SLP7 - Earning Interest on Bitcoin's Lightnin...

Mike Belshe, co-founder and CEO of BitGo, walks through how institutional Bitcoin custody actually works in 2026: qualified custody, self-custody co-signing, and why BitGo still centers a 2-of-3 model after pioneering P2SH multisig in 2013.BitGo now operates as a US-regulated qua ...  Show more

Walter Maffione, CEO and co-founder of KaleidoSwap, join me to explain how the project grew from an RGB Lightning DEX into a broader swap engine and LSP stack — Lightning as rails between Liquid, Arkade, Taproot Assets, Spark, and RGB — plus KaleidoSDK, desktop app, and browser E ...  Show more

Discover the philosophical and technical rationale behind "Bitcoinizing the dollar," how Lightning Network's architecture enables seamless asset conversion without trusted intermediaries, and the emergence of Bitcoin yield through liquidity provision. The speakers explain how thi ...  Show more

This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.    On today’s episode, NLW is joined by Nik Bhatia, author of “Layered Money” and The Bitcoin Layer newsletter. They discuss: Bitcoin’s relationship with equities and the TradFi markets Why the Fed is trapped by rates mark ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: What is Bitcoin's second layer? Where does lightning labs fit into the second layer What is Lightning pool? How is liquidity managed on the second layer Why does a person have an incentive to run a node Why open channel with other nodes What are the ...  Show more

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is evolving into a global payments system, with over 21,000 active nodes enabling fast, low-cost transactions. Tether’s integration of USDT via the Taproot Asset Protocol could disrupt traditional finance, lowering transaction costs and increasing effi ...  Show more