Genius Group plans to buy $827M in Bitcoin by 2031

Genius Group, a Singapore-based AI education company trading on NYSE American under the ticker GNS, has laid out a five-year capital plan that includes accumulating $827 million worth of Bitcoin by 2031. The company plans to fund the buying spree primarily through perpetual preferred stock issuances, part of a broader $1.2 billion shelf registration that went effective in July 2025. The Bitcoin treasury is only half the story. Genius Group is simultaneously building an $800 million AI Treasury, bringing its total asset target to $2 billion by fiscal year 2031. For a company with net assets of $106.6 million as of the announcement, that’s roughly a 19x expansion in five years. The funding mechanism The capital plan, announced on August 27, 2026, centers on perpetual preferred stock, or PPS. The initial offering is sized at $12.5 million, but the company has runway under its $1.2 billion shelf registration to scale up considerably. The PPS is structured as non-convertible with a variable monthly rate. That design means the preferred stock won’t convert into common shares down the road, and is designed to grow the company’s net asset value per ordinary share without diluting existing ...