Crypto Asset Statement for Bitcoin Cash

Most recent update: April 25, 2022

This overview provides a summary of certain risks involved with trading any crypto asset and is not exhaustive. Investors are encouraged to conduct their own research prior to trading any crypto asset.

No securities regulatory authority has expressed an opinion about the Crypto Contracts or Bitcoin Cash, that are made available on the Bitvo Platform, including an opinion that Bitcoin Cash is not itself a security and/or derivative. Changes to applicable law may adversely affect the use, transfer, exchange or value of any of your crypto assets, and such changes may be sudden and without notice.

Prior to listing Bitcoin Cash on the Bitvo Platform, Bitvo Inc. (Bitvo) conducted due diligence and determined that Bitcoin Cash is unlikely to be a security or derivative under Canadian securities legislation. Our analysis including reviewing publicly available information concerning:

1. The creation, governance, usage and design of Bitcoin Cash, including the source code, security and roadmap for growth in the developer community and, if applicable, the background of the developer(s) that created Bitcoin Cash;
2. The supply, demand, maturity, utility, and liquidity of Bitcoin Cash;
3. Material technical risks associated with Bitcoin Cash, including any code defects, security breaches, and other threats concerning Bitcoin Cash and its supporting blockchain (such as the susceptibility to hacking and impact of forking), or the practices and protocols that apply to them; and
4. Legal and regulatory risks associated with Bitcoin Cash, including:
   1. any pending, potential, or prior civil, regulatory, criminal, or enforcement action relating to the issuance, distribution, or use of Bitcoin Cash; and
   2. statements made by any securities regulatory authorities in Canada, other regulators in IOSCO-member jurisdictions, or the regulator with the most significant connection to Bitcoin Cash about whether Bitcoin Cash, or generally about whether the type of crypto asset, is a security and/or derivative.

Like all crypto assets, there are general risks associated with Bitcoin Cash including: volatility risk, liquidity risk, short history risk, demand risk, forking risk, code defects, regulatory risk, electronic trading risk, and cyber security risk. For additional information of general risks associated with crypto assets, you may refer to the Bitvo Platform Risk Statement. Further, due to prior blockchain forks, Bitcoin Cash is at an increased risk of future forking events. In November 2018, Bitcoin Cash’s blockchain forked into Bitcoin Cash ABC and Bitcoin SV. A blockchain fork may impact the value of Bitcoin Cash. More information on blockchain forks is available in our Bitvo Platform Risk Statement.

As a reminder, this Crypto Asset Statement is not intended to be exhaustive of all risks associated with trading Bitcoin Cash and we encourage you to conduct your own due diligence to determine whether trading Bitcoin Cash is right for you.

Bitvo is offering Crypto Contracts on crypto assets in reliance on a prospectus exemption contained in the exemptive relief decision Re Bitvo Inc. dated April 25, 2022. Please be aware that the statutory rights in section 204(1) of the Securities Act (Alberta) and, if applicable, similar statutory rights under the securities legislation of each other province and territory in Canada, do not apply in respect of the Crypto Asset Statement to the extent a Crypto Contract is distributed under the prospectus relief in the Decision.