Japanese Firm Metaplanet Acquires $623M in Bitcoin, Becomes 4th-Largest Corporate Holder

Japanese Metaplanet has purchased 5,268 Bitcoin for $623 million, bringing its total holdings to 30,823 BTC, worth approximately $3.3 billion at an average acquisition price of $108,038 per ￰0￱ Tokyo-listed company now ranks as the fourth-largest corporate Bitcoin holder globally, surpassing its fiscal year 2025 target of 30,000 BTC ahead of schedule.) October 1, 2025 The plan includes three revenue ￰1￱ Bitcoin Income Generation through proprietary options trading, ￰2￱ platform revenue from media and conferences, and Project NOVA, a classified initiative scheduled for 2026 ￰3￱ is scaling sophisticated trading operations by onboarding global talent with expertise in institutional ￰4￱ revenue expansion will support planned perpetual preferred share issuances capped at 6% annual dividend yield, approved at the September 1 Extraordinary General Meeting, though not yet ￰5￱ targets a perpetual preferred capacity of 25% of net asset value initially, with the potential to expand as revenue ￰6￱ A perpetual preferreds will be non-convertible with no common equity dilution, while Class B may partially dilute upon ￰7￱ company is considering listing these securities pending consultation with the exchange, although no formal examination has ￰8￱ Group Takes 11.45% Stake as Stock Trades Below Bitcoin Holdings Capital Group acquired an 11.45% stake , worth nearly $500 million, through its subsidiary, Capital Research and Management Company, becoming Metaplanet’s largest ￰9￱ $2.6 trillion asset manager increased ownership from 8.31% in August to 11.39% by September 17, surpassing the previous largest shareholder, National Financial ￰10￱ investment validates the corporate Bitcoin treasury model as over 196 public companies now hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets, totaling more than $120 billion in combined ￰11￱ investment coincided with Metaplanet’s $1.45 billion international offering completed on September 17 , which issued 385 million new common shares to qualified institutional ￰12￱ company raised over 500 billion yen ($3.34 billion) through multiple financing mechanisms, including moving strike warrants, convertible bonds, and equity offerings, since adopting its Bitcoin treasury ￰13￱ Trump also joined Metaplanet’s advisory board in March and appeared at shareholder meetings to support the Bitcoin-focused strategy.

Metaplanet’s ￰14￱ initiative will serve as the distribution gateway for Bitcoin-related content, education, products, and services in ￰15￱ premium domain platform will generate revenue through multi-channel partnerships, advertising, white-labeled services, and affiliate programs while hosting Bitcoin Magazine Japan and the Bitcoin Japan 2027 ￰16￱ the time of publication, Bitcoin is trading at close $116,000 after a 2.53% increase in the past 24 hours.