DeFi Development offers 13% preferred stock to buy more SOL

DeFi Development Corp (DFDV) plans to raise up to $20 million through an IPO of Variable Rate Series C Perpetual Preferred Stock, nicknamed CHAD Stock, carrying an initial annual dividend rate of 13%, BeInCrypto reports.

• Dividends accrue on a stated $10-per-share amount and pay out each business day of the month, starting October 1, 2026
• DFDV will deposit $1.30 per share into a reserve account at closing, enough to cover 12 months of dividends at the initial rate
• The dividend rate can adjust under the stock's terms; R.F. Lafferty & Co. is the sole book-running manager
• Proceeds are earmarked for working capital, buying more SOL and other digital assets, strategic transactions, and growth initiatives
• The offering follows a week in which DFDV added 19,000 SOL at an average price of $98.14, partly funded by selling its ZeroStack position

That purchase lifted DFDV's treasury to roughly 2.33 million SOL and SOL equivalents, making it one of the largest public holders of the token. It came after DFDV had paused new SOL purchases for weeks while broader crypto markets stayed weak, resuming only once conditions turned more favorable. CEO Joseph Onorati has framed the company as a leveraged way for investors to get SOL exposure.

When SOL performs well, we believe DFDV has the potential to amplify that performance. Month-to-date, DFDV's return has been more than twice that of SOL.

The timing lines up with SOL's best month since DFDV started stacking it. The token gained 41.4% in August, its first gain of 2026 after losses in every month since January. Digital-asset treasury companies have moved together on the turn: Strategy resumed buying Bitcoin around the same time after a 10-week pause, while Strive and BitMine kept adding to their own holdings.

DFDV runs on the same playbook Strategy popularized for Bitcoin: raise capital on public markets, convert most of it into a single token, and let the stock trade as a leveraged proxy for that token's price. Preferred stock like CHAD Stock lets DFDV raise fresh cash without diluting common shareholders as heavily as a straight equity sale would, provided the company can keep covering the dividend from its balance sheet or operations.

The raise tests whether investors will still fund treasury-style accumulation after a rough stretch for the strategy. Whether that appetite holds will decide how much more SOL DFDV can add on top of the 2.33 million it already carries.

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