Most people think rehypothecation is a Wall Street problem. I think it is quietly becoming a Bitcoin DeFi problem too. When you deposit Bitcoin with a custodian to access DeFi, you are trusting that your Bitcoin is doing exactly one thing — backing your position. What you cannot verify is whether that same Bitcoin is being used somewhere else simultaneously. Rehypothecation is when your collateral gets reused as someone else's collateral without your knowledge. It amplifies returns in calm markets. It amplifies failures in stressed ones. I have watched this destroy value in crypto before. An asset that should have been sitting safely backing one position turns out to have been backing three others. When one fails, all three fail simultaneously. That is why one feature of @BabylonLabs_io Trustless Bitcoin Vaults matters more than most people realize. Each vault is completely segregated. Bitcoins locked in different vaults cannot be pooled, co-mingled, or reused as collateral for anything other than the specific DeFi product the holder designated. No one can rehypothecate the Bitcoin. The script makes it mathematically impossible. The protocol currently secures 56,853 BTC — $5.64 billion — under this architecture. BABY powers governance and access across this system. What I still do not know is whether segregated, non-rehypothecatable Bitcoin collateral is compelling enough to attract serious capital away from higher-yielding but riskier alternatives. Rehypothecation makes the system look stronger than it is. Until the moment it makes clear exactly how much weaker it actually was. @BabylonLabs_io $AKE $BTW "Did you know your BTC collateral could be rehypothecated?"