On August 12, Japanese investment firm Metaplanet bought an additional 518 bitcoin (BTC) for approximately $61.4 M, at an average price of $118,964.74 per bitcoin. With this acquisition, MetaPlanet now holds a total of 18,113 BTC.
Simon Gerovich, CEO of Meta Planet, posted on X that the company’s average purchase price of all of its BTC holdings is around $1.85 billion, with the average price of about $101,911 per bitcoin. He has also revealed that the company has achieved a BTC Yield of 468.1% YTD for 2025.
This acquisition comes 11 days after the firm’s filing to raise up to 555 billion yen to buy more bitcoin through a share sale. The filing went public on August 1, 2025, it came into effect on August 9, 2025, and was valid until August 8, 2027.
Moreover, MetaPlanet’s recent purchase was on August 4, 2025, when the firm acquired 463 BTC for $53.7 million in a consistent process of building a strong Bitcoin Strategy. The filing is part of a wider goal to acquire 210,000 BTC by 2027.
The regular bitcoin acquisitions by MetaPlanet highlight the company’s strategic change to become a Bitcoin-forward institutional investor, following in the footsteps of well-known companies such as MicroStrategy. MicroStrategy recently added 155 BTC worth $18 million at $116,401 per BTC, totaling its holding of 6,28,946 bitcoins.
As of now, MetaPlanet is rapidly emerging as one of the largest Bitcoin-holding public companies globally, reflecting a growing institutional appetite for digital assets in Japan and beyond.
As a result of a growing institutional demand for digital assets in Japan and elsewhere, MetaPlanet is currently quickly becoming one of the biggest publicly traded firms that owns BTC worldwide.
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