DeFi
Decentralized Finance Is About to Transform Bitcoin
Although Bitcoin is the original cryptocurrency and corresponding blockchain, its functionality has been extremely limited so far compared to the smart contracts and decentralized finance (DeFi) features offered by Ethereum, Solana, and other blockchains. However, this dynamic is about to change with the emergence of Bitcoin layers, meta-protocols, sidechains, Layer 2s, and other technologies currently being built on the Bitcoin blockchain. These layers will enable faster payments, as well as lending, enhanced fungible and non-fungible token functionality, decentralized exchanges, GameFi, SocialFi and many other use cases. Bitcoin holders will soon be able to increase the productivity of their asset via a protocol-based decentralized financial system. The main differentiator between DeFi on Bitcoin and DeFi on other chains is the underlying asset (native token). While Ethereum, Solana, and next-gen blockchains compete on the merits of their respective technologies, DeFi on Bitcoin focuses solely on increasing the productivity of bitcoin, putting the Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem in a league of its own.