Company: APCXW
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001683168-25-002670
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Company: AppTech Payments Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
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 of the proposed
voting frequencies. If you do not return voting instructions to your broker by its deadline, this will result in a broker non-vote, which
will have no effect on this proposal.

<div align='center'>THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” THE OPTION OF EVERY “1 YEAR” AS THE FREQUENCY WITH WHICH STOCKHOLDERS ARE PROVIDED AN ADVISORY VOTE ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.</div>

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<div align='center'>PROPOSAL 4

2025 APPTECH EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN</div>

Without approval of a new
or amended equity-based compensation plan, our ability to provide market-level compensation as a means through which the Company and its
affiliates may attract and retain key personnel and to provide a means whereby directors, officers, employees, consultants, and advisors
(and prospective directors, officers, employees, consultants, and advisors) of the Company and its affiliates can acquire and maintain
an equity interest in the Company, or be paid incentive compensation thereby strengthening their commitment to the welfare of the Company
and its affiliates and aligning their interests with those of the Company’s shareholders.

AppTech currently has a stockholder-approved
equity incentive plan that was approved on May 29, 2024. The previous plan has 2,335,296 shares remaining in the reserve. However,
508,167 are available to be issued out of the current plan based on existing options granted but not exercised. The Company feels it needs
to replace the plan to enhance its equity-based compensation plan to continue its growth objectives. The AppTech 2025 Equity Incentive
Plan (the “2025 Plan”) shall replace the current equity incentive plan, and all shares currently held in reserve shall be
terminated. All shares previously granted in accordance with the previous equity incentive plan shall be unchanged. On April 4, 2025,
our Compensation Committee and Board of Directors adopted the 2025 Plan and recommended it be submitted to our stockholders for their
approval at the Annual Meeting. The following summarizes certain features of the 2025 Plan. The summary is qualified in its entirety by
referencing the complete text of the 2025 Plan. You are encouraged to read the actual text of the 2025 Plan in its entirety, which is
presented in Appendix A.

Authorized Shares

Upon stockholder approval
of the 2025 Plan, and subject to adjustment upon