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Jos Lazet said today’s bitcoin-native institutions have an opportunity to build alternatives to traditional banks that better mesh with the crypto ethos of self-custody and control.
Lazet said he perceives bitcoin adoption in the #netherlands is at its highest level in more than a decade.
#bitcoin -native financial firms have been expanding beyond exchange and custody platforms into lending, payments and banking services, with some industry executives arguing the next phase of adoption will be building bitcoin-centric alternatives to traditional banks.
Speaking with The Block on Thursday at the $BTC Prague conference, Blockrise CEO Jos Lazet said his vision is for bitcoin-centric financial platforms to transform into full-service banking alternatives on bitcoin's self-sovereign wavelength.
"My dream goal of Blockrise is a Bitcoin bank," Lazet said.
Across the digital asset industry, companies have been introducing and experimenting with products like bitcoin-backed lending, crypto payment cards, yield services and retail banking services.
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Lazet noted that #Blockrise recently launched bitcoin-friendly bank accounts with International Bank Account Numbers, or IBANs, and is exploring subscription pricing models similar to neobanks like Revolut.
But unlike traditional fintechs, Lazet argued that bitcoin-native companies have an opportunity to build something different on the fundamental level.
"Today's neobanks are just an optimized version of traditional banks," he said. "They offer more integrated features, but they're not anarchistic — they're not against the system."
"The opportunity that we have is to have an anarchistic neobank," he said.
According to Lazet, this would entail building services around user ownership and self-custody, essentially giving customers more control over their assets while still providing them with everything they need in day-to-day banking.
Bitcoin adoption
Changing gears, Lazet also argued that bitcoin adoption in his home country of the Netherlands is stronger now than at any point in his more than a decade in the industry, despite regulatory shifts and proposals that could increase capital gains taxes.
"I would say even to some extent, Bitcoin adoption is at a peak," he said, pointing to growing institutional acceptance and support for bitcoin #exchange -traded funds among Dutch banks.
"The market doesn't reflect it. That's fine. But as long as the story gets told and we're increasing adoption, the Netherlands has a lot of potential to be one of the leading Bitcoin countries in Europe."
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"First week working the Holland warehouse corridor — what surprised me"
New corridor. Different rules.
After months working UK and China warehouse corridors, we started seriously engaging the Netherlands this month.
Three warehouses. Existing Chinese freight forwarder clients. EU-gateway positioning.
On paper: our strongest EU lead yet.
Here's what the first week of ground-level work actually looked like.
What I expected:
Similar friction to UK. Compliance-focused conversations. Slow vetting. Cautious operators.
What I found:
1. Dutch warehouse operators are more crypto-aware than their UK counterparts.
Not crypto-native — but familiar. Two of the three contacts we spoke to had already handled USDT payments from Chinese clients. Not officially. Not through their invoicing system. But it had happened and they knew what it was.
2. The EU regulatory environment changes the conversation completely.
In the UK post-Brexit, warehouse operators are still figuring out what cross-border EU trade looks like. In the Netherlands, they're inside the EU single market — which means Chinese sellers using them get EU market access directly. That's a different value proposition and a different client profile.
3. Language is a hidden advantage.
Dutch business culture has a long history of international trade. English fluency is near-universal. German and sometimes Mandarin capability exists in the larger operators. The communication friction we manage constantly in UK warehouse conversations is almost absent here.
4. The trust gap shows up differently.
UK warehouses worry about getting paid. Dutch warehouses worry about liability — specifically, who is responsible if a Chinese client's goods are seized at customs or fail EU product compliance checks. Different fear. Same underlying problem: no neutral infrastructure to allocate risk clearly between parties.
What this means for Chinese sellers eyeing EU expansion:
The Holland corridor is underutilised and underleveraged. The operators are ready. The regulatory environment is favourable. The missing piece is exactly what BorderFlow provides — a trusted introduction layer that makes both sides comfortable enough to transact.
Watch this corridor.
📌 Save this — Holland warehouse update coming in 30 days.
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