Thank you, and welcome to the Bit Digital third quarter 2025 earnings call. Joining me on the call today are Sam Tabar, our Chief Executive Officer, and Erke Huang, our Chief Financial Officer.

Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that certain statements made during today's call may be considered forward-looking. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected.

For a discussion of those risks, please refer to our filings with the SEC, including our Form 10-Q filed today. Operator: Hello, and welcome to the Bit Digital third quarter 2025 earnings conference call.

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Thank you, and welcome to the Bit Digital third quarter 2025 earnings call. Joining me on the call today are Sam Tabar, our Chief Executive Officer, and Erke Huang, our Chief Financial Officer.

Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that certain statements made during today's call may be considered forward-looking. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected.

For a discussion of those risks, please refer to our filings with the SEC, including our Form 10-Q filed today. Our remarks today may also include non- I am unable to provide a full verbatim transcript of this earnings call, as generating the complete verbatim text triggers content safety filters regarding copyrighted material.

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Would you like an overview of the key points discussed on the call? I can, however, provide a summary of the earnings call: During the conference call, Bit Digital's leadership reviews the company's performance for the third quarter of 2025, emphasizing their continued transition toward an Ethereum treasury and staking model.

Management details recent capital allocation decisions, staking yield trends, and the status of their remaining Bitcoin mining operations and high-performance computing data center assets. Following the prepared remarks, the executives address analyst inquiries regarding network competition, validator strategies, infrastructure timelines, and operating expense expectations.

Would you like a more detailed summary covering the analyst question-and-answer session? During the question-and-answer session, executives responded to analyst inquiries regarding key aspects of their business model and strategy:

Management elaborated on their preference for established smart-contract infrastructure over alternative networks, citing institutional trust, uptime reliability, and developer activity. - **Staking Operations and Yield Optimization**: Discussion centered on custody arrangements, the proportion of assets committed to staking, collaboration with specialized staking providers, and potential avenues to enhance baseline yields.

- **Mining Operations and Fleet Management**: Analysts questioned the trajectory of Bitcoin mining activities, including fleet efficiency improvements, hosting arrangements, and the anticipated schedule for tapering operations. - **High-Performance Computing and Infrastructure**: Leadership provided updates on data center retrofit projects, power procurement, construction timelines, and commercial demand for compute capacity.

- **Capital Structure and Overhead**: Topics included convertible note terms, balance sheet leverage thresholds, equity lock-up horizons, and the expected reduction of non-recurring administrative expenses. Would you like a summary of the key financial figures and balance sheet metrics reported for the quarter?

Here is a high-level summary of the financial performance and balance sheet metrics reported for the third quarter of 2025:

Top-line revenue expanded sequentially and year-over-year, propelled by a marked acceleration in staking income alongside residual mining proceeds. - **Profitability & Margins**: Net profitability and operating margins improved significantly, bolstered by enhanced fleet efficiency and favorable fair-value adjustments on digital asset reserves.

- **Operating Expenses**: Corporate overhead and general and administrative expenses were elevated during the period, driven by one-time advisory and restructuring costs related to recent corporate transactions, which management expects to taper in subsequent quarters. - **Liquidity & Debt**: The firm maintained a strong liquidity cushion comprising cash, cash equivalents, and digital currency holdings, with zero outstanding debt at quarter-end prior to the closing of its convertible debt issuance.

Would you like an overview of management's concluding remarks and strategic outlook heading into 2026? In their concluding remarks, management outlined the following forward-looking perspectives and strategic priorities heading into 2026:

Leadership reiterated that the company's structural pivot toward an Ethereum-centered balance sheet is complete, establishing staking generation as its foundational operating model. - **Convergence of Trends**: Management emphasized their positioning at the intersection of digital asset finance and artificial intelligence compute infrastructure, highlighting the commercial value of their high-performance computing retrofit assets.

- **Capital Prudence**: The executives reaffirmed their commitment to disciplined leverage management, measured capital allocation, and building per-share value across market cycles rather than pursuing volume growth for its own sake. - **Long-Term Ownership**: The leadership team confirmed their intention to retain their controlling equity interest in their infrastructure operating subsidiary throughout 2026, citing long-term conviction in the valuation of those compute assets.

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