Strategic Fund Snaps Up 1,229 Bitcoin in Final Monday Purchase of 2025

A major institutional player just placed a massive final bet on Bitcoin for the year.

The Last-Minute Power Move

Forget the holiday slowdown. While traditional finance was winding down, a deep-pocketed strategy executed a decisive buy order for 1,229 BTC. This isn't casual accumulation—it's a statement purchase, timed as the last major Monday trade of 2025. It screams conviction when others might be hesitant.

Reading the Institutional Tea Leaves

This scale of acquisition doesn't happen by accident. It points to sophisticated capital positioning for the new year, bypassing the noise of retail sentiment. The move suggests a calculated view that current prices represent a strategic entry, not a peak. It's the kind of cold, hard capital allocation that makes a mockery of Wall Street's quarterly earnings obsession.

The 2026 Signal

This final Monday purchase cuts through the year-end ambiguity. It transforms a simple transaction into a bullish signal for the coming quarter. When institutions move with this clarity, it often precedes a broader trend. They're not trading—they're building a position.

One firm just backed its thesis with over a thousand coins. The market is watching.

Strategy Has Dropped Another $108.8 Million On Bitcoin

As announced by Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor in an X post, the company has completed a fresh Bitcoin acquisition involving 1,229 BTC. The purchase took place in the period between December 22nd and December 28th, and cost the firm $88,568 per token or $108.8 million in total.

According to the filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the acquisition has been funded using sales of the company’s MSTR at-the-market (ATM) stock offering.

Last Monday, Strategy didn’t make any bitcoin purchases, but it did announce a new addition to its recently-created USD reserve. The firm initially allocated $1.44 billion to this reserve at the start of December, which rose to $2.19 billion with its $748 million expansion last week.

The BTC treasury company made this new reserve to be better able to navigate short-term market volatility and ensure that dividend payments are made on time.

Like is usually the case, Saylor made a Sunday X post with the company’s Bitcoin portfolio tracker before the latest purchase as well. This time, the chairman hinted at a return to Bitcoin buying, with the caption: “Back to Orange.”

This Monday was the last for 2025 and since Strategy has a history of Monday BTC acquisitions, it may be SAFE to assume that this was the last purchase announcement for the year from the treasury firm.

In total, Strategy now holds 672,497 BTC, acquired for $50.44 billion. At the current exchange rate, these holdings are worth about $58.94 billion, so the company is currently in a net profit of 16.85%.

Saylor’s firm used to be in a much bigger gain earlier in the year, but the bearish price action between October and November meant that the cryptocurrency closed some of the distance to its cost basis.

Currently, Strategy’s Bitcoin break-even level lies at $74,997. Back in November, BTC came relatively close to this mark, but since that low, the asset has found some stability, so it only remains to be seen whether the coin will retest the level anytime soon.

BTC Retraces After Fast Surge In Open Interest

Bitcoin and ethereum witnessed a surge in the Open Interest during the past day, as CryptoQuant community analyst Maartunn has pointed out in an X post. The “Open Interest” is an indicator that measures the total amount of positions related to a given asset that are currently open on all centralized derivatives exchanges.

It’s visible in the below chart that the 24-hour percentage change in this metric shot up to 6% for Bitcoin earlier in the past day.

The surge in Open Interest for Bitcoin and Ethereum came as the markets witnessed a rally. Often, fast heating in this metric tends to be a signal for volatility, and the warning has held this time as both assets have seen a quick retrace.

Bitcoin went to as high as $90,300 during the rally, but its price is now back at $87,500, as the below chart depicts.