Treasury Companies Face Custody Reckoning
Public companies that hold crypto through exchanges or counterparties rather than verifiable on-chain control will keep producing restatements and equity losses, pushing corporate treasuries toward regulated custodians.
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Nasdaq-listed Datavault AI shares fell about 50% after it said it cannot withdraw bitcoin from the Biconomy exchange. It will cut reported year-end 2025 assets by $92.2 million and now books the coin as a receivable from Scilex Holding, the counterparty that paid it. This is a restatement and equity loss caused directly by holding crypto through a counterparty instead of controlling it on-chain.
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Supporting · October 28, 2026
Datavault AI Shares Fall About 50% After It Says It Cannot Withdraw Bitcoin From the Biconomy Exchange
Nasdaq-listed Datavault AI shares fell about 50% after it said it cannot withdraw bitcoin from the Biconomy exchange. It will cut reported year-end 2025 assets by $92.2 million and now books the coin as a receivable from Scilex Holding, the counterparty that paid it. This is a restatement and equity loss caused directly by holding crypto through a counterparty instead of controlling it on-chain.
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