RenBridge and Bitcoin DeFi: A Practitioner Q&A on Why BTC Holders Bridge

  RenBridge and Bitcoin DeFi: A Practitioner Q&A on Why BTC Holders Bridge RenBridge and Bitcoin DeFi: A Practitioner Q&A on Why BTC Holders Bridge Bitcoin is excellent at being Bitcoin. That is also the reason it can feel oddly silent inside DeFi. If you hold BTC and want to borrow against it, provide liquidity, hedge, rotate into stablecoins, or use it as collateral in an EVM app, the base Bitcoin network will not suddenly behave like Ethereum. Bitcoin transactions move value through signatures and the peer-to-peer network, as the Bitcoin project's own explainer lays out. Ethereum-style DeFi, by contrast, is built around smart contracts, token standards, lending markets, and liquidity pools. That gap is why wrapped Bitcoin exists. It is also why RenBridge still comes up in serious conversations about Bitcoin DeFi, even though anyone looking at RenVM has to be careful about current support, fees, and operational status instead of relying on old assumptions. So what proble...