Stacks: UTXO Joins First Genesis Bond as Anchor Participant Staking BTC - 10 Sep 2026

UTXO, a Nakamoto Inc. company, has joined HashKey Cloud and 21Shares as an anchor participant in the first Stacks Genesis Bond, staking BTC in self-custody on Bitcoin layer 1 to earn BTC yield.

The Genesis Bond routes institutional BTC into Stacks' staking mechanism, where STX unlocks staking capacity for the deposited bitcoin. Anchor participation from UTXO alongside HashKey Cloud and 21Shares gives STX a concrete institutional-adoption catalyst, since each bonded BTC position depends on STX to activate yield. The source discloses no capital scale for UTXO's commitment, so the size of the resulting STX demand cannot be measured from the announcement alone.

Self-custodial Bitcoin staking goes live in 3 days.

Anchor participants in the first Genesis Bond include UTXO (a Nakamoto Inc. company), HashKey Cloud, and 21shares.

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Sep 07, 2026