The Crypto exchange is all set to form a global crypto treasury firm with a 30% stake in Japanese company MHT. Marusho Hotta will be rebranded as Bitcoin.jp.
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With the announcement of Bakkt news it has closed a share purchase deal with RIZAP Group’s Marusho Hotta Co. Ltd. (MHT). The agreement is to buy 30% of the outstanding shares of Marusho Hotta. This acquisition will make the firm largest shareholder of Marusha.
Phillip Lord, President of BKKT is appointed as CEO of Marusho Hotta who will take care of its new venture of cryptocurrency reserve and it will include investing in BTC and other cryptocurrency.
Bakkt co-CEO Akshay Naheta explained the transaction as the beginning of Bakkt's crypto holdings play and said that Japan's legislative framework provides the company the "ideal platform for a Bitcoin-centered growth business." The business stated that it hopes to collaborate with the RIZAP group to incorporate bitcoin into its financial and operational strategies.
The company also purchased a web domain in the name of its new Bitcoin resreve firm www.bitcoin.jp, which is subject to approval of MHT’ shareholders, to become the new name.The Bakkt news of the deal is a step in transformation into a cryptocurrency reserve company. Bakkt announced to raise up to 1M last month, with some of the profits going toward buying bitcoin. The organisation also filed a larger proposal in late June to raise up to $1 billion for a cryptoreserve drive for crypto assets. According to reports, Bakkt's stock plummeted when the $75 million transaction went on sale last week.
The crypto exchange was founded in 2018 and was initially to help with companies to buy,sell and store cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin futures. According to Yahoo financial data the company’s share price seeks a slight growth of 2.25% and closed at a price of 9.77.
Source: Yahoo Finance
Following the Bakkt news, the yarn company's stock price skyrocketed by almost 35%. In the past week, its share price fluctuated between 40 and 50. When the Bitcoin Treasury announcement was released yesterday, the share price closed at 113. On the Tokyo Stock Exchange, it is traded with the ticker 8105.
From a yarn company to BTC treasury holdings Marusho Hotta has come a long way. With just the Bakkat news of making it digital assets treasury the companies overall growth hiked. This kind of optimisms towards cryptocurrency is creating chaos among the crypto traders and users. This treasury trend setter is the new way organisations are expanding nowadays.
Source: Bitcointreasury.net
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