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Babylon Connects Bitcoin Holders to Aave Lending and Stablecoin Yield

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Babylon Labs and HashKey Cloud announced a plan to connect native Bitcoin collateral to Aave v4 through Trustless Bitcoin Vaults. Testing is already live, while no production launch date has been set. The setup is described as letting Bitcoin holders borrow supported assets against BTC on its native network without wrapped tokens or cross-chain bridges.

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Babylon Labs said HashKey Cloud will integrate its Trustless Bitcoin Vaults so Bitcoin holders can use native BTC as collateral and reach Aave v4 liquidity markets without wrapped tokens, cross-chain bridges, or centralized intermediaries.
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The planned setup would let users borrow supported assets against Bitcoin held on its native network.
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Testing for the integration is already live on Aave v4.

What it means

Bitcoin holders and Aave users are the groups that can notice this next, because the planned setup is about native BTC being used as collateral inside Aave v4 markets. If it is available beyond testing, the change would be in how users reach those markets: the setup is described as using BTC directly rather than through wrapped tokens or cross-chain bridges.

Before this plan, the described path to Aave liquidity involved added layers such as wrapped tokens, bridges, or centralized intermediaries; the new setup is framed around native BTC instead. What stays the same is that the process is still tied to Aave v4 liquidity markets, and the material change described is the route Bitcoin takes into them.

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