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Wall Street institutions increased their exposure to Strategy's MSTR in the second quarter, just before Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin accumulation machine began redirecting capital toward STRC. On Aug. 18, Strategy said 12 of its 15 largest institutional shareholders increased their MSTR positions through June 30. The company said those additions lifted combined holdings by $1.2 billion. […] The post Wall Street piled $1.2 billion into MSTR in Q2 before Strategy turned its Bitcoin flywheel toward rescuing STRC appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Solstice announced a tranched product built on Strategy's Bitcoin-related STRC preferred stock, and said its senior tranche would not begin absorbing losses until STRC trades below $47.66. STRC currently trades near $95.315, putting that threshold roughly half of today's market price and about 52% below the security's $100 par value. Solstice COO David Plisek described […] The post Strategy sold $100M to defend STRC’s $100 stock price as DeFi packages the risk into a 7% ‘safer’ trade appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Strategy’s preferred stock STRC is steadily moving back toward its $100 target as the Bitcoin treasury company increases its purchases of the shares. Data from STRC.live showed that STRC traded around $95 on Monday, extending a recovery from its late-June low of about $74 as Strategy combined open-market repurchases with a 12% annualized dividend to […] The post Strategy has $785 million left to close STRC’s final $5 gap after selling $213 million in Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Strategy sold 1,690 Bitcoin to repurchase STRC shares as its US dollar reserve rose to $4.65 billion and its Bitcoin holdings fell to 840,447 BTC. Strategy, which holds the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury, sold BTC for the second week in a row to repurchase its STRC preferred stock. The company sold 1,690 Bitcoin for $108.6 million between Aug. 3 and Aug. 9, according to a Monday 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Strategy used the proceeds to buy back 1.15 million shares of its STRC preferred stock for $108.6 million. STRC is a variable-rate preferred stock designed to pay monthly dividends. Read more

Bitcoin sales, what is now a $4 billion cash reserve, and a $975 million repurchase program, have supported STRC’s recovery.

The preferred shares have recovered nearly 24% from their June closing low as Strategy builds its cash reserve and repurchases STRC. Strategy’s variable-rate preferred stock, STRC, closed above $90 for the first time in seven weeks, extending its recovery from a June selloff that raised concerns about the Bitcoin treasury company’s financial resilience. STRC closed at $92.32 on Monday, up 3.2% from Friday’s $89.46 close, according to Yahoo Finance data. It was the first close above $90 since June 16. The stock has recovered nearly 24% from its June 26 closing low of $74.57. Read more

Strategy's latest Bitcoin sale lifted its 2026 disposals to 5,258 BTC, the largest amount it has sold in any year since adopting the asset in 2020, as the company redirects capital toward supporting its preferred securities. The company sold 1,638 BTC for $104.7 million between July 27 and Aug. 2 and issued about 3.01 million […] The post Strategy sells $395 million in Bitcoin and MSTR stock to buyback $81 million in STRC and build cash reserve to $4 billion appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy sold 1,638 Bitcoin in its second-largest sale of the year to fund dividend payments and repurchase its preferred STRC stock. Strategy sold 1,638 Bitcoin from July 27 through Sunday, marking its second-largest BTC sale of the year. Strategy sold 1,638 Bitcoin at an average price of $63,957 for a total of $104.7 million, according to a Monday 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Of the proceeds, $52.4 million was used to fund dividend payments on Strategy’s STRC preferred stock, while another $52.3 million was used to repurchase STRC. The company now holds 842,138 Bitcoin bought at an aggregate cost of $63.5 billion. Read more

Investors have previously benefited from a payout boost when the preferred STRC shares traded well below their $100 par value for a month. While Strategy’s preferred STRC shares ended July well below their $100 par value, investors were told that their August dividend will not increase, holding at 12%. Executive chairman Michael Saylor delivered the news in a tweet on Saturday, continuing to pitch STRC as a way to “stretch your income.” August will be the second month that the dividend will be paid semi-monthly after shareholders approved that change in June. STRC shares closed at $89.46 on Friday, clocking a 5.42% price increase for the month which began with a dividend hike — 50 basis points to 12% — after a poor stock performance in June. The volume on the Nasdaq-traded shares on Friday were about two-thirds of their daily average.  Read more

Customarily, Michael Saylor and team have lifted the STRC dividend when it trades sizably below par, but not this month.

Strategy raised $544.5 million through MSTR stock sales as it repurchased $25 million of STRC shares and expanded its US dollar reserve to $3.75 billion. Strategy, the business intelligence firm that has built the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury, continued adjusting its capital structure last week through a combination of stock sales and preferred share repurchases. Strategy sold 5,429,160 shares of its Class A common stock (MSTR) through its at-the-market (ATM) offering program between July 20 and July 26, generating $544.5 million in net proceeds. The MSTR share price was up more than 2% in Monday’s premarket activity, according to Yahoo Finance. The STRC preferred shares were up 2.3% to $88.90 ahead of the Nasdaq open. Read more

Bitwise’s Matt Hougan said Strategy's STRC offer of high yields and low volatility was always a questionable fit for buying Bitcoin, as the cryptocurrency offers neither. Strategy’s era as the dominant Bitcoin buyer may have come to an end following last week’s STRC turmoil, which cast doubt on the company’s Bitcoin-buying strategy and sent the cryptocurrency to a nearly two-year low, according to Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan. “For years, Strategy has been the most dominant Bitcoin buyer in the world and a one-way source of Bitcoin demand. Those days are likely over,” Hougan said Thursday.  “I just expect it to be a less important figure in Bitcoin in the next cycle than it was in the last,” Hougan said, adding that investment banks, asset managers, pensions, endowments and sovereign wealth funds will likely replace Strategy as Bitcoin’s primary demand driver. Read more

Strategy’s new Bitcoin capital framework draws Wall Street backing from Benchmark with a $570 per share target even as traders question long-term demand risk. Michael Saylor’s Strategy won support from some Wall Street analysts after unveiling a new capital framework, but the changes also sparked debate over the company’s long-term Bitcoin strategy and sustainability. Benchmark Equity Research on Monday reiterated its Buy rating on Strategy’s Class A stock MSTR and maintained a 12-month price target of $570, according to a report reviewed by Cointelegraph. Strategy's common Class A stock, MSTR, rose 12.6% to about $92.70 on Monday, while its STRC preferred shares climbed 12.2% to around $83.70, according to TradingView and Yahoo Finance. Read more

Strategy's preferred stack and Bitcoin's price are facing two separate tests this week, and only one of them has been resolved. The company's Digital Credit Capital Framework centers on a $2.55 billion dollar-denominated reserve, a revised STRC dividend policy, $2 billion in combined buybacks, and a board-authorized BTC monetization program. MSTR rose roughly 6% in […] The post Bitcoin’s $60,000 test is not over after Strategy’s $2.5B STRC backstop appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury and enterprise software company formerly known as MicroStrategy, has spent years turning public markets into a funding engine for Bitcoin purchases. That model helped make the company the world’s largest corporate holder of the digital asset. Now, the securities used to power that strategy are flashing stress. The pressure is centered […] The post Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin machine hits $8 billion cash wall as STRC crashes 25% below par appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Benchmark's Mark Palmer says the comparison misreads what STRC is — a dividend-paying share backed indirectly by bitcoin, not a peg waiting to break.

The analysts underscored that Strategy's Stretch (STRC) can't technically lose its “peg.”

STRC’s slide below par has emboldened critics, slowed Strategy’s Bitcoin buys and sparked debate over whether Michael Saylor’s BTC flywheel is still fine. Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen roughly 50% since Michael Saylor’s Strategy launched Stretch (STRC), its flagship Bitcoin-funding vehicle, in late July 2025. BTC/USD monthly chart. Source: TradingView Key takeaways: Read more

STRC, Strategy's perpetual preferred stock, traded as low as $82.61 on June 18 before recovering to $88.59, putting the security nearly 17% below its $100 stated amount at the intraday low. MSTR fell 3.4% to $112.53 during the same session, while Bitcoin traded near $62,730, down about 2.5%. Strategy designed STRC to hover around $100 […] The post STRC’s plunge puts Saylor’s Bitcoin dividend machine under pressure appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Options traders are building bearish positions around Strategy's (formerly MicroStrategy) flagship preferred STRC stock after the security fell to a record low, adding a new layer of pressure to one of Michael Saylor’s main funding tools for buying Bitcoin. Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock, known by the ticker STRC, closed Wednesday […] The post Strategy’s STRC draws bearish options bets as it falls to new all-time low appeared first on CryptoSlate.