Form S-1
The prospectus summary should provide a brief overview of the key aspects of the offering. Refer to Regulation S-K, Item 503(a). We note your summary is limited to a discussion of your consumer products business; however, your recent press releases and investor presentations highlight that “the majority of value” is to come from a new treasury strategy that is enabled by the “smaller” nature of your consumerRest of the question
products operations. Accordingly, please revise the summary to reflect recent events and your strategy for creating value. Please also update your risk factors section to discuss the material risks associated with your new treasury strategy. We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. Please allow adequate time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of the registration statement.
Please note we have updated the business summary in the amended registration statement to include the requested disclosure and added risk factors related to the Company’s new treasury strategy.
We thank the Staff for its review of the foregoing and the Registration Statement. If you have further comments, please feel free to contact our counsel Peter Campitiello at pcampitiello@lucbro.com or by telephone at (732) 395-4517. Read in the reply ↗
We note that you have not yet filed your Form 10-K for your most recently completed fiscal year, and therefore appear to be ineligible to incorporate by reference on Form S-1. Please amend your registration statement to include all disclosure required by Form S-1 or file your Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, and update accordingly. Please refer to General Instruction VII.C. of Form S-1.Rest of the question
We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. Please allow adequate time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of the registration statement.
We have amended the registration statement to include the disclosure which cannot be incorporated by reference until the Form 10-K for the 2025 fiscal year is filed.
We thank the Staff for its review of the foregoing and the Registration Statement. If you have further comments, please feel free to contact our counsel Peter Campitiello at pcampitiello@lucbro.com or by telephone at (732) 395-4517. Read in the reply ↗
Please revise to disclose the percentage of the Trust's SOL that is currently staked and that is planned to be staked. Additionally, under an appropriate section of the prospectus, please revise to disclose with specificity the bonding and unbonding periods associated with staking SOL, discuss how they affect liquidity and disclose the material terms of any policies and procedures you have in place to manageRest of the question
liquidity in this regard. Please expand your disclosure to describe the policies and procedures you have in place or intend to adopt that govern when you exchange cash for SOL and when you monetize your SOL. Additionally, disclose the percentage of your treasury that is currently invested in SOL and disclose whether you intend to hedge your SOL 2. exposure. If so, please describe your hedging strategy. Further, we note your treasury policy focuses "primarily" on SOL. Please expand to discuss your intentions to acquire other crypto assets. 3. Please expand to describe the material terms of the Asset Management Agreement between you and GSR Strategies LLC and disclose the agreement under Transactions With Related Persons on page 50, or advise. In this regard, we note Xin Song, the Chief Executive Officer of GSR Strategies LLC, is the beneficial owner of the shares of your common stock held by GSR Growth Investments LP and that such shares represent 6.03 % of your common stock. Refer to Item 404 of Regulation S-K. How We Earn Staking Rewards, page 4 4. Please expand your disclosure to provide a materially complete description of staking on the Solana Network. Without limitation, your disclosure should address, the mechanics of the process, the participants involved, and how awards are determined. Use of Custodians and Storage of SOL Tokens, page 4 5. Please revise to describe the material terms of your agreements with the custodians, including the term, termination provisions, whether your assets are held in segregated accounts, the identity of entities that have access to the SOL, whether any entity is responsible for verifying the existence of the SOL and the insurance coverage of your SOL holdings that the custodians provide. Also, revise your disclosure to address where your third-party custodians are chartered and how they are regulated, and include the agreements with your third-party custodians as exhibits to your registration statement. How SOL is Used, page 4 6. Please expand your disclosure to describe the transaction fees on the Solana Network. Risk Factors Risks Relating to Investing in Solana, page 22 7. Please revise your risk factor disclosure to address potential impacts to the price of SOL such as competition from other crypto assets and the level of adoption of SOL relative to other crypto assets. We may use the net proceeds from any offering by the Company to purchase additional Solana..., page 24 8. Please expand this risk factor to provide quantitative information that demonstrates the volatility of SOL. Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference, page 69 We note that you have not yet filed your Form 10-K for your most recently completed fiscal year, and therefore appear to be ineligible to incorporate by reference on Form S-1. Please revise your prospectus to remove this section and include all disclosure required by Items 3 through 11 of Form S-1, including all required financial statements, or provide us with your analysis regarding your eligibility to incorporate 9. by reference on Form S-1. Alternately, file your Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, and update accordingly. Refer to General Instruction VII.C. of Form S-1.
We have revised the Prospectus Summary to include the following disclosure in response to Comment 1:
Our Staking Program
Pursuant to our treasury strategy, we will use our SOL in the treasury to generate a return through various opportunities with the most significant portion being allocated to our Staking Program. We will utilize several Validators in the Staking Program to reduce our risk with a single Validator and maximize the overall yield from the Staking Program.Read in the reply ↗Rest of the answer
We will also dedicate a portion of the SOL in our staking program to utilize smaller Validators to help improve the overall Solana ecosystem. These Validators are scrutinized through our due diligence program and are initially only given a small amount of SOL for the Company to be able to verify the expected performance and yield, and to ensure that the Validator should be included in our future allocation of SOL to Validators. Management evaluates the validators on a routine basis around performance, yield, and economics, and makes monthly adjustments on the overall allocation of the SOL in the treasury based on our evaluation. Currently we have approximately 95% of our SOL treasury staked, and target a similar or higher percentage in the future.
We maintain possession and control of the SOL when it is staked at all times. Native staking is generally considered a safe activity, as it is done in-protocol (i.e.. is built into Solana itself), and as, unlike other networks, Solana has not implemented “slashing” penalties for validators that either intentionally misbehave or perform their duties poorly. As such, the major risk with staking is that we choose a validator with poor performance who realizes a low staking yield. Additionally, as part of the “activating” and “exiting” processes of SOL staking, any staked SOL will be inaccessible for a period of time determined by a range of factors, resulting in certain liquidity risks that we manage.
Process of Staking
Management has bi-weekly meetings to evaluate treasury operations, including the staking of the Company’s SOL. Based on these meetings, management determines the allocation of the SOL treasury to the Staking Program and determines the amount of allocation to each Validator, ensuring that no single validator has such a large percentage of our stake that it represents concentration risk.
If it is determined to reduce the amount of the SOL dedicated to the Staking Program or it is determine to change the allocation of SOL to a Validator we will initiate an unstaking process and notify the Validator of the change, which effectively reverses the delegation of the SOL from the applicable validator node.
Solana has a cooldown period known as the “deactivation period,” which is the time it takes for the unstaked SOL to become fully liquid. During this period, the tokens are not actively earning rewards, but they are also not yet available for transfer or use. The length of this period can vary based on network conditions but is generally expected to be 48 hours or less. Once the cooldown period is complete, the Company will have complete control over the SOL, including the ability to sell the SOL or transfer it as determined by management.
Liquidity Management
The Company’s staking program involves the temporary loss of the ability to transfer, assign a new Validator or otherwise dispose of the SOL. Under normal conditions, the Company will regain complete control over its unstaked SOL within two days of initiating the unstaking. However, there can be no guarantee that such process will result in the Company regaining complete control of its SOL in time to satisfy its current obligations. We maintain a certain amount of liquid SOL in the treasury and a certain amount of cash to ensure that the Company is able to satisfy its current obligations.
Please refer to the revisions you made in response to prior comment 5. We note your disclosure that you and your Custodians maintain insurance policies in the event of a loss of your SOL. In addition, we note your disclosure that you have two qualified Custodians and are in the process of onboarding a third.Rest of the question
Please revise to identify the Custodians with which you have entered into agreements and disclose any limits on the insurance policies that they maintain and state whether they are adequate to fully cover a loss of your SOL.
We have revised the Prospectus Summary to include the following disclosure in response to Comment 1:
The Custodian
The Custodian is responsible for safekeeping all of the SOL owned by the Company. We maintain multiple Custodians to reduce the risk of a single failure and we plan to expand to additional custodians as our Treasury grows. The Custodian accounts are all opened by the Company, this segregates our assets into an individual custodian account owned by the Company and access is monitored and controlled by the Company.Read in the reply ↗Rest of the answer
Our Asset Management Company is given access to the Custodian accounts with established controls to ensure transactions require consensus of a minimum of two individuals when assets are being transferred between wallets and additional controls if an asset of the Treasury is moved out of the Custodians control. The assets go through the Custodians Trust Company, which maintains its own insurance and is regulated by their respective state where the trust is incorporated in. Our primary custodian is currently the BitGo Trust Company, Inc. a South Dakota corporation (“BitGo”) and is regulated by the state of South Dakota. BitGo maintains a $250,000,000 policy against loss, theft and misuse. Currently we have approximately $253,000,000 of treasury value at Bitgo, based on the SOL price of $202.51 per token. Our second custodian is Coinbase Inc., a subsidiary of Coinbase Global, Inc. a Delaware corporation, which is primarily used for the acquisition of digital assets and has an insurance policy for any cash held in the account of $250,000. We currently have less than $250,000 of cash held at Coinbase and less than $6,000,000 in SOL value, based on the SOL price of $202.51 per token. At the current price of SOL as of the date of this prospectus, these policies are not adequate to fully cover the full loss of our SOL.
Solana, as with all digital assets, can be highly volatile. Management reviews the account balances and the total value held with a custodians to allocate the Company’s holdings between multiple accounts and custodians to mitigate risk. We do not use self-storage for any of the SOL treasury assets.
We thank the Staff for its review of the foregoing and the Registration Statement. If you have further comments, please feel free to contact our counsel Peter Campitiello at pcampitiello@lucbro.com or by telephone at (732) 395-4517 or Andrew Norstrud, our CFO at andrew@upexi.com.
We note your revised disclosure in response to prior comment 1. In an appropriate section of your prospectus, please revise to disclose the material terms of your custody agreements with the BitGo Trust Company, Inc. and Coinbase Global, Inc., including term and termination provisions.Rest of the question
Please also refer to Item 601 of Regulation S-K and file the executed agreements as exhibits to your registration statement or tell us why you are not required to do so.
We have revised the Prospectus Summary and the Business Section to include the following disclosure in response to Comment 1:
Use of Custodians and Storage of SOL Tokens
We do not self-custody and only utilize third-party qualified custodians to hold our Solana. We use qualified custodians that utilize risk management and operational best practices around items like hot vs. cold storage, access controls, custody technology, insurance, etc. Our primary custodian is BitGo Trust Company, Inc. (“BitGo”). We also maintain a custodial relationship with Coinbase, Inc.Read in the reply ↗Rest of the answer
and are in the process of distributing our treasury to different custodians and onboarding other qualified custodians to ensure that we mitigate our Solana treasury risk through the use of several qualified custodians.
Storage of Our Digital Assets in our SOL Treasury
The Custodians
The Custodians are responsible for safekeeping all of the SOL owned by the Company. We maintain multiple Custodians to reduce the risk of a single failure and we plan to expand to additional custodians as our Treasury grows. The Custodian accounts are all opened by the Company, this segregates our assets into an individual custodian account owned by the Company and access is monitored and controlled by the Company. Our Asset Management Company is given access to the Custodian accounts with established controls to ensure transactions require consensus of a minimum of two individuals when assets are being transferred between wallets and additional controls if an asset of the Treasury is moved out of the Custodians control. The assets go through the Custodians Trust Company, which maintains its own insurance and is regulated by their respective state where the trust is incorporated in.
Our primary custodian is currently BitGo Trust Company, Inc. a South Dakota corporation (“BitGo”) and is regulated by the state of South Dakota. On May 1, 2025, we entered into a Custodial Services Agreement with BitGo (the “BitGo Agreement”) to hold our digital currency. The term of the BitGo Agreement is for one year with successive one-year renewals unless prior notice of non-renewal is given by either party. The Company pays BitGo a monthly digital asset storage fee based upon the market value of the assets in storage, plus $500. The BitGo Agreement is terminable by either the Company or BitGo on thirty days’ notice as a result of a breach of the Agreement and may be suspended by BitGo if the Company violates the intended use of the account or due to a change in the applicable law, litigation or bankruptcy.
Our secondary custodian is Coinbase Inc., a subsidiary of Coinbase Global, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which is primarily used for the acquisition of digital assets. On May 5, 2025, the Company entered into an Institutional Client Agreement with Coinbase (the “Coinbase Agreement”). The Coinbase Agreement is terminable at will by either the Company or Coinbase. The Company pays Coinbase its regularly scheduled fees based on the dollar trading volume over a thirty-day period. The Coinbase Agreement is terminable by either the Company or Coinbase on ten days’ notice as a result of a breach of the Agreement and may be suspended by Coinbase if the Company violates the intended use of the account or due to a change in the applicable law, governmental proceeding, litigation or bankruptcy. Coinbase may also close the Company’s account if it has been inactive for more than one year.
BitGo maintains a $250,000,000 policy against loss, theft and misuse. Currently we have approximately $253,000,000 of treasury value at Bitgo, based on the SOL price of $202.51 per token. Coinbase has an insurance policy for any cash held in the account of $250,000. We currently have less than $250,000 of cash held at Coinbase and less than $6,000,000 in SOL value, based on the SOL price of $202.51 per token. At the current price of SOL as of the date of this prospectus, these policies are not adequate to fully cover the full loss of our SOL.
Solana, as with all digital assets, can be highly volatile. Management reviews the account balances and the total value held with a custodians to allocate the Company’s holdings between multiple accounts and custodians to mitigate risk. We do not use self-storage for any of the SOL treasury assets.
Private keys are generated by the Custodians in key generation ceremonies at secure locations using offline devices that have never been connected to a network. Private keys are generated according to detailed procedures using specialized offline devices and within these secure facilities to mitigate risk of hacks, errors, or other unintended external exposure. Key ceremony processes are highly controlled, require segregation of duties across multiple parties and are reviewed and witnessed by designated oversight personnel. Thorough validations and signoffs are performed to verify the integrity and security of key generation ceremonies.
The Custodians hold a majority of SOL in cold storage and provides a user interface for the Company to manage the allocation of SOL between cold and hot storage for the wallets. The Company maintains more than 98% of its SOL treasury in cold wallets.
The Custodians have multiple, redundant cold storage sites, which are geographically distributed including sites within the United States. Cold storage locations of the Custodians are monitored by 24x7 on-site security, video surveillance and alarms, hardened room structures, and access to these facilities is controlled by multi-person controls, multi-team access rules, and multi-factor authentication. The locations of the cold storage sites may change at the discretion of the Custodians and are kept confidential by the Custodians for security purposes. Transactions from cold to hot storage require physical access, according to the above controls, to one or more cold storage facilities, as well as systematically enforced approvals and integrity verifications, before the secure device can be used to cryptographically complete the transaction. At no point during this process is the private key removed from the secure device(s) nor the cold storage facility. Once these security processes have been completed, a transfer on the Solana network can be executed, as signed using the private keys held offline in cold storage.
The Custodians also maintain geographically dispersed backups of private keys, which are cryptographically generated into shards and stored in separate locations; multiple locations must be accessed to reconstruct a single key. The storage facilities are highly secured, and include 24x7 on-premises security presence, video surveillance, and alarms for unexpected entry. Access to facilities is controlled by multi-person controls, multiteam access rules, and multi-factor authentication.
All of our Custodians have SOC type 2 reports that the Company has reviewed and we get regular bridge reports from our Custodians to help ensure the controls are being maintained. Our Custodians maintain their own insurance policies to cover our loss, which is in addition to the policies that we maintain ourselves. We currently have two qualified Custodians that we have approved for our treasury use and we are in the process of onboarding a third as part of our risk management process.
The Company is charged for storage fees, staking fees and transaction fees for services specifically requested by the Company or the Asset Management Company. Except as set forth above, the contract terms of the agreements are typically for one to three years and can be terminated upon 30 day notice and payment of all fees due and one month of additional fees.
We have filed executed contracts for both custodians in Exhibit 10.25 and 10.30 and redacted certain portions of such agreements. Our attorneys have submitted complete versions of these documents to the Commission for its review.
We thank the Staff for its review of the foregoing and the Registration Statement. If you have further comments, please feel free to contact our counsel Peter Campitiello at pcampitiello@lucbro.com or by telephone at (732) 395-4517 or Andrew Norstrud, our CFO at andrew@upexi.com.
Please amend your registration statement so that it does not include information required by Items 3 through 11 of Form S-1 that relates to financial periods that are no longer current. In this regard, we note that you incorporate by reference information from your Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2025 and that you also provide certain information required by Items 3 through 11 of Form S-1Rest of the question
directly in your registration statement that is based on your interim and year-end financial results for the periods March 31, 2025 and June 30, 2024, respectively. We further note your Form S-1 includes the report from your independent accounting firm on the financial statements for the years ended June 30, 2024 and 2023. It does not appear your independent accountants have consented to the use of this report in your Form S-1. Please correct this discrepancy by either removing the superseded 2. financial information or providing an updated consent from your independent accounting firm.
Upexi, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby requests that the effective date of the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No. 333-291879), be accelerated pursuant to Rule 461 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, so that it is declared and becomes effective at 3:00 pm Eastern Time on December 5, 2025, or as soon thereafter as possible. Read in the reply ↗
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