Jack Mallers isn’t just betting on Bitcoin — he’s building a public company around it. And with the announcement that he’ll take the helm as CEO of Twenty One Capital, a new Bitcoin-centric firm going public via SPAC, the gloves are off.
Ticker: $XXI
Assets: 42,000+ Bitcoin
Mission: Institutional Bitcoin supremacy
This is the MicroStrategy model — but reloaded, rebranded, and ready for a post-ETF era.
If you’re unfamiliar with Mallers, you’ve probably still felt his impact.
As the founder and CEO of Strike, Mallers led one of the most aggressive pushes to normalize Bitcoin payments worldwide. He’s been central to integrating Bitcoin’s Lightning Network with real-world retail systems, and his partnership with the government of El Salvador to help them adopt Bitcoin as legal tender made headlines around the world.
But Mallers is more than a tech CEO. He’s a Bitcoin maximalist with Wall Street chops, coming from a Chicago trading family with deep roots in options markets. He knows the rails, he knows the narrative, and he knows how to turn ideology into infrastructure.
Unlike Saylor, who transitioned MicroStrategy into a Bitcoin holding vehicle over time, Mallers is launching Twenty One…
