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Interview Review: tBTC Launches on Starknet Mainnet - Connecting Bitcoin and ZK-Rollup

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Hearing rumors that tBTC on Hydration will get extra juice when the 2m DOT incentive goes live in a couple weeks I’ve been stacking tBTC with my Polkadot mindshare rewards…and this might be what it takes to push me across the line to yield farm with it. There’s still pretty good stable/stable yields on Hydration (around 16-19% APY) which rivals what I’m currently getting via delta neutral hedging on Liminal (HL). Key distinction being Liminal is completely at its cap, but you can always supply more USDT/USDC on Polkadot

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gHemi, The Bitcoin DeFi thesis I couldn’t ignore: $HEMI | @hemi_xyz As a researcher, I’ve read many whitepapers but $HEMI made me stop and re-read it three times. Why? Because it doesn’t just offer Bitcoin DeFi like everyone else. It proposes a paradigm shift: BTC that is #DeFi. We’ve seen attempts before: $WBTC, $tBTC, $renBTC...But they all come with a cost: custodians, trust assumptions, systemic risks. You trade the very thing that made Bitcoin valuable, decentralization for convenience. Hemi flips the script. ▫️ No custodians ▫️ No wrapped assets ▫️ No bridges ▫️ Every transaction finalizes on Bitcoin via Proof-of-Proof (PoP) ▫️ Programmable BTC via hVM (a Bitcoin node inside an EVM) ▫️ Fully on-chain, redeemable, and composable → Instead of “bringing BTC into DeFi”, Hemi makes BTC natively do #DeFi. Some numbers that caught my attention: – $909M+ TVL – 2.98M+ transactions – 10,630+ contracts deployed – Native BTC-backed stablecoin live – Supports both Solidity + Rust for builders Why does this matter? Most so-called "Bitcoin L2s" are repackaged versions of older tech, bolted on with buzzwords. They rely on Ethereum-style infrastructure, or worse centralized custody. Bitcoin becomes a sidekick in its own story. @hemi_xyz is different. ▫️ Modular rollups that plug directly into Bitcoin security ▫️ hVM allows BTC programmability from within smart contracts ▫️ Native, trustless integration without breaking what makes Bitcoin special My personal take: 1/ If you thought “Bitcoin can’t do DeFi,” you probably haven’t looked at Hemi. 2/ If you believe BTC is just for holding, maybe it’s time to consider staking it. 3/ And if you’re skipping $HEMI because it isn’t trending on X yet, you might be ignoring the real infrastructure layer of Bitcoin DeFi. This time, it's not hype. It’s happening.