BTCFi
BTCFi is the set of financial applications that use bitcoin as productive collateral: staking, lending, Layer 2s, and bridges. Because Bitcoin script is deliberately limited, the central question for every BTCFi design is who must be trusted while BTC is locked, moved, or represented on another chain.
Steadyrain analysis covering this term
- [BTCFi Series 7] Covenants: Bitcoin's Frozen Fork Jul 15, 2026
- [BTCFi Series 4] Technical Analysis and Comparison of Bitcoin Layer 2 Networks: Three Approaches Shaping BTCFi’s Future Sep 28, 2025
- [BTCFi Series 1] Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Bitcoin’s Fundamental Limits, the Opportunities, and the Technical Context of BTCFi Sep 16, 2025
- [BTCFi Series 6] Babylon vs EigenLayer Compared May 7, 2026
- [BTCFi Series 5] Babylon and the BTCFi Security-Extension Ecosystem: An In-Depth Analysis of the Financialization of Bitcoin Security Oct 1, 2025
- [BTCFi Series 2] The Wave Driving BTCFi: L2s and Babylon Native Staking Sep 18, 2025
- Exit Hashrate: Miners, AI, and Bitcoin's Security Budget Aug 5, 2026
- Maple vs Core: A Web3 IP Legal Dispute Case Study Nov 25, 2025