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It's been just over 1 month since launching native Bitcoin-backed borrowing on testnet. We went from BABE's 1,000x protocol improvement to a public testnet with @aave v4 in four months. Research usually does not get implemented in production this fast. Join the hundreds of [Spoken audio]: Bitcoin is the perfect collateral asset. It is highly liquid, globally recognized, and institutionally adopted. Yet most BTC remains idle, underutilized, and disconnected from on-chain finance. Because using BTC as collateral has usually meant accepting a trade-off, wrapping, bridging, custody, or relying on intermediaries. Babylon removes that trade-off with trustless infrastructure for native Bitcoin collateral. The first use case is native Bitcoin-backed borrowing with Aave V4, now live on PublicTestnet. Powered by trustless Bitcoin vaults, users can lock BTC on Bitcoin, use it as collateral on Aave V4, and borrow stablecoins. No wrapped BTC, no bridge, no centralized intermediary holding the asset. Deposit BTC, borrow stables, repay, withdraw. The next step in building native Bitcoin-backed credit markets, try the Public Testnet.
