{"id":30415,"date":"2025-06-05T14:47:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30415"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:47:32","slug":"corporate-bitcoin-holdings-nears-85b-more-than-doubling-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30415","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Bitcoin Holdings Nears $85B, More Than Doubling in a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bitcoin BTC has taken deeper root in corporate treasuries, with 116 public companies now holding a combined 809,100 BTC, worth around $85 billion based on current prices, at the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a dramatic rise from 312,200 BTC held a year ago in corporate treasuries, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/public.bnbstatic.com\/static\/files\/research\/monthly-market-insights-2025-06.pdf\">Binance Research\u2019s latest report<\/a>. Nearly 100,000 BTC has been added since early April alone.<\/p>\n<p>The surge appears driven by a mix of rising prices and structural tailwinds. Donald Trump adopted a pro-crypto stance during his 2024 presidential campaign, vowing to make the U.S. a global hub for the asset class and create a \u201ccrypto capital of the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Trump took office he has moved to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/03\/06\/trump-signs-order-setting-up-bitcoin-fort-knox-and-digital-assets-stockpile\">U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile<\/a>, while the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped numerous lawsuits against major crypto firms..<\/p>\n<p>Binance\u2019s report shows that bitcoin treasury accumulation grew in November, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2024\/11\/05\/2024-election-trump-harris-bitcoin-crypto-live-updates\">Trump won the election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/4605b33f5b4f8ae087343d0a3c0ed0c88f753c80-783x456.png?auto=format\" alt=\"Corporate bitcoin treasury growth (Binance Research)\" title=\"Corporate bitcoin treasury growth (Binance Research)\"><\/p>\n<p>Adding to that, new fair-value accounting rules <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdo.com\/insights\/assurance\/accounting-for-cryptocurrencies\">introduced<\/a> by the Financial Account Standards Board (FASB) this year allow companies to recognize gains on BTC holdings, removing a longstanding deterrent.<\/p>\n<p>Newer entrants including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/05\/28\/gamestop-purchases-over-usd500m-worth-of-bitcoin\">GameStop<\/a> (GME) and PSG have recently started accumulating BTC as a well, yet Strategy still holds the lion\u2019s share of BTC in corporate treasuries, with over 70% of holdings.<\/p>\n<p>Some companies are also tiptoeing into other assets. SharpLink holds $425 million in ETH, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/04\/26\/defi-development-plans-to-raise-1-billion-to-buy-more-solana\">DeFi Development <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/06\/03\/classover-taps-500m-convertible-note-deal-to-boost-solana-treasury-strategy\">Classover<\/a> are betting on solana SOL. China-based firm Webus recently filed for a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/06\/04\/chinese-firm-webus-stock-jumps-after-filing-with-sec-for-300m-xrp-strategic-reserve\"> $300 million XRP strategic reserve.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, these altcoin holdings remain relatively small and are often tied to firms trying to rebrand as token-forward entities, Binance noted.<\/p>\n<p>Binance\u2019s report also flagged the rapid rise of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), which have climbed more than 260% from $8.6 billion to $23 billion this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin BTC has taken deeper root in corporate treasuries, with 116 public companies now holding a combined 809,100 BTC, worth around $85 billion based on current prices, at the end of May. That\u2019s a dramatic rise from 312,200 BTC held a year ago in corporate treasuries, according to Binance Research\u2019s latest report. Nearly 100,000 BTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-30415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}