
PANews|Apr 22, 2025 08:58
Against the backdrop of continuous losses in the consumer goods industry, Upexi (stock code: UPXI), a Nasdaq listed company in the United States, is undergoing a radical transformation from gummy candy to cryptocurrency.
On April 21st, cryptocurrency investment firm GSR announced a private equity investment of up to $100 million in Upexi, fully supporting its new on chain financial strategy built around Solana.
On the day of the announcement, Upexi's stock price surged by over 600%.
GSR's investment has also attracted many well-known institutions to follow suit, including Delphi Ventures, Maelstrom (Arthur Hayes family office), Big Brain, Anagram, and several industry leader level angel investors. Solana Foundation President Lily Liu stated that this transaction is an important step in integrating traditional finance with decentralized infrastructure.
According to the plan announced by Upexi, the company will use the remaining funds to build Solana asset reserves, develop mining business, node operations, staking, and streaming services after repaying some of its debts. Its subsidiary Quantum Hash has previously planned to acquire a 2MW mining site and expand to 20MW, further exploring AI blockchain assets.
Upexi is not the first US listed company to incorporate Solana into its financial strategy. Since the beginning of this year, SOL Strategies Inc. from Canada and Janover from NASDAQ have both proposed similar strategies. The CEO of SOL Strategies stated that the goal of this strategy is not just to hoard coins, but to deeply participate in Solana infrastructure construction and promote organic growth.
Upexi CEO Allan Marshall stated that the company is in a period of rapid transformation and will reshape its growth logic through on chain finance, diversified cryptocurrency investment portfolio, and infrastructure construction.
However, this transformation still comes with significant risks. The combination of factors such as severe stock price fluctuations, declining main business revenue, and uncertainty in the cryptocurrency market still poses practical challenges to its "chain reform" path.
But it cannot be denied that Upexi is providing a new experimental template for how US listed companies can participate in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
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