PANews reported on July 22 that 071labs announced a strategic investment in Nubit, a core infrastructure project for Bitcoin scalability. Nubit is dedicated to enhancing the scalability, usability, and openness of the Bitcoin ecosystem, and as a core contributor, developed Thunderbolt, Bitcoin's native soft fork. Thunderbolt significantly increases Bitcoin's transaction throughput through key technologies such as UTXO bundling and OP_CAT, achieving native support for on-chain applications such as smart contracts, asset issuance, and DeFi.
As of July 2025, the Thunderbolt mainnet has exceeded 4 million transactions, with daily active users exceeding 5,000.
