Strive, a company that holds Bitcoin as a treasury asset, spent about $335 million on 4,045 BTC last week. It now holds 36,818 BTC in total. Cointelegraph reported the purchase on Oct 19, 2026.
An earlier purchase took Strive's holdings past those of MARA Holdings, according to the report. After that, Strive bought another 1,223 BTC. The article does not say how the 1,223 BTC relates to the 4,045 BTC weekly total, and it does not give MARA's current holdings.
Strive is paying for these purchases by raising equity. The report does not say how much more stock the company plans to sell or whether it plans to buy more Bitcoin.
For someone already holding a perpetual position on Bitget, Bybit, MEXC or OKX, this changes nothing directly. The report covers a company buying Bitcoin outright, not derivatives. It says nothing about funding rates, trading fees or order-book liquidity on any exchange. Any effect on what a position costs to hold would show up in the funding and fee data, not in this news.
Source: cointelegraph — Strive buys $335M in Bitcoin, boosting holdings to 36,818 BTC
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