Building BitVault in the Open: Reflections from Summer of Vaults 2026
Over the past two months, the BitVault team has spent more time on trains, planes, conference stages, and event halls than behind our desks.
From Bitcare Forum in Brescia to Bitcoin Ireland in Dublin, from BTC Prague to Swiss Bitcoin Conference, and even through smaller but highly valuable gatherings such as BCC8333, this year’s Summer of Vaults campaign became much more than a series of events.
It became an opportunity to test our ideas against reality.
One of the privileges of building in Bitcoin is that feedback arrives quickly and often without filters.
Across dozens of conversations with Bitcoiners, developers, founders, security professionals, investors, and self-custody enthusiasts, we had the chance to present our vision, explain our approach to security, answer difficult questions, and listen carefully to perspectives different from our own.
That last part matters.
We do not attend conferences simply to talk.
We attend them to learn.
Some people challenged our assumptions.
Others shared stories of security incidents, operational risks, or personal experiences that reinforced our conviction that Bitcoin security still has significant room for improvement.
Many offered suggestions that will directly influence future iterations of our products.
All of this is valuable.
Especially for a company building in a space where trust is earned through transparency, technical rigor, and continuous improvement.
What stood out most this year was the strength and diversity of the Bitcoin community.
Whether in Brescia, Dublin, Prague, Barcelona, Switzerland, or during smaller industry gatherings, we consistently found people willing to engage deeply with difficult topics around self-custody, operational security, coercion resistance, and long-term resilience.
These conversations reminded us that the problems we are trying to solve are not theoretical.
They are increasingly relevant as Bitcoin adoption grows.
Along the way, we also had the opportunity to establish new commercial relationships, start conversations with potential partners, and discuss our long-term vision with investors interested in the future of Bitcoin security.
Perhaps most importantly, we saw growing interest in the products we are building.
While meeting people face-to-face, demonstrating prototypes, and discussing real-world use cases, we received a level of validation that is difficult to obtain through online conversations alone.
It reinforced our belief that security must evolve beyond protecting keys alone.
It must also protect people.
Behind every conference booth, presentation, pitch, demo, and meeting stands an incredible amount of work from the entire BitVault team.
Summer of Vaults was much more than a series of events. It was a field test of our vision.
And we return from it with stronger conviction, better ideas, valuable feedback, and renewed energy for what comes next.
The Next Chapter
While Summer of Vaults comes to an end, the next phase for BitVault is already underway.
We are preparing for the launch of our B2C application and continuing to refine the experience based on everything we learned during these months on the road.
If you would like to be among the first to know when the application becomes available, you can join our waiting list and receive the launch announcement as soon as it is released.
And if you’d like to meet us in person, the next stop on our journey will be Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano this October.
We look forward to continuing the conversation.
Thank you to everyone who attended a talk, visited our booth, shared feedback, challenged our ideas, or simply stopped by to say hello.