Universal Digital Inc. Announces Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Across North America And Asia

[PRESS RELEASE – Vancouver, Canada, June 16th, 2025]

Firm Begins Bitcoin Accumulation And Indicators Non-binding Strategic Mou With Japan’s Gfa Co., Ltd. 

Targets Launching Bitcoin Treasuries in Asia’s US$25 Trillion Public Market 

Universal Digital Inc. (the “Firm” or “Common Digital”) (CSE: “LFG”, FSE: 8R20) is happy to announce the launch of its Bitcoin Treasury Technique, which is able to kind a core pillar of the Firm’s capital allocation framework. As an preliminary step, the Firm has commenced the orderly divestment of its present altcoin holdings, with the proceeds to be reallocated towards Bitcoin accumulation beneath a brand new reserve mannequin.

The objective of this technique is to boost long-term internet asset worth and align the Firm with world developments in institutional digital asset adoption. Common Digital views Bitcoin as a complementary reserve asset and plans to implement the technique in a clear and phased method.

As a part of this initiative, the Firm plans to collaborate with publicly-listed firms throughout Asia to implement Bitcoin treasury fashions, leveraging the area’s rising institutional and retail curiosity in digital property and its growing openness to blockchain-based monetary innovation. In line with Chainalysis, Jap Asia accounted for roughly 8.9% of worldwide on-chain cryptocurrency transaction quantity between July 2023 and June 2024, with the majority of exercise pushed by institutional {and professional} traders in markets like Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong.

In furtherance of this regional focus, on June 12, 2025, the Firm entered right into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with GFA Co., Ltd. (“GFA”), a Tokyo Inventory Trade-listed diversified monetary and know-how group (TSE: 8783). The MOU units out a partnership framework for collectively advancing Bitcoin-based company finance fashions in Japan.

Below the MOU, the businesses will collectively discover:

• Introducing Bitcoin reserve fashions to Japanese listed firms;
• Structuring capital elevating instruments akin to warrants and market-based choices to fund Bitcoin acquisitions; and
• Enhancing governance, investor relations, and custody frameworks for digital property.

The MOU additionally units the stage for broader collaboration in Japan’s digital financial system, together with joint investments in public firms, the event of blockchain-based company buildings, initiatives that join Bitcoin adoption with cultural IP and Web3-driven shopper ecosystems. The MOU was entered on an arm’s size foundation and there aren’t any associated celebration pursuits between Common Digital and GFA.

“Our Bitcoin Treasury Technique marks a deliberate shift in how we handle capital — by holding Bitcoin as a long-term treasury asset, we purpose to boost steadiness sheet energy and align with the evolving world monetary panorama,” stated Tim Chan, CEO of the Firm. “The framework we’ve established with GFA allows us to discover extending this mannequin to Asia, the place digital property are gaining traction amongst public firms and institutional traders.”

“Common Digital’s and its administration’s expertise with the crypto and Bitcoin treasury mixed with our experience on the Japanese markets makes us a powerful staff. I stay up for working carefully with Common Digital to introduce bitcoin reserve mannequin to Japanese listed firms.” Said Gen Matsuda, CEO of GFA Co., Ltd.

The MOU is non-binding and supplies a framework for additional negotiations and joint structuring discussions.

About Common Digital Inc.

The Universal Digital Inc. is a Canadian funding firm centered on digital property, companies, and personal and publicly-listed entities which might be concerned in high-growth industries, with a specific concentrate on blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and cryptocurrency applied sciences. The Firm goals to supply shareholders with long-term capital development via a diversified funding strategy and to take part within the transformation of worldwide finance via the mixing of digital asset methods.

About GFA CO., LTD.

GFA Co. is a Japanese firm primarily concerned in monetary providers, cybersecurity, area manufacturing, and gaming. The corporate operates via 4 enterprise segments: monetary providers, cybersecurity, area manufacturing, and sport enterprise. Its monetary providers phase consists of monetary advisory, funding, and mortgage actions, and actual property funding. Moreover, they interact in actual property rental, shopping for/promoting, and brokerage providers, together with actual property secured loans and resale.

References

Chainalysis 2024 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report – Regional Overview: East Asia

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Sure statements on this launch represent “forward-looking statements” or “forward-looking data” inside the that means of relevant securities legal guidelines together with, with out limitation, statements with respect to the Firm’s plan to promote its altcoin holdings and the makes use of of proceeds therefrom, statements with respect to the Firm’s future internet asset worth, steadiness sheet energy and monetary resilience, statements regarding the Firm’s plans and anticipated advantages of the MOU, in addition to statements regarding the Firm’s enterprise technique, market positioning, investor engagement, regulatory approvals, the supply of capital, anticipated timelines, and basic financial, monetary, market and political circumstances. Such statements could be recognized by means of phrases akin to “could”, “would”, “might”, “will”, “intend”, “count on”, “imagine”, “plan”, “anticipate”, “estimate”, “scheduled”, “forecast”, “predict” and different related terminology, or state that sure actions, occasions or outcomes “could”, “might”, “would”, “may” or “will” be taken, happen or be achieved. These statements mirror the corporate’s present expectations concerning future occasions, efficiency and outcomes and converse solely as of the date of this launch.

Ahead-looking statements and knowledge contained herein are based mostly on sure elements and assumptions concerning, amongst different issues, the idea that the Firm will be capable to liquidate its altcoin holdings at beneficial costs or in any respect, the Firm persevering with its anticipated enterprise technique, together with entrance into of the Asian market, and the Firm and GFA with the ability to consummate a binding transaction or sequence of transactions based mostly on the non-binding MOU, the Firm’s enterprise technique, expectations with respect to market circumstances, investor engagement, regulatory approvals, the supply of capital, anticipated timelines, working prices, and different enterprise and financial issues. Whereas the Firm considers its assumptions to be affordable as of the date hereof, forward-looking statements and knowledge are usually not ensures of future efficiency and readers shouldn’t place undue significance on such statements as precise occasions and outcomes could differ materially from these described herein. The Firm doesn’t undertake to replace any forward-looking statements or data besides as could also be required by relevant securities legal guidelines. Such statements and knowledge contain recognized and unknown dangers, uncertainties and different elements which will trigger the precise outcomes, efficiency or achievements of the Firm or trade outcomes, to be materially totally different from any future outcomes, efficiency or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or data, together with, with out limitation, the danger that the Firm is just not in a position to liquidate its altcoin holdings at beneficial costs or in any respect, which might have an effect on the makes use of of proceeds from such sale, the Firm and GFA failing to enter right into a binding settlement based mostly on the MOU and never realizing the anticipated advantages set out above, the Firm altering its enterprise technique regarding the Asian market or the Bitcoin Treasury Technique. Please see the “Danger Elements” part of the Firm’s most up-to-date annual data kind dated June 3, 2025 for the 12 months ended January 31, 2025, in addition to the “Monetary Devices and Associated Dangers” part of the Firm’s most up-to-date administration dialogue & evaluation for the 12 months ended January 31, 2025 for an extra description of the dangers relevant to the Firm.