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Nasdaq-listed Mill City Ventures III may raise another $500 million under an equity agreement to fund its recently announced Sui treasury strategy — however, the news triggered a double-digit fall in Mill City’s share price.
The finance firm’s <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250801880618/en/Mill-City-Ventures-Announces-%24500-Million-Equity-Line-Agreement-to-Accelerate-Growth-of-Sui-Treasury-Strategy" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank" title="null">announcement</a> on Friday came shortly after <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/mill-city-ventures-announces-450m-sui-treasury-amid-sui-defi-surge" title="null">raising $450 million</a> earlier in the week, which was used to buy its first batch of 76.2 million Sui (<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="/sui-price-index" rel="/sui-price-index" target="/sui-price-index" title="/sui-price-index">SUI</a>) tokens worth $276 million.
“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,” the firm’s chief investment officer, Stephen Mackintosh, said:
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 “We are positioned to capitalize on Sui’s possible growth while scaling SUI-per-share through an institutional-grade wrapper. This brings us one step closer to streamlining public market access to a next-generation blockchain.”&nbsp;
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 Source: <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://x.com/SuiNetwork/status/1951270686594367653" rel="https://x.com/SuiNetwork/status/1951270686594367653" target="https://x.com/SuiNetwork/status/1951270686594367653" title="https://x.com/SuiNetwork/status/1951270686594367653">Sui</a>
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 The Sui network is a layer-1 blockchain built to support scalable, low-latency workloads for AI, gaming, and other next-generation applications.
Mill City’s bet on SUI — the token powering the Sui network — reflects a broader industry shift toward building <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-treasuries-100b-ethereum-10th-anniversary-finance-redefined" title="null">crypto treasuries</a> beyond Bitcoin (<a href="/bitcoin-price">BTC</a>) and Ether (<a href="/ethereum-price">ETH</a>).&nbsp;
Other <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/canadian-vape-company-shares-jump-pivot-bnb-treasury" title="null">public firms</a> have adopted BNB (<a href="/binance-coin-price-index">BNB</a>), Solana (<a href="/solana-price-index">SOL</a>) and XRP (<a href="/xrp-price-index">XRP</a>) as treasury assets in recent weeks.
<h2 id="mill-city-shares-tank">Mill City shares tank</h2>
However, the $500 million equity line agreement with Alliance Global Partners contributed to an 11.4% fall in Mill City’s (MCVT) share price to $4.91 on Friday, Google Finance <a href="https://www.google.com/finance/quote/MCVT:NASDAQ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="https://www.google.com/finance/quote/MCVT:NASDAQ">data</a> shows. MCVT has fallen another 4.28% in after-hours.
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 MCVT’s change in share price on Friday. Source: <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://www.google.com/finance/quote/MCVT:NASDAQ" rel="https://www.google.com/finance/quote/MCVT:NASDAQ" target="https://www.google.com/finance/quote/MCVT:NASDAQ" title="https://www.google.com/finance/quote/MCVT:NASDAQ">Google Finance</a>
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Despite the drop, MCVT shares are still up 165% since July 24 — four days before Mill City unveiled its SUI treasury strategy.
<h2 id="industry-heavyweights-are-behind-mill-city-s-sui-strategy">Industry heavyweights are behind Mill City’s SUI strategy</h2>
On July 24, Mill City raised $450 million through the sale of 83 million shares to institutional investors
Related: <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-token-unlocks-drop-august-2025" title="null">Crypto token unlocks may halve to $3B in August; SUI, FTN top list</a>
The offering included investment from <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/pantera-capital-founder-tax-investigation-crypto" title="null">Pantera Capital,</a> Electric Capital, ParaFi Capital, and FalconX. Galaxy Asset Management is serving as the treasury asset manager.
Mill City said it would allocate around 98% of the proceeds to fund its SUI treasury strategy, while the remaining 2% would be for its existing short-term lending business.
SUI, the 15th largest cryptocurrency by <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/learn/articles/the-most-common-crypto-metrics-a-beginners-guide" title="null">market cap,</a> is down 2.4% to $3.50 — in line with the broader market fall, CoinGecko <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/sui" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank" title="null">data</a> shows.
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Mill City Ventures to load up on more SUI with $500M deal as shares fall 11%

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