Know Labs completed a change-of-control transaction on August 6, 2025, receiving 1,000 bitcoin and $15 million in cash from Goldeneye 1995 LLC in exchange for approximately 357.8 million newly issued common shares. The closing converted a small public technology company into a Bitcoin-centered treasury vehicle and placed Goldeneye owner Robert Gregory Kidd in charge as chairman, chief executive and president.
The company described the transaction as a $125 million strategic acquisition. That figure was Know Labs’ characterization, not a fixed valuation independently calculated from an event-day Bitcoin price. The consideration itself is the firmer record: 1,000 bitcoin, $15 million in cash and shares issued at $0.335 each. Because bitcoin trades continuously and the share terms were negotiated earlier, those components do not produce one immutable market value.
Control and strategy changed together
The transaction followed shareholder approval on July 31, 2025. Know Labs’ subsequent Form 8-K reported that Goldeneye acquired approximately 81% of the company’s fully diluted common stock, making the business a controlled company under NYSE American rules. The board also approved changing the corporate name to USBC, Inc. and the trading symbol from KNW to USBC, with the exchange changes scheduled to take effect on August 15, 2025.
Know Labs said the cash would retire debt, redeem preferred equity and provide working capital. Its legacy non-invasive diagnostic research was assigned to a continuing science division rather than described as immediately discontinued.
The bitcoin was not presented as a passive reserve. On August 6, Know Labs signed a discretionary digital-asset management agreement with Hyrcanian Asset Management. The SEC filing disclosed an annual management fee equal to 1% of the managed assets’ market value and a performance fee equal to 25% of net realized gains and periodic mark-to-market changes generated by the planned options strategy. Both fees were payable in bitcoin.
That arrangement made the event more than another corporate balance-sheet allocation. It combined concentrated Bitcoin exposure, options activity and public-equity financing inside one listed company. Shareholders would therefore face several overlapping variables: Bitcoin’s price, the performance and risk of the options strategy, management fees, the enlarged share count and the operating demands of the remaining businesses.
Why the closing mattered
By August 2025, public-company Bitcoin treasuries had become a distinct capital-markets model. Know Labs’ transaction illustrated a more aggressive version: control of an existing listed company was acquired largely through an in-kind contribution of bitcoin, while the company’s identity and business direction were reorganized around digital assets.
The structure also blurred the line between holding bitcoin and operating an investment strategy. A passive treasury’s reported value principally follows the quantity held and Bitcoin’s market price. Know Labs proposed using options to seek additional returns, introducing counterparty, collateral, execution and strategy risks alongside the underlying asset’s volatility. Its own filing warned that Bitcoin-price fluctuations could materially affect both financial results and the common stock.
The closing did not validate the promised economics of the strategy. Nor did it establish that the planned USBC dollar-denominated token was operational, regulated for every proposed use or capable of producing the company-promoted rewards. Those were contemporaneous company claims and plans, not independently demonstrated outcomes on August 6.
What was knowable on August 6
The defensible event-day conclusion was narrow but significant: a listed company had changed control, accepted 1,000 bitcoin into its treasury, installed new leadership and contracted for active management of that treasury. The SEC filing confirming the closing was submitted on August 7, but it identifies August 6 as the reportable event date and says the company issued its closing announcement on August 6.
No event-day market-price series is used here, so this reconstruction makes no claim about the dollar value of the bitcoin at a particular hour, the stock’s immediate reaction or the transaction’s effect on Bitcoin’s broader market.
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