Company: FLDDW
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001213900-25-074298
Chunk: 296

Company: Fold Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form: 424B3
Chunk 296
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 which little or no market data exists, therefore requiring an entity to develop its own assumptions, such as valuations derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable. Warrant Classification The Company accounts for the warrants issued in connection with the Public Offering and the Private Placement in accordance with the guidance contained in ASC 815 -40under which the warrants meet the criteria for equity treatment and are recorded as equity. Income Taxes The Company accounts for income taxes under ASC 740, “Income Taxes.” ASC 740, Income Taxes, requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for both the expected impact of differences between the financial statements and tax basis of assets and liabilities and for the expected future tax benefit to be derived from tax loss and tax credit carry forwards. ASC 740 additionally requires a valuation allowance to be established when it is more likely than not that all or a portion of deferred tax assets will not be realized. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company’s deferred tax assets had a full valuation allowance recorded against it. The Company’s effective tax rate was 50.59% and 34.35% for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The effective tax rate differs from the statutory tax rate of 21% for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, due to changes in the valuation allowance on the deferred tax assets and merger and acquisition expenses. ASC 740 also clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in an enterprise’s financial statements and prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement process for financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. For those benefits to be recognized, a F-42 FOLD HOLDINGS, INC.
(F / K / A FTAC EMERALD ACQUISITION CORP.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 2024 NOTE 2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (cont.) tax position must be more -likely - than-notto be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. ASC 740 also provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim period, disclosure and transition. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. There were no unrecognized tax benefits and no amounts accrued for interest and penalties as of December 31, 2024