Bitcoin is the new real estate asset as institutions pile in, Core exec says
Core Blockchain Overview - July 31, 2025
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The Core blockchain by the numbers
Network’s daily transactions: 402.69K
Total unique addresses: 62.29M
ERC-20 daily tokens transferred: 103.75K
Total CORE delegated: 255.9M
Total BTC staked: 5,020
Top 3 Core validators by hybrid score:
The metrics are accurate at the time of publication. The percentage change is over a 14-day period.
Inside the network
🔸What we’re watching: While bitcoin has historically been seen as a passive store of value, corporate treasuries are starting to stockpile bitcoin by putting it on their balance sheets.
As crypto matures, these entities are eyeing opportunities to earn yield on their bitcoin or use it as a productive asset.
🔸Why it matters: Bitcoin is a multi-trillion dollar asset and Core wants to be the solution for scaling it beyond passive investment, Initial Core Contributor Hong Sun said during a podcast interview with Talking Tokens.
The EVM-compatible PoS chain offers a time lock mechanism and dual staking, which provides users a way to access their bitcoin in a productive way, Sun shared. As Core integrates itself and establishes more trust with institutions like Copper, it can position itself as a composable layer that can use and distribute bitcoin in a number of different ways, he added.
“If Bitcoiners who previously are so used to just holding bitcoin as an idle asset can now earn active yield, or passive yields on their assets without giving up control over relinquishing security of their asset, that's really exciting,” Sun said. “And that's really the jumping off point to where we're seeing from an institutional point of view.”
This means new examples of Bitcoin yielding ETPs and treasury use cases are popping up, “where idle Bitcoin can now be used to earn yields,” Sun said. “All the way to active strategies where Bitcoin as a collateral can earn positive carry and unlock so much capital efficiency.”
These options also generate cashflow for asset managers, Sun noted.
“It unlocks new capital efficiency for portfolio managers and we [can] start to look at bitcoin in a very, very different light,” said Sun. “So that's why we're seeing so many of the existing issuers and even sort of new market participants think about how do we safely generate and build products around bitcoin that really maintains the ethos of bitcoin as a safe store value, but also unlocks this new layer of utility and capital efficiency that makes it work within the existing financial market infrastructure.”
🔸The bigger picture: As bitcoin grows and can be seen as digital gold, Core wants to merge its use case as a value accruing asset with DeFi capabilities that blockchains like Ethereum and Solana offer.
“With bitcoin now having a yield component to it, I think we can also start to see this introduction of bitcoin from the prior sort of digital gold narrative, where it's a digital form of asset that you just keep and tuck away to something that's more active,” said Sun. “Looking at it [as] something like real estate...bitcoin has become the new real estate asset.”
Scaling the ecosystem
Agora integrated its fully collateralized stablecoin to the Core network
Core announced its missions campaign, designed to provide ecosystem projects and users early access to network and protocol events
Molten launched a DEX that merges BitFLUX and Glyph into a unified protocol designed to aggregate liquidity across various bitcoin representations
Learn more about the protocol in an X space with the Molten team
Vault Layer deployed Smart Vaults to Core for borrowing and lending through a native NFT lending market
Check out the Core blog for more updates.
Into the Core community
Volta, a bitcoin perpetual futures trading DEX, launched to Core
Pixudi onchain metrics grew on the week with unique active wallets up 49% to 299K and transactions up 50% to 300K, DappRadar data shows
Check out Core’s latest community call that dives into its developer ecosystem and global activations and meetups
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