MSCI Crypto Treasury Exclusion Could Trigger $15B Market Selloff
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MSCI’s proposed exclusion could force crypto treasury companies to liquidate up to $15 billion in digital assets. Strategy faces the largest impact with $2.8 billion in potential outflows, representing 74.5% of the affected market cap. The potential removal of crypto treasury firms from MSCl’s indexes by Morgan Stanley Capital International is estimated to throw the market into a frenzy to a large extent. Various industry organizations are cautioning that if the policy is carried out, involuntary sell-offs might total up to $15 billion. The policy is aimed at those enterprises that hold a crypto-based bank balance for the most part, which means a possible change in how companies use digital assets. Market Impact and Industry Pushback BitcoinForCorporations is estimating outflows in the range of 10 to 15 billion dollars based on their initial analysis of 39 companies that have been affected. These companies, in total, stand for a float-adjusted market capitalization of 113 billion dollars across the world markets. One of the instances where the Saylor’s Strategy is most likely losing to outflows is emphasized by JPMorgan analysts who estimate a staggering 2.8 billion dollars worth of potential outflows just for the Saylor’s Strategy. The strategy, which represents 74.5% of the total affected market capitalization, is, therefore, the most susceptible one. The exclusion put forward is highly influential, as MSCI indexes are the main reference for passive fund managers in determining the necessary holdings of their portfolios. Firms that are eliminated from these indices will no longer have access to the automatic investment inflows of index-tracking funds that manage assets worth trillions. A wave of such selling by these funds would therefore exacerbate the pressure on cryptocurrency markets to decline further, which have been falling for almost three months in a row. Opposition from the industry side keeps on increasing…
Filed under: News - @ December 18, 2025 1:28 pm