The development comes as Wall Street analysts begin covering companies built around Bitcoin treasury strategies. On Monday, investment bank B. Riley Securities initiated coverage of Strategy (MSTR) with a Buy rating, signaling expectations that the stock could outperform the broader market.
Source: Jeff Walton
Strategy’s Nasdaq-traded STRC pays a floating dividend and trades publicly, allowing companies to hold it as a liquid treasury asset rather than cash or money market funds.
Data from Strategy’s dashboard shows STRC trading around $100, with a market capitalization of about $3.85 billion and around $90.6 million in daily trading volume. The variable dividend is currently at 11.5%.
“Many institutions maintain USD reserves as a buffer for dividend obligations and operational liquidity,” said Matt Cole, chairman and CEO of Strive, adding that allocating a portion of those reserves to instruments such as STRC may provide stronger yield dynamics than traditional money market funds while maintaining liquidity.
Strive is a structured finance company and asset manager that holds about 13,311 Bitcoin, ranking it as the 11th-largest corporate Bitcoin treasury, according to BitcoinTreasuries.NET data. The company’s Nasdaq-listed shares were up about 3.5% at last look on Wednesday.
Top 20 Bitcoin treasury companies. Source: BitcoinTreasuries.NET
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Inside Strategy’s ‘digital credit’ model and the STRC preferred stock
STRC is part of a category Strategy calls “digital credit,” securities designed to generate yield while allowing the company to raise capital linked to its Bitcoin treasury strategy.
Strategy raised about $2.5 billion in a July 2025 initial public offering of the preferred shares.
Strive’s $50 million purchase comes a day after Strategy recorded its largest issuance of STRC following changes to its at-the-market share sales program. The update allows a second sales agent to execute share sales outside regular US trading hours, easing a previous restriction that limited the program to one agent per trading day.
Data from STRC.live shows the company sold roughly 2.4 million STRC shares in a single day, with proceeds estimated to have funded the purchase of about 1,420 Bitcoin.
Strive has also issued its own digital credit instrument, SATA, a variable-rate perpetual preferred stock designed to generate floating yields tied to the company’s Bitcoin-per-share growth.
The shares, which launched in November 2025, currently offer yields of about 13% and have a market capitalization of roughly $319 million.
Digital credit dashboard. Source: BitcoinTreasuries.NET
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