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Gold didn’t stop being gold. Art didn’t stop being art. But all of them started to generate income while retaining their role as a store of value.

Bitcoin is not an exception to this rule. It’s just next in line.

Art followed a similar path.

For centuries, it was a passion asset, a canvas-bound vault for the wealthy. Then Sotheby’s launched a financial services division.

Art-backed loans took off. And in 2024, they packaged $700 million worth of art-secured debt into investment-grade bonds.

A Rembrandt may still hang on a wall, but it now funds interest paym... See more

Yet history keeps proving that permanence eventually invites productivity.

Once there’s trust, infrastructure, and liquidity, the market always finds a way to extract productive value, even from assets originally meant just to preserve it.

The moment a store of value is secure enough to be trusted, it becomes too valuable to remain idle. It becomes a productive asset. It starts generating yield.

This multidimensional researcher-investor-builder perspective proved invaluable, enabling our collective Hivemind to compound insight toward a single mission: to help crypto happen sooner and better than it would without us.

Institutions are finally getting a way to earn real yield on their Bitcoin — without giving up custody or taking on bridge risk. Enter lstBTC, a new institutional-grade Bitcoin yield product from CoreDAO and Maple Finance, designed to turn idle BTC into a performance asset. Backed by trusted custodians like BitGo, Copper, and Hex Trust, lstBTC enab... See more

Institutional capital is in its infancy within alpha token investing. DCG’s subsidiary Yuma and less than a handful of emergent liquid funds like Contango Capital and Unsupervised Capital are playing a mixed role of ecosystem evangelist, VC, incubator, and liquid token investors. These teams are working with early subnet teams to adopt a long-term ... See more

The ecosystem is exploding, and there are murmurs of a “Subnet Summer” to rival DeFi Summer in 2020. Today, there are over 100 subnets, and new subnets are registered every 2-3 days. Most subnets are equivalent to Series A startups, in terms of product maturity. There is much optimism, but success requires further execution. TAO’s long-term success... See more