STRIVE TURNS FRESH STOCK INTO $81.5M OF BITCOIN — CEO CALLS IT THE ‘FASTEST HORSE,’ THE FILING CALLS IT 3.6 MILLION NEW SHARES

Strive didn’t touch a dollar of its own cash to make this move, and that’s the whole story. In five trading days the company sold 3.6 million new Class A shares and more preferred stock, turned the proceeds into 1,110 bitcoin, and paid $81.5 million at an average price near $73,400 a coin. Total holdings now sit at 21,356 bitcoin, and here’s the part most people skip past: the cash balance still grew by $17.1 million over that same stretch. That’s not a company burning through its treasury to chase a coin. That’s a machine — stock goes out the door, bitcoin comes in the door, and the checking account gets fatter anyway. CEO Matt Cole calls bitcoin “the fastest horse,” but the horse isn’t the point. The harness is. Strive built a system where Wall Street hands over capital and the company converts it into the hardest asset it can find, on repeat, without spending a cent it earned. Every filing like this one is a receipt for that machine running exactly as designed. Owning ASST stock means owning a claim on that machine. It doesn’t mean owning the bitcoin. The coin sits in cold storage with no board, no shares, and no bills to pay.