Company: FLDDW
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-068264
Chunk: 89

Company: Fold Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-28
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 89
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 making claims of infringement to extract settlements from companies like ours. Our use of third -partyintellectual property rights also may be subject to claims of infringement. We cannot guarantee that our internally developed or acquired technologies and content do not or will not infringe or otherwise violate the intellectual property rights of others. From time to time, our competitors or other third parties may claim that we are infringing or have misappropriated their intellectual property rights, and we may be found liable as a result. Any claims or litigation, whether having merit or not, could cause us to incur significant expenses and may be time consuming to defend. And if any such claims are successfully asserted against us, we could be required to pay substantial damages or ongoing royalty payments, we could be prevented from offering our products or services or using certain technologies, or we could be forced to implement expensive work -arounds. We expect that the occurrence of infringement claims related to our Bitcoin related products and services is likely to grow as the Bitcoin network grows and matures. Accordingly, our exposure to damages resulting from infringement claims could increase and potentially exhaust our financial and management resources. Further, during the course of any litigation, we may make announcements regarding the results of hearings and motions, and other interim developments. If securities analysts and investors regard these announcements as negative, the market price of our Common Stock may decline. Even if intellectual property claims are meritless, do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could divert the resources of our management and require significant expenditures. Any of the foregoing could prevent us from competing effectively and could have an adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition. Our platform contains third-party open source software components, and failure to comply with the terms of the underlying open source software licenses could harm our business. Our technology platform includes software licensed to us by third -partyauthors under “open source” licenses. Use and distribution of open source software may entail greater risks than use of third -partycommercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide support, warranties, indemnification or other contractual protections regarding infringement claims or the quality of the code. In addition, the public availability of such software may make it easier for others to compromise our technology or services. Some open source licenses contain requirements that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon the type of open source software we use, or grant other licenses to our intellectual property. If we combine our proprietary software with open source