Technique CEO von Reh argues that inventory index MSCI's proposal to exclude corporations that maintain greater than 50% of cryptocurrencies on their steadiness sheets is akin to kicking out multinational vitality corporations like Chevron for his or her oil holdings.
MSCI Index introduced in October that it was consulting with the funding group on whether or not to exclude Bitcoin and different digital asset treasury corporations (DATs) that maintain a big portion of their steadiness sheets in cryptocurrencies.
In an interview with streaming and market evaluation channel Schwab Community on Wednesday, Lee stated that whereas he had “plenty of respect for the index,” MSCI's stance was “misunderstood and misguided.”
He additionally stated that oil big Chevron, which has greater than half of its belongings in oil, timberland firm Weyerhaeuser, which has a good portion of its belongings in timber, and Simon Property Group, which has a good portion of its belongings in actual property, all face exclusion.
Phong Le joined @SchwabNetwork to debate the $60 trillion digital credit score alternative and responding to MSCI. Limiting passive index investing in Bitcoin right now is identical factor as oil and oil rigs within the 1900s, spectrum and base stations within the Nineteen Eighties, or computing… pic.twitter.com/3VcYnF5nE4
— Technique (@Technique) December 10, 2025
“It appears very untimely to stifle innovation by choosing winners and pickers in classes like this,” Lee stated.
“That is like saying that telecom corporations shouldn't have constructed base stations and spectrum within the Nineteen Eighties, or that AI corporations shouldn't have invested in LL Labs and high-performance computing three years in the past.”
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Lee stated different components of the MSCI proposal have been additionally incorrect, comparable to characterizing Technique and different digital asset corporations as funds moderately than working corporations.
In keeping with MSCI, a few of the suggestions to this point on the proposal is that DATs “could exhibit traits just like funding funds that aren’t presently eligible for index inclusion.”
“I've been the CFO since 2015, Michael Saylor based the corporate in 1989, it's been publicly traded since 1998, I work right here day by day, and legally it's a 100% working firm due to its company construction,” Lee stated.
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Le’s feedback got here on the identical day that Technique launched a letter to MSCI pushing again on the proposal on the grounds that it will bias MSCI in opposition to cryptocurrencies as an asset class moderately than an index firm appearing as a impartial arbiter.
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The MSCI session will run till December thirty first, and its conclusions shall be revealed on January fifteenth subsequent 12 months, with related modifications anticipated to return into impact in February.
Charlie Shelley, head of finance at Australian cryptocurrency change BTC Markets, instructed Cointelegraph final month that MSCI would solely enter into discussions if such a change was already being thought of for implementation.
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