# Bitcoin's $10 Billion Corporate Credit Market Keeps Growing After Its First Selloff

A June downturn drove leading Bitcoin-backed preferred shares below par and triggered margin calls, yet new issuers are still entering the treasury-financing model.

- Published: 2026-07-11T05:31:02.118Z
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- Sources: [CryptoSlate](https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoins-10-billion-credit-market-keeps-growing-after-its-first-major-selloff/), [Bitcoin Magazine](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoins-new-debt-machine-is-facing)

The corporate credit market built on Bitcoin treasuries, now larger than $10 billion, is still attracting new entrants after a June selloff pushed its leading preferred shares far below par and forced margin calls, according to a CryptoSlate [report](https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoins-10-billion-credit-market-keeps-growing-after-its-first-major-selloff/) citing data from BitcoinTreasuries.net. The firm described the June episode as the sector's first meaningful stress test.

Bitcoin treasury companies fund their coin purchases largely by issuing preferred shares and convertible debt. When those instruments trade below par, as Strategy's STRC and Strive's SATA did during the downturn, it signals that investors doubt the issuers can cover dividends without selling coins or raising fresh capital. Bitcoin Magazine [reported](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoins-new-debt-machine-is-facing) that both instruments recovered after the sharp fall, which some issuers read as validation of the model.

The recovery does not resolve the underlying fragility. The strategy depends on continued access to capital markets at favorable terms, and a sustained gap between the price of a company's stock and the net value of its Bitcoin can close the equity-issuance window that funds accumulation. With Bitcoin trading near $64,400, well below the levels at which much of this leverage was added, dividend coverage remains the pressure point.

Separately, JPMorgan analysts [argued](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/jpmorgan-says-the-real-threat-to-bitcoin) that Strategy's selling is a short-term concern and that the larger long-term risk to Bitcoin is institutions adopting private permissioned blockchains rather than the public network.

## What this means

The mechanism is refinancing risk: these vehicles must keep issuing preferred shares and convertibles above par to fund new Bitcoin buys, so a persistent discount to par raises their cost of capital and can force asset sales that feed back into a lower coin price. Holders of the preferred shares and the common equity are the exposed parties, and forced selling would transmit their financing stress into the spot Bitcoin market. The direct read for capital is that leveraged treasury demand rises and falls with price, so it weakens exactly when prices fall.

## What to watch

- Whether preferred shares such as STRC and SATA hold above par on the next Bitcoin drawdown, which would show the funding model surviving a second stress test rather than only the first.
- New entrants' dividend-coverage terms, since issuers promising yields they can only pay by selling coins are the ones most likely to break the model.