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CYPHERPUNK TECHNOLOGIES INC.

For the period ended Mar 31, 2026. Filed May 14, 2026.

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Mar 31, 2026 · Filed May 14, 2026

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Previous report: 10-Q

Period ended 2025-09-30; filed 2025-11-12.

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Current report: 10-Q

Period ended 2026-03-31; filed 2026-05-14.

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.

Compared 69 previous paragraphs and 59 current paragraphs.

32 unchanged; 17 reworded; 9 added; 17 removed; 3 previous and 1 current paragraphs rearranged.

Tables are not compared: 34 previous and 31 current tables excluded. Dates, whitespace, punctuation and numbering changes are ignored; changes to financial figures remain significant.

A changed paragraph is not evidence that risk increased or decreased. An unchanged paragraph does not establish that risk stayed the same.

Added paragraphs (9)

Current report

We are a privacy technology company implementing a digital asset treasury strategy anchored by Zcash and, through our subsidiary Leap, are developing novel therapies for patients with cancer.

Current report

We anticipate that our general and administrative expenses will increase in the future as we increase our headcount to expand our operations. We also anticipate that we will incur increased accounting, audit, legal, regulatory, compliance, director and officer insurance costs as well as investor and public relations expenses associated with being a public company that has a privacy technology and digital asset treasury strategy.

Current report

Unrealized Loss on Change in Fair Value of Embedded Derivative

Current report

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, we recorded a $77.6 million unrealized loss on the change in fair value of embedded derivative.
Removed paragraphs (17)

Previous report

We are a biopharmaceutical company developing biomarker-targeted antibody therapies designed to treat patients with cancer. Our clinical stage program is sirexatamab (DKN-01), a monoclonal antibody that inhibits Dickkopf-related protein 1, or DKK1. We also have a preclinical antibody program, FL-501, that is designed to treat cachexia-related indications.

Previous report

In October 2025, we raised gross proceeds of $58.88 million in cash led by Winklevoss Capital to initiate a digital asset treasury strategy. In the transaction, we issued: (i) 15,212,311 shares of common stock, (ii) pre-funded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 80,768,504 shares of common stock, and (ii) warrants to purchase an additional 71,985,605 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.5335 per share. Parcrest International (“Parcrest”) served as our placement agent in connection with the October 2025 Private Placement. On the Closing Date, we paid Parcrest $1.5 million, of which $1.0 million was paid in cash and the remainder in the form of warrants (the “Placement Agent Warrants”), which are of the same series and have the same terms as the Common Warrants, to purchase up to 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock.

Previous report

In November 2025, we appointed Khing Oei as Chairman of the Boad of Directors, and Will McEvoy as Chief Investment Officer and a Board member. In conjunction with these appointments, Christopher Mirabelli will step down from his role as Chairman of the Board of Directors, while remaining a Board member.

Previous report

Khing Oei is a seasoned investor with a strong track record of investing in public, private and digital markets. He is the Founder and CEO of Treasury, an emerging euro-denominated Bitcoin treasury firm. Before Treasury, Mr. Oei was the Founder and CEO of Captur (formerly AlphaSwap), a decentralized asset management platform. He was previously the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Eyck Capital, a London-based event-driven hedge fund focused on distressed and special situations across credit and equities, managing over $200 million in assets. Prior to that role, Mr. Oei was a Managing Principal and Portfolio Manager at Bardin Hill (formerly Halcyon), a $10 billion multi-strategy hedge fund where, as CEO of its European operations, he led European distressed investments and managed the firm’s $2.5 billion CLO platform. Mr. Oei began his career at Goldman Sachs in the Special Situations Group and later worked at Fortress Investment Group’s Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund.

Previous report

Will McEvoy is a Principal at Winklevoss Capital, where he leads investing and identifies opportunities on the frontier, from crypto and space to energy, bio, and defense. He focuses on companies and technologies that slow entropy and create order in critical domains. Before joining Winklevoss Capital, Will authored Bitcoin and crypto research and Fundstrat and helped build one of Dynasty Financial Partners’ highest performing client platforms. He also serves on the board of Real Bedford FC and holds a degree from the George Washington University.

Previous report

We believe that privacy-protecting assets and related technologies will be critical in an increasingly digital world. We intend to acquire and hold ZEC as our primary digital asset and to be an active participant in the Zcash community. As of November 11, 2025, we have acquired 203,775.27 ZEC at an aggregate purchase price of approximately $50.0 million, or $245.37 per ZEC.

Previous report

Zcash functions much like Bitcoin, and it was created from the original Bitcoin code base. Like Bitcoin, Zcash is a digital currency that can be transmitted over a peer-to-peer payment system, except that Zcash uses a protocol called “zero-knowledge proofs” that allows users to engage in blockchain transactions while maintaining greater privacy. This cryptographic technology allows parties to decide whether or not to reveal sensitive information and enables private, public, shielding, and deshielding transactions on the Zcash blockchain. For example, the owner of a specific address is able to choose to disclose an address and transaction details to a trusted third party, potentially for compliance or audit reasons. Alternatively, transacting can work in a similar manner to the Bitcoin blockchain, where the sender and receiver addresses and value of the transfer are all publicly visible.

Previous report

In a Mini Oral session at the ESMO Congress in October 2025, we presented the final results from Part B of the DeFianCe study, a Phase 2 study of sirexatamab, an anti-DKK1 monoclonal antibody, in combination with bevacizumab and chemotherapy (Sirexatamab Arm) compared to bevacizumab and chemotherapy (Control Arm) in patients with microsatellite stable CRC who have received one prior systemic therapy for advanced disease. Sirexatamab demonstrated a statistically significant benefit on overall response rate (ORR) and progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with high levels of DKK1, along with a positive trend on ORR and PFS in the full intent-to-treat population.

Previous report

We are now in the process of engaging with regulatory agencies in the United States and Europe over the registrational pathway for sirexatamab in CRC. We are also working with a leading diagnostics research laboratory to optimize the DKK1 biomarker diagnostic test that could be used to identify CRC patients with poor prognosis and to select patients for treatment with sirexatamab. We expect to provide an update on the next steps in development and on the registrational pathway in the first quarter of 2026.

Previous report

Comparison of the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 and 2024

Previous report

Research and development expenses were $24.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $44.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. The decrease of $19.4 million in research and development expenses during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024, was primarily due to a decrease of $7.8 million in clinical trial costs and a decrease of $5.1 million in manufacturing costs due to the shut down of our clinical trials. There was also a decrease of $5.0 million in payroll and other related expenses due to a decrease in headcount of our R&D full-time employees due to a reduction in force, a decrease of $1.0 million in stock based compensation expense as there were no stock options granted during the three months ended September 30, 2025 and a decrease of $0.5 million in consulting fees related to research and development activities.

Previous report

General and administrative expenses were $6.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $9.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024. The decrease of $3.1 million in general and administrative expenses during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024, was primarily due to a $1.8 million decrease in payroll and other related expenses due to a decrease in incentive based compensation expense for our general and administrative employees and a decrease in headcount of our general and administrative employees due to a reduction in force. There was also a decrease of $0.7 million in professional fees and a decrease of $0.6 million in stock based compensation expense as there were no stock options granted during the three months ended September 30, 2025.

Previous report

During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we announced a workforce reduction involving approximately 75% of our workforce. As a result of this workforce reduction, during the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we incurred $4.5 million of charges, consisting primarily of one-time employee severance and benefit costs and stock based compensation expense related to acceleration of vesting.
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Previous wording

In October 2025, we initiated a strategy to deploy a portion of our capital raised that is not required to provide working capital for our ongoing operations to accumulate digital assets. Zcash is a protocol and blockchain network of connected devices all over the world, working together to validate transactions and maintain the Zcash ledger. ZEC is the monetary unit, or coin, of Zcash. Zcash allows for greater privacy, providing users with options for fully shielded transactions in which the sender, recipient, and amount are encrypted.

Current wording

In October 2025, we initiated a strategy to deploy a portion of our capital raised that is not required to provide working capital for our ongoing operations to accumulate digital assets. Zcash is a protocol and blockchain network of connected devices all over the world, working together to validate transactions and maintain the Zcash ledger. ZEC is the monetary unit, or coin, of Zcash. Zcash allows for transactional privacy, providing users with options for fully shielded transactions in which the sender, recipient, and amount are encrypted.

Previous wording

We renamed our company “Cypherpunk Technologies Inc.” to reflect the strategic focus on acquiring ZEC, participating in the development of Zcash, and the values of privacy and liberty. Our ongoing research and development operations will be conducted under a wholly-owned subsidiary named “Leap Therapeutics, Inc.”

Current wording

We renamed our company “Cypherpunk Technologies Inc.” to reflect the strategic focus on acquiring ZEC, participating in the development of Zcash, and the values of privacy and liberty. Our ongoing research and development operations are conducted under a wholly-owned subsidiary named “Leap Therapeutics, Inc.”

Previous wording

Our research and development activities have included conducting nonclinical studies and clinical trials, manufacturing development efforts and activities related to regulatory filings for our product candidates, primarily sirexatamab. We recognize research and development expenses as they are incurred. Our research and development expenses during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 consisted primarily of:

Current wording

Our research and development activities have included conducting nonclinical studies and clinical trials, manufacturing development efforts and activities related to regulatory filings for our product candidates, primarily sirexatamab. We recognize research and development expenses as they are incurred. Our research and development expenses during the three months ended March 31, 2026 consisted primarily of:

Previous wording

Our direct research and development expenses are tracked on a program-by-program basis and consist primarily of internal and external costs, such as employee costs, including salaries and stock-based compensation, other internal costs, fees paid to consultants, central laboratories, contractors and CROs in connection with our clinical and preclinical trial development activities. We use internal resources to manage our clinical and preclinical trial development activities and perform data analysis for such activities.

Current wording

Our direct research and development expenses are tracked on a program-by-program basis and consist primarily of internal and external costs, such as employee costs, including salaries and stock-based compensation, other internal costs, fees paid to

Previous wording

The table below summarizes our research and development expenses incurred by development program and the R&D Incentive income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024:

Current wording

The table below summarizes our research and development expenses incurred by development program and the R&D Incentive income for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025:

Previous wording

Research and development expenses were $1.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $14.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024. The decrease of $13.7 million in research and development expenses during the three months ended September 30, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024, was primarily due to a decrease of $5.3 million in clinical trial costs and a decrease of $3.7 million in manufacturing costs due to the shut down of our clinical trials. There was also a decrease of $3.3 million in payroll and other related expenses due to a decrease in headcount of our R&D full-time employees due to a reduction in force, a decrease of $0.7 million in stock based compensation expense as there were no stock options granted during the three months ended September 30, 2025 and a decrease of $0.7 million in consulting fees related to research and development activities.

Current wording

Research and development expenses were $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, compared to $12.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The decrease of $12.7 million in research and development expenses during the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the same period in 2025, was primarily due to the completion of our clinical trials and the Company’s reduction in force in June 2025. There was also a decrease of $0.2 million in consulting fees related to research and development activities.

Previous wording

General and administrative expenses were $1.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $2.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024. The decrease of $1.0 million in general and administrative expenses during the three months ended September 30, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024, was due to a $0.5 million decrease in payroll and other related expenses due to a decrease in incentive based compensation expense for our general and administrative employees and a decrease in headcount of our general and administrative employees due to a reduction in force. There was also a decrease of $0.3 million in stock based compensation expense as there were no stock options granted during the three months ended September 30, 2025 and a $0.2 million decrease in professional fees.

Current wording

General and administrative expenses were $4.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 compared to $3.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The increase of $1.7 million in general and administrative expenses during the three months ended March 31, 2026 as compared to the same period in 2025, was primarily due to a $1.6 million increase in stock based compensation expense due to RSUs granted to general and administrative employees and directors during the three months ended December 31, 2025. There was also an increase of $0.6 million in professional fees due to increased audit and financial consulting fees associated with digital assets. These increases were partially offset by a $0.5 million decrease in payroll and other related expenses due to a decrease in headcount of our general and administrative employees due to the reduction in force.

Previous wording

During the three months ended September 30, 2025, we recorded interest income of $0.1 million. During the three months ended September 30, 2024, we recorded interest income of $0.9 million. The decrease was due to a higher average cash and cash equivalent balance during the three months ended September 30, 2024.

Current wording

During the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, we recorded interest income of $0.1 million and $0.4 million, respectively. The decrease was due to a higher average cash and cash equivalent balance during the three months ended March 31, 2025.

Previous wording

We record R&D incentive income based upon the applicable percentage of eligible research and development activities under the R&D Incentive Program, which expenses included the cost of manufacturing clinical trial material. During the three months ended September 30, 2024, we expensed $0.5 million of R&D incentive income recognized during the six months ended June 30, 2024, in connection with our estimated 2024 Australian tax liability. During the three months ended September 30, 2025, we expensed $0.1 million of R&D incentive income recognized during the six months ended June 30, 2025, in connection with our estimated 2025 Australian tax liability.

Current wording

We record R&D incentive income based upon the applicable percentage of eligible research and development activities under the R&D Incentive Program, which expenses included the cost of manufacturing clinical trial material. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we recorded $0.1 million of R&D incentive income. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, we did not record any R&D incentive income.

Previous wording

During the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, we recorded an immaterial amount of foreign currency transaction gains (losses). Foreign currency transaction gains and losses are due to changes in the Australian dollar exchange rate related to activities of the Australian entity.

Current wording

During the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, we recorded an immaterial amount of foreign currency transaction losses. Foreign currency transaction losses are due to changes in the Australian dollar exchange rate related to activities of the Australian entity.

Previous wording

Since our inception, we have been engaged in organizational activities, including raising capital, and research and development activities. We do not yet have a product that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”), have not yet achieved profitable operations, nor have we ever generated positive cash flows from operations. There is no assurance that profitable operations, if achieved, could be sustained on a continuing basis. Further, our future operations are dependent on the success of efforts to raise additional capital, our research and commercialization efforts, regulatory approval, and, ultimately, the market acceptance of our products.

Current wording

Since our inception, we have been engaged in organizational activities, including raising capital, and research and development activities, and in October 2025, we implemented our digital asset treasury strategy. We have not yet achieved profitable operations or generated positive cash flows from operations, and we do not yet have a product that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”). There is no assurance that profitable operations from our privacy technology/digital asset treasury strategy or our biotechnology operations, if achieved, could be sustained on a continuing basis. Further, our future operations are dependent on the success of efforts to raise additional capital, the success of our privacy technology/digital asset treasury strategy, our biotechnology research and commercialization efforts, regulatory approval, and, ultimately, the market acceptance of our products.

Previous wording

In accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 205-40, Going Concern, we have evaluated whether there are conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the condensed consolidated financial statements are issued. As of September 30, 2025, we had an accumulated deficit of $502.8 million at September 30, 2025, and during the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we incurred a net loss of $35.4 million. We expect to continue to generate operating losses for the foreseeable future. In addition, we had cash and cash equivalents of $9.7 million as of September 30, 2025. In October 2025, we completed the October 2025 Private Placement, resulting in net proceeds of approximately $57.0 million, net of fees and offering expenses payable by us. We believe that our cash and cash equivalents of $9.7 million as of September 30, 2025, together with the $7.0 million of net proceeds from the October 2025 Private Placement that will be used to support operating the business, will be sufficient to fund our operating expenses for at least the next 12 months from issuance of these financial statements.

Current wording

In accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 205-40, Going Concern, we have evaluated whether there are conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the condensed consolidated financial statements are issued. As of March 31, 2026, we had cash and cash equivalents of $6.7 million and ZEC treasury holdings categorized as a digital asset receivable valued at $73.8 million. Additionally we had accumulated deficit of $539.7 million at March 31, 2026 and during the three months ended March 31, 2026, we incurred a net loss of $77.2 million. We expect to continue to generate operating losses for the foreseeable future. We believe that our cash and cash equivalents of $6.7 million as of March 31, 2026, together with our ability to raise additional capital from the $200.0 million Sales Agreement with Cantor, will be sufficient to fund our operating expenses for at least the next 12 months from issuance of these financial statements.

Previous wording

In addition, to support our future operations and recently announced digital asset treasury strategy, we will likely seek additional funding through public or private equity financings or government programs and will seek funding or development program cost-sharing through collaboration agreements or licenses with larger pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies. The inability to obtain funding, as and when needed, could have a negative impact on our financial condition and ability to pursue our business strategies.

Current wording

In addition, to support our future operations, we will seek additional funding through public or private, equity or debt financings and, for our biotechnology operations, we will seek funding or development program cost-sharing through collaboration agreements or licenses with larger pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies. If we do not obtain additional funding or development program cost-sharing, we could be forced to eliminate certain programs, reduce or eliminate discretionary operating expenses, and delay company expansion, which could adversely affect our business prospects. The inability to obtain funding, as and when needed, could have a negative impact on our financial condition and our ability to pursue our business strategies.

Previous wording

Net cash used in operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 was primarily related to our net loss from the operation of our business of $52.1 million and net changes in working capital, including a decrease in lease liabilities of $0.3 million. These changes were partially offset by an increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses of $2.6 million, an increase in taxes payable of $0.7 million, a decrease of $0.3 million in right-of-use asset, a decrease of $0.1 million in other assets and noncash stock-based compensation expense of $4.0 million.

Current wording

Operating activities.* *Net cash used in operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2026 was primarily related to our net loss of $77.2 million, a noncash change in deferred income taxes of $5.1 million and changes in working capital, including a decrease in accounts payable and accrued expenses of $1.6 million. These changes were partially offset by a decrease of $0.7 million in other assets, a decrease of $0.1 million in prepaid expenses and other assets, noncash stock-based compensation expense of $2.1 million and a noncash unrealized loss on the change in fair value of embedded derivative of $77.6 million.

Previous wording

Operating activities. Net cash used in operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 was primarily related to our net loss from the operation of our business of $35.4 million and net changes in working capital, including a decrease in accounts payable and accrued expenses of $5.7 million and a decrease in lease liabilities of $0.2 million. These changes were partially offset by a decrease of $0.8 million in prepaid expenses and other assets, a decrease of $0.2 million in right-of-use asset and noncash stock-based compensation expense of $3.0 million.

Current wording

Net cash used in operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2025 was primarily related to our net loss from the operation of our business of $15.4 million and net changes in working capital, including a decrease in accounts payable and accrued expenses of $0.4 million, a decrease in lease liabilities of $0.1 million and an increase in research and development incentive receivable of $0.1 million. These changes were partially offset by a decrease of $0.2 million in prepaid expenses and other assets, a decrease of $0.1 million in right-of-use asset and noncash stock-based compensation expense of $1.2 million.

Previous wording

Investing Activities. There were no investing activities during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.

Current wording

*Investing Activities.*Net cash used in investing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2026 was related to $4.0 million of cash used to purchase ZEC tokens and $5.0 million used for the investment in Znewco, Inc. (“Znewco”), doing business as Zcash Open Development Lab (“ZODL”), through a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (“SAFE”). There were no investing activities during the three months ended March 31, 2025.

Previous wording

Financing Activities. Net cash provided by financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 consisted of $40.0 million in gross proceeds from the April 2024 Private Placement and an immaterial amount of proceeds upon the exercise of stock options, partially offset by $2.9 million of offering costs paid. Net cash used in financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 consisted of $0.3 million of principal payments of insurance financing and an immaterial amount of proceeds upon the exercise of stock options.

Current wording

*Financing Activities.*Net cash provided by financing activities during the three months ended March 31, 2026, consisted of $5.7 million in net proceeds through issuance of common stock through ATM sales and the collection of stock subscription receivable of $0.2 million, partially offset by payment of $0.6 million of deferred offering costs and $0.2 million of principal payments of insurance financing. Net cash provided by financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2025 consisted of an immaterial amount of proceeds upon the exercise of stock options.
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Current report — wording carried from elsewhere

consultants, central laboratories, contractors and CROs in connection with our clinical and preclinical trial development activities. We use internal resources to manage our clinical and preclinical trial development activities and perform data analysis for such activities.
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Previous report — wording carried elsewhere

The following table summarizes our results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024:

Previous report — wording carried elsewhere

During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we recorded interest income of $0.8 million. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, we recorded interest income of $2.5 million. The decrease was due to a higher average cash and cash equivalent balance during the nine months ended September 30, 2024.

Previous report — wording carried elsewhere

During the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, we recorded an immaterial amount of foreign currency transaction gains (losses). Foreign currency transaction gains and losses are due to changes in the Australian dollar exchange rate related to activities of the Australian entity.