Strategy’s STRC: The Signal that Moves Bitcoin’s Income Engine
Atlas Series · The Bitcoin Yield Stack · Phase I
This article continues our work on Strategy’s variable-yield layer, the point where Bitcoin’s volatility becomes income.
Bitcoin now behaves like fixed income, but its balance lives in the field.
The first shifts in that balance never appear in price. They start where yield and volatility exchange information before the market reacts.
STRC sits at the center of that system.
It’s the variable-yield layer that turns Bitcoin’s volatility into cash flow.
Capital from each issuance funds new Bitcoin purchases. Those holdings back the dividends, and the payout flexes as the market moves.
STRC is where Bitcoin starts to act like yield, where belief turns into income.
In this article, we show how Atlas-8 monitors that field and the signals it watches inside STRC’s $100 peg:
Δμ alignment - whether belief and structure remain in phase.
Yield response - how quickly dividends absorb volatility.
Timing rhythm - how feedback keeps the peg centered within the field.
These are the dynamics that keep the Bitcoin income system coherent.
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