Institutional Investor: Treasurers Do Yield
I work in a treasury team at a fund that holds a significant Bitcoin position. We’re always asked, “What does the capital do besides sit there?” With BTC+, we finally had an answer. Through Solv’s “structured yield vault,” our idle BTC now generates steady returns. I remember the announcement: Solv is targeting the $1 trillion of idle BTC out there, offering institutional-grade strategies .
We allocated a portion of our holdings to BTC+ and watched the base yield of ~5% kick in . Critically, this vault uses a dual-layer architecture – our BTC stays in one “custody” contract while a separate “strategy” layer does the yield generation, adding a security buffer . And all holdings are auditable on-chain via Chainlink Proof-of-Reserves , giving us peace of mind.
What really sold us was the inclusion of traditional finance yields. Part of our BTC+ yield comes from U.S. Treasuries and private credit by partnering with BlackRock’s BUIDL and Hamilton Lane’s SCOPE . Our fund now effectively ties Bitcoin to real-world economic cycles, diversifying our crypto exposure with uncorrelated income streams. In practice, the BTC+ vault auto-rebalances between crypto credit markets and RWA protocols (like Euler and Elixir on Avalanche), earning us returns in BTC.
This seamless integration means our stakeholders see conservative yield on Bitcoin without manual trades. We also noted that Solv currently controls over $2.3B in BTC (17,480 coins) across all vaults , so we’re comfortable their strategies are tested and deep. Thanks to BTC+, Bitcoin is now productive on our books – and I can confidently say we’re earning institutional-grade yield on an asset we thought was just for holding.
