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Fair Value Measurements
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Fair Value Disclosures [Abstract]  
Fair Value Measurements

Note 7 — Fair Value Measurements

 

The Company follows the guidance in ASC 820 for its financial assets and liabilities that are re-measured and reported at fair value at each reporting period, and non-financial assets and liabilities that are re-measured and reported at fair value at least annually.

 

The fair value of the Company’s financial assets and liabilities reflects management’s estimate of amounts that the Company would have received in connection with the sale of the assets or paid in connection with the transfer of the liabilities in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. In connection with measuring the fair value of its assets and liabilities, the Company seeks to maximize the use of observable inputs (market data obtained from independent sources) and to minimize the use of unobservable inputs (internal assumptions about how market participants would price assets and liabilities). The following fair value hierarchy is used to classify assets and liabilities based on the observable inputs and unobservable inputs used in order to value the assets and liabilities:

 

  Level 1: Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. An active market for an asset or liability is a market in which transactions for the asset or liability occur with sufficient frequency and volume to provide pricing information on an ongoing basis.
     
  Level 2: Observable inputs other than Level 1 inputs. Examples of Level 2 inputs include quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities and quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in markets that are not active.
     
  Level 3: Unobservable inputs based on the Company’s assessment of the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.

 

The following table presents information about the Company’s assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, and indicates the fair value hierarchy of the valuation inputs the Company utilized to determine such fair value:

 

                     
Description   Level     September 30,
2025
    December 31,
2024
 
Liabilities:                      
Warrant liability – Public Warrants   2     $ 690,000     $ 115,000  
Warrant liability – Private Placement Warrants   2     $ 645,000     $ 107,500  

 

The warrants were accounted for as liabilities in accordance with ASC 815-40 and are presented within warrant liabilities in the accompanying balance sheets. The warrant liabilities are measured at fair value at inception and on a recurring basis, with changes in fair value presented within the statements of operations.

 

As of September 30, 2025, the aggregate values of the Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrants were $690,000 and $645,000, respectively, based on a fair value of $0.06 per warrant. As of December 31, 2024, the aggregate values of the Public Warrants and Private Placement Warrants were $115,000 and $107,500, respectively, based on a fair value of $0.01 per warrant.

 

The following table presents the changes in the fair value of warrant liabilities:

 

                       
    Private
Placement
    Public     Warrant
Liabilities
 
Fair value as of January 1, 2025   $ 107,500     $ 115,000     $ 222,500  
Change in fair value     430,000     460,000     890,000
Fair value as of March 31, 2025     537,500       575,000       1,112,500  
Change in fair value     (118,250 )     (126,500 )     (244,750 )
Fair value as of June 30, 2025     419,250       448,500       867,750  
Change in fair value     225,750       241,500       467,250  
Fair value as of September 30, 2025   $ 645,000     $ 690,000     $ 1,335,000  

 

    Private
Placement
    Public     Warrant
Liabilities
 
Fair value as of January 1, 2024   $ 268,750     $ 287,500     $ 556,250  
Change in fair value     (117,175 )     (125,350 )     (242,525 )
Fair value as of March 31, 2024     151,575       162,150       313,725  
Change in fair value     (138,675 )     (148,350 )     (287,025 )
Fair value as of June 30, 2024     12,900       13,800       26,700  
Change in fair value     -       -       -  
Fair value as of September 30, 2024   $ 12,900     $ 13,800     $ 26,700  

 

The Company established the initial fair value for the warrants on October 29, 2021, the date of the consummation of the Company’s IPO. The Company used a Black-Scholes model to value the warrants. For periods subsequent to the detachment of the Public Warrants from the Units, the close price of the Public Warrant will be used as the fair value as of each reporting period. The subsequent measurements of the Private Placement Warrants are classified as Level 2 due to the use of an observable market quote for a similar asset in an active market under the ticker USCTW. As of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Public Warrants have detached from the Units, and the closing price is utilized as the fair value.

 

Transfers to/from Levels 1, 2 and 3 are recognized at the end of the reporting period in which a change in valuation technique or methodology occurs. There were no other transfers to/from Levels 1, 2, and 3 during the period ended September 30, 2025. There was a transfer of $13,800 from level 1 to level 2 during the year ended December 31, 2024 due to insufficient trading volume.