Nasdaq-listed Mill City Ventures III is looking to raise up to $500 million through a new equity agreement to expand its Sui token treasury.
The announcement came just days after Mill City secured $450 million via the sale of 83 million shares to institutional investors, including Pantera Capital, Electric Capital, ParaFi Capital, and FalconX.
The firm used those funds to purchase 76.2 million SUI tokens valued at $276 million. The remaining capital will support its existing short-term lending operations.
Shares of the finance firm dropped 11.4% to $4.91 on Friday following the announcement, with after-hours trading extending losses by another 4.28%, according to Google Finance.
“This equity line is intended to give us the firepower to scale our position as the only Sui treasury on the market with an official Sui Foundation relationship,” said Stephen Mackintosh, Mill City’s Chief Investment Officer.
He described the move as a step toward offering institutional-grade exposure to the Sui ecosystem through public markets.
Mill City’s strategy aligns with a growing trend among public companies to diversify their crypto treasuries beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum.
In recent weeks, firms have added BNB, Solana, and XRP to their portfolios.
However, Mill City is positioning itself as a specialized SUI treasury, aiming to take advantage of the layer-1 blockchain’s focus on low-latency, scalable infrastructure for AI and gaming applications.
The firm’s new $500 million equity line was arranged with Alliance Global Partners and is intended to further scale its position in SUI.
While investors initially reacted negatively, the broader trajectory of MCVT stock remains bullish, it’s still up 165% since July 24, when the SUI initiative was first unveiled.
Galaxy Asset Management is overseeing Mill City’s SUI holdings as the official treasury manager.
At the time of writing, SUI is trading at $3.45, down 2.4% on the day, mirroring the wider market downturn.
A growing number of publicly traded companies are raising hundreds of millions of dollars to build crypto treasuries, but one analyst says many aren’t actually buying digital assets from the open market.
As reported, crypto analyst Ran Neuner claimed that crypto treasury firms are acting less like buyers and more like exit vehicles for crypto insiders.
Instead of purchasing assets directly from exchanges, these companies often receive crypto contributions from existing holders, in exchange for shares that later trade at massive premiums on public markets.
Skepticism around the sustainability of the crypto treasury trend is also growing.
Last month, Glassnode lead analyst James Check raised concerns over the longevity of the corporate Bitcoin treasury strategy, arguing the easy gains might already be gone for new entrants as the market matures.
The warning echoes recent comments from Matthew Sigel, head of digital asset research at VanEck, who has voiced concerns over the Bitcoin treasury strategies adopted by some publicly traded firms.
