I recently discovered a pretty interesting phenomenon. When many people research Crypto projects, the first thing they look at is returns. How much APR? How many rewards? How much airdrop?
But I think the BABY project is a bit special. If you only focus on yield, you might actually miss what it truly wants to do. Because the biggest value of Bitcoin has never been annualized returns—it’s trust.
Over the past ten-plus years, $BTC has established a globally recognized value consensus. But the issue is that this consensus has always stayed at the asset layer.
It’s very secure, but also very isolated. It’s like a world-class athlete—everyone knows how strong they are, but they’ve been sitting on the bench.
What Babylon is trying to do is to get BTC into more competitions. So it not only represents wealth, but can also provide secure value. This perspective made me understand BABY again. Its competition may not be with some ordinary DeFi protocol. It’s tackling a bigger question: how should security be allocated in the future blockchain world?
In the past, every chain wanted to hire its own security. Issue tokens. Attract stakers. Subsidize participants.
But the biggest problem with a new chain is that when it’s just born, it doesn’t have enough capital to protect itself.
If, in the future, huge assets like BTC could become a shared security resource, the industry’s structure could change. Of course, I won’t ignore reality just because the story sounds grand. Every infrastructure project has a common challenge: why would anyone have to use you?
So what I’m observing about BABY now is not how many stories it tells. I’m looking to see whether more and more projects are proactively integrating with it. Because a network with real value isn’t one that insists it’s important. It’s one that other people can’t do without. @BabylonLabs_io $BABY #baby
But I think the BABY project is a bit special. If you only focus on yield, you might actually miss what it truly wants to do. Because the biggest value of Bitcoin has never been annualized returns—it’s trust.
Over the past ten-plus years, $BTC has established a globally recognized value consensus. But the issue is that this consensus has always stayed at the asset layer.
It’s very secure, but also very isolated. It’s like a world-class athlete—everyone knows how strong they are, but they’ve been sitting on the bench.
What Babylon is trying to do is to get BTC into more competitions. So it not only represents wealth, but can also provide secure value. This perspective made me understand BABY again. Its competition may not be with some ordinary DeFi protocol. It’s tackling a bigger question: how should security be allocated in the future blockchain world?
In the past, every chain wanted to hire its own security. Issue tokens. Attract stakers. Subsidize participants.
But the biggest problem with a new chain is that when it’s just born, it doesn’t have enough capital to protect itself.
If, in the future, huge assets like BTC could become a shared security resource, the industry’s structure could change. Of course, I won’t ignore reality just because the story sounds grand. Every infrastructure project has a common challenge: why would anyone have to use you?
So what I’m observing about BABY now is not how many stories it tells. I’m looking to see whether more and more projects are proactively integrating with it. Because a network with real value isn’t one that insists it’s important. It’s one that other people can’t do without. @BabylonLabs_io $BABY #baby