đš $80B Just Disappeared From Bitcoin Treasury Companies. What Went Wrong?
The Bitcoin treasury strategy was one of the biggest corporate crypto narratives of the last cycle.
Companies raised capital.
They bought $BTC.
Their stock prices surged.
More companies followed.
The idea looked simple:
Raise money.
Buy Bitcoin.
Let the value of the treasury grow.
But the market is now showing the other side of that strategy.
An analysis of the 50 largest public companies holding Bitcoin found that their combined market capitalization has fallen from roughly $150B in July 2025 to about $67B today.
That is more than $80B in value wiped out.
And the important part is that this is not simply a Bitcoin price story.
It is a financing story.
đŠ THE TREASURY MODEL
Companies that adopted the Bitcoin treasury strategy often relied on their equity valuations to raise additional capital.
When the stock traded at a premium to the value of its Bitcoin holdings, raising money became easier.
That money could then be used to acquire more $BTC.
More Bitcoin increased the size of the treasury.
The larger treasury attracted more attention.
And the cycle could repeat.
But what happens when the premium disappears?
The model becomes much harder to sustain.
That is exactly what the market is now testing.
đ THE PREMIUM IS COLLAPSING
Many Bitcoin treasury companies are now trading at much lower valuations relative to their underlying Bitcoin holdings.
According to the FT analysis, 43 of the 50 largest Bitcoin treasury companies now trade below the share prices they had before adopting the Bitcoin strategy.
Even more striking:
35 of those 50 companies have lost more than half of their value.
That changes the economics completely.
A company can still own a large amount of Bitcoin.
But if investors no longer want to pay a premium for that exposure, the company's ability to raise new capital becomes weaker.
And that creates pressure.
đ THEN THERE IS STRATEGY
Strategy became the blueprint for the entire corporate Bitcoin treasury movement.
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