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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001167419-25-000003"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RIOT"
cik: "0001167419"
company_name: "Riot Platforms, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T11:35:17.012273+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Riot Platforms renews CFO Colin Yee's agreement; severance terms updated

## Summary
- Amended agreement renews Colin Yee as CFO for 36-month initial term, effective April 12, 2025.
- Severance benefits paid in lump sum: 50% within 20 business days after signing separation agreement, remainder after six months.
- Service-based and performance-based stock awards subject to accelerated vesting settled within five business days after separation agreement.
- Yee remains independent contractor, not employee, with no company employee benefits.
- Agreement automatically renews for successive 12-month periods unless terminated.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001167419-25-000003
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RIOT
- cik: 0001167419
- company_name: Riot Platforms, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1167419/000116741925000003/0001167419-25-000003-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1167419/000116741925000003/riot-20250412x8k.htm

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