Corporate Bitcoin treasuries will drive BTC yield innovation
The post Corporate Bitcoin treasuries will drive BTC yield innovation appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. Wall Street was caught in the headlights when Strategy first added Bitcoin (BTC) to its balance sheet. Was this a software company, or the world’s first corporate bitcoin ETF? Investors had to improvise, and the company’s stock quickly stopped trading on software fundamentals and started behaving like a pure Bitcoin proxy. Summary With interest rates above 4%, idle Bitcoin is now seen as inefficient, pushing corporate treasuries to demand compliant, yield-generating solutions. Current options — collapsed lenders, wrapped BTC, and offshore DeFi — don’t meet institutional standards for custody, auditability, or risk. Institutions want yield secured directly on Bitcoin, with transparent attestations and returns tied to real economic activity, not token gimmicks. If Bitcoin delivers these rails quickly, it can anchor the next financial layer; if not, capital will migrate to Ethereum, Solana, or traditional markets offering safer yields. That debate is over today. Asset managers like BlackRock and Fidelity now market Bitcoin ETFs to the mainstream, and corporate treasuries collectively hold billions in BTC. But holding Bitcoin is no longer enough. In a world of interest rates still above 4%, idle BTC comes with a steep opportunity cost. Treasuries are mandated to optimize liquidity and generate returns on reserves, not let assets sit dormant. What was acceptable in the first wave of corporate adoption now looks like a glaring inefficiency. Today’s Bitcoin-native solutions don’t cut it To date, there aren’t enough options for putting Bitcoin to work, and none pass the basic tests treasuries apply. Custodial lenders like Celsius dangled double-digit returns in retail investors’ faces, only to implode and wipe out deposits. Wrapped Bitcoin products like wBTC push assets off the Bitcoin base layer and…
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Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. Wall Street was caught in the headlights when Strategy first added Bitcoin (BTC) to its balance sheet. Was this a software company, or the world’s first corporate bitcoin ETF? Investors had to improvise, and the company’s stock quickly stopped trading on software fundamentals and started behaving like a pure Bitcoin proxy. Summary With interest rates above 4%, idle Bitcoin is now seen as inefficient, pushing corporate treasuries to demand compliant, yield-generating solutions. Current options — collapsed lenders, wrapped BTC, and offshore DeFi — don’t meet institutional standards for custody, auditability, or risk. Institutions want yield secured directly on Bitcoin, with transparent attestations and returns tied to real economic activity, not token gimmicks. If Bitcoin delivers these rails quickly, it can anchor the next financial layer; if not, capital will migrate to Ethereum, Solana, or traditional markets offering safer yields. That debate is over today. Asset managers like BlackRock and Fidelity now market Bitcoin ETFs to the mainstream, and corporate treasuries collectively hold billions in BTC. But holding Bitcoin is no longer enough. In a world of interest rates still above 4%, idle BTC comes with a steep opportunity cost. Treasuries are mandated to optimize liquidity and generate returns on reserves, not let assets sit dormant. What was acceptable in the first wave of corporate adoption now looks like a glaring inefficiency. Today’s Bitcoin-native solutions don’t cut it To date, there aren’t enough options for putting Bitcoin to work, and none pass the basic tests treasuries apply. Custodial lenders like Celsius dangled double-digit returns in retail investors’ faces, only to implode and wipe out deposits. Wrapped Bitcoin products like wBTC push assets off the Bitcoin base layer and…
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