Friday reminder: Bitcoin-backed digital credit currently stands at ~$10B. Against a ~$300T global credit market, even a 1% allocation would imply a $3T opportunity. (@CoinDesk) Still early.

84% of Bitcoin’s hashrate is now helping secure Rootstock through merged mining. In Q2 2026: • 809.63 EH/s average Rootstock hashrate • 93.73% merged mining adoption across observed pools • @FoundryServices, @AntPoolofficial and @f2pool led contributions The latest Rootstock Merged Mining Insights Report breaks down the numbers behind Rootstock’s security, miner participation and network resilience. Full Q2 report 👇

It began with a real problem: what happens when your money is no longer truly yours? Argentina shaped the question. Bitcoin shaped the answer. A powerful conversation with @GabrielKurman and @aeidelman, hosted by @jeremyalmond 👇

🎉 @geyserfund is officially an Activated Builder on RootstockCollective! ABI at 72%! Huge step for the ecosystem. Let's keep building 🧡 Be a Backer 🔗

Not quite. Bitcoin’s price and Bitcoin adoption are telling two different stories right now. 1. Institutional adoption and price don’t move in lockstep. A falling price tells you there is more selling pressure than buying pressure at that moment. It doesn’t tell you that every class of buyer has stopped accumulating. Institutional participation is still growing beneath the drawdown. Estimates put institutional ownership of $BTC at roughly 17.9% in 2026, as ETFs, corporate treasuries and professional investors take a larger role in the market. 2. A 50% drawdown doesn’t unwind the infrastructure built around Bitcoin. ETFs still exist. Custody infrastructure still exists. Corporate treasury strategies still exist. Lending and collateral markets still exist. That matters because institutional adoption is bigger than a single quarter of flows or a single price chart. Once the infrastructure exists for institutions to hold, trade, lend against and build financial products around Bitcoin, a downturn does not simply make it disappear. 3. Bitcoin’s financial use cases are expanding beyond simply holding it. This is where BTCFi becomes relevant. BTC can increasingly be used as collateral, deployed into lending markets, used for liquidity and brought into programmable financial applications. On Rootstock, for example, BTC can be locked on Bitcoin and represented 1:1 as rBTC, allowing it to interact with smart contracts on a sidechain secured through Bitcoin merge mining. That changes the conversation from simply: “Will institutions buy Bitcoin?” to: “What will they do with Bitcoin once they own it?” 4. Institutional adoption was never supposed to eliminate volatility. More institutional participation can deepen markets and broaden ownership. It does not guarantee that Bitcoin stops having brutal drawdowns. • Bitcoin can fall 50%. • Institutions can still be accumulating. • And the financial infrastructure around Bitcoin can continue developing at the same time. Those statements are not contradictory. Price tells you where the market is today. Adoption tells you what is being built for tomorrow.

The Bitcoineta is a moving meeting point for ideas, stories, and people working toward a better future ⚡️ From the warmth of @HopeHousesv to conversations with new voices and influential creators, every stop reminds us that Bitcoin adoption is ultimately about human connection, empowerment, and community. The journey continues 🌍🧡 @labitcoineta @giacomozucco @Bitcoinbeach @chevosky

Our number one value is: “Serve and champion the @rootstock_io ecosystem.” In practice, that means putting builders, partners, and users first, and hiring people who genuinely believe in the mission. Here’s what that looks like inside RootstockLabs.

The @RootstockLabs team is at @blockchain_rio this week! 🇧🇷 @btccami and @wenciodmartinez are on the ground meeting the people shaping the next chapter of onchain finance in Latin America. @MercadoBitcoin

1 month left ⌛️ @USDT0_to liquidity incentives are still live across Rootstock, with opportunities currently available across several pools. Explore live APRs, TVL and rewards on @merkl_xyz: 🔗 @okutrade @SovrynBTC @Uniswap

Bitcoin wasn’t designed for staking. So where does yield come from? Richard Green, VP Institutional at @RootstockLabs, in a chat with @gazza_jenks recently, explains how @rootstock_io is approaching the question differently: creating more utility for Bitcoin holders while staying anchored to Proof of Work, without piling on unnecessary financial engineering. And there’s a hint here about what’s coming next.