Update (2-4-26 at 6:49 UTC): This article has been updated to show the correct Stacks block time as 5 seconds
Fireblocks, an institutional-grade crypto infrastructure company, announced on Wednesday that it will integrate Stacks, a decentralized finance (DeFi) layer for the Bitcoin protocol, to give institutional clients access to lending and yield-bearing opportunities.
The integration bypasses the 10-minute Bitcoin block time by leveraging the Stacks blockchain, which has an average block time of about…