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<h2 id="header-0">Key Facts</h2>
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 <li>DeFi Development Corp's board authorized the repurchase of up to all of its CHAD preferred stock, including future issuances, the company said on Tuesday.</li>
 <li>The company said it does not currently intend to buy CHAD and that its first objective is getting the shares to their $10 stated amount.</li>
 <li>CHAD currently pays a 13% annual dividend, and the company sold its first CHAD shares at $8 in September, with proceeds earmarked for purposes including SOL purchases.</li>
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DeFi Development Corp., a Nasdaq-listed company that holds Solana (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/solana/">SOL</a>) in its treasury, has authorized a program to repurchase its CHAD preferred stock while saying it has no current plan to buy any shares.
The authorization gives the company a tool to support CHAD, a perpetual preferred stock that Chief Executive Joseph Onorati called "fuel for the DFDV engine" in the company's <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/05/3374471/0/en/dfdv-preliminary-q3-26-estimates-indicate-double-digit-sps-growth-and-more-than-100-nav-per-share-growth-in-q3-sol-treasury-growth-rises-to-11-since-august-12.html">third-quarter update</a> on Monday.
<h2 id="header-1">DeFi Development's CHAD Buyback Program Terms</h2>
The program covers every CHAD share outstanding, including any the company issues later, according to Tuesday's <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/06/3375424/0/en/defi-development-corp-authorizes-chad-repurchase-program-for-future-use.html">press release</a>. Purchases may be made on the open market or in private deals, with no fixed expiration date and no obligation to buy any particular number of shares.<tweet-embed url="https://x.com/defidevcorp/status/2107449020893524469"></tweet-embed>
"Our first objective is simple: get CHAD to par. We are not announcing that we intend to buy CHAD today," Onorati said.
The company said that once CHAD has established itself at its $10 par, it may use the program opportunistically if the shares later trade below that level.
<h2 id="header-2">CHAD Funds DeFi Development's SOL Treasury</h2>
DeFi Development launched CHAD last month to raise money for purposes including its SOL <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/corporate-treasury">corporate treasury</a>. It <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/defi-development-corp-20m-preferred-stock-sol-treasury">proposed the preferred stock offering</a> on Aug. 31 and priced 1,375,000 shares at $8 each on Sept. 3, for gross proceeds of about $11 million, according to its <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/defi-development-corp-announces-pricing-initial-public-offering-variable-rate-series">pricing announcement</a>.
CHAD carries a variable dividend, initially 13% a year on the $10 stated amount, paid each business day. The company said on Monday it had recently established a $300 million at-the-market program for the stock.
DeFi Development held about 2.56 million SOL and SOL equivalents, worth about $302 million, according to its preliminary third-quarter estimates. It also runs <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/validator">validator</a> infrastructure and earns <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/staking">staking</a> rewards on its holdings.
Other crypto treasury companies are making similar moves. Strive on Monday <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/strive-buys-2000-btc-500m-sata-buyback">disclosed a buyback facility of up to $500 million for its SATA preferred</a> alongside its latest Bitcoin purchase.
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DeFi Development Authorizes CHAD Buyback Program, Targets $10 Par

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