Strive buys 124 Bitcoin as it chases Metaplanet for the No. 2 treasury spot

The Ramaswamy-backed firm now holds 43,153 BTC and wants to pass Metaplanet as the second-largest public Bitcoin holder by year-end Strive has added another 29 Bitcoin to its balance sheet. That brings the company’s total holdings to 43,153 BTC. Small buy, big ambition Strive, Inc. trades on Nasdaq under the ticker ASST. The Dallas-based firm was co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy. The company has a clear target. It wants to become the world’s second-largest publicly traded Bitcoin holder by the end of the year. Standing in the way is Metaplanet, which holds 44,000 BTC. With 43,153 BTC now on Strive’s books, the gap between the two works out to 847 BTC. The latest purchase builds on a position Strive reported as of October 30, 2026. At that point, the company held 43,124 BTC. That figure followed a buy made between October 24 and October 30. During that window, Strive picked up 124 BTC for around $10 million. The average price on that tranche came to approximately $80,526 per BTC. An October shopping spree The 29 BTC buy looks almost quaint next to what Strive did in October 2026. The company accumulated over 15,000 BTC during that month alone. Several of those purchases were large bloc...