Animoca Brands update on financial position as of 31 March 2024

17 April 2024 – Animoca Brands Corporation Limited (“Animoca Brands'' or the “Company”) is pleased to provide an interim financial update on various metrics as well as guidance on the timing of future updates. Having continued to build and expand through the difficult cryptocurrency market of 2023, the Company is now well placed to capitalise on the market rebound evident over the last few months; in particular, the Company notes that Bitcoin recently reached a series of all-time high valuations and the Web3 gaming sector overall has strengthened considerably.

Key unaudited financial positions (non-IFRS measures) as of 31 March 2024

The Company remains financially strong with a cash and stablecoin balance of US$291 million.
Digital assets held on the balance sheet of US$558 million (1). Through multiple recent investments and token launch activities, the Company has added US$266 million of digital assets since December 2023.
Off-balance sheet token reserves for all Animoca Brands Web3 subsidiaries of approximately US$1.8 billion, which comprise approximately US$1.3 billion in liquid (2) tokens and US$542 million in lower-liquidity (3) tokens.
This update excludes the value of the Company’s approximately 400 minority investments in Web3 companies, for which valuation work is ongoing.

The Company is working diligently to provide additional financial updates. Audited financial statements for the fiscal year 2021 are in progress, and the Company plans to provide key unaudited financial and business highlights for the full fiscal year 2023 in Q2 2024, subject to any disclosure limitations of the Australian Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

Notes:

(1) In previous financial updates, these assets were referred to as “liquid digital assets” and included reserves of the SAND utility token. SAND reserves have been moved to off-balance sheet token reserves in order to more appropriately reflect those holdings.

(2) Liquid tokens are defined as tokens listed on a top-tier centralized digital asset exchange and/or with a 24-hour trading volume of more than US$25 million.

(3) Lower-liquidity tokens are defined as tokens listed on lower tier centralized exchanges or decentralized exchanges and/or with a 24-hour trading volume of less than US$25 million.

About Animoca Brands

Animoca Brands (ACN: 122 921 813), a Deloitte Tech Fast winner, a Fortune Crypto 40 company, and one of the Financial Times’ High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2023, is a Web3 leader that leverages blockchain to deliver digital property rights to consumers around the world to help to establish the open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including original games such as The Sandbox, PHANTOM GALAXIES™, Life Beyond, and Crazy Defense Heroes, and products utilizing popular intellectual properties from the worlds of sports and entertainment, such as The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Animoca Brands Japan, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise Entertainment, Notre Game, TinyTap, SPORTPASS, PIXELYNX, WePlay Media, Gryfyn, and Azarus. Animoca Brands is one of the most active investors in Web3, with a portfolio of over 400 Web3 investments, both directly and through Animoca Ventures, including Yuga Labs, Axie Infinity, Polygon, Consensys, Magic Eden, Fireblocks, OpenSea, Dapper Labs, Yield Guild Games, and many more. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com or follow on X (Twitter), YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok.

Contact: press@animocabrands.com