After selling every coin it owned, a public company is using Strategy’s STRC playbook to restart its $827M Bitcoin treasury plan

Genius Group, a Singapore-based education group, has cleared a legal obstacle to raising capital for its planned Bitcoin and artificial intelligence treasury expansion.

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction that Genius said had restricted its ability to issue shares, raise capital, and purchase Bitcoin. The Aug. 31 order removes the injunction as applied to the company and sends the dispute back to the Southern District of New York.

The ruling comes days after Genius unveiled a five-year capital plan targeting an $827 million Bitcoin treasury and an $800 million AI portfolio, with total assets projected to reach $2 billion by fiscal 2031.

Chief Executive Roger James Hamilton said the company believes Bitcoin and AI are entering new growth cycles and intends to use permanent capital to expand exposure to both.

Preferred shares are expected to play a central role in that strategy.

Genius pointed to Michael Saylor's Strategy use of Bitcoin-backed preferred securities like STRC as a model for raising capital without relying solely on common-stock issuance. The market value of those securities now exceeds $13 billion, giving Genius a template for funding long-duration assets while limiting dilution to ordinary shareholders.