B HODL (AQSE:HODL), which describes itself as the first British company founded to buy, hold, deploy and compound Bitcoin, has signed a non-binding letter of intent with Zeus Wallet.
Under the agreement, B HODL will link its Lightning Network routing capacity to ZEUS's node infrastructure, adding liquidity for ZEUS Wallet users and earning the company Bitcoin routing fees in return.
The two parties have already opened an initial payment channel with 1 BTC of capacity.
They plan to review performance after three months, with scope to scale the deployment of liquidity further if that review supports broader collaboration.
Evan Kaloudis, ZEUS's founder and chief executive, said B HODL is "doing on a public balance sheet what we have argued Bitcoin treasuries should do: putting Bitcoin to work as productive infrastructure."
Freddie New, B HODL's chief executive, said the tie-up "aligns exactly with our aims to normalise spending and sending Bitcoin and to compound our own holdings as a result."
The companies will assess whether to expand the arrangement once the initial three-month review period concludes.
News Intelligence what this means for the company
B HODL has signed a non-binding letter of intent to connect its Lightning Network liquidity to Zeus Wallet's infrastructure, earning routing fees on a 1 BTC initial payment channel opened as part of the arrangement. The deal is exploratory—performance will be reviewed in three months before any decision to scale—and represents an attempt by the Bitcoin treasury company to generate yield on its holdings rather than hold them passively.
This is a revenue pilot, not a capital deployment or balance-sheet event. The arrangement tests whether B HODL can earn meaningful routing fees on idle Bitcoin, but the non-binding structure and three-month review gate mean the economic impact remains unproven. Success would support the company's stated aim to 'compound' holdings, but failure carries no disclosed downside.
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