Record Revenue Growth and Margin Expansion
Revenue increased more than 4x year-over-year to $13.0M (from $3.1M), driven primarily by staking revenue. Gross margin expanded to 70.0% in Q2 FY2026 versus -5.7% in Q2 FY2025 (an improvement of ~75.7 percentage points).
Material SOL-per-Share Compounding
Fully diluted SOL per share rose from 0.0604 (Sept 2025) to 0.0669 (Mar 31, 2026). Management reports annualized SOL-per-share growth of 29.1% on a fully diluted basis and in-the-money annualized growth above 44%. Total SOL holdings were ~7.04M and cumulative staking rewards have exceeded 200,000 SOL.
Attractive, Non-Dilutive Financing and Share Repurchase
Completed a $40M Master Digital Currency Loan Agreement with Galaxy (weighted average interest ~3.4%, weighted average maturity ~5 months). Deployed $27.4M of the facility to repurchase 6.2M shares at $4.44, reducing common shares outstanding by ~7.4% (fully diluted shares down ~5.5%), producing immediate SOL-per-share accretion of ~8.0% on common and ~5.8% on a fully diluted basis.
Strategic Deployment into OnRe and ONyc
Co-led a $5M Series A in OnRe at a $25M post-money valuation and deployed $16M into ONyc, a Solana-native yield-bearing reinsurance token. Trailing ONyc yield ~10% with modeling assumptions around ~12% (mid-teens upper bound). ONyc provides USD-denominated, non-correlated revenue; public float for ONyc grew to ~ $175M after the deal.
Cost-Reduction Execution Underway
SG&A fell sequentially to $6.6M in Q2 (from $7.2M in Q1). Management targets a quarterly SG&A run rate of ~$4.8M (ex-stock comp), a ~33% reduction versus the Q1 baseline of $7.2M, driven by renegotiated services, lower outside legal/marketing and vendor efficiencies.
Validator Scale and Liquid Staking Collateralization
Forward Validator now has >6.9M SOL staked and ranks as the eighth largest validator by stake weight on Solana. fwdSOL represents ~25.1% of Forward's SOL and is being used as collateral (including supporting the Galaxy facility), enabling productive use of stake while preserving yield.
Broader Solana Ecosystem Momentum
Network-level tailwinds cited: Solana payment volume up >8x YoY (per Messari), Firedancer testnet throughput >1M TPS, institutional integrations (Payments.org, Mastercard/Worldpay/Western Union activity), and NASDAQ approval for trading tokenized securities — all reinforcing the company’s strategic thesis.