San Francisco, 4 September 2025 – Portal to Bitcoin, a custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin, has added Solana (SOL) as its first mainnet L1 integration for native BTC cross-chain swaps. The milestone enables trust-minimized, self-custodial SOL-to-BTC and BTC-to-SOL transactions while maintaining full user control from start to finish. Previously, Ethereum swaps were only supported on testnet, making Solana the protocol’s first fully live mainnet integration
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Circle and Stripe have been talking about stablecoin payments and enterprise features, but the true active realm for stablecoins is in DeFi. People use USDC to buy other crypto assets, participate in lending protocols, trade on decentralized exchanges, and interact with the broader financial application ecosystem. All of this primarily happens on Ethereum.
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The strategy of 'Digital Asset Treasury (DAT)' where listed companies strategically purchase and hold virtual assets is spreading. This is due to the expanding atmosphere of traditional financial sectors recognizing virtual assets as alternative investment assets.
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