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Finance

Babylon’s Trustless Vaults to Add Native Bitcoin-Backed Lending Through Aave

Babylon is also planning to introduce Bitcoin-backed DeFi insurance, letting BTC holders earn yield while underwriting risk against hacks and exploits.

David Tse, co-founder of Babylon (Bradley Keoun, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin Liquid Staking Gains Momentum as Lombard Launches BARD Token and Foundation

Lombard is attempting to make the world's original cryptocurrency into a more productive asset for DeFi functions

16:9 Liquid staking (ataribravo99/Pixabay)

Tech

Babylon Introduces Trustless Bitcoin Vaults for BTC Staking Protocol

The trustless bitcoin vaults harness BitVM3, the latest evolution of BitVM, a framework for enabling smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain.

David Tse, co-founder of Babylon (Bradley Keoun, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Kraken Adds Bitcoin Staking Via Babylon as BTC Driven DeFi Picks Up

Kraken users will now be able to stake their bitcoin directly, locking it in a custodial vault on the native chain.

Kraken on phone (PiggyBank/ Unsplash)

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Tech

Babylon, Which Has Over $4B BTC Locked, Launches Layer 1 'Genesis' to Advance Its BTC Yield Platform

With more value tied up in BTC than every other cryptocurrency in existence combined, Babylon is aiming to channel this into the wider crypto ecosystem

Adam Back, CEO Blockstream (second from right) speaks at Consensus Hong Kong 2025 by CoinDesk (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Tech

The Protocol: Sony Launches Blockchain to Controversy

Also: Bubblemaps roadmap; Babylon interoperability

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Tech

Babylon Labs Brings New Momentum to Bitcoin ZK Tech Through Bridge to Cosmos Chains

Babylon, developer of the largest BTC staking protocol, is teaming up with Bitcoin developers Fiamma to build a trust-minimized bridge using BitVM2

Bridge (Charlie Green/Unsplash)

Markets

Could Bitcoin Become DeFi’s Collateral of Choice? Lombard Finance Says So

Lombard Finance aims to produce a yield-bearing bitcoin token, and potentially unleash a new wave of liquidity into the DeFi ecosystem.

Lombard Finance co-founder Jacob Philips. (Credit: Lombard Finance)

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Tech

'DeFi on Bitcoin' Gets a Boost as BOB L2 Integrates $6B BTC Staking Protocol Babylon

The integration allows BOB, a "hybrid L2," to use Bitcoin as its anchor chain where transactions with assets from other chains can be irreversibly recorded.

BOB team (BOB)

Opinion

Staking Will Define Bitcoin's Role in the Global Digital Economy in 2025

As a significant third native use case for bitcoin, staking will increase bitcoin’s impact on the world's stage.

Staking crypto (Jay Radhakrishnan/Getty Images)

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