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Metaplanet is cutting executive rewards after concluding that later Bitcoin purchases created less value per share.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 11, the Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury company announced it has reset its Series 10 stock acquisition rights, eliminating more than $220 million in warrant value. This also removes compensation generated by share issuance after September 2025, when its capital raises began producing sharply weaker gains in Bitcoin per diluted share.<\/p>\n

The move will cancel 131.3 million potential shares, or 41.1% of the Series 10 pool, and reduce the remaining unexercised shares by 55.5% to about 105.4 million.<\/p>\n

More significantly, Metaplanet has drawn a line between expanding its Bitcoin holdings and creating enough per-share value to justify additional management compensation.<\/p>\n

Metaplanet draws a line at its September 2025 financing<\/h2>\n

The reset dates back to when Metaplanet says the economics of its capital raising began to change.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s board reviewed previous equity financings based on the premium to Bitcoin net asset value at which shares were sold, the BTC Yield generated, and the resulting shareholder value. Financings through mid-2025 were completed at multiples of Bitcoin NAV and produced substantial increases in Bitcoin per fully diluted share.<\/p>\n

That changed with Metaplanet\u2019s September 2025 international offering and subsequent capital raises, which were completed at more modest premiums to NAV. The transactions still added Bitcoin per share, but at a much slower rate than earlier financings.<\/p>\n

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich said the September offering marked the point when capital raises became \u201cless accretive\u201d and the Series 10 structure began giving holders disproportionate value relative to existing shareholders.<\/p>\n

Metaplanet\u2019s BTC Yield reached 129.4% in the second quarter of 2025 as Bitcoin holdings jumped to 13,350 BTC from 4,046 BTC. It fell to 33% in the following quarter and 11.9% in the fourth quarter, before dropping to 2.8% in the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n

That declining accretion created a problem for the Series 10 structure because the potential executive share pool had been designed to adjust alongside Metaplanet\u2019s diluted share count. As the company issued more stock to buy Bitcoin, management\u2019s potential entitlement could expand even when each financing generated progressively less Bitcoin for existing shareholders.<\/p>\n

Metaplanet initially addressed the issue in August by eliminating the automatic adjustment mechanism and fixing the Series 10 pool at 319.5 million potential shares, using its June 30, 2026 share count as the reference point.<\/p>\n

However, investor criticism continued.<\/p>\n

The board has now gone substantially further, replacing June 2026 with Sept. 1, 2025 as the reference date and resetting the conversion ratio to 410 shares per Series 10 right from 696.<\/p>\n

Matthew Sigel, VanEck\u2019s head of digital assets research, called the revision a \u201cmeaningful concession,\u201d saying it better aligns management with shareholders. He also noted that the revision would see the firm’s \u201cCEO forfeit $123 million of controversial Series 10 comp.\u201d<\/p>\n