📰 Metaplanet originally raised funds to buy BTC by issuing additional shares, but ended up lighting up the flame under its shareholders instead. The company’s executive option pool has ballooned from an initial 46 million shares to 319.464 million shares of potential stock. Shareholders are now demanding that roughly 273 million of those shares be revoked.
🔥 This option adjustment mechanism was originally designed to keep the reward pool at around 20% of fully diluted share capital. But after the company switched to a BTC treasury model in 2024, the total number of shares rose from about 153.9 million to 1.28 billion by the end of June 2026, and the option pool grew along with it.
To be honest, Metaplanet scrapped this mechanism on August 18, but only froze the expanded scale—it did not claw back the extra shares. In other words, the mechanism stopped, but the dilution pressure that had already accumulated remains.
👀 What’s even more uncomfortable for shareholders is that CEO Gerovich then exercised 92,000 subscription rights, receiving 64.032 million newly issued shares at an exercise price of 10 yen per share, for a total outlay of about 640.32 million yen. These shares have a five-year lock-up period—typically they can’t be sold until around August 2031—but after the new share issuance, dilution has already occurred.
💡 This also directly affects Metaplanet’s “BTC per share” metric. Based on the company’s 43,000 BTC and about 1.63 billion fully diluted shares, each share corresponds to roughly 2,635 sats; if the 273 million shares of potential stock are excluded, the theoretical figure could rise to about 3,166 sats—a gap close to 20%.
🤔 The question now is quite simple: should the company keep the rewards that have already been generated, or should it redo an incentive scheme tied to BTC holdings and shareholder returns, as shareholders are asking? Are you on the side of the shareholders, or do you think executives should still get that money?
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