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CORRECTING and REPLACINGDDC Chairwoman’s Letter: Record FY2025, 2,383 BTC, and an AI Operating System Built for Bitcoin Treasuries

DDC Enterprise Posts Record FY2025, Doubles Bitcoin Holdings to Top-30 Global Rank, and Launches AI Operating System for Treasury Management

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Ninth paragraph, sixth and seventh sentences of release dated April 21, 2026, should read: Core sales and marketing expenses decreased by 54%. General and administrative expenses fell by 44.4%.

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DDC Chairwoman’s Letter: Record FY2025, 2,383 BTC, and an AI Operating System Built for Bitcoin Treasuries

DDC Enterprise Posts Record FY2025, Doubles Bitcoin Holdings to Top-30 Global Rank, and Launches AI Operating System for Treasury Management

DDC Enterprise Limited (NYSEAM: DDC) (“DDC,” or the “Company”), a leading multi-brand Asian consumer food company with a growing strategic bitcoin treasury, today issued a corporate update in a Letter to Shareholders from Founder, Chairwoman, and CEO Norma Chu.

Dear Valued Shareholders,

Two years ago, DDC was a food company navigating a difficult post-pandemic landscape. Today, we have advanced into something different and something more. DDC is a global Asian food platform with a world-class Bitcoin treasury and, as of this week, an AI infrastructure to manage it at institutional scale. That is not a pivot. It is an evolution — deliberate, disciplined, and still just beginning.

2025 was the year we built the foundation for all of it. Today, I want to tell you what we built, why it matters, and where we are going.

2025: What We Built

The headline numbers tell a story of real operational improvement:

Revenue: $39.2M (up 4.6% YoY, record)

Gross Margin: 31.4% (increased 303 bps YoY, record)

Adjusted EBITDA: Positive (first time in company history, full year)

Bitcoin Holdings: 2,383 BTC (~$182M value as of April 21, 2026)

BTC Yield: 1,493% (since first purchase, as of April 21, 2026)

Revenue in our core market, grew 9.8% year-over-year, driven by deeper penetration into lower-tier cities and a deliberate expansion of our offline distribution network. Gross margins reached 31.4% for the full year, up 303 basis points, reflecting supply chain optimization, better procurement discipline, and favorable raw material costs. And for the first time in our company’s history, we delivered positive Adjusted EBITDA for the full year.

We also took decisive action to simplify the business. We exited our U.S. food operations. Our capital and attention belong in markets where our competitive edge is sharpest. Asia is that market. Our brands are performing, and our operational infrastructure in China is stronger than it has ever been.

We are building a company that compounds value on two dimensions simultaneously — the income statement and the balance sheet.

On the reported financials: net loss for the year was $(48.3) million, versus $(21.5) million in 2024. I want to address this directly. The increase was driven by $31.2 million in non-cash share-based compensation — costs tied to building the Bitcoin treasury team, aligning our compensation structure with treasury-strategy peers, and supporting our capital markets program. As a result, our shareholder’s equity increased by around 600% to $78.9 million compared to a year ago as we build out the Bitcoin treasury strategy. Equally positive, excluding the non-cash compensation, the underlying food business improved noticeably. Core sales and marketing expenses decreased by 54%. General and administrative expenses fell by 44.4%. The consumer business is more efficient than it was a year ago.

This context matters. The net loss does not signal operational deterioration. We have made significant investment in people that delivered an outstanding set of result for shareholders. We are reporting the cost of building something new. And what we are building is worth the investment.

Bitcoin Treasury: From Strategy to Scale

As of the end of 2025, we held 1,181 BTC. As of April 21, 2026, we hold 2,383 BTC, representing approximately $182 million in value at current prices. We have more than doubled our holdings in three months. And with a BTC Yield of 1,493% since our first purchase, the accumulation strategy is performing as designed.

This positions DDC among the top 30 publicly traded corporate holders of Bitcoin globally. We achieved this in less than a year, and we did it with discipline. We built a capital structure designed for the long term: $528 million in strategic financing capacity, of which the vast majority remains undrawn and available. We have a $500 million F3 registration statement on shelf. This means we can act when conditions are favorable with maximum flexibility.

We believe in Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset because fiat currency depreciates. Bitcoin has a fixed supply. Over time, scarce assets tend to preserve value in ways that sovereign currencies cannot guarantee. Bitcoin is increasingly part of that conversation, not as speculation, but as an institutional asset class in formation.

The world’s largest financial institutions are no longer debating Bitcoin; they are building infrastructure around it. Regulatory clarity is improving. Corporate adoption is accelerating. And the companies that built their treasury frameworks before the majority arrived will have a permanent structural advantage. We intend to be one of those companies. Through our consistency in bitcoin purchases during the recent drawdown in 1Q26, our average cost per bitcoin is now at $79,969, one of the lowest cost basis amongst our US listed peers.

The DDC Treasury AI OS: Building an Intelligent Platform for Treasury Management

Holding Bitcoin is one thing. Managing it with institutional-grade discipline, transparency, and consistency is another. Most companies that have adopted Bitcoin treasury strategies have done so without dedicated infrastructure for the latter. They hold an asset but lack a system for how they will accumulate, allocate, and risk-manage it over time.

That gap is what the DDC Treasury Intelligence Platform is designed to address — and why I believe it is the most strategically significant development we are announcing today.

Most companies buy Bitcoin. DDC is building the AI operating system for how corporations and treasury teams can manage it.

At the core of the platform is the DDC Treasury Graph — a governed internal knowledge framework that integrates our Bitcoin positions, transaction flows, market signals, and historical allocation decisions into a single, unified dataset. Every decision we have made, every market condition we navigated, every trade-off we evaluated becomes structured data that can inform the next decision.

The platform is built on four principles: Intelligence (aggregating and prioritizing relevant internal and external data); Decision Quality (structuring how capital allocation decisions are evaluated and documented); Governance (embedding Board-approved parameters with full auditability); and Compounding Edge (capturing each decision and market outcome to continuously refine future analysis). Together, these principles describe something that, to our knowledge, no other corporate Bitcoin treasury has built: a system that gets smarter over time.

The platform does not automate decisions. Management judgment remains the primary driver of every allocation. What the platform does is raise the quality and consistency of that judgment — ensuring that when we deploy capital, we do so with a structured view of the trade-offs, not intuition alone.

In its current phase, the platform is focused on DDC’s internal treasury operations. That is where it needs to prove itself first, and where we will refine it. But the underlying architecture — an AI-enabled, governed knowledge graph for Bitcoin treasury decisions, has broader applicability as corporate Bitcoin adoption continues to scale. The question of how to manage a Bitcoin treasury at institutional scale is one that hundreds of public companies will need to answer in the coming years. We believe we are building infrastructure that will matter beyond our own balance sheet, and which could ultimately evolve into a broader solution and IP that other organizations rely on.

We are among the first to make this investment. And in technology infrastructure, as in Bitcoin accumulation, the advantage belongs to those who build early.

Looking Ahead: 2026 and Beyond

Our priorities for 2026 are clear.

On the food business: We will continue to grow in higher-margin markets, deepen our offline distribution channels in China, and drive further improvement in our cost structure. The consumer business is our operational anchor. It generates revenue stability, supports our team, and gives us the foundation to pursue our treasury ambitions from a position of strength, not desperation.

On Bitcoin accumulation: We will continue to execute in a measured, disciplined manner. Our capital structure gives us the flexibility to act opportunistically without overextending. We will not chase Bitcoin at any price. We will accumulate with conviction with a long-term mindset.

On yield: We will begin to explore selective, risk-managed opportunities to generate yield on our Bitcoin holdings. This will be guided by clearly defined risk parameters, high-quality counterparties, and an overriding priority on capital preservation. Yield is a complement to our accumulation strategy.

On the Treasury AI Platform: We will continue to expand its capabilities, deepen its dataset, and develop its models as our treasury operations grow. And as the platform matures internally, we will evaluate how its architecture can serve a wider universe of corporate treasury operators, as well as its application beyond treasury management.

Gratitude to the DDC Team and Our Shareholders

DDC is a company in transformation. That transition carries real costs in complexity and in the patience, it requires of our shareholders.

I do not take that patience for granted. I take it seriously. And the best way I know to honor it is to be direct with you: the reported numbers in 2025 show the full picture of a profitable and growing consumer food platform, a Bitcoin treasury among the top 30 in the world, and now a proprietary AI system for managing it — all inside a single listed company, built in less than twelve months.

We measure success not by quarters, but by decades. Bitcoin accumulation and strategic investments in AI are our core focus. I am very excited to the year ahead in 2026 for DDC.

Thank you for your trust, your partnership, and your belief in what we are building.

Sincerely,

Norma Chu

Founder, Chairwoman & Chief Executive Officer

About DDC Enterprise Limited

DDC Enterprise Limited (NYSEAMERICAN: DDC) is participating proactively in the corporate Bitcoin treasury evolution while maintaining its foundation as a leading global Asian food platform. The Company has strategically positioned Bitcoin as a core reserve asset while continuing to expand its portfolio of culinary brands. DDC is at the forefront of public companies integrating Bitcoin into their financial architecture. For more information, visit www.ddc.xyz.

Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this announcement are forward-looking statements. Investors can identify these forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “aim,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “is/are likely to,” “potential,” “continue” or other similar expressions. Examples of forward-looking statements include those related to business prospects, accumulation of Bitcoin, and the Company’s goals and future activity under the financing transactions described above, including the statements on the closings of the offerings and the satisfaction of closing conditions and use of proceeds in the offerings. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, the risk factors discussed in the Risk Factors and in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our Forms 20-F, 6-K and other reports, including a Form 6-K which with copies of the definitive documents related to the above transactions, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and available at www.sec.gov. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn out to be correct, and the Company cautions investors that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results and encourages investors to review other factors that may affect its future results in the Company’s filings with the SEC. Additional factors are discussed in the Company’s filings with the SEC, which are available for review at www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations that arise after the date hereof, except as may be required by law.

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Paysafe Introduces PaysafeWallet, the Digital Wallet Built for the Experience Economy

Paysafe’s consumer offering expands across 18 European markets, enabling a seamless journey from cash solutions to full-service digital wallet with an IBAN-enabled account and debit card

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), a global payments platform, today introduces PaysafeWallet, the digital wallet designed to support everyday financial management for cash and digital-preferred consumers in the experience economy.

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PaysafeWallet enables customers to send, receive, spend, and withdraw money, supported by a dedicated IBAN-enabled personal payment account and debit card. This solution represents the evolution of PaysafeCard’s Account & Card into a full-service digital wallet. PaysafeWallet has been fully rolled out across the PaysafeCard app, website, and customer-facing marketing in all live markets, creating one clear and unified value proposition.

PaysafeWallet is now live across 18 European markets: Germany, France, Greece, Spain, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Belgium, Portugal, Ireland, Slovenia, Finland, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, and Malta.

For existing users, nothing changes. More than 600,000 customers will continue to access cash deposits and their IBAN‑based account and debit card with uninterrupted service and functionality. At the same time, PaysafeWallet is expanding into new countries where PaysafeCard is already a very popular online payment method.

“PaysafeWallet is a core consumer product and a brand that carries the Paysafe name and represents where we are headed,” said Bob Legters, Chief Product Officer at Paysafe. “It connects cash‑based consumers to a modern digital wallet experience, combining everyday usability with the financial services they need to participate fully in the experience economy.”

PaysafeWallet builds on strong early momentum. Initially launched in select European markets to bring wallet capabilities to cash and digital consumers, the platform quickly expanded across multiple markets. Today, PaysafeWallet plays a central role in Paysafe’s strategy to create a connected consumer journey, enabling customers to move seamlessly from cash solutions to full‑service digital wallets.

About Paysafe

Paysafe is a global payments platform powering the experience economy, with a strong focus on the iGaming, video gaming, e-commerce, online trading, retail, travel and hospitality sectors. With 30 years of expertise in payment technology, Paysafe helps businesses and consumers lift every experience through seamless, secure payment solutions, including card payments, digital wallets such as Skrill, eCash solutions like PaysafeCard, and a suite of local payment methods. With approximately 2,800 employees across 12 countries and annualized transactional volume of $167 billion in 2025, Paysafe connects people and businesses worldwide through innovative digital payment experiences. Further information is available at www.paysafe.com

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Omdia: Emerging TV OS Platforms Forecast to Capture 28% of European Market by 2030

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
TV Operating Systems that did not exist in 2022 are forecast to control 28% of the European TV operating system (OS) market by 2030, up from 21% in 2025, according to Omdia’s latest TV Design & Features Tracker. This rapid shift underscores how TV brands are increasingly prioritizing advertising revenue from the TV OS over traditional hardware revenue.

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In Europe, Google TV currently leads with a 32% share but will lose share gradually to three key competitors: VIDAA, Titan OS and TiVo. These three platforms represent a growing group of independent operating systems that are successfully challenging Google TV in Europe.

Independent TV OS Revenue-Sharing Models

While these platforms differ in their origins, they share a common business philosophy that is highly attractive to European TV manufacturers seeking to protect their profit margins and brand identity.

Unlike Google TV, which largely keeps advertising and data revenue within the Google ecosystem, VIDAA, Titan OS, and TiVo offer active revenue-sharing models. This allows TV brands to earn a continuous stream of income from home-screen ads and FAST (Free Ad-Supported TV) channels long after the initial hardware sale.

All three systems are primarily Linux-based and utilize web-app architectures rather than native Android apps. This makes them significantly lighter and faster, often requiring less powerful, and more cost-effective hardware to run smoothly compared to the more resource-heavy Google TV. This is especially important in 2026, as memory prices have spiked over the last year. The European TV market is highly competitive with slim hardware margins. Adopting a lean OS allows manufacturers to use more affordable processors while still delivering a responsive, 4K-capable interface that avoids the lag often seen in entry-level TV sets.

Controlling Smart TV User Experience and European Content

These platforms provide TV manufacturers with greater control over the User Experience (UX) and viewer data. While Google TV enforces a strict, standardized look and keeps viewer insights for its own ad engine, these independent players allow brands like Philips (Titan) and Hisense (VIDAA) to maintain a distinct brand feel and access their own audience analytics.

Titan OS, being European-built, and TiVo have focused heavily on integrating local European broadcasters into a unified homepage. This content-first approach combines live TV and streaming more seamlessly and resonates better with traditional European viewing habits.

Titan OS and TiVo recently formed a strategic ad-sales partnership in Europe. This gives them the collective ad reach needed to attract major European advertisers, making their revenue-sharing promises more realistic for TV brands

Omdia projects that Europe will reach an inflection point in 2028, when combined shipments of VIDAA, Titan OS and TiVo reach 11.9 million units. 57% of this total volume is expected to be driven by Hisense and the rapid expansion of its VIDAA platform. By 2030, Omdia forecasts that VIDAA will reach 18.0 million units globally, with Europe accounting for 7.0 million units.

“At CES 2026, VIDAA OS underwent a major transformation,” said Patrick Horner, Practice Leader, TV Set Research, Omdia. “The operating system is transitioning to a new name, V Home OS, to reflect its broader role beyond just televisions. A significant partnership with Microsoft was announced to integrate Copilot’s generative AI capabilities directly into the platform, enhancing the user experience with advanced AI services. The name change is part of the wider push by the company to position the platform to be an operating system that encompasses not only AI but also, eventually, acts as a shopping portal.”

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Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 13.5% in 2026, Totaling $6.31 Trillion

Strong Growth Driven by Sustained Momentum Across AI Infrastructure and Software

STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Worldwide IT spending is expected to reach $6.31 trillion in 2026, up 13.5% from 2025, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.

“This latest forecast underscores the accelerating momentum in AI infrastructure and advanced memory,” said John-David Lovelock, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner. “As AI workloads scale, data center investment is ramping rapidly, which in turn is driving increased demand for high‑performance compute. This dynamic is creating meaningful growth opportunities for companies delivering AI‑optimized processors, accelerators, and enabling technologies.”

Data center systems spending is set to see the largest growth in 2026 at 55.8%. IT services, including application implementation and managed services, infrastructure implementation and managed services and IaaS, is forecast to see the largest overall spending, surpassing $1.87 billion in 2026 (see Table 1).

Table 1. Worldwide IT Spending Forecast (Millions of U.S. Dollars)

	2025 Spending	2025 Growth (%)	2026 Spending	2026 Growth (%)
Data Center Systems	505,634	51.6	787,990	55.8
Devices	791,663	9.7	856,189	8.2
Software	1,254,449	12.8	1,443,621	15.1
IT Services	1,715,650	6.2	1,870,197	9.0
Communications Services	1,296,409	3.3	1,358,553	4.8
Overall IT	5,563,805	10.5	6,316,550	13.5
Source: Gartner (April 2026)

“Robust demand combined with supply constraints has resulted in record price increases for high-bandwidth memory. This surge positions the memory segment as a lucrative area for semiconductor manufacturers,” said Lovelock. “These trends collectively make AI infrastructure the most attractive segment for capitalizing on the robust expansion in IT spending.”

Upward Revised Projections Driven by AI Infrastructure, Software and Device Hardware

Compared to Gartner’s previous forecast, Gartner is predicting a stronger‑than‑anticipated growth in global IT spending, driven by sustained momentum across AI infrastructure, software, and IaaS. These shifts are reinforcing a multi‑speed IT market, with hyperscaler purchases and AI‑centric software segments significantly outperforming more traditional categories.

Hyperscale cloud demand is fueling a sharp increase in server and data center investment, with spending on data center systems projected to surpass $788 billion in 2026 with growth accelerating well beyond prior expectations. At the same time, GenAI continues to drive outsized gains in software, particularly in GenAI model development, where spending growth is forecast to more than double year-over-year.

Device spending is also rising, reaching an estimated $856 billion, though growth is being moderated by higher memory costs that are lifting average selling prices and constraining replacement cycles in lower‑margin segments.

“Together, these dynamics highlight a widening divergence across IT markets, as AI infrastructure and GenAI software see substantial upward revisions while device growth reflects ongoing cost and pricing pressures,” said Lovelock.

Gartner’s IT spending forecast methodology relies heavily on rigorous analysis of the sales by over a thousand vendors across the entire range of IT products and services. Gartner uses primary research techniques, complemented by secondary research sources, to build a comprehensive database of market size data on which to base its forecast.

The Gartner quarterly IT spending forecast delivers a unique perspective on IT spending across the hardware, software, IT services and telecommunications segments. These reports help Gartner clients understand market opportunities and challenges. The most recent IT spending forecast research is available to Gartner clients in Gartner Market Databook, 1Q26.

More information on the forecast can be found in the complimentary Gartner webinar IT Spending in 2026: Pruning the AI Garden.

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Accenture, Vodafone Procure & Connect and SAP Pilot Humanoid Robotics in Warehouse Operations

Exploring how physical AI and humanoid robotics can transform supply chains and unlock new business models

HANNOVER, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Accenture (NYSE: ACN), together with Vodafone Procure & Connect and SAP, is piloting the use of humanoid robotics in warehouse environments, demonstrating how physical AI can enhance operational efficiency, improve safety, and enable new approaches to workforce and business model design. Accenture and SAP, along with Vodafone Procure & Connect, are presenting the work at Hannover Messe 2026*.

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The initiative reflects Accenture’s focus on applying advanced robotics and physical AI in real-world industrial environments, helping organizations move from experimentation to practical deployment at scale. It also explores how humanoid robots could support the evolution of future workforce models and create new revenue opportunities across industries.

The pilot program was conducted at Vodafone Procure & Connect’s warehouse in Duisburg, Germany, where humanoid robots were deployed to operate alongside existing warehouse systems. The robot received inspection tasks through the SAP Extended Warehouse Management system and autonomously carried out visual inspections across the facility.

During the pilot, the humanoid robot identified operational inefficiencies, safety risks and optimization opportunities across warehouse processes. It detected misplaced or damaged products, assessed pallet stacking and weight distribution, highlighted unused storage space, and identified potential hazards such as obstacles in aisles or misaligned pallets. The robot reported its findings and recommendations directly into the SAP system, enabling real-time visibility and more informed operational decision-making.

SAP led the integration of the robots into the warehouse management system, while Accenture designed and deployed the robot intelligence and operational framework, drawing on its expertise in physical AI, advanced robotics and digital twin environments.

Christian Souche, Advanced Robotics lead, Accenture, said, “Trained in digital twins and powered by physical AI, humanoid robots can reduce worker injuries and other warehouse safety incidents and lower overtime costs and the dependency on temporary labor. Equally important, Vodafone Procure & Connect will gather valuable data and insights on robot deployment and performance as a basis for a future humanoid workforce solutions business.”

Dr. Lukasz Ostrowski, head of Embodied AI & Robotics, SAP, commented, “At Vodafone Procure & Connect, we’re leveraging Joule, SAP’s AI execution fabric and interface for embodied AI, connecting robots to end-to-end processes and business logic and enabling them to know why, when and how to act. By grounding actions in trusted SAP data, we can automate health and safety incident reporting and real time inventory validation to protect workers and strengthen compliance through consistent auditable workflows.”

Reinhard Stefan Plaza Bartsch, global Network Logistics director at Vodafone Procure & Connect, said, “Through this pilot, we are exploring how humanoid robotics can improve efficiency, safety and operational visibility in our warehouse operations. It also gives us a clearer view of how these capabilities could scale across our supply chain and support future business models.”

Prasad Satyavolu, global lead for Manufacturing, Operations and Physical AI at Accenture, added, “Our work in collaboration SAP is a great example of how holistic deployment of humanoid robots – from simulation and training to warehouse deployment and integration with SAP data – creates a closed loop with transactional systems.”

The humanoid robots used in the pilot are powered by Accenture’s Robot Brain solution, enabling them to interact naturally with human operators through voice, gestures and text. They are trained in digital twins of warehouse environments, built on Accenture’s Physical AI Orchestrator, which uses NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, the Mega NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint and the NVIDIA Metropolis libraries and Blueprint for video search and summarization for the deployment of visual AI agents, to go beyond single repetitive functions and learn new skills through imitation and reinforcement learning.

Accenture, SAP along with Vodafone Procure & Connect will present the pilot project at Hannover Messe 2026 at the SAP Hall 15, Booth F08 (Accenture Partner Stand). If you are interested in learning more, please contact [email protected], +49 175 57 61393.

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