Company: NDRA
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001654954-25-008117
Chunk: 23

Company: ENDRA Life Sciences Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-16
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 23
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 management instruments, such as U.S. government securities or money market mutual funds until such time that we enter into a custodial arrangement for our cryptocurrency holdings.

Absent federal regulations, there is a possibility that certain cryptocurrencies may be classified as “securities.” Any classification of a cryptocurrency as a “security” would subject us to additional regulation and could materially impact the operation of our business.

Cryptocurrency refers to digital assets that are issued by and transmitted through an open-source protocol, collectively maintained by a peer-to-peer network of decentralized user nodes. We believe that digital assets intrinsically linked to a blockchain system, and the value of which is derived from or is reasonably expected to be derived from the use of the blockchain system, such as bitcoin, are not securities, but neither the SEC nor any other U.S. federal or state regulator has formally taken such a position. Despite the Trump Administration’s Executive Order titled “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology” which includes as an objective “protecting and promoting the ability of individual citizens and private sector entities alike to access and to maintain self-custody of digital assets,” cryptocurrency has not yet been classified with respect to U.S. federal securities laws, although, as of the date of this prospectus, the CLARITY Act is under consideration by the U.S. Congress and would provide greater certainty around the characterization of cryptocurrencies in which we intend to invest. Therefore, while (for the reasons discussed below) we believe that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies intrinsically linked to a blockchain system are digital commodities and not a “securities” within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws, and registration of the Company under the 1940 Act, is therefore not required under the applicable securities laws, we acknowledge that, in the absence of applicable legislation, a regulatory body or federal court may determine otherwise. Therefore, our belief, even if reasonable under the circumstances, would not preclude legal or regulatory action based on such a finding that cryptocurrency is a “security,” which would require us to register as an investment company under the 1940 Act.

As part of our analysis of U.S. federal securities law, we take into account a number of factors, including the various definitions of “security” under U.S. federal securities laws and federal court decisions interpreting the elements of these definitions, such as the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in the Howey and Reves cases, as well as court rulings, reports, orders, press releases, public statements, and speeches by the SEC Commissioners