Japan is home to $14.9 trillion in household finance assets, but the bond market offers some of the lowest returns in developed countries. In 10 years, Japanese government bonds generated just 1%, and corporate bonds often struggle to clear 2%. For decades, pension funds, insurance companies and banks have been locked in low-turn allocations simply because they had no compliant and familiar options.
Metaplanet’s second quarter earnings announcement aims directly at this gap. The company announced:
“Metaplanet Prefs” – A Bitcoin Support Preferred Stock Program designed to expand the operations of the Bitcoin Ministry of Finance. Plans to build a yield curve for Bitcoin support in Japan’s bond market.
In markets that even “high yields” mean low single digits, 7-12% are provided with well-structured Bitcoin-assisted preferred stocks to provide serious attention and serious capital.
Record Q2 Growth Fuel Bitcoin Support Priority Share Strategy
Metaplanet’s second quarter not only unveiled a new funding model, but also provided one of the most powerful quarters in the company’s history. Both revenue and profitability have skyrocketed, but assets and net assets have increased, highlighting the size currently operating.
Metaplanet Q2 Revenue Results:
Revenue: ¥1.239b ($8.4m) +41%QOQ Total profit: ¥816M ($5.5M) +38%QOQ Regular profit: ¥17.4b ($117.8m) vs. -6.9B Net profit: ¥11.1B ($75.1M) vs. -¥5.0b Asset QOQ Net worth: ¥201.0B ($1.36B) +299%QOQ
This surge in financial performance will strengthen Metaplanet’s reliability with investors and use its momentum to deploy Bitcoin-backed preferred stocks on a large scale to gain shares in Japan’s vast but yielding bond market.
BTC-backed priority equity: How Metaplanet Play Works
Preferred shares are between obligations and common stock in the company’s capital structure. Provides dividend priorities, higher liquidation claims and predictable payments.
Metaplanet’s Bitcoin-backed preferred stock is designed as follows:
It offers significantly higher yields than JGB, while retaining a format familiar to Japanese institutions. Avoid refinancing risks related to the maturity of your obligation. Diversify funding sources for BTC accumulation beyond the issuance of Common Equity.
Precedent: Multiclass stack of strategies
Strategies (previously micro-strategic) already show what is possible. The company has built a stack of Bitcoin-backed priority equity classes.
A low volatility, income-focused class for conservative buyers. Convertible priority combining bonds and BTC upside down. A high yield class aimed at risk-resistant investors.
By matching each issue to market demand, the strategy has increased billions and increased its Bitcoin holdings to over 500,000 BTC.
Metaplanet incorporates the same multi-class concept into a market where preferred stock issuance is rare, investor bases are yielded, and Bitcoin-backed preferred stocks can see rapid adoption.
Japan’s capital market: $14.9 trillion opportunities
Japan’s bond market faces decades of zero yields, with fewer options to generate income, leaving trillions in capital. This rarity makes it uniquely prepared for high-yield devices like Bitcoin-backed preferred stocks.
Japan’s household financial assets collapse as follows:
$9.5 trillion bonds $6.8 trillion shares $7.6 trillion cash and deposits
The listed preferred stock market is only $2.7 billion, less than 0.02% of total financial assets. However, the demand for stable, revenue-oriented products is immeasurable.
The gaps are as follows: Bitcoin support’s priority share, which earns 8%, offers 8x JGB returns and 4x returns for 10 years. In a familiar structure that complies with regulations, its spread can attract both domestic institutions and retail allocators looking for yields without leaving the bond universe.
Engineering Bitcoin Support Yield Curve
Metaplanet plans to issue multiple classes of Bitcoin Support Priority Shares.
A permanent short-term variable dividend fixed in short-term JGB spreads for conservative buyers. Medium-duty variable dividends as a mid-range corporate credit alternative. Senior fixed dividend perpetual (Class A) in long-term portfolios focused on stability. Combining predictable income with potential for BTC rise, we revised the dividend convertible (Class B). A permanent high yield fixed dividend for investors willing to undertake more risk in exchange for higher revenue.
This is not just a product lineup, it is a construction of an investable BTC-backed yield curve. Strategies built in the US. Metaplanet does the same thing in Japan, but with the added tailwind of the market, the yield is desperate.
Impact on corporate Bitcoin strategies
Metaplanet’s approach offers corporate strategists three distinct takeaways.
Capital Efficiency: Bitcoin-backed preferred stocks acquire capital that acquires yield capital to the Treasury without relying on a common stock. They provide permanent capital without the same maturity constraint as debt. Market Fit: The strategy was successful in the US with conversion debt and stocks rising as these markets were deep and liquid. The norms of Japan’s capital structure are different, with Metaplanet adapting its playbook to local investor behavior. This is an important step in hiring. Justification of Bitcoin as collateral: All Bitcoin-backed preferred stocks are found in a regulated yield-starved portfolio home, abandoning Bitcoin recognition as speculative only. Normalised in one major economy makes it easier to replicate other major economies.
The big picture: Bitcoin bond age
Metaplanet’s Q2 announcement serves as a blueprint for how Bitcoin is integrated into domestic capital markets.
By combining a proven capital structure model with one of the world’s most harvest-limiting environments, Metaplanet positions Bitcoin as the legitimate and income-generating collateral base for sovereign scale bond markets.
If they succeed, Japan’s first Bitcoin support priority sharing program will not be the last. A case study of the beginning of the Bitcoin bond age and how companies’ Bitcoin strategies evolve could mark them fit the market they enter.
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Source: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/bitcoin-for-corporations/metaplanet-bitcoin-backed-preferred-shares
