Company: SCLXW
Filing Date: 2025-12-16
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001193125-25-319720
Chunk: 213

Company: Scilex Holding Co
Filing Date: 2025-12-16
Form: S-1
Chunk 213
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 order relating to cryptocurrencies. While the executive order did not mandate the adoption of any specific regulations, it instructed various federal agencies to consider potential regulatory measures, including the evaluation of the creation of a U.S. CBDC. On September 16, 2022, the White House released a framework for digital asset development, based on reports from various government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Treasury, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Commerce. Among other things, the framework encourages regulators to pursue enforcement actions, issue guidance and rules to address current and emergent risks, support the development and use of innovative technologies by payment providers to increase access to instant payments, consider creating a federal framework to regulate nonbank payment providers, and evaluate whether to call upon Congress to amend the Bank Secrecy Act and laws against unlicensed money transmission to apply explicitly to digital asset service providers.

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There have also been several bills introduced in Congress that propose to establish additional regulation and oversight of the digital asset markets. In particular, on July 17, 2025, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (the “CLARITY Act”) was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan support and will now be delivered to the Senate for consideration. The CLARITY Act provides a regulatory framework for digital assets by clarifying the roles of the SEC and CFTC in oversight of various digital assets and transactions in digital assets. The CLARITY Act defines several categories of digital assets: digital commodities and permitted payment stablecoins, which would be subject to the jurisdiction of the CFTC, and excluded digital commodities, such as securities, which would be subject to the jurisdiction of the SEC. Sorrento Chapter 11 Filing On February 13, 2023, Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (“Sorrento”), together with its wholly owned direct subsidiary, Scintilla Pharmaceuticals, Inc., commenced voluntary proceedings under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the “Bankruptcy Court”). The Chapter 11 proceedings are jointly administered under the caption In re Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc., et al, Case Number 23-90085(DRJ) (the “Chapter 11 Cases”). While we were previously majority-owned by Sorrento, we were not a debtor in Sorrento’s voluntary Chapter 11 filing. Pursuant to that certain Stock Purchase Agreement that we entered into with