BREAKING: $2.5B IPO Fuels Massive 21,000 Bitcoin Acquisition—Institutional Stampede Begins

Wall Street just placed its biggest bet yet on Bitcoin—and it’s dripping with irony.

After raising a jaw-dropping $2.5 billion in its public debut, an institutional heavyweight just snapped up 21,000 BTC. That’s enough to make even the most hardened crypto OGs blink.

The move screams mainstream validation—but let’s not pretend this isn’t the same finance circus that called Bitcoin a scam five years ago. Now? They’re front-running the halving like everyone else.

One question remains: When the suits start stacking sats, do we call it adoption… or desperation?

In brief

• Strategy buys 21,021 bitcoins at $117,256 each thanks to a historic $2.5 billion IPO.
• The STRC fund pays a monthly dividend, attracting traditional investors allergic to direct bitcoin exposure.
• 628,791 BTC are now in Strategyu2019s vaults, currently valued at $74 billion.
• The model appeals to markets as it combines fixed returns and indirect Bitcoin exposure.

A record IPO to fuel the Bitcoin strategy

Strategy, from Michael Saylor, raised $2.5 billion through a STRC preferred stock offering, the largest American IPO of 2025. This raise allowed the. The average price paid: $117,256 per BTC.

With this acquisition, while many thought Strategy had slowed down its purchases, the company now reaches, worth nearly $74 billion.

The originality of the model lies in the, designed to attractwithout direct exposure to BTC. Ryan Yoon, analyst at Tiger Research, explains:

Institutions want exposure to Bitcoin but packaged as a traditional investment product. STRC works because it pays dividends like a bond while providing indirect exposure to Bitcoin.

This structure appeals because it combineswithout the complexities of direct holding.

The pioneer of the “digital asset treasury” establishes itself as a reference

Since 2020, Strategy has been applyingto buy Bitcoin. This long-term vision has already inspired. At the same time, the company refines: STRK, STRF, STRD, and now STRC, each adapted to a specific investor profile.

Strategy’s credibility rests on, according to analyst Ryan Yoon (Tiger Research):

It takes three elements for this model to work: a credible bitcoin reserve, access to Wall Street financial tools, and a stock trading above the value of its BTC holdings.

, for example, paysadjusted by the board, enhancing its appeal to investors seeking regularity, even in a volatile crypto market.

The Strategy model: financial stability and Bitcoin surge

Unlike traditional speculative strategies, Strategy anchors its expansion in. With this record IPO, the company demonstrates that Bitcoin and traditional markets can coexist harmoniously.: monthly dividends and digital volatility.

Here is what it concretely means:

• The STRC IPO generated $2.521 billion, the largest of 2025;
• 21,021 BTC were acquired, bringing the total held to 628,791 units;
• The average purchase price is $117,256 per bitcoin;
• STRC becomes the first perpetual monthly dividend stock linked to BTC listed on Nasdaq;
• Strategy plans to continue this model to raise up to $84 billion.

According to an analysis relayed by TD Cowen, Strategy still has enough financial room to, without having to dilute its shareholders. This projection illustrates how viable their preferred stock issuance strategy remains in the long term.

Bitcoin hesitates below 119K $. Some question, hesitate, take profits. Not Saylor. He persists, methodical. In a recent tweet, he writes: “The cowards never dared to start, and the weak fell along the way“. A motto increasingly aligned with his trajectory. While the market awaits a hypothetical altseason, he continues stacking BTC. Will history prove him right? The script is being written.

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