A new trend that attracts attention in the crypto market is shaped around the STRC stock issued by Strategy company. STRC, which provides investors with a return parallel to Bitcoin price movements and a fixed dividend, has attracted the attention of many institutions with its high interest rate advantage.
The rise of STRC as a Bitcoin fund
Strategy is known as the institution that holds the most Bitcoin among publicly traded companies. The company’s financing model is provided by securities called STRC. STRC holders are offered an annual dividend of 11.5 percent and payments are made in cash each month. Most of the funds collected are used directly for Bitcoin purchases.
At the beginning of the week, trading volume in STRC shares reached a record level. More than $1.6 billion worth of STRC transactions took place on Tuesday. Thus, the stock began to act as a bridge between both traditional finance and digital assets in the market.
New products started to be based on STRC
STRC is increasingly finding its way into the portfolios of institutional investors and decentralized finance protocols. Funds and platforms provide fixed income through STRC while simultaneously obtaining returns indexed to the Bitcoin price. According to CryptoAppsy data, STRC fell to $99.39 on Wednesday after the dividend was eliminated, falling below its $100 face value.
The Saturn Credit platform accumulated $15 million in STRC in just six days. Apyx, which offers on-chain loans, has reached 800 thousand STRC shares and aims to increase this further with new purchases. Ryan McGinnis, senior manager of BitStrategy, stated that their long-term goal is to become one of the world’s largest stakeholders in STRC.
Tokenization and DeFi integration is accelerating
On the other hand, approximately $200 million worth of STRC has been tokenized on the Ethereum network, and almost half of it is traded on Pendle. The Pendle platform offers investors the opportunity to trade separately between the return portion of an asset and its intrinsic value. The emergence of such structures opens the door for STRC to be subject to various scenarios in decentralized financial markets.
The company announced that after the STRC price fell below $ 100, it temporarily stopped selling new shares at this level. As a rule, this program is suspended when the share price falls below the reference value determined by the company.
An extremely strong increase in trading volume was observed on Tuesday; $1.6 billion worth of STRC shares changed hands, with investors showing strong demand for both Bitcoin-linked earnings and monthly dividend benefits.
Bitcoin-themed products that provide high dividends, such as STRC, bring together both the traditional finance world and the DeFi ecosystem with new opportunities. Aggressive stock collection by companies can further increase competition in the market.
On the other hand, the tokenization of STRC with platforms such as Pendle stood out as an important factor that increased the liquidity of this security in the digital world.
The explosion in demand for STRC seems to have initiated a new wave of investment in the crypto market, thanks to both its return and its Bitcoin-indexed structure.
