Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents in the financial statements. As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company had U.S. Treasury Bills with original maturity dates of three months or less classified within cash and cash equivalents in the amount of $4,016,156 and $0, respectively.

The Company has cash deposits in financial institutions that, at times, may be in excess of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) insurance limits. The Company has not experienced losses in such accounts and periodically evaluates the creditworthiness of its financial institutions. As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company had cash and cash equivalent balances in excess of FDIC insurance limits of $6,094,774 and $1,658,188, respectively.

Digital Assets

The Company’s digital assets primarily include HYPE (the Hyperliquid network’s utility token), liquid staking tokens (including HiHYPE kHYPE, and kmHYPE, each referred to as an “LST”), and KNTQ (the governance token of the Kinetiq liquid staking protocol). HYPE and KNTQ are accounted for in accordance with ASC 350-60, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Crypto Assets (“ASC 350-60”). LSTs are classified as intangible assets in accordance with ASC 350-30, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—General Intangibles Other Than Goodwill (“ASC 350-30”). Since LSTs represent a claim on HYPE, they do not fall under the scope of ASC 350-60.

HYPE digital assets are initially recorded at cost and then subsequently remeasured at fair value as of the balance sheet date with changes in fair value recognized as unrealized gains or losses in operating income (expense). Upon derecognition of HYPE, the Company recognizes realized gains or losses in operating income (expense).

Digital intangible assets with indefinite lives; they are not amortized but are subject to impairment. LSTs are recorded at acquisition cost, reflecting the fair value of underlying HYPE deposited in the liquid staking pool and tracked by lot. These assets are presented as digital intangible assets in the Balance Sheets at cost, net of any recognized impairments. The Company tests digital intangible assets for impairment quarterly and more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate that it is more likely than not that the asset is impaired. The test for impairment consists of a comparison of the fair value of the digital intangible assets with their carrying amounts. Should market prices fall below carrying value, the resulting difference is recognized as an impairment charge. Such impairment charges are presented as impairment of digital intangible assets in operating income (expense).

The Company uses the specific identification method to track the cost basis of all digital assets and digital intangible assets.

Revenue Recognition

The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, applying the five‑step model: identify the contract, identify performance obligations, determine the transaction price, allocate the transaction price to performance obligations, and recognize revenue when or as performance obligations are satisfied. Transaction prices include fixed and variable consideration, and estimates of variable consideration are included only to the extent that a significant reversal of revenue is not probable; the Company applies the as‑invoiced practical expedient when applicable. The Company evaluates whether it is a principal or agent and reports revenue net when acting as an agent.

Native Staking

The Company operates a co-branded Hyperliquid validator, known as “Kinetiq × Hyperion” (“KxH”), with Kinetiq Research Pte (“Kinetiq”) and Pier Two Pty Ltd (“Pier Two”) and earns HYPE as rewards and commission income from native staking by validating transactions and maintaining network security. The Company participates in the native staking through both self-staking (using the Company’s own tokens) and providing validation services to third-party delegators. The Company delegates its own HYPE digital assets to the co-branded KxH validator node and receives staking rewards in return. The Company is also entitled to commission income charged to third party delegators, for successfully validating transactions. Commission income from validation services is shared among the Company, Kinetiq and Pier Two. These rewards are received by the Company directly from the Hyperliquid network. The provision of services related to transaction validation on the Hyperliquid blockchain network (through both staking rewards and commission income) is an output of the Company’s ordinary activities.

The Company recognizes revenue from native staking in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, by following the five steps. Revenue is recognized upon transfer of control of promised products or services (i.e., performance obligations) to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for promised goods or services.

The Company earns commission income in the form of HYPE from validator operations and staking rewards in the form of HYPE from self-staking. A contract with enforceable rights and obligations exists when the Company stakes its tokens to the validator and starts solving blocks on the Hyperliquid blockchain, which is the customer by analogy. Staking rewards and commission income are recognized as revenue when the Company satisfies its performance obligations (i.e., successfully validates blocks or transactions as determined by the protocol). HYPE rewards are variable consideration, resolved at the conclusion of each block. The HYPE earned is noncash consideration and therefore measured at fair value at the inception of each contract.

Prior to December 2025, the Company did not have control over the validator and was therefore not considered the principal for the validation service. Consequently, staking rewards and commission income were recognized in revenue on a net basis, reflecting only the portion of protocol rewards and commission that the Company was entitled to receive. After gaining unilateral control of the validator on December 15, 2025, the Company became the principal for the validator service. From that point onward, rewards and commissions have been presented on a gross basis following this change.

Temporary HYPE Asset Use Services

The Company enters into arrangements with customers under which it provides the temporary use of its HYPE tokens in exchange for consideration. The Company’s obligation is to make the digital assets available for use over a defined period, which represents a single performance obligation that is satisfied over time as the counterparty simultaneously receives and consumes the benefits of use. In arrangements where control of the digital assets transfers to the customer, the Company records a receivable representing its right to receive the digital assets at the end of the contractual term. Consideration is primarily based on transaction volume, trading activity, or other usage-based metrics generated during the contract term. The Company recognizes revenue in the amount to which it has the right to invoice for services performed, consistent with the application of the right-to-invoice practical expedient.

Digital Assets Receivable and Credit Loss Allowance

The Company records a digital asset receivable when digital assets are transferred or deposited into a wallet controlled by a third party and the Company determines that it has lost control of the assets in accordance with the definition of control in ASC 606 (i.e., the Company no longer has the ability to direct the use of, and obtain substantially all of the remaining benefits from, the digital assets). In assessing whether control has transferred, the Company considers factors such as legal title, rights to transfer or pledge the assets, access to private keys, contractual restrictions, and the practical ability to direct the use of the digital assets. The Company evaluates the legal form and economic substance of each arrangement and documents the basis for its control conclusions.

If the economic substance of an arrangement is more akin to a financing or lending arrangement, the Company accounts for the arrangement in a manner consistent with crypto asset lending arrangements rather than as a sale or transfer of digital assets. In such cases, the digital asset receivable is initially and subsequently measured at the fair value of the underlying digital assets, with changes in fair value recognized in “Unrealized gains or losses — digital assets.”

The Company records an allowance for credit losses on digital asset receivables arising from arrangements in which control of the digital assets transfers to a third party, as described in Note 7 – Digital Assets – Revenue Recognition. The allowance for credit losses is measured in accordance with the current expected credit loss (“CECL”) model under ASC 326, Current Expected Credit Losses (“ASC 326”). In estimating expected credit losses, the Company considers counterparty-specific information, contractual terms, conditions in the digital asset market, conditions in the broader financial services market (including observed industry delinquency trends), corporate default rate forecasts published by third-party industry participants, and other relevant transaction-specific factors. Due to limited historical loss experience for digital asset receivables, the Company utilizes external data and applies a probability of default (“PD”) and loss given default (“LGD”) methodology.

As of December 31, 2025, the Company recorded an allowance for credit losses of $0.4 million related to the digital asset receivable based on the PD/LGD methodology.

Liquid Staking Income

Beginning in July 2025, the Company used the proceeds from its capital raising activities to acquire and deploy HYPE in staking activities, which includes native staking and liquid staking. Revenue from native staking is accounted for in accordance with ASC 606.

The Company engages in liquid staking arrangements by staking HYPE in exchange for LSTs, primarily kHYPE and HiHYPE. kHYPE serves as the standard retail liquid staking receipt token for HYPE, while HiHYPE is an institutional variant of kHYPE. HiHYPE is issued through Kinetiq’s gated iHYPE pool specifically for the Company, offering the same economic exposure as kHYPE. Both HiHYPE and kHYPE feature a floating redemption rate determined by the value of the underlying staked HYPE and associated rewards, penalties, and fees. These tokens—HiHYPE and kHYPE—are transferable, can be monetized, and may be utilized in other transactions, even while the original HYPE assets remain staked.

When HYPE is deposited into liquid staking pools, the Company recognizes any realized gains or losses on the HYPE in accordance with ASC 610-20, Operating (Income) Expense — Gains and Losses from the Derecognition of Nonfinancial Assets, since the Company relinquishes control over the HYPE deposited in the pool.

Income Tax

Income Taxes

The Company is subject to Federal, New York State and City, and State of California income taxes and files tax returns in those jurisdictions.

The Company recognizes deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of items that have been included or excluded in the financial statements or tax returns. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined on the basis of the difference between the tax basis of assets and liabilities and their respective financial reporting amounts, or temporary differences, at enacted tax rates in effect for the years in which such temporary differences are expected to reverse.

The Company utilizes a recognition threshold and measurement process for financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return.

The Company’s policy is to classify assessments, if any, for tax-related interest as interest expense and penalties as selling, general and administrative expenses in the statements of operations.

On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) was signed into law, which makes permanent many of the tax provisions enacted in 2017 as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that were set to expire at the end of 2025. In addition, OBBBA makes changes to certain U.S. corporate tax provisions, but many are generally not effective until 2026. While further evaluation is ongoing, the new tax legislation is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.

Arctic Vision License Agreement

On August 10, 2020, the Company entered into the Arctic Vision License Agreement pursuant to which Arctic Vision may develop and commercialize MicroPine for the treatment of progressive myopia and MicroLine for the treatment of presbyopia in Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) and South Korea. On September 14, 2021, the Company and Arctic Vision executed Amendment 1 to the Arctic Vision License Agreement pursuant to which Arctic Vision may develop and commercialize MicroStat for the treatment of mydriasis in Greater China and South Korea.

Milestone Payments

The Company may receive up to $37.7 million in milestone payments in connection with the Arctic Vision License Agreement, as amended, based on various development and regulatory milestones, including the initiation of clinical research and regulatory approvals in Greater China and South Korea, related to the filing of marketing authorization applications of approximately $13.2 million and the receipt of regulatory approvals of approximately $24.5 million. It is currently unknown when or if remaining milestones related to the performance obligations will be achieved.

Royalty Payments

Arctic Vision also will purchase its supply of MicroPine, MicroLine and MicroStat from the Company or, for such products not supplied by the Company, pay the Company a mid-single digit percentage royalty on net sales of such products, subject to certain adjustments. No royalty payments were earned through December 31, 2025. The Company will pay a percentage in the range from 30% to 40% of such payments, royalties, or net proceeds of such supply to Senju Pharmaceuticals Co.,Ltd. (“Senju”) pursuant to a License Agreement.

Intangible Assets

Definite-lived intangible assets are stated at fair value as of the date acquired, less accumulated amortization. Amortization is calculated based on the estimated useful lives of the assets, using the straight-line method.

The Company periodically evaluates the remaining useful lives of its intangible assets to determine whether events or circumstances warrant a revision to the remaining periods of amortization. In the event that the estimate of an intangible asset’s remaining useful life has changed, the remaining carrying amount of the intangible asset is amortized prospectively over that revised remaining useful life. If it is determined that an intangible asset has an indefinite useful life, such as certain digital assets, that intangible asset would be subject to impairment testing annually or whenever events or circumstances indicate that its carrying value may not, based on future undiscounted cash flows or market factors, be recoverable.

Research and Development

Research and development expenses are charged to operations as incurred. The Company records prepaid expenses on its balance sheet for the payment of research and development expenses in advance of services being provided.

The Company’s license agreements were determined to represent collaborative arrangements. Pursuant to these collaborative arrangements, the licensee is required to reimburse the Company for certain research and development expenses. Providing research and development activities in the context of a collaboration agreement is not an ordinary activity for the Company. Accordingly, the licensee is not a customer with respect to the reimbursements and such payments are not subject to ASC 606. The Company’s policy is

to recognize the reimbursements as contra – research and development expense. The receivable for such payments, plus other license payments, is included in “prepaid expenses and other current assets” on the accompanying balance sheets.

Subsequent Events

The Company has evaluated subsequent events through the date which the financial statements were issued. Based upon the evaluation, the Company did not identify any recognized or non-recognized subsequent events that would have required adjustment or disclosure in the financial statements, except as disclosed in Note 16 (“Subsequent Events”).

Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07 “Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures.” These amendments require a public entity to disclose significant segment expenses and other segment items on an annual and interim basis and to provide in interim periods all disclosures about a reportable segment’s profit or loss and assets that are currently required annually. Public entities with a single reporting segment are required to provide both the new disclosures and all of the existing disclosures required under ASC 280. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted this ASU for the year ended December 31, 2024. Since this new ASU addresses only disclosures, the adoption of this ASU did not have a material effect on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which requires public entities, on an annual basis, to provide disclosure of specific categories in the rate reconciliation, as well as disclosure of income taxes paid disaggregated by jurisdiction. ASU 2023-09 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted ASU 2023-09 for the year ended December 31, 2025. While the adoption of this ASU did not have a material effect on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations or cash flows, there will be increased disclosures required in the Notes to the Financial Statements.