if you do NOT use DeFi now, would you use it on Bitcoin network?

[sergiorus]

Would you borrow or lend assets on platforms like AAVE if it was on a Bitcoin settlement layer?

Would you purchase blue chip NFTs that would emerge on there?

Would you provide liquidity for say BTC/USDC pair on an AMM DEX (i.e. Uniswap) ?

Be brutally honest.


Fwiw the topic is inspired by the latest developments of Bitcoin layers for USDT and USDC settlement, which of course would open the gates for DeFi projects development.

If your answer to those questions is still NO, what would you imagine be good and righteous use cases of the said stablecoins to offer to the public on those layers?

[(BTC)]

Probably not. Don't DeFi infastructures require chains/protocols with very fast transaction time/finality for the most part? I guess you could stake BTC on Babylon but like...still. Nah.

Would you purchase blue chip NFTs that would emerge on there?

Lol.

[sergiorus]

Probably not. Don't DeFi infastructures require chains/protocols with very fast transaction time/finality for the most part? I guess you could stake BTC on Babylon but like...still. Nah.

Would you purchase blue chip NFTs that would emerge on there?

Lol.

there are several projects (i.e. Arkade - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/12/tether-invests-in-ark-labs-to-make-bitcoin-ready-for-stablecoins-and-payments) that a building an execution layer on
Bitcoin which, I reckon, will have decent transaction and finality speed as they clearly state their goal is to create infrastructure that would include lending among others.

Probably won't be fast enough for trading though.

[passwordnow]

They are attractive when these projects are going to give incentives to the liquidity provider but, I'm not going to go for them.

Would you purchase blue chip NFTs that would emerge on there?

After what happened to them, I don't think that there's still going to be some good ones out there when most of them have dropped so much in value.

[bitmover]

Would you purchase blue chip NFTs that would emerge on there?

Lol.

What is a Bluetooth chip nft?  

I think soon bluechip stocks (like nvidia and tsla) will be available as tokens in bitcoin blockchain, just like USDT. Maybe he is thinking about that.

[rat03gopoh]

If I remember correctly, USDT used to be based on the Omni network, which has since been discontinued due to efficiency and other technical issues. Reverting to the Omni network would be a step backward. Or, if you mean the other network was never built, I doubt the stablecoin business ecosystem would be as developed as it is now.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Sure why not, as long as the liquidity is enough. There were attempts to do such thing through Layer 2 but most of them failed because nobody could care about Layer 2 anymore and they lack liquidity.
If somehow Tether could make the blockchain full of liquidity, assuming they are creating yet another Layer 2 on top of bitcoin, then they might succeed. Maybe finally we're breaking the curse of bitcoin Layer 2 where they don't really get utilized that much since it's Tether we are talking about.

Although honestly, some of the thing you mentioned already in the bitcoin's blockchain (kinda?) such as through Ordinal's inscription.

[internetional]

Would you borrow or lend assets on platforms like AAVE if it was on a Bitcoin settlement layer?

Would you purchase blue chip NFTs that would emerge on there?

Would you provide liquidity for say BTC/USDC pair on an AMM DEX (i.e. Uniswap) ?

Be brutally honest.

All of these kinds of DeFi projects have already existed in the Bitcoin ecosystem for years. They’re built around smart Bitcoin (RBTC) as the base asset and run on the Rootstock sidechain. There’s collateralized lending, NFTs, AMM DEXs, and even a solid decentralized stablecoin Dollar-on-Chain. But the fact that all of this has been around for years without mass adoption proves that there is no real demand for it among Bitcoin users.

Personally, I might use decentralized stablecoins (for example, something like BTCD - Bitcoin Dollar) if there were a way to spend them in everyday stores, similar to how people can currently pay with USDC via dedicated payment cards. And if such a stablecoin actually evolved into a widely accepted means of payment, then lending services (borrowing against BTC collateral) and decentralized exchanges could become genuinely useful as well.

As for NFTs, I would definitely use them when they’re applied to real-world use cases like digital access passes - hotel room keys, flight tickets, and so on. I don’t really care which blockchain they run on, as long as it’s not a corporate-controlled one managed by a limited group of entities. The reason I’m not using NFTs now isn’t because they’re not on Bitcoin - it’s because hardly anyone is offering practical implementations of these solutions yet.

[sergiorus]

Would you borrow or lend assets on platforms like AAVE if it was on a Bitcoin settlement layer?

Would you purchase blue chip NFTs that would emerge on there?

Would you provide liquidity for say BTC/USDC pair on an AMM DEX (i.e. Uniswap) ?

Be brutally honest.

All of these kinds of DeFi projects have already existed in the Bitcoin ecosystem for years. They’re built around smart Bitcoin (RBTC) as the base asset and run on the Rootstock sidechain. There’s collateralized lending, NFTs, AMM DEXs, and even a solid decentralized stablecoin Dollar-on-Chain. But the fact that all of this has been around for years without mass adoption proves that there is no real demand for it among Bitcoin users.

Personally, I might use decentralized stablecoins (for example, something like BTCD - Bitcoin Dollar) if there were a way to spend them in everyday stores, similar to how people can currently pay with USDC via dedicated payment cards. And if such a stablecoin actually evolved into a widely accepted means of payment, then lending services (borrowing against BTC collateral) and decentralized exchanges could become genuinely useful as well.

As for NFTs, I would definitely use them when they’re applied to real-world use cases like digital access passes - hotel room keys, flight tickets, and so on. I don’t really care which blockchain they run on, as long as it’s not a corporate-controlled one managed by a limited group of entities. The reason I’m not using NFTs now isn’t because they’re not on Bitcoin - it’s because hardly anyone is offering practical implementations of these solutions yet.

fascinating, I indeed have never heard of any of this.

Makes me wonder why Tether are actively investing in new Bitcoin settlement layers even more.
Clearly there was some flaw not allowing a mass adoption?

At this point I start thinking that Metamask integration is a must, which probably wouldn't be too hard as they have already stepped beyond EVM-chains with theirs Solana support.