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Crypto Treasury Stocks Face a Reckoning. Why Boom Could Turn to Bust.

The boom in companies holding large stocks of cryptos has been a hot play this year, but that trade is now at risk of imploding and dragging down the rest of the sector with it.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/crypto-treasury-stocks-strategy-bitcoin-80005ff0

After a flurry of billion-dollar raises, hundreds of newly minted crypto firms are now fighting to justify their valuations and prove their treasury strategies amount to more than hype.
Inthe span of just a few months, a corporate copycat phenomenon has swept through digital assets.

The playbook, pioneered by Michael Saylor’s bitcoin-hoarding behemoth, Strategy, is ostensibly simple: create or rebrand a publicly traded company, raise money through debt and equity, use the proceeds to buy a single cryptocurrency (usually bitcoin, but increasingly others like ether, solana and avalanche) and market the stock as a safer and often leveraged way for investors to gain crypto exposure without holding the tokens themselves.

Fueled by rising crypto prices and a friendlier regulatory environment for digital assets, the model has worked spectacularly for some. Since Strategy’s first bitcoin purchase in August 2020, its stock is up over 2,200% and has mostly traded for a significant premium to the value of the bitcoin it holds on its balance sheet. Japan’s Metaplanet, which adopted a similar “digital asset treasury” (DAT) model in April 2024, has soared 3,830% since it began buying crypto.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2025/10/13/inside-the-150-billion-bitcoin-treasury-boom-shakeout