GBT Technologies Inc. - Quarter Report: 2018 September (Form 10-Q)

United States

Securities and Exchange Commission 

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 10-Q

Commissions file number: 000-54530

GOPHER PROTOCOL INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

2500 Broadway, Suite F-125, Santa Monica, CA 90404

Issuer’s telephone number:          424-238-4589 

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GOPHER PROTOCOL, INC.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Item 1: Condensed consolidated financial statements

The accompanying footnotes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

The accompanying footnotes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

The accompanying footnotes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

GOPHER PROTOCOL, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  

FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 AND 2017  

(UNAUDITED)

Note 1 - Organization and Basis of Presentation

Organization and Line of Business

Gopher Protocol Inc. (the “Company”, “Gopher”, “Gopher Protocol” or “GOPH”) was incorporated on July 22, 2009 under the laws of the State of Nevada. Gopher is a development stage company that is creating and patenting innovative mobile microchip (ICs) and software technologies based on the GopherInsight ™ technology platform. The Company also offers prepaid cellular phone minutes for both domestic and international carriers. In addition, the Company offers cellular activation (activating SIM cards with wireless carriers) to create additional users (consumers) on those networks and provides check processing, verification and recovery solutions for small to medium sized businesses. The Company derived revenues from (i) the provision of IT services to Guardian Patch LLC, a related party (“Guardian LLC”); (ii) from the operations of the assets it acquired in the third quarter of 2017 and the first and second quarters of 2018 that include the sale of phones, phone card products, prepaid cellular phone minutes and cellular activation and (iii) from the licensing of its technology.

The unaudited consolidated financial statements are prepared by the Company, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The information furnished herein reflects all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, which in the opinion of management, are necessary to fairly state the Company’s financial position, the results of its operations, and cash flows for the periods presented. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally present in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America were omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. The results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the year ending December 31, 2018.

GopherInsight ™ is a patented (with additional patents pending), real time, heuristic (self-learning/artificial intelligence based) global mesh network and asset tracking IoT technology. GopherInsight ™ chip and software technologies, if successfully fully developed, are designed to be installed in mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc.), autonomous vehicles, robots, drones, consumer products, as well as other fixed and mobile stand-alone products. It is intended that GopherInsight ™ software applications will work in conjunction with GopherInsight ™ microchips across mobile operating systems, providing computing power, advanced database management/sharing functionalities and more. The technology under development consists of a smart microchip, mobile application software and supporting software. The system contemplates the creation of a global mesh network.

On March 29, 2016, the Company contributed all of its rights relating to its proprietary microchip that is within a sticky patch package (the “Patch”) to Guardian LLC in consideration of 50% of the profit generated by Guardian LLC and a commitment from Guardian LLC that it is responsible for investing all needed funds for the purpose of developing the Patch and related products to the Patch, as well as funding the working capital needs of the Company. On September 25, 2018, the Company entered into an agreement with Guardian LLC pursuant to which the Company purchased Guardian LLC’s 50% interest previously entered between the parties in March 2016 covering the Guardian Patch, Puzpix and Epsilon. In consideration, the Company issued Guardian 12,500,000 shares of common stock.

On September 1, 2017, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with a third party, RWJ Advanced Marketing, LLC, a Georgia corporation. The Company entered into this Asset Purchase Agreement to acquire terminals in approximately 15,000 locations by which the Company will deploy its technology. The operations consist primarily of the sale of phones and phone card products, including PINS for cell minutes, SIM cards for cell minutes, as well as gift cards. The Company incorporated a wholly-owned subsidiary, UGopherServices Corp., to operate the acquired assets.

On March 16, 2018, the Company entered into and closed an asset purchase agreement dated March 1, 2018 with ECS Prepaid LLC (“ECS”), a Missouri limited liability company, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from ECS, including, but not limited to, the processing prepaid platform, servers, POS terminals, customer list, and a processing software program.

On April 2, 2018, the Company entered into and closed an asset purchase agreement with Electronic Check Services Inc. (“Electronic Check”), a Missouri corporation, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from Electronic Check, including, but not limited to, assets associated with software that validates written check authenticity.

On April 2, 2018, the Company entered into and closed an asset purchase agreement with Central State Legal Services Inc. (“CSLS”), a Missouri corporation, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from CSLS, including, but not limited to, assets associated with the a system to recover funds from returned checks. 

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements were prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”).

Note 2 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Use of Estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The Company regularly evaluates estimates and assumptions. The Company bases its estimates and assumptions on current facts, historical experience and various other factors that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities and the accrual of costs and expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources. The actual results experienced by the Company may differ materially and adversely from the Company’s estimates. To the extent there are material differences between the estimates and the actual results, future results of operations will be affected. Significant estimates in the accompanying financial statements include useful lives of property and equipment, useful lives of intangible assets, valuation of beneficial conversion feature debt discounts, valuation of derivatives, and the valuation allowance on deferred tax assets.

Principles of Consolidation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, UGopherServices Corp, since the date of acquisition (September 1, 2017), Ugopherservices Limited (since its date of formation of February 1, 2018), an England and Wales a private limited company that is currently inactive and ECS, Electronic Check and CSLS since their respective dates of acquisition (March 1, 2018, April 2, 2018 and April 2, 2018). All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated.

Cash Equivalents

For the purpose of the statement of cash flows, cash equivalents include time deposits, certificate of deposits, and all highly-liquid debt instruments with original maturities of three months or less.

Accounts Receivable

The Company grants credit to establishments (such as convenience stores) that sell the Company’s products under credit terms that it believes are customary in the industry and do not require collateral to support customer receivables. The accounts receivable balances are generally collected within 10 days of the product sale and the Company has minimal bad debts. The Company currently does not provide an allowance for doubtful collections, which is based upon a review of outstanding receivables, historical collection information, and existing economic conditions. Normal receivable terms vary from 7-30 days after the issuance of the invoice and typically would be considered past due when the term expires. Delinquent receivables are written off based on individual credit evaluation and specific circumstances of the customer. The Company’s allowance for doubtful accounts was $0 and $0 at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively.

Inventory

Inventory is valued at the lower of the inventory’s cost (first in, first out basis) or the current market price of the inventory. Management compares the cost of inventory with its market value and an allowance is made to write down inventory to market value, if lower. At September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, all of the Company’s inventory was finished goods inventory which consisted principally of phones and phone card products, including PINS for cell minutes, SIM cards for cell minutes, as well as gift cards.

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are stated at cost. Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are charged to earnings as incurred; additions, renewals and betterments are capitalized. When property and equipment are retired or otherwise disposed of, the related cost and accumulated depreciation are removed from the respective accounts, and any gain or loss is included in operations. Depreciation of property and equipment is provided using the straight-line method for substantially all assets with estimated lives as follows:

Long-Lived Assets

The Company applies the provisions of ASC Topic 360, Property, Plant, and Equipment, which addresses financial accounting and reporting for the impairment or disposal of long-lived assets. ASC 360 requires impairment losses to be recorded on long-lived assets used in operations when indicators of impairment are present and the undiscounted cash flows estimated to be generated by those assets are less than the assets’ carrying amounts. In that event, a loss is recognized based on the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair value of the long-lived assets. Loss on long-lived assets to be disposed of is determined in a similar manner, except that fair values are reduced for the cost of disposal. Based on its review at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the Company believes there was no impairment of its long-lived assets.

Intangible Assets

The Company’s intangible assets were acquired with the acquisition of certain RWJ assets in 2017, and the acquisition of certain ECS, Electronic Check and CSLS assets in 2018 are being amortized over 60-120 months. The Company performs a test for impairment annually. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the Company performed the required impairment analysis. At September 30, 2018, the Company determined that the intangible assets associated with the acquisition of certain RWJ assets was impaired and took a charge to earnings of $5,916,667. 

Goodwill

Goodwill represents the excess of purchase price over the underlying book value of the net assets of the businesses that were acquired. Under accounting requirements, goodwill is not amortized, but is subject to annual impairment tests. The Company recorded goodwill of $950,619 related to its acquisition of certain RWJ assets in 2017, and $646,291, $254,586 and $25,000, respectively, related to its acquisition of certain ECS, Electronic Check and CSLS assets in 2018. At September 30, 2018, the Company determined that the goodwill associated with the acquisition of certain RWJ assets was impaired and took a charge to earnings of $950,619. 

Derivative Financial Instruments

The Company evaluates all of its agreements to determine if such instruments have derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded derivatives. For derivative financial instruments that are accounted for as liabilities, the derivative instrument is initially recorded at its fair value and is then re-valued at each reporting date, with changes in the fair value reported in the statements of operations. For stock-based derivative financial instruments, the Company uses a weighted-average Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model to value the derivative instruments at inception and on subsequent valuation dates. The classification of derivative instruments, including whether such instruments should be recorded as liabilities or as equity, is evaluated at the end of each reporting period. Derivative instrument liabilities are classified in the balance sheet as current or non-current based on whether or not net-cash settlement of the derivative instrument could be required within 12 months of the balance sheet date. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the Company’s only derivative financial instrument was an embedded conversion feature associated with convertible notes payable due to certain provisions that allow for a change in the conversion price based on a percentage of the Company’s stock price at the date of conversion.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

For certain of the Company’s financial instruments, including cash and equivalents, restricted cash, accounts receivable, advances to suppliers, accounts payable, accrued liabilities and short-term debt, the carrying amounts approximate their fair values due to their short maturities.

FASB ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, requires disclosure of the fair value of financial instruments held by the Company. FASB ASC Topic 825, Financial Instruments, defines fair value, and establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy for disclosures of fair value measurement that enhances disclosure requirements for fair value measures. The carrying amounts reported in the consolidated balance sheets for receivables and current liabilities each qualify as financial instruments and are a reasonable estimate of their fair values because of the short period of time between the origination of such instruments and their expected realization and their current market rate of interest. The three levels of valuation hierarchy are defined as follows:

The Company analyzes all financial instruments with features of both liabilities and equity under FASB ASC Topic 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity, and FASB ASC Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging.

For certain financial instruments, the carrying amounts reported in the balance sheets for cash and current liabilities, including convertible notes payable, each qualify as a financial instrument, and are a reasonable estimate of their fair values because of the short period of time between the origination of such instruments and their expected realization and their current market rate of interest.

The Company uses Level 2 inputs for its valuation methodology for derivative liabilities as their fair values were determined by using the Black-Scholes-Merton pricing model based on various assumptions. The Company’s derivative liabilities are adjusted to reflect fair value at each period end, with any increase or decrease in the fair value being recorded in results of operations as adjustments to fair value of derivatives.

At September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the Company identified the following liabilities that are required to be presented on the balance sheet at fair value:

Treasury Stock

Treasury stock is recorded at cost. The re-issuance of treasury shares is accounted for on a first in, first-out basis and any difference between the cost of treasury shares and the re-issuance proceeds are charged or credited to additional paid-in capital. During 2011, the Company bought back 8 post-split shares (38,000 pre-split) shares of its own shares.

Revenue Recognition

ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“Topic 606”), became effective for the Company on January 1, 2018. The Company’s revenue recognition disclosure reflects its updated accounting policies that are affected by this new standard. The Company applied the “modified retrospective” transition method for open contracts for the implementation of Topic 606. As sales are and have been primarily from IT services, sale of phones, phone card products, prepaid cellular phone minutes and cellular activation, and the Company has no significant post-delivery obligations, this new standard did not result in a material recognition of revenue on the Company’s accompanying consolidated financial statements for the cumulative impact of applying this new standard. The Company made no adjustments to its previously-reported total revenues, as those periods continue to be presented in accordance with its historical accounting practices under Topic 605, Revenue Recognition.

Revenue from providing IT services, sale of phones, phone card products, prepaid cellular phone minutes and cellular activation services are recognized under Topic 606 in a manner that reasonably reflects the delivery of its services and products to customers in return for expected consideration and includes the following elements:

These five elements, as applied to each of the Company’s revenue category, is summarized below:

Cost of Goods Sold

Cost of goods sold represents the cost of the phone, phone card products and prepaid cellular phone minutes sold by the Company. Cost of goods sold relates to products sold by the Company’s new acquired acquisitions in September 2017, March 2018 and April 2018.

Unearned revenue

Unearned revenue represents the amount received for the purchase of products that have not seen shipped to the Company’s customers. In 2018, the Company ran a pre-sales campaign for its pet tracker product and received $61,726 in unearned revenue as of September 30, 2018. In addition, as of September 30, 2018, the Company received $200,000 in connection with an intellectual property license and royalty agreement (See Note 12).

Income Taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes. ASC 740 requires a company to use the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes, whereby deferred tax assets are recognized for deductible temporary differences, and deferred tax liabilities are recognized for taxable temporary differences. Temporary differences are the differences between the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and their tax bases. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance when, in the opinion of management, it is more likely than not that some portion, or all of, the deferred tax assets will not be realized. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are adjusted for the effects of changes in tax laws and rates on the date of enactment.

Under ASC 740, a tax position is recognized as a benefit only if it is “more likely than not” that the tax position would be sustained in a tax examination, with a tax examination being presumed to occur. The amount recognized is the largest amount of tax benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized on examination. For tax positions not meeting the “more likely than not” test, no tax benefit is recorded. The Company has no material uncertain tax positions for any of the reporting periods presented.

Basic and Diluted Earnings Per Share

Earnings per share is calculated in accordance with ASC Topic 260, Earnings Per Share. Basic earnings per share (“EPS”) is based on the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. Diluted EPS is based on the assumption that all dilutive securities are converted. Dilution is computed by applying the treasury stock method. Under this method, options and warrants are assumed to be exercised at the beginning of the period (or at the time of issuance, if later), and as if funds obtained thereby were used to purchase common stock at the average market price during the period. Due to the net loss incurred potentially dilutive instruments would be anti-dilutive. Accordingly, diluted loss per share is the same as basic loss for all periods presented. The following potentially-dilutive shares were excluded from the shares used to calculate diluted earnings per share as their inclusion would be anti-dilutive.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In June 2018, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) ASU 2018-07, Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting, which simplifies the accounting for share-based payments granted to nonemployees for goods and services and aligns most of the guidance on such payments to nonemployees with the requirements for share-based payments granted to employees. ASU 2018-07 is effective on January 1, 2019. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact of this ASU on its financial statements.

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-01, Business Combinations (Topic 805) Clarifying the Definition of a Business. The amendments in this update clarify the definition of a business with the objective of adding guidance to assist entities with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions or disposals of assets or businesses. The definition of a business affects many areas of accounting including acquisitions, disposals, goodwill, and consolidation. The guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017 and should be applied prospectively on or after the effective date. The adoption of this ASU did not have an impact on its financial statements.

In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Restricted Cash, which requires restricted cash to be presented with cash and cash equivalents on the statement of cash flows and disclosure of how the statement of cash flows reconciles to the balance sheet if restricted cash is shown separately from cash and cash equivalents on the balance sheet. ASU 2016-18 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted. The adoption of this ASU did not have an impact on its financial statements.

In October 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-16, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Intra-Entity Transfer of Assets Other than Inventory, which requires the recognition of the income tax consequences of an intra-entity transfer of an asset, other than inventory, when the transfer occurs. ASU 2016-16 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact of this ASU on its financial statements.

In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230), Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments. ASU 2016-15 provides guidance for targeted changes with respect to how cash receipts and cash payments are classified in the statements of cash flows, with the objective of reducing diversity in practice. ASU 2016-15 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted. The adoption of this ASU did not have an impact on its financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). ASU 2016-02 requires lessees to recognize lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and requires expanded disclosures about leasing arrangements. ASU 2016-02 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018 and interim periods in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. The Company is in the process of evaluating the impact of this ASU on its financial statements.

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers.  ASU 2014-09 is a comprehensive revenue recognition standard that will supersede nearly all existing revenue recognition guidance under current U.S. GAAP and replace it with a principle-based approach for determining revenue recognition.  ASU 2014-09 will require that companies recognize revenue based on the value of transferred goods or services as they occur in the contract.  The ASU also will require additional disclosure about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from customer contracts, including significant judgments and changes in judgments and assets recognized from costs incurred to obtain or fulfill a contract.  ASU 2014-09 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017.   Early adoption is permitted only in annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods therein.  Entities will be able to transition to the standard either retrospectively or as a cumulative-effect adjustment as of the date of adoption.  The Company adopted this ASU beginning on January 1, 2018 and used the modified retrospective method of adoption. The adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements and disclosures.

Management does not believe that any recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards could have a material effect on the accompanying financial statements. As new accounting pronouncements are issued, we will adopt those that are applicable under the circumstances.

Note 3 - Acquisitions

On March 16, 2018, the Company entered into and closed an asset purchase agreement dated March 1, 2018 with ECS, a Missouri limited liability company, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from ECS, including, but not limited to, the processing prepaid platform, servers, POS terminals, customer list, a processing software program and goodwill, in consideration of $1,100,000 of which $100,000 was paid on the Closing Date and the balance is to be paid pursuant to a secured promissory note in the amount of $1,000,000. In addition, the Company issued 500,000 shares of common stock of the Company and warrants to purchase 500,000 shares of common stock that are exercisable for a period of five years at a fixed exercise price of $1.85 per share. The note is secured by the assets acquired by the Company from ECS and the Company is required to make ten equal principal payments of $100,000 commencing on April 15, 2018. The Company may prepay the note at any time without penalty.

On April 2, 2018, the Company entered into and closed an asset purchase agreement with Electronic Check, a Missouri corporation, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from Electronic Check, including, but not limited to, assets associated with software that validates written check authenticity. The purchase price was $75,000 in cash, and the Company issued 250,000 shares of common stock of the Company and warrants to purchase 250,000 shares of common stock that are exercisable for a period of five years at a fixed exercise price of $2.70 per share.

On April 2, 2018, the Company entered into and closed an asset purchase agreement with CSLS, a Missouri corporation, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from CSLS, including, but not limited to, assets associated with a system to recover funds from returned checks, for $25,000 in cash.

The Company entered into these asset purchase agreements to acquire the software needed to process transactions for its prepaid business, and to acquire additional terminal locations by which the Company will deploy its technology.

A summary of the purchase price and the purchase price allocations at fair value is shown below.

a. the fair value of the 500,000 shares of common stock was calculated based on the closing market price of the Company’s common stock at the date of acquisition.

b. the fair value of the 500,000 warrants was determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:

c. the fair value of the 250,000 shares of common stock was calculated based on the closing market price of the Company’s common stock at the date of acquisition.

d. the fair value of the 250,000 warrants was determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:

The revenue from the acquisition of assets included in the results of operations from the date of acquisition to September 30, 2018 was $18,877,936.

The unaudited pro forma information below present statement of operations data as if the acquisition of assets had taken place on January 1, 2017.

Note 4 - Property and Equipment, Net

Property and equipment consisted of the following as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017:

Depreciation expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 was $79,814 and $6,538 respectively.

Note 5 – Intangible Assets, Net

The following are the intangible assets at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017:

Intangible assets are being amortized as follows: Leased locations - 84 months; Technology – 60 months; and Tradename and Customer relationships – 120 months.

Amortization expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 was $1,029,526 and $0, respectively.

At September 30, 2018, the Company determined that the intangible assets associated with the acquisition of certain RWJ assets was impaired and took a charge to earnings of $5,916,667. 

The estimated future amortization expense related to intangible assets is as follows:

Note 6 – Investment in Mobiquity Technologies, Inc.

On September 4, 2018, the Company and Mobiquity Technologies, Inc., a New York corporation (“Mobiquity”) entered an agreement pursuant to which the parties exchanged equity interest in each of the companies. In accordance with the agreement, the Company received 1,000 shares of Mobiquity’s restricted Series AAAA Preferred Stock (the “Mobiquity Preferred Stock”) in consideration of Company’s concurrent sale and issuance to Mobiquity of 10,000,000 shares of Company’s common stock. The shares of Mobiquity Preferred Stock are convertible into an aggregate of up to 100,000,000 shares of Mobiquity common stock (the “Mobiquity Common Stock”) and 150,000,000 common stock purchase warrants (the “Mobiquity Warrants”). The Mobiquity Warrants shall have a term of 5-years from the date of grant and shall be exercisable at a price of $0.12 per share and the shares of Mobiquity Preferred Stock shall not be convertible into shares of Mobiquity Common Stock and the Mobiquity Warrants shall not be contemporaneously granted until after Mobiquity’s Board of Directors and stockholders shall have increased the authorized number of shares of Mobiquity’s common stock to a number sufficient to accommodate a reserve in the Company’s favor of 250,000,000 shares of Mobiquity’s common stock. The Mobiquity Preferred Stock shall have immediate voting rights equal to the number of shares of Mobiquity Common Stock into which they may be converted, not including the shares of Mobiquity’s common stock underlying the Mobiquity Warrants. As a result of this transaction, the Company has an approximate 21% interest in Mobiquity. 

The Company accounts for its investment in Mobiquity using the equity method of accounting.

Information regarding Mobiquity as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 is below:

Note 7 – Convertible Notes Payable

Convertible notes payable at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 consist of the following:

Power Up Lending Group Ltd.

On October 2, 2017, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with Power Up Lending Group Ltd., an accredited investor (“Power Up”) pursuant to which the Company issued to Power Up a Convertible Promissory Note (the “Power Note No. 1”) in the aggregate principal amount of $80,000. The Power Note No. 1 has a maturity date of July 10, 2018 and the Company has agreed to pay interest on the unpaid principal balance of the Power Note No. 1 at the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum from the date on which the Power Note No. 1 is issued until the same becomes due and payable, whether at maturity or upon acceleration or by prepayment or otherwise. The Company shall have the right to prepay the Power Note, provided it makes a payment to Power Up as set forth in the Power Note No. 1.

The outstanding principal amount of the Power Note No. 1 is convertible at any time and from time to time at the election of Power Up during the period beginning on the date that is 180 days following the issue date into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price equal to 61% of the lowest trading price with a 15 day look back immediately preceding the date of conversion. In addition, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default (as defined in the Power Note), the Power Note No. 1 shall become immediately due and payable and the Company shall pay to Power Up, in full satisfaction of its obligations hereunder, additional amounts as set forth in the Power Note No. 1.

As of March 6, 2018, the Company has paid off in full all principal, interest and penalties with respect to the Power Up Note No. 1, and there are no further obligations owed with respect to such note. 

On September 28, 2018, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with Power Up pursuant to which the Company issued to Power Up a Convertible Promissory Note (the “Power Note No. 2”) in the aggregate principal amount of $243,600 for a purchase price of $203,000. The Power Note No. 2 has a maturity date of December 24, 2019 and the Company has agreed to pay interest on the unpaid principal balance of the Power Note No. 2 at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum from the date on which the Power Note No. 2 is issued until the same becomes due and payable, whether at maturity or upon acceleration or by prepayment or otherwise. The Company shall have the right to prepay the Power Note No. 2, provided it makes a payment to Power Up as set forth in the Power Note No. 2.

The outstanding principal amount of the Power Note No. 2 may not be converted prior to the period beginning on the date that is 180 days following the issue date. Following the 180 ^th day, Power Up may convert the Power Note No. 2 into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price equal to 85% of the lowest trading price with a 15 day look back immediately preceding the date of conversion. In addition, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default (as defined in the Power Note No. 2), the Power Note No. 2 shall become immediately due and payable and the Company shall pay to Power Up, in full satisfaction of its obligations hereunder, additional amounts as set forth in the Power Note No. 2.

Bellridge Capital LLC

On March 2, 2018, the Company entered into and closed a Securities Purchase Agreement with Bellridge Capital, LLC (“Bellridge”) pursuant to which Bellridge invested $750,000 into the Company in consideration of a 10% Convertible Debenture (the “Bellridge Debenture”) and common stock purchase warrants to acquire an aggregate of 500,000 shares of common stock exercisable for a period of five years at an exercise price of $2.35 per share. The Bellridge Debenture bears interest of 10% and is payable March 1, 2019. The Bellridge Debenture is convertible into shares of common stock at $0.90 per share subject to antidilution protection. During an event of default, the conversion price in effect on any conversion date means, as of any conversion date or other date of determination, shall be 35% of the lowest trading price for the Company’s common stock during the 20 trading Days immediately preceding the delivery of a notice of conversion. Bellridge has agreed to restrict its ability to convert the Bellridge Debenture or exercise its Common Stock Purchase Warrants and receive shares of common stock such that the number of shares of common stock held by it and its affiliates after such conversion or exercise does not exceed 4.99% of the then issued and outstanding shares of common stock.

On March 2, 2018, the Company delivered 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock to an escrow agent. The 1,000,000 escrow shares are to be utilized for the purpose of limited price protection. If, beginning on the 7^th monthly anniversary of the issuance of the 1,000,000 escrow shares, Bellridge has sold shares issuable upon conversion of the Bellridge Debenture at a sales price of less than $1.10 per share, then that number of shares shall be released from escrow to Bellridge as a limited make whole using the following formula:

(($1.00 – closing price on 1 ^st day of each monthly anniversary beginning on the 1 ^st day of the 7 ^th month (and continuing monthly until all shares are sold) / closing price of the 1 ^st monthly day in question) * number of shares sold at a price less than $1.10.

As long as the Company is not in default of the Bellridge Debenture or in breach of the Securities Purchase Agreement, at any time during which Bellridge owns the Bellridge Debenture, Bellridge commits to limit in the aggregate all sales of the shares of common stock issued upon conversion of the Bellridge Debenture and the related Common Stock Purchase Warrant to the greater of not more than (i) 10.00% of the daily trading volume for the Company’s common stock as reported for that day or (ii) $35,000. Breach of this leak-out provision will be considered a material breach by Bellridge.

In connection with the Bellridge Debenture, the Company issued 500,000 warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock with an exercise price of $2.35.

The Company first determined the value of the convertible note and the fair value of the detachable warrants issued in connection with this transaction. The estimated value of the warrants of $827,428 and was determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:

The face amount of the convertible note of $750,000 was proportionately allocated to the convertible note and the warrant in the amount of $356,593 and $393,407, respectively. The amount allocated to the warrants of $393,407 was recorded as a discount to the convertible note and as additional paid in capital. The value of the convertible note was then allocated between the convertible note and the beneficial conversion feature, which amounted to $0 and $356,593, respectively. The combined total discount is $750,000, and will be amortized over the year life of the convertible note.

On April 9, 2018, Bellridge elected to exercise the Bellridge Option, and as such the Company and Bellridge closed the second financing as contemplated by the Securities Purchase Agreement entered with Bellridge pursuant to which Bellridge invested an additional $750,000 into the Company in consideration of a 10% Convertible Debenture (the “Second Bellridge Debenture” and together with the First Bellridge Debenture, the “Bellridge Debenture”) and common stock purchase warrants to acquire an aggregate of 500,000 shares of common stock exercisable for a period of five years at an exercise price of $2.35 per share (the “Second Bellridge Warrant” and together with the First Bellridge Warrant, the “Bellridge Warrant”) The Bellridge Debenture bears interest of 10% and is payable one year from issuance. The First Bellridge Debenture and the Second Bellridge Debenture are convertible into shares of common stock at $0.90 per share and $1.00 per share, respectively, subject to limited antidilution protection.

During an event of default, the conversion price for the Bellridge Debenture in effect on any conversion date means, as of any conversion date or other date of determination, shall be 35% of the lowest trading price for the Company’s common stock during the 20 trading Days immediately preceding the delivery of a notice of conversion. Bellridge has agreed to restrict its ability to convert the Bellridge Debenture or exercise the Bellridge Warrant and receive shares of common stock such that the number of shares of common stock held by it and its affiliates after such conversion or exercise does not exceed 4.99% of the then issued and outstanding shares of common stock.

In connection with both closings, the Company delivered 1,000,000 shares of common stock to an escrow agent. The escrow shares are to be utilized for the purpose of limited price protection. If, beginning on the 7 ^th monthly anniversary of the issuance of the escrow shares, Bellridge has sold shares issuable upon conversion of the Bellridge Debenture at a sales price of less than $1.10 per share, then that number of shares shall be released from escrow to Bellridge as a limited make whole using the following formula:

(($1.00 – closing price on 1 ^st day of each monthly anniversary beginning on the 1 ^st day of the 7 ^th month (and continuing monthly until all shares are sold) / closing price of the 1 ^st monthly day in question) * number of shares sold at a price less than $1.10.

As long as the Company is not in default of the Bellridge Debenture or in breach of the Securities Purchase Agreement, at any time during which Bellridge owns the Bellridge Debenture, Bellridge commits to limit in the aggregate all sales of the shares of common stock issued upon conversion of the Bellridge Debenture and the related Common Stock Purchase Warrant to the greater of not more than (i) 10.00% of the daily trading volume for the Company’s common stock as reported for that day or (ii) $35,000. Breach of this leak-out provision will be considered a material breach by Bellridge.

In connection with the Second Bellridge Debenture, the Company issued 500,000 warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock with an exercise price of $2.35.

The Company first determined the value of the convertible note and the fair value of the detachable warrants issued in connection with this transaction. The estimated value of the warrants of $2,037,713 and was determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:

The face amount of the convertible note of $750,000 was proportionately allocated to the convertible note and the warrant in the amount of $548,222 and $201,778, respectively. The amount allocated to the warrants of $548,222 was recorded as a discount to the convertible note and as additional paid in capital. The value of the convertible note was then allocated between the convertible note and the beneficial conversion feature, which amounted to $0 and $201,778, respectively. The combined total discount is $750,000, and will be amortized over the year life of the convertible note.

The Bellridge debentures prohibit the Company from entering into variable rate transactions. The issuance of the Power Up note on September 28, 2018 may have resulted in an event of default on the Bellridge debentures which would result in the conversion price on the Bellridge debentures going from a fixed rate conversion price to a variable conversion price. The variable conversion price in effect until an event of default can be cured is a 35% discount to the lowest trading price 20 days prior to conversion. As of the date of this filing, the Company had not received a notice of default from Bellridge. At September 30, 2018, the Company accounted for the Bellridge debentures using a variable conversion price and recorded a derivative liability of $2,440,719 related to the Bellridge debentures.

Discounts on convertible notes

The Company recognized interest expense of $849,802 during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 related to the amortization of the debt discount. The unamortized debt discount at September 30, 2018 is $948,175.

A roll-forward of the convertible note from December 31, 2017 to September 30, 2018 is below:

Note 8 - Derivative Liability

Certain of the convertible notes payable discussed in Note 7 have a conversion price that can be adjusted based on the Company’s stock price which results in the conversion feature being recorded as a derivative liability.

The fair value of the derivative liability is recorded and shown separately under current liabilities. Changes in the fair value of the derivative liability is recorded in the statement of operations under other income (expense).

The Company uses a weighted average Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model with the following assumptions to measure the fair value of derivative liability at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017:

The following table represents the Company’s derivative liability activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2018:

Note 9- Note Payable

In connection with the acquisition RWJ in September 2017, the Company issued a note payable. The note accrues interest at 3.5% per annum is due on December 31, 2019 and is secured by the assets purchased in the acquisition. This note payable of $2,600,000 is classified as long-term in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet.

In connection with the acquisition of ECS as discussed in Note 3, the Company issued a note payable. The note is to be repaid in monthly installment payments of $100,000 with the final payment due on January 15, 2019. As of September 30, 2018, seven such payments have occurred. This note with a remaining balance of $392,619 at September 30, 2018 is secured by the assets purchased in the acquisition and is classified as short-term in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet.

Note 10- Stockholders’ Equity

Common Stock

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the Company had the following transactions in its common stock:

Eagle Equities, LLC

On December 29, 2017, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with Eagle Equities, LLC (“Eagle”) pursuant to which Eagle agreed to purchase up to 2,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock for a purchase price of $1,500,000 or $0.75 per share. The closing occurred on December 29, 2017 with respect to the funding of $1,000,000 resulting in the issuance of 1,333,334 shares of common stock (the “First Closing Shares”). Eagle agreed to potentially purchase an additional 666,666 shares of common stock (the “Second Closing Shares”) on or before September 30, 2018 for a purchase price of $500,000 subject to various closing conditions. On March 21, 2018, Eagle purchased an additional 666,666 shares of common stock for a purchase price of $500,000.

The Company placed an aggregate of 2,000,000 shares of common stock (the “Escrow Shares”) in escrow to be utilized for the purpose of limited price protection. If, beginning on the seventh month anniversary of the issuance of the First Closing Shares and Second Closing Shares, Eagle has sold any of the First Closing Shares or the Second Closing Shares at a sales price of less than $0.72 per share, then that number of Escrow Shares shall be released from escrow to Eagle as a limited make whole which shall be determined by using the following formula:

($0.72 – Closing Price) / Closing Price) * number of shares sold at a price less than $0.72.

Closing Price is price on the first day of each monthly anniversary beginning on the first day of the 7th month (and continuing monthly until the earlier of January 31, 2019 or until all shares are sold).

The Company shall deposit an additional 2,000,000 shares of common stock into escrow which shares shall only be released to Eagle, if, prior to January 31, 2019 (while Eagle continues to hold shares), the Company issues shares at an issue price of less than $0.30 per share.

The Company also issued Eagle a Common Stock Purchase Warrant to acquire 666,666 shares of common stock exercisable for three years at an exercise price of $2.00 per share (the “Eagle Warrant”). Unless otherwise agreed in writing by both the Company and Eagle, at no time will Eagle exercise any amount of the Eagle Warrant to purchase common stock that would result in Eagle owning more than 9.9% of the common stock outstanding of the Company. The Eagle Warrant contains standard anti-dilution protections.

On May 4, 2018, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with Eagle pursuant to which Eagle agreed to purchase up to 1,212,120 shares of the Company’s common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $2,000,000 or $1.65 per share. The closing occurred on May 4, 2018 with respect to the funding of $500,000 resulting in the issuance of 303,030 shares of common stock and on May 25, 2018 with respect to the funding of $500,000 resulting in the issuance of an additional 303,030 shares of common stock. Additional closings of $500,000 for 303,030 shares are scheduled to close on June 15, 2018 and July 5, 2018 each. The additional closings on June 15, 2018 and July 5, 2018 have not occurred.

The Company agreed to place 303,030 shares of common stock each tranche (the “Escrow Shares”) in escrow to be utilized for the purpose of limited price protection. If, beginning on the seventh month anniversary of the closing of each tranche, Eagle has sold any of its shares of common stock at a sales price of less than $1.65 per share, then that number of Escrow Shares shall be released from escrow to Eagle as a limited make whole which shall be determined by using the following formula:

($1.65 – Closing Price) / Closing Price) * number of shares sold at a price less than $1.65.

Closing Price is price on the first day of each monthly anniversary beginning on the first day of the 7th month (and continuing monthly until the earlier of June 4, 2019 or until all shares are sold.

Series D Preferred Shares

Per the terms of the Exclusive License Agreement and in consideration of the licensing agreement signed between the Company and Hermes Roll LLC, the Company issued 100,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock of the Company (the “Preferred Shares”). The preferred stock has a value of $ 1,000 based upon the cost of the license; due to the holder of license is the related party of the Company. The Preferred Shares have no liquidation rights. The Holder of the Preferred Shares will be entitled to vote on all matters submitted to shareholders of the Company on an as-converted basis. The Preferred Shares have a conversion price of $0.01 (the “Conversion Price”) and a stated value of $10.00 per share (the “Stated Value”). Each Preferred Share is convertible, at the option of the Holder, into such number of shares of common stock of the Company as determined by dividing the Stated Value by the Conversion Price.

On January 23, 2018, Reko Holdings, LLC converted 66,000 shares of its Series D Preferred Stock into 66,000,000 restricted common shares.

As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, there are 0 and 66,000 shares of Series D Preferred Shares outstanding, respectively.

Series G Preferred Shares

On December 29, 2017, Guardian LLC converted all of the principal and interest of the Note, into 2,000,000 shares of Series G Preferred Stock. The Series G Preferred Stock is entitled to vote on an as-converted basis, automatically converts to common stock upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up and the Company may not declare a dividend until the Series G Preferred Stock has received a dividend. Each share of Series G Preferred Stock is convertible into one shares of common stock of the Company and contain standard anti-dilution rights.

On August 30, 2018, Guardian LLC converted the 2,000,000 shares of Series G Preferred Stock into 2,000,000 shares of common stock.

As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, there are 0 and 2,000,000 shares of Series G Preferred Shares outstanding, respectively.

Warrants

The following is a summary of warrant activity since December 31, 2017:

The exercise price for warrant outstanding and exercisable at September 30, 2018:

During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the Company issued:

The fair value of the warrants listed above was determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:

Note 11 - Related Parties

Related parties are natural persons or other entities that have the ability, directly or indirectly, to control another party or exercise significant influence over the party in making financial and operating decisions. Related parties include other parties that are subject to common control or that are subject to common significant influences. All of the Company’s revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and $135,000 of the Company’s revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 is from IT services delivered to a single customer, Guardian LLC, which is a related party to the Company. The revenue generated from Guardian LLC was paid to the Company via a reduction in the amount that the Company owes Guardian LLC that is classified as Due to Guardian LLC in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet. All expenses in the Company’s operations were incurred as a consequence of delivering Company’s obligations under the joint venture agreement between the parties to commercialize the technology that is being developed by the LLC.

On April 22, 2015, Michael Murray was appointed by the Company as the Chairman of the Board, CEO, and President of the Company. Mr. Murray resigned as an executive officer on September 1, 2017. On March 4, 2015, the Company entered into a Territorial License Agreement with Hermes Roll, LLC (“Hermes”), which is the basis for the Company’s current operations. Mr. Murray was the owner of 9,900 shares of Series D Preferred Stock of the Company that was convertible at Mr. Murray’s election into 9,900,000 shares of common stock. To date, Mr. Murray has converted all of his Series D Preferred Stock into common shares of the Company.

On June 30, 2015, the Company appointed Dr. Danny Rittman as Chief Technical Officer and a board member. On August 20, 2015, the Company entered into an agreement with Dr. Rittman pursuant to which the parties agreed that (i) all inventions, improvements and developments made or conceived by Dr. Rittman, either solely or in collaboration with others pertaining to Company’s business, will be the property of Company, and (ii) Dr. Rittman will assign to the Company any and all intellectual property related to the Company’s consumer heuristic technology platform. The agreement with Dr. Rittman was contingent upon the Company funding its commitments per the June 16, 2015 - Amended and Restated Territorial License Agreement. Failure of the Company providing this funding, in full, or partially, will automatically terminate any GOPH ownership of the intellectual properties. Dr. Rittman is the Chief Technology Officer and a director of the Company as well as the Chairman of the Company’s Advisory Board, which is in formation. Dr. Rittman and Mr. Murray jointly own 9,900 shares of Series D Preferred Stock of the Company that is convertible at Dr. Rittman’s or Mr. Murray’s election into 9,900,000 shares of common stock. To date, Mr. Rittman has converted all of his Series D Preferred Stock into common shares of the Company.

On August 20, 2015, the Company entered into an agreement with Dr. Rittman pursuant to which the parties agreed that (i) all inventions, improvements and developments made or conceived by Dr. Rittman, either solely or in collaboration with others pertaining to Company’s business, will be the property of Company, and (ii) Dr. Rittman agreed to assign to the Company any and all intellectual property related to the Company’s consumer heuristic technology platform, subject to certain conditions. The Company has expensed the stated value of that intellectual property in these financial statements.

On or around March 18, 2016 the Company and Dr. Danny Rittman entered into an agreement intended to clarify the relationship between Dr. Rittman and the Company and the ownership of certain technology in connection with certain agreements previously entered into between Company and Dr. Rittman and with third parties. Specifically, the Company entered into that certain Territorial License Agreement with Hermes dated March 4, 2015, which such agreement was amended to expand the related territorial license to a worldwide license pursuant to that certain Amended and Restated Territorial License Agreement dated June 16, 2015 (the “Amended and Restated Territorial License Agreement”), and that certain Letter Agreement (the “Letter Agreement”) entered into between Dr. Rittman and the Company dated August 20, 2015. The aforementioned agreements were tied to the funding of the Company in the minimum amount of $5,000,000 (the “Required Funding”) and the assignment to the Company and/or ownership by the Company of all past, present and future technology in the form of intellectual property, including, but not limited to patents, trademarks, domains, applications, social media pages (e.g. Twitter, LinkedIn and landing pages) (collectively, the “IP”), which such IP was paid for exclusively by Dr. Rittman and/or his affiliated companies, was contingent upon the Company obtaining the Required Funding by no later than October 30, 2015 (the “Contingency”). Accordingly, it was agreed to by the parties that all inventions, improvements and developments made or conceived by the Dr. Rittman, either solely or in collaboration with others pertaining to Company’s business, would be the property of the Company subject to the Contingency. In the event the Contingency was not met, the Letter Agreement would be cancelled and rendered null and void. The Company acknowledged that the Company did not meet the Contingency, technically resulting in the cancellation of the Letter Agreement and rendering the Letter Agreement null and void. Moreover, the Company failed to meet its obligations under the Amended and Restated Territorial License Agreement, including the further development of the consumer heuristic technology platform, thereby creating a vacuum in its development in all aspects, including the ability to obtain funding, resulting in the need for Dr. Rittman’s partners to perform the necessary development work related to the above agreements.

In March 2016, the Company and Dr. Danny Rittman, Co-Chairman, CTO and a shareholder, entered into an agreement intended to clarify the relationship between Dr. Rittman and the Company and the ownership of certain technology in connection with certain agreements previously entered into between Company and Dr. Rittman and with third parties. Prior to these agreements, the Company is the exclusive license holder for certain intellectual property relating to Hermes’ system and method for scheduling categorized deliverables, according to demand, at the customer’s location based on smartphone application and/or via the internet. As a result of these agreements, the Company shall remain an exclusive licensee per the terms of the original License Agreement and will develop the first products with Dr. Rittman and his partners.

On April 6, 2018, the Company and Danny Rittman, Chief Technology Officer and a Director of the Company, agreed to amend his employment agreement pursuant to which he will receive salary at the rate of $250,000 annually payable in equal increments of $15,000 per month. An additional $70,000 shall be payable within 15 days of the end of the calendar year.

On March 29, 2016, Gopher contributed all of its rights relating to its proprietary microchip that is within a sticky patch package (the “Patch”) to Guardian LLC in consideration of 50% of the profit generated by Guardian LLC (the “Joint Venture”). Guardian LLC is responsible for investing all needed funds for the purpose of developing the Patch and related products to the Patch. In addition, Guardian LLC is required to provide short term loans to Gopher on an as needed basis secured by Gopher’s economic interest in the Joint Venture. The Company will provide IT services to Guardian LLC for a monthly fee. Dr. Rittman has signed an amendment employment agreement with the Company.

The Company is the exclusive license holder for certain intellectual property relating to GopherInsight technology. The Company has assigned all its rights as they relate to the Guardian Patch to Guardian LLC as consideration for the JV. Guardian LLC has commenced development of the products. Certain private investors will provide all initial funding to the Company via the LLC for product development. Guardian LLC will fund the development, and the Company will provide IT services via Dr. Rittman for a monthly fee. Dr. Rittman has signed an amendment employment agreement with the Company. As the Company is not a member of Guardian LLC, the Company and Guardian LLC have formed a Joint Venture (“JV”) for the purposes of developing and marketing the Patch. Guardian LLC will be responsible for funding the development of the Patch. The Company will not need be required to invest funds in said JV. The Company responsibilities will be limited to the marketing of the product, where the marketing budget will be funded by Guardian LLC. Moreover, Guardian LLC has committed to provide the Company with working capital as needed. The Company has assigned and pledged to the LLC all its license derivative rights as they pertain to the Patch only. Dr. Rittman may be offered membership rights at some point in the future with Guardian LLC, with which the Company is a JV partner, but is not equity member. The Company has agreed with Guardian LLC that the same JV principles of the Guardian LLC for the patch will apply for the other two products (Epsilon and Puzpix) which will be vested under designated LLCs that will be incorporated by the LLC members. During the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, $135,000 and $135,000, respectively, of the Company’s revenue was related to IT service provided to the LLC for Dr. Rittman services, in connection with the development of the Patch.

On July 21, 2016 members of the Guardian LLC, together with Dr. Rittman, incorporated Alpha EDA, LLC (“Alpha”). The members of the LLC appointed Dr. Rittman as the manager of Alpha. The Company, the LLC and Alpha have agreed that all Epsilon Rights, as well as Puzpix rights, will be assigned to Alpha. Alpha and the Company entered into a JV agreement similar to the Patch Joint Venture agreement (as described above), whereby Alpha will fund all of its operational and developmental needs (software development, support, marketing and administrative), and the profits of Alpha will be distributed equally to the two equal Joint venture partners, Guardian LLC and the Company. Alpha will hold all intellectual property rights related to software. Currently, three products will be owned by Alpha – the Epsilon software, the Puzpix social game and the Guardian Pack application. The Company and its technology licensing partners, Guardian LLC and Alpha, are preparing to introduce said new products (Epsilon, Guardian Pack & PuzPix) to the market beginning in 2018, and the Sphere during the second half of fiscal 2017. Certain problems caused by the need to miniaturize both the chip design and the battery caused a delay in the rollout from its planned launch during the first half of the year. The Epsilon product will be presented for time-based license agreements utilizing a designated website on top of customary distributing channels for the product. Epsilon is under confidential evaluation agreement with third party.

On September 25, 2018, the Company entered into a Joint Venture Interest Purchase Agreement with Guardian, LLC pursuant to which the Company purchased Guardian LLC’s 50% interest in a joint venture (the “JV Interest”) previously entered between the parties in March 2016 covering the Guardian Patch, Puzpix and Epsilon. In consideration for the JV Interest, the Company issued Guardian 12,500,000 shares of common stock. During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the Company took a charge to earnings of $11,750,000 related to the purchase of Guardian LLC’s 50% JV Interest.

On September 14, 2018, the Company and Dr. Rittman entered into a letter agreement confirming that the Company is the owner of all intellectual property developed by Dr. Rittman relating to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence enabled mobile technologies, including a global platform with both mobile and fixed solutions, commencing June 16, 2015 and continuing until Dr. Rittman’s employment agreement is terminated.

During 2016, the Company relocated its headquarters to 2500 Broadway, Suite F-125, Santa Monica, California. The Company paid approximately $5,000 per month in rent for this office space, and paid a $1,979 security deposit that is classified in our financial statements contained herein as a prepaid expense. The lease is being paid for by the Guardian LLC via reimbursement. The Company moved into smaller office space during the quarter, and its security deposit was adjusted downward to cover the smaller space in April 2016. The Company believes its current facilities will be adequate for the foreseeable future.

The Company has commenced development, and the Company has completed the Statement of Work (SOW) for the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) survey to deploy the Company’s Guardian Global Tracking Device within the continental US. The Company has also completed their transmitters/transceivers modules feasibility research. Although the Company can use open channels, and therefore is not required to comply with various FCC regulations relevant to the system, the Company has chosen to comply, and is complying with FCC regulations. The FCC regulates the limits of potentially harmful interference to licensed transmitters due to low power unlicensed transmitters. The Guardian Patch/Sphere system consists of advanced security protocols in order to maintain the global, private, fully-secured network. In addition, the Guardian Patch device needs to perform communication tasks across the globe providing breakthrough tracking features. The Company and its technology licensing partner, Guardian LLC, successfully completed thorough research that involved security, performance and FCC regulations compliance. Based on this research, a set of particular frequencies was chosen to be used by Guardian LLC. By the end of this year, the Company completed the design and construction of the Guardian Patch/Sphere circuit prototype device. The Company has completed the construction of 10 prototype units, and performed intensive testing program to be tested as a complete system in designated areas by the Company. On December 1, 2016, Guardian LLC issued Statement of Work for the Placement and Development of Guardian Sphere and its Base System. For this project, Guardian LLC has assembled a team of eight, including a Project Manager, CTO, digital and software engineers, a specialist algorithm mathematician and project leader. This team was assembled by Guardian LLC, and is based in the USA, Europe and Asia. Per the Joint Venture agreement, Guardian LLC is funding the SOW project through its sources, while the Company’s portion of the cost is $67,000 and due to the vendor on August 15, 2017. Guardian took full responsibility for all amounts due to this vendor. The Company intends to enter a new SOW for the purpose of creating fully-commercial products utilizing the manufacturers that it has identified.

On June 20, 2016, two holders (the “Preferred Stock Holders”) of an aggregate of 2,400 shares of Series D Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Shares”) of the Company converted the Preferred Shares into an aggregate of 2,400,000 shares of common stock of the Company at $0.01 per share. The Preferred Stock Holders are executive officers and directors of the Company.

On August 9, 2016, two holders (the “Preferred Stock Holders”) of an aggregate of 17,400 shares of Series D Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Shares”) of the Company executed conversion notices to convert the Preferred Shares into an aggregate of 17,400,000 shares of common stock of the Company at $0.01 per share. The Preferred Stock Holders are executive officers and directors of the Company.

Effective August 15, 2016, the Employment Agreement of Mansour Khatib, our CMO, was amended and restated as follows: Upon the Company generating $1,000,000 in revenue during any three (3) month period (the “Threshold Requirement”), the Executive will receive salary at the rate of $100,000 annually (the “Base Salary”); provided, however, that that Company shall pay to Executive $5,000 per month (the “Monthly Salary Advance”) commencing on August 15, 2016, which such Monthly Salary Advance shall be an advance on the Base Salary and shall continue to be paid to Executive until such time that the Company launches its GopherInsight™ technology into the consumer markets. Once the Threshold Requirement is met, the Base Salary will be payable in equal increments not less often than monthly in arrears and in any event consistent with the Company’s payroll policy and practices. The Base Salary of the Executive may from time to time be increased, but not decreased, by the Board, in its absolute discretion, including potential bonuses.”

Since April 2016, Guardian LLC has provided loans to the Company for the Company’s working capital purposes, outside of its commitment to develop the Patch, in the aggregate amount of $660,132 (the “Loans”). On May 23, 2017, the Company entered into a Conversion Agreement with Guardian LLC pursuant to which the parties agreed to convert the Loans provided by Guardian LLC to the Company into a Convertible Promissory Note in the principal amount of $660,132 (the “Note”).

The Note bears interest at 6%, matures May 30, 2019 and is convertible into the Company’s common stock, at Guardian LLC’s option, at a conversion price equal to 50% of the lowest closing price for the common stock on the principal market during the ten consecutive trading days immediately preceding the conversion date, which, in no event, will be less than $0.01 per share. Guardian LLC has agreed to restrict their ability to convert the Note and receive shares of common stock such that the number of shares of common stock held by them in the aggregate and their affiliates after such conversion or exercise does not exceed 4.9% of the then issued and outstanding shares of common stock.

Guardian LLC (the “Note Holder”) understands that the Company may be seeking additional capital or funding and believes that the lock-up and leak-out restrictions and provisions, as further described herein, will improve the Company’s prospects for obtaining additional financing and thus improving the overall financial condition of the Company. As such on or around June 26, 2017 the Company and the Note Holder entered into a lock-up and leak-out:

On December 29, 2017, all the principal and accrued interest were converted into 2,000,000 share of Series G preferred stock.

On September 1, 2017, the Company entered into and closed an Asset Purchase Agreement with a third party, RWJ Advanced Marketing, LLC (“RWJ”), a Georgia corporation, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from RWJ, including inventory, terminals, licenses and permits and intangible assets. At closing, the Company and Mr. Greg Bauer entered into an Employment Agreement pursuant to which Mr. Bauer was retained as Chief Executive Officer for a term of one year, subject to an automatic extension, unless terminated, in consideration of a base salary of $250,000 and a bonus of 10% of net profit generated by the assets acquired. Mr. Bauer was also appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company. As of the closing date, Mr. Murray resigned as Chief Executive Officer of the Company but will remain as a director of the Company. Mr. Bauer, since 2004 through present, has served as executive director with W.L. Petrey Wholesale, Inc. where he was in charge of the UGO/Preway operations. Mr. Bauer holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Maryland College Park. Mr. Bauer is veteran of the United States Navy and was honorably discharged in 1983. He held the title of United States Navy Surface Warfare Qualified. In May 2018, Mr. Bauer’s resigned as Chief Executive Officer and director of the Company.

The Company and Guardian LLC, which assisted structuring and negotiating the Purchase Agreement and related asset purchase, entered into a Consulting Agreement dated September 1, 2017. In consideration for the services, the Company issued Guardian 2,000,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 9,000,000 shares of common stock. The warrants contain identical terms to the RJW Warrants. If and when the assets acquired under the Purchase Agreement generate revenues of $10,000,000, the Company shall issue Guardian an additional 3,000,000 shares of common stock. The consulting agreement was effective August 1, 2017 and terminates November 30, 2017. Guardian, pursuant to its existing joint venture agreement, agreed to provide the $400,000 in funding needed for the cash purchase price under the Purchase Agreement. Guardian also agreed to provide the needed $100,000 working capital designated to UGopherServices Corp. The parties have agreed to negotiate and finalize the terms of such loans in the near future.

In order to facilitate the transition of the Company, the Company and Michael Murray have agreed to enter into an employment agreement in which Mr. Murray will serve as Executive Vice President in charge of business development. As consideration, the Company issued a warrant to acquire 4,000,000 shares of common stock to Mr. Murray. The warrants contain identical terms to the RJW Warrants.

Regulatory

The Company has commenced development, and the Company has completed the Statement of Work (SOW) for the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) survey to deploy the Company’s Guardian Global Tracking Device within the continental US. The Company has also completed their transmitters/transceivers modules feasibility research. Although the Company can use open channels, and therefore is not required to comply with various FCC regulations relevant to the system, the Company has chosen to comply, and is complying with FCC regulations. The FCC regulates the limits of potentially harmful interference to licensed transmitters due to low power unlicensed transmitters. The Guardian Patch/Sphere system consists of advanced security protocols in order to maintain the global, private, fully-secured network. In addition, the Guardian Patch device needs to perform communication tasks across the globe providing breakthrough tracking features. The Company and its technology licensing partner, Guardian LLC, successfully completed thorough research that involved security, performance and FCC regulations compliance. Based on this research, a set of particular frequencies was chosen to be used by Guardian LLC. By the end of this year, the Company completed the design and construction of the Guardian Patch/Sphere circuit prototype device. The Company has completed the construction of 10 prototype units, and performed intensive testing program to be tested as a complete system in designated areas by the Company. On December 1, 2016, Guardian LLC issued Statement of Work for the Placement and Development of Guardian Sphere and its Base System. For this project, Guardian LLC has assembled a team of eight, including a Project Manager, CTO, digital and software engineers, a specialist algorithm mathematician and project leader. This team was assembled by Guardian LLC, and is based in the USA, Europe and Asia. Per the Joint Venture agreement, Guardian LLC is funding the SOW project through its sources.

Note 12 - Contingencies

Legal Proceedings

From time to time, the Company may be involved in various litigation matters, which arise in the ordinary course of business. There is currently no litigation that management believes will have a material impact on the financial position of the Company.

On June 10, 2016, the Company entered into a consulting agreement with Waterford Group LLC (“Waterford”) pursuant to which the Company engaged Waterford to provide sales and marketing consulting and advisory services to the Company in consideration of 100,000 shares of restricted common stock of the Company (the “Shares”) and a common stock purchase warrant (the “Warrant”) to acquire 750,000 shares of restricted common stock of the Company at an exercise price of $2.25 per share for a period of five (5) years. 50,000 of the Shares were issued to Waterford upon the execution of the Agreement. The Warrant vested on a quarterly basis in eight (8) equal quarterly installments each in the amount of 93,750 shares each quarter during the term of the Agreement. The first quarterly installment vested upon the execution of the Agreement and each subsequent quarterly installment was to vest each quarter thereafter. The Company believes that Waterford is in default of its agreement, as it failed to perform or provide any services under the agreement. As such, the Company put Waterford on notice in writing that the Company did not issue shares or warrants during the third or fourth fiscal quarters of 2016 due to the default.

On or around January 23, 2017, the Company filed a complaint against Waterford and the Company’s Transfer Agent, in Superior Court of the State of California, County of Riverside. On February 1, 2017, the Company obtained a temporary restraining order that prohibits Waterford from (x) lifting the restricted legend from the 50,000 shares that it received in connection with signing the Agreement; (y) selling the 50,000 shares to another party; and, (z) from exercising the warrant on 93,750 shares that was issued and vested upon the execution of the Agreement. As ordered by the court, on February 9, 2017, the Company deposited a Corporate Surety Bond in the amount of $42,875 to secure the temporary restraining order. The Company agreed with Waterford to go to binding arbitration, which is currently being scheduled.

On or around February 27, 2017, the Company was issued a stay of the temporary restraining order barring its transfer agent from providing shares in connection with the exercise of the first Waterford warrant on 93,750 shares that was provided to Waterford in connection with the execution of the engagement letter that was executed by the parties on or around June 10, 2016. In October 2018, this matter was resolved in favor of the Company; accordingly the Company will void the shares and warrants that are currently held by Waterford.

On or around April 10, 2017, the Company was billed by its transfer agent (“TA”) for approximately $11,500 for legal fees (“TA Charges”) in connection with a lawsuit brought by one of the Company’s shareholders against the TA. The Company is not a named party in this litigation. The Company disputes the TA Charges, as the Company’s position is that the TA Charges are not covered under the indemnification section of the Company’s agreement with its TA. As the TA refused to provide further services, the Company paid the fees, and booked it as an expense in this quarter. This matter has been resolved amicably, and the Company continues its relationship with the TA.

Spare CS, Inc.

On January 14, 2018, the Company entered into an Initial Term Agreement (the “ITA”) with Spare CS Inc. (“Spare”), a Delaware corporation, pursuant to which the Company agreed to acquire 50% of the equity of Spare. Spare is a mobile banking app that allows customers to access cash with no ATM, no debit or credit card, and no purchase required from participating merchants. During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the Company terminated the ITA with Spare and wrote off the $265,000 that has been advanced to Spare. The $265,000 in included as part of the impairment of assets in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations.

GBT Technologies, S.A.

On June 12, 2018, the Company entered into a Letter of Intent (the “LOI”) with Gopher Protocol Costa Rica, S.R.L. (“Gopher CR”), a partially owned subsidiary of the Company, GBT Technologies, S.A., a Costa Rican company (“GBT”) and Tokenize-IT, S.A. (“Tokenize”). The LOI contemplates the acquisition of Tokenize by Gopher CR and the issuance of 20 million shares of common stock of the Company (the “GOPH Shares”) to Tokenize. Concurrent with the acquisition, Tokenize will enter into a joint venture agreement with GBT pursuant to which Tokenize will transfer and assign the GOPH Shares to GBT and issue equity securities of Tokenize providing GBT with 50% equity ownership in Tokenize with the balance owned by Gopher CR in consideration of GBT providing Tokenize with access to its currency trading platform that is a fully licensed and Central Bank regulated “Currency Exchange” in Costa Rica.

No assurance can be given that a definitive agreement will be entered into, that the appropriate governing bodies including the Company’s board of directors will approve such transactions, that the proposed transactions contemplated above will be consummated, or that Tokenize will be able to obtain adequate funds needed to fund its business plan.

On September 14, 2018, the Company entered into an Exclusive Intellectual Property License and Royalty Agreement (the “GBT License Agreement”) with GBT, a fully compliant and regulated cryptocurrency exchange platform that currently operates in Costa Rica as a decentralized cryptocurrency platform, pursuant to which, among other things, the Company granted to GBT an exclusive, royalty-bearing right and license relating intellectual property relating to systems and methods of converting electronic transmissions into digital currency as reflected in that certain patent filed with the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office on or about June 14, 2018 (EFS ID: 32893586; Application Number: 16008069; Type: Utility under 35 USC 111(a); Confirmation Number: 6787)(collectively, the “Digital Currently Technology”). Pursuant to the GBT License Agreement, the Company granted GBT an exclusive worldwide license to use the Digital Currency Technology to make, use, sell, lease or otherwise commercialize and dispose of products and devices utilizing the Digital Currently Technology.

Under the terms of the GBT License Agreement, the Company is entitled to receive a royalty payment of 2% of gross revenue of each licensed product sold by GBT during the period starting in which revenue is first generated using the licensed products and continuing for five years thereafter. Upon signing the GBT License Agreement, GBT paid the Company $300,000 which is nonrefundable. The Company has recognized the $300,000 as revenue during the nine months ended September 30, 2018. Upon GBT making available for sale (the “Commercial Event”) an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) (the “Coin”), GBT will make a payment to the Company in the amount of $5,000,000. Further, upon the Commercial Event, GBT will grant the Company the ability to acquire 30% of the Coin at a 30% discount of such offering price of the Coin. The GBT License Agreement commenced as of the signing date and, unless terminated in accordance with the termination provisions of the GBT License Agreement, shall remain in force until the expiration of the patent pertaining to the Digital Currency Technology; provided that the right to use trade secrets shall survive the expiration of the GBT License Agreement provided the Company has not terminated. Prior to the signing of the GBT License Agreement, GBT advanced $200,000 to the Company, which the parties have agreed will be applied toward the $5,000,000 fee when it becomes due. The $200,000 is recorded as unearned revenue at September 30, 2018 in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet.

Note 13 – Concentrations

Concentration of Credit Risk

Financial instruments, which potentially subject the Company to a concentration of credit risk, consist principally of temporary cash investments. There have been no losses in these accounts through September 30, 2018.

In 2017, the Company had one customer that contributed 100% of its revenues. Per the terms of the JV with Guardian LLC, Guardian LLC has committed to fund all Company’s needs, as well as needs of the JV. Failure of Guardian LLC to provide the Company or the JV with said funding would represent a significant Credit Risk. As of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 the Company has a payable to Guardian LLC of $737,330 and $1,350,262, respectively.

Note 14 - Subsequent Events

Management has evaluated events that occurred subsequent to the end of the reporting period shown herein:

On October 2, 2018, Bellridge Capital LLC converted $125,000 of principal and $7,295 of accrued interest into 146,994 shares of common stock. On October 26, 2018, Bellridge Capital LLC converted $150,000 of principal and $9,781 of accrued interest into 177,534 shares of common stock. On November 2, 2018, the Company issued 318,583 shares of common stock to Bellridge in connection with the price protection (See Note 7).

On October 15, 2018, the Company issued 3,000,000 warrants to a consultant. The warrants have an exercise price of $0.60 per share and expire on October 15, 2023.

On October 12, 2018, the Waterford legal matter discussed in Note 12 was settled in favor of the Company that resulted in the cancelation of Waterford’s 93,750 warrants and the cancelation of 50,000 shares of the Company’s common stock owned by Waterford.

ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATION

The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this report. In addition to historical information, this discussion includes forward-looking information that involves risks and assumptions, which could cause actual results to differ materially from management’s expectations. See “Forward-Looking Statements” included in this report.

Forward-Looking Statements

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward looking statements, including without limitation, statements related to our plans, strategies, objectives, expectations, intentions and adequacy of resources. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties including without limitation the following: (i) our plans, strategies, objectives, expectations and intentions are subject to change at any time at our discretion; (ii) our plans and results of operations will be affected by our ability to manage growth; and (iii) other risks and uncertainties indicated from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as ‘‘may,’’ ‘‘will,’’ ‘‘should,’’ ‘‘could,’’ ‘‘expects,’’ ‘‘plans,’’ ‘‘intends,’’ ‘‘anticipates,’’ ‘‘believes,’’ ‘‘estimates,’’ ‘‘predicts,’’ ‘‘potential,’’ or ‘‘continue’’ or the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements. Moreover, neither we nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of such statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. We are under no duty to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this Report.

This section of the report should be read together with Footnotes of the Company audited financials for the year ended December 31, 2017. The unaudited statements of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 are compared in the sections below.

General Overview

Gopher Protocol Inc. (the “Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”, “Gopher”, “Gopher Protocol” or “GOPH”) was incorporated on July 22, 2009 under the laws of the State of Nevada and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Gopher is a development-stage company which considers itself a Native IoT solutions creator, developing Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence enabled mesh network and asset tracking IoT mobile technology.  Gopher has a portfolio of Intellectual Property that when commercialized will include smart microchips, mobile application software and supporting cloud software.  The system contemplates the creation of a global mesh network.  The core of the system will be its advanced microchip technology that can be installed in any mobile or fixed device worldwide. Gopher envisions this system as a low-cost, private and secure network between all enabled mobile devices providing shared processing, advanced mobile database management/sharing and enhanced mobile features.

Recent Developments

On January 14, 2018, the Company entered into an Initial Term Agreement (the “ITA”) with Spare CS Inc. (“Spare”), a Delaware corporation, pursuant to which the Company agreed to acquire 50% of the equity of Spare. During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the Company terminated the ITA with Spare and wrote off the $265,000 that has been advanced to Spare. The $265,000 in included as part of the impairment of assets in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations.

On February 1, 2018, the Company formed Ugopherservices Limited (“Ugopher England”), under the laws of England and Wales, as a private limited company and a wholly-owned subsidiary. The purpose of establishing Ugopher England is to expand the Company’s prepaid financial and calling services to international consumers.

On March 16, 2018 ( “Closing Date”), the Company entered into and closed an Asset Purchase Agreement dated March 1, 2018 (the “ECS Purchase Agreement”) with ECS Prepaid LLC (“ECS”), a Missouri limited liability company, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from ECS, including, but not limited to, the processing prepaid platform, servers, POS terminals, customer list, a processing software program and goodwill, in consideration of $1,100,000 of which $100,000 was paid on the Closing Date and the balance is to be paid pursuant to a secured promissory note in the amount of $1,000,000 (the “ECS Note”). In addition, the Company issued 500,000 shares of common stock of the Company (the “ECS Shares”) and warrants to purchase 500,000 shares of common stock (the “ECS Warrants”). The ECS Warrants were assigned by ECS to Dennis Winfrey. The ECS Warrants are exercisable for a period of five years at a fixed exercise price of $1.85 per share and contain standard anti-dilution protection. Under the ESC Note, which is secured by the assets acquired by the Company from ECS, the Company is required to make ten equal payments of $100,000 commencing on April 15, 2018. The Company may prepay the ECS Note at any time without penalty. The ECS Note is a short-term debt obligation that is material to the Company.

On April 2, 2018 (“Closing Date”), the Company entered into and closed an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Electronic Purchase Agreement”) with Electronic Check Services Inc. (“Electronic Check”), a Missouri corporation, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from Electronic Check, including, but not limited to, assets associated with software that validates written check authenticity, in consideration of $75,000 paid on the Closing Date. In addition, the Company issued 250,000 shares of common stock of the Company (the “Electronic Shares”) and warrants to purchase 250,000 shares of common stock (the “Electronic Warrants”). The Electronic Warrants were assigned by Electronic Check to Dennis Winfrey, the shareholder of Electronic Check. The Electronic Warrants are exercisable for a period of five years at a fixed exercise price of $2.70 per share and contain standard anti-dilution protection.

On April 2, 2018, the Company entered into and closed an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Central Purchase Agreement”) with Central State Legal Services Inc. (“Central”), a Missouri corporation, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from Central, including, but not limited to, assets associated with the a system to recover funds from returned checks, in consideration of $25,000 paid on the Closing Date. Derron Winfrey, the COO of the Company, is a director and President of Electronic Check and Central. Derron Winfrey’s parents are the shareholders of Check and Central.

Results of Operations:

Three months ended September 30, 2018 and September 30, 2017

A comparison of the statements of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2016 is as follows:

Sales for the three months ended September 30, 2018 were $15,536,196 compared to $4,471,626 for the same period in 2017. The sales from 2017 to 2018 are not comparable since the increase of $11,064,570 or 247.4% is almost all the result of sales from the acquisitions of RWJ in September 2017 and ECS in March 2018. The 2017 sales only include one month of sales from the RWJ acquisition while the 2018 sales include three months of sales from RWJ and ECS. Sales recognized from the RWJ and the ECS acquisitions for the three months ended September 30, 2018 were $7,168,415 and $7,955,549, respectively, compared to $4,426,626 and $0, respectively, for the same period in 2017. Sales from the three months ended September 30, 2018 also included a licensing fee of $300,000 generated by Gopher.

Our gross margins for the three months ended September 30, 2018 were 5.4% as compared to 6.6% for the same period in 2017. The decrease in due to the sales generated by the ECS assets have a lower gross margin.

Operating expenses for the three months ended September 30, 2018 were $22,529,250 compared to $5,937,176 for the same period in 2017. The increase of $16,592,074 or 279.5% is due to i) a charge of $11,750,000 during 2018 related to the buyout of a profit participation agreement with Guardian LLC; ii) a charge of $7,132,286 during 2018 related to the impairment of assets associated with the RWJ acquisition; iii) including the operating cost for the newly acquired acquisitions offset by a decrease in the value of common stock and warrants issued to consultants and employees for services rendered during the three months ended September 30, 2018.

Other expense for the three months ended September 30, 2018 was $3,154,436, an increase of $2,853,633 from $300,803 for the same period in 2017. The increase is principally due to the change in fair value of the derivative liability as a result of using a variable conversion price to account for the Bellridge debentures.

Net loss for the three months ended September 30, 2018 was $24,839,740 compared to $5,940,727 for the same period in 2017 due to the factors described above.

Nine months ended September 30, 2018 and September 30, 2017

A comparison of the statements of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2016 is as follows:

Sales for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 were $36,907,212 compared to $4,561,626 for the same period in 2017.. The sales from 2017 to 2018 are not comparable since the increase of $32,345,586 or 709.1% is almost all the result of sales from the acquisitions of RWJ in September 2017 and ECS in March 2018. The 2017 sales only include one month of sales from the RWJ acquisition while the 2018 sales include nine and seven months, respectively, of sales from RWJ and ECS. Sales recognized from the RWJ and the ECS acquisitions for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 were $17,674,242 and $18,727,466, respectively, compared to $4,426,626 and $0, respectively, for the same period in 2017. Sales from the nine months ended September 30, 2018 also included a licensing fee of $300,000 generated by Gopher.

Our gross margins for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 were 4.3% as compared to 8.5% for the same period in 2017. The decrease in due to the sales generated by the ECS assets have a lower gross margin.

Operating expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 were $44,261,783 compared to $6,528,748 for the same period in 2017. The increase of $37,733,035 or 578.0% is due to i) a charge of $11,750,000 during 2018 related to the buyout of a profit participation agreement with Guardian LLC; ii) a charge of $7,132,286 during 2018 related to the impairment of assets associated with the RWJ acquisition; iii) including the operating cost for the newly acquired acquisitions; and iv) an increase of $14,853,096 for the value of common stock and warrants issued to consultants and employees for services rendered during the nine months ended September 30, 2018.

Other expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 was $3,771,693, an increase of $2,396,895 from $1,374,798 for the same period in 2017. The increase is principally due to the change in fair value of the derivative liability as a result of using a variable conversion price to account for the Bellridge debentures.

Net loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 was $46,442,467 compared to $7,516,294 for the same period in 2017 due to the factors described above.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our cash was $522,445 and $1,305,062 at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively. Cash used in operating activities during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 was $2,842,007, compared to $215,405 during the same period in 2017. Certain items are not comparable between the periods, including common stock and warrants issued for services in 2018, amortization of intangible assets from recent acquisitions and amortization of debt discount which result from the convertible notes issued in 2017. Our working capital position worsened going from a working capital deficit of $1,060,506 at December 31, 2017 to a working capital deficit of $5,278,748 at September 30, 2018, principally as a result of the increase in the derivative liability, an increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses and the issuance of a note payable related to the acquisition of certain assets ECS Prepaid LLC with an outstanding balance of $392,619 at September 30, 2018. Cash flows used in investing activities were $496,229 during the nine months ended September 30, 2018, compared to $13,021 for the same period in 2017. The increase is due to the purchase of property and equipment, the amount paid for acquisitions and the amount paid as an acquisition deposit for Spare CS, Inc. Cash from financing activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 was $2,555,619, compared to $250,000 for the same period in 2017. The increase is due to the issuance of a convertible notes and the sale of common stock in 2018. 

We sustained net losses of $46,045,353 for the nine months ended September 30, 2018. In addition, we had a working capital deficit of $5,286,129 and accumulated deficit of $60,427,015 at September 30, 2018. We recently purchased the assets of RWJ Advanced Marketing, LLC in 2017, and ECS Prepaid LLC, Electronic Check Services, Inc. and Central States Legal Services, Inc. in 2018. RWJ and ECS have historically generated significant revenues which we expect to continue in the future. In addition, during the first half of 2018, the Company has raised or secured $3,000,000 in convertible debt and equity capital, and will need to raise additional capital in the future of which there is no guarantee that the Company will be able to successfully raise such capital on acceptable terms. With the cash flow from operations from the recent acquisitions, the cash received from recent convertible debt and equity capital, and cash needed to be raised in the near future, we believe we will have sufficient cash to meet our obligations for the next 12 months.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

The Company does not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that are material to investors.

Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates

Our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations is based upon our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). The preparation of our financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP requires us to make certain estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the reported amount of assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements, the reported amounts and classification of revenues and expenses during the periods presented, and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis and material changes in these estimates or assumptions could occur in the future. Changes in estimates are recorded on the period in which they become known. We base our estimates on historical experience and various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances and at that time, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily-apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ materially from these estimates if past experience or other assumptions do not turn out to be substantially accurate.

We believe that the accounting policies described below are critical to understanding our business, results of operations, and financial condition because they involve significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our financial statements. An accounting is deemed to be critical if it requires a judgment or accounting estimate to be made based on assumptions about matters that are highly uncertain, and if different estimates that could have been used, or if changes in the accounting estimates that are reasonably likely to occur periodically, could materially impact our financial statements. Other significant accounting policies, primarily those with lower levels of uncertainty than those discussed below, are also critical to understanding our financial statements. The notes to our financial statements contain additional information related to our accounting policies and should be read in conjunction with this discussion.

Presentation of Financial Statements

The accompanying financial statements include the accounts of the Company have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”).

Accounts Receivable

The Company grants credit to establishments (such as convenient stores) who sell the Company’s products under credit terms that it believes are customary in the industry and does not require collateral to support customer receivables. The Company currently does not provide an allowance for doubtful collections, which is based upon a review of outstanding receivables, historical collection information, and existing economic conditions. Normal receivable terms vary from 7-30 days after the issuance of the invoice and typically would be considered past due when the term expires. Delinquent receivables are written off based on individual credit evaluation and specific circumstances of the customer.

Inventory

Inventory is valued at the lower of the inventory’s cost (first in, first out basis) or the current market price of the inventory. Management compares the cost of inventory with its market value and an allowance is made to write down inventory to market value, if lower. At December 31, 2017, all of the Company’s inventory was finished goods inventory which consisted principally of phones and phone card products, including PINS for cell minutes, SIM cards for cell minutes, as well as gift cards.

Revenue Recognition

ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“Topic 606”), became effective for the Company on January 1, 2018. The Company’s revenue recognition disclosure reflects its updated accounting policies that are affected by this new standard. The Company applied the “modified retrospective” transition method for open contracts for the implementation of Topic 606. As sales are and have been primarily from IT services, sale of phones, phone card products, prepaid cellular phone minutes and cellular activation, and the Company has no significant post-delivery obligations, this new standard did not result in a material recognition of revenue on the Company’s accompanying consolidated financial statements for the cumulative impact of applying this new standard. The Company made no adjustments to its previously-reported total revenues, as those periods continue to be presented in accordance with its historical accounting practices under Topic 605, Revenue Recognition.

Revenue from providing IT services, sale of phones, phone card products, prepaid cellular phone minutes and cellular activation services are recognized under Topic 606 in a manner that reasonably reflects the delivery of its services and products to customers in return for expected consideration and includes the following elements:

These five elements, as applied to each of the Company’s revenue category, is summarized below:

Derivative Financial Instruments

The Company evaluates all of its agreements to determine if such instruments have derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded derivatives. For derivative financial instruments that are accounted for as liabilities, the derivative instrument is initially recorded at its fair value and is then re-valued at each reporting date, with changes in the fair value reported in the statements of operations. For stock-based derivative financial instruments, the Company uses a weighted average Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model to value the derivative instruments at inception and on subsequent valuation dates. The classification of derivative instruments, including whether such instruments should be recorded as liabilities or as equity, is evaluated at the end of each reporting period. Derivative instrument liabilities are classified in the balance sheet as current or non-current based on whether or not net-cash settlement of the derivative instrument could be required within 12 months of the balance sheet date. As of December 31, 2017, the Company’s only derivative financial instrument was an embedded conversion feature associated with convertible notes payable due to certain provisions that allow for a change in the conversion price based on a percentage of the Company’s stock price at the date of conversion.

Fair Value Measurements

The Company applies the provisions of ASC 820-10, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures.” ASC 820-10 defines fair value, and establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy for disclosures of fair value measurement that enhances disclosure requirements for fair value measures. The three levels of valuation hierarchy are defined as follows:

For certain financial instruments, the carrying amounts reported in the balance sheets for cash and current liabilities, including convertible notes payable, each qualify as financial instruments and are a reasonable estimate of their fair values because of the short period of time between the origination of such instruments and their expected realization and their current market rate of interest.

The Company uses Level 2 inputs for its valuation methodology for derivative liabilities as their fair values were determined by using the Black-Scholes-Merton pricing model based on various assumptions. The Company’s derivative liabilities are adjusted to reflect fair value at each period end, with any increase or decrease in the fair value being recorded in results of operations as adjustments to fair value of derivatives.

Dividends

The Company has not yet adopted any policy regarding payment of dividends. No cash dividends have been paid or declared since the Date of Inception.

ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

As a Smaller Reporting Company, the Company is not required to include the disclosure under this Item.

ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

As of the end of the period covered by this report, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of the end of the applicable period to ensure that the information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act (i) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission rules and forms, and (ii) is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.

 
As a smaller reporting company, with limited revenues and the lack of profitability, the Company does not have the resources to install a dedicated staff with deep expertise in all facets of SEC disclosure and GAAP compliance. As is the case with many smaller reporting companies, the Company will continue to consult with its external auditors and attorneys as it relates to new accounting principles and changes to SEC disclosure requirements. In order to correct this material weakness, the Company engaged Kevin F. Pickard as Chief Financial Officer. The Company has found that this approach worked well in the past and believes it to be the most cost-effective solution available for the foreseeable future. The Company will conduct a review of existing sign-off and review procedures as well as document control protocols for critical accounting spreadsheets. The Company will also increase management’s review of key financial documents and records.

As a smaller reporting company, the Company does not have the resources to fund sufficient staff to ensure a complete segregation of responsibilities within the accounting function. However, Company management does review, and will increase the review of, financial statements on a monthly basis, and the Company’s external auditor conducts reviews on a quarterly basis. These actions, in addition to the improvements identified above, will minimize any risk of a potential material misstatement occurring.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2018, that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

PART II - OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Legal Proceedings

From time to time, the Company may be involved in various litigation matters, which arise in the ordinary course of business. There is currently no litigation that management believes will have a material impact on the financial position of the Company.

On June 10, 2016, the Company entered into a consulting agreement with Waterford Group LLC (“Waterford”) pursuant to which the Company engaged Waterford to provide sales and marketing consulting and advisory services to the Company in consideration of 100,000 shares of restricted common stock of the Company (the “Shares”) and a common stock purchase warrant (the “Warrant”) to acquire 750,000 shares of restricted common stock of the Company at an exercise price of $2.25 per share for a period of five (5) years. 50,000 of the Shares were issued to Waterford upon the execution of the Agreement. The Warrant vested on a quarterly basis in eight (8) equal quarterly installments each in the amount of 93,750 shares each quarter during the term of the Agreement. The first quarterly installment vested upon the execution of the Agreement and each subsequent quarterly installment was to vest each quarter thereafter. The Company believes that Waterford is in default of its agreement, as it failed to perform or provide any services under the agreement. As such, the Company put Waterford on notice in writing that the Company did not issue shares or warrants during the third or fourth fiscal quarters of 2016 due to the default.

On or around January 23, 2017, the Company filed a complaint against Waterford and the Company’s Transfer Agent, in Superior Court of the State of California, County of Riverside. On February 1, 2017, the Company obtained a temporary restraining order that prohibits Waterford from (x) lifting the restricted legend from the 50,000 shares that it received in connection with signing the Agreement; (y) selling the 50,000 shares to another party; and, (z) from exercising the warrant on 93,750 shares that was issued and vested upon the execution of the Agreement. As ordered by the court, on February 9, 2017, the Company deposited a Corporate Surety Bond in the amount of $42,875 to secure the temporary restraining order.

On or around February 27, 2017, the Company was issued a stay of the temporary restraining order barring its transfer agent from providing shares in connection with the exercise of the first Waterford warrant on 93,750 shares that was provided to Waterford in connection with the execution of the engagement letter that was executed by the parties on or around June 10, 2016. In October 2018, this matter was resolved in favor of the Company.

On or around April 10, 2017, the Company was billed by its transfer agent (“TA”) for approximately $11,500 for legal fees (“TA Charges”) in connection with a lawsuit brought by one of the Company’s shareholders against the TA. The Company is not a named party in this litigation. The Company disputes the TA Charges, as the Company’s position is that the TA Charges are not covered under the indemnification section of the Company’s agreement with its TA. As the TA refused to provide further services, the Company paid the fees, and booked it as an expense in this quarter. This matter has been resolved amicably, and the Company continues its relationship with the TA.

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

As a smaller reporting company, we are not required to provide the information required by this item.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.

Eagle Equities

On December 29, 2017, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with Eagle Equities, LLC (“Eagle”) pursuant to which Eagle agreed to purchase up to 2,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock for a purchase price of $1,500,000 or $0.75 per share. The closing occurred on December 29, 2017 with respect to the funding of $1,000,000 resulting in the issuance of 1,333,334 shares of common stock (the “First Closing Shares”). On March 21, 2018, Eagle purchased an additional 666,666 shares of common stock (the “Second Closing Shares”) for a purchase price of $500,000 that been wired into the Company’s bank account.

The Company placed 2,000,000 (1,333,334 on prior closing on December 29, 2017 and additional 666,666 on this current closing) shares of common stock (the “Escrow Shares”) in escrow to be utilized for the purpose of limited price protection. If, beginning on the seventh month anniversary of the issuance of the First Closing Shares and Second Closing Shares if the second closing occurs, Eagle has sold any of the First Closing Shares or the Second Closing Shares as the case may be at a sales price of less than $0.72 per share, then that number of Escrow Shares shall be released from escrow to Eagle as a limited make whole which shall be determined by using the following formula:

($0.72 – Closing Price) / Closing Price) * number of shares sold at a price less than $0.72.

Closing Price is price on the first day of each monthly anniversary beginning on the first day of the 7th month (and continuing monthly until the earlier of January 31, 2019 or until all shares are sold).

The Company shall deposit an additional 2,000,000 shares of common stock into escrow which shares shall only be released to Eagle, if, prior to January 31, 2019 (while Eagle continues to hold shares), the Company issues shares at an issue price of less than $0.30 per share.

The Company also issued Eagle a Common Stock Purchase Warrant to acquire 666,666 shares of common stock exercisable for three years at an exercise price of $2.00 per share (the “Eagle Warrant”). Unless otherwise agreed in writing by both the Company and Eagle, at no time will Eagle exercise any amount of the Eagle Warrant to purchase common stock that would result in Eagle owning more than 9.9% of the common stock outstanding of the Company. The Eagle Warrant contains standard anti-dilution protections.

On September 13, 2017, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with Eagle pursuant to which the Company issued Eagle two convertible notes. The first note, due September 18, 2018 in the principal amount of $50,000 (“Eagle Equities Note 1”), was issued in exchange for $50,000 in cash. The second note, due September 13, 2018 in the principal amount of $50,000 (“Eagle Equities Note 2” and, together with Eagle Equities Note 1, the “Eagle Equities Notes”), was issued in exchange for a full-recourse, collateralized promissory note from Eagle Equities in the amount of $45,000 (“Eagle Equities Payment Note”). The Eagle Equities Payment Note is due on May 13, 2018, unless the Company does not meet the current public information requirement pursuant to Rule 144, in which case both Eagle Equities Note 2 and the Eagle Equities Payment Note may be cancelled. The Eagle Equities Payment Note is secured by the Eagle Equities Note 1. The above financing closed on September 20, 2017. On December 29, 2017, Eagle converted the Eagle Equities Note 1 into 503,726 shares of common stock.

Upon any of its securities being available for resale under Rule 144 as promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, Eagle shall limit its sales with regard to any shares of common stock it owns to the greater of $10,000 in gross sales per day or 10% of the aggregate trading volume per day.

Bellridge

On March 1, 2018, the Company entered into and closed a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Bellridge Agreement”) with Bellridge Capital, LP (“Bellridge”) pursuant to which Bellridge invested $750,000 into the Company in consideration of a 10% Convertible Debenture (the “First Bellridge Debenture”) and common stock purchase warrants to acquire an aggregate of 500,000 shares of common stock exercisable for a period of five years at an exercise price of $2.35 per share (the “First Bellridge Warrant”). The Bellridge Agreement provided that Bellridge was entitled to acquire an additional 10% Convertible Debenture in the principal amount of $750,000 and a Common Stock Purchase Warrant on the terms of the initial closing (“Bellridge Option”).

On April 9, 2018, Bellridge elected to exercise the Bellridge Option, as such the Company and Bellridge closed the second financing as contemplated by the Securities Purchase Agreement entered with Bellridge pursuant to which Bellridge invested an additional $750,000 into the Company in consideration of a 10% Convertible Debenture (the “Second Bellridge Debenture” and together with the First Bellridge Debenture, the “Bellridge Debenture”) and common stock purchase warrants to acquire an aggregate of 500,000 shares of common stock exercisable for a period of five years at an exercise price of $2.35 per share (the “Second Bellridge Warrant” and together with the First Bellridge Warrant, the “Bellridge Warrant”) The Bellridge Debenture bears interest of 10% and is payable one year from issuance. The First Bellridge Debenture and the Second Bellridge Debenture are convertible into shares of common stock at $0.90 per share and $1.00 per share, respectively, subject to limited antidilution protection.

During an event of default, the conversion price for the Bellridge Debenture in effect on any conversion date means, as of any conversion date or other date of determination, shall be 35% of the lowest trading price for the Company’s common stock during the 20 trading Days immediately preceding the delivery of a notice of conversion. Bellridge has agreed to restrict its ability to convert the Bellridge Debenture or exercise the Bellridge Warrant and receive shares of common stock such that the number of shares of common stock held by it and its affiliates after such conversion or exercise does not exceed 4.99% of the then issued and outstanding shares of common stock.

In connection with both closings, the Company delivered 1,000,000 shares of common stock to an escrow agent. The escrow shares are to be utilized for the purpose of limited price protection. If, beginning on the 7^th monthly anniversary of the issuance of the escrow shares, Bellridge has sold shares issuable upon conversion of the Bellridge Debenture at a sales price of less than $1.10 per share, then that number of shares shall be released from escrow to Bellridge as a limited make whole using the following formula:

(($1.00 – closing price on 1^st day of each monthly anniversary beginning on the 1^st day of the 7^th month (and continuing monthly until all shares are sold) / closing price of the 1^st monthly day in question) * number of shares sold at a price less than $1.10.

As long as the Company is not in default of the Bellridge Debenture or in breach of the Securities Purchase Agreement, at any time during which Bellridge owns the Bellridge Debenture, Bellridge commits to limit in the aggregate all sales of the shares of common stock issued upon conversion of the Bellridge Debenture and the related Common Stock Purchase Warrant to the greater of not more than (i) 10.00% of the daily trading volume for the Company’s common stock as reported for that day or (ii) $35,000. Breach of this leak-out provision will be considered a material breach by Bellridge.

As of the date hereof, the Company is obligated on the Bellridge Debenture in the principal amount of $1,500,000 in connection with the offering. The Bellridge Debenture is a debt obligation arising other than in the ordinary course of business, which constitutes a direct financial obligation of the Company. Other than the Bellridge Debentures, the Company does not have any other convertible debt on its balance sheet.

ECS Prepaid

On March 16, 2018 (“Closing Date”), the Company entered into and closed an Asset Purchase Agreement dated March 1, 2018 (the “ECS Purchase Agreement”) with ECS Prepaid LLC (“ECS”), a Missouri limited liability company, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from ECS, including, but not limited to, the processing prepaid platform, servers, POS terminals, customer list, a processing software program and goodwill, in consideration of $1,100,000 of which $100,000 was paid on the Closing Date and the balance is to be paid pursuant to a secured promissory note in the amount of $1,000,000 (the “ECS Note”). In addition, the Company issued 500,000 shares of common stock of the Company (the “ECS Shares”) and warrants to purchase 500,000 shares of common stock (the “ECS Warrants”). The ECS Warrants were assigned by ECS to Dennis Winfrey. The ECS Warrants are exercisable for a period of five years at a fixed exercise price of $1.85 per share and contain standard anti-dilution protection. Under the ESC Note, which is secured by the assets acquired by the Company from ECS, the Company is required to make ten equal payments of $100,000 commencing on April 15, 2018. The Company may prepay the ECS Note at any time without penalty. The ECS Note is a short-term debt obligation that is material to the Company.

At closing, the Company and Derron Winfrey entered into an Employment Agreement pursuant to which Mr. Winfrey was retained as Chief Operating Officer for a term of one year, subject to an automatic extension, unless terminated, in consideration of a base salary of $144,000 and an annual bonus of $25,000 in shares of common stock of the Company subject to the discretion of the Board of Directors of the Company. In addition, Mr. Winfrey received a signing bonus of 250,000 shares of common stock, a Common Stock Purchase Warrant to acquire 500,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.85 per share and a $50,000 bonus with $25,000 paid on the Closing Date and $25,000 payable on May 1, 2018. The Company also entered into an Employment Agreement with Mark Garner pursuant to which Mr. Garner was retained as Vice President of Operations for a term of one year, subject to an automatic extension, unless terminated, in consideration of a base salary of $120,000 and an annual bonus of $25,000 in shares of common stock of the Company subject to the discretion of the Board of Directors of the Company. In addition, Mr. Garner received a signing bonus of 250,000 shares of common stock, a Common Stock Purchase Warrant to acquire 500,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.85 per share and a $50,000 bonus with $25,000 paid on the Closing Date and $25,000 payable on May 1, 2018. On March 16, 2018, Mr. Bauer was appointed as Chairman of the Board of the Company.

On the Closing Date, the Company and J.I.L. Venture LLC (“JIL Venture”), a non-related party, which assisted structuring and negotiating the ECS Purchase Agreement and related asset purchase, entered a Consulting Agreement dated March 1, 2018. In consideration for the services, the Company issued JIL Venture 1,000,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 1,500,000 shares of common stock exercisable for a term of five years at an exercise price of $1.85 per share. JIL Venture assigned 500,000 shares of common stock and 750,000 warrants to acquire 750,000 shares of common stock to Michelle Bauer, the wife of Gregory Bauer, CEO and a director of the Company. The assignment of common stock and warrants from JIL Ventures to Ms. Bauer never took place; therefore JIL Ventures retained all 1,000,000 shares of common stock and 1,500,000 warrants.

Electronic Check Services

On April 2, 2018 (“Closing Date”), the Company entered into and closed an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Electronic Purchase Agreement”) with Electronic Check Services Inc. (“Electronic Check”), a Missouri corporation, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from Electronic Check, including, but not limited to, assets associated with software that validates written check authenticity, in consideration of $75,000 paid on the Closing Date. In addition, the Company issued 250,000 shares of common stock of the Company (the “Electronic Shares”) and warrants to purchase 250,000 shares of common stock (the “Electronic Warrants”). The Electronic Warrants were assigned by Electronic Check to Dennis Winfrey, the shareholder of Electronic Check. The Electronic Warrants are exercisable for a period of five years at a fixed exercise price of $2.70 per share and contain standard anti-dilution protection.

On April 2, 2018, the Company entered into and closed an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Central Purchase Agreement”) with Central State Legal Services Inc. (“Central”), a Missouri corporation, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from Central, including, but not limited to, assets associated with the a system to recover funds from returned checks, in consideration of $25,000 paid on the Closing Date. Derron Winfrey, the COO of the Company, is a director and President of Electronic Check and Central. Derron Winfrey’s parents are the shareholders of Check and Central.

On the Closing Date, the Company and J.I.L. Venture LLC (“JIL Venture”), a non-related party, which assisted structuring and negotiating the ECS Purchase Agreement and related asset purchase, entered a Consulting Agreement dated April 2, 2018. In consideration for the services, the Company issued JIL Venture 250,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 250,000 shares of common stock exercisable for a term of five years at an exercise price of $2.70 per share.

Chief Financial Officer

On April 16, 2018, Kevin F. Pickard was appointed by the Company to serve as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

The Company and Mr. Pickard entered into an Executive Retention Agreement dated April 16, 2018 pursuant to which Mr. Pickard agreed to serve as Chief Financial Officer in consideration of an annual salary of $120,000. The Company also issued Mr. Pickard 250,000 shares of common stock and granted Mr. Pickard a Stock Option to acquire 500,000 shares of common stock of the Company at an exercise price of $2.80 per share for a period of five years. The Stock Options vest in tranches of 100,000 shares commencing on the one-year anniversary and continuing thereafter on an annual basis or in full in the event of a change of control.

New Director

On April 25, 2018, Muhammad Khilji was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company to serve as a director of the Company. Mr. Khilji entered into an agreement pursuant to which he will serve as a director. The director agreement provides that he will one tine grant of 100,000 shares of common stock and a stock option to acquire 100,000 shares of common stock exercisable for a period of five years at $2.50 per share. In addition, Mr. Khilji will receive 100,000 shares of common stock per year vesting in increments of 25,000 per quarter commencing January 1, 2019. The Company will also pay Mr. Khilji $5,000 per quarter.

Eagle Equities – May 2018

On May 4, 2018, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with Eagle Equities, LLC (“Eagle”) pursuant to which Eagle agreed to purchase up to 1,212,120 shares of the Company’s common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $2,000,000 or $1.65 per share. The closing occurred on May 4, 2018 with respect to the funding of $500,000 resulting in the issuance of 303,030 shares of common stock. Additional closings of $500,000 for 303,030 shares are scheduled to close on May 25, 2018, June 15, 2018 and July 5, 2018 each.

The Company agreed to place 303,030 shares of common stock each tranche (the “Escrow Shares”) in escrow to be utilized for the purpose of limited price protection. If, beginning on the seventh month anniversary of the closing of each tranche, Eagle has sold any of its shares of common stock at a sales price of less than $1.65 per share, then that number of Escrow Shares shall be released from escrow to Eagle as a limited make whole which shall be determined by using the following formula:

($1.65 – Closing Price) / Closing Price) * number of shares sold at a price less than $1.65.

Closing Price is price on the first day of each monthly anniversary beginning on the first day of the 7th month (and continuing monthly until the earlier of June 4, 2019 or until all shares are sold.

Series D Conversion

The Company issued 66,000,000 shares in connection with the conversion of 66,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock.

Board Appointments

On May 17, 2018, Robert Yaspan, Judit Nagypal and Ambassador Ned L. Siegel were appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company to serve as directors of the Company. Mr. Yaspan will also serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Ms. Nagypal and Ambassador Siegel are considered independent directors and entered into agreements pursuant to which each will serve as a director. The director agreements provide that each will receive a one-time grant of 100,000 shares of common stock and a stock option to acquire 100,000 shares of common stock exercisable for a period of five years at $2.50 per share. Mr. Yaspan, in consideration for serving as Chairman of the Board, entered into an agreement providing a one-time grant of 250,000 shares of common stock and a stock option to acquire 250,000 shares of common stock exercisable for a period of five years at $2.50 per share. Each director will receive 100,000 shares of common stock per year vesting in increments of 25,000 per quarter commencing January 1, 2019. On June 18, 2018, Eva Bitter was appointed to the Board of Directors of Gopher Protocol Inc. (the “Company”) to serve as a director of the Company. Ms. Bitter entered into an agreement pursuant to which she will serve as a director. The director agreement provides that she will receive a one-time grant of 100,000 shares of common stock and a stock option to acquire 100,000 shares of common stock exercisable for a period of five years at $2.50 per share. In addition, Ms. Bitter will receive 100,000 shares of common stock per year vesting in increments of 25,000 per quarter commencing January 1, 2019.

Interim Chief Executive Officer

On July 23, 2018, Douglas L. Davis was appointed by the Company to serve as the Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The Company and Mr. Davis entered into an Employment Agreement dated July 23, 2018 pursuant to which Mr. Davis agreed to serve as Interim Chief Executive Officer in consideration of an annual salary of $120,000. The Company also issued Mr. Davis 300,000 shares of common stock subject to a lock-up/leakout provision. The employment of Mr. Davis is for a period of six months and may be terminated at any time, with or without formal cause, on ten days’ notice.

On July 31, 2018, Mitchell K. Tavera was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company to serve as a director of the Company. Mr. Tavera entered into an agreement pursuant to which he will serve as a director. The director agreement provides that he will receive a one-time grant of 100,000 shares of common stock and a stock option to acquire 100,000 shares of common stock exercisable for a period of five years at $2.50 per share. In addition, Mr. Tavera will receive 100,000 shares of common stock per year vesting in increments of 25,000 per quarter commencing January 1, 2019.

Mobiquity Technologies, Inc.

On September 4, 2018, the Company and Mobiquity Technologies, Inc., a New York corporation (OTCQB: MOBQ”) (“Mobiquity”) entered an Agreement (the “MOBQ Agreement”) pursuant to which the parties exchanged equity interest in each of the companies. In accordance with the Agreement, the Company will receive 1,000 shares of Mobiquity’s restricted Series AAAA Preferred Stock (the “Mobiquity Preferred Stock”) in consideration of Company’s concurrent sale and issuance to Mobiquity of 10,000,000 shares of Company’s restricted Common Stock (the “Gopher Common Stock”). The shares of Mobiquity Preferred Stock are convertible into an aggregate of up to 100,000,000 shares of Mobiquity common stock (the “Mobiquity Common Stock”) and 150,000,000 common stock purchase warrants (the “Mobiquity Warrants”). The Mobiquity Warrants shall have a term of 5-years from the date of grant and shall be exercisable at a price of $0.12 per share and the shares of Mobiquity Preferred Stock shall not be convertible into shares of Mobiquity Common Stock and the Mobiquity Warrants shall not be contemporaneously granted until after Mobiquity’s Board of Directors and stockholders shall have increased the authorized number of shares of Mobiquity’s common stock to a number sufficient to accommodate a reserve in the Company’s favor of 250,000,000 shares of Mobiquity’s common stock. The Mobiquity Preferred Stock shall have immediate voting rights equal to the number of shares of Mobiquity Common Stock into which they may be converted, not including the shares of Mobiquity’s common stock underlying the Mobiquity Warrants (the “Mobiquity Warrant Shares”). The closing occurred on September 4, 2018. Mobiquity agreed that for a period beginning immediately upon the six (6)-month anniversary of the date hereof and ending on the twenty-four (24)-month anniversary of the date hereof (the “Leak-Out Period”), Mobiquity shall have the right to sell or otherwise transfer into the public markets on any given day up to 20,000 shares of Gopher Common Stock. Mobiquity may transfer all or a portion of the shares of Gopher Common Stock otherwise at any time, so long as the receiving party adheres to the above Leak-Out Period.

CONSUL GROUP RE 2021, SRL (“Consul”), a-third party controlled by Mauricio Lara Esq. has been engaged by the Company as consultant to provide services in connection with the Company’s investment in Mobiquity. Consul will provide analysis, interaction with related professional and other services as requested by the Company. The Company has agreed to pay Consul 1,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company for services rendered to the Company. In addition, Mobiquity paid a finder’s fee to Consul of 10,000,000 restricted shares of common stock of Mobiquity and 15,000,000 Mobiquity Warrants. The Mobiquity Warrants shall have a term of 5-years from the date of grant and shall be exercisable at a price of $0.12 per share.

Series G Preferred Shares

On December 29, 2017, Guardian LLC converted all of the principal and interest of the Note, into 2,000,000 shares of Series G Preferred Stock. The Series G Preferred Stock is entitled to vote on an as-converted basis, automatically converts to common stock upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up and the Company may not declare a dividend until the Series G Preferred Stock has received a dividend. Each share of Series G Preferred Stock is convertible into one shares of common stock of the Company and contain standard anti-dilution rights. On August 30, 2018, Guardian LLC converted the 2,000,000 shares of Series G Preferred Stock into 2,000,000 shares of common stock.

Guardian LLC - Patch

On March 29, 2016, the Company contributed all of its rights relating to its proprietary microchip that is within a sticky patch package (the “Patch”) to Guardian LLC in consideration of 50% of the profit generated by Guardian LLC and a commitment from Guardian LLC that it is responsible for investing all needed funds for the purpose of developing the Patch and related products to the Patch, as well as funding the working capital needs of the Company. On September 25, 2018, the Company entered into an agreement with Guardian LLC pursuant to which the Company purchased Guardian LLC’s 50% interest previously entered between the parties in March 2016 covering the Guardian Patch, Puzpix and Epsilon. In consideration, the Company issued Guardian 12,500,000 shares of common stock.

The issuance of the securities set forth herein were made in reliance on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) for the offer and sale of securities not involving a public offering, and/or Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act. The Company’s reliance upon Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act in issuing the securities was based upon the following factors: (a) the issuance of the securities was an isolated private transaction by us which did not involve a public offering; (b) there was only one recipient; (c) there were no subsequent or contemporaneous public offerings of the securities by the Company; (d) the securities were not broken down into smaller denominations; (e) the negotiations for the issuance of the securities took place directly between the individual and the Company; and (f) the recipient of the note was an accredited investor.

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities

None

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not Applicable.

Item 5. Other Information

None.

ITEM 6. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES