Metaplanet Buys 5,075 BTC for $405M to Become 3rd Largest Corporate Treasury

Metaplanet’s climb to third place was partly handed to it by MARA, which sold 15K BTC in March, cutting its holdings to 38,689.

Metaplanet has acquired 5,075 Bitcoin for $405.48 million during Q1 2026 at an average price of $79,898 per BTC, to bring its total holdings to 40,177.

The purchase has moved the Japanese firm past MARA Holdings into third place among public companies with Bitcoin reserves, making it the first non-American corporate holder to break into the top three.

Metaplanet Climbs Rankings After Aggressive Q1

CEO Simon Gerovich announced the Q1 figures in an X post on April 2, noting that Metaplanet had achieved a year-to-date Bitcoin yield of 2.8%. The new purchase brought the company’s aggregate cost basis to just over $104,000, with its entire stash bought for approximately $4.18 billion.

That average is well above where BTC is trading today, with the cryptocurrency sitting below $67,000 after being rattled by proclamations made by U.S. President Donald Trump about his country’s next steps in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. At the current price, Metaplanet’s stash is worth about $2.6 billion, putting it in the red on paper for more than $1.5 billion.

The Tokyo-listed firm’s climb to third was helped in part by MARA’s sale of 15,133 BTC in March, which raised roughly $1.1 billion to buy back convertible notes and shore up its balance sheet. It allowed Jack Maller’s Twenty One Capital, holding 43,514 BTC, to move into second place, while Metaplanet’s 5,075 BTC buy took its ownership from 35,102 units to over 40,000, past MARA’s much-reduced 38,689 Bitcoin.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy is still king of the hill by far. Recall that a recent purchase of more than 1,000 BTC for almost $77 million took its holdings to 762,099, all bought for over $57 billion but valued at around $50 billion at the time of writing.

Transparency Questions and Long-Term Targets

In February and March 2026, Metaplanet sold shares and issued warrants to third parties as part of a larger deal worth about $255 million to help fund its Bitcoin accumulation.

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However, its aggressive strategy has come under fire, and Gerovich has had to publicly defend the company against critics who questioned the timing and disclosure of past Bitcoin purchases, calling the accusations “inflammatory and contrary to the facts.”

Furthermore, he maintained that all purchases are announced when made and that wallet addresses are available through a live public dashboard.

He added that options positions the company runs, including put selling, are disclosed in financial statements, noting that Bitcoin per share, the company’s primary performance metric, grew more than 500% in 2025.

Metaplanet has said in the past that it wants to own 100,000 BTC by the end of 2026 and 210,000 next year. But as things stand, reaching those figures would require it to more than double its current holdings within nine months and then more than quintuple them in 2027.