Investor and entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano is rolling his personal outfit, ProCap BTC LLC, into blank-check agency Columbus Circle Capital to type ProCap Monetary, a brand new Nasdaq-listed enterprise constructed round Bitcoin.
The deal values the mixed entity at roughly $1 billion and comes with an eye catching conflict chest: Pompliano says ProCap has already secured $750 million from institutional backers to ascertain what would be the largest opening Bitcoin treasury ever assembled by a public firm.
As soon as the transaction closes, ProCap shares will commerce beneath the image CCCM. Administration’s technique is two-pronged: accumulate BTC on the stability sheet and spin up income strains—lending, custody, and different “Bitcoin-native” providers—that may monetize these holdings over time.
The announcement drew fast reward from Michael Saylor, whose agency Technique (previously MicroStrategy) stays the benchmark for company Bitcoin treasuries with greater than 592,000 cash.
Pompliano replied that Saylor’s blueprint is “going international,” citing a rising record of corporations including BTC to their reserves. Simply final week, company patrons tucked away one other $1.24 billion in Bitcoin, and Japan’s Metaplanet revealed a brand new 1,111-coin buy, lifting its stash to 11,111 BTC.
With contemporary capital in hand and a public itemizing on deck, ProCap now joins that small however headline-grabbing membership of companies treating Bitcoin as a major treasury asset—and betting they’ll construct worthwhile companies on prime of it.