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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-017602"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001600347"
company_name: "Hapi Metaverse Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T09:38:24.171290+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hapi Metaverse dismisses Grassi & Co., engages HTL International as new auditor

## Summary
- Board dismissed Grassi & Co. as independent auditor effective July 2, 2025.
- No disagreements or reportable events occurred during 2024 or the subsequent interim period.
- Grassi's audit reports for FY2024 and FY2023 included a going-concern explanatory paragraph.
- Engaged HTL International, LLC as its new independent registered public accounting firm for FY2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-017602
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001600347
- company_name: Hapi Metaverse Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1600347/000164117225017602/0001641172-25-017602-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1600347/000164117225017602/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Hapi Metaverse Inc. dismissed Grassi & Co., CPAs, P.C. as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Grassi & Co., CPAs, P.C.
  source text: On July 2, 2025, the Board of Directors of Hapi Metaverse Inc. (the “Company”) dismissed Grassi & Co., CPAs, P.C. (“Grassi”) as its independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1600347/000164117225017602/0001641172-25-017602-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Hapi Metaverse Inc. engaged HTL International, LLC as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: HTL International, LLC
  source text: On July 2, 2025, the Company engaged HTL International, LLC (“HTL”) as its independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1600347/000164117225017602/0001641172-25-017602-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.