Hawkeye Digital agrees optional token path for HWKE stock

Hawkeye Digital, Inc. has agreed an optional route for shareholders to tokenise existing common stock on Ethereum (ETH), and the filing names a narrower counterparty than the press branding. In a Form 8-K dated November 6, 2026, the Nevada company said it and Securitize Transfer Agent, LLC had entered an agreement letting shareholders elect to tokenise the common stock natively, initially on the Ethereum blockchain. The attached Exhibit 99.1 announces that programme as a partnership with Securitize Corp. (NYSE: SECZ). Item 7.01 is Regulation FD disclosure, and the company states that the item and the exhibit are furnished and shall not be deemed filed for Section 18 of the Exchange Act.

What eligible holders would receive, on the exhibit's own wording, is the same HWKE common stock that already trades on OTC Markets, with the same rights, including dividends and voting, rather than a synthetic token or a wrapped product. Each tokenised holding is recorded on-chain and reconciled to the official shareholder register, and transfers between eligible holders can settle on-chain in near real time instead of through a conventional settlement cycle. Chief Financial Officer Q. Byron Hamlett signed the report on November 6, 2026, and Section 12(b) securities are listed as none, matching continued OTC trading of HWKE.

What the register keeps

Hawkeye Digital describes itself as a publicly traded private equity incubator and merchant banking platform focused on digital assets. Its principal office is in Miami Beach, Florida. President David Wachsman said tokenisation "will become standard for public companies" and that "we see tokenizing our own stock with Securitize as a natural extension of what we do."

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Chairman Martin Sumichrast said, "Tokenization lets us offer that while keeping everything they value intact: the same HWKE stock, the same rights, and full choice over whether to participate." Chief Operating Officer Billy Miller of Securitize said, "Hawkeye is part of that shift: real stock, tokenized at the source, with its official register intact." He also called Securitize the NYSE's first digital transfer agent, the role that matches the 8-K counterparty, Securitize Transfer Agent, LLC.

The exhibit puts approximately $5 billion of tokenised assets on Securitize's platform as of September 30, 2026, and names Apollo, BlackRock, BNY, Hamilton Lane, KKR and VanEck among the managers it works with. It also says Securitize is the only company operating regulated digital-securities infrastructure in both the United States and the EU. That managed-product book is a different assignment from converting one already-public OTC common share. Industry Spread looked at the fund side when it reported that Neuberger sub-advises a credit fund Securitize runs end to end.

A shareholder who wants the tokenised form first moves shares from a brokerage account into direct registration with the transfer agent, then converts on Securitize's platform after standard identity verification and anti-money-laundering checks, and can convert back to book-entry form subject to applicable procedures. Tokenised shares are held and transferable inside Securitize's regulated environment. Participation is entirely optional, so a holder who prefers a brokerage account can leave the position there. Tokenised HWKE is expected to become available in 2027, and a shareholder guide on eligibility and onboarding will be published at www.hwke.com. Nothing in Item 7.01 states a fee, a minimum holding, an on-chain contract address or a calendar date inside 2027.

Issuer-sponsored stock that stays tied to a share register, while a conventional venue keeps trading, is the structure in Bullish and Equiniti's bet on tokenised stocks, and it is the record question in Bitwise's move to record BSOL shares on Ethereum beside a conventional transfer record. HWKE is the smaller case: one OTC common class and an elective conversion, with availability expected in 2027. Until identity checks and the published guide exist, the live market remains the OTC quote.

The exhibit's forward-looking section lists, among the statements it covers, the growth strategy, the absence of a relevant operating history in corporate advisory or the crypto and digital-asset industry, and OTC trading of the common stock. Risks named there include financing, third parties, personnel, additional funds, investment selection, regulation and competition, with the rest left to the company's SEC filings. The emerging-growth-company box on the November 6, 2026 8-K is unchecked. The filing index for accession 0001683168-26-008384 is on EDGAR, and the company's 8-K list sits on the SEC company page for CIK 0001750777. Until the shareholder guide and the transfer-agent procedures are in holders' hands, the agreement is an optional token of existing HWKE common stock, initially on Ethereum, with OTC trading left in place.

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