Metaplanet has introduced a brand new two-tier most popular fairness construction designed to deepen its bitcoin-centric financing mannequin, launching a senior Class A instrument known as MARS and a brand new perpetual Class B most popular share, MERCURY, that’s anticipated to lift roughly $150 million.
The transfer positions the Tokyo-listed agency as the most recent main bitcoin treasury firm to undertake a perpetual most popular construction, following Strategy and Try.
MARS — brief for Metaplanet Adjustable Charge Safety — turns into the highest layer of the corporate’s capital stack. The senior most popular shares are non-dilutive, provide no conversion rights, and have month-to-month dividends that modify based mostly on the place the share trades relative to par.
In accordance with Head of Technique Dylan LeClair, the design goals to offer Metaplanet a volatility-smoothing revenue instrument whereas preserving frequent shareholders from dilution. MARS sits senior to each MERCURY and customary fairness.
Metaplanet: Increase cash, purchase bitcoin
The second layer of the construction, MERCURY, types the spine of Metaplanet’s new capital increase. The corporate plans to concern 23.61 million Class B perpetual most popular shares at ¥900 every, producing ¥21.25 billion (roughly $150 million) via a third-party allotment to institutional traders.
The popular inventory pays a 4.9% annual mounted dividend on a ¥1,000 notional strike, with quarterly distributions and an preliminary payout of ¥40.40 for the interval ending Dec. 31, 2025. The shares carry a ¥1,000 liquidation desire and a long-dated non-compulsory conversion into frequent fairness — a hybrid profile that blends mounted revenue with uneven upside tied to bitcoin.
The providing comes as Metaplanet’s frequent fairness has fallen greater than 80% from its all-time excessive and now trades round ¥387, pushing its market-to-NAV ratio beneath parity to 0.96. Traders presently worth the corporate at lower than the bitcoin it holds — a dynamic administration believes the brand new construction may help appropriate by separating long-term capital suppliers from short-term fairness flows.
“MERCURY sits junior to MARS, senior to frequent, providing a hybrid profile: mounted revenue + uneven upside tied to BTC,” LeClair posted on X.
Metaplanet, now the world’s fourth-largest corporate holder of bitcoin with 30,823 BTC, plans to allocate roughly ¥15 billion of the brand new capital towards extra bitcoin purchases, with the rest directed to income-generating bitcoin methods and the redemption of excellent company bonds.
Executives have emphasised that downturns are strategic buying opportunities, and that constant bitcoin accumulation stays elementary to its treasury mannequin.
To assist the overhaul, the corporate will convene a rare normal assembly on Dec. 22 to approve reductions to capital inventory and capital reserves, develop approved shares to three.83 billion, and clear legacy financing overhangs.
Metaplanet is cancelling a number of sequence of prior inventory acquisition rights and issuing new rights to EVO FUND to streamline its construction forward of the popular rollout.
Metaplanet was as soon as a Japanese agency rooted in resort administration, actual property, and Web3 initiatives, and has quickly reinvented itself as a publicly traded Bitcoin treasury firm. Its core mission is now to maximise Bitcoin held per share, tapping fairness and debt markets to lift capital that’s then transformed into BTC.
The corporate frames Bitcoin accumulation as each an inflation hedge and a long-term worth engine for shareholders, making its treasury technique the middle of its company identification.
On October 1, Metaplanet (TSE: 3350, OTC: MTPLF) reinforced its transformation into Asia’s “Bitcoin rocketship” by buying 5,268 BTC for about $615.7 million, bringing its complete holdings to 30,823 BTC at a mean price of $107,912 per coin.
This makes it the fourth-largest publicly traded Bitcoin treasury globally, exceeding its FY2025 objective of 30,000 BTC and reaching a 497% year-to-date BTC yield. Q3 2025 income surged 115.7% to ¥2.438 billion, prompting a doubling of FY2025 income steerage to ¥6.8 billion.
