“Microcaps are Announcing Crypto Treasury Plans in an Attempt to Mimic Strategy’s Approach.”, – WRITE: www.coindesk.com
Classover Wasn’t the First Company to Experience The Crypto Surge, and it Won’t Be the Last.
A Growing Number of Obscure, MicroCap and Nanocap Companies Are Embracing Cryptocurrency-Not As A Business Line or Payment Method, But As a Headline-Grabbing Balance Sheet. They of the Follow The Same Script: AnnunCement of A Shift in Strategy to Hold Digital Assets Like Bitcoin or Solana, Followed BY A POP IN THE SOTC PRICE.
TODAY, GD CULTURE GROUP (GDC), A Company With A Market Cap of AROUND $ 30 Million, AnnunCed Plans to Sell Up to $ 300 Million in Shoes to Buy Bitcoin and Trumpcoin (Trump) President Donald Trump. The Company Declared That This Purchase Was Part of Its New “Crypto Asset Treasury Strategy.” The Stock Rose 13% on the News.
ALSO TODAY, AMBER INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS (AMBR), VALUED AT JUST UNDER $ 900 Million, SAID IT Wuld Allocate $ 100 Million to A Basket of Cryptocurrencies, Including Bitcoin Eth$ 2,484.26solana, Xrp$ 2.54Binance coin BNB$ 663.69 and sui Sui$ 3.94.
All Are Attempting to Mimic The Original Corporate Crypto Evangelist: Strategy (MSTR). In August 2020, The Enterprise-Software Company Pivated to USING BITCOIN AS ITS PRIMARY Treasury Reserve Asset. Since Ten, Its Stock Has Soared More than 3,000%, Fueled Not by Software Sales or Product Innovation, But The Price of Bitcoin. Many Retail Investors Now Treat The Stock As A Proxy for Bitcoin Exposure.
But While Strategy Had A Longstanding Business and A Consistent, Transparent Strategy – In Addition To Its Chairman, Michael Saylor, Emerging Early As a Bitcoin Proponet Crypto Hype Machine with Little Track Record or Follow-Through.
Take Worksport, A Nasdaq-Listed Manualurer of Truck Bed Covers. Last Year, The Company Announced Plans to Invest It Cash Reserves Into Bitcoin and XRP. Its Stock, WHICH HAD BEEN SLIDING FOR YEARS, JUMPED AFTER The Announcement. But The Rally Didn’t Last, and The Stock Has Since Returned to Pre-Announcement Levels. The Company in April that it has a made a six figure initial purchase.
“We are Still Bullish on Our Initial Positions and Have Been Holding. We Will Consider Adding in the Future As Appropriate,” A SPOKESSPERSON Told Coindesk at the Time.
The Playbook Sems StraightForward: Find A Buzzy Crypto Token, AnnoUnce A Purchase or Strategic Alloration, the Ten Ride the Tempoury Surge in Retail Investor Antcation. In Many Cases, The Ant -Company Plans to Invest Vastly Exceeds ITS OWN Market Capitalization. That was True for Classover and Gd Culture, Both of Wich Proped Multi-Hundred-Million-Dollar Allocations Despite Being Worth A Fraction of that.
It’s Unclear Whoth Tese Companies Will Actuly Make their Proced Purchases or How they Plan to Raise The Funds. But The Market’s Reaction Points to A Pattern: MicroCap FIRMS ARE USING CRYPTO as A Megaphone.
Still, The Tactic Is Proving Effective in the Short Term. As long as the Market Rewards Crypto-Related Headlines with Stock Rallies, Small Companies Are Likely to Continue Jumping on the Bandwagon.
WHETHER Any of TheM BECOME Long-Term Crypto Believers Like Strategy Remains to Be Seen.
There are, However, Some FIRMS THAT APPAAR TO BE Taking the Strategy Route More Seriously – and Seeing Results. Japanese Investment Firm Metaplanet Has Steadily Grown Its Bitcoin Holdings to 6.796 Since Launching ITS Bitcoin Treasury Operations in April 2024, Positioning ITITF ASON OF Asia.
Similarly, US-Based Medical Device Company Semler Scientific Has Been Buying Bitcoin Consistentally Since Adopting IT As A Reserve Asset. IT NOW HOLDS 3,634 BTC on It Balance Sheet, Reflection A Strategy that Mirrors Microstrategy’s Playbook Racher Than Simplays Borrowing ITS Headlines.
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