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Zhibao Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: ZBAO) said Sept. 23 it signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire MeVX, a non-custodial multi-chain trading terminal built for on-chain and meme-asset trading, without disclosing a purchase price, payment structure or premium.
The company said the transaction remains subject to due diligence, audit and "compliance with applicable PRC and U.S. SEC legal and regulatory requirements," and to completion of a De-Classification Restructuring that would end Zhibao's status as a domestic Chinese enterprise issuing securities abroad under the CSRC Filing Measures. A definitive purchase agreement is "currently expected to be executed within the next 12 months," Zhibao said in the statement.
MeVX connects directly to decentralized trading protocol infrastructure across Solana, Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base rather than holding customer assets, the company said. Zhibao put the platform's user base at approximately 2 million and its "sticky deposits" at $8 million, with Vietnamese-language localization and active community operations in Vietnam described as the base for Southeast Asian expansion.
The absence of a headline price leaves the deal unratable on the metrics that normally frame an acquisition. Zhibao's market capitalization stood at roughly $4.4 million after the stock closed at $0.109 on Sept. 22, down 9.92% on the session and 87.90% year to date, according to MarketScreener data. Against that equity value, MeVX's $8 million in deposits is larger than the acquirer's entire market capitalization — a ratio that makes the financing structure of any eventual deal the central question rather than the strategic logic.
The disclosure gap is not unusual at the letter-of-intent stage, but it is wider than typical. Comparable micro-cap crypto acquisitions have generally paired an LOI announcement with at least an indicative enterprise value or a share-consideration framework, because the acquirer's stock is usually the currency. Zhibao has disclosed neither, and the filing history offers no obvious balance-sheet capacity: the company's auditor raised going-concern doubt in a Jan. 8 filing, and Zhibao filed for a mixed shelf of up to $50 million on Sept. 18, 2025.
Two conditions in the announcement carry more execution risk than the standard due-diligence language. The first is the De-Classification Restructuring, which requires Zhibao to cease being treated as a domestic enterprise issuing and listing securities outside China for the purposes of the CSRC Filing Measures. That is a corporate-structure change, not a filing, and it sits on the critical path to a definitive agreement.
The second is the timeline itself. A 12-month window to sign a purchase agreement is long for a target of MeVX's size, and it means the deal can be repriced, restructured or abandoned across four quarterly reporting cycles before either side is contractually bound. Zhibao's own forward-looking statement acknowledges the transaction "is non-binding and subject to significant conditions," with "no assurance that a transaction will be completed on the terms described or at all."
Management turnover adds a further variable. Zhibao disclosed CEO changes, CFO changes and board and committee changes effective Aug. 17, 2026, following an earlier round of CFO and management changes effective July 1, 2026 — two senior leadership resets inside seven weeks, immediately before the LOI was signed.
If executed, the acquisition would move Zhibao from digital insurance brokerage into on-chain trading infrastructure. The company's existing business is 2B2C embedded insurance distributed through a proprietary PaaS platform, with more than 40 digital insurance solutions spanning travel, sports, logistics, utilities and e-commerce. MeVX would add a consumer-facing trading terminal with no underwriting cycle and no insurance license dependency — a different revenue model, a different regulatory perimeter and a different investor base.
That repositioning is the reason the announcement matters beyond the deal's own economics. Zhibao's 87.90% year-to-date decline has left it with a market value small enough that narrative repositioning moves the stock more than fundamentals do, and a crypto-infrastructure story reaches a shareholder base that insurtech distribution does not. The nearest listed comparables for on-chain trading demand — Coinbase and Robinhood — trade on retail crypto activity, not on insurance brokerage multiples, and any narrative spillover from the LOI would run through that comparison rather than through MeVX's own $8 million deposit base.
The next hard datapoints are the definitive purchase agreement, disclosure of consideration and any financing, and evidence that the De-Classification Restructuring has advanced. Until at least one of those lands, the LOI is a statement of intent with a 12-month clock and no price attached.
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