Saylor Responds To Strategy’s Potential Exclusion From Key Indices Amid Bitcoin’s 30% Plunge

NewsBTC reported on Thursday that Strategy, previously often called MicroStrategy, led by Michael Saylor, is going through elevated scrutiny concerning its potential exclusion from main indices, similar to MSCI USA and the Nasdaq 100. This arises from the agency’s substantial publicity to Bitcoin (BTC).

While the cryptocurrency market was buoyant for a lot of the 12 months, Saylor’s method appeared to pay dividends. However, Bitcoin has now entered what might grow to be one among its most difficult weeks since November 2022, experiencing a big retracement of over 30% from its all-time highs.

Saylor Clarifies Strategy’s Role

As the most important public holder of Bitcoin, with over 650,000 cash, Strategy now confronts the actual chance of being faraway from very important benchmark indices which have bolstered its visibility amongst traders. These indices are essential for the agency as they assist place it inside varied portfolios.

In response to the rising considerations about potential exclusion, Saylor took to social media platform X (previously Twitter) to make clear that Strategy is just not a fund, a belief, or a holding firm. 

Instead, the long-time Bitcoin bull described it as a publicly traded working entity with a $500 million software program enterprise, using a singular treasury technique that leverages Bitcoin as productive capital.

Saylor highlighted that within the present 12 months alone, Strategy has executed 5 public choices of digital credit score securities—STRK, STRF, STRD, STRC, and STRE—totaling over $7.7 billion in notional worth. 

Furthermore, the agency launched Stretch (STRC), a brand new Bitcoin-backed treasury credit score instrument designed to generate variable USD yields for each institutional and retail traders.

He emphasised that whereas funds and trusts passively maintain belongings and holding corporations merely sit on investments, Strategy actively creates, buildings, points, and operates monetary merchandise. 

According to Saylor, the corporate’s imaginative and prescient is to construct a pioneering kind of enterprise: a Bitcoin-backed structured finance entity able to innovation throughout each capital markets and software program improvement.

Saylor additionally believes that index classification mustn’t outline the agency’s identification. He reassured stakeholders that their long-term technique stays intact, stating:

…Our conviction in Bitcoin is unwavering, and our mission stays unchanged: to construct the world’s first digital financial establishment on a basis of sound cash and monetary innovation.

MSCI Proposes Excluding Digital Asset Firms 

Analysts at JPMorgan raised considerations in regards to the potential penalties of MSCI’s upcoming resolution on January 15, 2026. They instructed that exclusion might result in Strategy-related outflows starting from $2.8 billion to $8.8 billion. 

They famous that whereas energetic managers should not required to comply with index modifications, exclusion from these key indices would seemingly be interpreted negatively by market individuals, in the end resulting in a lower in liquidity and raised funding prices.

In its discussions with stakeholders, MSCI has indicated that some market individuals view digital asset treasury firms (DATs) as working equally to funding funds, which might disqualify them from index inclusion. 

To replicate this attitude, MSCI is proposing to exclude corporations with digital asset holdings constituting 50% or extra of their complete belongings from its international funding market indices.

Featured picture from Bloomberg, chart from TradingView.com