12. Stockholders’ Equity

Effective January 5, 2023, the Company filed a certificate of amendment to its Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in order to implement a 2-for-1 reverse stock split, through which each two shares of common stock issued and outstanding were combined and changed into one share of common stock. All share amounts and share prices in this annual report on Form 10-K have been adjusted to give effect to the reverse stock split.

Effective March 13, 2025, the Company filed a certificate of amendment to its Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in order to implement a 10-for-1 reverse stock split, through which each ten shares of common stock issued and outstanding were combined and changed into one share of common stock. All share amounts and share prices in this annual report on Form 10-K have been adjusted to give effect to the reverse stock split.

Preferred Stock – The Company has no preferred stock issued. The Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws include provisions that allow the Company’s Board of Directors to issue, without further action by the stockholders, up to 1,000,000 shares of undesignated preferred stock.

Common Stock – The Company has one class of common stock outstanding with a total number of shares authorized of 45,000,000. As of December 31, 2024, the Company had 1,823,275 shares of common stock outstanding.

In  January 2023, in connection with the acquisition of Expo Experts, the Company issued 9,934 shares of its common stock, with a value of $200,000, to the co-founders of Expo Experts.

In March 2023, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement with Yiran Gu, a former investor of the Company and a citizen of the People’s Republic of China, in connection with the purchase by Yiran Gu of 33,318 shares of our common stock at a price of approximately $21.00 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $700,000.

In June 2023, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement with Tumim Stone Capital LLC (“Tumim Stone”). Under the terms and subject to the conditions of the stock purchase agreement, we have the right, but not the obligation, to sell to Tumim Stone, and Tumim Stone is obligated to purchase, up to $12,775,000‎ ‎worth of newly issued shares (the “Purchase Shares”) of our common ‎stock, subject to certain limitations and the satisfaction (or, where permissible, the waiver) of the conditions set forth in the stock purchase agreement. Pursuant to the stock purchase agreement, we issued and sold 46,993 Purchase Shares to Tumim Stone, at a price of $42.56 per share (representing the average official closing price of the common stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market for the five consecutive trading days ending on the trading day immediately prior to the date of the stock purchase agreement), for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $2,000,000, in an initial purchase (the “Initial Purchase”). Pursuant to the terms of the stock purchase agreement, as consideration for Tumim Stone’s commitment to purchase shares of common stock at our direction from time to time, subject to the conditions and limitations set forth in the stock purchase agreement, upon execution of the stock purchase agreement on September 30, 2023, we also issued to Tumim Stone 17,622 shares of common stock (the “Commitment Shares”), valued at $42.56 per share (the same per share value as each Initial Purchase Share sold  in the Initial Purchase), or a total aggregate value equal to $750,000 for the Commitment Shares. Thereafter, the purchase price of shares that we sell to Tumim Stone under this agreement (other than initial sale under that agreement) is 97% of the lowest daily average of the daily volume weighted average prices of our common stock for the three day period prior to our election to sell shares.

In December 2023, the Company issued multiple purchase notices to Tumim Stone under the stock purchase agreement, through which we sold a combined 27,334 shares of our common stock at an average price of $17.00 for an aggregated gross proceeds of approximately $464,300. 

In December 2023, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement with CFL, in which we sold 12,267 shares of our common stock at a price per share of $16.30 for gross proceeds of approximately $200,000.

In the first quarter of 2024, the Company issued 4,022 shares of its common stock to Tumim Stone Capital in connection with its committed equity line program, at a price of approximately $23.60 per share, resulting in aggregate gross proceeds of $95,104. In the second quarter of 2024, the Company issued 18,467 shares of its common stock to Tumim Stone Capital in connection with its committed equity line program, at a price range of approximately $12.70 to $15.60 per share, resulting in aggregate gross proceeds of $239,885. In the third quarter of 2024, there was no common stock issuance to Tumim Stone Capital. In the fourth quarter of 2024, the Company issued 5,643 shares of its common stock to Tumim Stone Capital in connection with its committed equity line program, at a price range of approximately $8.30 per share, resulting in aggregate gross proceeds of $46,728. 

In June, 2024, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement with Eighty-eight Investment LLC, a Delaware limited liability company wholly owned and controlled by Mr. Xin He, our Chief Executive Officer. This purchase of 100,000 shares of our common stock at a price of $4.95 per share provided aggregate proceeds of $495,000. The purchase price represented the last consolidated closing bid price on the Nasdaq Capital Market prior to the execution of the agreement, in accordance with the requirements of Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c) and applicable Nasdaq interpretations. 

In September, 2024, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement with Yu Tian, an individual and a resident of the People’s Republic of China, in connection with the purchase by Yu Tian of 39,867 shares of common stock at a price of approximately $3.01 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $120,000.

In November, 2024, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement with a single institutional investor (the “Investor”), in connection with the purchase by the Investor of 140,000 shares of common stock, and 110,000 pre-funded warrants to purchase Common Stock (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) in a registered direct offering (the “Offering”) at a price of $8.00 per share (or $7.90 per Pre-Funded Warrant) for aggregate gross proceeds of $1,989,000.

In December 2024, the Company entered into a Profit Participation Agreement with Koala Malta Limited, a private limited liability company registered under the laws of Malta to purchase a 6% right in QBSG Limited to receive all distributions and dividends which may be declared and/or distributed by the QBSG Limited on an annual basis in terms of applicable law, along with all rights, title, and interest from the Koala Malta Limited. The consideration of the Profit Participation is $1,200,000, including $700,000 cash and $500,000 value of the Company’s common stocks, or a total of 113,636 shares at a price of $4.40 per share. In addition to the 9% share purchase from the Seller in September 2022, the Company now owns the right to receive 15% of all distributions and dividends by QBSG Limited.

In December, 2024, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement with Aurous Vertex Limited (the “Investor”), a British Virgin Islands company, in connection with the purchase by the Investor of 250,000 shares of common stock at a price of $6.00 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $1.5 million. In the agreement, Aurous Vertex Limited has an option to purchase an additional 100,000 shares of Common Stock at a subsequent closing. The purchase price per share of the additional 100,000 shares of Common Stock will be the lesser of (a) $6.00 per share and (b) the closing price of the Common Stock on the date that Investor delivers its written notice to the Company of its election to purchase the Second Closing Shares as described above.

Total shares issued during fiscal year 2024 were as follows: