Revenue and Gross Margin Expansion
Revenue increased more than 4x to $21.4 million in Q1 FY2026 from $4.6 million in Q1 FY2025 (≈+365%). Gross margin expanded to 78.6% from 24.5% in the prior year quarter (increase of 54.1 percentage points), primarily driven by staking revenue from the Solana treasury strategy.
Large Solana Treasury and High-Stake Positioning
Forward held approximately 6,962,501 SOL as of 12/31/2025 with more than 99% of holdings staked, positioning the company as an at-scale Solana treasury larger than the next three SOL treasuries combined.
Staking Yield, Rewards and SOL-per-Share Accretion
Native staking yield was approximately 6.5%–7.2%. Forward generated over 112,000 SOL in staking rewards during the reporting period. Fully diluted SOL per share increased from 0.0604 to 0.0624 over the quarter (a ~0.002 SOL increase, ≈+3.3% quarter-over-quarter), with an annualized SOL-per-fully-diluted-share growth rate reported at roughly 13%.
mNAV and Capital Metrics
Management reported an mNAV of approximately 0.85 as of 12/31/2025 (based on SOL price $125, 6,962,501 SOL, Forward stock close $6.61 and fully diluted share count 111,591,332). Fully diluted share count was detailed as 111,591,332 (84,924,272 common shares, 26,359,600 warrants and 307,460 options).
Product and Infrastructure Launches
Launched proprietary liquid staking token fwdSOL in partnership with Sanctum (≈25% of SOL holdings represented by fwdSOL) to retain staking yield while increasing liquidity. Began testing a proprietary automated market maker (Prop AMM) developed with Galaxy and Jump Crypto and integrated into Jupiter and other Solana aggregators.
Tokenization and On-Chain Share Innovation
Became one of the first public companies to have SEC-registered shares (FWDI) issued on Solana through Superstate’s Opening Bell platform, enabling real-time on-chain record keeping and, for eligible non-U.S. holders, use of tokenized FWDI as collateral in DeFi.
Ecosystem and Institutional Momentum
Management highlighted accelerating Solana adoption across payments, DeFi, RWA experimentation and institutional integrations (cited partners/mentions include Revolut, Western Union, Calshi, Figure, PayPal, WisdomTree expanding regulated tokenized funds on Solana). Company positioned to participate in on-chain activity and institutional use cases.
Balance Sheet Discipline and Strategic Optionality
Management emphasized a 'clean balance sheet' with no institutional debt as of 12/31/2025, signaling capacity to play offense (M&A, opportunistic stock-for-stock transactions) while peers that used leverage may be more constrained.