Remixpoint (3825), a Japanese power consulting agency that determined to construct up cryptocurrency reserves, boosted its holdings by greater than 8,000% within the 9 months ended Dec. 31 and is now near having spent its goal of 10 billion yen ($65 million).
The Tokyo-based firm held 5.8 billion yen ($38 million) of crypto at year-end, up from 68 million on March 31. It had spent 9 billion yen on crypto as of Thursday, it stated in an earnings presentation, with out giving the present worth of its holdings.
Whereas Remixpoint focuses on power consultancy, it has lately expanded to offer cryptocurrency transaction companies after beginning to investing in bitcoin (BTC) as a hedge in opposition to the depreciation of the Japanese foreign money. That is the identical technique as Metaplanet, a Japanese funding firm whose BTC funding program introduced final April despatched its inventory hovering by a number of thousand %.
The lion’s share of Remixpoint’s investments have been allotted to bitcoin whereas the agency invested additionally invested in ether (ETH), SOL XRP and dogecoin (DOGE).
The funding has revealed within the fiscal third-quarter earnings report that noticed a revenue of 1.35 billion yen and an unrealized acquire of 658 million on its cryptocurrency holdings. Beginning November 2024 the corporate began recognizing valuation positive aspects and losses on its cryptocurrency holdings as part of income.
The agency elevated its cryptocurrency accumulation given the rally in cryptocurrency costs since Donald Trump’s victory within the U.S. presidential elections, bringing in a friendlier regulatory atmosphere for the crypto trade.
The corporate’s shares have surged greater than 360% since Trump’s electoral victory. Since then, the agency has accelerated its crypto accumulation, greater than quadrupling its bitcoin holdings to 125.2 BTC.
Remixpoint’s shares tumbled 15% on Friday, whereas the broader Nikkei 225 index dropped simply 0.79%.