Wall Street loves selling crypto treasury stocks
Over the last quarter, Wall Street brokers figured out how to sell expensive crypto-backed equities, and investors’ appetite for new ticker symbols is ravenous . Observing the success of MicroStrategy’s persistent, multi-billion dollar premium to its bitcoin (BTC) holdings, a cornucopia of companies boasting about their BTC and altcoin treasuries have spawned onto stock markets across the globe. Six months ago, there were less than 70 public companies holding BTC. Today, there are over 130. In addition, there are now various altcoin treasury companies holding ether (ETH), solana (SOL), XRP, and other assets. Booming market for publicly-listed crypto treasuries Consider Tether and Bitfinex’s version of MicroStrategy, Twenty One (CEP), which rallied to over 300% the value of its BTC within one day of its debut on public markets. Other publicly traded crypto treasury companies have performed even better. Upexi rallied above a 4x multiple-to-net asset value (m...