The closing builds on the Company's previously announced initial 24% acquisition and lifts LQR House's aggregate ownership through the 50% threshold, a milestone that establishes LQR House as the controlling shareholder of Fusion Five and is expected to result in consolidation of Fusion Five's results into the Company's financial reporting.

The incremental 30% interest was acquired for $39 million, payable in USDT in accordance with the terms of the underlying Share Purchase Agreement. The valuation reflects, among other factors, the elimination of the discount for lack of control (DLOC) that applied to the initial minority tranche.

A Cross-Border Investment Platform at the Convergence of AI and Stablecoin Infrastructure

Fusion Five Continents is a licensed financial services firm operating an integrated digital investment platform through which customers fund their accounts and access a curated range of investment products. Conventional brokerages execute orders. Fusion Five, in addition to executing orders, delivers AI-driven research, automated portfolio optimization, and stablecoin-settled funding and clearance, in a single environment. The Company believes this combination positions Fusion Five at the intersection of digital finance, global capital markets, and USD stablecoin infrastructure.

How AI Powers the Fusion Five Platform

Fusion Five layers institutional-grade technology onto a regulated brokerage. When a client navigates to a company's stock on the platform, large language models have already read its latest filings and recent media coverage and distilled them into a single intelligence score. The platform's portfolio builder accepts plain-language goals or numerical targets for risk, drawdown, and return, and then constructs an allocation from four institutional methodologies, stress-tested against historical market scenarios and backtested for downside protection. Underlying all of it is a research engine that applies natural language processing and large-scale investor-behavior data to alpha generation across U.S. and Hong Kong equity markets.

In plain terms, Fusion Five executes its clients' trades and, at the same time, delivers the kind of AI-driven research, automated trading analytics, and portfolio suggestions that have historically been confined to professional hedge funds.

The Road to Quantum Technologies

The platform's research and development team comprises postdoctoral researchers from the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance and Singapore Management University, alongside PhDs from Tsinghua University, the University of Warwick, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, with active industry links to Man Group's Man Numeric, Ant Fund, and Alipay. Beyond the AI, machine learning, and quantitative research capabilities already in production, this research and development team is advancing Fusion Five along a deliberate quantum roadmap. Near-term work includes quantum-inspired methods deployable on classical infrastructure today, including alternative approaches to portfolio optimization and execution efficiency. Longer-term work includes research into quantum algorithms for portfolio construction, quantum machine learning for predictive modeling, and the disciplined benchmarking of these methods against classical systems to identify areas of genuine quantum advantage. The Company views quantum readiness across architecture, governance, and research agenda as foundational to next-generation trading platforms as quantum technologies mature.

Stablecoin-Settled Access to Global Equity Markets

A defining feature of Fusion Five is its ability to facilitate USDT-based funding for securities trading, a capability that is not commonly available among financial intermediaries serving Asian markets. Through a partnership with a licensed Hong Kong securities broker, Fusion Five connects an existing base of approximately 4,000 investors to Hong Kong and U.S. equity markets, with USDT functioning as both the funding instrument and the settlement layer. For Chinese and Asian investors holding meaningful capital in digital assets and seeking exposure to global equities, Fusion Five represents one of the cleaner regulated bridges between the two.

The model also aligns with the current direction of U.S. regulatory policy. Recent U.S. policy developments have indicated increasing institutional focus on USD stablecoin infrastructure as a mechanism to extend dollar dominance in global finance. Fusion Five's use of USDT as the settlement layer for equity market access aligns the platform with broader trends toward integration of stablecoin infrastructure into financial markets.

LQR House gains this exposure through ownership of a regulated operating business rather than through direct holdings of digital assets, which the Company believes provides positioning at the convergence of stablecoins and global capital markets without the balance sheet volatility that has complicated other crypto-adjacent strategies for public companies.

Profitable Operating Business Joining LQR House's Consolidated Results

Fusion Five is operating profitably and has demonstrated product-market fit, as reflected in its most recent audited financial statements. Going forward, those results will be consolidated into LQR House's financial statements. Given that Fusion Five is an established and profitable operating business, and that LQR House's historical operations have run at a loss, the Company believes that consolidation will contribute favorably to its reported financial performance in future periods, with substantial runway for Fusion Five to broaden its customer base and deepen its product offering.

"This next step in our acquisition of Fusion Five Continents is a defining moment for LQR House and our shareholders," said Sean Dollinger, Chief Executive Officer of LQR House. "Fusion Five sits at a rare intersection: a regulated, profitable brokerage that has built a genuine AI investment platform, with proprietary USDT-based settlement infrastructure that bridges the digital asset economy to global equity markets. We have crossed into majority ownership of that platform without taking on the balance sheet exposure that has made other crypto-adjacent strategies complicated for public companies. With the consolidation of Fusion Five's results into our financials, we believe that shareholders will see a tangible and immediate improvement to the Company's bottom line. Fusion Five's growth trajectory is just beginning, and the path toward full ownership positions LQR House to capture the full upside of that growth."