I bought my first Bitcoin in 2017, when BTC was trading around $2,000. That was also the year BNB launched its ICO.
Nine years later, I still haven’t sold a single satoshi.
Recently, my wife and I decided to open a vegetarian restaurant. We need capital, but selling the Bitcoin I’ve held for almost a decade never felt like the right choice. I kept asking myself one question:
Can I unlock liquidity from my BTC without selling it?
Last night, I came across @BabylonLabs_io
Suddenly, I knew what I wanted to do.
Curiosity got the better of me, so I logged into Babylon Genesis to see how it actually works. I connected my wallet, claimed testnet assets from the faucet, created my first Trustless Bitcoin Vault (TBV), and tried depositing assets into the vault. I also explored the flow behind native Bitcoin-backed borrowing to understand how the protocol is designed. The experience felt intuitive and practical, making it easy to see the direction Babylon is taking.
What impressed me most wasn’t the interface—it was the architecture.
Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) provide the foundation for using Bitcoin as collateral without relying on wrapped BTC or centralized custodians. Built on top of that, Bitcoin Value Token (BTV) unlocks Bitcoin’s economic value for on-chain applications, enabling native Bitcoin-backed borrowing while keeping Bitcoin at the center of the system.
For years, I believed the only way to access Bitcoin’s value was to sell it.
Babylon offers a different path: keep holding Bitcoin while unlocking its liquidity.
If Bitcoin is going to evolve from digital gold into productive on-chain capital, this is exactly the kind of infrastructure I want to see—and exactly why I’ll keep following what Babylon is building.
Bitcoin changed the way I saved wealth in 2017.
Babylon might change the way I use it in 2026.$BABY $DEXE #baby $BTC
Nine years later, I still haven’t sold a single satoshi.
Recently, my wife and I decided to open a vegetarian restaurant. We need capital, but selling the Bitcoin I’ve held for almost a decade never felt like the right choice. I kept asking myself one question:
Can I unlock liquidity from my BTC without selling it?
Last night, I came across @BabylonLabs_io
Suddenly, I knew what I wanted to do.
Curiosity got the better of me, so I logged into Babylon Genesis to see how it actually works. I connected my wallet, claimed testnet assets from the faucet, created my first Trustless Bitcoin Vault (TBV), and tried depositing assets into the vault. I also explored the flow behind native Bitcoin-backed borrowing to understand how the protocol is designed. The experience felt intuitive and practical, making it easy to see the direction Babylon is taking.
What impressed me most wasn’t the interface—it was the architecture.
Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) provide the foundation for using Bitcoin as collateral without relying on wrapped BTC or centralized custodians. Built on top of that, Bitcoin Value Token (BTV) unlocks Bitcoin’s economic value for on-chain applications, enabling native Bitcoin-backed borrowing while keeping Bitcoin at the center of the system.
For years, I believed the only way to access Bitcoin’s value was to sell it.
Babylon offers a different path: keep holding Bitcoin while unlocking its liquidity.
If Bitcoin is going to evolve from digital gold into productive on-chain capital, this is exactly the kind of infrastructure I want to see—and exactly why I’ll keep following what Babylon is building.
Bitcoin changed the way I saved wealth in 2017.
Babylon might change the way I use it in 2026.$BABY $DEXE #baby $BTC