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Bitplanet’s Antalpha mining deal tests whether Bitcoin treasuries can grow without constant buying – Crypto News

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June 25, 2026

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Asia Bitcoin company, Bitplanet, is trying to convert its Bitcoin treasury from a balance-sheet position into a source of mined BTC revenue.

The South Korean company said in a June 24 release that it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with Nasdaq-listed Antalpha and mining ecosystem partners.

Under the MOU, Bitplanet plans to introduce KRW 15 billion in BTC mining equipment and begin full-scale mining operations this month.

The change pushes Bitplanet beyond the familiar corporate treasury playbook of raising capital, buying BTC, and letting the balance sheet carry the exposure.

A mining-based treasury is exposed to a different operating stack: hashrate, hosting contracts, power prices, equipment uptime, local execution, and whether mined coins are retained, sold, or pledged as collateral.

Bitplanet is presenting that second model as the next step for its corporate Bitcoin strategy. The company said mined BTC will be recognized as operating revenue and managed as a long-term financial asset across liquidity reserves, risk-hedging funds, and reinvestment capital.

Treasury Strategy Turns Operational

Bitplanet’s announcement extends the company’s earlier treasury accumulation. CryptoSlate previously covered Bitplanet’s SGA acquisition and its ambition to become one of the largest corporate Bitcoin holders, then later covered its daily Bitcoin accumulation push.

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That earlier model was familiar: raise capital, buy BTC, and let the balance sheet reflect Bitcoin exposure.

The Antalpha deal points at a different question. Can a treasury company build a recurring Bitcoin production loop, where hardware, low-cost power, and hosting infrastructure feed coins into the balance sheet over time?

Bitplanet said the first-phase equipment is expected to target more than 7 BTC per month and over 80 BTC annually, subject to equipment utilization and power costs.

Using a Bitcoin price near $61,000, 80 BTC would represent about $4.9 million of gross BTC output before electricity, hosting, financing, repairs, taxes, and corporate overhead.

That math gives investors a scale marker rather than profit guidance. It also leaves open the question of whether the company can retain the mined BTC, reinvest it, or use it as collateral without weakening its broader treasury thesis.

Model	What Adds BTC	Main Dependency	Key Risk
Open-market treasury accumulation	Purchases funded by cash, equity, debt, or other financing	Capital-market access and BTC price	Dilution, debt cost, or forced pauses in buying
Mining-based BTC inflow	ASIC equipment, hosting, power, and operating execution	Hashprice, uptime, power terms, and deployment quality	Mining margin compression or lower coin retention

Antalpha brings more than a name to the announcement. The company priced its IPO in May 2025 and trades on Nasdaq under ANTA.

Its public materials describe a business built around Bitcoin mining finance, including mining-machine loans, hashrate loans, supply-chain credit, and margin-lending services through Antalpha Prime.

Antalpha’s IPO prospectus described lending products tied to rigs, hosting, maintenance, and mining operating expenses. Its Antalpha Prime materials add the operating link, describing financing arrangements in which mined BTC can be used as collateral for hosting, repair, and other service costs.

That creates the operating challenge for Bitplanet because mining is capital-intensive before it produces anything. Equipment has to be purchased or financed, shipped, installed, hosted, powered, maintained, and pointed at the network.

When a treasury company announces a target in BTC terms, the real test is whether the operating stack can produce coins at a cost below the value Bitplanet assigns to holding them.

Antalpha’s own results add a constraint to that story. The company reported a first-quarter 2026 total value of loans facilitated down 3% year over year and supply-chain TVL down 25%, even as revenue rose 52%.

That makes the Bitplanet MOU a test of execution inside a lending market that still has softer pockets.

Planned Power Markets Carry The Risk

Bitplanet said equipment is expected to be deployed in overseas regions with competitive electricity costs and stable power environments, including Oman and Paraguay.

It also described an overseas colocation model that combines outsourced operations and joint ventures.

That structure is central to the thesis and the risk. Mining margins can be won or lost on power terms, curtailment risk, hosting reliability, repair turnaround, and the share of mined BTC that leaves the company to cover costs.

A deployment in a low-cost power market can make sense on paper, but only if the contracts, uptime, customs, taxes, and counterparties hold up in practice.

The current mining backdrop makes that scrutiny necessary. Hashrate Index recently showed Bitcoin hashprice around $30.72 per PH per day.