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Revolution in the financial sector: 260 billion USD Bitcoin should work!
Rootstock Launches Rootstock Institutional on 10/14/2025 to Activate $260B in Unused Bitcoin for DeFi.
Revolution in the financial sector: 260 billion USD Bitcoin should work!
On October 14, 2025, RootstockLabs launched the new platform Rootstock Institutional. This initiative aims to unlock $260 billion in untapped Bitcoin for institutional investors. The majority of these Bitcoins are in the hands of institutions in various forms such as ETFs, corporate reserves and mining reserves and are not currently generating significant returns.
Currently, over 2.6 million BTC remain trapped in these institutional investments, with 99% of these Bitcoins having negative returns, largely due to custody fees of 0.1% to 0.5% annually. This represents a significant burden for the institutions that hold their capital in this form.
Potential in the DeFi sector
Rootstock Institutional plans to explore new ways to integrate these dormant Bitcoin into productive DeFi applications. Strategies such as lending, borrowing and other on-chain yield strategies are the focus of consideration. Through these measures, Rootstock aims to sustainably increase returns for its institutional customers.
An increasing number of institutional investors have already expressed interest in the possibilities of Bitcoin-native DeFi. By March 2025, the total value locked in this area had grown by an impressive 2,700% to $8.6 billion. Still, this amount stands in stark contrast to the 50% Ethereum has locked up of its total supply in DeFi. In comparison, the Bitcoin share only accounts for 0.79%, which illustrates the unused capacity.
The vision of Rootstock
Richard Green, Managing Director of Rootstock Institutional, highlights that it is time to develop Bitcoin as a productive financial asset. As interest and demand for DeFi solutions for Bitcoin continue to grow, Rootstock is positioned to help institutional investors make better use of these valuable resources.
Rootstock's advances and developments could therefore have the potential to significantly change the landscape of DeFi and move institutional investors from a pure holding strategy to a more active and return-oriented use of Bitcoin. The challenge is to find suitable structures to efficiently integrate the unused funds into the DeFi market.
For more information on this development, you can visit Crypto News where full details on Rootstock and its plans to develop institutional Bitcoin applications are available.