Today we are excited to unveil a game-changing enterprise stack, pairing our industry-leading Lightning Payments API with Amboss’s Rails. This integration transforms high-volume payment processing into a potential revenue source by allowing businesses to earn self-custody yield on idle Bitcoin.
In high-volume industries, such as iGaming, prediction markets, and crypto exchanges, payment processing fees often consume 2-5% of transaction volume. Compounding this issue, significant Bitcoin and stablecoin holdings frequently remain underutilized.
This new integration provides a definitive solution to both problems, leveraging the power of the Lightning Network to create a powerful payments and treasury flywheel.
The Flywheel: How Payments Drive Yield
The integration works by transforming a business’s treasury into critical network infrastructure, enabling capital to become a productive, income-generating asset.
Voltage’s API enables near-instant, low-cost global transactions in Bitcoin and stablecoins, dramatically lowering the initial barrier of processing fees. Simultaneously, Amboss Rails automates advanced liquidity management. This allows the business to serve network liquidity and routing needs, thereby unlocking yield opportunities while maintaining full self-custody.
"Payments have long been a drag on margins, but with this combination, we’re flipping the script," said Jesse Shrader, CEO of Amboss. "Rails provides the yield engine to attract and optimize capital, while Voltage’s Payments API simplifies widespread lightning adoption, creating more yield opportunities. Put together, it’s a flywheel that cracks the chicken and egg problem of payment disruption, solving the biggest problems for businesses: improving payments and treasury management."
Key Benefits
Yield Opportunity: Treasury as Infrastructure
- Businesses can now earn cash back directly from payment activity and access yield opportunities by providing liquidity on Rails.
- This is not lending, staking, or farming. Yield is generated by routing transactions from real payment flow, making your treasury a foundational piece of the network infrastructure. This is ideal for exchanges, bridges, and underserved sectors.
Cost-to-Revenue Pivot
Liquidity provided by the treasury lowers a business's processing fees, while the payments routed through the system generate routing income. This allows businesses to offset operational expenses with routing revenues.
Disruptive Efficiency with Taproot Assets
Voltage’s Taproot Assets support extends the stack beyond just Bitcoin, enabling in-flight exchanges between Bitcoin and stablecoins within a single payment. This reduces friction in cross-border and multi-currency flows, allowing businesses to adopt stablecoin payments seamlessly with the same robust compliance and SOC 2 Type II security.
“By generating self-custodial yield through Lightning, businesses can turn what was once idle capital or a custody cost into a productive asset that supports real payment flow,” said Graham Krizek, CEO of Voltage. “This collaboration with Amboss brings together yield, payments, and capital strategy in a way that makes Bitcoin’s infrastructure truly enterprise-ready.” Early adopters in iGaming and prediction markets are already piloting the flywheel, reporting up to 30% reductions in effective processing costs through yield offsets.
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For more information about how to turn business payments processing into a profit center, visit: https://a4s.me/amboss-voltage.
