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METAPLANET'S mNAV IS HERE TO STAY🔥
Seeing the "ETF demand" argument pop up against Metaplanet is a HILARIOUS example of history repeating itself.
Let's dismantle it and justify a GALACTIC-level premium for Metaplanet:
Reflexive Accretion Loop:
Share price ≈ ¥1,800 vs embedded BTC-NAV ≈ ¥280 → 6-7× mNAV.
Every ¥1 issued above NAV buys more BTC, nudges NAV up, and validates an even bigger premium.
Positive feedback on steroids.
“555 Million” Moving-Strike Warrants
3 tranches (#20-22) equal 92 % of float.
Strike resets to 100/101/102 % of 3-day VWAP, harvesting upside instead of dumping discounted shares.
Max raise ≈ ¥770 B (≈ US $4.9 B) earmarked 100 % for Bitcoin.
Translation: the premium literally finances itself.
Zero-Cost Yen Debt
Sub-1 % bank lines + zero-coupon converts.
Infinite carry when BTC outpaces Japan’s 30-year yield curve (read: forever).
Float Hostage Clauses
Management can suspend warrant exercise for five trading days and execute two-week buy-backs.
Supply elasticity → negative. Shorts get sautéed; upward pressure stays unrelieved.
No ETF? Premium Lives.
ETF Arrives? Premium Survives.
Once a spot ETF lists, it’ll share the 20 % cap-gains lane but won’t offer leverage, convertibles, or warrant alchemy.
Institutional traders still reach for the higher-beta equity wrapper.
Narrative & Liquidity Gravity
“Japan’s Strategy” meme dominates headlines; daily volume rivals U.S. mid-caps.
Algorithms chase the story, retail chases the algos, and premium becomes self-fulfilling prophecy.
Carry-Trade Candy & Corporate Experiments
Firms can pledge 3350.T as collateral at 0 % margin, recycle yen into higher-yield plays, and never touch crypto rails.
Meanwhile Metaplanet teases Lightning hotels, sovereign mining JVs, and a 210 K-BTC war chest by 2027 - optionalities ETFs simply cannot print.
The bottom line is that Metaplanet isn’t mis-priced... it’s structurally over-capitalized by design.
High mNAV is the product, not a side-effect.
Until Japan abolishes tax arbitrage and outlaws financial reflexivity (good luck), expect the premium to continue to LEVITATE.
Fuelled by cheap yen, reset-on-the-fly warrants, and a retail crowd that wants Bitcoin exposure without the tax guillotine.
Welcome to the Rising-Sun reflexivity loop.
This is going to last a long time.