- Over 40M DOGE added to Bit Origin’s reserves.
- Firm switches to pork to crypto innovator.
Bit Origin, which was previously a dominant player in the Chinese pork processing industry, has caused quite a stir in the crypto world. The newly-founded hyper-focused cryptocurrency miner has announced its purchase of about 40.5 million Dogecoin to initiate an unprecedented $500 million digital asset treasury strategy.
Source – X
The acquisition is an epic shift in its industry background of food. Bit Origin, a company that deals with slaughter and distribution in the past, has invested close to 9.9 million dollars in filling its treasury with Dogecoin, achieving an average price of 0.2466 dollars per token. On X, the company announced the relocation, in which it highlighted a future-oriented approach further into blockchain utility and settlement speed as it abandons its legacy business to enter a new era.
New Crypto Strategy Targets Micropayments and DeFi Growth
The Dogecoin purchase was also the first step in a large-scale digital assets initiative, as the executive leadership of Bit Origin mentioned. Share sales and convertible debt are also supporting the treasury, and it is anticipated that it will raise 500 million dollars in the long term, a step that will make the company one of the largest holders of DOGE among publicly-traded companies.
Source -globenewswire.com
According to CEO Jinghai Jiang, the firm has knowledge of proof-of-work systems from direct mining. The usefulness of Dogecoin for micropayments is approaching a tipping point. The main drivers are heightened developer activity and increased institutional interest in tokenization.” He also described that Dogecoin fits the aspirations of the company to decentralized finance, saying, “The market environment is conducive to the development of Dogecoin to DeFi”.
Jiang elaborated by saying that Bit Origin has gotten involved in the actual value of digital assets rather than only building mining infrastructure. The company is making a gamble that Dogecoin speed and popularity among users can be used as a foundation of its advance into peer-to-peer payments and digital commerce.
Institutional Wave, Market Reaction, and Whale Power
The entry of Bit Origin into the Dogecoin market came amidst high levels of enthusiasm in whale investors and institutional buyers. Dogecoin soared above 0.25 in the days leading to the announcement, trading at almost 0.26 and volumes as well as purchases that have not been witnessed in months.
Dogecoin is not known to make corporate moves of this magnitude as the meme token has been steadily rising to the top of the cryptocurrency market cap listings. To amass its Dogecoin reserves, Bit Origin is using its capital facilities of $500 million, consisting of shares amounting to $400 million and convertible debts of $100 million. Preliminary reports demonstrate an initial DOGE-per-share (DPS) ratio of 0.69 shares per shareholder.
The firm has indicated that the funds raised after the token purchase may be used to support more miner services and payment apps on the Dogecoin platform. In official filings, Bit Origin said he believes that Dogecoin has low fees and merchant adoption, which makes it a sustainable model of retail payments at scale.
Recent whale activity further backs Bit Origin’s thesis. Statistics indicate that large wallets had gained more than 250 million Dogecoin during the last 48 hours, which contributed to the appreciation of prices and speculations that a DOGE ETF may appear in 2025. A single wallet that is attached to a reputable brokerage contains more than 28 billion tokens alone. Whale actions have underscored the magnitude and the change-making nature of the Bit Origin shift.
The increased use of Dogecoin based on these strategic changes is still changing the digital payment landscape. Dogecoin’s utility and speed can rival those of legacy payment layers, and Bit Origin is now in the middle of a new wave of crypto treasury innovation.
