Big move for Bitcoin-powered payments 🚀 Paystand launching USDb on @rootstock_io brings real business payments, payroll, and treasury operations onto Bitcoin rails $20B+ payment volume and 1M+ businesses is serious adoption

💡 Five themes from a chat @RootstockLabs VP Institutional, Richard Green, had on @CNBCTV18Live last week. Worth a read out for anyone tracking institutional Bitcoin. 𝟭. 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱 The GENIUS Act and CLARITY Act in the US. MiCA in Europe. UK stablecoin legislation. Movement in Japan and India. Richard's framing: traders and institutions are looking at the permission side now, not just price action. Can we actually do these things? They're getting answers. 𝟮. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 The Stripe and BVNK-era mergers and acquisitions are done. The rails are built. What's next is application. Payments. Tokenised assets. Real-world assets. The GENIUS Act banning deposit-style yield isn't a setback in Richard's read. It forces usage to be based on utility, not passive returns. 𝟯. 𝗧𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 Stocks were the first move. The bigger opportunity sits where the inefficiencies are biggest. Private credit is booming and full of friction. Real estate carries settlement and ownership inefficiencies that onchain infrastructure can address directly. 𝟰. 𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗹𝘆 Japan is technologically strong, regulatorily cautious, and now seeing a significant uptick in businesses exploring crypto. India is less advanced than the US but getting clearer on permissioning. Both signal where the next wave of institutional adoption is forming. 𝟱. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝘁 Hold $BTC as a store of value. Put it to work as collateral or a yield-bearing instrument when it makes sense. That's the conversation institutions are having now, and it's the conversation Bitcoin-secured finance was built for. (How? This can help: @CNBCTV18News

Looking forward to catching up with the Bitcoin and Rootstock communities in Prague for @BTCPrague. We've got some exciting stuff planned including another amazing evening at @BarNumberSeven ⚡️ Watch this space. We're still so early.

"More and more companies, funds and financial players in LatAm are exploring $BTC as collateral, dollar liquidity, payment infrastructure, and stablecoins on Bitcoin rails." That's @wdannimartinez's (Sr. Integrations Engineer at RootstockLabs) take on what's actually moving in the region. Price headlines dominate retail. The institutional conversation has shifted to settlement, collateral, and capital access: areas where financial efficiency is a daily challenge in LatAm. Regulatory clarity plus maturing Bitcoin infrastructure is the combination worth watching. @RootstockLabs is building for it.

"No other chain we've integrated with has this." Says @joshuagunnn on @aori_io's integration with Rootstock, pointing to a consensus and settlement mechanism secured by Bitcoin. Aori has processed >$650 million across 10+ chains, integrated into tens of thousands of liquidity pools, vaults and lending markets. Now live on Rootstock.

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We are heading to Prague next month 🇨🇿 @BtcCorpDay brings together the CEOs, CFOs, allocators and bankers working out what $BTC actually means for corporate finance. Balance sheet strategy. Custody. Payments. The questions boards are starting to ask, and the answers that hold up to scrutiny. At @RootstockLabs, we're building the guard rails for that shift. Bitcoin-secured finance for onchain capital markets on infrastructure that inherits Bitcoin's security model. Richard Green, VP Institutional, and Tony Dicarlo, Director of GTM Liquidity, will be at the 2026 Summer edition, June 10 in Prague. @BTCPrague @Bitwise If you'll be in the room, find them.

Over 35M $RIF staked on @RootstockColl. The Collective has doubled in stakers, grantees, and staked RIF. RIF unlocks opportunities on $BTC through @rootstock_io, Bitcoin’s leading sidechain. Builders live on mainnet looking for ongoing backing @eleanor_RColl wants to hear from you👇

On this day in Bitcoin, the 2020 halving arrived. Block reward dropped from 12.5 to 6.25 $BTC. The next halving happens in 2028, where the block rewards for miners dips from 3.125 to 1.5625 BTC.

"The energy at the institutional level is at an all-time high, even if the market is down from its highs from late last year." That's Richard Green speaking to @sandmark_news. His read: digital assets are entering a rebound phase before the next leg up. And with the CLARITY Act heading to the Senate Banking Committee on May 14, the regulatory picture is sharpening fast. 🔗

One staked RIF. One vote. Zero lock-in. @RootstockColl lets $RIF holders stake their tokens to participate in governance on the Rootstock blockchain. 🔗 Tokens stay in self-custody. Unstaking is available at any time. Each staked RIF becomes one stRIF, which carries one vote. Holders use that voting power to back builders in the collective rewards programme and to vote on governance proposals, including grant requests and new builder applications. Active participants in the collective rewards programme can claim distributions in $RBTC, $RIF, and $USDRIF. Here's @eleanor_RColl on this,

"It is turning $BTC into a productive asset when it makes sense." @RichTGreen, VP Institutional at RootstockLabs, in a chat with @Manisha3005 on @CNBCTV18Live. @CNBCTV18News The context: @saylor told shareholders Strategy will sell Bitcoin when it's advantageous to do so. For a company built on accumulating and holding, that's a real shift. And it points at something bigger. Miners, treasury companies, payment institutions are all working through the same question. How do you hold Bitcoin as a reserve and put it to work at the same time. Collateral against loans. Yield-bearing instruments held in a safe and secure way. A treasury that earns its keep without giving up the store of value. That's what Bitcoin-secured finance was built for. 🎥 Full segment:

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