Bitcoin Lightning Network Launches Thunderbolt Station Reservation, Institutions and Eligible Users Can Lock in First-round Revenue Share

On July 2nd, the Bitcoin Thunderbolt Network, which is led by early Bitcoin core developers and the Nubit team, officially opened the Thunderbolt Station today to reserve channels. In the first stage, the $tsUSD token was officially launched, allowing institutions and eligible users to reserve network construction capacity and participate in the sharing of mainnet revenue. The station will be opened in three phases. Currently, users can lock in future construction capacity with the $tsUSD token and reserve support for BTC, USD1, and BRC-20, Runes, and other Taproot script assets as payment methods. This marks the first time that Bitcoin native assets have been used in a mainnet infrastructure participation scenario. According to sources, multiple institutions, family offices, and investment institutions have confirmed their participation, and the expected cumulative interest in the first round is expected to exceed $1 billion. The developer community is also exploring the Thunderbolt Station, including innovative directions such as composite asset design, on-chain liquidity pools, and Bitcoin-native structured products. This mechanism is regarded as a landmark event for the Bitcoin Thunderbolt Network ecosystem as it officially enters the open infrastructure collaboration phase. As the only protocol currently on the Bitcoin mainnet that supports native acceleration and stablecoin settlement, the Thunderbolt Network has processed more than 4 million on-chain transactions in two months, and the number of unique users has exceeded 267,000. Previously, the Trump family's crypto project WLFI integrated its stablecoin USD1 into the Thunderbolt Network and became one of the first native settlement assets. In addition, according to news from April 15th, HSBC revealed 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. The on-chain processing efficiency has been improved by 1000-2000 times compared to the Bitcoin main chain. The Thunderbolt Network's mission system Bitcoin Alpha has received project applications from more than 50 teams, leveraging the Lightning Network to provide faster payments and programmability, ushering in the largest boom in the Bitcoin ecosystem in 12 years.