Strategy Q1 net loss of $12.54 billion and for the first time hinted at selling BTC to pay dividends, Coinbase lays off about 700 people and restructures its framework to focus on AI

According to BBX data, yesterday (May 5) marked the dual arrival of the earnings season for cryptocurrency concept stocks and a wave of industry layoffs. The core dynamics are as follows:

• Strategy, Inc. (NASDAQ: $MSTR) released its Q1 2026 earnings report after the market on May 5 (official press release): net loss of $12.54 billion (per share -$38.25), primarily driven by an unrealized loss of $14.46 billion on Bitcoin holdings------the price of Bitcoin fell from about $87,000 to about $68,000 during Q1; revenue of $124.3 million (up 11.9% year-on-year), slightly exceeding consensus expectations of $123.2 million. As of May 3, the company held a total of 818,334 BTC, with an average price of $75,537 and a total cost of $61.81 billion; approximately 89,600 BTC were added in Q1 (costing about $5.5 billion), marking the second-largest single-quarter purchase in the company's history. The company's annualized return (BTC Yield) for Q1 continued to improve compared to the beginning of the year, with specific values to be disclosed in the official earnings report. Notably, the company mentioned for the first time in its risk disclosures that it may sell Bitcoin to fulfill its annual dividend obligation of about $1.5 billion, with current reserves covering only about 18 months of dividend expenses; management referred to the STRC preferred stock financing as a "great success," raising approximately $5.58 billion through STRC in Q1.

• Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: $COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong announced on May 5 via the X platform and an official memo that the company will lay off about 700 employees (about 14% of the global workforce), citing the downturn in the cryptocurrency market and AI accelerating the reshaping of the company's operational model. Armstrong stated that AI has enabled the engineering team to complete in days what previously took weeks. The company will compress management levels to a maximum of five layers below the CEO/COO and replace traditional functional departments with "AI-native pods," where each manager must directly oversee at least 15 subordinates while maintaining a personal contributor role; affected employees in the U.S. will receive at least 16 weeks of base salary plus an additional two weeks of severance for each year of service. The company's Q1 2026 earnings report will be released tomorrow (May 7) after the market closes, with current analyst consensus expecting revenue of about $1.5 billion and EPS of approximately $0.23---$0.36.