Block launches B2B Lightning Network settlement, Tesla releases Megapack computing power modules, Robinhood enters corporate treasury

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ME News Update, April 1 (UTC+8), according to BBX Crypto Concept Stocks information and news coverage, yesterday the global crypto asset market, on the final day of the first quarter of 2026, showed a disruptive turning point of “compute-power energy physical integration” and “base-currency settlement penetrating downward.” As major new-energy giants officially embed compute infrastructure into grid energy storage, and traditional payments giants open up enterprise-level on-chain settlement channels, the pricing logic for crypto concept stocks has completely moved beyond the “asset reserve” phase and has officially entered the trillion-dollar red ocean of “invisible infrastructure.”

Core Dynamic Quick Hits

  • Infrastructure Physical Integration: Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ: $TSLA), at yesterday’s Q1 business briefing for its super factory in Texas, unexpectedly announced a new product line for its energy storage business------“Megapack Compute.” This module directly physically integrates high-density storage batteries with liquid-cooled ASIC/GPU compute clusters, aiming to provide a three-in-one solution of “energy storage + arbitrage mining + AI computing” for local power grids.
  • Payment Settlement Moving Downstream: Block, Inc. (NYSE: $XYZ), yesterday announced that its Cash App Business edition has officially launched the “B2B Lightning Network Settlement (Lightning Settlement)” feature. More than 2 million merchants across the U.S. can now directly use Bitcoin as the unit of account to make and receive instant supply-chain payments, completely bypassing the 1.5%-3% fee friction of traditional ACH and credit card clearing networks.
  • Enterprise Treasury Channel: Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: $HOOD), yesterday launched a new institutional business line “Robinhood Treasury Prime.” This business is specifically designed for mid-cap public companies (market cap: $1B–$5B) to provide one-click fiat cash-flow-to-Bitcoin treasury services, along with SEC-required compliance audit-trail tracking—directly challenging Coinbase’s institutional stronghold.
  • ESG Ultimate Breakthrough: Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. (NASDAQ: $SDIG), yesterday disclosed that it has officially received a $100 million technology innovation subsidy issued by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The funds will be used to expand its integrated facility of “waste-coal power generation + carbon capture + HPC compute.” SDIG became the first publicly listed compute-power company in the U.S. to achieve “carbon-negative” emissions, completely shattering long-standing ESG controversies.
  • Hybrid Infrastructure ETF: Asset manager WisdomTree, Inc. (NYSE: $WT), yesterday submitted to the SEC the prospectus for the world’s first “Digital Infrastructure and Computing Convergence ETF (Ticker: $HASH)”. This fund will invest 100% in “dual-track” enterprises that both have AI data centers and Bitcoin compute power, signaling that Wall Street is building a classification index for the “compute-power industry” independent of traditional tech stocks. (Source: BBX)
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