BIGG BIGG Digital Assets Inc

BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (“BIGG” or the “Company”) (TSXV: BIGG; OTCQX: BBKCF; WKN: A2PS9W), a leading innovator in the digital assets space and owner of Netcoins, Blockchain Intelligence Group, and TerraZero, is excited to announce that Netcoins USA has signed a partnership agreement with APX Lending, a crypto-backed lending platform, to provide crypto-backed loans to their clients in the United States.

• Netcoins USA and APX Lending have entered into a strategic partnership to offer preferred trading and lending services to their respective client bases in the United States
• According to a report by Coinmarketcap, the global crypto lending market size is expected to reach USD $5.5 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 12.5% from 2020 to 2025. This report reflects the trend of rapid growth in the crypto lending industry.
• APX Lending is the only SOC 2 crypto-backed lender certified by the Canadian Lenders Association — ensuring safety, security and compliance.
• This complementary partnership will broaden Netcoins’ product offering to their US clients, capitalizing on the growing USD $5.5 billion crypto-backed lending market.

Under this partnership, Netcoins USA and APX Lending will collaborate to deliver a robust and integrated trading and borrowing experience to their respective USA customers. Together, they aim to provide a high-touch, premium service across both platforms. This will include simple onboarding processes, preferred lending and trading rates for shared clients, and access to lower fee services - making the client experience seamless.

“This is a strategic partnership that will allow Netcoins USA to provide an exciting new lending product to our clients while working with a proven industry leader. Both APX and Netcoins began their journey in Canada and have now entered the massive US crypto market. We see this as a tremendous opportunity to unlock lending services for our clients while growing our revenue streams through this partnership, said Netcoins CEO Fraser Matthews”

APX Lending empowers crypto holders to unlock liquidity in their crypto assets by borrowing against them. This allows borrowers to address their immediate financial needs - from paying operational expenses and payroll to funding expansion plans or upgrading new equipment - while preserving their crypto assets for future gains. Since expanding into the U.S. in August 2024, APX Lending has attracted over $100 million in interest from potential borrowers, highlighting the growing demand for compliant crypto-backed loans.

Andrei Poliakov, founder and CEO of APX Lending, added, “This partnership with Netcoins marks a major milestone for APX Lending as we continue our U.S. expansion. By combining our secure and compliant lending platform with Netcoins’ established trading services, we’re offering unparalleled financial solutions to a broader audience. Our shared commitment to innovation, transparency, and customer trust drives us forward in the fast-evolving digital asset landscape.”

For more information, please visit: www.biggdigitalassets.com, www.netcoins.com or www.apxlending.com

Dan ReitzikInterim CEOir@biggdigitalassets.com778.819.3890

About BIGG Digital Assets Inc.BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (BIGG) believes the future of crypto is a safe, compliant, and regulated environment. BIGG invests in products and companies to support this vision. BIGG has three portfolio companies: Netcoins (netcoins.com) , Blockchain Intelligence Group (blockchaingroup.io), and TerraZero (terrazero.com).

Blockchain Intelligence Group is an industry leading digital asset forensics, anti-money laundering detection, and cryptocurrency investigations company. At the heart of our operations is a deep-rooted expertise in visualizing digital assets and market related activities. This expertise is leveraged to monitor transactional data with a constant eye to assisting our customers with risk management, due diligence, and forensic services for digital assets. For more information please visit our website www.BlockchainGroup.io.

Netcoins offers secure crypto trading in Canada and the USA, with a mission to make crypto trading easy.  Netcoins has a robust product offering with over 45 assets for Crypto Trading, Netcoins Pay Mastercard and Staking (Canada Only).  Netcoins facilitates crypto trading via its cutting-edge Mobile and Web applications and through its OTC Trading Desk.  For more information please visit our website www.netcoins.com.

TerraZero Technologies Inc. is a vertically integrated Metaverse development group and leading Web3 technology company specializing in helping brands create immersive experiences. TerraZero's Metaverse-agnostic vision is to develop and implement products and services with scalable commercial applications to flourish engagement across gamified experiences where enterprise-level businesses, metaverse platforms, and Web3 creators can seamlessly bridge and actionably grow their virtual world and the physical world endeavours together as one. TerraZero owns digital real estate for brands to establish a presence in existing virtual worlds and can also offer brands their own private worlds to provide offices and services to those interested in the metaverse. Furthermore, TerraZero acquires, designs, builds, and operates virtual assets and solutions to monetize the metaverse ecosystem. TerraZero’s businesses are segmented into five (5) divisions which include: (1) immersive experience creation in existing or private virtual worlds; (2) advertising; (3) data analytics; (4) events and marketing; and (5) development of the Intraverse. TerraZero aims to support the community, foster innovation, and drive adoption. For more information, please visit https://terrazero.com/ or contact hello@terrazero.com.

About APX LendingAPX Lending is a leading Bitcoin and Ethereum-backed lending platform, registered with FINTRAC in Canada and FinCEN in the U.S., dedicated to providing compliant, safe, and secure lending solutions to both individual and institutional clients across Canada and the United States. Founded by Andrei Poliakov, co-founder of Coinberry, one of Canada’s largest licensed crypto exchanges, APX Lending is redefining the landscape of crypto-backed lending with a strong focus on transparency, security, and regulatory compliance. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and a deep understanding of the digital asset space, APX Lending serves a rapidly growing market. With a seasoned team of industry experts, the platform offers innovative lending products, including a white label solution for banks, credit unions, and financial institutions worldwide. For more information, please visit www.apxlending.com.

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Future operating results could also be materially affected by the price of cryptocurrency and the demand (or lack thereof) for cryptocurrency. In addition, BIGG’s past financial performance may not be a reliable indicator of future performance.

Forward-Looking StatementsCertain statements in this release are forward-looking statements or information, which include the expected opportunities, outcomes, potential and benefits of the Company’s products and services, the expected adoption and growth of cryptocurrency and the Company’s products and services, the expected benefits and outcomes of the partnership with APX, evaluating, researching and predicting market trends, the development and completion of products and services, the launch of products and services, events, plans, courses of action, and the potential of the Company’s technology and operations and other matters. Forward-looking statements consist of statements that are not purely historical, including any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Such information can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking wording such as “may”, “expect”, “estimate”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “believe” and “continue” or the negative thereof or similar variations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which they are based will occur. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve numerous assumptions, known and unknown risks and uncertainties, both general and specific, that contribute to the possibility that the predictions, estimates, forecasts, projections and other forward-looking statements will not occur. These assumptions, risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the state of the economy in general and capital markets in particular, the ability to manage operating expenses, which may adversely affect the Company’s financial condition, the ability to remain competitive as other better financed competitors develop and release competitive products, volatility in the trading price of the common shares of the Company, the demand and pricing of cryptocurrency, the Company’s ability to successfully define, design and release new products in a timely manner that meet customers' needs; the ability to attract, retain and motivate qualified personnel; competition in the industry; and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of BIGG. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. Undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking information because BIGG can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. The securities of BIGG are considered highly speculative due to the nature of BIGG’s business. For further information concerning these and other risks and uncertainties, refer to the Company’s website and filings on www.sedarplus.ca. In addition, BIGG’s past performance may not be a reliable indicator of future performance.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from BIGG’s expectations include consumer sentiment towards BIGG’s products and Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Metaverse technology generally, technology failures, the lack of demand for the company’s products and services, fluctuations in the price of cryptocurrency, the ability to successfully define, design, and release new products in a timely manner that meet customers’ needs; the ability to attract, retain, and motivate qualified personnel; competition in the industry; the ability to obtain and/or maintain licences, permits and approvals that are necessary to operate the business; the impact of technology changes on the products and industry; failure to develop new and innovative products; the ability to successfully maintain and enforce our intellectual property rights and defend third-party claims of infringement of their intellectual property rights; the impact of intellectual property litigation that could materially and adversely affect the business; the ability to manage working capital; increase in costs and expenses; the dependence on key personnel; competition; the demand and pricing of cryptocurrencies and NFTs (including digital assets); litigation; security threats, including a loss/theft of  NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and other assets; and failure of counterparties to perform their contractual obligations.

The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release. Except as required by law, BIGG disclaims any intention and assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Additionally, BIGG undertakes no obligation to comment on the expectations of or statements made by, third parties in respect of the matters discussed above.

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