The Web3 Roundup (Sept 15-20) Strategy Bought $60.2M of Bitcoin, MoonPay Bought Meso, and More

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At Todayq, we believe in starting fresh every Monday, but before we begin, we love to bring our readers a quick recap of the previous week, highlighting what really shaped the crypto market. From September 15 to September 20, several events occurred that paved different paths for the crypto industry, some creating new opportunities while others boosted the prices of digital assets

Before jumping to the main headlines, let’s take a quick look at the overall market performance as of writing. The cryptocurrency market is $3.8 trillion with an intraday loss of 4.51% and at the same time, the trading volume is $137.63 billion

Bitcoin is trading at $113,008 with a loss of 1.27% in the past one hour and fell around 2.40% intraday at the same time. Ethereum has lost more than 7.30% reaching $4,154, yet BNB continued to outperform, and when writing, it is trading at $1,014

Major headlines of the week

Below are the top stories of the week with quick snapshots you shouldn’t miss.

Strategy Inc scooped $60.2M worth of BTC, and now owns 639k Bitcoin

In its most recent Form 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Strategy (earlier MicroStrategy) said that it has bought 525 BTC for $60.2 million.

According to the BitcoinTreasury Strategy, it now owns nearly 3.043% of total Bitcoin, making it the top publicly listed to hold such a huge amount of BTC

The 525 BTC buying has been done through the sale of three classes of shares, including Series A Perpetual Strife Preferred Stock, Series A Perpetual Strike Preferred Stock, and Series A Perpetual Stride Preferred Stock.

MoonPay bought Meso with the aim of global dominance

On September 16, 2025, it was reported that MoonPay has acquired Meso to help us build crypto’s largest global payments network

Before this acquisition, MoonPay also bought Helio, Decent(dot)xyz, and Iron. The X post over Meso acquisition also notes that Ali Aghareza and Ben Mills have joined the team as new CTO and SVP of product

Helius Medical has secured $500 million for the Solana treasury

The news provided by Pantera Capital notes that Helius Medical Technologies Inc. has secured $500 million via an oversubscribed private investment in public equity offering

Press release also notes that the offering includes an additional $750 million in stapled warrants, stretching the total Solana treasury capital to $1.25 billion

BDACS launched the KRW1 stablecoin on Avalanche, backed by Korean won

Avalanche said in a X post dated September 18, 2025, that BDACS and Woori Bank have launched a won-backed stablecoin, KRW1, on the Avax blockchain

BDACS, the South Korean digital assets custodian, debuted KRW1, which is in pilot phase following a full PoC, marking a major milestone towards regulated bank-integrated digital money in Korea

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