gumi to Purchase JPY 2.5bn of XRP
gumi has resolved, at the Board of Directors meeting held on August 28, 2025, to purchase 2.5 billion yen worth of crypto assets (XRP). The purchase(s) will be carried out between September 2025 and February 2026. gumi will conduct a quarterly mark-to-market valuation of its held crypto assets, and will record the resulting profits and losses in its income statement.
gumi is further enhancing the financial sector within its blockchain-related business, which serves as a core driver of gumi's growth. As part of these efforts, in the first half of fiscal year 2025, gumi acquired the equivalent of 1 billion yen in Bitcoin using its own funds, and having positioned its crypto assets as a strategic asset, has now decided to acquire XRP.
XRP is an asset that plays a pivotal role in the international remittance and liquidity network strategy that SBI Holdings is driving at its core. It also offers exceptionally high strategic affinity with gumi, of which SBI Holdings is the largest shareholder. In particular, the continued expansion of actual use in financial infrastructure, such as international remittance and liquidity provision, holds great importance in positioning XRP as a medium- to long-term growth asset.
By pursuing a two-pronged asset strategy focusing on both BTC (a globally recognized universal asset) and XRP (a network asset underpinned by real financial demand), gumi aims to benefit from the value appreciation of universal assets while also enhancing network value through its contributions to the XRP ecosystem. gumi believes that these initiatives will further strengthen the foundation of its blockchain-related business and lead to the sustained increase of corporate value over the medium to long term.
Norbert Gehrke
