As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 3, 2025
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
BitFuFu Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Cayman Islands | Not Applicable | |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
9 Temasek Boulevard
Suntec Tower 2, #13-01
Singapore 038989
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Amended and Restated 2022 Share Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)
Cogency Global Inc.
122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10168
(212) 947-7200
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
| Leo Lu, Chief Executive Officer |
| 9 Temasek Boulevard |
| Suntec Tower 2, #13-01 |
|
Singapore 038989 Telephone: +65 6252 7569 |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”).
| Large accelerated filer ☐ | Accelerated filer ☒ |
| Non-accelerated filer ☐ | Smaller reporting company ☐ |
| Emerging growth company ☒ |
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). ☐
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Registration Statement is filed by BitFuFu Inc. (the “Registrant”) to register additional securities issuable pursuant to the Amended and Restated 2022 Share Incentive Plan and consists of only those items required by General Instruction E to Form S-8. On May 29, 2025, the Registrant’s board of directors approved to amend and restate the original 2022 Share Incentive Plan of the Registrant and adopted the Amended and Restated 2022 Share Incentive Plan (the “A&R 2022 Plan”). The maximum aggregate number of shares that may be issued under the A&R 2022 Plan has been adjusted from 7,500,000 Class A ordinary shares pursuant to the original 2022 Share Incentive Plan, for which a registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-282033) was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on September 11, 2024 (the “Prior S-8 Registration Statement”), to 14,657,193 Class A ordinary shares, increased by 7,157,193 Class A ordinary shares. Based on the above, the additional securities registered hereby consist of 7,157,193 Class A ordinary shares. In accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Prior S-8 Registration Statement are incorporated herein by reference, except as otherwise set forth herein.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
| Item 3. | Incorporation of Documents by Reference |
The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission are incorporated by reference herein:
| (a) | The Registrant’s registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-282033) filed with the Commission on September 11, 2024; | |
| (b) | The Registrant’s annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the Commission on April 21, 2025 (File No. 001-41972); and |
| (c) | The description of the Registrant’s ordinary shares incorporated by reference in the Registrant’s registration statement on Form F-3 filed with the Commission on April 21, 2025 (File No. 333-286356), including any amendment and report subsequently filed for the purpose of updating that description. |
All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date of this registration statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this registration statement which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration statement will be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained in this registration statement or in any other later filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to be a part of this registration statement.
| Item 8. | Exhibits |
See the Index to Exhibits attached hereto.
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EXHIBIT INDEX
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Singapore, on June 3, 2025.
| BitFuFu Inc. | |||
| By: | /s/ Leo Lu | ||
| Name: | Leo Lu | ||
| Title: | Director, Chief Executive Officer | ||
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Mr. Leo Lu as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power to act alone, with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully for all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute or resubstitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on June 3, 2025.
| Signature | Title | |
| /s/ Leo Lu | Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer | |
| Leo Lu | (Principal Executive Officer) | |
| /s/ Calla Zhao | Chief Financial Officer | |
| Calla Zhao | (Principal financial and accounting officer) | |
| /s/ Celine Lu | Director | |
| Celine Lu | ||
| /s/ Huaiyu Liu | Independent Director | |
| Huaiyu Liu | ||
| /s/ Yeeli Hua Zheng | Independent Director | |
| Yeeli Hua Zheng | ||
| /s/ Joshua Kewei Cui | Independent Director | |
| Joshua Kewei Cui |
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SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE IN THE UNITED STATES
Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of BitFuFu Inc. has signed this registration statement or amendment thereto in New York, New York on June 3, 2025.
| COGENCY GLOBAL INC. | |||
| Authorized U.S. Representative | |||
| By: | /s/ Colleen A. De Vries | ||
| Name: | Colleen A. De Vries | ||
| Title: | Senior Vice President on behalf of Cogency Global Inc. | ||
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