According to PANews on July 22, 071labs announced a strategic investment in Nubit, a core infrastructure project for Bitcoin scaling. Nubit is committed to enhancing the scalability, usability, and openness of the Bitcoin ecosystem, and has developed Thunderbolt as a core contributor, a native soft fork for Bitcoin. Through key technologies such as UTXO bundling and OP_CAT, Thunderbolt significantly improved Bitcoin's transaction throughput, enabling native support for on-chain applications like smart contracts, asset issuance, and DeFi.
By July 2025, Thunderbolt's mainnet transaction volume had exceeded 4 million, with daily active users surpassing 5,000.
