Empery Digital EMPD Termination Fee

On December 6, 2024, the Company entered into a Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release (“Agreement”) with GLV, the manufacturer of the Stag and Grunt EVO, pursuant to which the Company and the manufacturer agreed to terminate the Supplier Agreement dated March 11, 2022 for the development and engineering of the Volcon Stag vehicle prototypes; the Supplier Agreement dated May 29, 2022 for the manufacturing of the Volcon Grunt EVO motorcycle; and the Supplier Agreement dated August 11, 2022 for the manufacturing of the Volcon Stag vehicle (collectively, the “Supplier Agreements”). Pursuant to the Agreement, among other items, the Company and the manufacturer agreed to indemnify each other with respect to certain outstanding vendor payables and the Company agreed to pay GLV a termination fee of $125,000 per month for a period of twenty-two months. The remaining payments for this agreement in the amount of $375,000 are due to be paid by September 2026.