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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001499275-25-000005"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GROO"
cik: "0001499275"
company_name: "GROOVY COMPANY, INC."
filed_at: "2025-10-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:55:33.159202+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Groovy Company pivots to blockchain as OTCM Protocol, launches Security Meme Tokens and Howey Shield

## Summary
- Appointed Berge Abajian as CEO, Patrick Mokros as COO, Frank Yglesias as CTO; headquarters moved to Fairfield, NJ.
- Launches Security Meme Tokens (SMTs) on Solana, backed 1:1 by preferred shares at Empire Stock Transfer, targeting 15,000+ OTC companies.
- Files USPTO trademark #99420190 for 'Howey Shield' framework to ensure SMTs fail SEC's Howey Test and qualify as commodities.
- Claims SMTs solve $50B OTC liquidity crisis with instant settlement, 24/7 trading, 0.5% transaction fee, and no dilution.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001499275-25-000005
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GROO
- cik: 0001499275
- company_name: GROOVY COMPANY, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-10-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1499275/000149927525000005/0001499275-25-000005-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1499275/000149927525000005/groo-20250925_8k.htm

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