Rich Rines, a founding contributor of the Core Foundation, emphasized two primary demands from mainstream financial institutions regarding Bitcoin: sustainable Bitcoin yield generation and using Bitcoin as collateral for leverage and lending operations. The Core Foundation is focusing on developing yield-generating protocols and asset management products to enhance the scale effect of Bitcoin capital pools while improving BTC-Fi financial infrastructure. Rines noted that institutional products currently exhibit higher maturity than consumer products, with plans to advance both sectors concurrently.