Addresses associated by on-chain analysts with miner MARA Holdings have sent approximately 1,000 BTC to Binance and Gate over five days, putting the company’s treasury movements back in focus.

TL;DR: Lookonchain-linked analysis values the transfers at about $82.8 million. Exchange deposits can precede selling, but the transfers do not establish that MARA sold the coins.

The timing comes during a difficult period for mining economics, with companies balancing Bitcoin holdings against operating costs and competing investment demands. MARA has previously been watched closely because of the size of its Bitcoin treasury and its willingness to use holdings as part of a broader financing strategy.

There is a common trap in interpreting these blockchain alerts. An analytics label may link an address to a corporation or mining operation, but an exchange-bound transaction is not the same as an executed spot sale. Coins can also be transferred for custody, collateral, trading inventory or other operational reasons. Determining the actual transaction purpose requires more than knowing the destination wallet.

The reported 1,000 BTC arrived at the exchanges over several days rather than through one single transfer on Monday morning. Treating the full amount as an immediate market sell order would therefore exaggerate both timing and certainty.

What matters next is whether MARA provides a treasury update, or whether more detailed on-chain evidence clarifies how the funds were used. Until then, the movement is significant enough to monitor but insufficient to conclude that another liquidation has taken place.

In a market quick to trade on wallet labels, that distinction is worth keeping.

Written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.

An early Bitcoin holder has moved approximately 411.45 BTC from a wallet associated with 2013, attracting fresh attention as traders monitor old coins returning to activity.

TL;DR: The coins were worth roughly $34 million at recent market prices. A transfer from a dormant address is visible on-chain, but it does not prove that the owner sold the Bitcoin.

The wallet’s original activity dates to a period when Bitcoin traded near $131. On that basis, the stash would have cost about $54,000 at the time, although the original owner’s actual acquisition price and history are not independently established merely by a blockchain address. The contrast helps explain why movements from that era attract such interest.

Long-dormant coins can stir the market for several reasons. Some observers worry that old holders may sell into exchanges, while others see routine changes to custody arrangements as an equally plausible explanation. Moving Bitcoin from one self-controlled address to another does not put it on an order book or turn it into dollars.

The latest transaction has been tracked through public blockchain records and analytics coverage. Without reliable identification of both beneficial owner and recipient, speculation about a liquidation remains just that. A new address format also cannot prove a particular security motive unless the owner says so.

There is a useful distinction between age and intent. The ledger can show when coins last moved and where they went next. It cannot reliably reveal why the person controlling the keys decided to act on a particular morning.

The transfer is a striking reminder of how much dormant Bitcoin wealth exists. It is not, by itself, a bearish trade signal.

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TL;DR

• Tether and Shiga are launching self-custodial financial products across Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council.
• The products will use Tether’s Wallet Development Kit and support USDT, Bitcoin and Tether Gold.
• Shiga is building one product for end users and another infrastructure layer for banks and fintech companies.

Tether is moving its Wallet Development Kit from developer tooling into financial products aimed at users and institutions across Africa and the Gulf.

The company announced a collaboration with Shiga on September 28 to build self-custodial services supporting USDT, Bitcoin and Tether Gold.

The initiative follows Tether’s strategic investment in Shiga in 2025.

One Product Is For Users, Another Is For Banks

The collaboration centers on two products.

ENTA is designed for individuals, high-net-worth users and businesses.

Users will be able to fund self-custodial wallets using local currency, U.S. dollars or Bitcoin, then hold and transfer assets including USDT, BTC and XAUT.

Pulse is aimed at institutions.

Banks and fintech companies will be able to use it to build digital-asset services around specific payment corridors, treasury operations and settlement flows.

Both products use Tether’s open-source Wallet Development Kit, or WDK, underneath.

The self-custody element is important.

Users or institutions retain control of their keys and assets rather than relying on a centralized wallet provider to hold funds on their behalf.

Institutional customers can either use infrastructure managed by Shiga or deploy the technology inside their own environment.

Remittances Are A Major Target

Africa is an obvious market for this kind of infrastructure.

Tether cited World Bank data showing the average cost of sending remittances to Sub-Saharan Africa reached 8.46% in 2025.

Stablecoins can potentially reduce some of the friction involved in moving dollar-denominated value across borders, particularly where access to conventional dollar banking is limited.

That does not remove the regulatory layer.

Shiga says it is completing the final stage of approval for a Digital Asset Intermediary licence in Nigeria.

The licence has not yet been granted.

If approved, it would allow the company to provide regulated dealing, broking and custody services there.

The partnership is also broader than USDT.

Including Bitcoin and XAUT gives users access to three very different types of digital asset: a dollar stablecoin, a volatile decentralized asset and tokenized gold.

Tether has spent much of the year expanding WDK as infrastructure that other businesses can build on.

Shiga gives that strategy a concrete deployment.

Instead of asking users to download a Tether-branded wallet, Tether is providing the components for local companies and financial institutions to build their own.

This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.

TL;DR

• Strive bought another 1,107 BTC for approximately $94.5 million between September 21 and September 25.
• The company paid an average of $85,396 per Bitcoin.
• Strive now holds 27,462 BTC as it continues expanding one of the largest public-company Bitcoin treasuries.

Strive has added another 1,107 Bitcoin to its corporate treasury, spending approximately $94.5 million during the latest week of accumulation.

The company disclosed the purchases on September 28, saying it paid an average of $85,396 per BTC between September 21 and September 25.

The acquisition pushes Strive’s total holdings to 27,462 BTC.

Preferred Stock Supplied Most Of The Capital

The latest purchase was funded largely through Strive’s SATA preferred stock.

According to the company’s disclosure, roughly 85% of the capital deployed during the week came from SATA-related financing.

Warrant exercises generated another approximately $12.4 million.

That financing structure is becoming as important to the Bitcoin treasury story as the purchases themselves.

Companies following the Strategy model need a repeatable way to raise capital without simply spending operating cash.

Preferred securities give Strive another route.

Investors receive a security with its own income and capital characteristics, while Strive can direct proceeds toward additional Bitcoin.

The company is effectively building a capital-markets engine around BTC accumulation.

Strive Is Closing In On The Largest Corporate Holders

With 27,462 BTC, Strive now sits among the biggest publicly tracked corporate Bitcoin treasuries.

It remains behind several larger holders, but the gap has narrowed quickly as the company has continued raising capital and buying.

The pace also creates a more complicated question for shareholders.

Owning more Bitcoin does not automatically mean each share becomes more valuable.

Investors need to consider how much equity, preferred stock or other financing is issued to fund the purchases and what happens to Bitcoin exposure on a per-share basis.

That is why treasury companies increasingly talk about metrics such as Bitcoin per share rather than simply headline BTC totals.

Strive has made clear that growing its Bitcoin position remains central to the strategy.

The latest purchase is not enormous relative to Strategy’s holdings, but $94.5 million in a single week is meaningful for a company still climbing the treasury rankings.

It also comes as Bitcoin trades around the low-to-mid $80,000 range rather than at a deeply discounted point in the cycle.

Strive is not waiting for a major pullback.

It is continuing to convert capital-market access into Bitcoin while that access remains available.

This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.