U812.btc retweeted
3% BTC yield without lending out your Bitcoin sounds almost too good to be true. not your usual BTC yield farm either.
on @Stacks, the yield doesn't come from rehypothecating your BTC or printing another reward token.
it's paid by miners competing to produce Stacks blocks.
miners spend BTC to earn $STX block rewards, and that BTC gets distributed to bond participants.
PoX been doing its thing since 2021 btw. 4,200+ BTC paid out to $STX stakers.
but what I find more interesting is what this does to $STX.
Bitcoin staking creates a completely different kind of token demand, with actual BTC capital coming in and requiring $STX to be locked alongside it.
currently every $1 of BTC bonded needs $0.05 worth of $STX capacity, locked for 6 months.
run that math at scale:
> 505 BTC in Bond 2 required 6.7M $STX locked
> Bonds 3 & 4 are each planned for 1,000 BTC capacity
> 10K BTC bonded would require 133M $STX at Bond 2 prices
that's equivalent to 27% of the 493M $STX currently staked. pretty wild for just 10K BTC.
since new bonds open monthly while previous ones remain locked for 6 months, demand can stack across overlapping cohorts.
and this goes way beyond a 3% yield. PoX-6 could open BTC bonding to more holders, with self-custodial lending eventually unlocking borrowing against those positions.
potentially one of the first building blocks for much bigger Bitcoin capital markets.
Bitcoin can now earn yield paid in $BTC while staying on the L1, in the holder's own custody.
Here's how @Stacks Bitcoin bonds work, where the yield comes from, and why every bonded Bitcoin requires $STX as staking capacity.
Read the full guide 👇
coingecko.com/learn/stacks-b…
U812.btc retweeted
Zest Protocol CLMM is live! 🍊
The first two pools are $ZEST & $STX
Congratulations to @TychoOnnasch and the @ZestProtocol team
The @Stacks DeFi ecosystem keeps improving!
Zest Protocol CLMM is live on @Stacks mainnet.
Any token on Stacks can now trade the way tokens trade on other major chains. Try it on Zest Protocol Stacks Swap.
After seeing ZEST trade smoothly on EVM DEXs, we wanted to bring the same trading experience to the Stacks community.
Until now, bin-based pools on Stacks gave each bin one fixed price, like levels in an order book. Stacks had no Uniswap v3 style pools, where each bin is a curve, so we built them. Any token on Stacks can be listed.
What CLMM means for users:
🔸 Traders get tighter prices, because liquidity sits around the price where trades happen.
🔸 LPs choose a price range and earn from every swap through it. Fees compound into the position.
🔸 Token teams can work with market makers to run the same strategies they use on other chains.
🔸 Builders get positions as tokens that other contracts can hold, ready for wallets, front-ends and aggregators.
🔸 Everyone keeps their exit. Pausing a pool never stops withdrawals, and governance cannot touch your shares. @ClarAllianceSec audited the contracts.
Two pools are live today: STX/USDCx and ZEST/STX. Zest Protocol Stacks Swap routes through these pools automatically, as do integration partners like @tenero_io.
100k $STX in rewards will be made available for early traders, with campaign details announced shortly.
Welcome to deep liquidity on Stacks 🤝
U812.btc retweeted
@Stacks just got its first real CLMM! Concentrated liquidity means market makers can finally run the same playbook here they run on every other major chain — tighter spreads, deeper books, way less slippage on size.
100k blockstack:native dropping on early traders. This is the kind of infra upgrade that looks obvious in hindsight once volume actually shows up.
Degen math: deep liquidity + LP yield from ranges + a rewards program stacked on top = the exact setup that does heavy lifting in before the crowd notices.👀
Zest Protocol CLMM is live on @Stacks mainnet.
Any token on Stacks can now trade the way tokens trade on other major chains. Try it on Zest Protocol Stacks Swap.
After seeing ZEST trade smoothly on EVM DEXs, we wanted to bring the same trading experience to the Stacks community.
Until now, bin-based pools on Stacks gave each bin one fixed price, like levels in an order book. Stacks had no Uniswap v3 style pools, where each bin is a curve, so we built them. Any token on Stacks can be listed.
What CLMM means for users:
🔸 Traders get tighter prices, because liquidity sits around the price where trades happen.
🔸 LPs choose a price range and earn from every swap through it. Fees compound into the position.
🔸 Token teams can work with market makers to run the same strategies they use on other chains.
🔸 Builders get positions as tokens that other contracts can hold, ready for wallets, front-ends and aggregators.
🔸 Everyone keeps their exit. Pausing a pool never stops withdrawals, and governance cannot touch your shares. @ClarAllianceSec audited the contracts.
Two pools are live today: STX/USDCx and ZEST/STX. Zest Protocol Stacks Swap routes through these pools automatically, as do integration partners like @tenero_io.
100k $STX in rewards will be made available for early traders, with campaign details announced shortly.
Welcome to deep liquidity on Stacks 🤝
U812.btc retweeted
🏦 FTX didn’t just expose a crypto failure. It exposed a diligence failure.
@mikebelshe says Wall Street learned why private-company vetting wasn’t enough and why BitGo chose audits, regulation and scrutiny.
Trust starts under the spotlight. 👀 nitter.cf/BitcoinNews/status/211…
🏦 “Way too much money goes into Wall Street and banks.”
@BitGo CEO @mikebelshe tells @_dsencil at @KBWOfficial why self-custody is the bigger fight and why losing it means losing control of our own money.
The quote is only the opening shot. Watch full interview. ⏬
U812.btc retweeted
Loans on @ZestProtocol rose 132% in Q3 to $14.75M, and about three quarters of that came from net new borrowing 👀
stBTC keeps earning the bond payment while it backs a loan. Zest has processed 1,500+ liquidations with no bad debt.
U812.btc retweeted
Bitcoin is down 40% from its all-time high.
Nobody knows where the bottom is. That's why you buy a fixed amount on a schedule instead of trying to time it.
Apple Pay, debit card or bank transfer, straight into Xverse. No exchange account required.
Stack sats on your own terms.
U812.btc retweeted
Bitcoin can now earn yield paid in $BTC while staying on the L1, in the holder's own custody.
Here's how @Stacks Bitcoin bonds work, where the yield comes from, and why every bonded Bitcoin requires $STX as staking capacity.
Read the full guide 👇
coingecko.com/learn/stacks-b…
U812.btc retweeted
Booking out a tiny jazz room on opening night can happen on curiosity alone, but selling out a stadium twice the size of the first two venues combined means the heavyweights are buying every seat in the house.
That exact demand just played out on @Stacks.
Bitcoin staking Bond 3 is officially filled at 1,005 BTC, pushing total bonded Bitcoin across the first three periods to 1,740 BTC with 24M $STX locked alongside it.
What stands out inside this sold-out round is the calibre of institutional capital putting idle treasury reserves to work without ever giving up custody:
➥ @Bullish stepped in as a participant. Holding 22,000 BTC, it ranks among the largest publicly traded Bitcoin holders in the world and recently listed both $STX and sBTC on its exchange.
➥ @21shares returned once again, meaning the firm has now taken part in all 3 bonding periods from day one.
➥ A live BitGo integration is now open, giving institutional clients direct access to this bond and future rounds directly from qualified custody.
The mechanics keep every satoshi safe on the base layer.
Instead of handing coins to a third party or bridging out, participants time lock their BTC in self-custody right on Bitcoin L1, pair it with STX on Stacks for a 6-month term, and earn real BTC yield paid directly by Stacks miners.
Watching public giants and repeat asset managers fill 1,005 BTC proves that self-custodial Bitcoin yield has moved past theory into serious balance sheet execution.
With Bond 3 completely full, Bond 4 is already lined up to open around December 3.
U812.btc retweeted
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: THE NEW YORK CITY ELECTIONS WERE RIGGED! 🚨🚨🚨
SHOCKING AUDIT BLOWS THE LID OFF THE 2025 NYC MAYORAL RACE! 😱🗳️
Marly Hornik of RealAmerica.vote just dropped a BOMBSHELL audit proving the system FAILED to qualify voters under the law! ❌
23% of ballots came from voters with UNVERIFIABLE identities, INVALID Social Security numbers, or addresses OUTSIDE New York City! 💥
7% of voters DON’T EVEN EXIST in records!
6% had FAKE Social Security numbers!
10% NEVER lived in NYC during the election period!
These illegal ballots EXCEED Mamdani’s margin of victory! The Boards of Elections have NO IDEA who actually won! 🔥🗽
THIS IS NOT NORMAL. THIS IS FRAUD. THE NEW YORK CITY ELECTIONS WERE RIGGED! 🇺🇸
SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE before they memory-hole it! Demand a full investigation NOW! 👇
#ElectionIntegrity #NYCRigged #AuditTheVote #Mamdani #StopTheSteal
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.
U812.btc retweeted
HOLY CR*P 🚨 How is this even possible??
All of California’s major candidate election results are the EXACT SAME percentages for Democrats and Republicans
Governor 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Lieutenant Governor 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Secretary of State 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Controller 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Treasurer 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Attorney General 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Supreme Court Justice: Joshua Groban 72% (D) vs 28% (R)
Supreme Court Justice: Kelli M. Evans 72% (D) vs 28% (R)
These don’t look like real election results, they look like a computer algorithm
Our elections are fake
U812.btc retweeted
JUST IN: BitGo enables institutional clients to earn $BTC staking rewards through Stacks
Eligible clients can stake BTC directly from existing BitGo accounts without wrapping or bridging, while assets remain in qualified custody; positions are bonded for about six months and require an additional $STX stake worth 5% of the BTC position.
U812.btc retweeted
This is the part Muneeb described last week: wire up institutional custody first, scale later.
@BitGo now supports Bitcoin Staking on @Stacks for qualified institutional clients of BitGo Bank & Trust. The BTC stays where it already sits, in qualified custody on Bitcoin, and earns BTC rewards from there. No transfer to a new venue, no loan, no bridge, no wrapping.
Why that matters more than another partnership logo: most institutions were never going to move BTC out of their custodian to earn yield. The yield had to come to the custodian. Now it does.
Bond 3 is open with 1,005 BTC of capacity. Participants to be named this week.
Disclosure: I hold BTC and STX.
TODAY: @BitGo has announced Bitcoin Staking with Stacks for eligible institutional clients of BitGo Bank & Trust.
Clients can stake BTC from their existing accounts and earn BTC rewards.
Their Bitcoin stays on Bitcoin in qualified custody.
U812.btc retweeted
Bitcoin staking from BitGo Bank & Trust, N.A. accounts is here.
Eligible qualified custody clients can now earn BTC rewards on bitcoin that stays in BitGo Bank & Trust custody through Bitcoin Staking with @Stacks.
Rewards are paid in BTC, funded by the BTC that Stacks miners spend to produce blocks.
Available to approved BitGo Bank & Trust qualified custody clients, beginning with whitelisted institutional partners, managed by Stacks Labs.
Read more: bitgo.com/resources/blog/bit…
