Strive Buys 15,124 Bitcoin in October, Nears Top Corporate Treasury Holders

Bitcoin treasury company Strive bought 15,124 Bitcoin (BTC) in October, bringing its purchases for the first 10 months of 2026 to 35,497 BTC, according to its third-quarter earnings report released Friday. According to Cointelegraph, the purchases moved Strive closer to the top of the corporate Bitcoin treasury rankings. The company reported holding 43,124 BTC as of Oct. 30, making it the fourth-largest publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holder, based on BitcoinTreasuries.NET data. Strive was 390 BTC behind third-place Twenty One Capital and 877 BTC short of overtaking second-place Metaplanet, which holds 44,000 BTC, assuming neither company increases its holdings. In a September interview, CEO Matt Cole said Strive could become the world’s second-largest publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holder by year-end, while acknowledging that this was not his base-case scenario. Strive also raised approximately $609 million in net proceeds through an October offering of its SATS perpetual preferred stock, which carries a 15% annual dividend rate. The company has not specified how much of the proceeds it will allocate to Bitcoin purchases. Strive’s earnings report also showed $509 million in third-quarter net income, driven largely by $533.7 million in unrealized Bitcoin gains. The company said it is evaluating opportunities in banking, brokerage, decentralized finance, reinsurance and tokenization as part of a broader strategy to leverage its balance sheet. However, it did not disclose specific plans or timelines for those areas and did not respond to Cointelegraph’s request for further details before publication. Shares of Strive, which trades under the ticker ASST, fell 1.97% to $20.19 in early trading Friday, according to Yahoo Finance data at the time of writing. The decline extended the shares’ losses over the past month to 32.15%. Strive’s reported 43,124 BTC holding placed it fourth among publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holders as of Oct. 30. The company would need 390 BTC to move ahead of Twenty One Capital and another 877 BTC to surpass Metaplanet, based on the reported holdings and assuming both competitors keep their balances unchanged.