Metaplanet’s $1.4B Bitcoin Bet: Now the 5th Largest BTC Whale in 2025

Move over, MicroStrategy—Tokyo’s Metaplanet just dropped $1.4B on 2,205 BTC, rocketing past Tesla and El Salvador’s holdings overnight. Corporate balance sheets are the new crypto hedge funds.

Why the frenzy? The firm’s CFO cited ‘asymmetric upside’—or maybe they noticed fiat currencies inflate like expired birthday balloons. Either way, their vault now holds more BTC than 99% of nations.

Wall Street analysts are scrambling to update spreadsheets while Bitcoin maxis smugly tweet ‘Told you so.’ The playbook? Buy hard assets while central banks play monopoly with money printers.

One question remains: When do we start calling these companies ‘banks’—just without the pesky FDIC insurance?

Metaplanet, a prominent investment platform based in Japan, has made a historic development with latest Bitcoin ($BTC) buyout. As per Simon Gerovich, the CEO of Metaplanet, the company has spent $239M to purchase 2,205 $BTC, becoming 5th among the top entities with maximum Bitcoin holdings across the globe. The executive took to social media to announce this remarkable development.

Metaplanet has acquired 2,205 BTC for ~$238.7 million at ~$108,237 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 416.6% YTD 2025. As of 7/7/2025, we hold 15,555 $BTC acquired for ~$1.54 billion at ~$99,307 per bitcoin. $MTPLF pic.twitter.com/ec7l2JWmb2

Metaplanet Becomes Top Fifth Bitcoin Holders by Adding 2,205 $BTC

Simon Gerovich has revealed that Metaplanet has acquired up to 2,205 $BTC while spending $238.7M. As a result of this, the firm has attained the top fifth rank among the entities with maximum Bitcoin holdings. In this respect, the average price of this buyout is $108,237 per $BTC.

Hence, after adding this amount, Metaplanet’s cumulative Bitcoin holdings have reached 15,555 BTC. On the other hand, Strategy of Michael Saylor stands atop the corporate Bitcoin holders. In particular, it possesses 597,325 $BTC. However, Metaplanet has also witnessed robust revenue growth, amassing up to 1.1B yen (almost $7.6M) during 2025’s 2nd quarter, denoting a 42.4% year-over-year spike.

Targeting to Amass 210,000 $BTC by 2027’s End

With the latest buyout of 2,205 $BTC, Metaplanet is now readying to achieve next milestones in the NEAR future. According to the Metaplanet CEO, the platform is developing a scalable, sustainable, and operationally effective business. Before this, the firm revealed a revised target of holding more than 210,00 $BTC by the year 2027’s end. Hence, this $BTC purchase is just the beginning of the firm’s groundbreaking journey to collect Bitcoin.