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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001841125-25-000142"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BSLK"
cik: "0001841125"
company_name: "Bolt Projects Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:25:42.968128+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bolt Projects amends bylaws, cuts quorum to 33.33%, updates proxy rules

## Summary
- Reduced stockholder meeting quorum to one-third (33.33%) of voting power.
- Compliance with SEC universal proxy rules (Rule 14a-19) required for director nominations.
- White proxy cards reserved for Board use; other solicitations must use a different color.
- New procedural and disclosure requirements for stockholder nominations and proposals.
- Updated rules for filling board vacancies and authority of meeting presiding officer.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001841125-25-000142
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BSLK
- cik: 0001841125
- company_name: Bolt Projects Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1841125/000184112525000142/0001841125-25-000142-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1841125/000184112525000142/bslk-20251017.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001841125-25-000142
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001841125-25-000142.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Bolt Projects Holdings, Inc.: Amended bylaws to reduce quorum to one-third, adopt universal proxy rules, establish procedural mechanics for stockholder nominations and proposals, update presiding officer and vacancy-filling provisions, and make modernizing changes (effective 2025-10-17).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-10-17
  source text: On October 17, 2025, the Board of Directors of Bolt Projects Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), which became effective the same day.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1841125/000184112525000142/0001841125-25-000142-index.htm

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