Pantera backs Digital Asset Treasury firms (DATs) as emerging public market crypto exposure, adopting MicroStrategy’s permanent capital model with growing conviction and targeted investments.

Pantera Capital is positioning Digital Asset Treasury companies (DATs) as a new route for public-market crypto exposure, arguing that they extend MicroStrategy’s model of using the corporate balance sheet to accumulate digital assets. In Pantera’s framing, DATs let equity investors gain exposure through familiar public-company wrappers while the firms raise capital specifically to buy and hold tokens, rather than operating like ETFs or direct token holdings. The broader context is that DATs have become a fast-growing segment of crypto capital formation, with public and private companies raising large amounts to build crypto-heavy balance sheets and, in some cases, pursue yield or token-per-share growth strategies. Pantera says it has created a dedicated DAT fund and has targeted investments in this category, reflecting growing conviction that these vehicles are becoming an important part of the public crypto market. The significance is that DATs may concentrate and lock up supply of major assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum, but they also introduce leverage, financing, and liquidation risks if markets turn sharply lower.

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