Abaxx Exchange Reports Highest Monthly and Quarterly Trading Volume to Date, Surpassing One Million Contracts Year-to-Date

Year-to-date trading volume surpassed 1.1 million contracts, a 600% increase over full-year 2025 Second-quarter trading volume reached 888,902 contracts, a 276% increase over Q1 2026 June trading volume reached 346,501 contracts, a 21% increase over May 2026 Average daily open interest reached 1,232, increasing more than 200% over May 2026 TORONTO, July 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abaxx Technologies Inc. (TSX:ABXX)(OTCQX:ABXXF) (“ Abaxx ” or the “ Company ”), a financial software and market infrastructure company, majority shareholder of Abaxx Singapore Pte Ltd., the owner of Abaxx Commodity Exchange and Clearinghouse (individually, “ Abaxx Exchange ” and “ Abaxx Clearing ”), today reported June 2026 and second-quarter trading activity on Abaxx Exchange. June marks Abaxx Exchange’s highest-volume month to date, with average daily open interest increasing more than 200% over May Total Abaxx Exchange volume reached 346,501 contracts in June, a 21% increase compared to May and the Exchange’s highest monthly volume to date. Average daily volume (“ ADV ”) reached 16,500 contracts per day in June, Abaxx Exchange’s highest monthly ADV to date and a 9% increase over May ADV of 15,089 contracts per day.

Average daily open interest (“ OI ”) reached 1,232 in June, an increase of more than 200% over the May daily average of 399 and Abaxx Exchange’s highest monthly OI to date. Combined volume across Abaxx’s LNG futures contracts reached 42,237 contracts, the highest monthly total to date across Gulf of Mexico (GOM FOB) and North Pacific Asia (NPA DAP) futures. Silver Singapore futures (SSP), which launched May 22, totaled 105,783 contracts in June, with a single-day high of 25,550 contracts on June 25.

Q2 trading volume increased 276% quarter-over-quarter, with ADV reaching 3.8x the Q1 level Total volume in the second quarter reached 888,902 contracts, Abaxx Exchange’s highest quarterly volume to date and a 276% increase compared to Q1 2026. Q2 volume exceeded total 2025 volume by more than 450%. ADV reached 14,572 contracts per day in Q2 2026, Abaxx Exchange’s highest quarterly ADV to date and 3.8x the Q1 2026 ADV of 3,872 contracts per day.

Average daily OI reached 641 in Q2 2026, representing 2.3x the Q1 2026 average daily OI of 280. Year-to-date trading volume surpassed 1.1 million contracts in June 2026, reaching 1,125,040 contracts and exceeding total full-year 2025 volume by 600%. Detailed Abaxx Exchange market data is available at abaxx.exchange/market-data and through its data distribution partners, including LSEG, TradingView, and ipushpull.

About Abaxx Technologies Abaxx Technologies Inc. (TSX: ABXX | OTCQX: ABXXF) is building Smarter Markets: markets empowered by better tools, better benchmarks, and better technology to drive market-based solutions to the biggest challenges we face as a society, including the energy transformation and the transition to an AI-augmented economy. In addition to developing and deploying financial technologies that make communication, trade, and transactions easier and more secure, Abaxx is the majority shareholder of Abaxx Singapore, the owner of Abaxx Exchange and Abaxx Clearing, parent company of wholly owned subsidiaries Abaxx Spot and Adaptive Infrastructure, and founder and creator of Abaxx Labs and the SmarterMarkets™ podcast. For more information, visit investors.abaxx.tech , abaxx.exchange , abaxxspot.com and smartermarkets.media For more information about this press release, please contact: Steve Fray, CFO Tel: +1 647-490-1590 Media Inquiries Tara Hayes Email: tara@abaxx.tech Investor Inquiries Tel: +1 246 271 0082 E-mail: ir@abaxx.tech Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information This press release includes certain “forward-looking statements” and “forward-looking information” (collectively, “forward-looking statements”) within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities laws.

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