On July 7, according to official news, the Bitcoin Thunderbolt network, led by early Bitcoin core developers and the Nubit team, officially opened the Thunderbolt Station reservation channel today. The first-stage certificate tsUSD was officially launched, supporting institutions and qualified users to reserve network construction quotas and participate in mainnet revenue distribution.
The station will be gradually opened in three phases. Currently, users can lock future construction quotas through tsUSD certificates, reserving support for BTC, USD1, and Taproot inscription assets such as BRC-20 and Runes as payment methods. This marks the first time native Bitcoin assets have been used in mainnet infrastructure participation scenarios.
According to sources, multiple institutions, family offices, and investment firms have confirmed participation, with the first round of cumulative interest expected to exceed $1 billion. The developer community is also exploring around Thunderbolt Station, including composite asset design, on-chain liquidity pools, and innovative directions for Bitcoin native structured products. This mechanism is viewed as a landmark event marking the Bitcoin Thunderbolt network ecosystem's formal entry into an open infrastructure collaborative phase.
As the only protocol on the Bitcoin mainnet currently supporting native acceleration and stablecoin settlement, the Thunderbolt network has processed over 4 million on-chain transactions in two months, with independent user numbers exceeding 267,000. Previously, Trump family crypto project WLFI had integrated its stablecoin USD1 into the Thunderbolt network, becoming one of the first native settlement assets.
According to earlier news from April 15, HSBC disclosed that the Bitcoin Thunderbolt network has introduced UTXO Bundling and OP_CAT instructions through a mainnet soft fork, supporting native asset issuance and high-frequency transaction verification, with on-chain processing efficiency improved 1000-2000 times compared to the Bitcoin mainchain. The Bitcoin Alpha task system's first phase has received project applications from over 50 teams, and with the Bitcoin Thunderbolt network providing faster payment and programming capabilities, the Bitcoin ecosystem is about to usher in its largest prosperity in 12 years.
