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This article analyzes Threshold Network Bitcoin (tBTC) as a potential collateral asset. It assesses the risks associated with tBTC to determine its suitability as collateral and provides necessary risk limit recommendations.

In today's rapidly developing DeFi ecosystem, enabling Bitcoin to enter the Ethereum network in a trustless manner has become a highly challenging topic, while Threshold Network, centered around tBTC, has created a truly decentralized and scalable BTC bridging solution.

Mezo is a Bitcoin layer-2 network (L2) designed to build the economic layer of Bitcoin. By combining technological and economic aspects, it aims to meet the needs of users and Bitcoin holders. Mezo has completed a $21 million Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Multicoin and others. Mezo focuses on long-term active BTC holders, offering returns to encourage Bitcoin holding, and uses mechanisms such as HODL Proof, HODL Score, and deposit custody to incentivize users. Mezo employs tBTC as its foundation, allowing BTC holders to receive tBTC through smart contracts, thus enabling its use on Ethereum. Mezo's development is divided into three phases, currently in the first phase, with plans to launch the mainnet and bridge to the mainnet in the future.

Mezo operates by converting BTC into an on-chain asset through cross-chain mechanisms such as tBTC, then using it as collateral to mint the stablecoin MUSD. Users can deploy these stable assets in on-chain financial activities, while the system maintains stability through collateral ratios and liquidation mechanisms. The full process includes BTC collateralization, stablecoin minting, capital utilization, and risk management with liquidation, allowing Bitcoin to become a productive asset within DeFi.

Mezo (MEZO) is a BitcoinFi protocol built on the Bitcoin ecosystem that allows users to generate stable assets, such as MUSD, by collateralizing BTC. This enables liquidity without selling Bitcoin. The system adopts a dual-token model (BTC + MEZO) and integrates cross-chain mechanisms, such as tBTC, along with an EVM-compatible environment, allowing BTC to participate in on-chain financial activities like lending and stablecoin issuance. Its core objective is to introduce programmable financial capabilities while preserving Bitcoin’s security.

This piece sheds light on several BTC-related public chain initiatives that have garnered venture capital backing, including BounceBit, Merlin Chain, B² Network, BOB, and Mezo. These ventures seek to broaden Bitcoin's applicability, leveraging its security to forge standalone POS public chains and bolstering their ecosystems with innovations like Restaking and zk-Rollups. Collaborating with giants like Binance, BounceBit, and featuring high Total Value Locked (TVL), Merlin Chain employs a unique hybrid Rollup structure. Meanwhile, B² Network aspires to be at the forefront of Bitcoin's Layer 2 solutions, BOB methodically integrates Bitcoin's security features, and Mezo, crafted by the tBTC team, champions a Proof of HODL consensus model. The narrative underscores the pivotal role of financial backing over technical prowess for these projects. For the average investor, engaging in airdrops and rewards programs emerges as a viable profit-making strategy.

Today’s focus revolves around BitGo, the custodian behind Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC). WBTC is one of the most widely used Bitcoin wrappers, particularly across Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible chains.

Threshold is a cryptography network enabling secure, permissionless data management on blockchains. It combines secret sharing with distributed nodes

Several WBTC alternatives have emerged to bring Bitcoin liquidity to DeFi ecosystems across the cryptoverse. Discover the most prominent ones in this guide.

This article discusses BBQCoin and how its innovative growth is geared towards integrating augmented reality and artificial intelligence into its ecosystem to create a seamless gaming experience. It also explains the benefits and investment opportunities around BBQCoin and its native token, BBQ.

As one of the earliest stablecoins introduced in 2018, WBTC played a pioneering role in bringing Bitcoin liquidity into the DeFi and Ethereum ecosystems in 2022. This article explores the operational mechanism of WBTC and provides an overview of the current state of decentralized Bitcoin stablecoins.

Bitcoin, as Layer1, suffers from insufficient support for smart contracts, high performance, and mining costs, which restricts its development. As a result, the demand for Bitcoin scaling has increased, making Bitcoin Layer2 a popular track.

According to data from DefiLlama, the current BTC yield farming market size exceeds US$10 billion. More and more participants are joining the BTC yield farming track. This article will review several well-known BTC staking protocols.

Mezo adopts the "Proof of HODL" mechanism, where users protect the network by locking in BTC and MEZO tokens and validating transactions through CometBFT consensus. When the Mezo mainnet launches, users can contribute to network security through HODL proof and earn rewards as a return. The document provides a detailed introduction to this promising project. Mezo can be compared to Blast on Ethereum.

This article first reviews the recent transfer of WBTC control, then compares various technical solutions in terms of trustlessness, and finally points out that solutions based on Bitcoin's native verification capabilities will be the future direction of development.