Bitcoin

<h2 id="header-0">Key Facts</h2>
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 <li>Strive CEO Matt Cole posted a Bitcoin holdings chart on X captioned "New engine activated," a signal that has twice preceded a fresh purchase disclosure since mid-October.</li>
 <li>Strive's Bitcoin holdings stood at 43,000 BTC after an Oct. 26 disclosure that it bought 6,182 BTC the prior week, putting it within roughly 500 BTC of Twenty One Capital.</li>
 <li>StoneX raised its price target on Strive 34% to $43 the same day, citing the capital-structure reset from a $630 million preferred stock sale.</li>
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Strive, Inc. Chief Executive Matt Cole posted a chart of the company's Bitcoin (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/">BTC</a>) holdings on X on Sunday, captioned "New engine activated." Cole's post echoes two earlier charts he has shared since mid-October, each followed within days by a disclosure of a multi-thousand-coin purchase.&nbsp;
https://x.com/ColeMacro/status/2116887552028213646
Strive has become one of the most aggressive corporate Bitcoin buyers of the past two months, closing in on the<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/corporate-treasury"> corporate treasury</a> built by Twenty One Capital, the Tether- and SoftBank-backed firm that trails only Strategy among public companies.
<h2 id="header-1">Strive's Bitcoin Treasury Grows to 43,000 BTC</h2>
Cole's latest post follows an Oct. 26 disclosure that Strive bought 6,182 BTC between Oct. 17 and Oct. 23 at an average price of about $82,732 per coin, according to<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001920406/000162828026067141/asst-20261026.htm"> </a>a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001920406/000162828026067141/asst-20261026.htm">filing</a> with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The purchase lifted total holdings from 36,818 BTC to 43,000 BTC.
The buy was funded in part by a $630 million preferred stock offering that closed the same week, the filing showed. Strive's cash and equivalents still rose to $504.4 million despite the outlay.
That stack puts Strive within roughly 500 BTC of Twenty One Capital's 43,514 BTC, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://bitcointreasuries.net/public-companies/twenty-one-capital">according </a>to BitcoinTreasuries data, though still well behind Strategy, the sector's largest holder with more than 840,000 BTC.
<img src="https://academy-public.coinmarketcap.com/optimized-uploads/f3bd714fb9fb4ac2bf178adb4e61a94c.png">
Source: BitcoinTreasuries
<h2 id="header-2">StoneX Raises Strive Price Target 34% to $43</h2>
Strive shares fell 9.15% to close at $26.32 on the day of the purchase disclosure. StoneX senior equity analyst Mark Palmer raised his price target on the stock the same day, lifting it 34% to $43 from $32 while maintaining a Buy rating.
Palmer pointed to the preferred stock sale and the expiration of Strive's remaining warrants as a reset of the company's capital structure that made its all-preferred funding model more durable.
Strive's purchases this fall have continued through that pullback, forming part of a broader pattern of corporate<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/accumulation-phase"> accumulation</a> even as the price cooled.
Cole has not said what the "new engine" refers to. If Strive follows its recent pattern, another purchase disclosure could land as early as Monday.
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Strive CEO Teases Bitcoin Buy With 'New Engine Activated' Post

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