Deutsche Bank MicroStrategy investment hits record 874,925 shares

Deutsche Bank just made its biggest publicly disclosed wager yet on Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin treasury vehicle, and the timing says almost as much as the number itself. The Deutsche Bank MicroStrategy investment now stands at 874,925 shares after a Q2 2026 filing revealed the German banking giant added 90,006 shares during the quarter, pushing the position’s value to somewhere between $76 million and $85 million. It’s a modest sum for a bank of Deutsche Bank’s size, but it lands at a moment when traditional finance is still figuring out how far it’s willing to go toward Bitcoin exposure without touching the asset directly.

Key takeaways

• Deutsche Bank raised its MicroStrategy (Strategy) stake to 874,925 shares in Q2 2026, adding 90,006 shares and pushing the position’s value to between $76 million and $85 million.
• Strategy holds over 840,000 BTC, making it the largest corporate Bitcoin holder in the world.
• Banks like Deutsche Bank favor Strategy shares over direct Bitcoin because of regulatory and compliance hurdles, even though those shares trade at a premium to Bitcoin’s net asset value.
• BTCPay Server patched a critical Lightning Network vulnerability that let attackers hijack LND nodes via exposed macaroon credential files, with some funds stolen before the fix shipped.
• BTCPay Server donated 0.42 BTC to the researchers who flagged the flaw and launched a bounty program to help recover stolen funds; users are urged to update to v2.4.2 and LND v0.21.1 immediately.

Deutsche Bank Increases MicroStrategy Shareholdings to All-Time High

Deutsche Bank’s latest filing marks its largest reported stake in MicroStrategy to date, and the accumulation pattern suggests this isn’t a one-off trade. The bank isn’t dabbling — it’s steadily building.

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