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The $100 trillion B2B economy just got its stablecoin. And, it's running on @rootstock_io. @paystand took the stage at bitcoin2026 Las Vegas (@TheBitcoinConf) to launch USDb, a USD-backed stablecoin engineered not for trading, but for the workflows that actually run global commerce. Accounts receivable. Accounts payable. Cross-border payroll. Treasury. The scale is already there. Paystand's network has processed over $20 billion in payment volume across one million businesses in North and Latin America. USDb goes live with an immediate corridor: cross-border payroll through @Bitwage, reaching 90,000+ workers and 4,500 businesses in nearly 200 countries. Natively deployed on Rootstock. Bitcoin-secured by design. 🔗bitcoinmagazine.com/business/payst…

💡 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: rootstocklabs.com/institutional/) @CNBCTV18News

She spent nearly a decade prosecuting money laundering and crypto cases at the DOJ. Now Amanda Wick came to talk to our team about courage. Not the burning-building kind. The quieter kind. Raising your hand in a meeting when the room is moving one way and your gut is moving another. Saying the thing that needs saying, even when staying silent would be easier. Her argument was that most organisations get the dramatic version of courage right and the everyday version wrong. The willingness to flag a concern, contradict a decision, or admit you don't have the full picture is what separates companies that build something durable from companies that ship something fast and break things they didn't see coming. She drew a sharp line between mission-led and revenue-led businesses. Both can make money. Only one tends to build something worth keeping. And she used an analogy that stayed with the team. A bus heading down a mountain. Too slow and you never make it. Too fast and you go over the cliff. The job of leadership, and of every passenger willing to speak up, is to keep the bus moving and everyone in it alive. One line in particular landed: making $BTC work for everyone is a service built into a mission. Not many companies can say that. @RootstockLabs can. That's the bus we're on.

Security on Rootstock was never an afterthought. It was the bedrock from Day 1. Short-term hype traded for long-term trust. That's how you build something that lasts.

"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.

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. bitcoincorporateday.com 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.

The Rootstock network recently surpassed over 20 million transactions. Secured by Bitcoin. 8+ years of builders, users, and blocks. Still early.

"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. 🔗 sandmark.com/news/top-news/…

"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: youtube.com/watch?v=MnObz1…

An AI pioneer whose tech became the foundation for Siri. One of the lawyers who built Gibraltar's DLT framework. The COO who scaled Skype during its hypergrowth years, and later sat on the boards of Axa, Volvo Cars, and Luminar Bank. Recently during our team offsite, we hosted all three for a fireside chat: RootstockLabs board members Antoine Blondeau, @Joeyg_poh, and Michael Jackson. Three different lenses on what it takes to build something institutional-grade. A few themes stuck. • High-performing organisations are built on outcomes, ownership, and the willingness to recognise when something isn't working. Not the motivational version of ownership. The kind where you treat the company's resources like your own, and where speaking up when something looks wrong is part of the job, not a risk to it. • Conviction matters more than comfort. The companies that hold a direction through pressure tend to be the ones that build something worth holding onto. The ones that bend to every market signal usually end up somewhere smaller than they started. • Speed is a multiplier, not a strategy. Speed without preparation breaks things expensively. Speed with preparation is what separates shipping from talking about shipping. And in financial services, trust is the product. Everything else is the wrapper. Useful reminders as we build the next chapter of @RootstockLabs.

Here's Tony's original post on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

"The best collateral in the world isn't property. It isn't equipment. It isn't gold. It's Bitcoin." Tony DiCarlo's (Director of GTM Liquidity at RootstockLabs), framing cuts through a question institutions have been circling for years: what actually makes collateral pristine? Every traditional asset class tells a clean story until you have to enforce a claim. • Property means surveys, title searches, and foreclosure timelines measured in years. • Equipment has no liquid market and a depreciation curve nobody agrees on. • Gold needs custody, assay, storage. • Even Treasuries, the closest functional comparison, run on settlement cycles and market hours, with a custodian standing between the lender and the asset. $BTC sits outside that pattern. Priced continuously. Verifiable on-chain by anyone. Transferable instantly. Callable without courts, custodians, or an 18-month enforcement timeline. Pristine collateral isn't a marketing term. It's a functional category. The list of assets that qualify is short, and Bitcoin is on it.

Bitcoin-secured finance is consolidating, and the distribution is shifting fast. @rootstock_io's share of BTCFi TVL has grown over the past year from 11.79% (30th April 2025) to 35.03% (as on 30th April 2026), a 197% increase. A large number of protocols now build on the network, with current TVL over $120 million. @moneyonchainok @RootstockColl @LayerBankFi @symbiosis_fi The infrastructure for $BTC-native financial apps is maturing. Builders are choosing where to deploy. Over 8 years on mainnet, 100% uptime, and zero hacks. (TVL data sourced from @DefiLlama)

Our purpose: To make Bitcoin work for everyone.

Atlas was built with one rule: no complexity, full control for users. 🔗atlas.rootstock.io Here's @alexbraz_rsk on building for every kind of Bitcoiner 👇

Is quantum computing an imminent threat to $BTC and Rootstock? 👀 @RootstockLabs researcher Nicolás Vescovo has a clear answer. And the reasoning behind it matters more than the headline. Here's the full take: rootstocklabs.com/blog/bitcoin-a… In this short video, Nico breaks down why Shor's algorithm is the real pressure point, why the threat is real but not immediate, and what RootstockLabs and other core contributors are already doing to prepare the Rootstock network for a post-quantum future. The work is already underway.

Bitcoin miners don't need to understand a sidechain to profit from one. That's the idea behind Blind Merged Mining. Instead of miners building and validating sidechain blocks themselves, a new class of actors — block builders — handle that. They compete in auctions to have their block IDs included in $BTC blocks. Miners pick the highest bid. No sidechain node required. The tradeoff: miners can't tell if a block is honest or an attempted reorganization. If the incentive is high enough, bad actors could pay miners to include malicious blocks. So there's a condition. BMM only works safely when a majority of hash power is already running full validation nodes — keeping the baseline secure while lighter participants benefit from the rewards. Less complexity for miners. More access to sidechain revenue. Security maintained by the majority. That's the design challenge Rootstock is built around. More from @SDLerner on this: rootstocklabs.com/blog/rootstock…

Fair point, and that is the bar. The architecture is designed around that, and it's constant work, reducing friction without compromising Bitcoin-native security. Case in point: Atlas launched last month as a unified BTCFi interface. Beyond that Paystand just opted to build USDb on Rootstock. A commercial-grade stablecoin targeting the $100 trillion B2B economy, anchored to Bitcoin's proof-of-work. Enterprise settlement infrastructure. Early, but the proof points are landing.

@RootstockLabs @rootstock_io Record accumulation signals real convicgion, but the real test is whether Rootstock can make that BTC capital actually productive at scale without introducing new layers of friction.

Record corporate $BTC accumulation in Q1 2026. Institutions aren't waiting anymore. The next question on the table: how does that capital work harder? Bitcoin-secured finance on @rootstock_io exists to answer it. Find out how: rootstocklabs.com/institutional/