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Strategy is leveraging large-scale buybacks to push the price of perpetual preferred stock STRC back to around the $100 par value, in order to restore its Bitcoin financing capability. From July 20 to September 13, Strategy repurchased a total of 9.96 million shares of STRC, costing approximately $950 million, accounting for about 18% of the trading volume during the same period.Of this, approximately $765 million can be traced back to the sale of MSTR common stock, while about $161 million came from Bitcoin reductions. STRC had previously fallen to around $70 but has recently risen to about $99. Analysts believe that only when the price of STRC approaches or exceeds the $100 par value can Strategy effectively reissue the security and use the raised funds to purchase Bitcoin. However, after Strategy reduced its buybacks, whether STRC can continue to stay near the par value remains uncertain.

The latest report from the on-chain data analysis platform Glassnode, titled "The Week Onchain," shows that in 2026, publicly listed companies only increased their holdings by about 5,900 BTC, which is less than 7% of the single-month increase in July 2025 (89,000 BTC). Currently, corporate treasuries are overall in an unrealized loss state, with an average cost basis of $80,500, which is about 6% higher than the spot price.Glassnode pointed out that in 2026, Bitcoin's price attempted to recover this cost level only twice, both of which were unsuccessful. "Buyers who stop buying and hold onto unrealized losses cannot provide support; recovering $80,500 is necessary for corporate treasuries to return to profitability and eliminate a layer of supply pressure above." Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve implemented its first interest rate hike since July 2023 on Wednesday, which may initiate a tightening cycle and put pressure on liquidity in the cryptocurrency market.The U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF saw a net outflow of $462.7 million over five trading days ending September 11, reversing the trend of net inflows over the previous three weeks. Bitcoin's realized market cap has started to decline since September 15, currently around $1.069 trillion, indicating a lack of new buying interest at the current price level. Strategy, a business intelligence company holding the world's largest Bitcoin treasury, completed its latest increase at the end of August, purchasing 4,603 BTC, with a cost basis of $75,412 for its 845,050 BTC holdings.

According to BBX data, yesterday and in recent days, globally listed companies in the U.S. stock market disclosed the latest developments in digital asset purchases, business restructuring, and stock buybacks. The core information is as follows:MARA Holdings invested approximately $98.64 million to increase its holdings of 1,292 BTC: The global leading Bitcoin mining giant MARA Holdings (NASDAQ: $MARA) made a significant purchase of 1,292 Bitcoins yesterday through the crypto broker FalconX. Based on the average price during the purchase period, the total value of this increase is approximately $98.64 million, continuing its strategy of fully retaining output and actively allocating Bitcoin in the secondary market.Twenty One Capital (NYSE: $XXI) seeks business transformation, disclosing a five-step plan for a "Bitcoin operating company": Twenty One Capital's CEO Raphael Zagury stated in an interview with Coin Stories that the company is transitioning from merely holding Bitcoin reserves to becoming a deep "Bitcoin operating company." Zagury disclosed the specific five-step implementation path for the first time: First, improve corporate governance and professional structures in the middle and back office; second, introduce Bitcoin industry operating entities with self-sustaining and profit-generating capabilities; third, comprehensively promote horizontal industry mergers and acquisitions; fourth, flexibly use public capital market tools to continue increasing Bitcoin holdings at the appropriate time; fifth, focus on expanding and developing Bitcoin collateralized lending business.Circle minted 10 billion ARC genesis tokens, exploring a shift to PoS consensus in 2027: Stablecoin issuer Circle officially completed the minting of 10 billion ARC tokens this week. Circle clarified that this minting is merely a milestone for underlying technology verification and is not a commitment for public issuance. The core positioning of ARC is to serve as a security guarantee, practical function, and decentralized governance coordination mechanism for the Arc network, with the network's native gas fees still strictly settled in USDC. Additionally, Circle is proactively exploring a smooth transition of the network's underlying consensus mechanism from the current Proof of Authority (PoA) to Proof of Stake (PoS) in 2027.ProCap Financial (NASDAQ: $BRR) sold 50 BTC for a discounted buyback, holding over 5,250 BTC: Financial company ProCap Financial, focused on digital asset allocation, announced that starting from September 3, it repurchased an additional 2.2% of its circulating common stock at a significant discount of approximately 22% to the net asset value (NAV) per share, with the funds for this buyback sourced from the sale of about 50 Bitcoins on its balance sheet. Since the buyback plan was initiated, the company has repurchased approximately 12.2% of its circulating shares. As of the market close on September 15, its total circulating shares were 84,937,392, and the treasury still holds approximately 5,254 Bitcoins, corresponding to an NAV of about $3.62 per share. The company's management emphasized that it will steadfastly execute the stock buyback strategy until the secondary market trading price is no longer below the net asset value.

According to Arkham monitoring, Strategy's Bitcoin holdings currently have an unrealized profit of 2.2 billion dollars. Strategy did not purchase Bitcoin last week and currently holds 65.94 billion dollars in Bitcoin, totaling 845,050 BTC, with an average purchase price of 75,412 dollars, which is 3.5% higher than the current price of BTC.Last week, it repurchased 139.3 million dollars in STRC and holds 5.1 billion dollars in reserves.

Cryptocurrency asset company Bitmine Immersion Technologies announced last week that it has increased its holdings by 27,180 ETH, bringing its total ETH holdings to over 5.95 million, valued at approximately $1.54 billion, accounting for about 4.9% of the circulating supply of Ethereum. Including cash and other cryptocurrency assets, the company's total holdings amount to approximately $15.8 billion.Bitmine stated that currently over 5.06 million ETH are staked, and based on the current yield, it is expected to generate approximately $334 million in staking income annually, with about 85% of its ETH holdings used for staking. In comparison, the staking ratio for Grayscale Ethereum Staked ETF (ETHE) is 84.6%. Since BTC does not generate native staking income, this strategy has advantages over treasury companies holding Bitcoin. On Monday, Bitmine's stock price remained flat, around $25, having risen nearly 38% over the past month.Meanwhile, Michael Saylor's Strategy has not purchased Bitcoin for the second consecutive week, instead opting to repurchase its STRC preferred shares. Between September 8 and 13, Strategy spent $139.3 million to repurchase approximately 1.42 million shares of STRC, following a previous week where it repurchased $176.3 million worth of STRC. As of September 13, Strategy's Bitcoin holdings remained unchanged at 845,050 coins.

According to the 8-K document submitted by Strategy to the SEC, the company did not sell any shares through the ATM plan from September 8 to 13, 2026, nor did it buy or sell Bitcoin, maintaining a position of 845,050 coins, with a total holding cost of approximately 6.373 billion USD and an average price of about 75,412 USD.During the same period, the company repurchased 1.4205 million shares of STRC preferred stock for 139.3 million USD, funded by USD Cash, with a remaining quota of approximately 1.05 billion USD for the preferred stock repurchase plan. As of September 13, the USD Reserve balance was 5.1 billion USD, and the USD Cash balance was 1.3 billion USD, a decrease of approximately 139.3 million USD compared to the previous week.

memecoin STRATEGY is valued at approximately 7.2 million dollars on the Robinhood Chain, with the mainstream liquidity pool pairing tokenized MSTR stock. The token was launched on September 4 and is not an equity certificate for Strategy stock.The price of STRATEGY is about 0.0078 dollars, with liquidity around 808.6 thousand dollars and a 24-hour trading volume of approximately 691 thousand dollars. Supporters claim that the value of MSTR Stock Tokens in the pool exceeded 362 thousand dollars within 10 days.

Strategy publicly released the "Bitcoin Investor Guide," compiled by its team, with a revision date of September 7, 2026, and market data as of September 4. The guide is aimed at professional investors, private investors, bankers, advisors, and capital allocators, systematically elaborating on Bitcoin's monetary attributes, investment logic, market structure, portfolio role, custody methods, and risks. The core viewpoint asserts that Bitcoin is no longer just a speculative asset but is becoming the foundation of a new type of digital capital market—a scarce, open, global reserve asset. The long-term logic is based on scarcity, open access, global liquidity, and independent verification, and it may absorb some of the monetary premiums currently attached to gold, real estate, stocks, bonds, and artworks.Key data snapshot (as of September 4, 2026): Bitcoin price is approximately $79,809, the 200-week moving average is about $64,715 (premium of approximately 23.3%); 1-year return is approximately -28.3%, and 10-year annualized return is about 62.8%; 30-day average trading volume is around $28.3 billion, and open interest is about $96 billion; spot ETFs hold approximately 1.27 million BTC, and the total network hash rate is about 935 EH/s. The guide emphasizes Bitcoin's positioning as "digital capital": a maximum supply cap of 21 million coins, no issuer, no expiration date, no contractual cash flows, with value primarily determined by scarcity and the monetary premium assigned by the market. It can be held directly, transferred globally, and independently verified. After the U.S. SEC approves the spot Bitcoin ETP in January 2024, institutional access has significantly increased, and the infrastructure for futures, options, and custody continues to mature. In terms of risk warnings, the guide points out Bitcoin's high volatility, lack of repayment commitments, and the potential for significant price declines; self-custody and third-party custody, ETPs, corporate securities, and derivatives all carry different legal, operational, and counterparty risks; transactions are irreversible, and loss of keys can lead to permanent loss. Strategy, as a publicly listed company with significant Bitcoin holdings, has a vested interest in Bitcoin prices. The document clearly states that it is for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.

Arbitrum's investment strategy director Brendan Ma stated: Arbitrum's weekly revenue has risen to third globally, with treasury revenue exceeding 4.3 million dollars in the past 30 days, of which over 50% came from the previous week. Revenue in Q3 to date is approximately 140% higher than Q2, with sources including Arbitrum One transaction fees, Robinhood Chain AEP licensing fees, and treasury income.Arbitrum leads in the number of RWA deployments, exceeding 4,500, with AUM reaching 1 billion dollars. The 30-day transaction volume grew by 124% to 395 billion dollars, and tokenized stocks doubled to over 200 million dollars. Arbitrum One's cumulative transaction volume exceeded 2.8 billion transactions, with Chain GDP reaching 1.8 billion dollars, a year-on-year increase of 22%, and perpetual contract positions peaking at 1.8 billion dollars.In terms of the ecosystem, Carbon's cumulative transaction volume exceeded 100 million dollars, T3tris TVL reached 13.4 million dollars, and USD.AI TVL reached 500 million dollars. Venmo, Stripe, Shopify, and Cash App have supported USDC or PYUSD-related functionalities on Arbitrum.

On Wednesday, the House of Lords in the UK passed an amendment with 194 votes in favor and 138 against, requiring the government to develop a digital asset strategy, despite opposition from the ruling Labour Party.The amendment was proposed by Conservative peer Baroness Neville-Rolfe and calls for the UK Treasury to formulate, publish, and seek consultation on the strategy within 12 months after the Financial Services and Markets Bill comes into effect. The strategy will cover crypto assets, stablecoins, and tokenized securities, and will address issues such as innovation, consumer protection, and businesses' access to banking, payment, and settlement services. The relevant bill still needs to be submitted to the House of Commons, where members can accept, modify, or reject the amendments from the House of Lords. The UK Crypto Assets Business Council expressed support for the voting outcome. Previously, the Minister for Investment at the Treasury, Lord Stockwood, stated that the government already has a digital asset strategy and is implementing it.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, the Bitcoin fintech company Castle announced that it will open its automated Bitcoin financial stack to individual users and launch a pioneering feature in this category: users can choose to receive dividend income in cash or Bitcoin at any ratio.Castle's revenue comes from the perpetual preferred stock STRC issued by Strategy, which was incorporated into the platform earlier this year and currently pays an annualized dividend of 12% on a semi-monthly basis. Users can receive 100% of the dividends in cash, convert 100% to Bitcoin, or choose any ratio between the two. According to the company, most users opt for a compromise solution, using cash to cover daily expenses while automatically reinvesting the remaining portion into Bitcoin with each dividend payout.Castle co-founder and CTO João Almeida stated that investors have long faced a dilemma of choosing between stable income and holding Bitcoin. Castle allows users to achieve both cash flow and long-term upside by automatically converting a portion of the dividends into Bitcoin. Previously, Castle only catered to business clients such as restaurants, gyms, accounting firms, and e-commerce; the opening of personal accounts was due to repeated requests from business owners. Castle was co-founded by Almeida and CEO Stephen Cole and has received investments from Boost VC and Winklevoss Capital.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on September 8, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) for the week was $267 million, a decrease of 48% compared to last week. Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) did not purchase Bitcoin last week. The Japanese listed company Metaplanet also did not purchase Bitcoin last week, marking eight consecutive weeks without purchases.In addition, another eight companies announced Bitcoin purchases or holdings last week. The Japanese energy investment company Remixpoint announced that as of September 4, 2026, it held a total of 1,506.23390097 Bitcoins, with a cumulative total expenditure of $1.1184 million, an increase of 2.48356398 Bitcoins compared to last week;The entertainment technology company Boyaa Interactive announced that from June 24, 2026, to September 4, 2026, it invested $14.3 million to increase its holdings by 205 Bitcoins at a price of $69,756.097561, bringing its total holdings to 4,316;The UK Bitcoin company The Smarter Web Company announced on September 2 that it invested $2.72 million to purchase 35 Bitcoins at a price of $77,708, bringing its total holdings to 2,747;The Bitcoin asset company Bitcoin Treasury Corporation announced on September 4 that it held approximately 737.71 Bitcoins, without disclosing the specific total purchase amount or average cost of Bitcoin;The UK Bitcoin asset company BHODL announced on September 3 that it spent approximately $77,772.17 last week to purchase 1 Bitcoin, bringing its total holdings to approximately 167.487;The Ethereum asset company Bitmine announced after 8 AM Eastern Time on August 31 that it purchased 1 Bitcoin, without disclosing the specific purchase amount, bringing its total holdings to 211;The French Bitcoin company Capital B announced on September 7 that it purchased 376 Bitcoins at a price of $67,182, bringing its total holdings to 3,521;The asset management company Strive announced on September 8 that it spent approximately $109 million last week to purchase 1,375 Bitcoins at a price of $79,281, bringing its total holdings to approximately 24,531.In terms of financing, Capital B announced that it has raised €7.6 million (approximately $8.83 million) from investors and institutions, including Adam Back, for the purpose of purchasing Bitcoin. BHODL confirmed that it has completed ATM 2 (the second phase of the market price issuance plan), having sold 600,000 shares of common stock at an average price of 8.06 pence per share, raising a total of £48,275 ($65,253.32) for the purchase of Bitcoin, and is preparing to launch ATM 3 (the third phase of the market price issuance plan).As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the statistics is 1,119,973, a decrease of 2.38% compared to last week, with a current market value of approximately $87.77 billion, accounting for 5.6% of the circulating market value of Bitcoin.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, last week Strategy did not increase or decrease its holdings of BTC, currently holding 845,050 BTC, valued at approximately 6.6125 billion USD, with an average cost of 75,412 USD, resulting in an unrealized profit of approximately 2.398 billion USD.The Ethereum treasury company Bitmine continued to increase its holdings by 28,086 ETH last week, valued at approximately 6.885 million USD, with an average purchase price of about 2,451 USD. Currently, Bitmine holds a total of 5,929,198 ETH, valued at approximately 14.651 billion USD, with an average cost of 3,347 USD, resulting in an unrealized loss of approximately 5.194 billion USD.

According to official news, Strategy did not increase its Bitcoin holdings last week. Strategy has repurchased $176 million of STRC and has increased the scale of its digital credit securities repurchase program from $1 billion to $2 billion.As of September 7, 2026, Strategy holds 845,050 BTC and approximately $6.5 billion in dollar assets.

According to Strategy's latest 8-K filing, Strategy has raised approximately $20.9 billion this year through the issuance of common and preferred stock, ranking fourth in the scale of stock issuance in the United States, only behind SpaceX, Alphabet, and Intel.Recently, Strategy obtained a net gain of $602.8 million by selling MSTR common stock, of which $369.7 million was used to purchase 4,603 BTC, with an average purchase price of approximately $80,318. As of August 30, the company's total holdings of BTC increased to 845,050, with a cumulative purchase cost of approximately $63.73 billion and an average cost of approximately $75,412.In addition, MSCI's consultation regarding financial reserves for digital asset companies will conclude on September 30, and the market is paying attention to whether there will be adjustments to the inclusion criteria for related indices thereafter.

DeFi researcher Ignas stated that Robinhood previously set a record of over $6 million in daily transaction fees, with about 10% flowing to Arbitrum, while the revenue ultimately distributed to Ethereum L1 was "pitifully small."Ignas believes that this model may not be entirely unacceptable. Just as Uber initially used subsidies to achieve growth, Ethereum might attract traditional financial businesses into its ecosystem through L2 and gradually increase "rent" after a high conversion cost is established in the ecosystem. However, if Ethereum developers can formulate a clear strategy to first attract more L2 and then monetize once the conversion costs are sufficiently high, this could actually become a favorable long-term business model for L1. Yet, there is currently no clear strategy seen in Ethereum's roadmap, and he questioned, "Am I misunderstanding?"

Bitcoin News posted on platform X that the Japanese energy and technology company Remixpoint sold all of its holdings in ETH, SOL, XRP, and DOGE on September 1, 2026, with a transaction amount of approximately 5.6 million USD, resulting in a total profit of about 757,000 USD.Remixpoint currently holds approximately 1,506 BTC and has shifted its digital asset reserve strategy to only hold Bitcoin. The company also earned about 14.92 BTC in revenue through Bitcoin lending, and the proceeds from selling altcoins may be used to expand its energy business.

Gate Research Institute released the August 2026 cryptocurrency and TradFi quantitative report. BTC and ETH rose approximately 25.1% and 32.6% respectively during the month. Gate contract data shows that the open interest amount for BTC increased from about $4.02 billion to $4.38 billion, while ETH rose from about $2.46 billion to $2.75 billion, with increases of approximately 9% and 12.1% respectively.The funding rates for both remained moderately positive most of the time, with long positions dominating the number of accounts, but the active trading long-short ratio was below 1. The TradFi market also rose in sync, with NAS100 increasing about 4.2% during the month, outperforming US500 and US30, while large tech stocks showed a divergence in trends.The report compared four models: moving average trends, trend momentum, Donchian breakout, and RSI mean reversion. Backtesting results showed that the 100-day moving average and 20-day price momentum strategies achieved positive cumulative returns on BTC, ETH, US500, and NAS100, with a median Sharpe ratio of 0.64 and a median maximum drawdown of 8.71%. The report includes Gate TradFi's US500 and NAS100 in cross-asset observations and evaluates market heat by combining Gate contract long-short ratios, funding rates, and open interest data. The execution over the next one to three months will focus on trend confirmation, volatility rebalancing, leverage limits, and cooling off abnormal liquidations.

According to Cointelegraph, Strategy has raised $20.9 billion this year through stock issuance to support its Bitcoin accumulation strategy, becoming the fourth largest stock issuer in the United States this year.