In the past few years, many people have been searching for an answer: how do we make Bitcoin more than just an asset sitting in a wallet?
That’s why many directions have emerged.
Lending, yield, DeFi, cross-chain… these attempts are all helping BTC move into more use cases.
But there’s one problem that has always remained:
When we want to use BTC in more places, aren’t we also continuously adding new trust costs?
Because BTC’s most core value isn’t how much it can do—it’s that it doesn’t need to rely on any centralized party.
Yet in reality, many BTC applications often need to wrap the asset, introduce additional protocols, and even add new trust assumptions in order to gain more functionality.
This creates an interesting contradiction:
We want to unlock the value of BTC, but we can’t afford to give up BTC’s most important thing.
That’s also why I think @BabylonLabs_io ’s Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) is worth paying attention to.
It’s not just discussing something simple like “making BTC earn yield”; it’s addressing a more underlying question:
Can we make Bitcoin serve as a secure foundation that more systems can rely on, while keeping its native properties?
If the answer is yes, then BTC’s role may change.
In the past, we mostly treated BTC as an asset for storing value.
But in the future, it may also become a security resource that other networks can call upon.
Of course, this direction still needs time to be validated. Infrastructure has never been built on a single concept—it’s built through long-term security and the accumulation of real demand.
But what I find most valuable in the Babylon TBV exploration isn’t about changing Bitcoin; it’s about finding a possibility:
To let Bitcoin stay itself, while connecting to more of the future.
If BTC’s trust can be used by more of the ecosystem, then its value may be more than just “being held,” but “being relied on.”
That might be the question Bitcoin’s next phase is truly worth discussing.
$BABY #baby
That’s why many directions have emerged.
Lending, yield, DeFi, cross-chain… these attempts are all helping BTC move into more use cases.
But there’s one problem that has always remained:
When we want to use BTC in more places, aren’t we also continuously adding new trust costs?
Because BTC’s most core value isn’t how much it can do—it’s that it doesn’t need to rely on any centralized party.
Yet in reality, many BTC applications often need to wrap the asset, introduce additional protocols, and even add new trust assumptions in order to gain more functionality.
This creates an interesting contradiction:
We want to unlock the value of BTC, but we can’t afford to give up BTC’s most important thing.
That’s also why I think @BabylonLabs_io ’s Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) is worth paying attention to.
It’s not just discussing something simple like “making BTC earn yield”; it’s addressing a more underlying question:
Can we make Bitcoin serve as a secure foundation that more systems can rely on, while keeping its native properties?
If the answer is yes, then BTC’s role may change.
In the past, we mostly treated BTC as an asset for storing value.
But in the future, it may also become a security resource that other networks can call upon.
Of course, this direction still needs time to be validated. Infrastructure has never been built on a single concept—it’s built through long-term security and the accumulation of real demand.
But what I find most valuable in the Babylon TBV exploration isn’t about changing Bitcoin; it’s about finding a possibility:
To let Bitcoin stay itself, while connecting to more of the future.
If BTC’s trust can be used by more of the ecosystem, then its value may be more than just “being held,” but “being relied on.”
That might be the question Bitcoin’s next phase is truly worth discussing.
$BABY #baby