Streamex Q3 2026 Earnings Results & Report

Streamex EPS Results

• Actual EPS: -$0.09
• Consensus EPS: -$0.03
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$0.06
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

Streamex Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $145 thousand
• Expected Revenue: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

Streamex (NASDAQ:STEX) is a financial technology company focused on blockchain-based financial infrastructure and the tokenization of real-world assets. Its business is centered on developing digital platforms designed to connect traditional financial products with blockchain networks.

The company’s activities include creating and supporting digital assets, blockchain applications and tokenized investment products. Streamex has described its work as serving institutional and other market participants seeking greater efficiency, transparency and accessibility in digital-asset markets.

Publicly available information about Streamex’s operating history, geographic reach, product portfolio and leadership is limited. The company is headquartered in the United States and trades on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol STEX.

Streamex Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: GLDY adoption increased: the company added 208 net ounces in Q3, outside ownership more than doubled to 17.7%, and a $1 million institutional allocation to a gold carry-trade fund has been funded. Management said it expects further inflows, but noted that institutional adoption is still at an early stage.
• Positive Sentiment: Streamex expects GLDY to launch on Equity Trust’s IRA platform next week, which would make it the platform’s first tokenized asset; Equity Trust oversees about $73 billion in assets. The Cask Foundation has also begun bootstrapping liquidity for USGY, which could add GLDY AUM and servicing revenue, though its public launch depends on completing bootstrapping.
• Negative Sentiment: Q3 net loss widened to $17.5 million, while GLDY income was just $145,000 for the quarter. Operating cash burn averaged $1.5 million per month, above the company’s target, and management’s goal of reducing it to $1.1 million–$1.3 million is not a forecast.
• Neutral Sentiment: The company ended Q3 debt-free with $36.5 million in total liquidity, down from $41.8 million at June 30; $16.5 million was physical gold backing GLDY, and $13.2 million was immediately available. In early November, Streamex invested $6 million of GLDY reserves in a fund with T+2 redemption, which it said raised immediately available liquidity to about $19.2 million.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good afternoon, and thank you for standing by. My name is Bella, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to Streamex Q3 2026 Business and Quarterly Update Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star, then the number one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, press star one again. I would now like to turn the conference over to Laura Kiernan, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

[Laura Kiernan, Head of Investor Relations at Streamex]

Thank you, Bella, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Streamex's Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. I am Laura Kiernan, Head of Investor Relations. With me today are Henry McPhie, our Co-Founder and CEO, and Christine Plummer, our CFO. Our earnings release went out earlier today, and a replay of this call will be available on ir.streamex.com shortly after we finish this. Today's call includes forward-looking statements based on our current expectations. They are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results could differ materially. Please see the cautionary language on slides two and three of the deck and the risk factors in our most recent 10-K and 10-Q. We will also refer to non-GAAP measures, including adjusted EBITDA, total cash and investments, and total liquidity position. Definitions and reconciliations are in the release and in the appendix to the deck.

[Laura Kiernan, Head of Investor Relations at Streamex]

Finally, we will refer to a fund run by an institutional investment manager. It is a private fund and offered only under Rule 506 of Regulation D. Streamex is not its issuer, manager, or placement agent. We reference it only to describe our own business, and nothing on this call is an offer or solicitation of interest of the fund. We will also discuss USGY, a product of the Cask Foundation, which is not available to U.S. persons and is not being offered on this call. And with that, I will hand the call over to Henry.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Thanks, Laura, and thanks, everyone for joining. At the end of our August 17th call, I laid out six commitments for the 90 days, which ends on November 15th. On this call, I will walk through each one, where they stand, and also set out a new list of 90-day commitments to hold us to near the end. The way I think about this year is Q1, we launched the product, GLDY. Q2, we built the distribution around it, and Q3 was the continued scale and distribution and adoption of it. Here is what that looked like. An institutional investment manager launched a fund using GLDY as the long leg of a gold carry trade. There was an initial $1 million USD order of that fund from a leading institutional investor, and we are seeing additional subscriptions scaling in.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

As of September 30th, we added 208 net new ounces of gold into GLDY against 15 last quarter. As of September 30th, outside ownership doubled to 17.7%. Next week, GLDY is also expected to go live on the Equity Trust platform as the first tokenized assets in its IRA. The Cask Foundation, an independent foundation that a Streamex subsidiary services, begins bootstrapping liquidity into its first product, USGY, which puts the delta-neutral gold yield on-chain. With that, let's get into the presentation. To start, please take a look at our disclosures on slides two and three and in our filings. I'll give a second to read these. Alrighty, on to slide four. Here's the plan. I'll start with our new brand and reintroducing the company. Then I'll cover how we did against our August 90-day timeline.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Christine will cover the quarter's financials. Then I'll come back for the business, the market, how GLDY is growing, Equity Trust, the gold carry trade, and the Cask Foundation, and USGY, which adds a new revenue line. I'll close with what to hold us to over the next 90 days, and then we'll start taking questions. You may have noticed that this deck looks different. Today is the first time that we're showing our new brand publicly. At Streamex, we believe that your wealth and investments should not only preserve value, it should actively create it. As we build the modern financial infrastructure, our position as the platform for tokenized commodities gets stronger. The brand moves us from being seen as a tokenization company to a financial brand that people trust to preserve and grow their wealth. For investors, it should be simple and institutional-grade.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

You shouldn't need to know an asset is tokenized. You should see gold that pays you, held where you already invest. You'll see it on streamex.com today and in our investor materials. For anyone new to the story, here is Streamex in a minute. One, we're a financial technology company. We build and run a tokenization platform for commodity markets, and we are also the issuer of assets on it. The second part matters. We keep the economics instead of paying them away to a third-party platform, and we put the legal structure and physical custody and institutional custody in place. We are not a crypto company, a gold ETF, or a miner. We don't take exploration or resource risks, and we're not a one-product company. Gold is the first asset on a platform designed to repeat across multiple commodities.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

We're NASDAQ-listed, we have no debt, and we ended the quarter with just over $36.5 million of total liquidity. The model is recurring revenue. We earn from issuance, AUM, and transaction fees on every GLDY outstanding, and now servicing revenue from Cask Foundation products as well. Moving on. Here are the six commitments from August and where each one of them stands. One, the first institutional allocation. An initial $1 million anchor investment was made into an institutionally managed investment fund, which runs the gold carry strategy with GLDY as its long leg. Since this initial order, we have seen exciting interest in the fund and anticipate seeing more inflows in the coming weeks and months.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

With the fund growing significantly in just over four weeks of being live, one thing I want to clarify about this is by no means are we saying that institutional adoption is complete with these initial orders. The announcement of the fund and the institutional allocation was an exciting milestone because it proved that a respected institutional investment manager and an institutional investor have allocated both resources to create the fund and took time to review the asset as they allocate capital into it. We think that these initial orders, the first of many, and the interest that we've already seen, we're excited to continue to see the fund scale with the GLDY AUM within it. Two, institutional holders on the register. in August, I said that we wanted institutions on the register.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

The fund just discussed is a holder of GLDY, and the participants into the fund are institutional companies and investors. We remain focused on growing the amount of institutional investors through a number of avenues, which we'll discuss on this call. Three, liquidity bootstrapping. This started in October. The Cask Foundation was first set up, and the bootstrapping for its initial vault, USGY, has started. The Cask Foundation expects to launch USGY publicly once initial bootstrapping is complete, and we'll get deeper into what this means later in the call. Four, GLDC. GLDC is set up and ready to go. USGY is going to go first, and I'll explain why when we get to Cask. Five, Equity Trust. This is now done. This is something that I'm extremely excited to announce. GLDY is expected to go live on Equity Trust platform next week.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

GLDY will officially be the first tokenized asset on Equity Trust IRA platform, with over $70 billion and 350,000 people within the platform. Stay tuned for more information coming next week and later in this call. Six, attestations and distributions. Seven straight monthly distributions have been paid, every one in gold, with independent attestations by EisnerAmper. Overall, I'm proud of the team being able to deliver what we did in these last 90 days. Now we focus on continuing to scale, onboard more investors and partners, and launch new products and grow AUM. With that, I'll hand it over to Christine to talk Q3 financials before going deeper into the business and our commitments for the next 90 days.

[Christine Plummer, CFO at Streamex]

Thanks, Henry, and good afternoon, everyone. I will cover the quarter's results, the balance sheet, liquidity, cash burn, and capital structure. Henry has covered the GLDY and Cask columns, so I will focus on the financials. Four things to take from this page. First, income. GLDY's income was $145,000 for the quarter and $291,000 year-to-date. Q2's reported $146,000 included $12,000 that related to Q1, so on a like-for-like basis, lease income grew about 8%. It's still small, but it grows with the ounces behind GLDY. Second, cost. Operating expenses were $18.1 million, and $9.3 million of that was non-cash stock-based compensation. Third, the bottom line. Net loss was $17.5 million, or $0.09 a share, against $0.08 in Q2. Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $7.2 million. And fourth, the balance sheet. No debt, $36.5 million of total liquidity, and $22 million of working capital.

[Christine Plummer, CFO at Streamex]

Just a note on comparisons. We compare Q3 versus Q2. We acquired Streamex Exchange Corporation in May 2025, so the 2025 periods include only part of its operations and are not directly comparable. Prior-year figures are in the release and the 10-Q. The main movement this quarter was at operating expenses, and most of it was non-cash. Operating expenses rose $2.8 million from Q2, and $2.2 million of that was higher non-cash stock-based compensation. Excluding that, expenses rose $0.6 million, mainly external legal counsel and cost supporting product development. That flowed through to the bottom line. Net loss widened by $2.9 million to $17.5 million. Adjusted EBITDA, which excludes stock compensation, moved only $0.6 million to a loss of $7.2 million. For the nine months, net loss was $78.7 million, or $0.44 a share. Most of that was non-cash or non-recurring.

[Christine Plummer, CFO at Streamex]

$41.8 million of stock-based compensation, $4.4 million of depreciation and amortization, and $15.2 million of one-time charges on the debentures we settled in February. That is about $61 million in total, so the cash cost of running the business is much lower than the net loss suggests. The balance sheet is still debt-free. Total assets were $150 million, liabilities $13.5 million, and stockholders' equity $136.4 million.

[Christine Plummer, CFO at Streamex]

Working capital was $22 million against $32.8 million at June 30th. Three things moved, and they are in the panel on the right. First, in July, we lent 5 million USDC and 1,069 GLDY to Wintermute, our liquidity provider, so GLDY can trade around the clock. The USDC moved out of digital assets and now sits on the balance sheet as a $4.6 million loan receivable, net of allowance, recallable on 30 days' notice. Second, physical gold at cost rose to $16.5 million from $15.5 million.

[Christine Plummer, CFO at Streamex]

This is from new GLDY subscriptions and lease income paid in gold. Third, cash and marketable securities fell to $12.3 million from $18.5 million as we funded operations. Just one note on gold, we carry it at cost, not at market value, and as of September 30th, its market value was about $14 million, roughly $2.5 million below its carrying amount. There are three liquidity numbers worth knowing, and this slide shows how they fit together. The simplest way to think about it is in three layers.

[Christine Plummer, CFO at Streamex]

Total liquidity is $36.5 million, down from $41.8 million at June 30th. The first layer is $13.2 million, which is immediately available at September 30th in cash, marketable securities, and stablecoins. The second layer is another $6.8 million, which is accessible on a near-term basis under the terms of the underlying agreements.

[Christine Plummer, CFO at Streamex]

That is the $4.6 million Wintermute loan, which is recallable on 30 days' notice and supports GLDY's 24/7 trading, and the $2.2 million Metalayer investment, which is redeemable on written notice, $1.7 million of it quarterly and $500,000 on 30 days. Together with the first layer, that is about $20 million we can reach in the near term. The third layer, the remaining layer, is the $16.5 million in physical gold carried at cost, and this is held as a reserve inventory backing every GLDY token outstanding.

[Christine Plummer, CFO at Streamex]

So, $13.2 million + $6.8 million, which is the $20 million accessible on a near-term basis, +$16.5 million gets us to the total of $36.5 million of total liquidity. Since quarter end, in early November, we invested $6 million of the GLDY reserves into Metalayer's Digital Fund I, which has T+2 redemption. That brings our immediately available liquidity to about $19.2 million.

[Christine Plummer, CFO at Streamex]

The next slide covers our cash burn, the run rate we are targeting, and our capital structure. Operating cash burn averaged about $1.5 million a month in Q3. That's down from $1.6 million in Q2, but above the $1.1 million we targeted. The gap was mainly external legal counsel and marketing costs tied to product development.

[Christine Plummer, CFO at Streamex]

The table shows how we get to our target. About $0.3 million a month of Q3 costs aren't expected to repeat. That's $0.1 million each in professional services and marketing, one-time personnel costs, and legal services. That takes us to a targeted run rate of $1.1 million-$1.3 million a month from Q4 through 2027. That's a target, not a forecast, and it's on Henry's list for the next 90 days.

[Christine Plummer, CFO at Streamex]

We also have additional levers, monetizing part of the company's GLDY holdings, which is consistent with our stated capital strategy, the strategic alternatives process that is now underway for the PURE EP patent portfolio, and continuing evaluation of legal and professional service costs. On our capital structure, we have about 117.5 million common shares outstanding and 68.4 million exchangeable shares, which convert one for one.

[Christine Plummer, CFO at Streamex]

This total of 185.9 million shares fully diluted as of September 30th. We're building the business on a fee base, fees scale with assets against a largely fixed cost base, which gives us strong operating leverage and room to scale without adding CapEx. Now back to you, Henry.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Thanks, Christine. Now, let's get into the business. I'll start with the market. Tokenized real-world assets on-chain are now at about $40 billion, excluding stablecoins. That's more than 3x where they were at two years ago. On October 28th, the DTCC switched on its tokenization service, with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan all among the participants.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

The DTCC settles within the U.S. securities market, so that's the core plumbing of Wall Street moving on-chain. Gold also had a big quarter. Global gold ETF holdings hit a record 4,256 tons, and central banks bought 321 tons, their biggest quarter since late 2024. Demand for gold is as strong as it has been. Now, look at the gap. There's about $32 trillion worth of gold above ground.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Around $11 trillion of it is held as financial gold, and only about $5 billion of that is tokenized, and the two largest gold tokens pay their holders nothing. GLDY is the only gold security that pays a yield and pays it in gold. Gold is one commodity. The global commodities market is roughly $147 trillion, and most of it is still run on paper and ledgers. Whoever owns the rails when that market moves on-chain owns the economics of the move, which is what we're building. Here's how that's showing up in GLDY.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

We ended the quarter with 3,351 ounces, up from 3,111. Today, we're sitting at 3,360.8 ounces. That's 249.8 net new ounces against 15 in Q2. As of September 30th, we issued 208 new GLDY to subscribers, and outside holders went from about 280 ounces to about 593. So outside ownership more than doubled.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

GLDY AUM is around $14 million at market value, up 12% in the quarter. The product continues to perform exactly as it was designed. NAV tracks gold one-to-one with zero tracking error. Since launch, we paid 31 ounces of gold, additional GLDY in lease yield this quarter, up from 19, and we paid seven monthly distributions in a row, all in gold. The reserve is independently attested by EisnerAmper and visible on Chainlink's Proof of Reserve Oracle.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

One thing I want to be clear on, this is not scale yet, but with what we're seeing, it is starting to feel like scale is rapidly advancing. With the three initiatives I am about to cover, Equity Trust, the carry trade, and USGY, scale will only increase from here. The fund is live. Equity Trust is expected to go live next week, and USGY is in bootstrapping now.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

This is the distribution behind that growth. Several partners with more than $160 billion of assets between them, covering brokerage, custody, liquidity, funds, and now retirement accounts. Since August, CNB Custody went live in October, adding qualified custody for RIAs and advisors, and Equity Trust is expected to go live next week. Our approach is leverage. We do not acquire investors one at a time.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Our goal is to make GLDY available to the clients of brokerages, custodians, funds, and retirement platforms, which takes the audience from thousands of investors to millions. Now, into the Equity Trust relationship and launch in more detail. Equity Trust has been in the business for more than 50 years. It has about $73 billion of assets under custody and the administration of around 368,000 accounts.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

GLDY is expected to go live next week as the first tokenized assets on its platform, which means U.S. investors can now hold GLDY within their IRA accounts. For the investor, the comparison is simple. Gold has always been a natural retirement asset, but a traditional physical metals IRA comes with storage fees, logistics costs, and does not pay a yield. GLDY in an IRA gives investors the same gold exposure, but instead of paying to hold it, investors get paid 3.5% more gold annually, accruing inside that tax-advantaged account, with independent attestations and 24/7 liquidity. For Streamex, retirement money is an extremely attractive market for GLDY. U.S. IRAs hold almost $20 trillion in assets, and working with Equity Trust as one of the most respected IRA custodians in the country gives us distribution into that market, which an already established customer base exists.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

GLDY is expected to go live on the Equity Trust platform next week. Alongside the launch, we will be educating IRA holders and their advisors on what is now available to them, so keep your eye out for a ton of more content and information coming out with this announcement. Now, let us get into the gold carry trade that is currently being run with GLDY by an institutional investment manager that we have spoken about. Here is how it works. You hold gold on the long leg and short gold futures or perpetuals on the short leg. The two cancel each other's price exposures, so the position is delta-neutral. You are not betting on where gold goes. What you earn is the basis and the funding spread between spot and futures, along with cross-venue pricing gaps. GLDY makes this trade better.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

If you hold the long leg in bullion or an ETF, it earns nothing or costs you money to hold. GLDY is the only gold security that pays a yield, so it adds 3.5% on top. In the illustration on the slide, that lists the target return from around 6.6% to 10%+. We have seen three things that make this attractive to allocators. One is delta-neutral yield, so there is no price exposure and the yield is dollar-denominated. Two, it can scale. The gold futures market is over $200 billion, and so growth is not constrained by liquidity. And three, because these markets are deep and liquid with low targeted volatility, it works as a very attractive cash management product for investors. An institutional investment manager runs this strategy, and since launching just over four weeks ago, we have seen very strong demand.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

I anticipate that we will continue to see stable and significant inflows into the fund through the end of this year and into 2027. With the long leg being in GLDY, you will be able to see GLDY AUM increasing as this fund grows. This is the gate scoreboard that we committed to republishing every quarter. What changed in August is in orange. CNB added qualified custody, U.S. retirement accounts moved from in progress to expect to go live next week, and the accreditation barrier is now being addressed by Cask, starting with USGY. That brings us now to the Cask Foundation. In August, we talked about GLDC. GLDC was really the start of something bigger, the Cask Foundation. Cask is an independent Cayman foundation company that issues permissionless on-chain products with no minimums and no gating, open to participants outside the U.S.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

A Streamex subsidiary is its servicer and not the issuer of the Cask products. The initial plan for Cask was to launch GLDC, a permissionless gold token that is backed by GLDY first. However, with the demand that we have seen from the traditional gold carry fund and the rapid adoption of RWA vaults on-chain, it made sense to sequence the launch by bringing the Cask Gold Yield Vault, USGY, to market first. I want to make it clear that GLDY is set up and ready to be launched by Cask, and Cask is also considering launching additional strategies using the same vault infrastructure rails to both grow GLDY AUM and also bring attractive products with strong product-market fit to investors. Cask will launch USGY first and scale AUM there, and then GLDC. For Streamex shareholders, there are two important things to note with Cask.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

GLDY sits behind Cask products, so as Cask grows, so does the GLDY base that we earn fees on. And as a servicer, Streamex earns revenue from the foundation's products. That is new revenue line, and it grows with every product that Cask launches. Let us talk a little bit about USGY and the Cask Gold Yield Vault. This is a delta-neutral gold yield on-chain vault that is fully permissionless. USGY will target a 10.1% APY, and year-to-date, the gold carry trade has returned an estimated 8.7% in a relatively low-volume crypto market. Targeted volatility is 0.35% annualized, and the targeted maximum drawdown is 0.27%. That is a yield profile with very little price movement because the gold exposure is hedged.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

The strategy is very similar to the existing fund that we're running and captures pricing gaps between the physical, futures, and tokenized gold, and it earns from the basis spreads, funding rates, and cross-venue arbitrage. Its spot leg, gold leg, is held at GLDY, which adds GLDY's targeted yield of about 3.5% on top of the short funding rate. Risk controls are built in. The capital is spread across venues with no exposure cap per venue. With exposure caps per venue, assets and instruments, leverage is low and bounded, and it's only used to hold hedges, never to add direction. Per positions are capped as a share of each market's open interest, and positions are attested for by a third party accountable, and custody runs in Fordefi's MPC infrastructure. On access, there'll be no minimum investment. A seven-day redemption unlock is available for participants outside the U.S.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Liquidity bootstrapping began in October, and the Cask Foundation expects to launch USGY publicly once initial bootstrapping is complete. USGY is issued by the Cask Foundation, is not available to U.S. persons, and is not being offered on this call. For Streamex, USGY's gold leg is held in GLDY, so every dollar deposited grows GLDY AUM, and as a servicer to Cask, we earn revenue from the product. We've gone over a couple exciting things that we've done and that are coming. Here's what to hold us to on the Q4 call. One, grow the institutional demand, bring more capital into the carry strategy, and new institutional buyers of GLDY. With USGY, complete the initial liquidity bootstrapping and launch publicly by the Cask Foundation and report how it adds to GLDY AUM. Fund the first IRA accounts on Equity Trust.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

GLDC is set up and ready, and with the Cask Foundation expecting a launch early 2027 as USGY scales, bring the burn back down to $1.1 million-$1.3 million a month, and then keep attesting and distributing monthly. We'll report on each of these in February the same way that we did today. To finish, gold is the first product of this platform. It is not the last. Commodities are a market of roughly $147 trillion that still runs largely on paper. Every asset we bring on-chain trades around the clock and settles instantly, and we earn on each one for as long as it's outstanding. Today, that means GLDY is across several partners, Equity Trust, the carry trade, USGY. Next is GLDC, USGY public launch, and more brokerages and custodians. After that, tokenized silver in 2027 and more commodities on the same rails.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

The infrastructure is built. The work now is filling it with assets, and this quarter, you can see that it's starting. With that is the end of our prepared remarks. Thank you very much for listening. We will now take questions, including the ones submitted ahead of the call. You can also submit questions to the webcast, and if we don't get to yours, email ir@streamex.com, and we will follow up. Operator, we are ready for the first question.

[Operator]

At this time, I would like to remind everyone, in order to ask a question, press star, then the number one on your telephone keypad. We will pause for just a moment to compile the Q&A roster. Your first question comes from the line of Aashi Shah from Sidoti & Co. Please go ahead.

[Aashi Shah, Analyst at Sidoti & Co]

Thank you for taking my question. You have made some encouraging progress this quarter, particularly with the acceleration in the GLDY adoption and the expansion of your distribution network. As you look into 2027, what do you see as the biggest catalyst of growth, and which channels or products do you believe could drive the most meaningful acceleration in the AUM?

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Absolutely. Thank you very much, Aashi. I can take this one. I will say that there is probably three main avenues where I see very exciting sort of growth potential. One would be in the institutional investment fund that is running the gold carry trade right now. Having launched that just four weeks ago, the amount of interest that we have seen from investors who want to participate in that fund has been actually extraordinary, and it is something that we have been very excited to see. I anticipate through the end of this year or into early 2027 to see significant AUM come in from there. I think investors really like the delta-neutral yield that comes with that. They like that it is denominated and backed by gold, and the yield itself is also very attractive. At 10%+ right now, it is a very, very solid rate.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

That is definitely one avenue where I can see GLDY AUM increasing through that fund itself. The second would be through USGY and the vault that the Cask Foundation is launching. It is running a very similar trade to that institutional fund. However, it opens up access to anyone to be able to participate, obviously barring U.S. people, but the rest of the world is very large. I was just on a trip in Singapore, Hong Kong, in Asia. Within that region, there has been pretty significant interest in what we are doing. I think gold is a very big market there. For us, being able to target markets outside the U.S. is going to continue to be very important in our growth trajectory. Bringing products with Cask, like USGY, to market, I think will prove to show very attractive for investors.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

The third would be continued marketing and direct investments into GLDY itself. We've continued to scale our sales team. We've continued to get into new channels, one with Equity Trust as a big example of IRA capital and IRA investors there, as well as within different RIA networks, with CNB, with Inspira, the other custodians, then continuing to work through different relationships and partnerships that we've been brewing for a number of months now. Through those three channels, I think GLDY is going to The AUM growth will be shown through those, and I'm very excited to be able to show the market how our work has paid off with those channels themselves.

[Aashi Shah, Analyst at Sidoti & Co]

Right. Thank you so much, Henry. That's very insightful. Just as a follow-up, as the business continues to scale and you introduce additional products, like the USGY or the GLDC, how should we think about the evolution of your revenue mix and the margin profile? Longer term, what do you see as the key milestones that would move Streamex towards sustainable profitability?

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Absolutely. Absolutely. The way that I would look at the revenue profile is there, we have our base revenue model from the GLDY asset, which is, one, the yield and the management fee, that's 1%. We have the ongoing transaction fees that occur when people get in and out of the asset. Then we have the initial tokenization fee when people purchase or sell the asset itself. That's a base fee that through these different avenues of distribution, whether that's through the Cask Fund, whether that's through USGY, those fees are accruing to the GLDY that we issue, and we own that. A big part of our model is that we actually own the assets that we issue. We're not issuing assets for other people. We own the economics, that's a very important part.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

When we look at different products launched through the Cask Foundation, Cask as an entity itself will make money. Streamex as a servicer to the foundation-

[Aashi Shah, Analyst at Sidoti & Co]

Thank you. That is really helpful. Thank you.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Yeah. Okay.

[Operator]

Your next question comes from the line of John Todaro with Needham. Please go ahead.

[Austin Ortiz, Analyst at Needham & Company]

Hey, Henry. It is Austin Ortiz on the line for John Todaro. Hope everything has been well. I have two questions. First one, what do you expect for first-year IRA funding, and how much of the 1 million institutional allocation is committed versus funded? Is the 17.7% outside ownership concentrated in a few holders, and how sticky is it?

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Great question, Austin, and thanks a lot for joining the call. The $1 million is funded already. That was funded a couple weeks ago. We expect that number to continue to increase with additional funding over the next little bit into the fund here. In terms of IRA capital and our projections on that, we haven't given any formal guidance in terms of what it looks like for amount of money coming in from the IRA channels, but we do have visibility into a number of investors and people who will be participating through the Equity Trust channel as IRA investors. I think when you look at the market, especially within IRA money, that is very sticky capital.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

That is people who are saving for their retirements, and the yield component when they want to invest in gold becomes very attractive for them because it's money that sticks and holds for a very long time. They want to be able to accrue that yield within there. For the fund itself, the institutional fund as well as USGY, that capital is made to look more like a cash management tool. That's something where because the underlying instruments within that fund are very liquid, it allows people to get in and out of it as they need for that cash management, similar to if they were, say, holding treasuries instead of cash. For us, for example, we invested in the Metalayer Fund because it's a good investment for us and our balance sheet, and we can get out T+2.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

That's something where we anticipate it to be attractive for investors because they can earn that 10%+ yield and also get in and out of it as they need. It won't be as sticky as IRA capital, but that's also a good thing because we also like transactions, and we like it when GLDY trades hands because we make money on those fees themselves. What I would say is, Equity Trust is a very large custodian. They have a lot of people. We are working very closely with their team to be able to distribute it and get the education piece out to all of their investors and are excited to see the growth that comes with that. The funds itself, we're excited to still see them grow into the end of this year and into early next year too.

[Austin Ortiz, Analyst at Needham & Company]

Got it. Thank you. That was very helpful. Maybe just as a follow-up, how are conversations accelerating with other institutional asset managers outside of the institutional funds investing in USGY and the yield strategy and IRAs? Maybe are you seeing a pickup in conversation with banks or other large asset management in the U.S.? Any color on that would be helpful.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Absolutely. Absolutely. We are in conversations with many large asset managers, both in the U.S. as well as outside the U.S. now, as we've started to look outside of this market. I can say that there have been conversations that have been going on for a number of months now that feel like they are advancing quite rapidly at this point. I can also say that it's a lot of new conversations as we've launched these new products and brought more custody options for investors to be able to participate in, specifically within the RIA networks within the U.S., as well as the ETF and ETP and ADR network within the U.S. as well, bringing more TradFi opportunities for investors to be able to participate in these assets too.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Without saying anything directly in terms of names and timing on those, I can say that they are rapidly advancing, and we have continued to, especially with the new sales team that we brought on, bring quite a few additional potential partnerships and allocators to the mix, and are excited to see those advance both into the GLDY asset directly, as well as the different products that we've been able to launch now.

[Austin Ortiz, Analyst at Needham & Company]

Got it. Sounds good. Thank you, Henry, for that. Congrats on the progress so far, and looking forward to speaking again soon.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Thanks, Austin.

[Operator]

Your next question comes from the line of Victor Morfessis with ThinkEquity. Please go ahead.

[Victor Morfessis, Analyst at ThinkEquity]

Hi, thank you. As GLDY AUM scales, can you just help us understand the actual revenue economics per dollar of third-party AUM? Issuance fees, recurring management fees, transaction fees?

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Absolutely. Absolutely. The simplest way to think about it is, like I mentioned, three fee streams on one GLDY itself. The main, the management fee itself is 1%, so that's on total AUM of the asset. That comes out of the lease yield itself, so actually, as an investor, your ounce of gold is never invaded by that fee. That comes from the lease yield before you see the 3.5%. The second would be a tokenization fee on the initial purchase of the asset. When anyone logs into the platform or purchases the asset directly from us, there's a 25 basis point fee on that initial purchase. Then the third is the transaction and transfer fees on the asset itself.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Every time that the asset turns over, changes hands, there's a 10 basis point fee that occurs when that happens. That's something where the way that we look at it is tokenized gold products right now trade rapidly in the market, and these are the more permissionless products, so a little bit different than GLDY. On the transaction fee itself, if you look at a PAX Gold or a Tether Gold trading 80x to 100x per year at that scale, our GLDY obviously won't trade that much initially, but as scale increases, gold is a very liquid market. We expect these transaction fees to become much more profitable for the company. On GLDY specifically, those are the main fees themselves.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

We are also bringing additional revenue lines, both through USGY and the Cask Foundation, as well as through the different funds and additional products that we will launch with silver, oil, gas, et cetera. That is sort of the main way to think about it. Those other assets will be similar sort of fee-based to GLDY. Our goal really is to own both the platform infrastructure and the infrastructure to issue and create these tokenized assets, where we can earn fee revenue off that, and also own the assets for the lifetime of them as they are out there living and trading in the market, so that we can earn on those as AUM and volume grows there too. That is sort of the main thesis of it.

[Victor Morfessis, Analyst at ThinkEquity]

Great. Thank you. Just a quick follow-up. Approximately what level of AUM would you need to reach operating cash flow breakeven?

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

It depends on a couple different factors, just because with the new products that we have launching, they do not necessarily equate directly to GLDY AUM. We have not guided to any sort of fixed number of AUM in terms of breakeven, but what I can say is that as AUM scales, the cost base in terms of running the business is relatively fixed, and we are working on bringing those numbers down, actually. When you get into the $100 million, $200 million, $300 million mark, it starts looking very good. Our goal is to hit that $100 million first, obviously, and then continue to scale from there.

[Victor Morfessis, Analyst at ThinkEquity]

Thank you.

[Operator]

Next question comes from the line of Brian Vieten with Siebert. Please go ahead.

[Brian Vieten, Analyst at Siebert]

Great. Thanks, guys. Can you first clarify from last quarter? I think originally it was Euriferous Foundation, now it's Cask. Are those the same entity philosophically? Then it sounds like institutional is the near-term op for AUM growth. Can you just talk about the balance of growth long term? Do you still envision, or potentially envision more of the GLDY AUM coming from GLDC or GLDY over the long term?

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Absolutely. So, yeah, to your first question, Brian, Euriferous is the same as Cask. It's the same entity. We changed the name. Euriferous was a little bit of a mouthful. There's a lot of vowels in there. So now it is the Cask Foundation. It will be essentially an independent foundation that launches the permissionless products that we create, or that we service and work with Cask on doing. In terms of growth and where we're seeing it, I think it's actually potentially very sort of even between the more retail and permissionless on-chain capital, and then also the institutional capital.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

The reason I say that is because, one, on the GLDY side, we've started to see pretty significant interesting growth coming, one, through the fund that we launched with the investment manager, and two, now through the direct sort of GLDY outreach that we've been doing, and then now with Equity Trust going live. That would sort of be considered accredited retail with Equity Trust, for example. So, we do see a lot of levers on the institutional side, and we do see a lot of potential growth there, and I anticipate that you will see that in the next couple weeks and months.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

But then as we bring products like USGY and GLDC to market in a more permissionless avenue, it allows for growth and scale at a rate and in a sort of a target market that is different than what we've been targeting initially for GLDY. I think it can scale actually very quickly, because there's a lot of different levers that can be pulled on-chain when you're targeting this on-chain capital. When people are searching for yield opportunities, they look for sort of three main things. They look for what is the size of the market, how big can it get? They look for the trust and the transparency and the safety of the yield, and then they look at sort of who the issuer is and who the partners are and the people that are issuing it.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

So, we are actually set up in a very good position, because with these products, the trade itself is a very liquid and deep trade. It is run by an institutional investment manager, serviced by a public company, which is us, and then the market that we're attacking is a very, obviously, large and the yield there is very safe too. So, that's something where we expect to see pretty interesting growth. I anticipate being able to show that in the near term here, and are very excited to be able to show sort of how our on-chain products perform as well as with our more institutional products.

[Brian Vieten, Analyst at Siebert]

Okay, great. Thanks, Henry. Just on the regulatory front, obviously a lot of, excuse me, a lot of cards have turned over post-election. Can you just give us an appetite, I'm sorry, an update as far as the appetite from large exchanges or otherwise to be an anchor holder of GLDC?

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Absolutely. So, with GLDC and also with GLDY, we wanted to make sure that we followed all regulations. It's very important for us that we follow all regulations, both inside the U.S. as well as now outside the U.S. So, an asset like GLDC, an asset like USGY is for non-U.S. investors. It is something where there is a very large market across the world, and there's a very large market in Asia, there's a very large market in Europe, Middle East, et cetera, of people who want to be able to participate in these products. So, we make sure that as a U.S. public company, all of the gating and different things are in place, so we ensure that it is fully compliant for non-U.S. people to be able to participate while gating U.S. investors.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Very similar if you look at how Hyperliquid or other of these sort of offshore products do it. With GLDY, something really important to note is, a lot of people were waiting for the CLARITY Act. We took the stance from the beginning that this product needs to exist regardless and operate and be compliant regardless of if the CLARITY Act passes. I think the CLARITY Act is something that it can be a catalyst, but we can operate and continue to operate as we are doing without any need of new regulation or new potential things coming out of the U.S. government. That is very important for us. We make sure to follow all the legal and regulatory standards that are in place.

[Brian Vieten, Analyst at Siebert]

All right. Thanks, Henry.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Thanks, Brian.

[Operator]

That concludes our Q&A session. I will now turn the call back over to Henry McPhie for closing remarks.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Amazing. Thank you very much, and thank you everyone for your great questions, and thanks for tuning in. I think in closing, what I'd just like to say is that this feels very much like going into this fourth quarter, it feels like a very exciting time for Streamex. It's been a year of building, it's been a year of getting all of the pieces in place. Some of them may have taken longer than we expected. Some of them were met with a lot of challenges that we had to be able to take on and be able to really solve. That's something that I would say the team has done a very good job with doing.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

As we look into the end of this year, as we look into 2027, I'm extremely excited to be able to show how all these things that are now coming together in this last quarter will continue to show how we grow the company, how we grow AUM and the products that we create, and continue to make more money for the company and grow our revenue and customer base as well from there. Overall, like I said earlier, it feels like scale is rapidly and imminently approaching. We've seen it happening. Like anything, it starts slow, and then as the snowball starts to get bigger and builds, it starts to very much snowball and hit that J-curve, which I am extremely excited about being able to bring and being able to show as the time goes on.

[Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO at Streamex]

Thank you everyone for joining. Thank you everyone for your questions, like I said. If you have any other questions or want to speak with any members of management or talk and ask us more clarifying, feel free to send an email to the email at ir@streamex.com or reach out directly, I'd be more than happy to answer them. So, thank you very much everyone, and let's have a good Q4.

[Operator]

That concludes our call for today. Thank you all for joining. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Laura Kiernan, Head of Investor Relations
• Henry McPhie, Co-Founder and CEO
• Christine Plummer, CFO

Analysts

• Aashi Shah, Analyst at Sidoti & Co
• Austin Ortiz, Analyst at Needham & Company
• Victor Morfessis, Analyst at ThinkEquity
• Brian Vieten, Analyst at Siebert