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The STRC Note (STRCst), a new public markets digital security, is now live on STOKR. Each STRCst is fully backed 1:1 by Strategy Inc.'s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (NASDAQ: STRC). The Underlying currently carries an annual dividend rate of 11.50%, payable monthly. Dividends are automatically reinvested in-kind into additional STRC Notes. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dYqKtRmv Open for EU-professional (except Germany, Luxembourg), and non-US qualified investors upon KYC/AML verification. Not available in the US and AML high risk countries. No investment advice.

STOKR attends The Big Whale Corporate Breakfast in Berlin tomorrow on the topic "DeFi: Where Capital Works Harder". Our Head of Business Relations, Jonas Krstic, is on the panel alongside Ben Elvidge, CFA (metals.io), Darren C. (Fusion (by IPOR)), and Jonas Konstandin (Midas) — moderated by Aleksandar Bukovski from The Big Whale. The panel will dig into whether on-chain yield is a real institutional asset class and what it takes to allocate at scale today. Several members of our team will be there, so if you're attending, come say hello. Looking forward to a great discussion. #OnchainYield #TheBigWhale #SuperReturn

STOKR is at Global ABS Barcelona this week, connecting with players building the next chapter of structured finance. Our CEO Tobias Seidl is speaking on the panel "Funding the Real Economy: Trade Receivables, ABCP and Short-Term Credit" alongside Clement Vandevooghel (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP), Mark Escott (MUFG), and Tom Huntingford, CFA (FIS) – moderated by Dimitrios Logizidis (Gide). The session explores the intersection of receivables finance and the infrastructure that makes it more transparent, efficient, and verifiable. If you're at the conference, reach out to Tobias Seidl, Arnab Naskar, or Federico Demicheli – our team is on the ground through 11 June. Thank you to FT Live and AFME (Association for Financial Markets in Europe) for bringing the structured finance community together. #GlobalABS #GlobalABS30Years #StructuredFinance #DigitalSecurities

Europe's digital assets infrastructure is being built in rooms like the one Luxembourg for Finance assembled in Zurich last week. Our CEO Tobias Seidl and Head of Growth Federico Demicheli joined Luxembourg for Finance's Digital Assets Workshop in Zurich, a focused roundtable bringing together finance professionals from across banking, asset management, and market infrastructure to discuss cash, securities, and digital assets in Europe. The Luxembourg-Switzerland corridor is one of the most active ecosystems for digital capital markets in Europe right now. A special thank you to the Luxembourg for Finance team for the invitation and for curating exactly these kinds of conversations: Tom Théobald, Simon Gorbutt, Chris Hollifield, Lynn Robbroeckx, Sara Pereira, and Aurélie Zambeaux. The future of capital markets. Today.

Our latest STOKR research report is out: a deep dive into Strategy's STRC and the "digital credit" category forming around it. STRC is a variable-rate perpetual preferred backed by Strategy's Bitcoin balance sheet, paying an 11.5% dividend in monthly yield. Less than nine months after launch, it has reached $10.5bn outstanding, becoming the largest monthly-paying preferred listed in the US. The report examines the instrument itself, the underlying yield engine, the Q1 stress test, and the ecosystem now developing around it. Read the full report → https://lnkd.in/ddGyh9Fa

$1.9B in cumulative digital securities issuances. $1.33B in live distributed asset value. All settled on Bitcoin's Liquid Network. Our CEO Tobias Seidl spoke with The Big Whale on what it takes to build institutional-grade capital markets infrastructure on Bitcoin and where we're taking it next. Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/dXd7s_7u

The institutional digital asset conversation has changed. Less theory. More infrastructure. More issuance. More real-world implementation. That is exactly what Digital Assets Week in New York (13–14 May) is about: bringing together the major players shaping the next generation of capital markets. STOKR’s Senior Advisor, Subhankar Sinha, will be there. Reach out to him to discuss tokenized private markets, digital securities, and Bitcoin structured products. The future of capital markets. today.

The FT Live Digital Assets Summit takes place in London this week on 13-14 May, bringing together key voices shaping the future of digital finance. On 14 May, STOKR will also join The Big Whale's breakfast event, "From 1995 to Onchain: How Finance Gets Better." Federico Demicheli, STOKR’s Head of Growth, will be attending both events. If you are around and want to discuss institutional adoption, digital securities across private credit and funds, or Bitcoin structured products, feel free to reach out and connect. The future of capital markets. Today.

We are pleased to welcome STOKR as a new member of LëtzBlock. STOKR is a Luxembourg-based, regulated digital securities platform that provides capital markets infrastructure for issuers, investors, and intermediaries. Their deep expertise in digital securities structuring and regulatory compliance is a strong addition to our ecosystem. Welcome !

Last week, the STOKR team swapped desks for the Italian countryside. Four days of workshops, alignment sessions, and planning for what comes next. Familiar faces, new ones, and a team that keeps getting stronger. Building regulated digital securities infrastructure takes focus, sustained execution, and every so often, real time together. Under the pines, over lunch, in the kind of conversations that only happen when everyone's in the same room. Thanks to everyone who made the week what it was. Now, back to it.