What is Trust Machines?

Trust Machines is a product studio and incubator building applications for the Bitcoin ecosystem. The company develops tools that extend Bitcoin's functionality beyond simple value storage — into DeFi, NFTs, and Web3 identity.

Key features:

• Leather — the flagship self-custody Bitcoin wallet, designed to give users access to Bitcoin Web3 (apps built on or around Bitcoin).

• Granite — Bitcoin's liquidity protocol, letting users safely borrow stablecoins against their BTC without selling the underlying asset.

• Gamma — an NFT platform for artists, providing tools to create and sell onchain art using Bitcoin.

• Incubated projects:

  • Zest Protocol — a Bitcoin capital markets protocol that lets users put BTC to work and earn yield, secured by onchain liquidity on the Stacks blockchain.

  • .locker — a web3 digital identity product that links a Locker domain to a user's Bitcoin wallet.

• Bitcoin-native focus — unlike multi-chain studios, the entire product lineup is built specifically around expanding what's possible on the Bitcoin network (lending, staking, NFTs, identity).

• Studio-and-incubator model — the company both owns/operates its core products (Leather, Granite, Gamma) and incubates independent third-party teams (Zest, .locker), reflected in the site's separate Investments section.