On July 2, the Bitcoin Thunderbolt network, spearheaded by veteran Bitcoin core developers alongside the Nubit team, launched the Thunderbolt Station reservation channel. This initial phase introduced $tsUSD certificates, enabling institutional and qualified participants to secure network construction quotas and engage in mainnet revenue sharing. The rollout will occur in three stages, with current options allowing users to lock future quotas using $tsUSD certificates and pay with BTC, USD1 stablecoin, or Taproot inscription assets like BRC-20 and Runes. This initiative represents a pioneering use of native Bitcoin assets within mainnet infrastructure participation.
Industry insiders report strong interest from multiple institutions, family offices, and investment firms, anticipating cumulative commitments surpassing $1 billion in the first round. Concurrently, the developer community is innovating around the Thunderbolt Station, focusing on composite asset frameworks, on-chain liquidity pools, and novel native Bitcoin structured products. This development signals a significant milestone towards a collaborative, open infrastructure phase within the Bitcoin Thunderbolt ecosystem.
As the sole Bitcoin mainnet protocol supporting native acceleration and stablecoin settlements, the Thunderbolt network has executed over 4 million on-chain transactions in just two months, attracting more than 267,000 independent users. Notably, the Trump family’s crypto project WLFI integrated its USD1 stablecoin into the network, marking one of the earliest adoptions of native settlement assets.
Earlier disclosures from HSBC on April 15 highlighted the network’s implementation of UTXO Bundling and OP_CAT instructions via a mainnet soft fork. These upgrades facilitate native asset issuance and high-frequency transaction verification, enhancing on-chain processing efficiency by 1000 to 2000 times compared to the Bitcoin mainchain. With over 50 projects applying to the Bitcoin Alpha task system’s first phase, the Bitcoin Thunderbolt network’s accelerated payment and programming capabilities are poised to catalyze the most substantial expansion in the Bitcoin ecosystem in over a decade.