Bitcoin has an awkward reality: it is the largest crypto asset by global market value, yet it has the lowest utilization. According to BitcoinTreasuries, nearly 200 publicly listed companies worldwide and more than a dozen governments hold over 1.5 million BTC, but the vast majority of these BTC are in a "bought and then left alone" state. Babylon founder Fisher Yu captured this dilemma with a pointed rhetorical question: "Everyone is buying Bitcoin—what happens after they buy it?"
In traditional finance, real estate can be used as collateral for loans, and cash can be used to buy government bonds to earn interest. But BTC lacks the programmability that Ethereum has, so for a long time it has not been able to do anything—serving only as a store of value. Fisher Yu calls this "the biggest resource mismatch in the blockchain world": the largest-scale asset, but with no synergy effects for other chains.
What Babylon wants to do is upgrade BTC from a "digital gold" into a "productive asset." The specific roadmap has two steps. First, through Bitcoin staking protocols, native BTC generates staking rewards—this step is already live, with Babylon’s peak TVL reaching $7.2 billion. Second, through the TBV protocol, BTC enters DeFi collateral use cases: deposit native BTC as collateral and borrow USDC or USDT on Ethereum. Aave v4 is the first DeFi protocol confirmed for integration. $BTC
If this mechanism runs stably, BTC holders won’t have to keep choosing between "holding" and "using". Your BTC can remain on the Bitcoin mainnet, enjoying the highest level of security, while it simultaneously generates liquidity for you on Ethereum. This isn’t a technological fantasy—it’s real, as it’s running on the testnet. $BABY , the bridge token connecting these two worlds, essentially derives its core value from making this "impossible" become "possible."
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