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Michael Saylor’s Strategy Funding More Bitcoin Purchases With New Preferred Stock

Strategy (MSTR) Tuesday morning unveiled its latest twist at raising funds from capital markets to fund additional bitcoin (BTC) purchases, but there are indications the Wall Street spigot is slowing.
The company’s Perpetual Strife Preferred Stock (STRF) offers a fixed 10% annual cash dividend, paid quarterly, according to an SEC filing If dividends are unpaid, they compound at an additional 1% per year (quarterly), up to a maximum of 18%. The first dividend payment is scheduled for June 30, 2025.
Strategy’s initial preferred series (STRK) initially offered only an 8% interest rate. And Strategy’s series of convertible debt offerings came with negligible or even 0% interest rates (different product than preferred, of course).
Unlike common stock, STRF holders do not have voting rights but have priority in liquidation with a $100 per share liquidation preference. Strategy has the right to redeem STRF if fewer than 25% of the original shares remain or if tax events occur, while holders can demand a buyback in case of a fundamental change.
STRF is expected to trade on Nasdaq within 30 days of issuance, offering investors bitcoin exposure with a high-yield structure. Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Citigroup, and Moelis & Company are joint book-running managers for the offering, conducted under an SEC shelf registration.
After buying bitcoin at a galloping pace over the past several months, Strategy’s fundraising and token acquisitions have slowed to a crawl in recent weeks. The company last week did make additional bitcoin purchases, but they were hardly needle-moving — just 130 BTC for $10.7 million to bring total holdings to 499,226 tokens.
MSTR is lower by 5% in early action Tuesday alongside a slide in markets in general and bitcoin’s dip to $81,300 from $84,000 a day ago.
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Multicoin’s Samani Explains Why SOL ETF Could Trounce ETH’s

Solana doesn’t yet have an exchange-traded fund, but one of the asset’s biggest backers is betting the Wall Street-friendly vehicle could come in 2025 — and believes it’s well-positioned to trounce Ethereum’s various similar products.
Multicoin Capital’s Kyle Samani — a major investor in SOL and countless subordinate protocols — has been publicly pressing the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to look favorably upon a SOL ETF. His bullish pronouncements therefore might come as little surprise.
But onstage Tuesday at Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summit in New York City, Samani explained his view why Solana is better placed to appeal to traditional investors than Ethereum did. It’s all about the money: the fees being generated on-chain, compared to the value of the asset’s totality.
«A lot of the reason why the ETH ETF didn’t have a super strong reception was a lot of investors looked at ETH and said ‘show me the fees,’ Samani said.
By his telling, they didn’t find much proof to justify investing at its high prices.
Stock traders often look at a company’s price to earnings ratio in deciding whether it’s over or undervalued; in other words, when to invest. Crypto doesn’t have such a clean metric, but blockchains still have revenue and tokens that can be mushed together for similar effect.
Samani believes Solana’s theoretical P/E ratio is much healthier from an investing standpoint than Ethereum’s. His onstage math placed Solana as trading at 30 to 50 times its P/E whereas Ethereum is trading closer to 1,000 times.
Solana’s P/E ratio is «much more in line with high-growth tech stocks,» Samani said.
If the logic plays out then traditional investors might be expected to believe Solana has more upside than Ethereum, and invest accordingly.
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Crypto Regulatory Clarity Top Catalyst for Industry Growth: Coinbase & EYP Survey

Crypto market regulatory clarity was cited as the top catalyst for growth in the digital asset industry, according to a survey by crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) and consulting firm EY-Parthenon (EYP).
Coinbase and EY Parthenon surveyed 352 institutional investors between Jan. 13 and Jan. 24 this year.
86% of those surveyed said they had exposure to digital assets or planned to make allocations in 2025, and 84% said they had increased allocations to crypto and crypto-related products in 2024.
59% of respondents said they planned to allocate more than 5% of their assets under management (AUM) to cryptocurrencies in 2025.
An improving regulatory backdrop under Donald Trump’s new administration is viewed as a large tailwind for the digital asset industry. The President has promised to make the U.S. the «crypto capital of the world.»
Altcoins are also becoming increasingly popular amongst institutional investors, according to the survey. 73% of respondents said they held tokens other than bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH), led by hedge funds at 80%.
About half of those surveyed said they leverage stablecoins, with yield generation, transactions, and foreign exchange cited as the main use cases.
60% of investors said they preferred to gain exposure to crypto via registered vehicles such as exchange-traded products (ETPs).
The survey focused on decision makers in the U.S. and Europe, with some participation from investors worldwide.
Read more: U.S. Crypto Investors Are Still Piling Into Memecoins Despite the Huge Risks: Kraken
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21Shares Polkadot ETF Plan Progresses With Nasdaq Filing for Listing Approval

Nasdaq officially asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow Swiss asset manager 21Shares list and trade shares of a polkadot (DOT) exchange-traded fund (ETF).
The exchange submitted a 19b-4 filing to the SEC, asking for permission to list the ETF if it is approved by the regulator.
The proposed fund would track the spot price of DOT, the native cryptocurrency of the Polkadot network. The filing follows an amended S-1 form submitted by 21Shares earlier this year, marking another step in the firm’s push to bring more crypto investment products to the market.
21Shares is also seeking regulatory approval for funds linked to XRP and solana’s SOL. The company recently announced it’s set to liquidate two actively managed crypto ETFs amid the market downturn.
Grayscale Investments, a crypto asset-management company, has also filed with the SEC to launch a Polkadot ETF, signaling broader interest in the asset.
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