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New Strategy competitors American Bitcoin and Nakamoto Holdings each announce mergers

Nakamoto’s merger with KindlyMD has sent the stock surging over 300%.

5/12/25 12:01PM

The field to become the next Strategy is starting to get crowded. Eric Trump-backed American Bitcoin (a subsidiary of Hut 8) has announced it’s merging with Gryphon Digital Mining and will trade under the ticker “ABTC.”

“Our vision for American Bitcoin is to create the most investable bitcoin accumulation platform in the market,” Eric Trump, cofounder and chief strategy officer of American Bitcoin, said in a press release.

The anticipated closing target is “as early as Q3,” according to the release.

Also this morning, healthcare company Nakamoto announced a merger with bitcoin investment company Nakamoto Holdings, the new bitcoin-native venture launched by Trump crypto adviser David Bailey.

Shares of KindlyMD skyrocketed more than 600% in premarket trading upon the announcement and are still trading up over 275% as of 11:45 a.m. ET.

Nakamoto CEO and founder David Bailey told Sherwood News that the securitization of bitcoin, through entities like Nakamoto, is “the defining financial shift of our era.”

“Nakamoto aims to elevate bitcoin to every public and private corporate balance sheet around the world. We’re at the center of the global public markets seeking to provide investor-friendly structures they can own to accelerate bitcoin adoption,” Bailey said.

The new company raised $510 million via a PIPE deal and $200 million in convertible notes, “marking [the] largest capital raise to launch a Bitcoin Treasury and the largest PIPE for any public crypto-related transaction,” the press release said.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if other companies similar to KindlyMD start exploring the use of crypto and even others in different industries such as healthcare, gaming, and the like,” Alan Orwick, cofounder of Quai Network, said.

Last month, Jack Mallers, the CEO of Strike, Tether, and SoftBank Group launched a new bitcoin-native company, Twenty One, via a merger with Cantor Equity Partners. The investor presentation says the company intends to offer a “potentially superior vehicle for investors seeking capital-efficient bitcoin exposure” than Strategy’s.

As for Michael Saylor’s Strategy, it’s not slowing down and bought 13,390 bitcoin for $1.34 billion this morning. It now holds 568,840 bitcoin. Japanese Metaplanet also acquired 1,241 bitcoin for $126.7 million yesterday, now holding 6,796 bitcoin.

This all comes against the backdrop of the newly announced US-China tariff deal, which boosted bitcoin’s price this morning and some predict will lead to a new all-time high.

“Risk assets are back to a state of euphoria on the news that the US and China have reached an agreement. Bitcoin, which had been acting a lot like gold over the last few weeks, has now swiftly decoupled from that safe haven narrative and is moving in tandem with risk assets again. I wouldn’t be surprised if BTC surpasses its previous all-time high of $109,588 in the coming days,” Nic Puckrin, founder of Coin Bureau, said.

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BitMine buys the dip, makes largest ethereum purchase this year

Despite having an unrealized loss of nearly $9.7 billion, the leading ethereum treasury firm has acquired even more of the token.

BitMine Immersion Technologies announced it has acquired 126,971 tokens over the past week, the firm’s largest purchase of ethereum this year. The company’s total stockpile stands at 5.5 million, or around 4.6% of ethereum’s total supply.

“We increased our buying as we believe this pullback in ETH prices does not reflect the strengthening of Ethereum fundamentals,” BitMine Chairman Tom Lee said in a statement.

The acquisition comes after the crypto markets saw a broad downturn last week, with many tokens hitting multiyear lows.

Lee argued the sell-off in crypto was a “superficial take.” As artificial intelligence grows more capable, demand for hardened infrastructure is likely to increase alongside expectations that AI systems will expose flaws in centralized rails and weak decentralized protocols, according to Lee.

“We believe this actually strengthens the use case and product market fit for hardened and reliable decentralized blockchains like ethereum,” Lee said. “Thus, we believe ETH prices should not be coming under pressure.”

Meanwhile, last week ethereum ETFs saw more than $173 million in outflows, marking the fourth consecutive week of net redemptions, data from SoSoValue shows.

Joe Lubin, cofounder of ethereum and current CEO of software development firm Consensys, said the recent moves by the Ethereum Foundation, namely staff turnover and leadership changes, are not evidence of a crisis, but a necessary evolution, per a CoinDesk report. Lubin emphasized that “Ethereum is not on the decline, not at all,” even if “we are not front and center right now in terms of capital inflows, investments.”

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Strategy makes big bitcoin buy after period that ranked “among the worst weeks of the decade”

The digital asset stockpiler reversed course from its small sale and purchased $101 million worth of bitcoin.

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Zcash nosedives after counterfeit vulnerability revealed

The privacy-focused cryptocurrency has dropped more than 40% in the last 24 hours, shedding $3.8 billion in market capitalization.

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Bitcoin digital asset treasuries (DATs) have taken a big hit amid bitcoin’s tumble, shedding $62 billion in value since the asset’s October 6 all-time high, Artemis data shows, with their fully diluted market cap dropping to $72 billion from $134 billion in early October.

Meanwhile, bitcoin, which has fallen below $62,000 on Friday morning, is down 50% from its all-time high. DAT pioneer Strategy’s market cap stood at $102.2 billion on October 6, according to Macro Trends, and is now down to $45.6 billion, a 55% decline. Strategy has been in hot water since it sold 32 bitcoin earlier this week, and because its digital credit instrument, STRC, has been trading below its par value. Shares of Strategy are down 17% in the past week.

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“Sentiment for crypto is firmly in the gutter” as sector sinks, with tokens hitting multiyear lows

On Thursday, altcoins swept lower as bitcoin weakened. The tokens with the biggest losses in the last 24 hours are NEAR, ethena, and Zcash, each declining double digits in the period.

Other tokens have dropped to lows not seen in over a year in the past 24 hours:

Ethereum dropped 4.4% to under $1,780, a level not seen since April 2025.
XRP declined 4.5% to an 18-month low last hit in November 2024.
Solana decreased 6% to trade below the $70 mark, its lowest price since December 2023.
Dogecoin slid below $0.09, a 27-month low last seen in February 2024.

“Sentiment for crypto is firmly in the gutter as fears surrounding BTC/STRC and its potential overflow compound and overshadow anything that can be read as positive news (e.g. CLARITY movements),” according to Sean Dawson, head of research at crypto options platform Derive.xyz.

“[Altcoins] are high beta plays to BTC and are typically sold heavily in a downturn. Simply put, I’d be even more bearish on alts,” Dawson told Sherwood News.

“Further, liquidity has been drained into this year’s ‘superhot’ narrative of AI/data centers. In other words, there are just better, more exciting opportunities elsewhere,” Dawson added.

One cryptocurrency that has bucked the downtrend has been worldcoin, the native token for World, the digital identity project backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. While the broader crypto market has been pushing lower, WLD has jumped nearly 5% in the last 24 hours and 90% in the past seven days, data from CoinGecko shows.

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