EX-3.1
Published on December 10, 2025
Exhibit 3.1
CERTIFICATE OF FORMATION OF EXODUS MOVEMENT, INC.
Exodus Movement, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas (the
“Company”), hereby certifies as follows:
ARTICLE I
The name of the corporation is Exodus Movement, Inc. The Company is a for-profit corporation.
ARTICLE II
The address of the Company’s initial registered office in the State of Texas is 211 East 7th Street, Suite 620, Austin, Texas 78701. The name of its initial registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company (d/b/a CSC-Lawyers Incorporating Service Company). The initial mailing address of the Company is 15418 Weir Street, #333, Omaha, Nebraska 68137.
ARTICLE III
The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the Texas Business Organizations Code (“TBOC”), as the same exists or as may hereafter be amended from time to time.
ARTICLE IV
The total number of shares of capital stock the Company has authority to issue is (i) 327,500,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.000001 per share (“Common Stock”), divided into two series, consisting of (a) 300,000,000 shares denominated “Class A Common Stock” and (b) 27,500,000 shares denominated “Class B Common Stock” and (ii) 5,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $0.000001 per share (“Preferred Stock”).
ARTICLE V
Unless otherwise indicated, references to “Sections” in this Article V, Part A refer to sections of this Article V, Part A. The terms and provisions of the Common Stock are as follows:
apply:
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(12) months as determined by a licensed medical practitioner selected by such holder and reasonably acceptable to the Board of Directors. If such holder is incapable of selecting a licensed medical practitioner, then such holder’s spouse shall make the selection on behalf of such holder, or in the absence or incapacity of such holder’s spouse, such holder’s adult children by majority vote shall make the selection on behalf of such holder, or in the absence of adult children of such holder or their inability to act by majority vote, a natural person then acting as the successor trustee of a revocable living trust which was created by such holder and which holds more shares of all classes of capital stock of the Company than any other revocable living trust created by such holder shall make the selection of such holder, or in the absence of any such successor trustee, the legal guardian or conservator or the estate of such holder shall make the selection on behalf of such holder. In the event of a dispute regarding whether a Class B Shareholder has suffered an Incapacity, no Incapacity of such holder will be deemed to have occurred unless and until an affirmative ruling regarding such Incapacity has been made by a court of competent jurisdiction.
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over a share of Class B Common Stock by proxy or otherwise; provided, however, that the following shall not be considered a “Transfer” within the meaning of this Section 1(i): (1) the grant of a proxy to officers or directors of the Company or to other persons approved by the Board of Directors at the request of the Board of Directors in connection with actions to be taken at an annual or special meeting of shareholders or pursuant to an action by shareholder written consent in lieu of a meeting; (2) entering into a support, voting, tender or similar agreement or arrangement (in each case, with or without the grant of a proxy) or consummating the actions or transactions contemplated therein if such agreement or arrangement has been approved by the Board of Directors; or (3) any sale, transfer or other disposition of Class B Common Stock approved by the Board of Directors.
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(1) fully paid and nonassessable share of Class A Common Stock; or
For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent any shares are deemed to be held by a trustee of a trust described in (i) or (ii) above, the Transfer shall be a Permitted Transfer and the trustee shall be deemed a Permitted Transferee so long as the other requirements of (i) or (ii) above, as the case may be, are otherwise satisfied.
(1) share of Class B Common Stock held of record by a Class B Shareholder who is a natural person, or by such Class B Shareholder’s Permitted Transferees, shall automatically, without any further action, convert into one (1) fully paid and nonassessable share of Class A Common Stock upon the death or Incapacity of such Class B Shareholder.
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business transaction” as defined in the TBOC.
Class B Common Stock remain outstanding and no other consideration is received in respect thereof or (ii)
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such shares are converted on a pro rata basis into shares of the surviving or parent entity in such transaction having identical rights to the shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, respectively.
The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series pursuant to a resolution or resolutions providing for such issue duly adopted by the Board of Directors (authority to do so being hereby expressly vested in the Board of Directors). The Board of Directors is further authorized, subject to limitations prescribed by law, to fix by resolution or resolutions the designations, powers, preferences and rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of any series of Preferred Stock, including, without limitation, authority to fix by resolution or resolutions the dividend rights, dividend rate, conversion rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), redemption price or prices, and liquidation preferences of any such series, and the number of shares constituting any such series and the designation thereof, or any of the foregoing. The Board of Directors is further authorized to increase (but not above the total number of authorized shares of the class) or decrease (but not below the number of shares of any such series then outstanding) the number of shares of any series, subject to the powers, preferences and rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof stated in the Certificate of Formation or the resolution of the Board of Directors originally fixing the number of shares of such series. Except as may be otherwise specified by the terms of any series of Preferred Stock, if the number of shares of any series of Preferred Stock is so decreased, then the Company shall take all such steps as are necessary to cause the shares constituting such decrease to resume the status which they had prior to the adoption of the resolution originally fixing the number of shares of such series.
ARTICLE VI
Name Address
Jon Paul Richardson 15418 Weir Street, #333, Omaha, Nebraska 68137 Daniel Castagnoli 15418 Weir Street, #333, Omaha, Nebraska 68137
Margaret Knight 15418 Weir Street, #333, Omaha, Nebraska 68137
Carol MacKinlay 15418 Weir Street, #333, Omaha, Nebraska 68137
Tyler Skelton 15418 Weir Street, #333, Omaha, Nebraska 68137
scheduled annual meeting of the shareholders following the Class B Threshold Date, the term of office of
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the initial Class II directors shall expire at the second annual meeting of the shareholders following the Class B Threshold Date and the term of office of the initial Class III directors shall expire at the third annual meeting of the shareholders following the Class B Threshold Date. At each annual meeting of shareholders, commencing with the first regularly scheduled annual meeting of shareholders following the Class B Threshold Date, each of the successors elected to replace the directors of a class whose term shall have expired at such annual meeting shall be elected to hold office until the third annual meeting next succeeding his or her election and until his or her respective successor shall have been duly elected and qualified.
ARTICLE VII
ARTICLE VIII
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To the fullest extent permitted by the TBOC, as the same exists or as may hereafter be amended from time to time, no director or officer of the Company shall be personally liable to the Company or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer, as applicable. If the TBOC is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors or officers, then the liability of a director or officer of the Company shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the TBOC, as so amended.
Neither any amendment nor repeal of this Article, nor the adoption of any provision of this Certificate of Formation inconsistent with this Article, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article in respect of any matter occurring, or any cause of action, suit or claim accruing or arising or that, but for this Article, would accrue or arise, prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.
ARTICLE IX
Subject to any provisions in the Bylaws of the Company related to indemnification of directors or officers of the Company, the Company shall indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any director or officer of the Company who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “Proceeding”) by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with any such Proceeding. The Company shall be required to indemnify a person in connection with a Proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if the Proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors.
The Company shall have the power to indemnify, to the extent permitted by the TBOC, as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended from time to time, any employee or agent of the Company who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any Proceeding by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with any such Proceeding.
A right to indemnification or to advancement of expenses arising under a provision of this Certificate of Formation or a bylaw of the Company shall not be eliminated or impaired by an amendment to this Certificate of Formation or the Bylaws of the Company after the occurrence of the act or omission that is the subject of the civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding for which indemnification or advancement of expenses is sought, unless the provision in effect at the time of such act or omission explicitly authorizes such elimination or impairment after such action or omission has occurred.
ARTICLE X
The Company elects not to be governed by Section 21.606 of the TBOC.
ARTICLE XI
Except as provided in Article VIII and Article IX above, the Company reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in the Certificate of Formation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon shareholders herein are granted subject to this reservation; provided, that, effective upon the Class B Threshold Date and notwithstanding any other
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provision of the Certificate of Formation or any provision of law that might otherwise permit a lesser vote, the affirmative vote of sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of the Company, voting together as a single class, shall be required to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision of the Certificate of Formation.
Effective upon the Class B Threshold Date and notwithstanding any provision of the Certificate of Formation, the Bylaws of the Company or any provision of law that might otherwise permit a lesser vote, the affirmative vote of sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of the Company, voting together as a single class, shall be required for the shareholders of the Company to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision of the Bylaws of the Company.
ARTICLE XII
This document becomes effective when the document is accepted and filed by the secretary of state.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Exodus Movement, Inc. has caused this Certificate of Formation to be signed by its duly authorized officer on December 8, 2025.
By: /s/ Jon Paul Richardson
Name: Jon Paul Richardson
Title: Chief Executive Officer
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