This Week’s News & Stories - Fri, 28 Aug 2026
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Gm 👋
The institutional pieces are falling into place ahead of the Genesis Bond. Let's dig in.
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We're 15 days out. The Genesis Bond goes live soon, the first institutional Bitcoin Staking bond of the PoX-5 bootstrap phase, and capacity is intentionally limited.
Big one: Asia's No. 1 staking provider is joining. HashKey Cloud has HKD 29B staked across 40+ networks, and they're in the first Genesis Bond alongside UTXO Management. Muneeb broke the news on stage in Hong Kong.
BitGo now supports sBTC with SIP-010 compatibility, and Fordefi is bringing MPC wallet access to the Genesis Bond at launch.
👀 Other Tasty Content
The sBTC signer set is growing, too. The Tie (they serve ~500 funds and banks) and Ankr (8B+ daily requests across 70+ chains) both joined as signers to secure sBTC as BTC moves in and out of Stacks.
STX trended #4 on CoinMarketCap this week, landing in the 7 day top gainers on the back of community engagement, search interest, and ecosystem momentum.
More staking options are on the way. StackingDAO's pooled liquid Bitcoin staking and Zest's staking vault are coming to STX, and Zest's Levered Bitcoin Staking Vaults are almost ready.
Happy staking 🟠
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