One year ago today, my daughter was born.
We named her BaBy.
Today is her first birthday. After adding up all the gifts from our family and friends, my wife and I realized she had received around $12,000. Instead of putting it into a savings account, we decided to buy Bitcoin as her first long-term investment.
Then my wife asked a simple question:
“If we’re going to hold this BTC for years, does it really have to just sit in a wallet? Isn’t there a way to keep it safe while still putting it to work?”
I smiled and answered:
“BABY.”
She looked confused.
“You mean our daughter?”
I laughed.
“No. I mean @BabylonLabs_io .”
What caught my attention about Babylon isn’t the token. It’s the infrastructure being built around Bitcoin.
One of the most interesting pieces is Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV)
BTV is designed to unlock the economic value of native Bitcoin, allowing it to participate in on-chain financial activities without relying on wrapped BTC. It serves as the foundation for native Bitcoin-backed borrowing, where Bitcoin can be used as collateral while preserving its role as the underlying asset.
This architecture connects Bitcoin liquidity with DeFi in a BTC-native way, reducing dependence on bridges and wrapped assets while expanding Bitcoin’s utility beyond simple storage.
That’s why I decided to explore Babylon Genesis.
The experience wasn’t about chasing yields or speculating on price. I wanted to understand how BTV works in practice—from interacting with the protocol to seeing how Bitcoin-backed borrowing could become a core primitive for BitcoinFi.
It’s an ambitious vision: transforming Bitcoin from the world’s largest store of value into productive on-chain capital, while keeping Bitcoin at the center of the system.
Looking back, it’s funny that my daughter’s first birthday and one of the most interesting Bitcoin innovations I’ve seen this year share the same name:
$BABY #baby $BANK $BTC
We named her BaBy.
Today is her first birthday. After adding up all the gifts from our family and friends, my wife and I realized she had received around $12,000. Instead of putting it into a savings account, we decided to buy Bitcoin as her first long-term investment.
Then my wife asked a simple question:
“If we’re going to hold this BTC for years, does it really have to just sit in a wallet? Isn’t there a way to keep it safe while still putting it to work?”
I smiled and answered:
“BABY.”
She looked confused.
“You mean our daughter?”
I laughed.
“No. I mean @BabylonLabs_io .”
What caught my attention about Babylon isn’t the token. It’s the infrastructure being built around Bitcoin.
One of the most interesting pieces is Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV)
BTV is designed to unlock the economic value of native Bitcoin, allowing it to participate in on-chain financial activities without relying on wrapped BTC. It serves as the foundation for native Bitcoin-backed borrowing, where Bitcoin can be used as collateral while preserving its role as the underlying asset.
This architecture connects Bitcoin liquidity with DeFi in a BTC-native way, reducing dependence on bridges and wrapped assets while expanding Bitcoin’s utility beyond simple storage.
That’s why I decided to explore Babylon Genesis.
The experience wasn’t about chasing yields or speculating on price. I wanted to understand how BTV works in practice—from interacting with the protocol to seeing how Bitcoin-backed borrowing could become a core primitive for BitcoinFi.
It’s an ambitious vision: transforming Bitcoin from the world’s largest store of value into productive on-chain capital, while keeping Bitcoin at the center of the system.
Looking back, it’s funny that my daughter’s first birthday and one of the most interesting Bitcoin innovations I’ve seen this year share the same name:
$BABY #baby $BANK $BTC