Chartmaster
13時間前
Digitalage, a Hop-on (OTCID: HPNN) Subsidiary, Secures Apple App Store Approval as Patent-Pending Creator Platform Enters Soft Launch
Company Moves From Filed IP Protection to Live Distribution, Positioning Digitalage for Initial Revenue Activation in the Creator Economy
TEMECULA, Calif., July 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hop-on, Inc. (OTCID: HPNN), through its wholly owned subsidiary Digitalage, Inc., today outlined the completion of a three-part infrastructure arc — intellectual property protection, creator monetization economics, and mobile distribution — that the company says positions Digitalage for its first phase of live revenue activation.
The App Store approval closes the last gap between Digitalage's infrastructure and its ability to generate revenue: the platform's IP is filed, its creator payout structure is set, and it can now reach users directly on iOS.
PATENT-PENDING FOUNDATION
Digitalage has filed U.S. Application No. 19/685,869, "System and Method for Conditional Digital License Issuance Based on Verified Content Delivery in a Distributed Computing Environment," with Peter Michaels, Sr. named as first inventor. The utility application is supported by four provisional filings, with a sixth invention currently in prior-art research. The filing covers the company's core architecture for verified content delivery and conditional digital licensing — the technical foundation underlying Digitalage's creator tools.
CREATOR ECONOMICS DESIGNED TO FAVOR CREATORS
Through its Genesis Creator Pilot Program, Digitalage has established a revenue structure that returns 85% of gross subscription revenue to creators, with a 15% Platform Infrastructure Fee covering payment processing, encoding, content delivery, and compliance. Genesis participants also receive 50% of net advertising revenue generated by their content. New creators joining the pilot are eligible for a $500 sign-up bonus, conditioned on completing onboarding requirements, including registration of at least 10 verified assets and publication of a first verification video.
APPLE APP STORE APPROVAL: FROM INFRASTRUCTURE TO DISTRIBUTION
On June 30, 2026, Digitalage's flagship iOS application received official approval from Apple for distribution on the App Store, moving the platform from invite-only TestFlight testing into a public soft-launch phase. The company is prioritizing onboarding of influencers and Genesis Creator Pilot participants ahead of broader public release.
"We filed to protect the technology, we built the economics to make it worth creators' time, and now we have the App Store approval to put it in their hands," said Peter Michaels, Sr., Founder, Chairman & CEO of Hop-on, Inc. "Each piece had to be in place before the next one mattered. That sequence is now complete."
BUILDING ON EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
The App Store approval builds on infrastructure Digitalage has already extended into commercial VOD library ingestion and live broadcasting across news, sports, events, and faith programming, broadening the range of content the platform can support as onboarding continues.
NEAR-TERM PRIORITIES
The company is completing final App Store Connect activation steps and advancing soft-launch onboarding of influencers and Genesis creators on iOS. Broader public availability and user-growth updates will follow as the initial cohort validates platform performance.
ABOUT HOP-ON, INC. / DIGITALAGE, INC.
Hop-on, Inc. (OTCID: HPNN) is a publicly traded technology company developing scalable media infrastructure designed to help creators and enterprise partners ingest, protect, distribute, and monetize digital media across mobile, web, and enterprise channels. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Digitalage, Inc., the company operates a patent-pending architecture for verified content delivery and direct creator monetization.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding product availability, platform development, creator onboarding, commercialization, monetization, business plans, technology initiatives, and future performance. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. Additional information regarding forward-looking statements and risk factors is available at: https://www.hop-on.com/forward-looking-statements.
INVESTOR & MEDIA CONTACT
Hop-on, Inc. / Digitalage, Inc.
Email: contact@digitalage.com
Website: https://www.digitalage.com
SOURCE: Hop-on, Inc.
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Source: Digitalage
© 2026 GlobeNewswire, Inc.
Chartmaster
1日前
Hop-on, Inc. (OTC: HPNN) Announces Apple App Store Approval for Digitalage iOS App — A Revenue Catalyst for Creator-Owned Monetization
App Store Approval Removes Binary Distribution Risk, Activates Dual-Revenue Model and Path to First Revenue in the Multibillion-Dollar Creator Economy
TEMECULA, Calif., June 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hop-on, Inc. (OTCID: HPNN), through Digitalage, Inc., today announced that its flagship iOS application, Digitalage, has received official approval from Apple for distribution on the App Store. The approval represents a binary catalyst for the OTC-listed technology company, converting months of scalable infrastructure deployment into a live revenue activation milestone.
"We did not build another app. We built clean, working infrastructure that gives creators real control over how their content is ingested, protected, and monetized. App Store approval confirms that infrastructure is ready and removes a key binary risk. We are moving from invite-only testing to a soft launch — onboarding influencers first, keeping the tech simple, and letting the platform prove itself in the market."
— Peter Michaels, Sr., Founder, Chairman & CEO, Hop-on, Inc.
FROM TESTFLIGHT TO APP STORE: AN OPERATIONAL INFLECTION POINT
The approval advances a public execution record that has placed eight dated milestones into the market since March 2026, spanning live infrastructure deployment, enterprise-grade stateful media architecture, creator economics disclosure, VOD library ingestion, and the Genesis Creator Pilot Program launch. The Digitalage platform is built on three core functions: Ingest, Protect, Monetize. The iOS app delivers a simplified, creator-first mobile interface for publishing workflows, digital asset verification through a patent-pending IP portfolio, and direct creator-to-audience monetization.
SOFT LAUNCH: INFLUENCER AND GENESIS CREATOR ONBOARDING
The soft launch strategy prioritizes onboarding influencers and Genesis Creator Pilot Program participants ahead of a broader public release. This phased approach allows the company to refine the user acquisition funnel, validate creator workflows, and build initial content density that drives a network effect before opening the platform to general users. The simplified app design is intentionally streamlined to reduce friction for creators entering the ecosystem.
DUAL-REVENUE CREATOR ECONOMICS THAT FAVOR THE CREATOR
Digitalage maintains a transparent revenue structure that has been consistently disclosed in the company’s public record, designed to capture share of the multibillion-dollar creator economy:
85% of gross subscription revenue returned to creators
15% Platform Infrastructure Fee (payment processing, encoding, CDN, compliance)
50% of net advertising revenue to Genesis Creator Pilot Program participants
$500 Genesis sign-up bonus, conditioned on completing onboarding — registering a minimum of 10 verified assets and publishing a first verification video
NEAR-TERM PRIORITIES
The company is completing final App Store Connect activation steps and advancing soft-launch onboarding of influencers and Genesis creators on iOS. Broader public availability and MAU growth updates will follow as the soft-launch cohort validates platform performance and user experience.
INVESTOR IMPACT: BINARY RISK REMOVED, PATH TO REVENUE ACTIVATED
App Store approval de-risks the company’s primary iOS distribution channel and enables revenue activation through the Genesis Creator Pilot Program. With the 85/15 creator economics model now distributable on iOS, the company can begin converting its documented execution record into measurable creator onboarding, early subscription metrics, and a recurring revenue base during the soft-launch phase.
"The creator economy still lacks the infrastructure that matches its scale. Creators need tools that don't extract ownership, bury reach, or redirect revenue. Digitalage is built for that gap. We are starting with a soft launch because we want to get it right — onboarding the right creators, keeping the technology simple and working, and building from there. The public record is the foundation. Execution is the standard."
— Peter Michaels, Sr., Founder, Chairman & CEO, Hop-on, Inc.
ABOUT HOP-ON, INC. / DIGITALAGE, INC.
Hop-on, Inc. (OTCID: HPNN) is a publicly traded technology company developing scalable media infrastructure designed to help creators and enterprise partners ingest, protect, distribute, and monetize digital media across mobile, web, and enterprise channels. The platform is built on patent-pending architecture for verified content delivery and direct creator monetization.
Website: https://www.digitalage.com
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding product availability, platform development, creator onboarding, commercialization, monetization, business plans, technology initiatives, and future performance. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. Additional information regarding forward-looking statements and risk factors is available at: https://www.hop-on.com/forward-looking-statements
Hop-on, Inc. undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by applicable law.
INVESTOR & MEDIA CONTACT
Hop-on, Inc. / Digitalage, Inc.
Email: contact@digitalage.com
Website: https://www.digitalage.com
SOURCE: Hop-on, Inc.
Primary Logo
Source: Digitalage
© 2026 GlobeNewswire, Inc.
magikalalpha
2週前
Digitalage's Terms of Service: Marketing Promises vs. Contract Reality
Digitalage's Terms of Service (effective May 16, 2026) use Big Tech–style, perpetual commercial licensing language, while the company itself is a thinly capitalized, pre-revenue microcap with no proven platform, audience, or monetization engine. That combination makes this not a "high-risk, test-carefully" situation but a "do not upload at all" situation for any creator who cares about long-term control of their work, likeness, or brand.
1. What Digitalage markets vs. what the Terms say
Digitalage's public materials and "For Creators" page emphasize an ownership-centric narrative: creators are told they will own their work as infrastructure rather than as inventory on someone else's platform, that every broadcast becomes a permanent, verified, searchable asset owned "from frame zero," and that rights logic and permanent ownership remain in the creator's control.
The actual Terms of Service tell a different story. Section 7.3 grants Digitalage and its affiliates a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable, sublicensable license to host, store, cache, index, reproduce, and transmit content; to transcode, reformat, adapt, modify, edit, and translate it; to distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display it; to create derivative works from it; to use it for promotion, marketing, and advertising; and to otherwise use it in any media now known or later developed. The license extends to a creator's name, image, likeness, voice, and persona in connection with the service.
The marketing is ownership-centric. The contract is platform-centric.
2. The license grant and why the counterparty makes it unsafe
The license Digitalage demands is perpetual (it does not expire), irrevocable (it cannot be withdrawn later), and transferable and sublicensable (Digitalage can pass the content and associated rights to partners, vendors, acquirers, or a bankruptcy estate). It also carries derivative-works rights and name/likeness rights tied to the service.
On a mature platform — YouTube, TikTok, Meta — creators sometimes accept similar language because there is massive proven distribution, established monetization, operational history, and a real, measurable audience to weigh against the risk. Digitalage has none of that, and the corporate structure around it compounds the problem: Digitalage is a privately held Nevada corporation under the sole control of its principal, with no disclosed equity ownership or standard subsidiary filings connecting it to any public parent. There is no public-company oversight, audited financials, or governance transparency standing behind the entity asking for these rights.
A perpetual, transferable license becomes an asset in any restructuring, liquidation, or sale. If the company fails, pivots, or is sold, the content and associated rights travel with whatever entity or estate ends up holding them — and there is no practical way to claw those rights back, because the license is irrevocable the moment it's granted. Even if the platform never scales, never pays, or never really launches, a creator's content and likeness can still be held as part of an IP portfolio, packaged into a sale, or used to demonstrate "assets" to future investors or acquirers. The creator gets no audience, no revenue, no stability — but the license they granted remains live regardless.
This is also why "just test with low-value content first" does not work as a risk-management strategy here. That logic depends on being able to evaluate a real, functioning platform and walk away if it disappoints. Digitalage's license has no undo: a single test upload is permanently licensed, transferable, and sublicensable from the moment it's submitted, with no proven infrastructure or track record to evaluate it against. The Genesis creator-cohort structure makes this worse rather than better — to even qualify for the $500 Genesis bonus, creators are asked to register ten original assets plus a verification video, each carrying the same sweeping license. That isn't a small, reversible experiment; it's a material IP commitment to a highly speculative counterparty. Testing doesn't reduce risk here — it just starts the permanent license clock for no reliable upside.
3. No guarantees, no obligations, no safety net
The Terms place essentially all of the risk on the creator and almost none on the company. There is no obligation to preserve or return content: Digitalage may remove, delete, or stop hosting it at any time, with no duty to back it up or hand it back. There are no uptime, quality, or distribution guarantees — no SLA, no minimum reach, no promise of performance or availability. The company retains broad unilateral discretion to change terms, suspend accounts, or modify features at will. And the procedural terms tilt firmly in Digitalage's favor, with binding arbitration, a class-action waiver, a jury-trial waiver, and a one-year limitations period.
In plain terms: creators grant permanent, commercial rights, and the company promises nothing concrete in return — not reach, not stability, not continuity, not even storage.
4. Practical guidance for creators and professionals
For any creator, journalist, educator, or brand evaluating Digitalage, the conclusion is straightforward. Don't upload anything you aren't prepared to see permanently licensed, modified, and transferred by a financially distressed, privately controlled company. Don't rely on the marketing language about "ownership" or "rights you control" when the contract language grants the platform broad, perpetual rights instead. And don't treat this as a normal early-access beta risk — the combination of a perpetual, irrevocable, transferable license with name/likeness rights, no guarantees or obligations in return, and a financially and operationally fragile counterparty makes this structurally different from testing a typical startup product.
If you are serious about your catalog, your likeness, or your long-term licensing options, the clean conclusion is not to bind any content — core or "test" — to Digitalage under the current Terms of Service. For anything beyond casual commentary, creators should read the full Terms themselves and, where the stakes are meaningful, consult qualified counsel before granting any platform a perpetual, transferable license — especially one with no proven scale, no audited stability, and no clear path to honoring the value of what is being given to it.
magikalalpha
2週前
**It's a red flag for self-dealing and questionable valuation in a no-revenue microcap.** In standard U.S. GAAP (especially for OTC companies under Alternative Reporting), a parent like **Hop-on Inc. ($HPNN)** can record an "Investment in Subsidiary" (here, ~$6.5M–$6.7M in Digitalage) on its balance sheet. For a *wholly-owned* subsidiary, full consolidation is typically required under ASC 810—line-by-line assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses of the sub flow into the parent's statements (with eliminations for intercompany items). Treating it as a non-consolidated "investment" (often at cost or equity method) while claiming it as a subsidiary raises issues: - **Funding source via officer accruals**: Critics (and forum analyses of the Q1 2026 filing) note the asset largely stems from converted unpaid officer compensation/ obligations (primarily to CEO Peter Michaels) rather than cash infusions, external equity/debt, or operations. No cash changed hands for the bulk of the valuation. This creates a circular, related-party dynamic: the same person approves salary accruals, converts them into equity/value in a private entity he controls, and books it as a major asset for the public shell. - **Valuation support**: With HPNN showing $1,187 cash, $0 revenue, ongoing net losses (~$172k in Q1 alone), and a massive accumulated deficit (~$32.8M), there's no independent appraisal, arm's-length investment, or revenue/traction evidence disclosed to back a $6.5M+ carrying value. Digitalage itself has no separate audited financials visible in public disclosures and operates on minimal infrastructure (e.g., Cloudflare free tier per skeptics). - **Disclosure and governance gaps**: Related-party transactions (loans, accruals, conversions) must be disclosed in detail under OTC/SEC rules. Undisclosed or opaque funding for operations (while paying ~$82.5k in officer comp in Q1) can constitute material omissions. The company's governance portal and filings emphasize Digitalage as wholly-owned, yet keep it non-consolidated to avoid exposing internals. This pattern—accruing high officer pay in a dormant shell, converting to "investment" equity in a private vehicle, and promoting the sub aggressively—is common in long-deficit OTC stories. It lets the officer extract value/liability relief while public shareholders bear dilution risk, judgment exposure (e.g., recent Woolen case not fully reflected), and zero operational upside if consolidation never materializes meaningfully. **Bottom line**: It's "well" within the realm of aggressive OTC accounting that prioritizes narrative over verifiable economics. Investors should demand full consolidation details, independent valuation, and related-party footnotes in future filings. High risk of overstatement; DYOR and treat as speculative. NFA.
Grok 4:53 a.m. CT 20260616
magikalalpha
2週前
Digitalage is not running 29 native live broadcasts. It is aggregating TikTok’s existing multi-guest sessions and displaying them inside a single Digitalage-branded window.
Here is what that means in concrete, technical terms:
1. TikTok handles every broadcast — Digitalage handles only the display
Each of the 29 feeds is:
ingested by TikTok,
encoded by TikTok,
transcoded by TikTok,
distributed by TikTok’s CDN,
served from TikTok’s infrastructure,
managed by TikTok’s session controls.
Digitalage is simply pulling the video streams and arranging them visually.
This is not a broadcast platform. This is a multi-window viewer.
2. TikTok’s limits still apply — Digitalage is just stacking sessions
TikTok LIVE Multi-Guest supports up to 5 guests per session.
Digitalage is not expanding that limit. They are:
opening multiple TikTok sessions,
capturing each session’s output,
and placing them into a 29-tile layout.
This is client-side aggregation, not server-side capability.
It does not increase TikTok’s capacity. It does not demonstrate Digitalage infrastructure. It does not show platform scalability.
3. The “29 broadcasts” number is a display artifact, not a platform metric
Real platforms measure:
ingest capacity
transcoding throughput
concurrent stream limits
CDN load
origin server performance
QoS under scale
Digitalage has none of these.
“29” is simply the number of TikTok feeds they chose to display at once.
It is not:
29 Digitalage streams
29 Digitalage ingest points
29 Digitalage encoders
29 Digitalage CDN endpoints
It is 29 TikTok streams arranged in a grid.
4. Digitalage’s own infrastructure confirms this
A platform claiming “public media distribution” must have a CDN.
Digitalage does not.
http://digitalage.tv ? No CDN detected
No edge caching
No origin shielding
No streaming endpoints
No observable broadcast stack
A platform with zero CDN cannot deliver 29 simultaneous live broadcasts. TikTok can. Digitalage cannot.
5. The “blur is intentional” line is part of the pattern
“We are protecting unreleased tools and workflows before launch.”
This is year five of “protecting unreleased tools”:
2021: Fall launch
2023: closed beta
2024: year-end beta
2026: MVP
Today: “days away”
1,128 days of “days away.”
The blur is not protecting tools. It is protecting the fact that the infrastructure belongs to TikTok.
6. The financials make the technical claim impossible
June 15, 2026:
$1,187 cash
$0 revenue
$32.8M accumulated deficit
No CDN
No infrastructure
No filings showing Digitalage as an asset
A company with $1,187 is not running a multi-stream broadcast network. It is running TikTok windows.
7. The market’s response confirms it
Today’s Level 2:
Bid: 3,961,915 @ 0.0007
Ask: 6,549,778 @ 0.0009
If Digitalage had real infrastructure, the market would not be pricing the equity at seven-ten-thousandths of a dollar with a saturated ask wall.
Bottom Line
Digitalage is not running 29 live broadcasts. Digitalage is displaying 29 TikTok broadcasts.
TikTok built the infrastructure. TikTok handles the load. TikTok provides the CDN. Digitalage provides the window.
$HPNN public facing company
#SocialSafe
#OOve
#Digitalage privately held by Peter Michaels et al
That’s not “building the rails.” That’s borrowing the tracks.
NFA • DYOR • NLA • NBS
magikalalpha
2週前
Five Years of Imminent. A Documented Timeline.
$HPNN #Digitalage
In July 2021, Peter Michaels announced that Digitalage was "emerging from stealth mode, soon entering public beta testing, and on schedule to launch in the Fall of 2021." Features were described as locked in. AR filters, music integration, content protection, DRM. A Zoom webinar walked investors through the beta rollout. Fall 2021 came and went.
In 2022, press releases referenced an ongoing "closed beta stage" and described the platform as "highly anticipated." A Megatrax licensing deal was announced, positioning Digitalage as preparing for broader rollout into the creator economy. The closed beta never opened.
In March 2023, Michaels announced the "closed beta launch" of what was now described as a decentralized WEB3 social media platform. Influencers were being onboarded. Features were being refined. Michaels was the face of the announcement. The public launch did not follow.
In late 2024, the language shifted to acceleration. "$6 million in investments" and "imminent influx of additional funding" were cited as catalysts for fast-tracking the launch. A closed beta was targeted before year-end 2024. Advisory board additions were announced. A news feed technology was tied to rollout preparation. Year-end 2024 passed.
In early 2025 through early 2026, the framing evolved again — no longer beta, now "deployment." October 2025 brought governance restructuring described as preparation "ahead of the commercial rollout." November 2025 brought timelines for sample apps, demos, and alpha-beta testing. January 2026 brought an announced MVP launch. March through June 2026 brought "production-scale announcements" with apps described as in review and infrastructure described as live.
As of today the app is not publicly available in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store in any form matching the original 2021 promise. Today's post from the official @HPNN
account states that "Apple and Google approvals are getting closer" and that the platform is "moving from buildout to activation."
An X post in May 2026 — cited by @DeborahHat96840
— calculated 37 months and 1,128 days since the last announced launch date.
That is not a development timeline. That is a promotional cycle. The language changes. The framing evolves from beta to WEB3 to deployment to production-scale. But the destination never arrives. And the public company promoting all of it — Hop-On Inc., trading as $HPNN on the Expert Market — reported $1,187 cash on hand, $0 revenue, and $32.8 million in accumulated deficit in its most recent financials.
Digitalage is privately held by Peter Michaels. It is not consolidated in HPNN public filings. Shareholders have no documented equity stake in it.
Five years. Every quarter a new reason it's almost ready.
Do the math.
NFA DYOR NLA NBS