Why $71B Bitcoin Giant Strategy Still Bets on BTC Hitting $150K in 2025

  Why $71B Bitcoin Giant Strategy Still Bets on BTC Hitting $150K in 2025 Despite Bitcoin’s pullback from its October high above $126,000, Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor remains confident the cryptocurrency will reach $150,000 by year’s end. Speaking at the Money 20/20 conference in Las Vegas, Saylor cited lower volatility and a maturing market as key drivers. “Bitcoin is grinding upward,” he said, adding that increased derivatives and hedging tools are stabilizing prices. Currently trading around $111,000—up 54% year over year—BTC still has massive upside, according to Saylor, who envisions $1 million coins within eight years and $20 million over two decades. Strategy, holding over $71 billion in Bitcoin, continues to buy regardless of price, with Saylor calling the past year the strongest in crypto’s history. Shares of Strategy (MSTR) closed at $275.36, down 3.26% but up 11% over the past year.

BOB, a Bitcoin layer-2 project that aims to expand development on the world's oldest blockchain

 BOB, which aims to make Bitcoin a DeFi hotbed, aims to build bridges between itself and layer-1 blockchains like Ethereum. Leading Bitcoin Layer 2 Picks Link to Ethereum


The integration of BOB, a Bitcoin layer-2 project that aims to expand development on the world's oldest blockchain, with the Superchain ecosystem that is based on Optimism's OP Stack has taken place.

OP Stack is a toolkit for building blockchains on top of the Ethereum layer-2 network Optimism.

It has previously attracted cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Kraken to use it for the development of their blockchains due to optimism.


CoinDesk is the first to report that Ethereum layer-2 Optimism's "Superchain" has added a Bitcoin-native project to its ecosystem for the first time.

The Bitcoin layer-2 project BOB has joined the Superchain ecosystem, which is based on Optimism's OP Stack framework and aims to expand development on the world's oldest blockchain.

According to project officials who spoke with CoinDesk, the agreement stipulates that BOB will receive a grant from the Optimism Foundation totaling approximately $870,000.


OP Stack is a toolkit for building blockchains on top of the Ethereum layer-2 network Optimism.

BOB describes itself as a "hybrid layer-2" network that is built on Bitcoin but compatible with Ethereum. Its ultimate goal is to make Bitcoin the center of decentralized finance (DeFi) by building bridges between itself and layer-1 blockchains like Ethereum.


"Joining the Superchain implies multiplying down on our cross breed vision and guaranteeing that Bitcoin manufacturers on Sway generally have the most recent tech out of the case to use in their BTC items," Bounce prime supporter Alexei Zamyatin told CoinDesk in a Wire message.


Coinbase, a rival cryptocurrency exchange, has chosen to use OP Stack for its own blockchain, Base, and Kraken, a rival exchange, has announced its own network, Ink, in response to optimism.

On Tuesday, CoinDesk reported that Kraken received a grant of 25 million OP tokens from the Optimism Foundation as part of the agreement. These OP tokens have a current market value of approximately $42.5 million.


Evidently, BOB's cost was less steep. According to project officials, the grant was for 500,000 tokens, or $870,000 at the current price of $1.74 for OP.

Among Ethereum layer-2 projects for total-value locked (TVL), optimism lags significantly behind that of the rival Arbitrum. Idealism has a TVL of simply more than $6 billion, contrasted with Arbitrum's $13 billion.

However, the larger group of projects that make use of Optimism's technology includes more than 40 rollups and more than $18 billion in TVL.

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