American Bitcoin Corp. (ABTC), backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, filed with the Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) on Sept. 3 in search of to boost $2.1 billion via share gross sales.
The submitting follows a risky Nasdaq debut that noticed ABTC inventory surge 91% in a single hour earlier than crashing decrease than the opening worth by closing.
ABTC opened at $6.90 and climbed to $13.20, prompting 5 buying and selling halts within the preliminary hours. Nonetheless, the share worth didn’t maintain the momentum and fell again to its opening worth earlier than mounting a restoration on the finish of the buying and selling session.
As of press time, the inventory was exhibiting indicators of upward momentum after hours and was buying and selling at $8.06, up roughly 16% for the day.
American Bitcoin emerged from a stock-for-stock merger with Gryphon Digital Mining, making a publicly traded Bitcoin accumulation platform beneath the ticker ABTC.
The transaction accomplished earlier this 12 months positions American Bitcoin because the mother or father firm, with former American Bitcoin shareholders proudly owning roughly 98% of the mixed entity.
Trump household mining enterprise
American Bitcoin launched in March as a majority-owned subsidiary of vitality firm Hut 8, which maintains an 80% possession stake.
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The Trump brothers maintain minority pursuits within the remaining 20% alongside different founding companions, although precise possession breakdowns stay undisclosed. Eric Trump serves as chief technique officer whereas Matt Prusak, who beforehand offered COVID exams, leads the corporate as CEO.
Prusak positioned the merger as a possibility to create a dominant participant within the fragmented Bitcoin mining sector. The corporate operates an asset-light mannequin via a strategic partnership with Hut 8, leveraging present infrastructure for Bitcoin accumulation reasonably than constructing mining amenities from scratch.
Gryphon contributes operational mining property, together with 899 petahash per second of self-mining hash price as of the second quarter 2024. The corporate focuses on renewable and low-cost vitality sources, together with the latest acquisition of pure gasoline property in Canada.
Sector consolidation
The merger displays broader consolidation tendencies in US Bitcoin mining following final 12 months’s halving occasion, which decreased mining rewards and elevated financial stress on operators.
Firms search higher scale and operational effectivity via mergers and acquisitions to stay aggressive within the difficult post-halving surroundings.
The SEC submitting advances the Trump household’s increasing crypto ventures, combining Gryphon’s mining operations with American Bitcoin’s capital market entry and strategic imaginative and prescient for institutional-scale Bitcoin accumulation.
