BTC entering DeFi’s biggest obstacle isn’t cross-chain, but whether people dare to trust it?
After seeing the design of Babylon Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV), I’ve been thinking about one question: after all these years, why hasn’t the Bitcoin ecosystem fully unlocked its liquidity? The answer may not be that the technology is insufficient—it may be that the “security threshold” in users’ minds is too high.
In the past, when people discussed the BTC ecosystem, it often focused on bridging and wrapped BTC. But many long-term BTC holders are truly worried about whether, once their BTC enters another system, it remains completely under their control. For them, returns matter—but asset safety always comes first.
That’s also why I’m paying attention to @BabylonLabs_io TBV. It tries to reduce the cost of trust through a trustless mechanism, so that when BTC participates in DeFi, it depends less on third parties. At the same time, TBV uses a modular design, allowing the underlying security and the upper-layer financial applications to evolve more independently.
Of course, any new infrastructure needs time to prove itself. But if TBV can attract more DeFi protocols to integrate—so that BTC holders genuinely become willing to participate in on-chain finance—then this likely won’t be just a simple product upgrade. It could be a shift in the way BTC applications work.
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What do you think is the most important value of Babylon Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV)?