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Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts for Institutional Bitcoin. Your Custody, Your Terms.
TL;DR
Threshold Network has launched Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts (VBA) for institutional Bitcoin deployment, allowing users to maintain custody while utilizing onchain strategies. The framework ensures secure, verifiable transactions without transferring ownership outside existing custody arrangements.
Key points
- Threshold Network launched Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts for institutions
- VBA allows users to maintain custody while using onchain strategies
- Framework ensures secure, verifiable transactions without ownership transfer
- Institutional Bitcoin lending projected to reach $90 billion by 2026
- Available to qualified institutional participants for integration
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Threshold Network
**[PRESS RELEASE – New York, United States of America, April 23rd, 2026]**
Threshold Network today announced **Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts (VBA)**, a new framework for institutional Bitcoin deployment built on the same signer infrastructure that has operated with Bitcoin for six years, processed over $5 billion in cumulative volume, and sustained zero losses.
Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts are a Bitcoin Script and PSBT-based account framework for institutional Bitcoin deployment. They define preauthorized spending paths, signer combinations, timelocks, and recovery routes at account setup, allowing allocators to use Bitcoin-backed onchain strategies while preserving segregated custody workflows and verifiable settlement paths.
**Your Bitcoin, Your Custody**
BTC remains with the holder’s existing custody arrangement. VBA is compatible with Qualified Custodians such as Anchorage and Fireblocks Trust, MPC-based custody networks, and self-custody setups. No title transfer outside of their existing custody. Capital is held in a segregated account, not pooled, and is identifiable at all times. The custody relationship that the allocator already maintains governs every deployed position.
**Built for Bitcoin Finance**
Institutional Bitcoin lending is accelerating toward a projected $90B by end-of-2026¹, driven by stablecoin growth that reached $308B in early 2026 and is on track to exceed $1T². While major platforms are building proprietary lending stacks to capture the demand, Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts turn any existing custody – Qualified Custodian, MPC network, or self-custody – into institutional-grade lending infrastructure.
Onchain Bitcoin lending and yield markets depend on collateral that resolves reliably across liquidation, maturity, and redemption. **Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts are built for that operational reality,** with every settlement route agreed at setup and enforced in Bitcoin Script.
For allocators deploying Bitcoin into onchain lending at scale, this is the guarantee that makes the product usable.
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Q&A
What are Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts (VBA) and how do they work?
Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts (VBA) are a framework for institutional Bitcoin deployment that allows users to define spending paths and recovery routes while maintaining custody of their Bitcoin.
How does Threshold Network ensure the security of Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts?
Threshold Network employs Bitcoin Script to enforce spending conditions and recovery paths, ensuring that all transactions are verifiable and consensus-enforced on the Bitcoin network.
What is the projected growth of institutional Bitcoin lending by 2026?
Institutional Bitcoin lending is projected to reach $90 billion by the end of 2026, driven by the growth of stablecoins and demand for onchain lending solutions.
Who can access Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts and how?
Verifiable Bitcoin Accounts are available to qualified institutional participants, who can contact Threshold Network for integration and deployment into approved onchain venues.
