{"id":92026,"date":"2025-12-10T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=92026"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:25:21","slug":"shares-of-bitcoin-firm-twenty-one-capital-drop-20-on-first-trading-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/shares-of-bitcoin-firm-twenty-one-capital-drop-20-on-first-trading-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Shares of Bitcoin Firm Twenty One Capital Drop 20% on First Trading Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shares of Twenty One Capital, a firm established by Cantor Fitzgerald, plummeted by approximately 20% following its debut session.<\/p>\n<p>Trading of XXI shares commenced on the <span data-descr=\"New York Stock Exchange\" class=\"old_tooltip\">NYSE<\/span> on December 9. The opening price was $10.74, below the closing level of the SPAC company Cantor Equity Partners ($14.27), with which Twenty One Capital merged to go public.<\/p>\n<p>By the close of trading, the share price reached $11.42, marking a 19.9% decline from the previous session&#8217;s result.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-338d2977ddf047e1-578356509787177-1024x508.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-271470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-338d2977ddf047e1-578356509787177-1024x508.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-338d2977ddf047e1-578356509787177-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-338d2977ddf047e1-578356509787177-768x381.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-338d2977ddf047e1-578356509787177-1536x762.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-338d2977ddf047e1-578356509787177.png 1894w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/XXI\/\">Yahoo Finance<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The company&#8217;s market capitalization is estimated at $4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of Twenty One Capital was <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/twenty-one-capital-aims-to-challenge-bitcoin-giants\">announced<\/a> in April. It is led by Jack Mallers, founder and CEO of Strike.<\/p>\n<p>The organization&#8217;s capital amounts to 42,000 BTC (~$3.9 billion). The project is supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-tether-usdt\">Tether<\/a>, Bitfinex, and Japan&#8217;s Softbank Group.<\/p>\n<p>The firm ranks third among public holders of the leading cryptocurrency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ed0621a433b6aa91-578369672534446-1024x337.png\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-271471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ed0621a433b6aa91-578369672534446-1024x337.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ed0621a433b6aa91-578369672534446-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ed0621a433b6aa91-578369672534446-768x253.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-ed0621a433b6aa91-578369672534446.png 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcointreasuries.net\/\">BitcoinTreasuries<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not a Treasury\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Twenty One Capital has not presented a detailed business plan despite going public. The documents lack a clear description of the operational model.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2025\/12\/09\/twenty-one-capital-ceo-jack-mallers-on-nyse-debut.html\">CNBC<\/a>, Mallers stated that the firm does not intend to become a crypto treasury, following the strategy of Michael Saylor&#8217;s Strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want the market to perceive and evaluate us merely as a company with bitcoin on the balance sheet. We indeed have significant cryptocurrency reserves, but our goal is to build a full-fledged business around it,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The head of Twenty One Capital added that the firm sees &#8220;many opportunities in brokerage services, exchange trading, lending, and borrowing.&#8221; He did not specify details about the launch of specific products, promising to reveal plans soon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;We see bitcoin as the main opportunity that everyone overlooks. The mission of our shares is to focus exclusively on BTC and create value for shareholders primarily through its potential,&#8221; Mallers concluded.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strive&#8217;s Plans\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>On December 9, Strive Asset Management, associated with Vivek Ramaswamy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2025\/12\/09\/3202854\/0\/en\/Strive-Announces-500-000-000-SATA-At-The-Market-Program.html\">announced<\/a> a $500 million share placement. The goal is to raise capital for further bitcoin accumulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to purchasing cryptocurrency, the funds will be used for general corporate purposes and investment in income-generating assets to develop the core business. The company did not disclose details of these investments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Strive ranks 14th among corporate holders of digital gold, managing 7,525 BTC worth $699 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In December, analysts at Glassnode <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/corporate-bitcoin-holdings-surpass-1-million-btc\">calculated<\/a> that since 2023, public and private companies have increased their reserves in the leading cryptocurrency by 448%. The volume of coins on balances grew from 197,000 BTC to 1.08 million BTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shares of Twenty One Capital, a firm established by Cantor Fitzgerald, plummeted by approximately 20% following its debut session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Strive announced raising $500 million to purchase the leading cryptocurrency.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1797],"class_list":["post-92026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-twenty-one-capital"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"232","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Strive announced raising $500 million to purchase the leading cryptocurrency.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92028,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92026\/revisions\/92028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}