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The9 Limited filings document foreign private issuer current reports, governance materials, material agreements, and capital-structure matters for its Nasdaq-listed ADSs. Form 6-K reports include press-release exhibits on AI-powered short drama and interactive movie game initiatives, mobile-game publishing arrangements, and updates involving subsidiaries and licensed intellectual property.
The filing record also covers annual general meeting notices, proxy materials, shareholder voting matters, director-election governance, agreement terminations and related refund arrangements, restricted-share cancellation matters, and other material-event disclosures relevant to The9's online games, Bitcoin mining, and digital technology activities.
The9 LTD filed an initial statement of beneficial ownership for its Chief Operating Officer, Gao Yan Gary. The filing reports that he directly holds 1,915 American Depositary Shares (ADS) of The9 LTD. According to the footnote, each ADS represents 300 Class A Ordinary Shares of the company.
The9 LTD director Chau Kwok Keung has filed an initial ownership report showing sizeable equity holdings. The filing lists 52,724 American Depositary Shares and 9,000,000 unvested Class A restricted shares held directly. Each ADS represents 300 Class A shares, and the restricted shares vest under multi-year schedules granted in 2025.
The9 LTD director Lai Kwok Ho has filed an initial statement of beneficial ownership, detailing a substantial equity position in the company. He directly holds 306,701 American Depositary Shares, with each ADS representing 300 Class A Ordinary Shares.
He also holds 14,500,100 Class A Ordinary Shares that are vested, plus two large blocks of restricted Class A Ordinary Shares: 116,500,000 unvested shares and 10,500,000 unvested shares. The footnotes explain staged vesting schedules tied to grant dates on March 10, 2025, September 18, 2025, and September 7, 2023, including monthly vesting, anniversary-based vesting, and a price-based vesting condition requiring the ADS closing price to reach US$20 or higher for certain shares.
The9 Limited reported that it has received 950,000,000 9BIT tokens connected to its gaming platform, the9bit, from 9BIT Foundation, a third-party issuer. According to the 9BIT whitepaper, The9 is expected to receive a total of 1,900,000,000 9BIT tokens, with the remaining 950,000,000 anticipated over the next two months.
As of February 24, 2026, each 9BIT token had a market price of US$0.02, about a sevenfold increase since listing, and a 24‑hour trading volume of US$6 million. The9’s the9bit platform, launched in August 2025, has surpassed 7 million users, with over 38,000 users having earned more than 32.8 million 9BIT tokens through gameplay and community engagement.
The9 Limited reported that its wholly owned subsidiary Shanghai The9 Information Technology has signed a definitive cooperation agreement with Chengdu Lumosi Network Technology to develop an AI-powered short drama and an AI-assisted interactive movie game.
The projects will be based on The9’s exclusive mobile game development and publishing license for TVB’s classic drama The Greed of Man (大时代). By combining licensed premium drama IP with generative AI video technologies and AI-enabled production pipelines, the partners aim to improve development efficiency, shorten production cycles and explore new scalable content formats for global short-form drama and interactive entertainment.
The9 Limited furnished a Form 6-K announcing preparations for its annual general meeting. The filing includes three exhibits: a press release regarding the planned AGM, the official notice of the meeting, and a proxy form for shareholders.
The submission was signed by George Lai, Director and Chief Financial Officer. These materials indicate the company has formally circulated meeting documents to shareholders via this report.
The9 Limited reports that its subsidiary China Crown Technology and Wemade Co., Ltd. have, by amicable negotiation, terminated the MIR M Game Publishing Agreement entered in May 2024 due to unstable factors related to the MIR M Chinese trademark. The parties have settled on a refund of the license fee and minimum payment fee that China Crown previously paid to Wemade.
The9 is instructing the joint venture partners for the MIR M operation to return the restricted shares it had issued to them; The9 will cancel these shares to reduce the total number of outstanding shares, and none of these restricted shares has been converted into ADS. The9 may continue working with these partners to promote its proprietary mobile game Ultraman: Hero Beyond Time, which currently has over 2.7 million registered users and 2 million monthly active users, with numbers described as growing rapidly.
The9 Limited disclosed a press release that its Singapore investee, NYB, plans to become a Nasdaq-listed company through a business combination with SPAC RF Acquisition Corp II in a deal valued at US$1.5 billion. The announcement indicates NYB will pursue a public listing in the United States via the SPAC merger structure, which would give NYB Nasdaq access and an implied transaction value of US$1.5 billion. The filing is signed by George Lai, Director and Chief Financial Officer of The9.
THE9 Limited submitted a Form 6-K as a foreign private issuer for September 2025. The filing mainly furnishes a press release identified as Exhibit 99.1 concerning impersonation of "the9bit" on a crypto platform. The report is signed by Director and Chief Financial Officer George Lai on behalf of the company.
THE9 Limited filed a Form 6-K indicating it issued a press release about a joint venture acquisition. The transaction involves operating its proprietary mobile games Ultraman: Hero Beyond Time and Glory All Stars. The filing itself mainly serves to furnish this press release as an exhibit.