#baby $BABY
Bitcoin is the most trusted asset in crypto—over $7.2B TVL staked on Babylon at peak. Yet for years, if you wanted to put your BTC to work in DeFi, you had to wrap it, bridge it, or trust a middleman with your keys.
That's exactly what @BabylonLabs_io o Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) fixes.
TBV lets you use native BTC as collateral—no wrapping, no bridging, no custodians. Your Bitcoin stays on the Bitcoin network, secured by a Taproot script you co-sign. The first live use case? Native Bitcoin-backed borrowing on Aave v4—lock BTC, borrow USDC/USDT on Ethereum.
And this isn't just a concept anymore. A few things happening right now:
🔹 Public testnet is live—anyone can test the peg-in, borrow, repay, and redeem cycle end-to-end
🔹 Aave DAO proposal submitted—Babylon is bringing two custom Spokes to Aave V4 to unlock native BTC collateral at scale
🔹 Ledger integration is live—8 million Ledger users can now sign TBV transactions with Clear Signing
🔹 a16z Crypto just backed Babylon with $15M to scale TBV further
🔹 GoMining is planning to activate up to 1,000 BTC through TBV, and partners like Ether.fi, Lombard, and PumpBTC are already deep in the ecosystem
4 core benefits that make this a game-changer:
1️⃣ Capital efficient – DeFi borrow rates, not CeFi premiums
2️⃣ Self-custodial – your keys, your Bitcoin, always
3️⃣ Native BTC as collateral – no wrapped asset risk
4️⃣ Trustless – no centralized intermediaries, period
This is the missing piece for Bitcoin DeFi. No compromises. Just pure BTC powering the on-chain economy.
What use case excites you most—BTC-backed lending, stablecoins, or maybe Bitcoin-secured credit cards? Drop your take below 👇
Bitcoin is the most trusted asset in crypto—over $7.2B TVL staked on Babylon at peak. Yet for years, if you wanted to put your BTC to work in DeFi, you had to wrap it, bridge it, or trust a middleman with your keys.
That's exactly what @BabylonLabs_io o Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) fixes.
TBV lets you use native BTC as collateral—no wrapping, no bridging, no custodians. Your Bitcoin stays on the Bitcoin network, secured by a Taproot script you co-sign. The first live use case? Native Bitcoin-backed borrowing on Aave v4—lock BTC, borrow USDC/USDT on Ethereum.
And this isn't just a concept anymore. A few things happening right now:
🔹 Public testnet is live—anyone can test the peg-in, borrow, repay, and redeem cycle end-to-end
🔹 Aave DAO proposal submitted—Babylon is bringing two custom Spokes to Aave V4 to unlock native BTC collateral at scale
🔹 Ledger integration is live—8 million Ledger users can now sign TBV transactions with Clear Signing
🔹 a16z Crypto just backed Babylon with $15M to scale TBV further
🔹 GoMining is planning to activate up to 1,000 BTC through TBV, and partners like Ether.fi, Lombard, and PumpBTC are already deep in the ecosystem
4 core benefits that make this a game-changer:
1️⃣ Capital efficient – DeFi borrow rates, not CeFi premiums
2️⃣ Self-custodial – your keys, your Bitcoin, always
3️⃣ Native BTC as collateral – no wrapped asset risk
4️⃣ Trustless – no centralized intermediaries, period
This is the missing piece for Bitcoin DeFi. No compromises. Just pure BTC powering the on-chain economy.
What use case excites you most—BTC-backed lending, stablecoins, or maybe Bitcoin-secured credit cards? Drop your take below 👇