The Saylor Warning Every Treasury CEO Ignored

Joseph Onorati joins the show the week DeFi Development Corp filed CHAD, a variable-rate perpetual preferred with a 13% initial dividend paid daily and a $10 par, modeled on Strive's SATA. Joseph spent eight years at Kraken, the last stretch as chief strategy officer, before buying control of a Nasdaq shell in 2025 and turning it into the first non-Bitcoin treasury company in the US. Within months DFDV was the comp on every other treasury company's pitch deck. His argument is that the four-year cycle can't survive everyone predicting it, that treasury companies will displace ETFs, and that the only rule that matters in a levered vehicle is what you do at the bottom.

Construction: Private Companies Holding Bitcoin

Construction private companies and institutions that hold Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset.

BTC Held by Private Companies

12

$911,393.25

Number of Private Companies

2

BTC Price

$76,814

Asset Dominance

93.6%
BTC 93.6% ETH 5.6% SOL .51% BNB .14% XRP .14%

Construction: Private Companies Ranked by Bitcoin Holdings

#
Name BitcoinTreasuries logo
1 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
โ‚ฟ 10
$1M
0.000%
2 ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ
โ‚ฟ 2
$0M
0.000%
Total:
12
$1M
0.000%