/C O R R E C T I O N -- Hydaway Digital Corp./

In the news release, HYDAWAY DIGITAL APPOINTS JAMES NIOSI TO SPECIAL ADVISOR POSITION, issued 06-Jan-2026 by Hydaway Digital Corp. over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that changes have been made. The complete, corrected release follows, with additional details at the end:

HYDAWAY DIGITAL APPOINTS JAMES NIOSI TO SPECIAL ADVISOR POSITION

VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 6, 2026 /CNW/ - Hydaway Digital Corp. (TSXV: HIDE) ("Hydaway" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of James Niosi to the position of Special Advisor.

Mr. Niosi brings over three decades of experience across global capital markets, quantitative trading, and emerging technology platforms.

He is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of InvestDEFY, a data-science-driven analytics platform launched in 2020 that delivers advanced derivatives, volatility, and market-structure intelligence across both digital asset and traditional markets. InvestDEFY's proven data science platform has powered diverse strategies globally for large institutional clients.

Prior to founding InvestDEFY, Mr. Niosi served as Head Trader, Public Equities at British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) and as Senior Vice President, Quantitative Strategy Trading Group at GMP Securities.

Over his career, he has held senior roles across both the buy-side and sell-side, with extensive experience in scaling trading operations, deploying institutional capital, and commercializing complex financial and technology platforms.

Hydaway is building a decentralized, scalable compute marketplace designed to expand access to GPU power for AI training, inference, and high-performance workloads. As disclosed in the Company's recent updates, Hydaway has completed the alpha model of its proprietary direct-rental platform to enable developers to rent bare-metal GPU instances, and has been broadening distribution across decentralized GPU marketplaces. 

"James has a proven track record of operating at the intersection of capital markets, advanced data science, and technology commercialization," said Karl Kottmeier, Chief Executive Officer of Hydaway. Mr. Kottmeier added, "His experience scaling institutional-grade platforms and navigating complex market structures is highly relevant as we expand Hydaway's direct-rental offering and deepen distribution across decentralized GPU marketplaces."

"I'm pleased to join Hydaway's Advisory Board at an important time for the Company and the broader compute market," said James Niosi. "Decentralized GPU infrastructure is becoming increasingly strategic as AI workloads continue to scale. I look forward to supporting the team as Hydaway scales its platform and strengthens its go-to-market execution." 

Mr. Niosi will advise the Company on strategic initiatives including developing marketplace partnerships, institutional and enterprise adoption and capital markets strategy, with a focus on accelerating Hydaway's progress toward becoming a globally accessible, infrastructure-agnostic compute provider.

About the Company

The Company is a computer rendering and GPU rental service provider located in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The Company is focused on expanding access to scalable compute power and building infrastructure to support AI training, inference, and high-performance workloads.

Please visit the Company's website at www.hydawaydigital.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements", including statements respecting the services to be provided the Company and the consideration to be paid to the Company. The use of any of the words "anticipate", "continue", "estimate", "expect", "may", "will", "would", "project", "should", "believe" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward looking statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations and assumptions on which the forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements because the Company can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Since forward-looking statements address future events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. These statements speak only as of the date of this News Release. Actual results could differ materially from those currently anticipated due to a number of factors and risks including various risk factors discussed in the Company's disclosure documents which can be found under the Company's profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Correction: An earlier version of this release had paragraphs that have been amended, including the original second and fourth paragraphs. An additional three paragraphs have been added, following the second. In addition to this, the word "grow", in the second sentence two paragraphs above the boiler plate has been replaced with "continue to scale."

SOURCE Hydaway Digital Corp.

For more information, please contact: Karl Kottmeier, Chief Executive Officer, 204-252 West Esplanade, North Vancouver, BC V7M 0E9, Phone number: 604.689.7422, Email: [email protected]