{"id":201783,"date":"2026-07-21T12:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=201783"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:07:40","slug":"jack-mallers-steps-down-as-ceo-of-bitcoin-treasury-twenty-one-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=201783","title":{"rendered":"Jack Mallers Steps Down as CEO of Bitcoin Treasury Twenty One Capital\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Jack Mallers Steps Down as CEO of Bitcoin Treasury Twenty One Capital\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bitcoin treasury Twenty One Capital has named Raphael Zagury as its chief executive officer, a leadership change that arrives seven months after the firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zagury succeeds founder Jack Mallers<\/a>, who is stepping down to focus on his Bitcoin payments company, Strike<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking on the transition, Mallers said, \u201cI\u2019m grateful to everyone at XXI and everyone who believed in what we built,\u201d said Jack Mallers. \u201cServing Bitcoiners has always been the mission, and that doesn\u2019t change. Strike is where I carry it forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Austin, Texas-based Twenty One, which trades under the ticker \u201cXXI\u201d on the NYSE, said it would focus on becoming an institutional-grade operating company that\u2019s judged on cash flow generation and capital allocation discipline, not just its Bitcoin holdings.<\/p>\n

It added that it would build and acquire high-quality operating businesses that \u201cleverage Twenty One\u2019s balance sheet while maintaining disciplined capital allocation at the parent company and create a long-term ownership model inspired by Berkshire Hathaway.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cMy job is to build the operating company around [Twenty One], with the discipline, governance, and executional rigor of an institution,\u201d Zagury said in a statement.\u00a0 \u201cI believe our business will perform best when we also focus on the cash flow we generate and the rigor with which we allocate capital, not only by the Bitcoin we hold.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mallers leaves XXI <\/h2>\n

The firm, the product of a joint effort by Tether, Bitfinex, Cantor Fitzgerald, and SoftBank, is the second biggest public Bitcoin treasury, according to Bitcointreasuries.net<\/a>, with a total of 43,514 coins \u2014 or $2.8 billion in Bitcoin at today\u2019s prices.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It debuted last year through a SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners, a blank check company affiliated with financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n

\u201cXXI was built by Bitcoiners, for Bitcoiners. During my role as CEO, we defined a vision for a Bitcoin-native financial enterprise. As I focus my efforts fully at Strike, I look forward to watching the next phase of growth at XXI,\u201d Mallers said. <\/p>\n

The companies behind it are a mix of traditional finance giants and crypto companies: Tether is the biggest issuer of stablecoins and Bitfinex is a crypto exchange. SoftBank is a Japanese multinational investment holding company and Cantor Fitzgerald is a Wall Street firm previously headed up by U.S. President Donald Trump ally and Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zagury founded and leads the team behind<\/a> Elektron Energy, a large-scale Bitcoin mining and infrastructure business.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before that, he held roles as a managing director at Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch, and as a vice president at Goldman Sachs. He also co-founded OpenCo, at one point among Brazil\u2019s largest fintech lenders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The change at the top comes with a shift in deal strategy. In April, Twenty One had floated a plan to consolidate the firm, Strike, and Elektron Energy into a single Bitcoin-native platform spanning financial services, mining infrastructure, capital markets, and treasury. According to Bloomberg reporting, that deal has been scrapped<\/a>. Twenty One confirmed that Strike will now remain a standalone business and is out of the running for a merger. <\/p>\n

This post Jack Mallers Steps Down as CEO of Bitcoin Treasury Twenty One Capital\u00a0<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Mathew Di Salvo\u00a0and\u00a0Micah Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine Jack Mallers Steps Down as CEO of Bitcoin Treasury Twenty One Capital\u00a0 Bitcoin treasury Twenty One Capital has named Raphael Zagury as its chief executive officer, a leadership change that arrives seven months after the firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange.\u00a0 Zagury succeeds founder Jack Mallers, who is stepping down to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":201784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}