Maestro Powers Liquidium, Bitcoin’s Leading Native Borrow and Lend Protocol, with Real-time Indexing and Mempool Awareness
Austin, Texas, August 21st, 2025, Chainwire
Maestro, the leading enterprise-grade BitcoinFi infrastructure provider, is proud to announce that it supports Liquidium with its robust indexing and real-time mempool awareness to fully unlock lending and credit rails built directly on Bitcoin’s base layer.
Liquidium’s flagship Bitcoin-native borrow and lend protocol, LiquidiumWTF, has processed more than 4,230 BTC (approximately $500 million) in total loans against Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20s. Additionally, their cross-chain lending protocol LiquidiumFi facilitates native borrowing and lending across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana without bridges or wrapped assets.
Liquidium relies heavily on real-time access to asset metadata and price floors. Making this innovation possible is Maestro, which provides indexer access and real-time mempool awareness. This capability lets both the Liquidium protocols react instantly to on-chain events, giving lenders and borrowers faster, more accurate loan execution.
“We’ve only been using Maestro for two months, but it’s already saved us what amounts to 100% of the time and resources we would’ve spent building our own infrastructure,” said Peter Giammanco, Liquidium’s Co-founder and CTO. “It’s hard to overstate the speed boost it gave our dev cycle.”
Maestro’s critical and high-performance Bitcoin data services have allowed Liquidium to focus its engineering efforts on product innovation rather than building and maintaining blockchain infrastructure from scratch. It has helped accelerate Liquidium’s development, saving significant time and resources. This collaboration marks a major step toward enabling Bitcoin-native innovation.
With an accelerated development cycle, LiquidiumWTF recently introduced innovative Instant Loans, allowing users for the first time to borrow BTC using assets like Ordinals or Runes as collateral via lender-funded vaults on Layer 1. Meanwhile, their second protocol, LiquidiumFi, is rolling out Cross-Chain Loans, which allow users to lock native BTC on Bitcoin and borrow stablecoins like USDT on Ethereum. It leverages the Internet Computer Protocol’s (ICP) Chain Fusion technology, which enables secure programmable access to Bitcoin without wrapping.
Maestro Co-Founder & CEO Marvin Bertin said, “The vast majority of Bitcoin is still sitting idle in wallets. Liquidium is bringing real capital efficiency without compromising on decentralization. At Maestro, we’re proud to support Liquidium and bring real DeFi natively to Bitcoin.”
Having processed billions of API calls and powering over 250 applications, Maestro is a foundational infrastructure provider for BitcoinFi. It is purpose-built for enterprise-scale security and compliance.
By unlocking yield opportunities without bridging or wrapping Bitcoin-native assets, Liquidium is doing for the BitcoinFi ecosystem what Aave did to Ethereum. It enables the productive use of idle Bitcoin by transforming Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20s into collateral for real BTC loans. Empowered by Maestro’s high-performance Bitcoin data services, Liquidium is unlocking the full potential of the BitcoinFi economy.
About Maestro
Maestro is the first enterprise-grade infrastructure provider tailor-made for Bitcoin DeFi. Its mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to the Bitcoin Economy by delivering a comprehensive, scalable infrastructure stack optimized for on-chain finance. By empowering developers and businesses with robust software tooling, Maestro is setting a new standard for how financial applications are built on Bitcoin, fueling the evolution of a decentralized, blockchain-native financial system.
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About Liquidium
The Liquidium Foundation oversees two pioneering decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, both governed by the community through the $LIQ token.
LiquidiumWTF is the leading lending and borrowing protocol on Bitcoin L1, specializing in native assets like Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20s, and has facilitated over $500 million in volume.
Liquidium stands as one of the first native cross-chain protocols for borrowing and lending, with Bitcoin as its core.
Together, these protocols, under the governance of $LIQ holders, are at the forefront of shaping the future of decentralized finance on the Bitcoin network and beyond.
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