E-Bike Maker’s Shares Soar 135% on $500 Million Bitcoin Treasury Plan – Decrypt

Shares of electrical automobile maker Volcon soared practically 135% on Thursday after the corporate introduced that it could elevate $500 million to kick-start a Bitcoin treasury, becoming a member of a rising variety of companies constructing BTC treasuries as a serious element of their company methods. 

The agency has entered into an settlement to promote 50,142,851 shares of its frequent inventory at $10 per share by means of a non-public placement, based on the assertion. The agency will use 95% of the roughly $500 million it raises to purchase Bitcoin.

“In an period of accelerating financial debasement, holding Bitcoin on our stability sheet represents a strategic transfer to safeguard shareholder worth and align with a digital future,” Volcon Co-CEO John Kim mentioned Thursday in a press release. 

The deal comes as a slew of public corporations are including Bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies to their stability sheets to enhance their financials. The corporate reported a internet lack of greater than $45 million in 2024. Volcon’s share worth has dropped greater than 35% this 12 months. 

Michael Saylor’s software program agency Technique, which started shopping for billions of {dollars} in Bitcoin in 2020, popularized the playbook and now holds greater than $72 billion value of BTC.

Greater than 140 corporations have added Bitcoin to their coffers, holding a mixed whole of $102.2 billion value of the cryptocurrency, based on information from bitocointreasuries.internet. Technique’s holdings account for greater than two-thirds of that quantity, the identical information exhibits. Gambing advertising and marketing agency SharpLink and DeFi Improvement Corp. amongst others, have pivoted over the previous few months to constructing Ethereum and Solana treasuries, respectively. 

Empery Asset Administration is main Volcon’s personal placement, with participation from FalconX, Pantera, Borderless, RK Capital, and Relayer Capital. It’s anticipated to shut round July 21. 

Volcon is a Texas-based designer, developer and vendor of electrical off-road powersport autos. Its product line consists of the Brat, a motorcycle-like automobile for metropolis of us, and the Grunt e-bike for “searching and nature dwelling.”

Bitcon was just lately buying and selling at about $120,200, up about 3% over the previous week, based on crypto markets information supplier CoinGecko.