Quick Facts: ➡️ Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan doesn’t believe that Strategy will sell any of its Bitcoins, saying that the company has ‘enough cash to cover interest payments for the foreseeable future.’ ➡️ This reinforces the digital gold thesis and supports a longer-term, institution-led $BTC accumulation narrative. ➡️ Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) aims to fuse Bitcoin […]Quick Facts: ➡️ Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan doesn’t believe that Strategy will sell any of its Bitcoins, saying that the company has ‘enough cash to cover interest payments for the foreseeable future.’ ➡️ This reinforces the digital gold thesis and supports a longer-term, institution-led $BTC accumulation narrative. ➡️ Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) aims to fuse Bitcoin […]

Strategy Won’t Sell Bitcoin, Fueling Bitcoin Hyper’s $29M Presale

2025/12/05 16:10
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Quick Facts:

  • ➡ Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan doesn’t believe that Strategy will sell any of its Bitcoins, saying that the company has ‘enough cash to cover interest payments for the foreseeable future.’
  • ➡ This reinforces the digital gold thesis and supports a longer-term, institution-led $BTC accumulation narrative.
  • ➡ Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) aims to fuse Bitcoin settlement with SVM-based execution, targeting sub-second, low-fee smart contracts to overcome BTC’s speed, cost, and programmability limits
  • ➡ $HYPER just reached $29M in presale and targets a potential 1,395% post-launch ROI in 2026.

Institutional conviction in Bitcoin just got a fresh boost.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan has indicated that Strategy has no plans to dump its massive Bitcoin position, easing fears of a forced sell-off and reinforcing the idea that large, regulated players are thinking in halving cycles, not headlines.

Strategy now holds 650,000 $BTC, valued at over $74B, and has just purchased another 130 $BTC on December 1.

For you as a Bitcoin holder, that matters. When big allocators telegraph ‘we’re not selling,’ it stabilizes expectations around future supply and dampens the tail risk of sudden institutional liquidation.

That macro backdrop is exactly why high-upside Bitcoin-adjacent plays are back in focus.

If core $BTC exposure is the conservative base layer, then infrastructure tied to Bitcoin’s success – especially Layer 2 networks – becomes the speculative frontier where upside can be multiples higher if adoption hits.

In that context, Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) and its ongoing presale stand out.

Positioned as ‘the fastest Bitcoin Layer 2 with SVM integration,’ $HYPER is pitching itself as a way to turn Bitcoin’s settlement layer into a high-throughput smart contract environment, effectively grafting Solana-grade performance onto BTC’s security model.

Read more about Bitcoin Hyper right here.

Why Institutions Are Forcing a Rethink of Bitcoin Infrastructure

Strategy’s public stance underscores a wider trend: institutional allocators are treating Bitcoin more like digital gold and less like a trade.

Long-term balance sheet positioning, ETF flows, and strategy mandates are tightening the ‘float,’ which is great for price stability but leaves a big question unanswered – what about utility and throughput?

Bitcoin’s base layer still clears roughly single-digit transactions per second, with on-chain fees spiking into tens of dollars during congestion. Lightning helps for simple payments, but it does not solve generalized programmability or DeFi-native use cases.

That gap is why you’re seeing a race among Layer 2 designs targeting Bitcoin: rollups, sidechains, and virtual machine bridges all battling for mindshare.

Projects like Stacks, Rootstock, and various rollup experiments each approach the problem differently, from separate smart contract layers anchored to $BTC to EVM-compatible sidechains.

As markets digest that the ‘digital gold’ thesis is intact, attention naturally shifts to which infrastructure can unlock yield, DeFi, and dApps on top of it – and that’s where Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) is starting to enter the conversation alongside more established names.

Read more about Bitcoin Hyper in our guide.

Bitcoin Hyper’s SVM Layer 2 Pitch to Bitcoin Holders

Where Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) differentiates itself is in its technical bet: integrating the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) directly into a Bitcoin Layer 2.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, the project leans on an execution environment already proven to handle thousands of transactions per second with sub-second finality, aiming to exceed Solana’s own performance by optimizing specifically for L2.

The architecture is modular: Bitcoin Layer 1 handles settlement and security, while a real-time SVM Layer 2 processes execution.

A single trusted sequencer batches transactions and periodically anchors state to Bitcoin, while SPL-compatible tokens are adapted for the L2. The Canonical Bridge handles the wrapped $BTC, lowering confirmation times to seconds and improving the network’s scalability dramatically.

Investor interest is already material.

The Bitcoin Hyper presale has jumped over $29M recently, with the token priced at $0.013375, signaling that the market is willing to fund a serious attempt at Bitcoin-native high throughput.

Long-term, $HYPER positions itself as a potential slam dunk. Our price prediction for $HYPER, based on the project’s utility and investor support during the presale, hints at a 2026 target of $0.20. 2030 could push that number to $1.50 once the project breaches into the mainstream.

In terms of raw profit, think ROIs of 1,395% and 11,115% respectively.

For $BTC holders looking to stay within the Bitcoin orbit but earn on a more dynamic asset, that combination of yield, infrastructure exposure, and long-term profit-hunting potential could be compelling.

$HYPER is making an aggressive case that a Solana-grade execution environment, plugged into Bitcoin finality, is one of the more asymmetric ways to express that view. If that sounds appealing, read our guide on how to buy $HYPER today.

More importantly, do it soon, because Bitcoin Hyper has a targeted release window between Q4 2025, which is nearly over, and Q1 2026: time is not your friend.

Buy $$HYPER on the official presale page.

This isn’t financial advice. DYOR before investing.

Authored by Bogdan Patru, Bitcoinist: https://bitcoinist.com/strategy-wont-sell-btc-bitcoin-hyper-presale-reaches-29m.

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