Sequans demonstrates that a treasury can be a financing bridge, not a permanent constitution. The $384 million influx was for buying coins, and the coins sold were to convert that money into debt through the convertible bonds. The core business is IoT modems, and bitcoin has never entered the product BOM. Karam frames the exit as a discipline, and the market can also frame it as: leveraged treasuries will first serve creditors in a bear market.

The capital path is equity plus convertible bonds to buy coins, then selling coins to repay debt. From a peak of 3,200 coins to a final count of 314, the sale of 970 coins in between indicates that the reduction was not an impulsive move. After clearing, there is less crypto beta and less treasury premium, with valuation returning to the common metrics of orders and gross margins used by chip companies. Strive and Strategy pursue a model of never repaying debt, only increasing per-share coins; Sequans follows a model of clearing debt and coins.

Similar to Tesla's temporary view of bitcoin as a reserve before reducing holdings, and several Japanese trading companies' commodity inventory cycles. The industry is experiencing a differentiation among treasury companies: those that can perpetually issue in premium windows remain, while those that rely on convertible bonds to buy in one go gradually exit.

Structural judgments reflect the concentration of capital. Leveraged coin hoarding is transitioning from a diffusion phase to an exit phase. The mechanism is: when financing costs exceed the appreciation of coin prices, the treasury shifts from an asset to a liability management tool; once the tool is used up, the core company chooses to return the balance sheet to its main business.

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A treasury can be a bridge, not a constitution
When convertible bonds mature, coins are first returned to debt
After clearing, there is less crypto premium and less crypto discount