The interest of large companies in Bitcoin (BTC) continues to increase. In Asia, Metaplanet stands out as the largest listed holder of the digital currency. The company can’t get enough of it and now presents a new plan to expand the stock with billions.
Largest stock sales so far
Metaplanet has recently established new conditions for an international share issue worth 1.45 billion dollars. The company wants to attract capital outside the Japanese national borders. The plan is to invest almost 90 percent of the proceeds directly in Bitcoin.
In concrete terms, this means that 385 million new shares are being issued, priced at 553 yen each (approximately $ 3.73). From the net revenue of 1.39 billion dollars, 1.25 billion dollars is used to buy Bitcoin.
Investors respond enthusiastically to the news. The share of Metaplanet today is at a profit of 16.3 percent. That revival followed on a solid price fall from yesterday and a falling trend that lasted for weeks.
In addition to the large-scale Bitcoin purchases, Metaplanet reserves around $ 139 million for its so-called Bitcoin ‘Income Generation Business’. This refers to trading BTC options, a strategy that produces extra premium income on top of the value increase of their Bitcoin stock.
In the second quarter of 2025 this already yielded more than 12.7 million dollars in turnover, and with the new investment, Metaplanet wants to further scale up this activity to become profitable on an annual basis.
In his explanation, Metaplanet mentions the rising national debt of Japan, the ongoing negative real interest rate and the weakening yen as important reasons to fully build his strategy around Bitcoin.
The ‘Asian strategy’ continues to stack
The stock sales follows shortly after the company has taken Bitcoin again. Earlier this week, Metaplanet reported the purchase of 136 BTC, with a total value of more than 15 million dollars. The average purchase price was $ 111,666 each. This brings the total BTC position of the company to 20,136 Bitcoin, good for a market value of around 2.27 billion dollars.
With that huge pile, Metaplanet is now the sixth largest listed Bitcoin holder in the world. Strategy, Michael Saylor’s company, remains the largest player with 638,460 BTC in possession. In total, public companies now hold more than 1 million BTC, which amounts to more than five percent of the current circulating stock.
Nasdaq intervenes: stricter rules for crypto companies
While Metaplanet wants to pick up more capital for the purchase of BTC through a share sales, the American Tech Fair Nasdaq is turning the thumb screws. Companies must now first request approval from their shareholders if they want to increase their crypto reserves through stock issues.
Source: https://newsbit.nl/metaplanet-wil-bitcoin-kas-vergroten-met-grootste-aandelenverkoop-ooit/
