Strive has added 147 Bitcoin to its corporate treasury, lifting its total holdings to 20,167 BTC. The purchase strengthens the company’s Bitcoin reserve as it continues expanding its digital asset strategy. Meanwhile, Strive reported strong Bitcoin yield figures, retired its debt, and maintained substantial cash reserves.

Bitcoin Treasury Reaches 20,167 BTC

Strive purchased 147 BTC between August 3 and August 7 at an average price of $64,812 per Bitcoin. Consequently, the latest purchase increased the company’s total Bitcoin holdings to 20,167 BTC. Based on current valuations, Strive’s Bitcoin treasury now carries a value of roughly $1.3 billion.

The latest acquisition continues a buying trend that accelerated throughout 2026. Strive purchased 1,109 BTC in May and added another 2,500 BTC during June. The company then continued its accumulation with additional Bitcoin purchases during July and early August.

Strive now ranks among the largest public companies holding Bitcoin in their corporate treasuries. BitcoinTreasuries.NET listed the company as the seventh-largest public Bitcoin holder. Therefore, the latest purchase further strengthens Strive’s position within the growing corporate Bitcoin market.

Bitcoin Yield Supports Treasury Strategy

Strive reported a Bitcoin yield of 24% during the second quarter of 2026. The company also recorded a Bitcoin yield of 38% during the first half of the year. Strive calculates the metric by comparing changes in Bitcoin holdings against diluted shares outstanding.

Meanwhile, the company fully retired its debt during the second quarter. Strive also held approximately $155 million in cash reserves after completing its debt reduction. Together, the cash position and Bitcoin holdings provide the company with two major treasury assets.

Strive has also introduced SATA, a preferred stock product that pays daily dividends. In addition, the company launched a Bitcoin treasury dashboard and website on August 10. The new tools provide regular updates about its Bitcoin holdings and treasury activity.

Bitcoin Expansion Follows Semler Merger

Strive significantly increased its Bitcoin reserves after completing its all-stock merger with Semler Scientific in September 2025. The transaction raised Strive’s Bitcoin holdings from about 5,000 BTC to approximately 10,900 BTC. Since then, the company has continued adding Bitcoin through regular treasury purchases.

The company’s 2026 acquisitions have pushed its holdings well above the level recorded after the merger. The May and June purchases accounted for 3,609 BTC before the latest acquisition. With the additional 147 BTC, Strive has continued building its reserve at a faster pace.

Tracking services estimate Strive’s average acquisition cost at about $94,700 per BTC across its entire treasury. However, the latest purchase price of $64,812 remained below that estimated average. As a result, the new acquisition added Bitcoin at a price below the reported cost basis of its broader holdings.

Strive’s growing Bitcoin reserve now forms a major part of its corporate financial strategy. The company continues combining Bitcoin accumulation with its asset management operations and treasury products. Meanwhile, its debt repayment and cash reserves provide additional financial resources as the strategy expands.

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Eliminating every possible risk

Solstice Finance rolled out a Solana-based product that gives decentralized finance (DeFi) users structured exposure to the dividend income and price risk of Strategy’s (MSTR) preferred stock (STRC).

The Zug, Switzerland-based firm, a DeFi yield infrastructure protocol built on Solana, said its new product splits the indirect STRC exposure into a senior and junior tranche, the firm said in a press release shared via Telegram.

Strategy disclosed it sold 1,690 bitcoin for $108.6 million on Monday, using the proceeds to repurchase 1,152,020 shares of its variable-rate preferred stock, STRC, for $108.6 million. The bitcoin sale reduced Strategy’s holdings to 840,447 BTC.

The product, called strcUSX, does not tokenize or give users ownership of STRC shares. Instead, users deposit USX, Solstice’s dollar-linked settlement token, into a vault and receive one of two Solana tokens tied to the economics of a portfolio holding the Nasdaq-listed preferred stock.

The LINK token may see a 25-fold increase to $200 by the end of 2030, as the growing real world asset market increases demand for the industry’s largest oracle services provider, according to Standard Chartered.

The Chainlink (LINK) token may see an more than 25-fold increase by the end of the decade, as tokenized real world assets (RWA) will reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028, according to a forecast by Geoff Kendrick, the global head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered.

Kendrick said that the growth in tokenized assets will require more external data to come securely onchain, which may increase Chainlink’s fee generation and push its LINK token to $200 by the end of 2030, up from $8 today, according to a Monday report shared with Cointelegraph.

The report also forecast a 37-fold rise in tokenized and crypto-native assets deployed in decentralized finance, pushing these assets to $2.7 trillion by the end of 2030. Kendrick said these assets will require trusted data, interoperability between networks, privacy-preserving compliance and integrations with existing financial systems, which “only Chainlink is currently equipped to provide.” 

The report follows growing demand for tokenized assets. Tokenized RWA trading on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) reached a new all-time high of $141 billion in July, marking a 19.5% monthly rise largely driven by public equities, according to data provider CryptoRank.

Chainlink is the blockchain industry’s leading decentralized oracle provider for crosschain communication, with $34.4 billion in total value secured. Chronicle ranks second with $7.36 billion, according to data aggregator DefiLlama.

Standard Chartered’s Kendrick said that potential risks to its Chainlink price forecast include slower-than-expected institutional tokenization initiatives, competition from specialist oracle providers and potential technical setbacks.

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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.

The transaction marked Strategy’s fourth disclosed Bitcoin sale of 2026, bringing its total Bitcoin sales for the year to 6,948 BTC, while the company still holds 840,447 BTC purchased for an aggregate $63.36 billion.

Bitcoin becomes part of the funding engine

Strategy sold the latest batch at an average net price of $64,262 per Bitcoin, while its total holdings carry an average purchase price of $75,385 per BTC, including fees and expenses.

Strategy’s prior disclosed sale involved 1,638 BTC for $104.73 million between July 27 and Aug. 2, when it also used Bitcoin sale proceeds to fund STRC repurchases.

Source: SEC

The latest filing shows that Strategy has $785.2 million remaining under its digital credit securities repurchase program, which covers its preferred stock, while another $1 billion remains available under its Class A common-stock repurchase program.

$4.65 billion reserve cushions preferred dividends

Strategy also continued building its US dollar reserve, reporting a balance of $4.65 billion as of Sunday, up from roughly $4 billion in the previous weekly update.

The company said $650 million of the $653.1 million in net proceeds from recent MSTR stock sales went toward the reserve, while the latest figure also includes expected proceeds from at-the-market (ATM) sales that had not yet settled.

Source: SEC

STRC shares have also rallied during Strategy’s recent buybacks, retaking $90 on Aug. 3 after rebounding 24% from their June lows.

STRC was up 0.46% at $95.45 in premarket trading Monday after closing Friday at $95, while MSTR gained 0.25% to $100.26, according to Yahoo Finance.

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Crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments has dropped plans for exchange-traded funds tied to Cardano’s ADA, Polkadot’s DOT and Hedera’s HBAR, withdrawing three registration statements from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) late Friday.

Through three separate requests with the regulator, Grayscale told the SEC it “does not intend to proceed with the planned distribution” of the shares of each trust.

The withdrawals were initiated by Grayscale and weren’t SEC rejections.

Grayscale’s initial Cardano ETF proposal came in February 2025, and its Polkadot filing later that month. Grayscale filed the corresponding ADA and DOT registration statements on Aug. 29, followed by its HBAR registration on Sept. 9.

The proposed funds were designed as passive vehicles that would track the value of their respective tokens after fees and expenses. Grayscale said it had not sold securities or distributed preliminary prospectuses under the registrations.

All three tokens have been losing value over the last few months. Year-to-date, ADA is down more than 41%, while DOT lost 54% of its value and Hedera’s HBAR lost 35%.

Since late February 2025, when the filings came in, performance has been worse. ADA endured a 70% drawdown, while DOT saw an 80% downward move. HBAR also dropped more than 70%.