Company: FLDDW
Filing Date: 2025-01-24
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001213900-25-006075
Chunk: 507

Company: Fold Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-24
Form: 424B3
Chunk 507
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, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). The Company’s financial instruments are classified as either Level1, Level 2 or Level 3. These tiers include: •Level1, defined as observable inputs such as quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical instruments in active markets; •Level2, defined as inputs other than quoted prices in active markets that are either directly or indirectly observable such as quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets or quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and •Level3, defined as unobservable inputs for 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, 2023 and 2022, the Company’s deferred tax asset had a full valuation allowance recorded against it. The Company’s effective tax rate F-56 FTAC EMERALD ACQUISITION CORP.
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS DECEMBER 31, 2023 and 2022 NOTE 2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (cont.) was 34.35% and 39.43% for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The effective tax rate differs from the statutory tax rate of 21% for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, due to changes in the valuation allowance on the deferred tax assets. ASC 740 also clar