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Cathie Wood Doubles Down: ARK Invest Sets Bitcoin Base Case at $750,000 by 2030

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood reaffirmed her firm’s base case Bitcoin price target of $750,000 by 2030, citing generational wealth transfer, emerging market insurance, and accelerating institutional adoption as key drivers.

Manna Wallet + Branta Guardrails: Self-Custodial Bitcoin Payments Now Show Verified Merchant Details

Open-source Branta Guardrails uses zero-knowledge proofs to authenticate merchant connections without compromising privacy, now live with Manna and supported invoicing tools like BTCPay Server.

The History and Future of Physical Bitcoin

Bitcoin is invisible code — but for over a decade, creators have turned it into coins, cards, and USBs you can touch. Here’s how close we’ve gotten to real, cash-like BTC.

VerifiedX Brings Native Bitcoin Redemption and FROST Privacy to Base DeFi with Fireblocks Integration

Backed by FROST MPC threshold signatures and a Halborn audit, vBTC.b enables collateralized borrowing, yield strategies, and AI-agent commerce while preserving Bitcoin’s core properties.

Boltz Launches Non-Custodial USDC Swaps, Bridging Bitcoin Directly to Circle’s Regulated Dollar

Boltz today enabled trustless Bitcoin-to-USDC swaps using Circle’s CCTP, allowing instant movement between Bitcoin layers including Lightning and the regulated stablecoin accepted by Stripe, Coinbase, Visa, and global institutions — without accounts or custody.

Paystand Launches USDb Stablecoin on Bitcoin Layers for $100T B2B Payments

Paystand, the Bitcoin-powered B2B payments network processing over $20B in volume, today launched USDb, a 1:1 USD-backed stablecoin native to Blockstream’s Liquid and Rootstock layers for commercial-scale accounts receivable, payable, payroll, and treasury.

$1.3M-Funded OpenAgents Pays Gamers and Everyday PCs in Bitcoin via Pylon Distributed AI Network

Founder Christopher David is building a Bitcoin-native AI lab that rewards everyday hardware owners directly, creating a new compute market that routes value back to contributors instead of hyperscalers.

Satochip Announces Bridge Financing as It Prepares U.S. Push for Open-Source Hardware Wallets

Satochip’s bridge round will fund local U.S. operations, sales channels, and B2B partnerships as the hardware company attends the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas at the end of April.

Stacked (formerly Lightning Pay) launches self-custodial Lightning wallet as New Zealand’s last major non-custodial Bitcoin exchange

Stacked, the rebranded Lightning Pay, has emerged as one of the few remaining non-custodial Bitcoin platforms in New Zealand after a wave of mergers and shutdowns. The company today launched a self-custodial Lightning wallet built on Breez and Spark SDKs, enabling users to receive Bitcoin directly into their own wallets and pay utility bills or rent via Open Banking.

Second’s Bark Boasts New era of Bitcoin Payments, drawing in former Blockstream developers

Second, the Bitcoin development lab founded by ex-Blockstream executives including CEO Steven Roose and CTO Erik De Smedt, has unveiled Bark — its custom Ark protocol implementation promising self-custodial payments that are faster and cheaper than Lightning channels.

LNVPN Rebrands to Nadanada.me as Privacy Infrastructure Expands with Anonymous eSIMs and Lightning Payments

Nadanada.me, formerly LNVPN, now offers anonymous eSIM data plans in over 200 countries, disposable and rental phone numbers, WireGuard VPN, and no-login AI chat — all powered by Lightning Network pay-as-you-go access with zero user data collection.

Boltz Exchange Launches Atomic USDT Swaps for Lightning Network Users

Boltz Exchange today introduced atomic, non-custodial swaps enabling direct Lightning Network sats to USDT0 on Arbitrum, powered by LayerZero's OFT standard for seamless, risk-free bridging.

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