The next step after premiums decay far enough is for the underlying assets to go into downside price discovery. Take SOL as an example: UPXI and DFDV are seeing declining premium and volume, leading to less capital being raised to buy SOL. These vehicles have been accumulating SOL at about 2% of supply per year. During that period, SOL fluctuated between $150-$200. If the treasury strategies stop providing price indiscriminate buy-pressure to SOL, the market falls out from under it and is forced to find a new equilibrium that no longer takes the treasury strategies current pace of purchases into account.