Mr. Brayden Sutton reports

DIGITAL COMMODITIES ANNOUNCES NEAR ACQUISITION UNDER AI AND DIGITAL-INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY

Digital Commodities Inc. has acquired $100,000 of NEAR Protocol (NEAR), representing the company's second allocation under the AI (artificial intelligence) and digital infrastructure strategy announced on Sept. 28, 2026. The acquisition was funded with proceeds generated from further sales of physical gold.

The company's reserve foundation remains anchored by 11 bitcoin (BTC), together with cash. The company also holds strategic investments in public and private companies. NEAR joins solana (SOL) within the company's separate, growth-oriented digital-asset allocation.

The company's strategy is based on the view that artificial intelligence may increasingly move from generating information toward software capable of initiating transactions and coordinating economic activity. Management believes this evolution may create additional demand for digitally native payment, settlement and execution infrastructure, and the company intends to evaluate assets where adoption and network activity may have an identifiable relationship to asset demand or value accrual.

Why NEAR

Management selected NEAR for further exposure to what management views as an emerging intersection of artificial intelligence, cross-chain execution and digital commerce. NEAR's current technology road map seeks to combine cross-chain financial infrastructure with autonomous AI agents, including NEAR Intents, chain abstraction and NEAR AI infrastructure designed to allow software agents and users to transact across multiple blockchain networks.

NEAR Intents is designed to abstract the complexity of cross-chain execution by allowing users or agents to specify an intended outcome while competing solvers execute the transaction. Management believes this architecture may be relevant if AI agents increasingly need to move value, settle payments or interact with assets across multiple networks without requiring users to manage the underlying blockchain infrastructure.

The company also considered the relationship between network use and the NEAR token. NEAR is used for network transaction fees and staking, and protocol economics provide for transaction fees to reduce net token issuance. NEAR's ecosystem is also developing additional revenue and token-economic mechanisms. Management believes these features provide an identifiable basis for evaluating how increased network activity could potentially translate into demand for, or value accrual to, the underlying asset. There can be no assurance that increased adoption or activity will result in increased value of NEAR.

Expansion of the strategy

The NEAR acquisition follows the company's initial approximately $100,000 allocation to Solana announced on Sept. 28, 2026. The company views the two assets as providing exposure to different aspects of the same broader thesis. Solana was selected in part for its activity across payments, stablecoins, tokenization and high-throughput applications, while management's rationale for NEAR places greater emphasis on chain abstraction, cross-chain execution and infrastructure being developed for autonomous AI agents.

The acquisition does not represent a conclusion that any one blockchain or digital asset will be the sole beneficiary of AI-driven economic activity. The company will continue evaluating established and emerging digital assets against its stated framework, including adoption, economic utility, network activity, token economics and the potential for activity to translate into asset demand or value.

The sizing and composition of the company's reserve foundation and growth-oriented digital-asset allocation will continue to be reviewed periodically by management as the strategy develops and market conditions evolve.

"Bitcoin remains the foundation of our treasury, while investments like solana and NEAR give us measured exposure to the infrastructure we believe could support an increasingly AI-driven economy," said Brayden Sutton, chief executive officer of Digital Commodities. "With NEAR, we see a meaningful intersection of AI, cross-chain execution and digital commerce. Our approach is not to predict a single winner, but to identify assets where adoption and economic activity may have the potential to translate into long-term value."

The company intends to provide appropriate disclosure regarding material digital-asset holdings and significant portfolio changes as the strategy develops.

About Digital Commodities Inc.

Digital Commodities is an investment company operating a two-tier digital asset treasury: a bitcoin-led reserve foundation, together with cash, and a separate, disciplined allocation to select digital assets that management believes are positioned to benefit from the convergence of artificial intelligence and blockchain infrastructure. The company also holds strategic interests in select public and private companies. Digital Commodities' mission is to build long-term shareholder value through transparent, disclosed exposure to durable reserve assets and the emerging digital infrastructure of an AI-driven economy.

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