Rich Rines: The Two Core Demands for Financial Institutions Allocating Bitcoin Rich Rines, founding contributor of Core Foundation, shared in an interview with Wu Blockchain that the current core demands of mainstream financial institutions regarding Bitcoin mainly focus on two aspects: first, obtaining sustainable Bitcoin returns, and second, using Bitcoin as collateral for leverage and lending operations. Core Foundation prioritizes deploying yield-generating protocols and asset management products to unlock the scale effect of Bitcoin capital pools, while continuously improving BTC-Fi financial infrastructure. In his view, the maturity of institutional products currently surpasses that of consumer-end products, and both ends will continue to develop in parallel in the future.