Maestro Institutional/Research/Weekly Report #17 · Jul 20 – Jul 26, 2026
Weekly Report #17Reports · Jul '26

Weekly yield more than doubles.

Settlement yield came in at 8.21 bps for the week, up 5.22 bps from the prior week, on volume of 16.9240 BTC across 111 trades. Annualized, the week prints 4.37% BTC APY against a trailing four-week rate of 7.65% BTC APY.

Marvin Bertin
CEO, Maestro
Bitcoin Solver performance
The Solver protocol settled 16.9240 BTC across 111 trades in the week of July 20 – July 26, 2026. Volume was little changed at -2.9% week over week, while trade count rose 33.7% — the week's flow arrived in more, smaller clips. Per unit of volume settled, the protocol earned 8.21 bps of spread, 5.22 bps more than the prior week.

The week in numbers.

— EXHIBIT 1 / SOLVER VOLUME & NET YIELD · TRAILING 8 WEEKS

Each week's settlement volume and the yield it earned.

Weekly volume · ₿Net yield · BTC APY
— Volume
16.92 ₿$1.1M
▼ 2.9% WoW
— Trades
111
▲ 33.7% WoW
— Wk yield
8.2 bps
▲ 5.2 WoW
— BTC APY
7.7%
trailing 4 wks
Source: Solver protocol settlement data · BTC-denominated, net of fees · Week of July 20 – July 26, 2026

Solver performance.

Flow broadened across venues. BTC → WBTC on Bitcoin → Ethereum remained the largest route at 34.5% of volume, though it drew a smaller share than a week earlier. BTC → cbBTC into Solana went from absent to 19% of volume, and the return legs back into native Bitcoin — cbBTC → BTC from Base and WBTC → BTC from Arbitrum — were materially larger than the prior week. The chain split shows the effect: Ethereum at 43.7%, with the balance spread across Solana, Base and Arbitrum rather than concentrated in one venue.

The improvement in yield came from pricing rather than throughput. Volume was flat, but spread per BTC settled rose to 8.21 bps, recovering the ground given up the week before. Annualized, the week prints 4.37% BTC APY, below the trailing four-week 7.65% BTC APY; a single week annualizes off a small sample, so the 8-week window shown in the chart is the fairer reference for the rate the book is earning.

BTC → cbBTC (bitcoin → solana) rose to 19% of volume (from 0%).— Route surge
— EXHIBIT 2 / SETTLEMENT MIX · WEEK OF 2026-07-20

Where volume settled, by chain and route.

— Chain mix · share of settled volume, by each trade's non-Bitcoin side
ethereum 43.7%solana 19.9%base 19.1%arbitrum 16.2%starknet 0.8%
Route · chainVol. ₿TradesShareWoW
BTC WBTCBitcoin → Ethereum5.85192234.5%9.9%
BTC cbBTCBitcoin → Solana3.2305919.0%+21218.7%
BTC WBTCBitcoin → Arbitrum1.588059.3%52.6%
cbBTC BTCBase → Bitcoin1.2844177.5%+6877.8%
WBTC BTCArbitrum → Bitcoin1.165176.8%+1043.0%
Week total16.9240111
Source: Solver protocol settlement data · BTC-denominated · Week of July 20 – July 26, 2026

The record to date.

The Solver protocol has settled 360.80 ₿ across 1,346 trades in the 17 weeks since inception on April 1, 2026 — net-positive in 17 of them.

— EXHIBIT 3 / THE RECORD · SINCE APRIL 1, 2026

The latest month against every month before it.

— Latest complete month · June 2026
— Volume
193.48 ₿
settled
— vs. avg month
408.5%
prior complete months
— Net yield
9.4%
BTC APY
MonthVol. ₿TradesBTC APYMoM
April 202610.099417.6%
May 202666.0223011.7%+554.6%
June 2026193.486079.4%+193.1%
Since inception360.801,3468.8%
Source: Solver protocol settlement data · BTC-denominated, net of fees · Complete months only

Credit programs.

Mezzamine Mining Loan I
BTC mining loan
Active
Repayment progress0.3933 / 2.00 BTC · 20%
Raised2.00 BTCDeployed2.00 BTC

Mezzamine Mining Loan I distributed 0.0983 BTC on July 20.

Mezzamine Mining Loan II
BTC mining loan
Active
Repayment progress0.2458 / 5.00 BTC · 5%
Raised5.00 BTCDeployed5.00 BTC

Mezzamine Mining Loan II distributed 0.2458 BTC on July 21.

Both programs are active and fully deployed, and both paid during the week: Mezzamine Mining Loan I and Mezzamine Mining Loan II distributed to investors on consecutive days, in native Bitcoin. Cumulative repayment now stands at 20% of principal on the first program and 5% on the second — a difference that reflects how long each has been running, not a difference in how they are performing.

About.

About this report. The Bitcoin Solver provides settlement liquidity for cross-chain Bitcoin flow, earning a spread on each completed settlement. Every figure here is a realized, BTC-denominated result, net of fees — not a quoted or projected rate. Because a single week is a small sample, the trailing four-week and since-inception figures are the more reliable guide to expected performance.

About the Bitcoin Solver. The Solver is one of Maestro Institutional's curated BTC yield vaults — a permissioned, compliant strategy that earns by meeting cross-chain Bitcoin demand, taking deposits and paying distributions in native BTC. Qualified investors can review the terms and live performance on the vault page.

About Mezzamine Credit. Mezzamine is Maestro's credit marketplace for secured, BTC-denominated lending to Bitcoin miners. Maestro vets each borrower and structures each program; lenders fund them and are repaid, with interest, in BTC. The program statuses and events reported above are re-derived each week from on-chain records.

About Maestro. Maestro is building the financial rails for the Bitcoin economy: a vertically integrated stack across data, liquidity, and credit that puts idle Bitcoin to work financing real-world activity. Our mission is to accelerate the world's transition to a financial system backed by energy and anchored by Bitcoin. More on what we're building →

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