Silo Pharma, Inc.

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Risks Related to Our Common Stock

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We are currently listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, a national securities exchange. Nasdaq requires companies desiring to list their common stock to meet certain listing criteria including total number of shareholders: minimum stock price, total value of public float, and in some cases total shareholders’ equity and market capitalization. Our failure to meet such applicable listing criteria could prevent us from listing our common stock on Nasdaq. In the event we are unable to have our shares traded on Nasdaq, our common stock could potentially trade on the OTCQX or the OTCQB, each of which is generally considered less liquid and more volatile than Nasdaq. Our failure to have our shares traded on the Nasdaq could make it more difficult for you to trade our shares, could prevent our common stock trading on a frequent and liquid basis and could result in the value of our common stock being less than it would be if we were able to list our shares on Nasdaq.

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As previously disclosed on a Current Report on Form 8-K filed by us on July 3, 2025, we received a notification from The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC (“Nasdaq”) notifying us that we were not in compliance with the minimum bid price requirement set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market. Specifically, Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) requires listed securities to maintain a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share, and Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A) provides that a failure to meet the minimum bid price requirement exists if the deficiency continues for a period of 30 consecutive business days. Therefore, in accordance with Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), we were provided 180 calendar days, or until December 24, 2025, to regain compliance with the Rule. If we do not regain compliance by December 24, 2025, an additional 180 days may be granted to regain compliance, so long as we meet The Nasdaq Capital Market continued listing requirement for market value of publicly-held shares and all other initial listing standards for The Nasdaq Capital Market, other than the minimum closing bid price requirement and notifies Nasdaq in writing of its intention to cure the deficiency during the second compliance period, by effecting a reverse stock split, if necessary. If we do not qualify for the second compliance period or fails to regain compliance during the second 180-day period, then Nasdaq will notify us of its determination to delist our common stock, at which as will have an opportunity to appeal the delisting determination to a Hearings Panel.

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If we are unable to regain compliance with the Nasdaq minimum bid price requirement and Nasdaq delists our common stock and warrants and we are unable to obtain listing on another national securities exchange, a reduction in some or all of the following may occur, each of which could have a material adverse effect on our shareholders:

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Digital assets have historically experienced, and are expected to continue to experience, high price volatility which may influence our financial results and the market price of our common stock.

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Digital assets like Bitcoin (BTC), and Ethereum (ETH) have historically experienced, and are expected to continue to experience, high price volatility. Such price fluctuations are likely to influence our financial results and the market price of our common stock. Our financial results and the market price of our common stock would be adversely affected, and our business and financial condition would be negatively impacted, if the price of digital assets we hold decrease substantially, including as a result of:

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Our operating results will be dependent on the price of digital assets that we own. If such price declines, our business, operating results, and financial condition would be adversely affected.

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A decline in the market value of digital assets or in the demand for trading digital assets could lead to a corresponding decline in the value of our digital assets, the number of transactions on the relevant blockchain network and, as such, the opportunities to earn block rewards and transaction fees, and could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition. Any decline in the volume of Digital Asset transactions, the price of digital assets, or market liquidity for digital assets generally may adversely affect our operating results. As part of our digital asset treasury strategy, we will have significant investments in BTC, ETH, Solana and other digital assets. Our operating results will be impacted by the revenues and profits we generate from the purchase, sale, and trading of digital asset, and financial contracts linked to thereto.

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The price and trading volume of any digital asset is subject to significant uncertainty and volatility, and may significantly decline in the future, without recovery. Future fluctuations in trading prices of the digital assets that we hold may increase the price volatility or affect the value of digital assets we acquire or hold, which could materially and adversely affect our business operations, financial performance, and prospects. There is no assurance that any Digital Asset will maintain its value or that there will be meaningful levels of trading activities to support markets in any Digital Asset.

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The availability of spot exchange traded products (ETPs) for Bitcoin and other digital assets may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

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Although BTC and other digital assets have experienced a surge of investor attention since Bitcoin was invented in 2008, until recently investors in the United States had limited means to gain direct exposure to BTC through traditional investment channels, and instead generally were only able to hold BTC through “hosted” wallets provided by digital asset service providers or through “unhosted” wallets that expose the investor to risks associated with loss or hacking of their private keys. Given the relative novelty of digital assets, general lack of familiarity with the processes needed to hold digital assets directly, as well as the potential reluctance of financial planners and advisers to recommend direct Digital Asset holdings to their retail customers because of the manner in which such holdings are custodied, some investors have sought exposure to BTC and other digital assets through investment vehicles that hold BTC and other digital assets and issue shares representing fractional undivided interests in their underlying Digital Asset holdings. These vehicles, which were previously offered only to “accredited investors” on a private placement basis, have in the past traded at substantial premiums to net asset value, or NAV, possibly due to the relative scarcity of traditional investment vehicles providing investment exposure to digital assets.

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On January 10, 2024, the SEC approved the listing and trading of spot Bitcoin ETPs, the shares of which can be sold in public offerings and are traded on U.S. national securities exchanges. The approved ETPs commenced trading directly to the public on January 11, 2024, with a trading volume of approximately $4.6 billion on the first trading day. Additionally, on May 23, 2024, the SEC approved rule changes permitting the listing and trading of spot ETPs that invest in ether, the main crypto asset supporting the Ethereum blockchain. The approved spot ETPs commenced trading directly to the public on July 23, 2024. To the extent investors view our common stock as providing exposure to digital assets, it is possible that the value of our common stock may also have included a premium over the value of our digital assets due to the prior scarcity of traditional investment vehicles providing investment exposure to digital assets or may be subject to declined due to investors now having a greater range of options to gain exposure to digital assets and investors choosing to gain such exposure through spot ETPs rather than our common stock. The possible listing and subsequent trading of spot ETPs for other digital assets offers investors another alternative to gain exposure to digital assets, which could result in a decline in the trading price of digital assets as well as a decline in the value of our common stock relative to the value of our digital assets.

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Although we are developmental-stage biopharmaceutical company, and we believe we offer a different value proposition than a passive digital asset investment vehicle such as a spot Bitcoin ETP or a spot ETH ETP, investors may nevertheless view our common stock as an alternative to an investment in an ETP, and choose to purchase shares of a spot BTC ETP instead of our common stock. They may do so for a variety of reasons, including if they believe that ETPs offer a “pure play” exposure to digital assets that is generally not subject to federal income tax at the entity level as we are, or the other risk factors applicable to an operating business, such as ours. Additionally, unlike spot ETPs, we (i) do not seek for our shares to track the value of the underlying digital assets we hold before payment of expenses and liabilities, (ii) do not benefit from various exemptions and relief under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, including Regulation M, and other securities laws, which enable spot ETPs to continuously align the value of their shares to the price of the underlying digital assets they hold through share creation and redemption, and (iii) are not required to provide daily transparency as to our digital asset holdings or our daily net asset value (NAV). Furthermore, recommendations by broker-dealers to buy, hold, or sell complex products and non-traditional ETPs, or an investment strategy involving such products, may be subject to additional or heightened scrutiny that would not be applicable to broker-dealers making recommendations with respect to our common stock. Based on how we are viewed in the market relative to ETPs, and other vehicles that offer economic exposure to digital assets, such as Bitcoin futures ETFs and leveraged BTC futures ETFs, any premium or discount in our common stock relative to the value of our digital asset holdings may increase or decrease in different market conditions.

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As a result of the foregoing factors, availability of spot ETPs for digital assets on U.S. national securities exchanges could have a material adverse effect on the market price of our common stock.

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A temporary or permanent blockchain “fork” to a Digital Asset blockchain network could adversely affect our business.

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We intend to recognize forked and airdropped assets consistent with our custodians. We may not immediately or ever have the ability to withdraw a forked or airdropped BTC and/or ETH by virtue of BTC and/or ETH that we hold with our custodians. Future forks may occur at any time. A fork can lead to a disruption of networks and our information technology systems, cybersecurity attacks, replay attacks, or security weaknesses, any of which can further lead to temporary or even permanent loss of our and our assets.

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Staking introduces a risk of loss of digital assets we stake, which could adversely affect the value of our common stock.

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As part of our digital asset treasury strategy, we may participate in process referred to as “staking” which involves deploying our digital assets that are intrinsically linked to the programmatic functioning of a public, permissionless network, for which we may earn compensation in consideration for securing the underlying blockchain network (“Staking”). Staking introduces risk of loss of the digital assets we stake. None of the Company’s digital assets, including potentially staked assets, are subject to the protections enjoyed by depositors or customers of institutions with FDIC or SIPC membership. However, many digital asset networks, including the Ethereum network, imposes three types of sanctions for validator misbehavior or inactivity, which would result in a portion of staked digital assets (e.g., ETH) being destroyed or “burned”: penalties, slashing and inactivity leaks.

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A validator may face penalties if it fails to take certain actions, such as providing a timely attestation to a block proposed by another validator. Under this scenario, a validator’s staked digital assets could be burned in an amount equal to the reward to which it would have been entitled for performing the actions.

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A more severe sanction (i.e., “slashing”) is imposed if a validator commits malicious acts related to the proposal or attestation of blocks with invalid transactions. Slashing can result in the validator having a portion of its staked digital assets immediately burned. After this initial slashing, the validator is queued for forceful removal from the blockchain network’s validator “pool,” and more of the validator’s stake is burned over a period of approximately 36 days (as is the case for the Ethereum network), with the exact amount of digital assets burned and time period determined by the protocol regardless of whether the validator makes any further slashable errors, at which point the validator is automatically removed from the validator pool.

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In the case of the Ethereum network, staked ETH may also be burned through a process known as an “inactivity leak,” which is triggered if the Ethereum protocol has gone too long without finalizing a new block. For a new block to be successfully added to the blockchain, validators that account for at least two-thirds of all staked ETH must agree on the validity of a proposed block. This means that if validators representing more than one-third of the total staked ETH are offline, no new blocks can be finalized. To prevent this, an inactivity leak causes the ETH staked by the inactive validators to gradually “bleed away” until these inactive validators represent less than one-third of the total stake, thereby allowing the remaining active validators to finalize proposed blocks. This provides a further incentive for validators to remain online and continue performing validation activities.

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There can be no guarantee that penalties, slashing or inactivity leaks and resulting losses will not occur as a result of the activities of a Staking provider. Furthermore, a Staking provider’s liability to the Company is expected to be limited, and a Staking provider may lack the assets or insurance in order to support the recovery of any losses incurred. While the Staking arrangements may provide for indemnification up to a specified cap, slashing insurance or other reimbursement programs, there can be no guarantee that the Company would recover any of its staked assets, or the value thereof, if it is subject to sanctions imposed by the applicable blockchain network.

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Staked digital assets may be inaccessible for a variable period of time, determined by a range of factors, which could result in certain liquidity risk to the Company.

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Staking digital assets are subject to the applicable protocol’s network rules and requirements. For example, under current Ethereum network protocols, staked ETH tokens are permitted to be un-staked by the holder of such ETH tokens. However, as part of the “activating” and “exiting” processes of staking, staked ETH tokens will be inaccessible for a variable period of time determined by a range of factors, including network congestion, resulting in certain liquidity risks. “Activation” is the funding of a validator to be included in the active set, thereby allowing the validator to participate in the Ethereum network’s proof-of-stake consensus protocol. “Exit” is the request to exit from the active set and no longer participate in the Ethereum network’s proof-of-stake consensus protocol. As part of these “activating” and “exiting” processes of staking on the Ethereum network, any staked ETH will be inaccessible for a period of time. The duration of activating and exiting periods are dependent on a range of factors, including network conditions. However, depending on demand, un-staking can take between hours, days or weeks to complete. This can result in certain liquidity risk, which the Company will seek to manage through a range of risk management methods.