GameStop has transferred its total Bitcoin holdings to Coinbase’s institutional buying and selling platform, sparking hypothesis that the online game retailer could also be reconsidering its Bitcoin treasury technique.
“GameStop throws within the towel?” blockchain intelligence platform CryptoQuant asked in a put up to X on Friday after noticing that GameStop moved its total 4,710 Bitcoin (BTC) stash price greater than $422 million to Coinbase Prime.
CryptoQuant stated the switch was “prone to promote” the holdings, noting {that a} sale with Bitcoin at $90,800 would imply GameStop realizing round $76 million in losses from its Bitcoin wager.
GameStop amassed 4,710 Bitcoin throughout a number of investments in Might at a mean buying value of $107,900.
GameStop launched a Bitcoin treasury after its CEO, Ryan Cohen, met with Technique chair Michael Saylor final February to debate how such methods could possibly be greatest applied.
GameStop hasn’t publicly addressed hypothesis that it has offered, or intends to promote, its Bitcoin.
Cointelegraph reached out to GameStop for remark, however didn’t obtain an instantaneous response.
It comes as a Wednesday submitting revealed GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen purchased one other 500,000 GME shares price over $10 million, contributing to the retailer’s share value rising over 3% on Thursday.
Establishing Bitcoin treasuries grew to become a popular institutional trend in 2024 and 2025, although many noticed their shares tumble within the again half of 2025 because the sustainability of such strategies was known as into query.
Greater than 190 publicly traded companies maintain Bitcoin on their balance sheets, whereas many others have additionally launched Ether (ETH), Solana (SOL), and different altcoin treasuries over the past 12 months.
Crypto treasuries stay included in MSCI market indexes
Company crypto treasuries, notably Technique, scored a significant win earlier this month when Morgan Stanley Capital Worldwide determined not to exclude digital asset treasury corporations from its market index, for now.
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MSCI stated it wanted extra time to tell apart between funding corporations and different corporations that maintain digital property as a part of their core operations.
Exclusion from MSCI indexes might have seen Technique and different DATs lose billions of {dollars} in passive capital inflow.
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