{"id":45541,"date":"2025-09-03T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=45541"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:16:50","slug":"alphaton-capital-shares-surge-on-ton-treasury-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=45541","title":{"rendered":"AlphaTon Capital Shares Surge on TON Treasury Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>AlphaTON Capital, a Nasdaq-listed company newly rebranded from Portage Biotch (PRTG), said it will purchase about $100 million worth of toncoin (TON) to build a digital asset treasury firm offering exposure to the token.<\/p>\n<p>The firm will operate under the ticker \u201cATON\u201d starting Sept. 4. It plans on managing TON network infrastructure and incubating applications within Telegram\u2019s ecosystem, while also generating token staking rewards.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s shares, still trading under the PRTG ticker, rose 14% to $7.91.<\/p>\n<p>AlphaTON\u2019s treasury strategy comes with a loan facility from BitGo for $35 million to accelerate token acquisition and staking operations.<\/p>\n<p>The company named Brittany Kaiser as CEO. She joins Enzo Villani, a Nasdaq Global Corporate Solution co-founder, who will serve as executive chairman.<\/p>\n<p>To fund the TON purchase, AlphaTON secured $38.2 million through a private placement. The loan from BitGo will be collateralized by TON tokens and is due in six months.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AlphaTON Capital, a Nasdaq-listed company newly rebranded from Portage Biotch (PRTG), said it will purchase about $100 million worth of toncoin (TON) to build a digital asset treasury firm offering exposure to the token. The firm will operate under the ticker \u201cATON\u201d starting Sept. 4. It plans on managing TON network infrastructure and incubating applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-45541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}