoption and development of, and
+Added: use cases for, digital assets, market perception of digital assets, and the legal, regulatory, and accounting treatment of digital assets
+Added: are constantly developing and changing, and there may be additional risks in the future that are not possible to predict.
+Added: price decrease of energy, a type of system resources on the TRON blockchain, could negatively affect the Company .
+Added: and energy are main types of resources on the TRON blockchain which are necessary for execution of different types of transactions.
+Added: for query operations, the execution of all the transactions on the TRON blockchain consumes bandwidth.
+Added: Bandwidth measures the byte size
+Added: of a transaction on the blockchain.
+Added: The larger the transaction is, the more bandwidth will be consumed.
+Added: Energy measures the resources
+Added: consumed by the TRON Virtual Machine (TVM) to execute a smart contract.
+Added: Energy is only consumed when deploying or triggering a smart
+Added: to committee proposals available on Tronscan, the proposal #104 which proposed the modification of transaction fee of 1 unit of energy
+Added: from 0.00021 TRX token to 0.0001 TRX token was approved by the SR and became effective on August 29, 2025.
+Added: Because users consume energy
+Added: to execute smart contracts on the TRON blockchain, the price decrease of energy has several implications and potential risks.
+Added: effectiveness of proposal #104 means that less TRX is required to be burned (from 0.00021 TRX token to 0.0001 TRX token) to obtain a
+Added: unit of energy;
+Added: as a result, the cost for users to obtain energy through TRX burning decreases significantly, and therefore there will
+Added: be less demand for energy rental.
+Added: This change may:
+Added: Lower the yields
+Added: in the energy rental market, as evidenced by JustLend DAO’s downward adjustment of its base rate, which means the staking yield
+Added: to be earned by the Company through sTRX generated from standard staking and energy rental is expected to be lower;
+Added: this may cause
+Added: the value of sTRX held by the Company to decline.
+Added: Any such decline could negatively affect the Company’s return on its sTRX
+Added: holdings, which in turn could negatively impact the Company.
+Added: Lessen the deflationary
+Added: pressure on the TRX token supply as fewer TRX tokens will be burned by users for obtaining energy.
+Added: Increase the on-chain transaction
+Added: volume as transaction costs are lower.
+Added: Lower the TRX token threshold
+Added: for executing smart contracts, which is expected to enable broader participation and expand the network’s active user base.
+Added: Lower the barriers for
+Added: developers and dApps, which is expected to drive increased contract deployment and greater TRON ecosystem activity.
+Added: Related to Our Corporate Structure
+Added: 2023, the PRC government initiated a series of regulatory actions and statements to regulate business operations in certain areas in
+Added: Mainland China, including cracking down on illegal activities in the securities market, enhancing supervision over Mainland
+Added: China-based companies listed overseas using the variable interest entity structure, adopting new measures to extend the scope of
+Added: cybersecurity reviews, and expanding the efforts in anti-monopoly enforcement.
+Added: We are subject to PRC laws and regulations related to
+Added: the current or future business operations of our subsidiary in Hong Kong and any changes in such laws and regulations and
+Added: interpretations may impair its ability to operate profitably, which could result in a material negative impact on its operations
+Added: and/or the value of our Common Stock or other securities.
+Added: we have direct ownership of our subsidiary in Hong Kong and currently do not have or intend to have any subsidiary or any
+Added: contractual arrangement to establish a VIE structure with any entity in Mainland China, we are still subject to certain legal and
+Added: operational risks associated with our connections to Hong Kong.
+Added: The legal and operational risks associated in Mainland China also
+Added: apply to our current or future operations in Hong Kong, and we face the risks and uncertainties associated with the complex and
+Added: evolving PRC laws and regulations and as to whether and how the recent PRC government statements and regulatory developments, such
+Added: as those relating to data and cyberspace security and anti-monopoly concerns, would be applicable to a company such as our
+Added: subsidiary and our Company, given the Hong Kong aspects of our subsidiary in Hong Kong and the potential that the Chinese government
+Added: may exercise significant oversight over the conduct of business in Hong Kong.
+Added: In the event we were to become subject to PRC laws and
+Added: regulations, we could incur material costs to ensure compliance, and might be subject to fines, experienced evaluation of securities
+Added: or delisting, restrictions on securities offerings, and/or no longer be permitted to continue business operations as presently
+Added: Our organizational structure involves risks to the investors, and Chinese regulatory authorities could disallow this
+Added: structure, which would likely result in a material change in our subsidiary’s operations and/or a material change in the value
+Added: of our Common Stock or other securities, including the risk that such event could cause the value of our Common Stock or other
+Added: securities to decline.
+Added: Moreover, there are substantial uncertainties regarding the interpretation and application of PRC laws and
+Added: regulations including, but not limited to, the laws and regulations potentially related to our business and the enforcement and
+Added: performance of our arrangements with customers in certain circumstances.
+Added: The laws and regulations may be subject to future changes,
+Added: and their official interpretation and enforcement may involve substantial uncertainty.
+Added: The effectiveness and interpretation of newly
+Added: enacted laws or regulations, including amendments to existing laws and regulations, may be delayed, and our business may be affected
+Added: if we rely on laws and regulations which are subsequently adopted or interpreted in a manner different from our understanding of
+Added: these laws and regulations.
+Added: We cannot predict what effect the interpretation of existing or new PRC laws or regulations may have on
+Added: our business.
+Added: may become subject to a variety of PRC laws and other obligations regarding M&A Rules, the Trial Measures and data security, and
+Added: any failure to comply with applicable laws and obligations could potentially have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial
+Added: condition and results of operations.
+Added: Regulations on Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Companies by Foreign Investors, or the M&A Rules, adopted by six PRC regulatory
+Added: agencies on August 8, 2006, and amended on June 22, 2009, requires an overseas special purpose vehicle formed for listing purposes through
+Added: acquisitions of domestic companies in Mainland China and controlled by companies or individuals of Mainland China to obtain the approval
+Added: of the CSRC, prior to the listing and trading of such special purpose vehicle’s securities on an overseas stock exchange.
+Added: on December 24, 2021, the CSRC released the Administrative Regulations of the State Council Concerning the Oversea Issuance of Security
+Added: and Listing by Domestic Enterprise (Draft for Comments) (the “Draft Administrative Regulations”) and the Measures for the
+Added: Overseas Issuance of Securities and Listing Record-Filings by Domestic Enterprises (Draft for Comments) (the “Draft Filing Measures”),
+Added: collectively the “Draft Rules on Overseas Listing”, for public opinion.
+Added: of the date of this Annual Report, we have no subsidiary, VIE structure or any direct operations in Mainland China, nor do we intend to
+Added: have any subsidiary or VIE structure or to acquire any equity interests in any domestic companies in Mainland China, and we have not
+Added: generated any revenues or profits in Mainland China.
+Added: Additionally, we do not intend to operate in Mainland China in the foreseeable future.
+Added: As such, we do not believe we would be subject to the M&A Rules, or would be required to file with the CSRC under the Trial Measures.
+Added: Moreover, pursuant to the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, or the Basic Law, PRC laws and regulations shall
+Added: not be applied in Hong Kong except for those listed in Annex III of the Basic Law (which is confined to laws relating to national defense,
+Added: foreign affairs and other matters that are not within the scope of autonomy).
+Added: Therefore, we believe, as of the date of this Form 10-K,
+Added: the CSRC’s approval or review is not required for the listing and trading of our Common Stock in the U.S.
+Added: exchange as provided
+Added: under the M&A Rules and the Trial Measures.
+Added: We believe it is not necessary to obtain, and we have not obtained, an opinion from PRC or Hong Kong counsel to consult
+Added: on the above.
+Added: Ltd has two independent contractors in Hong Kong, which is a part of the PRC.
+Added: In 2023, the PRC government initiated a series of regulatory
+Added: actions and statements to regulate business operations in certain areas in China with little advance notice, including cracking down
+Added: on illegal activities in the securities market, enhancing supervision over China-based companies listed overseas using a VIE structure,
+Added: adopting new measures to extend the scope of cybersecurity reviews, and expanding its efforts in anti-monopoly enforcement.
+Added: statements and regulatory actions are new, it is highly uncertain how soon the legislative or administrative regulation making bodies
+Added: will respond and what existing or new laws or regulations or detailed implementations and interpretations will be modified or promulgated,
+Added: It is also highly uncertain what the potential impact such modified or new laws and regulations will have on our Hong Kong subsidiary.
+Added: These actions could result in a material change in the Hong Kong aspects of our operations and/or to the value of our Common Stock or
+Added: other securities.
+Added: by the PRC government have indicated an intent to exert more oversight and control over offerings that are conducted overseas and/or
+Added: foreign investments in China based issuers.
+Added: On July 6, 2021, the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and
+Added: the General Office of the State Council jointly issued a document to crack down on illegal activities in the securities markets and promote
+Added: the high-quality development of the capital markets, which, among other things, requires the relevant governmental authorities to strengthen
+Added: cross-border oversight of law-enforcement and judicial cooperation, to enhance supervision over China-based companies listed overseas,
+Added: and to establish and improve the system of extraterritorial application of the PRC securities laws.
+Added: December 24, 2021, the CSRC released the Draft Administrative Provisions and the Draft Filing Measures, both of which had a comment period
+Added: that expired on January 23, 2022.
+Added: The Draft Administrative Provisions and Draft Filing Measures regulate the administrative system, record-filing
+Added: management, and other related rules in respect of the direct or indirect overseas issuance of listed and traded securities by “domestic
+Added: enterprises”.
+Added: The Draft Administrative Provisions specify that the CSRC has regulatory authority over the “overseas securities
+Added: offering and listing by domestic enterprises”, and requires “domestic enterprises” to complete filing procedures with
+Added: the CSRC if they wish to list overseas.
+Added: On February 17, 2023, the CSRC released the Trial Measures and five supporting guidelines, which
+Added: came into effect on March 31, 2023.
+Added: According to the Trial Measures, domestic companies that seek to offer or list securities overseas,
+Added: both directly and indirectly, should fulfill the filing procedures and report relevant information to the CSRC;
+Added: any failure to comply
+Added: with such filing procedures may result in administrative penalties, such as an order to rectify, warnings, and fines.
+Added: On April 2, 2022,
+Added: the CSRC published the Draft Archives Rules, for public comment.
+Added: These rules state that in the overseas listing activities of domestic
+Added: companies, domestic companies, as well as securities companies and securities service institutions providing relevant securities services
+Added: thereof, should establish a sound system of confidentiality and archival work, shall not disclose state secrets, or harm the state and
+Added: public interests.
+Added: the Trial Measures and the Guidance Rules and Notice, Chinese domestic companies conducting overseas securities offering and listing
+Added: activities, either in direct or indirect form, shall complete filing procedures with the CSRC pursuant to the requirements of the Trial
+Added: Measures within three working days following their submission of initial public offerings or listing application.
+Added: The companies that
+Added: have already been listed on overseas stock exchanges or have obtained the approval from overseas supervision administrations or stock
+Added: exchanges for its offering and listing and will complete their overseas offering and listing prior to September 30, 2023 are not required
+Added: to make immediate filings for its listing, yet need to make filings for subsequent offerings in accordance with the Trial Measures.
+Added: that have already submitted an application for an initial public offering to overseas supervision administrations prior to the effective
+Added: date of the Trial Measures but have not yet obtained the approval from overseas supervision administrations or stock exchanges for the
+Added: offering and listing, shall arrange for the filing within a reasonable time period and shall complete the filing procedure before such
+Added: companies’ overseas issuance and listing.
+Added: understands that as of the date of this Form 10-K, the Company has no operations in Mainland China and is not required to complete filing
+Added: procedures with the CSRC pursuant to the requirements of the Trial Measures.
+Added: While the Company has no current operations in Mainland
+Added: China, should we have any future operations in Mainland China and should we (i) fail to receive or maintain such permissions or approvals,
+Added: (ii) inadvertently conclude that such permissions or approvals are not required, or (iii) applicable laws, regulations, or interpretations
+Added: change and require us to obtain such permissions or approvals in the future, we may face sanctions by the CSRC, the CAC or other PRC
+Added: regulatory agencies.
+Added: These regulatory agencies may also impose fines and penalties on our potential operations in Mainland China, as
+Added: well as limit our ability to pay dividends outside of Mainland China, limit our operations in Mainland China, delay or restrict the repatriation
+Added: of the proceeds from our offerings into Mainland China or take other actions that could have a material adverse effect on our business
+Added: as well as the trading price of our Common Stock or other securities.
+Added: If we have PRC operations in the future, we may be required to
+Added: restructure our operations to comply with such regulations or potentially cease operations in the PRC entirely.
+Added: The CSRC, the CAC or
+Added: other PRC regulatory agencies also may take actions requiring us, or making it advisable for us, to halt our offerings before settlement
+Added: and delivery of our Common Stock or other securities.
+Added: In addition, if the CSRC, the CAC or other regulatory PRC agencies later promulgate
+Added: new rules requiring that we obtain their approvals for our offerings, we may be unable to obtain a waiver of such approval requirements,
+Added: if and when procedures are established to obtain such a waiver.
+Added: If we have PRC operations in the future, any action taken by the PRC
+Added: government could significantly limit or completely hinder our operations in the PRC and our ability to offer or continue to offer securities
+Added: to investors, and could cause the value of such securities to decline.
+Added: on July 10, 2021, the CAC issued a revised draft of the Measures for Cybersecurity Review for public comment, which required that, among
+Added: others, in addition to any “operator of critical information infrastructure”, any “data processor” controlling
+Added: personal information of no less than one million users which seeks to list in a foreign stock exchange should also be subject to cybersecurity
+Added: review, and further elaborated the factors to be considered when assessing the national security risks of the relevant activities.
+Added: December 28, 2021, the CAC, the National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”), and several other administrations jointly
+Added: issued the revised Measures for Cybersecurity Review, which became effective and replaced the existing Measures for Cybersecurity Review
+Added: on February 15, 2022.
+Added: According to the Revised Review Measures, if an “online platform operator” that is in possession of
+Added: personal data of more than one million users intends to list in a foreign country, it must apply for a cybersecurity review.
+Added: a set of Q&A published on the official website of the State Cipher Code Administration in connection with the issuance of the Revised
+Added: Review Measures, an official of the said administration indicated that an online platform operator should apply for a cybersecurity review
+Added: prior to the submission of its listing application with non-PRC securities regulators.
+Added: Moreover, the CAC released the draft of the Regulations
+Added: on Network Data Security Management in November 2021 for public consultation, which among other things, stipulates that a data processor
+Added: listed overseas must conduct an annual data security review by itself or by engaging a data security service provider and submit the
+Added: annual data security review report for a given year to the municipal cybersecurity department before January 31 of the following year.
+Added: Given the recency of the issuance of the Revised Review Measures and their pending effectiveness, there is a general lack of guidance
+Added: and substantial uncertainties exist with respect to their interpretation and implementation.
+Added: It remains unclear whether a Hong Kong company
+Added: which collects personal information from PRC individuals shall be subject to the Revised Review Measures.
+Added: We do not currently expect
+Added: the Revised Review Measures to have an impact on our business, our operations or our offerings as we do not believe that our subsidiary
+Added: would be deemed to be an “operator of critical information infrastructure” or a “data processor” controlling
+Added: personal information of no less than one million users, that would be required to file for cybersecurity review before listing in the
+Added: However, there remains uncertainty in the interpretation and enforcement of relevant PRC cybersecurity laws and regulations.
+Added: the Revised Review Measures are adopted into law in the future and if our subsidiary is deemed to be an “operator of critical information
+Added: infrastructure” or a “data processor” controlling personal information of no less than one million users, our operation
+Added: and the listing of our Common Stock or other securities in the U.S.
+Added: could be subject to CAC’s cybersecurity review.
+Added: of the date of this Annual Report, Hong Kong does not have similar regulations as of the PRC to extend oversight and control over offerings
+Added: that are conducted overseas.
+Added: Hong Kong does not have similar regulation as of the Trial Measures and the Guidance Rules and Notice, and
+Added: Measures for Cybersecurity Review of the PRC.
+Added: However, the legal and operational risks associated in Mainland China apply to operations
+Added: in Hong Kong, and we face the risks and uncertainties associated with the complex and evolving PRC laws and regulations and as to whether
+Added: and how the recent PRC government statements and regulatory developments, such as those relating to data and cyberspace security and
+Added: anti-monopoly concerns, would be applicable to a company such as our subsidiary and our Company, given the Hong Kong aspects of our subsidiary
+Added: in Hong Kong and the possibility that the Chinese government may exercise significant oversight over the conduct of business in Hong
+Added: In the event we or our subsidiary were to become subject to PRC laws and regulations, we could incur material costs to ensure compliance,
+Added: and we or our subsidiary might be subject to fines, experienced evaluation of securities or delisting, restrictions on securities offerings,
+Added: and/or no longer be permitted to continue business operations as presently conducted.
+Added: In the event that (i) the PRC government expands
+Added: the categories of industries and companies whose foreign securities offerings are subject to review by the CSRC or the CAC or if applicable
+Added: laws, regulations or interpretations change and we are required to obtain such permissions or approvals, (ii) we inadvertently conclude
+Added: that relevant permissions or approvals were not required or (iii) we did not receive or maintain relevant permissions or approvals required,
+Added: any action taken by the PRC government could significantly limit or completely hinder our operations in Hong Kong and our ability to
+Added: offer or continue to offer securities to investors and could cause the value of our Common Stock or other securities to decline.
+Added: believe that our current connections to Hong Kong are not substantial.
+Added: Although SRM Ltd, our wholly-owned subsidiary is a Hong Kong company,
+Added: it has only two independent contractors and its function is to provide administrative support for the procurement and delivery process
+Added: which is controlled by the Company directly with its PRC suppliers.
+Added: As to our TRX treasury business, our Treasury Wallet is located in
+Added: however, all operating decisions relating to the movement of TRX to and from the Treasury Wallet are made by our Board, a
+Added: majority of whom are not based in Hong Kong or the PRC.
+Added: of our operations are conducted in Hong Kong.
+Added: It is possible that the Chinese government may exercise significant oversight and discretion
+Added: over the conduct of such business and may influence such operations, which could potentially significantly interfere with, alter, limit
+Added: or hinder our current presence in Hong Kong, and certain scenarios, possibly affect the value of our Common Stock or other securities.
+Added: Changes in the policies, regulations, rules, and the enforcement of laws of the Chinese government may also occur quickly and our assertions
+Added: and beliefs of the risk imposed by the PRC legal and regulatory system cannot be certain.
+Added: There are uncertainties regarding the enforcement
+Added: of PRC laws, and rules and regulations in China can change quickly with little advance notice.
+Added: The Chinese government may intervene or
+Added: influence the Hong Kong aspects of our operations, which could interfere with our operations and/or affect the value of the Common Stock
+Added: or other securities we are registering for sale.
+Added: 2023, the PRC government initiated a series of regulatory actions and statements to regulate business operations in certain areas in
+Added: Mainland China, including a cracking down on illegal activities in the securities market, enhancing supervision over Mainland China-based
+Added: companies listed overseas using the VIE structure, adopting new measures to extend the scope of cybersecurity reviews, and expanding
+Added: the efforts in anti-monopoly enforcement.
+Added: Given the recent statements by the Chinese government indicating an intent to exert more oversight
+Added: and control over offerings that are conducted overseas and/or foreign investment in Mainland China-based issuers, any extension of these
+Added: actions, statements or policies into Hong Kong could potentially significantly interfere with, alter, limit or hinder our current presence
+Added: in Hong Kong.
+Added: are uncertainties regarding the enforcement of PRC laws, and rules and regulations in China can change with little advance notice.
+Added: Chinese government may intervene or influence our Hong Kong subsidiary or our TRX treasury business at any time, which could result in
+Added: a material change in the Hong Kong aspects of our operations and/or the value of the securities we are registering for sale.
+Added: may be difficult to enforce a judgment of U.S.
+Added: courts for civil liabilities under U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws against us, our directors
+Added: or officers in Mainland China and Hong Kong.
+Added: of the date of this Annual Report, our Chairman and Director Mr.
+Added: Weike Sun and our Director Mr.
+Added: Zhihong Liu are based in Hong Kong.
+Added: We do not have any directors or officers located in Mainland China.
+Added: In addition, the Company retains sole control of the Treasury
+Added: Wallet and private keys in Hong Kong, and Mr.
+Added: Weike Sun and Mr.
+Added: Zi Yang are authorized by the Board to make the arrangements for
+Added: safeguarding and operating the private keys of the Treasury Wallet.
+Added: As a result, it may be difficult for investors to effect service
+Added: of process within the U.S.
+Added: upon such directors, or to enforce judgments obtained in U.S.
+Added: courts against them in Mainland China or
+Added: Hong Kong, including judgments predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the U.S.
+Added: or any state in the
+Added: and whether in connection with any claim relating to the Treasury Wallet, or otherwise.
+Added: recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments are provided for under the PRC Civil Procedures Law.
+Added: The PRC courts may recognize and
+Added: enforce foreign judgments in accordance with the requirements of the PRC Civil Procedures Law based either on treaties between China
+Added: and the country where the judgment is made or on principles of reciprocity between jurisdictions.
+Added: China does not have any treaties or
+Added: other forms of written arrangement with the United States that provide for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
+Added: In addition, according to the PRC Civil Procedures Law, the PRC courts will not enforce a foreign judgment if they decide that the judgment
+Added: violates the basic principles of PRC laws or national sovereignty, security or public interest.
+Added: As a result, it is uncertain whether
+Added: and on what basis a PRC court would enforce a judgment rendered by a court in the United States.
+Added: In addition, it will be difficult for
+Added: shareholders to originate actions against us in China in accordance with PRC laws because it will be difficult for U.S.
+Added: shareholders,
+Added: by virtue only of holding our Common Stock or other securities, to establish a connection to the PRC for a PRC court to have jurisdiction
+Added: as required under the PRC Civil Procedures Law.
+Added: is also uncertainty as to whether the courts of Hong Kong would (i) recognize or enforce judgments of United States courts obtained against
+Added: us or our directors or officers predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state
+Added: in the United States or (ii) entertain original actions brought in Hong Kong against us or our directors or officers predicated upon
+Added: the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States.
+Added: Currently, there are no treaties or reciprocity protocols
+Added: in place between the U.S.
+Added: and the PRC relating to the enforceability of civil judgments.
+Added: Hong Kong, foreign judgments can be enforced under statute under the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance or under common
+Added: The Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance is a registration scheme for the recognition and enforcement of foreign
+Added: judgments based on reciprocity but the United States is not a designated country under the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement)
+Added: As a result, a judgment rendered by a court in the United States, including as a result of administrative actions brought
+Added: by regulatory authorities, such as the SEC, and other actions, will not be enforced by the Hong Kong courts under the statutory regime.
+Added: In addition, the Supreme People’s Court of the PRC and the Government of Hong Kong have entered into the “Arrangement on
+Added: Reciprocal Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters by the Courts of the Mainland and of the Hong Kong
+Added: Special Administrative Region pursuant to Choice of Court Agreements between Parties Concerned,” or the Arrangement.
+Added: Judgements (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance gave effect to the Arrangement and is a registration scheme for recognition and enforcement
+Added: of PRC judgements based on reciprocity.
+Added: Other than the Arrangement, Hong Kong has not entered into any multilateral convention or bilateral
+Added: treaty regarding the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
+Added: Accordingly, any judgments rendered by a court in the United States
+Added: will need to be enforced under common law.
+Added: In order to enforce a foreign judgment under common law in Hong Kong, the judgment must meet
+Added: certain criteria before it can be enforced, such as the judgment being final and conclusive.
+Added: foregoing risks make it uncertain that stockholders or others will be able to obtain a legally binding judgment against the Company
+Added: or our directors or officers, and if such a judgment is ultimately obtained, the process could be time consuming and costly.
+Added: We believe it is not necessary to obtain, and we have not obtained, an opinion from PRC or Hong Kong counsel to consult
+Added: on the above.
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