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Good day, and welcome to the Verify Me, Inc. 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. I would now like to turn the conference over to Scott Greenberg, Chairman of the Verifiy Me, Inc. Board of Directors. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good morning. I am Scott Greenburg, Chairman of the VarifiyMe, Inc., Board of Directors. It is my pleasure to welcome all of you to the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. I will serve as chair of the annual meeting, and Adam Stedham, Chief Executive Officer and President of VerifyMe, will be conducting the meeting. Adam? Okay, his line has disconnected. We will join him in shortly. Thank you. Excuse me, Adam. Please go ahead. Yes. All right. Thank you, and thanks, Scott, for the introduction. It's a pleasure to be here. We're conducting our annual meeting as a virtual meeting by means of a live webcast. The agenda for the meeting is displayed on your screen. You'll also find the meeting materials, including the rules of conduct and procedures, available there as well. In order to ensure that we have an orderly conduct of the business of the meeting, I direct your attention to the rules of conduct and procedures set forth for this meeting. We ask that in fairness to all stockholders attending this meeting, you honor these rules. I'm now calling the meeting to order for the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of VerifyMe, Inc. First, I'd like to introduce our directors. Scott Greenberg is our chairman. Marshall Geller is our non-executive vice chairman. Howard Goldberg is the executive director. David Edmonds is our lead independent director. Dave Edmends is director. And myself, Adam Stone. Also joining us today are Jennifer Cola, our chief financial officer. Julie Zhang of Malone Bailey, our independent registered public accounting firm. and Alex McLean of Harder Seacrest and Emory LLP, our general counsel. As with every annual meeting, there are a series of corporate formalities and matters of official business to which we must attend. So with your indulgence, I'll take care of those matters first. We have in our possession a copy of the affidavit of distribution to stockholders of the proxy statement's prospectus, which I will refer to as the proxy statement. This affidavit will be annexed to the minutes of this meeting as Exhibit A and filed in the company's minute book. We also have in our possession a list of the stockholders' record at the close of business August 7, 2026, the record date for the meeting set by the Board of Directors. Tracy Oates of Caridio Group has been appointed by the Board of directors to act as Inspector of Election for this meeting and has filed her oath as Inspector of Elections with us prior to the meeting. I am now directing that a copy of this oath be annexed to the minutes of this meeting as Exhibit B and filed in the minute book. There are 13,165,196 shares of common stock and 0.85 shares of Series B preferred stock eligible to vote at this meeting, of which an aggregate of 6,068,362 shares are represented or by proxy. Therefore, we have determined that at least one-third of the shares entitled to vote are present at this meeting in person or by proxies, and that a quorum is present. Based on this report, I now declare this meeting officially open for business. Stockholders who have registered with their control number may vote or ask questions at this meeting. To the extent the questions are asked but not answered during the meeting, we will follow up on appropriate questions after the meeting concludes. There are eight proposals to be considered and voted on at this meeting, all of which are described in the notice of meeting and proxy statement previously made available to stockholders by the Board of Directors in connection with this meeting . The first proposal is to approve, pursuant to NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635A, the issuance of shares of VerifyMe common stock to each holder of outstanding ordinary shares of open world LTD, each holder an open world simple agreement for future equity, and each holder of open-world options that will be assumed by VerifyMe, which will represent more than 20% of the shares of Verify Me common stock outstanding immediately prior to the merger by and among Verifyme, VerifyME Subsidiary Corp., and open-word. Pursuant to which VerifyMesubsidiaryCorp.com will merge with and into open-words with open- world surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of VerifyMe, and to approve in the event such share issuance constitutes a change of control pursuant to NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635B, the change of controls resulting from the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the merger. The second proposal is the election of five directors, each to serve for a one-year term expiring in 2027 and until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until the director's earlier death, resignation, or removal. Based on the recommendation of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, the Board of directors has nominated Scott Greenberg, Marshall Geller, Howard Goldberg, David Edmonds, and Adam Stedham as directors, each to serve for a one-year term expiring in 2027 and until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until the director's earlier death, resignation, or removal. The third proposal is to approve on an advisory basis the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in the proxy statement. The fourth proposal is for the agency to approve the fourth amendment to the Verify Me 2020 Equity Incentive Plan to increase the authorized number of shares available for future issuance under the plan by 16,182,541 shares. The fifth proposal is to ratify the appointment of Malone Bailey, LLP, as our independent registered accounting firm, public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, The sixth proposal is to approve subject to a condition upon the consummation of the merger an amendment to VerifyMe's Articles of Incorporation to authorize a new form of capital stock called blockchain common stock in the amount of 500,000 shares, par value of 0.001 cent per share, to serve as a new blank check class of capital stock issuable in one or more series. The seventh proposal is to approve subject to and conditioned upon the consummation of the merger an amendment to Verify Me's Articles of Incorporation to make an express election permitting distributions that would otherwise be prohibited by NRS 78.288 to be, and make certain other administrative and miscellaneous changes, including the change of Verify Me's corporate name to Open World, Inc. The eighth proposal is to approve the adjournment of the annual meeting to a later date or dates, if necessary, to permit further solicitation of vote or proxies, if there are not sufficient votes, to approve one or more proposals presented in the annual meeting. Any stockholder that is logged into the meeting as a stockholder and who has not already voted and wishes to vote or who has already voted but wishes to change his or her vote may do so by clicking the Vote Here button on the screen. Only the latest vote you submit will be counted. So, at this time, we're prepared to entertain any appropriate question that any stockholder may have. We will respond to appropriate questions directly related to matters being voted on at the meeting now and respond to other appropriate questions after the meeting. We've concluded the time allotted for questions at this time. We'll proceed with the meeting and seeing that there are no questions, we will proceed further with the meetings. So, the polls are now closed. I ask Tracy Oates to report on the results of the voting. Based on a preliminary tally of the votes cast in person or by proxy, each of proposals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8 have received the required number of votes, And therefore, 1. The stockholders have approved, pursuant to NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635A, the issuance of shares of VerifyMe common stock to each holder of outstanding ordinary shares of Open World Limited, each holder of an open world simple agreement for future equity, and each holder of open world options that will be assumed by VerifyMe, which will represent more than 20% of the shares of Verify Me common stock outstanding immediately prior to the merger, and approved in the event such share issuance constitutes a change of control pursuant to NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635B, the change of control resulting from the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the merger agreement. Two, the stockholders have elected Scott Greenberg, Marshall Geller, Howard Goldberg, David Edmonds, and Adam Stedham as directors, each to serve for a one-year term expiring in 2027 and until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until the director's earlier death, resignation, or removal. Three, the stockholders have approved on an advisory basis the compensation of VerifyMe's named executive officers as disclosed in the proxy statement. Four, the stock holders have approved the fourth amendment to the Verify Me 2020 Equity Incentive Plan to increase the authorized number of shares available for future issuance under the plan by 16,182,541 shares. Five, the stockholders have ratified the selection of Malone-Bailey LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. And the stock holders have approved the adjournment of the annual meeting to a later date or dates if necessary, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies if there are not sufficient votes to approve one or more proposals presented at the annual meeting. Based on a preliminary tally of the votes cast in person or by proxy, Proposals 6 and 7 have not received the required number of votes, and, therefore, the stockholders have not approved an amendment to VerifyMe's Articles of Incorporation to authorize a new form of capital stock called blockchain common stock in the amount of 500,000 shares, par value 0.001 per share, to serve as a new blank check class of capital stock issuable in one or more series, or an amendment to Verify Me's articles of incorporation to make an express election permitting distributions that would otherwise be prohibited by NRS 78.2882B, and make certain other administrative and miscellaneous changes, including the change of VerifyMe's corporate name to Open World Inc. Mr. Stedham? Thank you, Tracy. The company will report final voting results in a current report on Form 8 to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within four business days after this meeting. There being no other business to properly come before this meeting, the Inspector of election is directed to file the report of the results of the voting at this meeting with the company, which report will be annexed to the minutes as Exhibit C. This concludes the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of VerifyMe. Thank you for participating. The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.