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The panel consensus is bearish on AVX One, with key concerns being the company's high operational expenses, reliance on volatile AVAX price and staking yields, and the risk of a liquidation cascade in case of a significant AVAX drawdown and/or staking yield collapse. The $40M buyback program is seen as an ineffective measure to support the stock price and may hinder future growth.
Risk: Liquidation cascade due to significant AVAX drawdown and/or staking yield collapse, which could erode the company's net asset value and cash buffer, forcing token sales at depressed prices.
Opportunity: None explicitly stated, as the panel's overall sentiment is bearish.
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Jolie Kahn: Thank you, operator, and thank you, everyone, for joining us today. I'm pleased to welcome you all to our first earnings conference call as AVAX One Technology. The fourth quarter of 2025 was a transformational period for AVAX One as we completed our transition to an Avalanche-focused digital asset treasury strategy. While our 2025 results only reflect a partial quarter of this new model, it's worth noting that nearly half of our annual revenue was generated in the fourth quarter following the implementation of this strategy, which we believe validates both the strength of our approach and our ability to execute.
We also made meaningful progress in building our AVX treasury expanding our staking activities and establishing the foundation for long-term on-chain yield generation. I'd like to start by briefly sharing my background and why we believe Avalanche is the leading institutional-grade blockchain designed to serve as the foundational digital settlement layer for the future of finance. I've spent more than 3 decades working at the intersection of corporate finance, securities law and emerging financial technologies, advising public companies, institutional investors and hedge funds on complex financings, mergers and acquisitions and public market transactions.
In recent years, my work has focused heavily on digital assets and blockchain infrastructure, including serving as General Counsel to one of the largest Bitcoin mining companies from 2018 through 2023 and advising multiple public companies in the digital assets industry. That experience across capital markets, regulation and blockchain technology has given me a comprehensive perspective on where digital finance is headed and why we believe Avalanche represents one of the most important institutional grade blockchain platforms being built today. That perspective informs our strategy at AVAX One. And before discussing the company specifically, I'd like to step back and highlight the broader transformation underway across digital assets and global financial infrastructure.
Digital assets have evolved beyond their early speculative phase and are increasingly being integrated into the financial system as programmable infrastructure for payment settlements and other capital markets activity. One of the clearest examples is the rapid growth of stablecoins, which now represent more than $300 billion in circulation and facilitate over $1 trillion in annual transaction volume. At the same time, we are seeing the early stages of a broader transformation in capital markets through the tokenization of real-world assets. Today, approximately $18 billion of assets are tokenized in various blockchains and institutional participation has accelerated significantly, particularly following the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs in early 2024.
As these trends develop, the capabilities of the underlying blockchain infrastructure become increasingly important. In our view, Avalanche is one of the most compelling platforms supporting the next phase of adoption with subsecond transaction finality and a unique subnet architecture known as the Avalanche layer-one that enables institutions to launch fully customizable blockchain environments. This architecture has attracted growing institutional engagement with organizations, including Apollo, Citi, JPMorgan and KKR exploring tokenization initiatives on Avalanche. This ecosystem continues to expand, supported by a global validator network, hundreds of decentralized applications and attractive staking economics. At the same time, the regulatory environment is evolving in ways that support broader adoption.
Recent U.S. legislative initiatives, including the GENIUS Act and the ongoing work toward the CLARITY Act represent important steps towards establishing clear frameworks for stablecoins and digital assets within regulated financial markets. Taken together, these technological, institutional and regulatory developments reinforce our view that blockchain networks designed for institutional grade infrastructure will play an increasingly important role in the future of finance. For AVAX One, these are not just industry trends. They are the foundation of the strategy we are building. To strengthen our platform, we've assembled a group of experienced industry leaders and strategic partners with deep expertise across digital assets, capital markets and institutional finance.
Our advisers include Anthony Scaramucci of SkyBridge Capital and Brett Tejpaul, Head of Coinbase Institutional and former Head of Digital Assets at Barclays, and we are supported by our sponsor, Hivemind Capital, a leading digital asset investment firm. AVAX One is built around several complementary strategies that enable us to participate directly in the growth of the Avalanche ecosystem while generating long-term shareholder value. The foundation of our model is taking our AVAX tokens, which are in protocol native rewards paid in AVAX enabling us to compound AVAX per share while maintaining direct exposure to the growth of the Avalanche ecosystem. In addition, we are looking to build our proprietary validator infrastructure on Avalanche.
By operating validator modes, we can become an active participant in securing the network while creating the opportunity to earn delegation fees as other token holders take through our platform. Beyond these network native revenue streams, we are pursuing a disciplined fintech acquisition strategy focused on identifying established financial platforms that can benefit from migrating elements of their infrastructure onto Avalanche. By bringing financial workflows on chain, we believe these businesses can achieve faster settlement, improved transparency and greater scalability while generating cash flow to support continued platform expansion. We are also selectively participating in institutional-grade DeFi opportunities across the Avalanche ecosystem.
As an example, earlier this month, we announced a partnership with Treehouse to expand yield generation on our AVAX holdings, deploying more than 800,000 AVAX into its liquid staking infrastructure. This deployment is expected to generate an approximate yield of 6% while providing additional flexibility to participate in broader on-chain financial activity. We believe these initiatives position AVAX One as a unique public market platform for participating in the growth of Avalanche and the broader expansion of on-chain finance. Looking ahead, we are entering 2026 with a fundamentally transformed operating model following the launch of our AVAX digital asset treasury strategy in November 2025.
While last year reflected a transitional period, we saw meaningful momentum in the fourth quarter, and we're optimistic for what the year ahead holds for our business. With that, I will now turn the call over to Chris Polimeni, our CFO, to review our fourth quarter financial results. Chris?
Christopher Polimeni: Thank you, Jolie. As a quick reminder, as we review our fourth quarter 2025 financial results, all comparisons and variance commentary refer to the prior year quarter unless otherwise specified. Total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025 increased materially to $1.1 million compared to approximately $27,000 in the prior year fourth quarter, driven by the implementation of our new Avalanche digital asset treasury strategy, which generated approximately $607,000 in staking rewards in Q4 '25, coupled with a full quarter of Bitcoin mining in '25, which generated approximately $480,000 in revenue. Total operating expenses in Q4 '25 were $16.8 million compared to $2.1 million in Q4 '24.
This increase was primarily driven by a $7.8 million non-cash unrealized loss on the market value of our digital assets as well as a $5.6 million non-cash impairment related to intellectual property related to a patent for fiber-rich flour we purchased in 2021. Excluding these noncash charges, operating expenses for the fourth quarter of '25 were $3.4 million. It's worth noting that the previously mentioned $3.4 million includes approximately $500,000 of certain onetime costs related to the pipe financing and strategic transformation implemented in the fourth quarter. These costs included items such as legal and professional fees as well as severance to former employees.
Net loss for the fourth quarter of '25 was $16.6 million or $4.11 per diluted share compared to a net loss of approximately $1.9 million or $12.69 per diluted share in Q4 of '24. As of December 31, 2025, our cash and cash equivalents were $22.1 million compared to $490,000 as of 12/31/24. We believe this cash balance provides us with approximately 3 years of operating runway without the need to raise any external capital. As of December 31, '25, the last day of the fourth quarter, we held 13.9 million Avalanche tokens with a net value of $133.3 million as of March 26, 2026.
Since the inception of our digital asset treasury strategy in November 25, we have generated approximately $2.5 million of AVAX tokens in staking rewards, which represents an annualized yield of approximately 5.5%. Looking ahead, we will maintain a prudent approach to capital allocation. In November, our Board authorized a $40 million share repurchase program. And through today, we've repurchased approximately 3.3 million shares. We continue to believe our shares are trading at a meaningful discount to the intrinsic value of the business and view that as an attractive opportunity to deploy capital. We've been opportunistic with these repurchases and expect to remain disciplined in how we allocate capital going forward.
Balancing share buybacks with continued investment in Avalanche accumulation and staking initiatives with the goal of maximizing long-term Avalanche per share and overall shareholder value. We expect the full year benefit of Avalanche token accumulation and staking to meaningfully scale our revenue profile and drive positive EBITDA in 2026 under current market conditions. Our guidance reflects a material improvement in both revenue and profitability, supported by disciplined capital deployment and a structure designed to generate operating leverage across a range of digital asset price scenarios. Importantly, our model is designed to generate consistent operating cash flow through staking and related activities, allowing us to fund operations without the need to liquidate any digital asset holdings. This concludes our prepared remarks.
We will now open it up for questions from the participants on the call. Operator, back to you.
Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Devin Ryan with Citizens Bank.
Noah Katz: This is Noah Katz on for Devin. First, I'd like to start off with a question on your M&A pipeline. Thanks for the color on your capital allocation priorities. You mentioned advancing opportunities to expand the footprint and generating cash flow for platform expansion. Can you talk about how the M&A search is going and what type of businesses you're interested in looking at on a deal profile and size level? And then off of that, what type of gaps are you trying to close on through these acquisitions?
Jolie Kahn: So thank you for the question. First of all, we're not going to give specific numbers at this time. We're working on the strategy in conjunction with our Board and with Hivemind as our asset manager. Suffice it to say, we're looking at businesses that have a good strong history of operations and with positive EBITDA and looking for businesses in a price range that's relatively appropriate given the amount of cash that we have on hand and our desire to not further dilute the stockholdings of our current shareholders.
Noah Katz: Okay. Makes sense. And then as a follow-up further on your capital allocation. We saw you completed the $3.3 million of share repurchases under the $40 million authorization. How do you prioritize between share repurchases and incremental Avalanche purchases? What would tilt you toward buybacks versus token buying?
Jolie Kahn: Well, it really depends on where the market is. Right now, our stock is significantly undervalued in our opinion. So in those circumstances, obviously, it mitigates towards the repurchase of shares versus the purchase of Avalanche, but we have a very, very close conversation that goes on a periodic basis, at least once a week with our asset manager, and we make sure that what we're doing is consistent with our goals and with their advice given their expertise in the market.
Operator: Our next question comes from Bill Papanastasiou with Chardan Capital Markets.
Bill Papanastasiou: I just wanted to touch on the M&A pipeline as well. Without getting too granular, can you speak to whether some of the targets that you're looking at are currently or could intersect with the Avalanche platform? Or are you looking at this more from the sense of a diversification play for your overall strategy?
Jolie Kahn: At the moment, we're looking at various technologies and businesses that would benefit from being on the Avalanche platform. If you look at the evolution of blockchain, originally, there was only Bitcoin, which was one asset and one chain. Then there was a second level of evolution such as Ethereum, which is one chain and multiple assets. The beauty of Avalanche is it's multiple chains and multiple assets, both. So there's a lot of flexibility.
And with using the L1 layer, you basically can customize for all sorts of issues, including cybersecurity, different permission levels and the speed with which transactions take place on the Avalanche blockchain, you can go through a complex set of transactions literally in under 1 second. A good example is what California did with transferring auto titles. A good part of the California DMV is now running on a technology that runs on Avalanche. And literally transferring titles used to take weeks and months in some parts of California, those same transactions now can be done in a matter of minutes.
So any sort of business along those lines where there's a need to have speed combined with enhanced compliance and also the ability to really customize how it works are all targets that we'd like to look at and that we think are very well supported and uniquely supported by Avalanche.
Bill Papanastasiou: Appreciate that color. That's really helpful. And then just as a follow-up, perhaps you could just touch on your Bitcoin mining operations, if it wasn't already touched upon. What -- where do they stand today? And do you see the company continuing to mine Bitcoin into the kind of medium to longer term?
Christopher Polimeni: Yes, we're going to continue to mine Bitcoin
Four leading AI models discuss this article
"AVX's shift to an AVAX treasury creates direct exposure to crypto volatility that non-cash losses and vague M&A plans fail to offset."
AVX's Q4 results show revenue jumping to $1.1M from staking and mining, with 13.9M AVAX held and 5.5% staking yield, yet a $16.6M net loss driven by $13.4M in non-cash charges leaves the pivot to an Avalanche treasury looking fragile. Cash at $22.1M buys three years of runway and a $40M buyback is underway, but the model depends on sustained AVAX appreciation and 6%+ DeFi yields to hit 2026 positive EBITDA. Institutional Avalanche adoption and advisers like Scaramucci add narrative weight, yet prior operations (Bitcoin mining plus a 2021 flour patent) suggest execution risk in a sector prone to sharp drawdowns.
If AVAX prices rise 30-50% and staking delegation fees scale faster than modeled, the treasury strategy could compound holdings per share and justify the multiple despite 2025 losses.
"AVX is a leveraged AVAX bet disguised as a fintech company, but it's burning cash operationally while betting on token appreciation and a speculative M&A pipeline to justify its existence."
AVX is a shell-to-AVAX treasury play with a critical structural problem: it's essentially a closed-end fund holding 13.9M AVAX ($133.3M as of March 26) trading at a discount to NAV. Management claims the stock is 'significantly undervalued,' but the real issue is whether staking yield (5.5% annualized, ~$2.5M YTD) justifies the 7.8% non-cash loss on digital assets in Q4 alone. The M&A strategy is vague—'businesses that benefit from Avalanche'—and the $22.1M cash runway assumes zero token price volatility. Most concerning: Q4 revenue was $1.1M but operating expenses (ex-noncash) were $3.4M, meaning they're burning cash operationally even with staking. The $40M buyback authorization is a red flag—it signals management believes shares are cheap, but it also locks capital away from AVAX accumulation when the thesis depends on compounding per-share holdings.
If AVAX rallies 50%+ in 2026 and staking yields compound as promised, the per-share NAV accretion could be substantial enough to justify the current discount and offset operational burn. Management's Avalanche conviction and institutional partnerships (JPMorgan, Citi, Apollo) aren't fabricated.
"AVAX One is an inefficient, high-overhead vehicle for retail investors to gain exposure to AVAX tokens that they could otherwise hold directly without the risk of corporate mismanagement."
AVAX One is attempting a pivot from a legacy business—evidenced by the bizarre $5.6 million impairment on 'fiber-rich flour' IP—into an Avalanche-native treasury play. While the 5.5% annualized staking yield is a clean, non-dilutive revenue stream, the company is effectively functioning as a leveraged proxy for AVAX price action wrapped in a corporate shell. The $40 million buyback program, while touted as 'undervalued,' looks like an attempt to put a floor under a stock that is fundamentally just a volatile crypto-holding company. Without clear M&A targets that actually generate cash flow, they are simply burning opex to hold tokens that investors could buy directly on any exchange without the management fee drag.
If management successfully executes its M&A strategy to bring real-world assets onto Avalanche subnets, the company could trade at a premium to its NAV by offering institutional investors a regulated, equity-based vehicle for on-chain yield.
"The primary risk is that the company’s value is largely a function of volatile AVAX holdings and staking yields; without sustained AVAX appreciation and successful monetization of its M&A strategy, the cash runway and equity value are exposed to material downside."
AVX One is pivoting to an Avalanche-based digital asset treasury, using staking and on-chain opportunities to drive value while pursuing M&A on Avalanche. Q4’25 revenue was modest at $1.1M, but non-cash charges ($7.8M unrealized asset loss, $5.6M IP impairment) produced a $16.6M net loss. Cash stood at $22.1M, implying ~3 years of runway if conditions hold, with 13.9M AVAX on balance sheet valued at $133M as of 3/26/26. The upside hinges on continued AVAX price strength, favorable staking economics (~5.5% annualized) and successful integration of fintech targets onto Avalanche. Regulatory clarity and execution risk remain meaningful headwinds.
The upside relies on volatile crypto prices and token-based rewards; a sustained decline in AVAX or staking yields collapsing could erase runway and force capital raises. The M&A thesis is unproven and regulatory shifts could upend the model.
"AVAX concentration without hedges risks forced sales that could accelerate losses beyond the modeled runway."
Claude flags the $3.4M quarterly opex burn against $1.1M revenue, but the bigger unmentioned risk is that a 20% AVAX drawdown would erase $26M in NAV—more than the entire $22.1M cash buffer. Management would then face pressure to liquidate tokens at depressed prices to cover costs, directly sabotaging the per-share compounding that the buyback and staking strategy require.
"The real risk isn't AVAX price alone; it's correlated failure of both token price and staking yield economics, which would compress runway and force dilutive raises."
Grok's liquidation cascade scenario is real, but underspecifies the trigger. A 20% AVAX drop alone doesn't force sales—management has 3 years of cash runway. The actual cliff comes if staking yields collapse *and* AVAX falls simultaneously, compressing both revenue and NAV at once. That's the stress test nobody modeled: what if Avalanche's validator economics deteriorate? Then the entire thesis—not just per-share math, but the runway itself—breaks in months, not years.
"The $40M buyback program is a strategic misallocation of capital that sacrifices future M&A flexibility for a futile attempt to narrow the NAV discount."
Claude, you’re missing the governance risk. The board is authorized to buy back shares, but that capital is effectively 'trapped' in a structure that lacks the liquidity of a pure-play ETF. If the $40M buyback is executed while the discount to NAV persists, they aren't just 'supporting' the stock; they are actively shrinking the treasury's ability to pivot into M&A. They are cannibalizing their future growth for a temporary, likely ineffective, share price floor.
"Staking yields are token-based; monetizing them requires selling AVAX, creating price pressure that undermines runway and per-share compounding, not a resilient cash-flow engine."
Gemini’s governance critique misses the core fragility: staking yields are token-based, not cash, so monetizing 5.5% yield requires selling AVAX. That sells pressure, kills price, and undermines the runway and per-share compounding just as the buyback tries to prop up the stock. If AVAX volatility or staking economics deteriorate, the model fatally hinges on never-landing expectations, not a resilient cash-flow engine.
The panel consensus is bearish on AVX One, with key concerns being the company's high operational expenses, reliance on volatile AVAX price and staking yields, and the risk of a liquidation cascade in case of a significant AVAX drawdown and/or staking yield collapse. The $40M buyback program is seen as an ineffective measure to support the stock price and may hinder future growth.
None explicitly stated, as the panel's overall sentiment is bearish.
Liquidation cascade due to significant AVAX drawdown and/or staking yield collapse, which could erode the company's net asset value and cash buffer, forcing token sales at depressed prices.