Blockstream, a leader in Bitcoin financial infrastructure, has detailed its 2025 growth plans following a $210 million funding round led by Fulgur Ventures in October 2024. Key initiatives include spinning off Blockstream Mining (with Satellite) into an independent entity led by Chris Cook, separating the ASIC hardware division under Assaf Gilboa with a second funding round underway, and launching Blockstream Asset Management in February to serve institutional clients. The company also invested $75 million in custodian Komainu in January and continues to develop Layer 2 protocols like Liquid and Lightning. New self-custody product Jade Plus will be announced at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas. Global expansion includes new offices in Tokyo and a research center in Lugano.

Bitcoin’s 21 million supply cap is an abstraction for most people. Artist Anik Malcolm spent over 900 hours hand-painting a large-format oil painting where each bead represents a single bitcoin. Titled 'The Whole Entire Universe,' the work reveals a stunning mathematical coincidence: starting from 276³, the structure naturally yields a pattern of successively halving squares (64×64 down to 2×2), perfectly mirroring Bitcoin’s halving mechanism. The painting, which debuted at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas, is described as a 'still life of Bitcoin' and has been noticed by cypherpunk Adam Back. Malcolm plans a monumental public sculpture in Roatán, Honduras. The meditative process of painting over 227,701 visible beads transformed his relationship with the number and the protocol.