Not sure if everyone overlooked this - "And in the future, subject to compliance with laws and regulations, our securities subsidiary may also handle Superplanet's securities for Japanese investors." in Simon's Aug 18
$SLE acquisition post.
If I understand correctly, this means they could sell
$SUPA "STRC like" prefs with ~6% dividend yield to Japanese investors via MetaPlanet Securities. It will be more like private placement and that’s why they tested small scale Bitbonds earlier which were subject to a strict 49-investor ceiling. Under FIEA, an unlisted domestic company issuing debt to general investors must strictly solicit fewer than 50 people within a six-month window.
When
$SUPA (a foreign listed company) issues prefs, Japanese Type I brokerages can distribute those securities to an unlimited number of Japanese retail and high-net-worth investors.
Hence the early Aug Bitbonds are not meant to raise fund materially, but to test the infrastructure. Later
$SUPA prefs distribution in Japan will be the silver bullet. A "Uridashi" structure.
And remember - this will be a different vehicle dedicated for Japanese market and no need to wait for SEC approval for public listing, hence there is a chance to get this Uridashi pref out earlier than US pref listing. And since the yield in Japan is less than half in US, I would not be surprised that Metaplanet ended up selling much more “uridashi” prefs in Japan than US listed pref which has intense competition and much higher cost.
Before MARS TSE listing, they will have dual engine running simultaneously - 14% pref publicly trade on Nasdaq, and 6% pref distribute through MetaPlanet securities. Fund raised in both engines fly to
$SUPA and buy Bitcoin.
Now if you think about what Simon/Dylan did in 2026, all calculated move.
First they launched Mercury in Dec 2025, but faced stringent reviews from TSE regarding Japan pref launch which Simon admitted in May.
The team didn’t sit still and do nothing. The team went to the US for a roadshow, and got in touch with
$SLE team. At the same time they negotiated with Siibo and announced the deal in Jun.
Only 2 months later in Aug, they announced
$SLE acuqisition. They were not sitting & waiting for MARS approvals, they kept looking for workaround.
$SLE/$SUPA pref -> Metaplanet securities -> Japan investors is their answer to get a MARS alternative.
That is a fantastic execution in such a short time. People should give them more credit instead of spreading non-stop FUD on management comp. Especially when industry peers are basically doing one thing daily - ATM on single-jurisdiction common or prefs.
MetaPlanet is building an end-to-end multi-jurisdiction infrastructure.
The market will not wait until Metaplanet actually announces “uridashi” pref to re-rate the stock, once the
$SLE deal is completed or getting close to complete (e.g. DEF 14A drops), the stock will rip higher.
I expect the
$SLE acquisition to close in Q4 and look forward to seeing an end-to-end “uridashi” pref distribution running before end of 2026.
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