The crypto ecosystem has lived for years with a structural paradox: Bitcoin, the most valuable and secure asset in the entire industry, remains mostly inactive. Approximately 99% of BTC sit like a passive store of value due to the traditional barriers to participating in the DeFi ecosystem.
Historically, existing solutions required giving up absolute control: accepting risks of centralized custody, relying on vulnerable cross-chain bridges, or using wrapped assets (wrapped tokens) that break the network’s native philosophy.