Bitcoin Lightning Network Opens Thunderbolt Station Reservation, Institutions and Eligible Users Can Lock in First-round Earnings Allocation

BlockBeats News, July 7th, according to official sources, the Bitcoin Thunderbolt Network, led by early Bitcoin core developers and the Nubit team, today officially opened the Thunderbolt Station for scheduled channel reservations. In the first phase, the tsUSD token is officially launched, supporting institutions and eligible users to reserve network construction quotas and participate in mainnet revenue sharing.

The station will be opened in three stages. Currently, users can lock in future construction quotas through the tsUSD token, 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 insiders, several institutions, family offices, and investment firms have confirmed their participation, with the first round of cumulative interest expected to exceed $1 billion. The developer community is also exploring around the Thunderbolt Station, including innovative directions such as composite asset design, on-chain liquidity pools, and Bitcoin-native structured products. This mechanism is seen as a landmark event for the Bitcoin Thunderbolt Network ecosystem as it officially moves towards an 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 over 4 million on-chain transactions in just two months, with a user base exceeding 267,000. Previously, the Trump family's crypto project WLFI integrated its stablecoin USD1 into the Lightning Network, becoming one of the first native settlement assets.

Furthermore, according to news from April 15th, HSBC revealed that the Bitcoin Lightning Network has introduced UTXO Bundling and OP_CAT instructions through a mainnet soft fork, supporting native asset issuance and high-frequency transaction validation, with on-chain processing efficiency improved by 1000–2000 times compared to the Bitcoin main chain. The Lightning Network's Bitcoin Alpha task system has received project applications from over 50 teams in the first phase, leveraging the Lightning Network to provide faster payments and programming capabilities, ushering in the largest prosperity in the Bitcoin ecosystem in 12 years.