Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement As previously disclosed, on July 2, 2026, Volt Texas LLC (“Buyer”), a Delaware limited liability company and a subsidiary of MARA Holdings, Inc., a Nevada corporation (“MARA” or the “Company”), entered into a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (the “Original Purchase Agreement”) with HIF USA LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Seller…
MARA (NASDAQ: MARA) deploys digital energy technologies to advance the world’s energy systems. Harnessing the power of compute, MARA transforms excess energy into digital capital, balancing the grid and accelerating the deployment of critical infrastructure. Building on its expertise to redefine the future of energy, MARA develops technologies that reduce the energy demands of high-performance computing applications, from AI to the edge.
Select an item to read the extracted section. The as-filed document remains the primary evidence.
Item 1.01Item 1.01 - Entry into Material Agreement
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive
Agreement
As previously disclosed, on July 2, 2026, Volt Texas
LLC (“Buyer”), a Delaware limited liability company and a subsidiary of MARA Holdings, Inc., a Nevada corporation (“MARA”
or the “Company”), entered into a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (the “Original Purchase Agreement”) with
HIF USA LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Seller”), and solely for the purposes of Section 14.14, MARA USA Corporation,
a Delaware corporation and a subsidiary of MARA (“Guarantor”), pursuant to which Buyer acquired all of the issued and outstanding
limited liability company membership interests (other than a retained equity interest to be held by Seller as described below) of MAT
1177 LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Project Company”), resulting in the Project Company becoming an indirect
subsidiary of MARA (the “Transaction”). The Transaction closed simultaneously with the execution of the Original Purchase
Agreement.
The Project Company holds (i) rights under certain
purchase and sale contracts to acquire land located in Texas (the “Site Under Contract”), (ii) title to an additional parcel
of adjacent land (the “Owned Site” and, together with the Site Under Contract, the “Site”), and (iii) rights under
a letter agreement with an electric utility company (the “Electric Utility Company”) relating to the provision of 2,000 megawatts
of power capacity to the Site. Under the Original Purchase Agreement, the aggregate purchase price for the membership interests being
acquired was structured as a series of post-closing milestone payments (collectively, the “Milestone Payments”) tied to specified
project events (each, a “Milestone” and, collectively, “Milestones”).
On September 21, 2026, Buyer, Seller and Guarantor
entered into the First Amendment to the Purchase Agreement (the “Amendment” and the Original Purchase Agreement as amended
by the Amendment, the “Purchase Agreement”). Pursuant to the Amendment, Buyer posted a security deposit of $100.0 million
(the “Security Deposit”) with the Electric Utility Company in respect of the power capacity contemplated for the Site, which
Buyer may elect to withdraw in its sole discretion, subject to the sale process described below. The Amendment, among other things, also
revises the Milestones and corresponding Milestone Payments, principally by (i) restructuring the payments tied to the receipt of certain
regulatory approvals to be payable in two installments upon (x) the successful conclusion of an audit of the data center project being
developed on the Site (the “Project”) by Texas regulatory authorities (the “Audit”) and (y) Buyer’s election,
in its sole discretion, to proceed with the Project following completion of the applicable interconnection study, and (ii) increasing
the maximum payments tied to the Site being authorized to receive power. The Milestone consisting of Seller’s retention of a minority
interest in the Site upon execution of a data center lease with a third-party tenant is unchanged. Assuming all Milestones are achieved,
the aggregate purchase price pursuant to the Purchase Agreement would remain $600 million.
The Amendment eliminates certain provisions of the
Original Purchase Agreement that provided that the membership interests in the Project Company were subject to return or reconveyance
to Seller in the event certain Milestones were not met within a specified time period. In their place, the Amendment provides that the
parties will market the Project for sale to a third party, subject to a right of first offer in favor of Seller, in event of the occurrence
of certain trigger events relating to the Audit and Buyer’s election to not proceed with the Project. The net proceeds of any such
sale to be distributed between the parties in accordance with an agreed waterfall.
Other than as expressly modified pursuant to the
Amendment, the Original Purchase Agreement remains in full force and effect as originally executed on July 2, 2026. The foregoing description
of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text thereof, which will be
filed as an exhibit to the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2026.