Polkadot’s Tokenized Bitcoin Wants To Bring DeFi Beyond Ethereum
Crypto Briefing | Oct 16, 2020 12:51AM ET
- Polkadot has announced that it will work on bringing Bitcoin to its ecosystem.
- PolkaBTC project will be implemented by the Interlay team.
- This will bring Bitcoin’s liquidity to DeFi applications on Polkadot and its network of parachains.
With over $1.6 billion in Bitcoin now circulating on the Ethereum blockchain, Polkadot hopes to grab a slice of the market with its new PolkaBTC token.
h2 Polkadot Introduces Tokenize Bitcoin/h2Blockchain teams are working to replicate the grand success of tokenized Bitcoin projects like wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) . Polkadot has responded to this popularity and is launching a similar Polkadot-based Bitcoin token on its network.
Interlay, a development team closely associated with Polkadot, will lead the endeavor. Interlay says it will finish implementing “PolkaBTC” once it launches the BTC Parachain in Q1 2021. To make the process secure, the BTC Parachain will rely on the Xclaim framework, the Interlay team wrote.
A cross-chain bridge will onboard the Bitcoin’s liquidity to Polkadot’s ecosystem. After the BTC Parachain goes live in Q1 2021, users will be able to lock their Bitcoin and issue PolkaBTC, which is 1:1 backed. Similarly, to redeem their Bitcoin, users will have to burn PolkaBTC on the BTC Parachain.
Tokenizing Bitcoin is not a new concept and already exists in many forms on Ethereum in forms like BitGo’s Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) and Keep Network’s tBTC.
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The total value of wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) on Ethereum has already surpassed a billion dollars and brought a tremendous amount of liquidity to DeFi apps.
The advantage of Bitcoin on Polkadot is that the network is highly interoperable. This means that BTC can do more by interacting with multiple blockchains all at once. This means that DeFi and PolkaBTC could spread quickly beyond just the Ethereum ecosystem.
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