Intchains Group Limited

Hello and welcome to the Enchains Group Limited Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question this time, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. And if you would like to withdraw your question, press star one again. Thank you. Now I will turn the call over to Alice Zhang of the Equity Group. Please go ahead, Alice.

Thank you, Operator. Good evening to everyone. Welcome to Incheon's second quarter 2025 earnings conference call. Please be advised that the discussions on today's call will include forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risk and uncertainties and are based on the company's current expectations and projections regarding future events that may impact its financial condition, operating results, and strategic direction. Although the company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, It cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct. The company cautions investors that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results. Investors should review other factors that may affect its future results in the company's registration statement and other filings with CSCC. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances or changes in its expectations. except as required by law. Please note that in today's call, we'll discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures. Please also refer to the reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to the comparable GAAP measures in the earnings press release. The presentation and webcast replay of this conference call will be available on the InChance website at www.ir.inchance.com. It is my pleasure to introduce InChance CFO, Mr. Charles Yan, who will provide an overview of second quarter and first half 2025 financial results, recent operational achievements, and then discuss the company's launch and growth strategies before opening the floor for questions. Charles, please go ahead.

Thank you, Alice, and welcome everyone. For those new to Interchange and our story, I would like to provide an overview of our three main business lines. altcoin mining machines, ETH accumulation, and Web3 application development. Our core business, Altcoin Mining Machines under the GoldShield brand, is our primary revenue contributor. We design altcoin mining machines incorporating in-house developed ASIC chips, which are used to mine a number of popular alternative cryptocurrencies, including Litecoin, Dogecoin, Alio, and more. And since first quarter 2024, we have implemented a strategic self-funded dollar cost averaging ETH accumulation strategy as part of our value creation strategy to generate return on our capital. We also have a Web3 application development business and have launched a one-stop blockchain payment solution, GoldShowPay, and a crypto wallet product, GoldShowWallet. Moving on to our financial results during the second quarter and first half 2025 period. Revenue for Q2 2025 were 43.2 million RMB or $6 million, impacted by lower sales from mining machines compared to Q2 2024. The declining oil price Theory Q2, combined with newly imposed short-term tariffs that delayed the export of our machines, negatively impacted mining machine sales and resulted in lower revenue. We would like to note that quarterly fluctuations in mining machine sales are a common industry-wide phenomenon and are often driven by a combination of external market conditions, including volatility in cryptocurrency price, changes in mining difficulty, seasonal demand shifts, and evolving regulatory environments. These factors can influence customers' purchasing behavior and investment cycles, especially in the altcoin segment. As such, short-term sales variability in our business should be viewed within a broader context of long-term growth trends and product innovation. Cost of revenue was 32.9 million RMB or $4.6 million for Q2 2025, a decrease of 20% from Q2 2024, primarily due to lower revenues recorded during the period. We also recorded an impairment chart related to excess mining machines inventory during the period. Total operating expenses were 26.4 million RMB or $3.7 million for Q2 2025, 10.2% lower versus Q2 2024. As a result, we recorded a loss from operations of RMB 16.2 million RMB or $2.3 million for Q2 2025 compared to the income from operations of $8 million for 2024 or Q2 2024. Interest income decreased to 3.1 million RMB or $0.4 million for Q2 2025 from Q2 2024, mainly due to cash used in acquired ETH-based cryptocurrencies. For the second quarter, we recorded a gain in fair value of cryptocurrencies of 42.8 million RMB, or $6 million, primarily a result of increased holding of ETH-based cryptocurrency units by 1,793 units since Q1 2025, while ETH price increased by around 34% during the period. As a result, net income from Q2 2025 was 38.3 million RMB or $5.3 million, which was affected by lower revenues and offset by gains of fair value of cryptocurrency as we increased ETH holding and saw a 34% increase in ETH price during the period. Moving on to first half 2025 matrixes. Revenues were 175.6 million RMB or 24.5 million US dollars, primarily supported by sales of our Allio series mining machines during the first half. Net income for first half 2025 was 4.3 million RMB or 0.6 million dollars, primarily impacted by lower gross profit and the losses on fair value of cryptocurrency, as its price dropped by about 28% during the six-month period. Our balance sheet remains strong. As of June 30, 2025, our cash position, which consisted of cash and cash equivalent, deposits, and government securities listed in long-term investment and short-term investments, were $71.6 million. Also, as of June 30, 2025, we had current assets of $94.5 million, total assets of $148 million, and total liability of just $4.6 million. I would like to provide some color on our current and the long-term growth strategies before opening the floor for questions. We currently compete in the cryptocurrency segment through the development, launch, and ongoing enhancements of our Gold Show mining machines. In line with this strategic focus, we have invested $5.8 million in R&D so far this year. Since the beginning of the year, we have launched new products and several upgrades to our existing portfolio of mining machines, which together represented the primary source of our total revenues. Key highlights include the release of six major allele mining series following the debut of the first AE Box in February. Our Gold Shield Unite dual mining machine launched in Q1 2025 gained strong traction among the miner customers. As previously mentioned, at the beginning of 2024, we adopted an east dollar cost averaging accumulation strategy and started to build our strategic reserve. As of June 30, 2025, Interchange has total holding of ETH units of 8,816 units, representing a 25.5% increase from the end of first quarter. According to recent publicly available information, including a report published by Standard Chartered in July 2025, the company was identified as one of the top ETH treasury holders among public companies globally. Notably, the price of ETH has risen 34% since the end of first quarter of 2025. Looking ahead, our growth strategy rests on the same two core pillars. First is the launch of our new products and the continuous upgrade of the efficiency of mining machines and exploration of innovative new projects. Second is optimizing our ETH accumulation and yield generation strategies. On one hand, we remain firmly committed to long-term R&D investments, making every effort to stay ahead in the dynamic cryptocurrency market, leveraging our experienced R&D team and past investments. We have been able to quickly identify, assess, and act on opportunities in the development of altcoin mining machines, achieving 100% profitability across all such projects to date. As we continue to explore new altcoin projects, we are also planning new upgrades of mining efficiency for our existing mining products, such as the Dogecoin series, to expand our market share. On the other hand, we have taken several steps to increase our strategic ETH reserve and expand our long-term digital asset positioning and the yield generation strategy. As part of this effort, we recently announced the cooperation with FalconX, which focused on two key aspects. First, we are optimizing our ETH acquisitions through customized derivative-based trading strategies, such as funded put-selling, which may enable interchange to accumulate ETH at a favorable price while also potentially generate premium income. Second, we are enhancing ETH yield by combining lending activities with derivatives-based yield strategy, aiming to deliver superior returns compared to traditional passive ETH accumulation and staking method. Our goal is to achieve an increased annualized yield on our East Holdings, which could potentially be as high as 10%. 2025 has been a transitional year for us as we make strategic moves to ensure we are well positioned for long-term sustainable growth. While we expect revenue for the second half of the year to be impacted by software sales driven by altcoin price volatility, we see the value of investing into the future and have accelerated R&D investments to strengthen our technology leadership in the altcoin mining machine market, allowing us to advance new altcoin projects under development towards commercialization. At the same time, the expansion of our ETH Reserve and new ETH yield generating initiatives paved the way for improved overall profitability. We expect these strategic moves to reinforce our business pillars and translate into tangible growth in 2026. We believe that the ability to pivot quickly and innovate innovate across evolving crypto mining ecosystem is critical to long-term success, particularly in a market defined by rapid technological change and regulatory shifts. We remain focused on executing our long-term vision and delivering sustained value through technology leadership and a strong commitment to innovation to unlock long-term value and reinforce our leadership in the evolving blockchain ecosystem. By aligning our development roadmap with the needs of both enterprise and crypto native users, we aim to be a driving force in shaping the future. With that, operator, let's open it up for questions.

Absolutely. We will now open the floor for questions. Again, if you would like to ask a question this time, simply press star, followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. And our first question comes from the line of Matthew Galinko with Maxim Group. Matthew, please go ahead.

Hi, thanks for taking my question. I wanted to maybe focus on the ETH accumulation strategy. Do you have any, I guess, concrete objectives on You know, how aggressively you intend to accumulate ETH? Is there, you know, any thought to becoming, you know, more like the traditional Bitcoin strategies where they issue, you know, and use financial instruments to acquire more? Or are you intending to continue to sort of do it organically from, you know, cash flows that you could generate off the core business?

Thank you for the question, Matt. Currently, the company primarily uses our own funds to conduct our dollar cost averaging strategy to do the e-purchases. This approach is, we think, is risk-controlled, prudent, and consistent with our long-term strategy. But in the future, we may consider moderate financing for ETH accumulation depending on market conditions and opportunities. But overall strategy time will remain unchanged. The dollar cost averaging approach to continue to be the core of our East Treasury operation. And I think we think on the one hand, our profits from our mining machine business can directly support the East strategy. I think compared to short-term gains, our approach is more resilient across market cycles and avoid some forced easy sales or easy disposal triggered by short-term price drops. Thank you.

Thank you. And if I could ask one follow-up question, I think you mentioned targeting a up to a 10% yield on your Ethereum treasury. Can you talk about how much of your holdings, Anith, you would consider putting towards a staking or trading strategy? Is it half or more? How much do you intend to put towards yield activity?

Yeah. Let me think about this question, how to answer your question.

We cooperate with FalconX. The key point of this cooperation is to lower purchase price costs through certain trading strategies and to optimize returns through the lending. So in the future, we will also explore partnership with some DEXs, decentralized exchanges and and to expand the other staking. Overall, we will make decision based on the market condition and the yield efficiency, but we will not put all our ease in one place. But we will put all over 80% of our ease to generate income, but it may be not put in one place. Yeah, that's our long-term strategy.

Thank you. Great. Thank you. I'll jump back in the queue. Again, if you would like to ask a question, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. And our next question comes from the line of Mark Palmer with The Benchmark Company.

Mark, please go ahead.

Yes, thanks for taking my question. Just the company's prepared remarks made reference to a pipeline of multiple altcoin projects that are moving toward commercialization. We saw the rollout of the new mining machines recently, as well as the Gold Shell Byte initiative. What can you tell us about what that pipeline of altcoin projects looks like? and what your thinking is with regard to their potential contribution, especially in 2026. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

The Aleo Miner Series achieved a strong revenue growth in the first half of this year, and in the second half, we will launch new altcoin mining products While our new state-of-art Dogecoin miner is expected to complete testing in 2025 and enter mass production in first half of 2026. And we will continue to invest in R&D to maintain product competitiveness. So for the second half of 2025, First is our new miners and second is our Dogecoin miners. And we also will have a new coin miners will launch in 2025.

And in 2026, there's a Dogecoin miners. Thank you. Again, if you would like to ask a question, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. And our next question comes from the line of Kevin Dede with H2 Wainwright.

Kevin, please go ahead.

Thank you. Thanks so much for taking my question. I'm just curious, strategically, how you're thinking about the artificial intelligence market Given excellence in semiconductor design, I'm just wondering where that might fall in your strategic thinking.

Yeah, currently we don't have any plan to expand business in that area. Thank you for your question, but we will internally discuss further.

Yeah, thank you. I appreciate the response. I'm just curious.

Thank you. Yeah, thank you.

And your next question comes from the line up again with Matthew Galinko with Maxim Group. Matthew, please go ahead.

I appreciate you taking my follow-up. I'm curious about, you know, if you could give us some thoughts about how to model R&D spending through the rest of 2025. Should we see that pick up in the back half of the year as you try to bring new products to market? Or, you know, do you think first quarter was maybe the high point of the year? Just some, you know, thoughts around that.

Yeah, I think our R&D expenses have, firstly, our product will, in the second half, we will have new products, just like I mentioned. But the R&D expenses are mostly occurred in the first half. So we believe that the second quarter, the base the big figure of the second half will not be larger than the first half. And it will have maybe one tape out, and the process node is not very high. So I think the total R&D expenses will not be larger than the first half.

Yeah, thank you. Great, thank you. There's no further question at this time. I will now hand it over to Charles Yan for closing remarks. Charles?

Thanks again to all of you for joining us. We are always open to dialogue with investors. Please feel free to reach out to us or to our investor relations firm. equity group for any additional questions. We look forward to speaking with you again on our next quarterly call. Thank you.

That concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.