Eric Trump’s BTC Price Predictions, Acquisition Plans, and Metaplanet Visit

Eric Trump is deepening his position in digital property with reported plans to attend a shareholder assembly in Tokyo, public predictions about bitcoin’s worth, and new company ventures that stretch the Trump household’s crypto push into Asia.

Bloomberg reported Friday that Trump will be part of a Sept. 1 shareholder assembly of Metaplanet, a Japanese firm following Michael Saylor’s Strategy (previously, MicroStategy) playbook, citing folks aware of the matter. Trump was appointed as a strategic adviser in March. His Tokyo cease will apparently observe an look on the Bitcoin Asia convention in Hong Kong on Aug. 28–29.

A day earlier, Trump appeared on the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium, the place he described himself as a “bitcoin maxi” and mentioned he now spends greater than half his time on crypto initiatives. He predicted bitcoin would attain $175,000 by the top of 2025 and ultimately climb previous $1 million. He argued that bitcoin and blockchain may handle flaws in conventional finance, akin to sluggish funds and settlement processes.

The Financial Times reported onAug. 15 that American Bitcoin — a miner and treasury firm co-founded by Eric Trump and his brother Donald Trump Jr. — is exploring acquisitions of listed companies in Japan and Hong Kong to make use of them as autos for stockpiling bitcoin, following the playbook pioneered by Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy. The firm is getting ready to go public within the U.S. by means of a reverse merger with Nasdaq-listed Gryphon Digital Mining. Eric Trump is a co-founder and the chief technique officer.

American Bitcoin emerged in May from a reorganization of American Data Centers, a Trump-linked entity that absorbed rigs from Canadian operator Hut 8. The agency has mentioned it goals to turn out to be the world’s most effective bitcoin accumulation platform, combining lively treasury administration with new coin manufacturing.

The Trumps’ crypto ambitions lengthen past Eric Trump. Trump Media & Technology Group, mother or father of Truth Social, raised greater than $2 billion within the second quarter to create a bitcoin treasury. President Donald Trump disclosed in June $57 million in earnings from World Liberty Financial, a crypto startup launched final September.

Together, these strikes spotlight how Eric Trump and his household are aligning themselves with crypto at a time when Japan and Hong Kong are competing to draw digital asset companies.

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) will approve the primary yen-denominated stablecoin as early as this fall. Meanwhile, Hong Kong has launched the Stablecoins Ordinance, a regulatory framework that requires fiat-referenced stablecoin issuers to acquire a license from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA).