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Equity issuance in ESS Metron acquisition

Company: Riot

Subject kind
financing
Statement date
2023-06-01
Promised amount
70165.0 shares
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

70,165 shares of common stock were issued to former ESS Metron owners as acquisition consideration

Source (primary)

Riot 8-K filed 2023-06-01 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
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Quote: “to register the resale of up to 70,165 shares of Riot's common stock, no par value per share, by the former owners of its subsidiary, ESS Metron, LLC... in connection with the Company's acquisition”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 21, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

The verification run did not return a result for this claim (claude -p exit 1: b'').

What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1167419/000155837023010730/riot-20230601x8k.htm) in full (3,957 characters, retrieved September 13, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Riot 8-K filed 2023-06-01

Quote: “to register the resale of up to 70,165 shares of Riot's common stock, no par value per share, by the former owners of its subsidiary, ESS Metron, LLC... in connection with the Company's acquisition”

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