Strategy funded its bitcoin purchases and STRC preferred share buybacks in 2026 through heavy shareholder equity dilution

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Strategy said Reza Virasteh will become co-principal financial officer, primarily managing software finances and budget

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MSTR CEO Phong Le will take over as principal financial officer, overseeing finance, bitcoin strategy, capital markets, treasury, and investor relations

Non-Treasury assets including gold, Bitcoin, secured loans, and other investments accounted for $47.7 billion, or 25%, of Tether's total reserve stack as of September 30, 2026

Counting price movements in gold and Bitcoin, Tether's excess reserve buffer grew by $1.66 billion over the first nine months of 2026

Tether's reserve assets held $8.37 billion in Bitcoin as of September 30, 2026, making its Bitcoin holdings larger than its $7.95 billion excess reserve buffer

Gold and Bitcoin holdings in Tether's reserves totalled $27.45 billion as of September 30, 2026, meaning a combined 29% price decline would exhaust Tether's $7.95 billion reserve cushion

S&P Global Ratings downgraded USDT's stability score to 'weak' in November 2025, citing Bitcoin exposure exceeding the reserve buffer and undisclosed custodians and counterparties

Strategy held 848,517 bitcoin as of October 25, 2026, representing a 26% increase in its holdings since the start of the year

Elliptic reported that attackers divided 18,270 stolen Bitcoin from the Binance hack on October 29, 2026 across 19 addresses, holding approximately 1,000 BTC in most addresses

As of October 30, 2026, none of the 18,270 stolen Bitcoin divided across 19 addresses in the Binance hack on October 29, 2026 had reached an identified exchange or trading service, according to Elliptic

Coinbase expanded its crypto holdings during third-quarter 2026 to 17,954 Bitcoin and 152,649 Ethereum, driving its total crypto portfolio value to $2.22 billion

Christine Lagarde publicly opposed including Bitcoin in central bank reserves during a January 2025 press conference, citing the need for reserve assets to be liquid and secure

TRM Labs noted that the attacker behind the $6.3 billion Binance hack retained over $2.4 billion in Bitcoin and Ether that cannot be frozen by token issuers

Bitcoin dropped more than 4% to approximately $78,000 following news of the $6.3 billion Binance breach on October 29, 2026

Datavault AI disclosed in an October 26, 2026 SEC filing that its June 2026 request to withdraw Bitcoin from the Biconomy exchange to an outside account remained unprocessed

Scilex Holding Company credited 1,309.04 Bitcoin to Datavault AI's Biconomy wallet via off-chain internal transfers rather than on-chain Bitcoin blockchain transactions

Datavault AI is reclassifying the Bitcoin tied to the $150 million Scilex Holding Company stock purchase as a subscription receivable, which presents as a reduction of stockholders' equity rather than a cryptocurrency asset

In September 2025, Scilex Holding Company agreed to purchase 15 million Datavault AI shares and a warrant for 263.9 million shares for $150 million payable in Bitcoin

Scilex Holding Company acquired its Bitcoin by selling $200 million of shares in its subsidiary Semnur Pharmaceuticals to Biconomy, allocating $150 million of that Bitcoin to the Datavault AI stock purchase

Between September 2025 and January 2026, Datavault AI sold 491.431 Bitcoin from its Biconomy balance back to Scilex Holding Company for $40.5 million in cash