Jack Mallers’ Twenty One Capital is now the second-largest publicly traded Bitcoin treasury by BTC holdings, after miner MARA bought off a portion of its holdings and fell to the quantity three spot.
The newly fashioned Bitcoin (BTC) treasury firm holds 43,514 BTC in its company treasury, valued at over $2.9 billion utilizing the market value on the time of this writing, based on knowledge from BitcoinTreasuries.
Twenty One Capital was publicly listed late final 12 months following its enterprise mixture with Cantor Fairness Companions, a particular objective acquisition firm. Now buying and selling below the ticker XXI, the NYSE-listed shares are down greater than 25% 12 months thus far.
MARA bought 15,133 BTC, valued at about $1.1 billion, all through March 2026. The subsequent largest publicly traded Bitcoin holder is Japanese BTC treasury firm Metaplanet with 35,100. Bitcoin Treasuries analyst Tyler Rowe in a notice Thursday stated:
“For the business, it is a cautionary sign. MARA borrowed aggressively to stack sats in the course of the bull run and is now promoting Bitcoin at a loss to service that debt. That is the exact state of affairs critics of debt-fueled treasury methods have warned about.”
This aggressive borrowing is in “sharp distinction” to the enterprise mannequin popularized by BTC treasury firm Technique, which treats BTC as “perpetual digital credit score,” utilizing it as collateral to repeatedly finance BTC acquisitions.
“Can miners sustainably function as Bitcoin treasury corporations with out the capital markets infrastructure Saylor spent 5 years constructing,” Rowe stated within the notice shared with Cointelegraph.
Some market observers notice the change alerts the capitulation of crypto treasury and mining corporations amid a difficult enterprise atmosphere, worsened by the crypto bear market that began in October 2025 and declining share costs.
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Analysts forecast the decline of the crypto treasury house in 2025
In June 2025, enterprise capital agency Breed stated that just a few crypto treasury corporations would survive the “dying spiral” of contracting market web asset values (mNAVs) by sustaining a value premium that will enable these corporations to safe extra financing.
As entry to low cost financing choices disappears, corporations buying and selling at or under their web asset worth must promote their BTC holdings to satisfy debt obligations, based on Breed.
Firms that deal with their crypto holdings as a speculative guess, relatively than a long-term play, had been more likely to capitulate between cycles, Deng Chao, CEO of asset supervisor HashKey Capital, instructed Cointelegraph.
On the similar time, crypto treasury corporations with a disciplined treasury technique would final via a number of cycles, he stated.
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