Eole, Inc.

Iore, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market, announced on July 28 that it acquired approximately 10 million yen worth of the crypto asset Hyperliquid (HYPE), holding about 1,078.25 tokens. This marks the first publicly disclosed acquisition of HYPE by a Japanese listed company. The company plans to make additional purchases in multiple tranches by the end of August, bringing the total acquisition amount to 100 million yen, and indicated a policy of holding HYPE as a strategic asset alongside Bitcoin. HYPE is the native token of the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid, and Iore sees high compatibility with trading by autonomous AI agents.

On the 23rd, multiple companies announced new initiatives and earnings. A consolidated subsidiary of Tsukada Global Holdings will manage the wedding operations at Hotel Gajoen Tokyo, and K&O Energy Group will introduce a shareholder benefit program offering electronic gifts based on the number of shares held to shareholders who have held shares for at least one year. 31 Ice Cream reported a double-digit decline in operating profit for the cumulative second quarter of the fiscal year ending December 2026, while Nagase fell into the red in the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027. Shin-Etsu Polymer posted a consolidated operating profit of 4.148 billion yen, up 8.6% year on year, for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027, and disclosed its previously undisclosed full-year plan of 120 billion yen in revenue and 16 billion yen in operating profit. JIA made yacht and motorboat dealer Keyside a subsidiary, and KOA revised upward its consolidated operating profit forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2027 from 2.83 billion yen to 5.36 billion yen. Accelmark formed a business alliance with Medical Frontier, and Urbanet Corporation raised its consolidated operating profit plan for the fiscal year ending June 2026 from 3.623 billion yen to 4.1 billion yen. Iole will engage in a strategic collaboration with Castrol of the UK and WOODMAN on next-generation liquid cooling and immersion cooling solutions for AI data centers.

Green Energy & Company has received an additional order from Erex for the construction of a grid storage battery system. Disco reported a 32% increase in first-half ordinary profit, achieving record earnings for the third consecutive term, and raised its previously undecided first-half dividend by 42 yen. K&O Energy Group introduced a shareholder benefit program, granting electronic gifts worth 500 to 24,000 yen depending on the number of shares held and the holding period, to shareholders who continuously hold 100 shares or more for at least one year as of the end of December each year. Eole announced a strategic collaboration with Castrol and Woodman for the joint development and market deployment of next-generation liquid cooling and immersion cooling solutions for AI data centers, planning to start sales of an immersion cooling solution equipped with the latest NVIDIA AI inference GPU in August and begin delivery to a data center in September. Meanwhile, Hove has been decided to be delisted effective January 1, 2027, and B-R 31 Ice Cream reported a 9% decline in first-half ordinary profit, with the April-June quarter also down 16%.

Eole, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market, is positioning its AI data center business and on-chain finance business as new pillars, advancing its transformation into an infrastructure company for the AI agent era. Under President Shugo Takino, who took office last June, the market capitalization has expanded to approximately 240 billion yen, roughly ten times what it was before his appointment. GPU server sales are expected to grow from around 100 billion yen last fiscal year to about 200 billion yen this fiscal year, with a significant swing to profitability and an operating profit exceeding 1.1 billion yen projected for the fiscal year ending March 2027. In on-chain finance, the company is championing the Neo Crypto Bank concept, a next-generation financial infrastructure utilizing stablecoins, aiming to become a financial hub where AI agents exchange value with one another.