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Founder of Strategy Michael Saylor posted that he hopes Strive and all well-managed "Bitcoin-driven digital credit" issuers achieve success.Strategy is built on the same foundation as Strive: BTC belongs to digital capital, STRC and SATA belong to digital credit, and MSTR and ASST belong to digital equity. The securities structures and decisions of both parties are independent, although they will compete for individual capital allocations, they can also jointly expand long-term market opportunities.Saylor cited SIFMA data stating that by the end of 2025, the global stock market value will reach $157.8 trillion, and the fixed income debt balance will reach $160.7 trillion, with 0.1% of either market being approximately $160 billion.He proposed a threefold amplification mechanism: corporate financing to purchase supply-constrained Bitcoin can increase demand and improve the asset coverage of related companies; more issuers launching digital credit products can accumulate research, trading, and liquidity foundations, reducing the premium investors demand due to unfamiliarity, and potentially narrowing credit spreads and financing costs; more companies proving that this model can operate in different market environments may enhance market recognition of digital equity.He also emphasized that a single purchase does not guarantee Bitcoin appreciation, Bitcoin itself does not pay interest, and the profit margin between long-term asset returns and financing costs must be obtained through disciplined management; more issuers will not automatically lead to higher valuations.This model depends on a robust capital structure, prudent liquidity, transparent disclosure, and useful products. Weak issuers may undermine confidence in the entire category, while more credible issuers can meet institutional diversification investment needs and attract funds that would not otherwise enter the category.

According to The New York Times, Meta is leveraging the U.S. research and development tax credit policy to apply for billions of dollars in tax benefits for its artificial intelligence data centers. Last year, this policy helped Meta reduce its tax burden by nearly $4 billion, but internal accountants warned that this move carries legal risks.A partner at the tax consulting firm BPM stated that classifying AI data centers as research and development projects is "beyond the norm."

Recently, the police in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, investigated a virtual currency money laundering case. The criminal gang used "free credit card repayment" as bait to attract ordinary users to provide accounts. They received illicit funds from overseas gambling and fraud through false consumption, then contacted currency dealers to exchange for virtual currency and transferred it to designated addresses abroad. Through financial and on-chain data analysis, the police identified nearly a thousand involved accounts, with suspects distributed across Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei, Chongqing, and other regions.The Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China stated that it is currently using large model technology to analyze the flow of funds in virtual currency transactions, restore the gang's trading patterns, and uncover clues related to illegal industries. Upon investigation, it was confirmed that seven members of the gang were illegally engaged in payment settlement business without approval from relevant national authorities, constituting the crime of illegal operation, and were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from one year and two months to two years and six months, along with fines.Using virtual currency for money laundering is a new type of money laundering crime that has emerged in recent years. Lv Wei, the president of the Inner Mongolia branch of the People's Bank of China, stated that enhancing the monitoring and identification capabilities for abnormal fund transactions related to virtual currency trading has helped successfully crack down on a major money laundering case involving virtual currency pyramid schemes, dismantling more than ten money laundering and points-running dens, and confiscating illegal gains of approximately 130 million yuan. In recent years, there have been coordinated efforts to promote the conviction and sentencing of four cases involving money laundering using virtual currency, forming a strong deterrent against illegal activities such as money laundering with virtual currency.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X that Riot Platforms fully repaid the principal and accrued interest of the Coinbase Credit line on September 21, without paying the early termination fee, and the remaining commitment amount from Coinbase was simultaneously closed.The $200 million credit line secured by Bitcoin had an interest rate of 6.15% after being revised in April, with annual interest of approximately $12.3 million when fully drawn. As of June 30, Riot Platforms had pledged 5,821 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $341 million at the time, accounting for about 51% of its total holding of 11,400 Bitcoins, and the related collateral rights were released upon repayment.

Founder of Strategy, Michael Saylor, stated in a post that Bitcoin is digital capital, MSTR is digital equity, and STRC is digital credit.The company's corporate strategy is to create two complementary products from Bitcoin capital: MSTR provides leveraged Bitcoin exposure and holds ownership of a growing digital credit business; STRC aims to reduce volatility, compress duration, and provide dollar returns. Creating digital credit requires active management of the entire balance sheet, including Bitcoin, dollars, debt, preferred stock, and common stock, involving multiple decisions regarding capital, liquidity, priority, dividend rates, payment frequency, and investor terms.The company's goal is to create the highest quality digital credit products: supported by financial resilience, disciplined capital allocation, and a more stable investor experience to provide attractive dollar returns. Dividends are visible outputs, but the quality of the underlying system is the core work.The company engineers products by managing capital, debt, and liquidity. Investors seeking Bitcoin price exposure can directly hold BTC or spot Bitcoin funds; meanwhile, MSTR investors buy equity in a company that simultaneously seeks Bitcoin leveraged exposure and digital credit business growth, accepting amplified volatility and downside risk. STRC investors pursue a different experience: dollar returns, reduced price volatility, and shorter duration characteristics, relying on the company's capital strength, priority debt position, dollar liquidity, and active management to achieve this.The two are interconnected—capital structure directs more volatility and return potential of Bitcoin towards common stock, thereby providing credit investors with more stable income claims. The company manages the balance sheet uniformly, creating leveraged exposure for equity investors and dampened exposure for credit investors, both relying on the company's strength and execution quality.To achieve this goal, Strategy continuously manages various levels of the capital structure, including issuing and repurchasing STRC, distinguishing between payment reserves and allocated cash, adjusting dividend rates, optimizing security terms, and seeking shorter durations and longer payment runways.The company emphasizes that digital credit is a discipline that requires continuous practice: stripping volatility, compressing duration, and extracting returns from Bitcoin capital. Bitcoin itself does not pay interest, and Strategy pays dividends through security terms. The ultimate goal is to build stronger digital credit and create greater long-term value for MSTR shareholders, reinforcing the quality of capital and equity value.

According to TheEnergyMag, Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 announced that it has secured a $1.07 billion senior secured revolving credit facility, with a term of four years. The funds will be used to support the company's liquidity needs and energy and digital infrastructure projects.

Cryptocurrency mining company Riot Platforms announced that it has fully repaid a $200 million credit line from Coinbase and released over 5,800 Bitcoin collateral to reduce leverage risk.

According to official news from the Sun Yuchen Prize, the first batch of award winners has officially entered a 14-day public notice period starting September 19. The topics currently under public notice are questions number 305, 371, 381, 526, 866, and 1001, among which candidates for questions 305, 371, and 381 are formal verifiers, candidates for questions 866 and 1001 are mathematical problem solvers, and question 526 has candidates from both roles. The public notice information has been made available on the official GitHub candidate registration form, and the public can submit formal challenges.It is reported that the Sun Yuchen Prize is the world's first zero-trust decentralized academic reward mechanism based on a list of questions, with a maximum single-question prize of 1 million US dollars. On the day of its establishment, the first batch of 66 mathematical problems was announced, with the highest prize of 1 million US dollars awarded to the OpenAI research team in recognition of their solution and formal proof regarding the "existence and smoothness problem of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations." At the same time, the prize operating organization also announced the on-chain address of the prize pool, which has already deposited 10 million US dollars. After the public notice period ends, the prize will be distributed in USDT (TRC20) or USDC (ERC20), and the winners will also receive certificates and medals.

The parent company Digital Currency Group has increased Fortitude Mining's existing credit line from 26 million dollars to 50 million dollars, with an additional commitment of 24 million dollars.Fortitude Mining currently has approximately 31 million dollars available for borrowing, which is expected to be fully disbursed in the form of ZEC, for the procurement of 9,000 Zcash ASIC miners, as well as capital expenditures for building and acquiring data centers, power infrastructure, and more.

The cryptocurrency venture capital firm Hashed has anchored a new digital asset private credit fund with a target size of $300 million. The fund was founded by Abu Dhabi investor and Further Ventures co-founder Mohamed Hamdy, and is managed by Thoro Capital Management, where he serves as managing partner.Thoro will lend directly to digital asset institutions in US dollars settled through stablecoins, with Hashed acting as the primary investor in the fund. Hashed stated that the new fund aims to address key financing bottlenecks in the institutional digital asset space—traditional banks are constrained by regulatory capital requirements, while existing crypto lenders underwrite based on asset collateral, which forces even profitable and audited market infrastructure companies to rely on expensive, short-term secured borrowing.The fund adopts a "contract-based" underwriting approach, assessing borrowers' financial conditions, cash flows, and management performance. Hashed noted that tokenized private credit has become the largest real-world asset (RWA) category by cumulative on-chain lending, with total loans exceeding $14 billion, while the traditional private credit market exceeds $30 trillion. Previously, Hashed obtained a financial services license issued by the Abu Dhabi Global Market and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Abu Dhabi Investment Office last week.

Michael Saylor posted on the X platform stating that under the assumptions of a 10% annual return on Bitcoin, a 40% volatility of Bitcoin, and a Bitcoin price of $81,200, the duration of the dollar is 3.8 years, and the Bitcoin credit spread of STRC is 53 basis points.

Visa has informed participants in the payment industry that the "digital goods media" merchant category code used by Crossmint for processing Meme coin transactions is not applicable for Meme coin purchases. Visa has notified payment processors, including Checkout.com, to stop using this category code and has provided a transition period for relevant institutions, which is expected to end next week.Previously, Robinhood Wallet and Fomo users could purchase Meme coins using Visa and Mastercard credit cards through Apple Pay or Google Pay, with the transactions processed by Crossmint, but categorized as digital media transactions such as e-books and movies, thereby bypassing cryptocurrency transaction classification and earning regular credit card points or cash back.JPMorgan Chase had previously raised concerns with Visa regarding the classification of these transactions, and Visa subsequently determined that at least one transaction was misclassified and should not have received credit card rewards. In the future, purchases of Meme coins will need to be processed as cryptocurrency transactions and will be subject to Visa's corresponding rules and restrictions.

SoftBank Group has expanded its credit line to $6.5 billion, increasing it by $450 million to provide greater financial flexibility for its investments in the field of artificial intelligence.The original $6.05 billion credit line is set to expire this month and has now been extended for another year. More than 20 banks participated in the expansion, with the new agreement's interest rate 210 basis points above the benchmark.

Bitcoin Magazine released a video interview where Dan Hillery from UXTO stated that the Bitcoin-supported digital credit market currently has a scale of approximately 16 billion dollars, and it is expected to rival Bitcoin's market value of about 1.5 trillion dollars in the future. Two years ago, Bitcoin credit was almost non-existent, but it has now become the fastest-growing part of Bitcoin's capital structure.In the first episode of The Allocators Edge, Hillery elaborated on the pricing mechanisms of floating rate preferred securities such as STRC and SATA, how repurchases anchor their prices around the 100 dollar par value, and distinguished between digital credit risk and digital equity risk. He also introduced the structured credit funds being built, including the design of senior and subordinated shares.Additionally, Hillery discussed the impact of Bitcoin's price being flat or declining on related strategies, short-term Bitcoin-supported notes and product direction for the next five years, common misconceptions investors have about preferred securities, and the reasons why major fund categories still cannot enter digital credit. He believes that digital credit is the fastest-growing part of Bitcoin's capital structure and that more product innovations will emerge in the next five years.

Founder of Strategy, Michael Saylor, posted on platform X stating that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's innovation exemption policy allows qualified trading platforms to provide around-the-clock tokenized on-chain trading for U.S. investors. This is undoubtedly a significant breakthrough in the field of digital credit and the U.S. capital markets.

Federal Reserve Chairman Waller stated that credit flows remain strong.

According to Fortune magazine, the blockchain private credit management platform Tare has completed a $13.25 million seed round financing, led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Janus Henderson, Strobe Ventures, the Venture Dept, Neoclassic Capital, and the Avalanche Foundation. Individual investors include Aave CEO Stani Kulechov, Tether co-founder Phil Potter, and Privy CEO Henri Stern.The funds will be used to build and expand loan management software, hire staff, and obtain the necessary licenses for its loan department Tare Credit LLC to operate nationwide.Tare was co-founded by Kevin Miao, Keerthi Moudgal, and Lucas Vogelsang, and plans to build software on the Avalanche blockchain to create digital records for loans and automate the management of related administrative tasks. Miao stated that the difference between the interest paid by borrowers and the returns received by investors is often absorbed by intermediaries, and the blockchain system can automate operational tasks and eliminate additional costs.

BitcoinTreasuries.NET posted on platform X that OranjeBTC (OBTC3) has launched the world's first Bitcoin-backed digital credit-themed ETF DIGY11 on Brazil's largest stock exchange B3. The ETF aims for an annualized return of approximately 18%, paid monthly.

BitcoinTreasuries.NET posted on platform X that OranjeBTC CEO Gui Gomes will ring the opening bell at Brazil's largest stock exchange B3 tomorrow, and DIGY11 will start trading on that day.Michael Saylor stated that this is exactly the type of expansion that STRC aims to promote.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Alameda/FTX address has recently unstaked and transferred 202,700 SOL, worth 20.62 million USD, in the past half hour.Based on past records, similar transfers may be used for FTX creditor payments.