AddedOur financial results and the market price of our listed securities would be adversely affected, and our business and financial condition would be negatively impacted, if the price of BONK tokens decreased substantially, including, but not limited to, as a result of: ○ decreased user and investor confidence in the BONK token, including due to the various factors described herein and many of which are outside of our direct control; 16 Table of Contents ○ investment and trading activities, such as (i) trading activities of highly active retail and institutional users and investors, and (ii) actual or expected significant dispositions of BONK tokens by large holders, including the expected liquidation of digital assets associated with entities that have filed for bankruptcy protection and the transfer and sale of BONK tokens associated with significant hacks, seizures, or forfeitures; ○ negative publicity, media or social media coverage, or sentiment due to events in or relating to, or perception of, BONKBONK blockchain, BONK tokens or the broader digital assets industry, for example, (i) public perception that blockchains can be used as a platform to circumvent sanctions, including sanctions imposed on Russia or certain regions related to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, or to fund criminal or terrorist activities, such as the purported use of digital assets by Hamas to fund its terrorist attack against Israel in October 2023, (ii) expected or pending civil, criminal, regulatory enforcement or other high profile actions against major participants in the BONK ecosystem, if any, and (iii) additional filings for bankruptcy protection or bankruptcy proceedings of major digital asset industry participants, such as the bankruptcy proceeding of FTX Trading and its affiliates; ○ changes in consumer preferences and the perceived value or prospects of the BONK token; ○ competition from other digital assets that exhibit better speed, security, scalability, or energy efficiency, that feature other more favored characteristics, that are backed by governments, including the U.S. government, or reserves of fiat currencies, or that represent ownership or security interests in physical assets; ○ decrease in the price of other digital assets, including stablecoins, or the crash or unavailability of stablecoins that are used as a medium of exchange for BONK token purchase and sale transactions, such as the crash of the stablecoin Terra USD in 2022, to the extent the decrease in the price of such other digital assets or the unavailability of such stablecoins may cause a decrease in the price of BONK tokens or adversely affect investor confidence in digital assets generally; ○ developments relating to the BONK protocol, including (i) changes to the BONK protocol that impact its security, speed, scalability, usability, or value, such as changes to the cryptographic security protocol underpinning the BONK blockchain, changes to the maximum number of BONK tokens outstanding, changes to the mutability of transactions, changes relating to the size of blockchain blocks, and similar changes, (ii) failures to make upgrades to the BONK protocol to adapt to security, technological, legal or other challenges, and (iii) changes to the BONK protocol that introduce software bugs, security risks or other elements that adversely affect BONK tokens; ○ disruptions, failures, unavailability, or interruptions in service of trading venues for BONK tokens, such as, for example, the announcement by the digital asset exchange FTX Trading that it would freeze withdrawals and transfers from its accounts and subsequent filing for bankruptcy protection and the SEC enforcement action brought against Binance Holdings Ltd., which initially sought to freeze all of its assets during the pendency of the enforcement action and has since resulted in Binance discontinuing all fiat deposits and withdrawals in the U.S.; ○ the filing for bankruptcy protection by, liquidation of, or market concerns about the financial viability of digital asset custodians, trading venues, lending platforms, investment funds, or other digital asset industry participants, such as the filing for bankruptcy protection by digital asset trading venues FTX Trading and BlockFi and digital asset lending platforms Celsius Network and Voyager Digital Holdings in 2022, the ordered liquidation of the digital asset investment fund Three Arrows Capital in 2022, the announced liquidation of Silvergate Bank in 2023, the government-mandated closure and sale of Signature Bank in 2023, the placement of Prime Trust, LLC into receivership following a cease-and-desist order issued by the Nevada Department of Business and Industry in 2023, and the exit of Binance from the U.S. market as part of its settlement with the Department of Justice and other federal regulatory agencies; 17 Table of Contents ○ regulatory, legislative, enforcement and judicial actions that adversely affect the price, ownership, transferability, trading volumes, legality or public perception of BONK tokens, or that adversely affect the operations of or otherwise prevent digital asset custodians, trading venues, lending platforms or other digital assets industry participants from operating in a manner that allows them to continue to deliver services to the digital assets industry; ○ transaction congestion and fees associated with processing transactions on the BONK network; ○ macroeconomic changes, such as changes in the level of interest rates and inflation, fiscal and monetary policies of governments, trade restrictions, and fiat currency devaluations; ○ developments in mathematics or technology, including in digital computing, algebraic geometry and quantum computing, that could result in the cryptography used by the BONK blockchain becoming insecure or ineffective; and ○ changes in national and international economic and political conditions, including, without limitation, federal government policies, trade tariffs and trade disputes, the adverse impacts attributable to the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the economic sanctions adopted in response to the conflict, and the broadening of the Israel-Hamas conflict to other countries in the Middle East.