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Sats Terminal Building the Credit Layer of Bitcoin

In recent years, the global financial landscape has witnessed a major shift as Bitcoin, the world’s largest decentralized digital asset, often called ‘digital gold’, has grown from a niche experiment into a mainstream financial network with a market cap rivaling major global ￰0￱ adoption accelerates, the next wave of innovation will come not just from trading, but from building the credit infrastructure that transforms Bitcoin into a productive ￰1￱ Terminal, the Silicon Valley Bitcoin company founded by Rishabh Java and Stanislav Havryliuk, scaled with backing from Coinbase Ventures and Draper Associates is leading this ￰2￱ platform first solved a critical problem in Bitcoin trading by aggregating decentralized exchanges, giving users the best execution across fragmented ￰3￱ product routed over $20 million in trading volume in its first six months.

A $1.7 million pre-seed round validated both the vision and the team’s ability to ￰4￱ launch, Sats Terminal’s rails have been embedded across more than twenty partner apps— including wallets and marketplaces like Xverse and Magic Eden—so users get best-execution routing where they already ￰5￱ distribution, paired with a relentless ship cadence, underpins the company’s push into Bitcoin-backed ￰6￱ this, Sats Terminal is moving into what it sees as the next major opportunity: Bitcoin-backed ￰7￱ long-term holders, selling Bitcoin often means missing out on future ￰8￱ provides an alternative, the ability to borrow against Bitcoin holdings, unlocking liquidity while preserving ￰9￱ as gold gave rise to vast credit markets as its role in the global economy expanded, Bitcoin’s maturation will almost inevitably create a parallel market for Bitcoin-backed ￰10￱ forecasts already point to tens of billions of dollars in potential volume over the coming decade.

“The future of Bitcoin isn’t just about holding,” says Rishabh Java, Co-founder of Sats Terminal. “Gold has been the world’s dominant store of value for centuries, and a massive credit market has grown on top of it — people hold it, borrow against it, and use it to fuel economic ￰11￱ is now competing directly with gold for that ￰12￱ Bitcoin’s market cap moves closer to gold’s — a potential 10x from where we are today — we believe the lending markets built on top of Bitcoin will expand in a similar way. That’s the future we’re building for at Sats Terminal.” “We move fast and meet users where they ￰13￱ six months we routed $20M through our aggregation rails—and we’re just getting started,” said Stanislav Havryliuk, Co-founder of Sats ￰14￱ Bitcoin continues its march toward mainstream adoption, the companies that will matter most are those building real financial infrastructure around ￰15￱ a proven team, strong backing, and a track record of simplifying the complex, Sats Terminal is positioning itself not just as a trading platform, but as a backbone for the Bitcoin economy of tomorrow.

Disclaimer: This article is provided for informational purposes ￰16￱ is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.

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