Animoca Brands and Solv partner to help Japan-based corporations earn 4–12% BTC yield using Solv’s lending, AMM liquidity, and structured staking—turning Bitcoin treasuries into productive capital.

Animoca Brands Japan has signed a strategic partnership and memorandum of understanding with Bitcoin-focused DeFi platform Solv Protocol to create a yield‑generation infrastructure for Japanese corporations holding large Bitcoin treasuries. The collaboration is aimed at listed companies and major enterprises in Japan, giving them a compliant way to earn roughly 4–12% annual yield on BTC through Solv’s lending, AMM liquidity provision, and structured staking products without selling their Bitcoin. At the core of the initiative is Solv’s SolvBTC standard, a Bitcoin-backed wrapper that allows firms to deposit BTC and receive a tokenized representation they can use across DeFi protocols while retaining 1:1 backing of their holdings. Yield is generated by allocating these assets into strategies such as overcollateralized lending markets, liquidity provision on decentralized exchanges and automated market makers, delta‑neutral derivatives strategies capturing funding rates, and staking in emerging Bitcoin Layer-2 ecosystems like Babylon. Animoca Brands Japan leverages its existing digital asset treasury management services and corporate network in Japan to onboard enterprises, position the product within local regulatory constraints, and help convert previously idle Bitcoin treasuries—such as those held by major Bitcoin‑treasury firms like Metaplanet—into income‑producing assets. The partnership reflects growing demand among Japanese corporates for more sophisticated and regulated crypto treasury strategies, moving beyond simple buy‑and‑hold exposure. It also illustrates a broader shift in Bitcoin’s institutional role: from mainly a volatile reserve asset to productive collateral in BTC‑native DeFi (“BTCFi”), potentially influencing how listed companies globally think about managing and monetizing large Bitcoin positions.

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