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Japanese investment firm Metaplanet has deepened its Bitcoin bet. On 4 August 2025, the company announced its latest purchase of 463 BTC in an acquisition valued at approximately $54 million. Metaplanet’s total BTC holdings is at 17,595 now.
CEO Simon Gerovich took to X to announce that Metaplanet has achieved a BTC yield of 459.% YTD 2025.
Asia’s Strategy (previously known as MicroStrategy) executed the purchase at an average price of $115,895 per coin. This purchase also marks the first significant Bitcoin buy of August.
Just last week, Metaplanet announced its intention to raise $3.7 billion through the issuance of perpetual preferred shares.
Metaplanet has acquired 463 BTC for ~$53.7 million at ~$115,895 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 459.2% YTD 2025. As of 8/4/2025, we hold 17,595 $BTC acquired for ~$1.78 billion at ~$101,422 per bitcoin. $MTPLF pic.twitter.com/9EyuDIMsqq
— Simon Gerovich (@gerovich) August 4, 2025
“The Company has strategically increased its Total Bitcoin Holdings through acquisitions funded by capital market activities and operating income,” the company statement said.
Metaplanet is walking in the footsteps of American firm Strategy, led by executive chairman Michael Saylor. Strategy has become world’s largest corporate holder of Bitcoin by a wide margin.
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Metaplanet: Asia’s Most Aggressive Corporate Bitcoin Holder
The Japanese company recently added more Bitcoin to its kitty on 28 July 2025.
Metaplanet launched its Bitcoin Treasury Operations in December 2024 and has since been hard at work acquiring BTCs using proceeds from capital market activities and operating income. Just a month ago, Metaplanet had 13,350 BTCs, as opposed to its 17,000-plus today. Incredibly, in the past three months alone, the company’s holdings of BTC have increased by 13000.
According to the company’s recent filing, it paid an average of ¥17.52M (approximately $119,136) per BTC, bringing its total investment in this round to ¥13.67 billion (approximately $92.93 million).
Read more: Metaplanet BTC Holdings Shoot Past 17K With 780 More Bitcoins
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