Strategy disclosed in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it sold 1,690 BTC between Aug. 3 and Aug. 9 at an average price of $64,262, generating about $108.6 million in proceeds. After the sale, the company’s bitcoin holdings fell to 840,447 BTC, worth about $54.7 billion at current prices. Strategy said its average purchase price stands at $75,385 per bitcoin, with total acquisition costs of roughly $63.4 billion including fees and expenses, leaving it with an unrealized loss of $8.7 billion. The company also raised $653.1 million last week by selling 6,585,682 shares of MSTR through its at-the-market equity program. It said most of that capital was used to repurchase 1,152,020 shares of preferred stock STRC, while also increasing dollar reserves by $650 million. As of Aug. 9, Strategy’s U.S. dollar reserves had reached $4.65 billion. Strategy has also introduced a new Digital Credit Capital Framework, under which dollar reserves will be used mainly to pay preferred dividends and interest. The company approved up to $1 billion in digital credit securities repurchases, initially focused on STRC, alongside a separate share buyback plan of up to $1 billion. It also expanded its bitcoin monetization plan, allowing sales of up to $5 billion in BTC to support reserves, dividends, interest payments and securities repurchases.

A Senate procedural vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, better known as the CLARITY Act, is expected around Sept. 15, nearly the same time the Federal Open Market Committee begins its two-day policy meeting. That overlap has put two policy catalysts — U.S. crypto regulation and interest-rate direction — on the market's calendar at once. Citing analysis from the EX.IO Research Institute, the report says the Senate math remains difficult. Republicans hold 53 seats, while a cloture motion would require 60 votes, leaving the bill dependent on Democratic support and vulnerable to defections inside the GOP. The biggest sticking point remains ethics language tied to crypto holdings and issuance restrictions for senior officials. EX.IO's base case is that the motion fails while the Fed leaves rates unchanged. Under that scenario, the firm expects crypto markets to stay range-bound in the short term, absent fresh shocks such as developments in the Middle East or moves in major commodities. The report also points to weaker but stabilizing fund flows, steady long-term positioning in spot Bitcoin ETFs, growing corporate crypto treasuries, and continued pressure from security incidents. The institute argues that even if the bill is delayed, the longer-term trend toward more formal digital-asset regulation and broader on-chain use remains intact.

A dense batch of overnight developments across crypto and AI put institutional treasury moves, exchange remediation, Ethereum roadmap changes, and U.S. regulatory timing in focus. Strategy disclosed share sales, BTC disposals, and a larger dollar reserve, while BitMine and Sharplink updated major ETH accumulation plans. Bitget published a compensation plan tied to abnormal price moves in TUT, LOBSTER, and BICO perpetual contracts, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it will review a proposed customized issuance framework for certain crypto-related investment contracts on Aug. 14. Elsewhere, Vitalik Buterin’s latest Ethereum roadmap comparison elevated quantum resistance, privacy, and AI-assisted verification, large wallets continued moving BTC and ETH, and several AI infrastructure financings pointed to growing use of debt markets to fund chip purchases and compute buildouts.

Weekend market moves were shaped by renewed focus on Iran, shipping access, and energy supply expectations. Iran and Oman said talks over the shipping corridor were close to completion, while Oman called for military activity in the strait area to stop to make room for an agreement. The key obstacle, however, was Tehran’s higher asking price for reopening the strait. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi rejected a return to direct talks with the United States, saying Washington was still violating the temporary peace understanding signed in June. Tehran’s conditions included lifting the maritime blockade, withdrawing U.S. forces deployed around Iran, removing sanctions, unfreezing assets, compensating war losses, and ending military action against Iran and its regional allies. Oil first dipped and then recovered. After Iranian President Pezeshkian said late Saturday that Iran was strong, united, and seen as the winner of the war, CL briefly fell to about $76.48 before regaining the loss. By early Monday, Donald Trump’s description of U.S.-Iran contacts as "semi-negotiations" was taken as confirmation that Washington had shifted away from military escalation and was waiting for economic pressure to work, helping oil rise to around $79.12. Equities stayed firm, with the SP500 up 0.13% and XYZ100 up 0.22%. In futures, gold, silver, and copper all rose, but natural gas posted the biggest gain, climbing 3.10% on hotter medium-term weather forecasts, stronger expected power demand, pipeline maintenance, a slight drop in dry gas output, and high LNG export terminal utilization.

Techub News reported that U.S. stocks finished August 10 slightly lower, with all three major indexes ending in the red while still holding gains for the month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.11% and remained up 1.50% in August, the S&P 500 fell 0.06% with a monthly gain of 2.01%, and the Nasdaq dropped 0.32% while staying up 2.67% for the month. Gold and silver-linked names outperformed during the session. First Majestic Silver rose 2.45%, the iShares Silver Trust ETF gained 3.36%, Newmont climbed 3.79%, and Coeur Mining added 4.51%. Crypto-related stocks were mostly weaker. Bit Brother fell 5.80%, CleanSpark lost 5.77%, Riot Platforms declined 5.46%, and MARA Holdings dropped 5.25%. Cipher Mining, Bitmine, Hut 8, Coinbase, and Strategy also closed lower, while Circle stood out as the only listed name in this group to post a gain, edging up 0.72%.

According to Bitget market data, US-listed crypto-related stocks were mostly lower over the past 24 hours. GLXY (Galaxy Digital) rose 1.19%, BTGO (BitGo) added 0.40%, and BLSH (Bullish) was flat. On the downside, IREN fell 3.24%, WULF slipped 2.57%, MSTR lost 2.50%, MARA declined 2.26%, and RIOT dropped 2.15%, with other names showing smaller declines.

Solstice Finance, a DeFi yield infrastructure protocol in the Solana ecosystem, has introduced strcUSX, a structured product tied to STRC, the preferred stock issued by Strategy (MSTR). The protocol said it is the first financial product on Solana linked to STRC. Solstice said the product does not tokenize STRC shares and does not represent direct ownership of Strategy preferred stock. Instead, it uses a yield vault structure to separate STRC-related income from price risk and package that exposure into two Solana-based tokens. Users who deposit USX, Solstice’s dollar-settled token, receive either senior or junior tranche exposure. The senior token, SR-strcUSX, gets priority on payouts and targets an annualized yield of about 7%. The junior token, JR-strcUSX, absorbs residual returns and greater price volatility, with a target annualized yield above 20%. If the value of the STRC-linked assets falls, junior holders take losses first. Solstice said the product is designed to give DeFi users access to STRC-linked return and risk exposure without directly holding the stock. Earlier on Aug. 10, Strategy sold 1,690 BTC for about $108.6 million and used the proceeds to repurchase about 1.152 million STRC preferred shares.

Strategy Inc, a US-listed company, disclosed in an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it sold 6,585,682 shares of MSTR common stock through its at-the-market (ATM) offering program between August 3 and August 9, generating net proceeds of approximately $653 million. After the share sale, the company had roughly $22.04 billion in remaining issuance capacity under the ATM program. During the same window, Strategy sold 1,690 bitcoin for about $108.6 million, at an average price of around $64,262 per coin. Those proceeds went toward repurchasing 1,152,020 shares of its STRC preferred stock. As of August 9, the company's bitcoin holdings totaled 840,447 BTC, with cumulative acquisition costs of roughly $63.36 billion, or an average buy price of about $75,385 per bitcoin. The company's dollar reserves stood at approximately $4.65 billion, according to the filing. PANews reported the filing details on August 10.