2/12/2026

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Operator
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Good afternoon, and welcome to CoinCheck Group's NV Fiscal Year 2026 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call, covering the period from October 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025. With us today are Gary Simonson, Chief Executive Officer of CoinCheck Group, and Jason Sandberg, Chief Financial Officer of CoinCheck Group. Pascal St. John, Incoming Chief Executive Officer of CoinCheck Group, and Oki Matsumoto, Executive Chairperson. Before we begin our prepared remarks, I'd like to remind everyone that our discussion today will include forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors. These factors are discussed in more detail in our filings with the SEC, including our filings related to the third quarter of fiscal 2026. Such factors may be updated from time to time in our periodic filings with the SEC. and we do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements. Additionally, throughout this conference call, we will also present and discuss non-IFRS financial measures, reconciliations of our non-IFRS financial measures to their most directly comparable IFRS financial measures appear in today's earnings press release, which are available on our Investor Relations website and on the SEC website. Our functional currency is the Japanese yen. During today's call, we'll be referring to certain rounded figures and certain figures that we've translated from yen to U.S. dollars solely for the convenience of the reader and to the U.S. dollar. For more details on these figures and the convenient foreign currency translation we have used, please see our earnings release that was issued earlier today and furnished on Form 6-K, as well as our fiscal 2026 third quarter financial statements and MD&A, which we will furnish with the SEC on form K6K. I would now like to turn the conference over to your first speaker for today, Gary Simonson. You may begin.

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Gary Simonson
Chief Executive Officer of CoinCheck Group NV

Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us for our fiscal 2026 third quarter earnings call. I would especially like to welcome Oki Matsumoto, our Executive Chairman, and Pascal St. Jean, Chief Executive Officer of 3IQ, as well as Chief Growth Officer of Coincheck Group, NV, who will both be speaking later on this call. While global financial markets continue to experience outsized volatility and portfolio rebalancing and adjustments, with a further flight to liquidity and de-risking, which has reverberated throughout the crypto industry, we have continued to stay focused and disciplined in our seasoned approach. I would like to reiterate that we do not hold crypto assets on our balance sheet, other than to facilitate customer trading. And we seek to take very limited risk as to the value of any particular crypto asset trading through our platforms. While the financial results for our fiscal 2026 third quarter, including trading volumes, asset under management, and margin, were negatively impacted by declines in crypto asset prices experienced globally in our fiscal 2026 third quarter, as compared to our fiscal 2026 second quarter, our underlying business is stable and continues to show significant progress as we continue to execute building out our global platform. Coincheck Inc. continues to be the number one downloaded crypto app in Japan. Our verified user accounts increased to 2.5 million for our fiscal 2026 third quarter, up from 2.4 million in our fiscal 2026 second quarter. I am pleased to report that we had another solid quarter of core profitability. We had net income of $2.6 million for the fiscal 2026 third quarter, compared to net income of $2.3 million for the fiscal 2026 second quarter. Adjusted EBITDA for the fiscal 2026 third quarter was $9.1 million versus $9.5 million for the fiscal 2026 second quarter. Total revenue for the fiscal 2026 third quarter was $915 million compared to $849 million for the fiscal 2026 second quarter. our efforts to enhance and diversify our revenue channels continue to show promise. Given the recent softening in global crypto market conditions, this promise is underscored by the relatively modest decline in our adjusted EBITDA for the fiscal 2026 third quarter as compared to our fiscal 2026 second quarter, as well as by the increased mix of revenue in our fiscal 2026 third quarter between retail trading staking, successful launch of an IEO, and institutional business generated from the successful closing of the Apollo Prime brokerage acquisition. We continue to be nimble in managing our customer acquisition expense and remain vigilant in maintaining strong expense control. I would like to now turn it over to Jason to dig deeper into the numbers.

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Jason Sandberg
Chief Financial Officer of CoinCheck Group NV

Thank you, Gary. Let me take you through our third quarter fiscal 2026 performance. Let's start with some year-over-year comparisons. Total revenue increased 17% to 143.5 billion yen, or 915 million USD, in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, up from 123.1 billion yen, or 785 million USD, in the third quarter of fiscal 2025. This was partially a result of additional gross revenue generated from APLO for the quarter. Gross margin, which means our total revenue less our cost of sales, decreased 20% to 3.8 billion yen, or 24 million USD in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, down from 4.8 billion yen, or 31 million USD in the third quarter of fiscal 2025, mostly as a result of an overall decrease in our marketplace trading volume, partially offset by 2 million USD of revenue from a successful initial exchange offering, or IEO. Our verified accounts increased 13% to 2.5 million accounts as of December 31st, 2025, up from 2.2 million accounts as of December 31st, 2024. However, this was due mostly to the substantial market price decline in crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP during the December 2025 quarter. Even though our digital tokens under custody remained relatively stable, Our customer assets decreased 17% to 948.5 billion yen or 6.04 billion USD as of December 31st, 2025, down from 1,142.2 billion yen or 7.28 billion USD as of December 31st, 2024. Our marketplace trading volume decreased 25% to 87.7 billion yen or 559 million USD for the third quarter of fiscal 2026. down from 117.4 billion yen or 749 million USD compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2025. Please note that fluctuations in marketplace trading volume are usually driven by crypto asset industry market volumes and conditions generally, and the size and level of trading activity at Coincheck Inc. specifically, as well as market price fluctuations in the crypto assets frequently traded. Our net income increased to 405 million yen, or 2.6 million USD in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, compared to a net loss of 15 billion yen, or 98.5 million USD in the third quarter of fiscal 2025. A large component of the net loss results for the third quarter of fiscal 2025 was total transaction costs, including listing expense of 17,518 million yen or 111.7 million USD. These were the costs associated with becoming a public company in December of 2024. Our adjusted EBITDA removed these transaction costs and listing expenses. Turning now to adjusted EBITDA, it decreased by 38% to 1,428 million yen, or 9.1 million USD in the third quarter fiscal 2026, compared to 2,303 million yen, or 14.7 million USD in the third quarter of fiscal 2025, mainly as a result of the reduction in marketplace trading volume year-over-year, partially offset by revenue of 2 million USD from the initial exchange offering we hosted in the fiscal 2026 third quarter. Our staking revenue for the fiscal 2026 third quarter was 777 million yen, or 5 million USD, compared to 794 million yen or 5.1 million USD in the second quarter of fiscal 2026. There is no year-over-year comparison for staking revenue as that service did not really get going until the 2026 fiscal year. Let's now move on to operating expenses. Our total selling general administrative expenses decreased to 3.5 billion yen, or 22.4 million USD in the fiscal 2026 third quarter. compared to 6.4 billion yen, or 41 million USD, in the fiscal 2025 third quarter. This was mainly due, however, to our transaction costs associated with becoming a public company in December of 2024. However, please also note that an increase in our quarterly share-based compensation expense of 2 million USD, as well as transaction costs associated with the acquisitions of APLO, SAS, and 3IQ Corp., were part of the fiscal 2026 third quarter selling general and administrative expenses. while there were no share-based compensation or similar acquisition expenses in the fiscal 2025 third quarter. We ended the fiscal 2026 third quarter with cash and cash equivalents of 10.6 billion yen or 67.9 million USD. In summary, we are pleased with our results in these challenging market conditions, specifically our continued increase in verified accounts and solid marketplace trading volume, which resulted in another quarter of strong adjusted EBITDA. I would now like to hand it back to Gary.

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Gary Simonson
Chief Executive Officer of CoinCheck Group NV

Thank you, Jason. On our prior fiscal 2026 second quarter's earnings call, I spoke of our continued efforts to explore and evaluate additional potential acquisition opportunities consistent with our stated growth plans. We are extremely pleased to have announced on January 8th, 2026, the pending acquisition of 3IQ Corp. one of the world's leading alternative digital asset managers. 3iQ is based in Ontario, Canada and has a global reach. We are targeting closing the pending acquisition prior to our March 31st, 2026 fiscal year end or early in our fiscal 2027 first quarter. In addition to further diversifying our revenue stream into the global crypto institutional market, 3iQ brings us a well-known, regulated, highly regarded, profitable business. 3iQ also brings us a deep bench of global crypto talent and experience that offers us the opportunity for meaningful cross-platform synergies and enhanced long-term growth. It is a great fit and a natural addition to CoinCheck Group NV. the acquisition rounds out the initial phase of building a diversified global crypto financial services holding company, serving both retail and institutional markets. Its CEO, Pascal Saint-Jean, is a proven leader and well-seasoned in the crypto space. He has also served in recent months as Chief Growth Officer of CoinCheck Group NV. As was announced earlier today, I will be resigning as Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Coincheck Group NV, effective March 31st, 2026. I have gotten to know Pascal since Coincheck Group's General Annual Shareholders Meeting in September 2025. It is a pleasure to work with him, and he has quickly established strong support among the broader team. He is the right person at the right time to take over the reins of CoinShare Group NV effective April 1st, 2026. He is well positioned for success and has my full support. I also spoke on our prior earnings call of the need to create broader and enhanced float in our publicly traded shares. In that regard, on January 2nd, 2026, we filed a $200 million shelf registration statement with the SEC. which was declared effective on January 13th, 2026. The shelf registration statement provides the company with enhanced flexibility to opportunistically raise capital in the public markets depending on market conditions and various other factors, which could lead to enhanced float of the company's common shares. There can be no assurance that the company will undertake such an offering. Finally, Recapping the past 12 plus months, we have successfully completed the business combination with Thunderbridge Capital Partners for Inc. and gone public on NASDAQ as a Netherlands-based holding company of Coincheck Inc., one of the leading crypto exchanges in Japan, built out the organizational structure and team to support being a public reporting company with global reach and operations. Acquired Next Finance Tech, a global crypto staking company headquartered in Japan. Acquired Applo, a global prime broker headquartered in Paris, France. Announced a strategic partnership between Coincheck Inc. and Mercoin, a division of Makari Inc. in Japan. Entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 3IQ. Gone effective with a $200 million shelf registration statement. providing us with flexibility in the capital markets and the ability to increase our float, and announced today a management transition for Pascal St-Jean to assume the role of Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer effective April 2026. It has been a very successful year for the company during turbulent times, and while the future is not without numerous risks, Coincheck is well positioned for the future. I am deeply grateful to the entire Coincheck, Next Finance, Applo, 3iQ, and Monix teams, and especially Okie, for the opportunity to work with each of you and your tireless efforts over these many years to accomplish the first phase of a combined vision of how digital financial services evolve globally and how they serve for the betterment of the world. I would like to now turn the call over to Pascal so he can share his vision for CoinCheck going forward. Thank you, Gary.

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Pascal St. Jean
Incoming Chief Executive Officer of CoinCheck Group NV; Chief Growth Officer of CoinCheck Group NV; CEO of 3IQ Corp.

First, I need to say how exciting it is for me to be given the opportunity to lead this company in the execution of the next stage of a strategy to be a leading global crypto financial services company. We've brought together four distinct pools of amazing individuals and talent. CoinCheck, and Next Finance Tech in Japan, 3IQ in North America, and Apollo in Europe. Our team members come from different countries. They speak different languages, and they bring different cultural perspectives. And whether they are in Tokyo, Toronto, or Paris, they all share a single DNA. They live and breathe the transformation that digital assets are bringing to the world. They understand that we're not just building crypto products. We're building the infrastructure where crypto and traditional finance continue to converge. And it is with this shared conviction that drives our strategy forward. Now, I want to reiterate exactly what CoinShape Group is building. While our deep roots began in Japan, our ambition and our execution is now truly global. We're evolving from a leading national exchange into a leading diversified global institutional crypto group. We're positioning the company to win on two massive fronts simultaneously. The first, the Japanese market, where we're positioning ourselves for a major regulatory unlocking with a clear line of sight as the groundwork continues to progress and we're gaining confidence from our discussions with both regulators and the industry at large in Japan. And the second, it's the global institutional market, where we're aggressively winning clients today. We operate in Japan with a high conviction and anticipate a fundamental regulatory shift that will broadly open the market in Japan for institutions and mass retail participation in digital assets. Major financial institutions in Japan are already preparing for this possibility. The Coincheck Group is at the center of these discussions. Our goal is clear, to be the undisputed incumbent partner as the market develops and matures. We are building the infrastructure now to both shape and secure that future. However, we are not just waiting for Japan to open up. We're actively executing a global strategy right now. With the pending additions of 3iQ under Coincheck Group and Vee, we are building a powerful distribution team that's looking far beyond Tokyo. Working together, we're already targeting institutional capital and global logos across North America, Europe, and Asia. Our value proposition is no longer limited to Japanese retail access. We are offering a sophisticated suite of institutional services that appeals to asset managers, banks, sovereigns, and family offices worldwide. Our land and expand strategy, as I call it, supports this dual focus. At a macro level, we've successfully landed by capturing the Japanese mass market, We remain the number one downloaded crypto app in Japan, a position we've held for seven years. The business is our bedrock. It provides the liquidity, the brand trust, and the financial strength that fuels our expansion. We're going to continue to invest in growing our user base and expanding our products and services for our Japanese retail customers. The strategic partnership with Mercoin is a prime example. But we're also expanding. by deploying an institutional stack designed for global clients. Through our strategic acquisitions, including 3IQ for asset management, Applo for prime brokerage, and Next Finance Tech for staking infrastructure, we believe we've assembled the capabilities necessary to serve sophisticated players anywhere in the world. Now, as we zoom in, our land and expand strategy is about growing our distribution network. Our newly acquired diversified products and solutions are aimed at traditional financial institutions. Globally, these institutions are looking for partners to help them enter the crypto space. In our view, they don't want to build the infrastructure themselves. They will want to leverage ours. This should enable us to win global clients and capture assets under management, assets under custody, and trading flows, diversifying our revenue streams globally. And finally, I want to touch on how these pieces fit together. We're not simply a holding company with a collection of unrelated assets. We are actively working on cross-integrating our portfolio companies to create a deep regulatory, structural, and technological moat that will be difficult for competitors to fully bridge. By combining our asset management, by brokerage, and infrastructure capabilities, we're focused on building a unified ecosystem. This integration should allow us to unlock efficiencies and offer comprehensive solutions that standalone competitors simply should not be able to match. We aim to create a structure where the whole is significantly greater than the sum of its parts, making our business more defensible and stickier for institutional clients. To summarize, while we are one of the dominant forces in retail Japan today, we are not limiting our emissions to Japan, With the addition of 3iQ and Apollo, we are winning global institutional logos right now. We believe we are well positioned to not only capture an increased market share of the Japanese institutional and retail wave we expect will come from the anticipated further regulatory easing on the horizon in Japan, but we should also be able to capture a meaningful piece of the global markets today. Much of what we've built already, as we bring these synergies together, will serve not only Japan, but as we have proven with 3i2 and Applo, can also serve the global markets. Our plan is to build a global financial group with a clear path to long-term growth. Thank you. I will now turn the call over to Oki Matsumoto, Coincheck Group's Executive Chairperson.

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Oki Matsumoto
Executive Chairperson of CoinCheck Group NV

Thank you, Pascal, and thank you, Gary and Jason. I believe Pascal has summarized beautifully where we are today and where we plan to go. So I will be brief in my concluding remarks. First, I want to thank Gary. With acquisition of 3iQ, Gary has led the company to the next stage of its growth strategy. He has been a highly effective leader for our transition to a NASDAQ listed company and building the initial structural foundation for a global strategy. and we and the entire Coincheck Group community thank him for his leadership and wish him the absolute best in his future pursuits. Pascal is ideally suited to lead the next phase of our strategy, which, as Pascal shared, is to grow our institutional presence in the crypto industry, both in Japan and other regions. We plan to do this by shifting from an acquisition strategy to numerous types of B2B and B2B2C strategic alliances with large financial institutions and funds that we believe will be attracted to the combined platforms and services our operating subsidiaries can offer. This is truly the beginning of the next phase of CoinCheck Group growth strategy, and I look forward to what we will be able to accomplish. This concludes our call. I thank each of you for joining.

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We will now open the call up to questions.

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Thank you. If you'd like to ask a question, press star 1 on your keypad.

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To leave the queue at any time, press star 2. Once again, that is star 1 to ask a question. And we'll pause for just a moment to allow everyone a chance to join the queue.

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Thank you. Our first question comes from Edward Engel with Compass Point.

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Your line is open. Hi.

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Edward Engel
Analyst, Compass Point

Thanks for taking my question, Pascal. Congrats on your role. Wanted to ask two questions. The first one, a bit more pointed on Japan. Just based on what you're hearing over there, just kind of curious if there's any update on potential tax reform especially related to gains on crypto transactions.

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Operator
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Thank you.

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Pascal St. Jean
Incoming Chief Executive Officer of CoinCheck Group NV; Chief Growth Officer of CoinCheck Group NV; CEO of 3IQ Corp.

I'm happy to jump in, and if anyone wants to add, I just came back a few days ago from a few weeks in Japan with Oki and some of our team members meeting with, of course, regulators as well as some large institutions. Without committing to an actual date, I will say, that the environment is is very much converging together in japan uh to set uh clarity on the tax side as well as the change from a monetary policy to basically a financial instrument which will change the tax code but also change its ability to serve as a financial asset uh in different types of funds balance sheet structures etc um i was coming back here in north america and kind of sharing with the team that Japan feels like North America last year before the election, where a lot of institutions were gearing up, getting educated, building crypto teams, and really getting ready for the unlock, which happened, of course, in 2025. And it's kind of the same feeling that we're seeing in Japan. And I would say more than feelings, it's actual conversations we're having and everyone's kind of gearing up for sort of the proposed dates that you may have heard online. But we're looking forward to the continued conversations with these institutions and the regulators.

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Edward Engel
Analyst, Compass Point

Great. Thanks for that.

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And now I'm just... Sorry.

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Oki Matsumoto
Executive Chairperson of CoinCheck Group NV

I'm sorry. Can I... If I can add one thing, the tax reform is for retail investors. So if it's ETA for those kinds of retail-targeted funds, that are really important. But for institutional investors in Japan, the tax reforms are not needed. Even today, before or after the tax reform of crypto in Japan, for institutional investors, the situation is the same. So we are seeing the really growing interest from institutional investors start entering into this crypto space even before the tax reform does happen.

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Great.

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Edward Engel
Analyst, Compass Point

Thanks for that, Culler. And then I guess a bit more of a broad question, but I guess with the new change in leadership, I mean, certainly the company has been pretty active in M&A over the past one and a half years since you've really been public, and obviously Gary has a pretty long history in his own career, just of M&A. Does the leadership transition impact the company's appetite for M&A, or is it kind of the same strategy as before?

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Happy to jump in here.

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Pascal St. Jean
Incoming Chief Executive Officer of CoinCheck Group NV; Chief Growth Officer of CoinCheck Group NV; CEO of 3IQ Corp.

So, fundamentally, right now, I think, like Gary and Oki have brought together four very strong companies. Right now, as you mentioned, we're really preparing to bring together these four companies for the Japanese market and the regulatory unlock, as well as support and digest the M&A we've done so far. We've got a great young team over at Apollo and, of course, the team over at 3AQ, which I lead, and the continued growth that Coincheck and Xplantex are seeing. So we really want to make sure that we support the companies that we've acquired, getting them to really start working together, which we have begun exploring certain synergies together and really working on the engineering level. So we want to digest that over the coming quarters. With that being said, as we see the markets evolve, I think we're going to remain opportunistic to those types of opportunities, and we'll take it case by case based on what we're seeing in the markets that can add to maybe potential gaps or opportunities we see in the market. So it's a dual approach, but for now, right now, it's really digesting and making sure that the companies we have acquired are primed for success for the year to come.

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Great. Well, thanks again. And then once again, congrats.

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We'll move next to Alex Markgrass with KeyBank Capital Markets.

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Your line is open.

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Alex Markgrass
Analyst, KeyBank Capital Markets

Thank you, and Gary, congrats on the accomplishments in a short period of time. Pascal, congrats on the new role. I guess, Pascal, one for you. I'd be curious to understand how you might think about the size of growth opportunities in the, you know, call it next 12 months between Japan retail versus broader sort of global institutional opportunities.

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Pascal St. Jean
Incoming Chief Executive Officer of CoinCheck Group NV; Chief Growth Officer of CoinCheck Group NV; CEO of 3IQ Corp.

So I won't necessarily speak to specific numbers, but the team could speak to some of the growth we've seen in the past quarters. But fundamentally speaking, at the institutional side, the biggest difference between... the last downtrend in crypto in 2021 and 2022, where collectively, I think a lot of companies, including 3IQ and others, were speaking at a high level with institutions who were starting to sort of dip their toes into the crypto markets. Of course, the FTX collapse and things of that nature set them backwards. But the major difference right now is, although price action across all markets are in a downtrend right now, The institutions are not wavering at all. You'll be hearing some announcements from some of our core companies in the coming weeks and months. The conversations in the past few weeks, even in Japan, that we were having with very large institutions in the middle of the price downtrend continue to be steadfast in terms of how they execute and how to bring things together and how to get things ready. So in the coming year, what we're seeing right now in the Japanese market is definitely the planning for the institutions to enter that market. On the retail side, we'll see and monitor and explore how the trading continues, but Coin Check Inc. is working on several other products and features to continue enhancing the opportunities for their clients, as well as partners like Mercoin and others that we're exploring. And on our side, I would say, and I say our side, sorry, but 3iQ side, as I'm speaking of 3iQ side today with that hat, we are in talks more than ever with new logos and allocators as well. And so we're seeing the market continue moving forward. And I think fundamentally you're seeing this as a very positive entry position. And so we continue with that positive vibe as we enter 2026.

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Alex Markgrass
Analyst, KeyBank Capital Markets

That's great to hear. I appreciate that. And maybe just one more on just recent sort of price action across the ecosystem. How, and Gary or Jason or Pascal, I'm not sure who this is appropriate for, but just curious to understand how on the retail side in particular, coin check customers are sort of reacting more recently. So, you know, call it late January, February around price declines, just, you know, you're seeing sort of net buyer sellers, what kind of deposit activity are you seeing to the platform? Anything around that would be helpful just to understand retail customer behavior at this point.

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Thank you.

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Oki Matsumoto
Executive Chairperson of CoinCheck Group NV

So that may be, I should explain for that. So the retail customers in Japan, of course, they are a little bit surprised by the price action. But if you look at the assets in custody, the value, of course, went down. But the number of tokens actually never went down. So people are kind of holding to the positions. And we do see, especially in the altcoins, we did see good buying into this market from retail customers. And also, one thing is, because of the tax reform is not done yet, Japanese customers do not really want to sell to realize a profit. So they're kind of holding to that position and then buying into dip. and increasing the number of tokens right now. So that's the kind of picture in Japan right now in the retail space.

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Understood. Thank you, Oki.

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Once again, if you would like to ask a question, please press star and 1 on your keypad now. We'll move next to Brett Knobloch with Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is open.

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Brett Knobloch
Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my question. And Gary, congrats on... And Pascal, congrats on the new role. And Gary, congrats on the transition. Maybe just on 3iQ, it's a sizable acquisition for you guys, kind of given the relative market cap and purchase price. Could you maybe give a little bit more color on... know potential synergies you guys are thinking whether it be a creative on adjusted ebito or just maybe the financial profile of 3iq from a from a revenue perspective um and maybe how what we should expect you know or how that business has been growing you know historically and what you're expecting it to do on a go forward basis yes i'll let pascal talk about the business um but one area that i think you know any analyst should be focused on on this year

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Gary Simonson
Chief Executive Officer of CoinCheck Group NV

has really announced wins. If we look at the market, everyone on this call knows that you can't predict where crypto is going price-wise. And so the clearer goal is what wins there'll be, what expansion there'll be, and then wherever assets trade, they trade. So if you look at the opportunities that, and I'll let Pascal speak to them, that 3IQ has before them, They're very promising. That's number one. The other that brings so many things to the company, in addition to enhanced management and the skills of Pascal and others, but also this opportunity for synergies and liquidity providing that Apple could potentially do for 3iQ. And it's a very known quantity. I've done M&A a very long time. And the big risks in M&A are integration. And here, the company's been well-known to us. It should be an easy company to integrate, which means we can accelerate getting synergies, enhanced products, and that's very meaningful in transactions. It helps de-risk them. And as you know, Oki's philosophy, my philosophy has been do no harm and be fairly conservative. And so I think that sets that table well also. And again, with crypto prices softening, there's always a concern about overpaying. And I think one of the reasons the company is going to catch its breath now to really integrate and get synergies is is there could be too big a gap going forward between what valuations are, expectations, and what a company prudently should be paying. So that's something else that we're looking at going forward. So, Pascal, if you want to speak more about 3iQ in detail.

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Pascal St. Jean
Incoming Chief Executive Officer of CoinCheck Group NV; Chief Growth Officer of CoinCheck Group NV; CEO of 3IQ Corp.

Yeah, thank you, Gary. I think that was a great point in terms of what we're expecting this year. I think fundamentally, 3iQ as a company over the past several years has expanded its capabilities. A lot of people know us in the industry as sort of the OGs on the closing funds and the ETFs and really the pioneering work we did with the regulars. But we've evolved quite drastically as a company now. So we have several different divisions, including sub-advisory, as well as our managed account platform servicing the institutional market. So when Gary is talking about basically logo wins or partnership wins, our distribution team wins. Yes, it's focused on educating and bringing institutional capital into different types of active products that fit more of their portfolio, but also supporting institutions trying to get into crypto asset management. And that is what you're going to see a lot of from 3iQ as it gets included into CoinCheck. You're going to see a lot of these types of opportunities. uh surfacing and coming public to the table which will open up new distribution channels not only for aum growth but for cross sales opportunities over time as as as these institutions look for more than just asset management potentially seeking and liquidity capabilities so the landing expand from a sales perspective is something that we are bringing to the table as asset management is a natural entry point. Asset management is also a natural integration point to Gary's earlier answer, whether it's liquidity, staking, custody, etc. There is work to do to bring all that together as a group, but particularly for the Japanese market where the institutions of Japan are looking to work with Japanese domicile companies, there will be a lot of opportunities for us to bring those services together, which was part of my role coming in as a growth officer a few months ago. So I've been working hand-in-hand with the team since then. And so you're going to see that continued approach and more and more tangible examples.

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Awesome. Thank you, guys.

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Thank you.

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This concludes today's question and answer session and also brings us to the end of today's meeting. We appreciate your time and participation. You may now disconnect.

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