Company: ADAMM
Filing Date: 2025-01-14
Form Type: 8-A12B
Source: 0001104659-25-003444
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Company: ADAMAS TRUST, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-01-14
Form: 8-A12B
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<div align='center'>UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-A

FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES

PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR 12(g) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</div>

| New York Mortgage Trust, Inc.                          |                                  |
| (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) |                                  |
| Maryland                                               |                       47-0934168 |
| (State or other jurisdiction                           
 of incorporation)                                      | -IRS Employer Identification No. |
| 90 Park Avenue,                                        
 New York New York                                      |                            10016 |
| (Address of Principal Executive Office)                |                        -Zip Code |

Securities to be registered pursuant
to Section 12(b) of the Act:

| Title of each class to be so registered |     | Name of each exchange on which each 
 class is to be registered           |
| 9.125% Senior Notes due 2030            |     | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC         |

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(c) or (e), check the following box.x

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A.(d) or (e), check the following box.¨

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities concurrently with a Regulation A offering, check the following box.¨

Securities Act registration statement or Regulation A offering statement
file number to which this form relates: File No. 333-281046

Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

| Item 1. | Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered. |

The description of the 9.125% Senior Notes due
2030 of New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. (the “Registrant”) is set forth under the heading “Description of the Notes”
included in the Registrant’s prospectus supplement dated January 8, 2025, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Commission”) on January 10, 2025, pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as