Avax One Technology (NASDAQ:AVX) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

0:00 Good afternoon everyone and thank you for participating in today's conference call to discuss AVX-one's financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and full year ended 12/31/2025. Joining us today are the company's Chief Executive Officer, Joly Khan and Chief Financial Officer, Chris Polameni. By now, everyone should have access to AVX One's fourth quarter and full year twenty twenty five earnings press release, which was issued earlier this afternoon at approximately 04:05 p. M. Eastern Time. The release is available in the Investor Relations section of the company's Web site at www.avax1.com.

0:47 This call will also be available for webcast replay on the company's Web site. Following management remarks, we'll open up the call for your questions. Please be advised this conference call will contain statements that are considered forward looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward looking statements are subject to certain known and unknown risks and uncertainties as well as assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in these forward looking statements. These forward looking statements are also subject to other risks and uncertainties that are described from time to time in the company's filings with the SEC. Do not place undue reliance on any forward looking statements which are being made only as of the date of this call.

1:39 Except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward looking statements. For important risks and assumptions associated with such forward looking statements, please refer to the company's SEC filings. I will now hand the conference over to Joly Khan, Chief Executive Officer. Thank you. You may begin. 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 AVX One Technology. The fourth quarter of twenty twenty five was a transformational period for AVX One, as we completed our transition to an avalanche focused digital asset treasury strategy.

2:27 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.

3:15 I've spent more than three 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.

4:20 That perspective informs our strategy at AVX 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 stable coins, which now represent more than $300,000,000,000 in circulation, facilitate over $1,000,000,000,000 in annual transaction volume.

5:05 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 $18,000,000,000 of assets are tokenized to various block chains and institutional participation has accelerated significantly, particularly following the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs in early twenty twenty four. 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 sub second transaction finality and a unique subnet architecture known as the Avalanche Layer one that enables institutions to launch fully customizable blockchain environments.

6:03 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, represents important steps towards establishing clear frameworks for stable coins and digital assets within regulated financial markets.

6:54 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 AVX 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, institutional finance. Our advisors include Anthony Scaramucci of Skybridge Capital and Brett Tejpal, head of Coinbase Institutional and former head of digital assets at Barclays.

7:42 And we are supported by our sponsor, Hive Mind Capital, a leading digital asset investment firm. AVX 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 AVX tokens, which are in protocol native rewards paid in AVX, enabling us to compound AVX 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 to our platform.

8:41 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, improve 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, early this month, we announced a partnership with TreeHouse to expand yield generation on our AVX holdings, deploying more than 800,000 AVX into its liquid staking infrastructure.

9:33 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 AVX 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 AVX 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.

10:24 With that, I will now turn the call over to Chris Palomini, our CFO to review our fourth quarter financial results. Chris? Thank you, Julie. As a quick reminder, as we review our fourth quarter twenty twenty five financial results, all comparisons and variance commentary referred to the prior year quarter unless otherwise specified. Total revenue for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty five increased materially to $1,100,000 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 twenty five, coupled with a full quarter of Bitcoin mining in '25, which generated approximately $480,000 in revenue.

11:25 Total operating expenses in Q4 twenty five were $16,800,000 compared to $2,100,000 in Q4 'twenty four. This increase was primarily driven by a $7,800,000 non cash unrealized loss on the market value of our digital assets, as well as a $5,600,000 non cash impairment related to intellectual property related to a patent for fiber rich flower we purchased in 2021. Excluding these non cash charges, operating expenses for the fourth quarter of twenty five were $3,400,000 It's worth noting that the previously mentioned 3,400,000 includes approximately 500,000 of certain one time costs related to the PIPE financing and strategic transformation implemented in the fourth quarter.

12:21 These costs included items such as legal and professional fees, as well as severance to former employees. Net loss for the fourth quarter of twenty five was $16,600,000 or $4.11 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of approximately $1,900,000 or $12.69 per diluted share in Q4 of 'twenty four. As of 12/31/2025, our cash and cash equivalents were 22,100,000 compared to $490,000 as of twelvethirty onetwenty four. We believe this cash balance provides us with approximately three years of operating runway without the need to raise any external capital.

13:09 As of December 3125, the last day of the fourth quarter, we held 13,900,000 Avalanche tokens with a net value of 133,300,000 as of 03/26/2026. Since the inception of our digital asset treasury strategy in November 25, we have generated approximately $2,500,000 of AVX tokens in staking rewards, which represents an annualized yield of approximately 5.5%. Looking ahead, we'll maintain a prudent approach to capital allocation. In November, our board authorized a $40,000,000 share repurchase program. And through today, we've repurchased approximately 3,300,000 shares.

13:59 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.

14:45 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. Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star and the number one on your telephone keypad.

15:33 A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star and the number 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For any participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before And our first question comes from Devin Ryan with the Citizen Bank. You may proceed with your question. Hey, this is Noah Katz on for Devin. Thanks for taking my questions. First, I'd like to start off with a question on your M and 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 and 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?

16:30 Thank you. 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 Hive Mind as their 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 amounts of cash that we have on hand and our desire to further dilute the stock holdings of our current shareholders.

17:19 Okay, makes sense. Thanks for that. And then as a follow-up further on your capital allocation, we saw you completed the $3,300,000 of share repurchases under the $40,000,000 authorization. How do you prioritize between share repurchases and incremental Avalanche purchases? What would tilt you toward buybacks versus token buying? Thanks. 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.

18:15 And we make sure that what we're doing is consistent with our goals and with their advice given their expertise in the market. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. Our next question comes from Bill Papinastatio with Chardan Capital Markets. You may proceed with your question. Thank you and good evening. Thanks for taking my questions. I just wanted to touch on the M and A pipeline as well without getting too granular. Can you speak to, you know, what are 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? Thanks.

19:08 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 the 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 one second.

20:12 A good example is what California did with transferring auto titles. You know, 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.

21:01 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 wasn't already touched upon. You know, what where do they stand today? And do you see the company continuing to mine Bitcoin into the kind of medium to longer term? Yes, we're going to continue to mine Bitcoin medium term at least. We're opportunistically looking at expanding on a very small scale, but maintaining profitability on a site by site location basis. So, we do monitor the business. We're probably up to about 300 petahash in total in terms of our capacity.

21:53 And we're just we're not going to invest a lot of money there, but we're doing it judiciously to maintain profitability. Thank you. This now concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the floor back over to Jolie for closing comments. Thank you. As we look ahead, we remain focused on executing our strategy and scaling Avax One as a leading institutional platform within the Avalanche ecosystem and the broader on chain financial economy. We believe the foundation we've built, combined with a lean operating model and disciplined cost structure, positions us to drive long term growth and profitability, expand our digital asset treasury, and deliver enduring and increasing value for our shareholders.

22:51 Thank you all for joining us today and for your continued support and confidence in AVX One's vision. We're proud of what we've accomplished over the past few months and are very optimistic about the opportunities ahead. We look forward to speaking with you again on our next earnings call. Thank you everyone. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your participation. This concludes today's conference. Please disconnect your lines and have a wonderful day.