{"id":551527,"date":"2026-02-04T17:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/fireblocks-to-integrate-stacks-for-institutional-grade-bitcoin-defi\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:53:38","slug":"fireblocks-to-integrate-stacks-for-institutional-grade-bitcoin-defi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/fireblocks-to-integrate-stacks-for-institutional-grade-bitcoin-defi\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireblocks to integrate Stacks for institutional-grade Bitcoin DeFi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fireblocks<\/p>\n

The Bitcoin network has an average block time of about 10 minutes, which creates a challenge for decentralized finance applications.<\/p>\n

Fireblocks, an institutional-grade crypto infrastructure company, announced on Wednesday that it will integrate Stacks, a decentralized finance (DeFi) layer for the Bitcoin protocol, to give institutional clients access to lending and yield-bearing opportunities.<\/p>\n

The integration bypasses the 10-minute Bitcoin block time<\/a> by leveraging the Stacks blockchain, which has an average block time of about 29 seconds, a Stacks spokesperson told Cointelegraph.<\/p>\n

All Stacks transactions settle to the Bitcoin ledger for finality. Removing the 10-minute BTC block time barrier resolves one of the most common objections for financial institutions looking to use BTC-based DeFi applications<\/a>, the Stacks spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

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The Bitcoin network has an average block time of about 10 minutes, which creates a challenge for decentralized finance applications. Fireblocks, an institutional-grade crypto infrastructure company, announced on Wednesday that it will integrate Stacks, a decentralized finance (DeFi) layer for the Bitcoin protocol, to give institutional clients access to lending and yield-bearing opportunities. The integration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":551528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-551527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}