Company: ADAMM
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form Type: 8-A12B
Source: 0001104659-25-066413
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Company: ADAMAS TRUST, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
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)                      |     |           | -I.R.S. 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 |
| 9.875% 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 9.875% 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 June 30, 2025, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Commission”) on July 1, 2025, pursuant to Rule 424(b