Bitcoin treasury firm Metaplanet graduates to FTSE Japan and All-World indices

Metaplanet, a Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company, has been upgraded from a small-cap to a mid-cap banal successful scale supplier FTSE Russell’s September 2025 Semi-Annual Review, bumping it up for inclusion successful the flagship FTSE Japan Index.

The scale supplier updates and rebalances the indices quarterly, and pursuing Metaplanet’s strong Q2 performance, added it to the FTSE Japan Index, a banal marketplace scale of mid-cap and large-cap companies listed connected Japanese exchanges.

Metaplanet’s inclusion successful the FTSE Japan Index means it is automatically added to the FTSE All-World Index of the largest publicly-listed companies by marketplace capitalization successful each geographic region.

The FTSE Global Equity Index Series semi-annual reappraisal upgraded Metaplanet from a small-cap banal to a mid-cap stock. Source: FTSE Russell

The inclusion of Metaplanet successful major, globally recognized banal marketplace indices means the institution volition redirect capital flows into Bitcoin from accepted fiscal markets and springiness passive banal investors indirect vulnerability to the world’s largest cryptocurrency. 

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Metaplanet outperforms Japan’s bluish spot stocks, arsenic it eyes expansion

Metaplanet outperformed the Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) Core 30, a banal marketplace benchmark index, featuring Japanese manufacturing and exertion giants Toyota, Sony, Nintendo, and others, according to the company’s Q2 fiscal report.

The Bitcoin treasury institution announced year-to-date (YTD) gains of astir 187% successful August, compared to the TOPIX 30’s 7.2% YTD appreciation.

Metaplanet 1-year banal performance, measured successful Japanese yen. Source: Yahoo Finance

Metaplanet presently holds 18,888 BTC successful its firm treasury, making it the seventh-largest publically traded holder of the supply-capped coin, according to BitcoinTreasuries. 

Originally a edifice operator, Metaplanet rebranded itself arsenic a Bitcoin treasury institution successful 2024. The institution present holds much BTC than Coinbase, Tesla, the Hut 8 mining firm, and is Japan’s largest BTC treasury institution by BTC holdings.

In July, Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich signaled that the institution would usage a information of its BTC stash to buy further income-generating businesses, and floated the anticipation of acquiring a integer slope oregon a concern adjacent to integer assets and money.

The company’s executives person acceptable a people to accumulate 210,000 BTC by 2027, 1% of the currency’s full 21 cardinal supply.

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