Monster week for crypto treasury firms with $8B buying blitz
Cointelegraph analyzed 16 company statements since Monday, which either announced a plan to buy or raise money for crypto. Ether was the hottest target.
At least five public companies have bought or have promised to purchase over $3 billion worth of ETH, which is around 45 times more than the amount of ETH issued in the past week.
The so-called crypto treasury companies are the latest Wall Street fad as traditional financiers, often restricted from being able to directly buy crypto or related exchange-traded products, look to gain exposure to the rapidly growing sector. ETH popularity rises for corporate crypto bet
Bitcoin miner BTCS Inc. on Tuesday filed plans to sell up to $2 billion in shares to fund future purchases of Ether.
Joe Lubin's Sharplink Gaming, already the second-largest Ethereum treasury firm, boosted the total further by buying up $338 million worth of ETH with two separate buys on Monday and Thursday.
The Ether Machine also scooped up the asset this week, purchasing 15,000 ETH for around $57 million.
Meanwhile, two more Ether buying companies were born this week, with the biotech firm 180 Life Sciences Corp rebranding to ETHZilla Corporation in a $425 million deal and merchant banker Fundamental Global rebranding to FG Nexus in a $200 million deal. Crypto treasury companies also hot on altcoins
Crypto treasury companies were also dazzled by altcoins this week.
The biggest altcoin-buying announcement came from Tron Inc., a penny stock toy company taken over by Justin Sun's Tron blockchain, which said on Monday it wants to raise $1 billion to buy the blockchain's Tron token.
Another three companies signalled plans to buy either Solana, Sui or BNB — a token with close ties to the crypto exchange Binance.
The most notable treasury firm to form this week was CEA Industries, a Canadian vape company turned BNB buying firm after a takeover by investment firm 10X Capital and YZi Labs. The firm once described itself as the family office of Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao.
It plans to raise at least $500 million with plans to potentially unlock up to $1.25 billion to buy BNB, which was reportedly owned mainly by Zhao and Binance.
On Thursday, tech company Cemtrex Inc. said it bought $1 million worth of SOL with the goal of expanding to $10 million, while on Monday, the lender Mill City Ventures III completed a $450 million deal to pivot to buying Sui. Crypto buying firms hold $100 billion, but not without risks
Galaxy Research analyst Will Owens wrote in a report on Wednesday that crypto treasury companies collectively held over $100 billion worth of crypto, $93 billion of which was Bitcoin.
The business model isn't without its risks, Owens said, and not all are equally valued as investors apply 'widely different' equity premiums to a company's net asset value.
Michael Saylor's Strategy, for example, had an equity premium of 58%, which Owens said reflected its 'scale and maturity,' while Japan's Metaplanet traded at a premium of 179% due to its 'aggressive capital formation model.'
He added that the business model 'critically depends on a persistent equity premium to NAV. If the premium collapses, or worse, flips to a discount, the model begins to break.'
'The treasury company trade is becoming increasingly crowded,' Owens said. 'When hundreds of firms adopt the same one-directional trade (raise equity, buy crypto, repeat), it can become structurally fragile. A downturn in any of these three variables (investor sentiment, crypto prices, and capital markets liquidity) can start to unravel the rest.' Strategy helps boost Bitcoin buys
Bitcoin remained a popular choice for crypto treasury firms such as Strategy, with seven companies proposing or buying a total of $2.7 billion in Bitcoin.
Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, bought 21,021 Bitcoin after raising $2.5 billion from its fourth preferred stock, STRC.
The UK's The Smarter Web Company also spent about $26.5 million on 225 Bitcoin, and Metaplanet bought 780 Bitcoin for around $92 million.
One new Bitcoin treasury company was spun up through the energy company ZOOZ Power Ltd. on Tuesday, with plans for a $180 million deal to buy Bitcoin.
Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-treasury-firms-8-billion-crypto-buys
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