Institutional Bitcoin Deployment on Lightning Network and Bitcoin Miners Hedge Halving Risk with Hashrate Futures

By: Eliza Bennet

LQWD Technologies, a Bitcoin Lightning Network liquidity provider, has teamed up with Amboss Technologies to further institutional liquidity on Lightning. This strategic move will allow LQWD to supply liquidity to Amboss's marketplace, meeting Lightning Network liquidity marketplace demand and earning a yield on its Bitcoin holdings. Moreover, LQWD's growth in Lightning Network transactions has been consistent, recently surpassing 400,000.

Amboss, a data analytics solutions and payments operations provider on Lightning, has specialized products like Magma, a liquidity marketplace, and Hydro, an advanced liquidity automation tool, aiming to create an orderly market and promote Lightning Network payments. As part of this collaboration, LQWD will initially launch a tranche of Bitcoin to Amboss, with future Bitcoin deployments planned.

On another development, Bitcoin mining software and services company, Luxor is aiming to assist Bitcoin miners in hedging halving risk through new hashrate futures. They have partnered with Bitnomial to offer cash-settled hashrate futures, bringing innovative solutions to risk management in crypto mining operations.