Many people liken Babylon TBV to a “program judge”—everything is smooth and it runs fast under optimistic rules in daily life; only when a dispute arises do they bring the evidence from the crime scene (zero-knowledge proofs) onto the chain, with the entire Bitcoin network acting as the jury. This metaphor is romantic, but a judge is still a person, and the program is still written by people. What TBV truly relies on is not Bitcoin’s computational power, but a long cryptographic circuit codebase of tens of thousands of lines, as well as a challenge assumption bundled with economics. $BTC
Dig deeper: the design of a challenge fee of $93 is not at all “Bitcoin-like.” Bitcoin is built on countless nodes repeatedly verifying in an ongoing game—not on setting a paid barrier to deter challengers. Although the team says ordinary systems shouldn’t need a challenge, in the cryptographic world, “ordinary” is itself the most luxurious word. Flash-loan attacks, oracle manipulation, MEV atrocities—which of these is “ordinary”? These unconventional tactics make the $93 threshold look like a joke.
At this point, BABY’s governance role becomes highly intriguing. If TBV faces a novel attack and needs an urgent contract upgrade, who gets to decide? The community that votes with BABY. But the time window is extremely short, and most BABY may be locked in liquidity pools or staking protocols, meaning only a small number of whales can genuinely participate in the vote. In such an emergency, will oligarchic decision-making turn into a kind of legitimate plunder? For example, freezing the assets that were attacked via a proposal, while distributing part of the stolen funds to voters as a “security handling fee.” Of course, all of this is hypothetical, but I still believe that a good system shouldn’t be afraid of scrutiny. TBV is one of the smartest answers in the Bitcoin staking track—it tries to untangle the knot between “your coins, your say” and “earn yield by holding your coins.” I only hope this solution isn’t brushed off with “don’t think too much, it’s normal.” Because we all know that “normal” in crypto can flip on a dime. #baby @BabylonLabs_io $BABY
Dig deeper: the design of a challenge fee of $93 is not at all “Bitcoin-like.” Bitcoin is built on countless nodes repeatedly verifying in an ongoing game—not on setting a paid barrier to deter challengers. Although the team says ordinary systems shouldn’t need a challenge, in the cryptographic world, “ordinary” is itself the most luxurious word. Flash-loan attacks, oracle manipulation, MEV atrocities—which of these is “ordinary”? These unconventional tactics make the $93 threshold look like a joke.
At this point, BABY’s governance role becomes highly intriguing. If TBV faces a novel attack and needs an urgent contract upgrade, who gets to decide? The community that votes with BABY. But the time window is extremely short, and most BABY may be locked in liquidity pools or staking protocols, meaning only a small number of whales can genuinely participate in the vote. In such an emergency, will oligarchic decision-making turn into a kind of legitimate plunder? For example, freezing the assets that were attacked via a proposal, while distributing part of the stolen funds to voters as a “security handling fee.” Of course, all of this is hypothetical, but I still believe that a good system shouldn’t be afraid of scrutiny. TBV is one of the smartest answers in the Bitcoin staking track—it tries to untangle the knot between “your coins, your say” and “earn yield by holding your coins.” I only hope this solution isn’t brushed off with “don’t think too much, it’s normal.” Because we all know that “normal” in crypto can flip on a dime. #baby @BabylonLabs_io $BABY
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