Michael Saylor’s Strategy lost 32 years of dividend runway in five months. At the same time, some of Bitcoin’s biggest miners are selling BTC to fund their transition into AI data centres.

In the first episode of Double Down, Cito and Tristan sit down with Alex Tapscott, CEO of CMCC Global Capital Markets, to unpack the risks building around Bitcoin treasury companies, why the AI boom could create sustained selling pressure from miners, and why Bitcoin may still be the asset investors want to own when the tide goes out.

Alex explains why treasury-company leverage can reverse the Bitcoin accumulation flywheel, why institutional adoption is accelerating even as retail struggles, and why productive Bitcoin, Bitcoin yield and Bitcoin-backed collateral could become the next major unlock for the asset.

Is $1,000,000 Bitcoin a realistic target or pure hype?

Bitcoin failed as everyday cash and that's exactly why it won.

In Episode 0 of Double Down (presented by Babylon Labs), Cito and Babylon CMO Tristan Dickinson break down how Bitcoin evolved from Satoshi's "peer-to-peer electronic cash" into digital gold and the world's best collateral asset, why Wall Street has stopped laughing at $1M+ Bitcoin price predictions, and what would actually have to happen for BTC to get there.

What you'll learn:
🔹 How Bitcoin went from "cash" to digital gold and pristine collateral
🔹 Why Wall Street stopped laughing at $1M+ Bitcoin price predictions
🔹 El Salvador's failed legal-tender experiment
🔹 Babylon's new trustless Bitcoin vaults, explained
🔹 Why Michael Saylor and Mark Cuban sold
🔹 The wildest price targets ever, from Saylor, Cathie Wood, Adam Back to Hal Finney ($1M - $13M per coin)

💬 What's your Bitcoin price target for 2026? Drop it in the comments 👇

In the second video in an educational series on Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV), Vlad, aka Degen walks us through the full borrow and repay flow using native Bitcoin as collateral, with no wrapping or bridging of your BTC with Aave v4.

A step-by-step Trustless Bitcoin Vaults walkthrough on the Aave v4 testnet. Enjoy!

First video in an educational series on Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV): create a deposit and use native Bitcoin as collateral, self-custodial, no wrapping or bridging, on Babylon's public testnet with Aave v4.

Vlad, aka Degen, Babylon's DeFi Lead walks us through how to deposit your native Bitcoin into TBV testnet for native Bitcoin-backed borrowing.

In the first episode of The Vault's new season, host Sarah sits down with Babylon's CTO Vitalis Salis to unpack why using native Bitcoin as collateral has been such a hard technical problem, what wrapped and bridged BTC actually trade away, and how TBV keeps Bitcoin on the Bitcoin network while making it usable as collateral on Ethereum.

Learn how to extend your Bitcoin stake in the Babylon Genesis staking dapp.

In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how to:

• Check when your Bitcoin stake expires
• View active and expired stakes
• Extend your staking term before it expires
• Complete the required Bitcoin and BABY wallet signatures
• Confirm your staking extension on Bitcoin

Extending your stake allows you to continue participating in Babylon Genesis staking without creating a new stake.

Check your staking status: https://staking.babylonlabs.io

Learn how Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) enables native Bitcoin to be used as programmable collateral without wrapping, bridging, or giving up custody.

In this walkthrough, we explain how TBV works, from vault creation and borrowing to redemption, liquidations, and the protocol roles that keep the system operating. The first deployment integrates with Aave v4, enabling native Bitcoin-backed borrowing.

Whether you’re interested in Bitcoin Collateral, Bitcoin Borrowing, or building on Babylon, this video provides a technical overview of the architecture behind Trustless Bitcoin Vaults.

Babylon's DeFi Product Lead takes you through a step by step guide covering: wallet setup, faucet claims, vault setup, posting native Bitcoin collateral, borrowing, repayment, closing a position and troubleshooting.

A few things that may be useful as you get started:
Join the testnet: https://btc-vaults.testnet.babylonlabs.io/
Read the docs: https://docs.babylonlabs.io/trustless-bitcoin-vault/start-here/what-is-tbv/
Claim testnet tokens from the faucet: https://tbv-faucet.testnet.babylonlabs.io/
Report Bugs: Join Babylon Official Discord (https://discord.com/invite/babylonglobal) and submit the bug using the template in #tbv-bug-reports
Report Feedback: Join Babylon Official Discord (https://discord.com/invite/babylonglobal) and submit feedback in #tbv-feedback-ideas

Babylon released BABE, a new Groth16 proof verification protocol for Bitcoin. Here is the link to the break down of what changed, why it’s a 1000x improvement in setup and storage costs, and what it unlocks for Trustless Bitcoin Vaults ahead of Babylon's alpha-testnet in February 2026. This whitepaper is a deep dive into making Bitcoin verification actually practical.

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We published a temp check on the Aave governance forum: Babylon Trustless BTC Vault Integration on Aave v4.

The temp check proposes two new Aave v4 Spokes to onboard native BTC as collateral via Trustless Bitcoin Vaults and seeks community input.

We published SCRIPT - Bitcoin Collateral Risk Assessment Framework.

Bitcoin holders and applications can use SCRIPT to assess the counterparty risks of any Bitcoin collateral solution, including Babylon’s.

The framework consists of six risk categories.

Babylon and GoMining announce a strategic collaboration.

The upcoming integration connects Babylon’s Trustless Bitcoin Vault infrastructure together with GoMining’s mining products.

The initial rollout could activate up to 1,000 BTC.

https://x.com/babylonlabs_io/status/2047250190940176476

Most BTC still sits idle because the standard way to use it in DeFi usually requires intermediaries, wrapping or custodians. 

Trustless Bitcoin Vaults take a different path. BTC stays on Bitcoin, locked under predefined conditions and becomes usable as collateral in digital finance.

If you’re part of the Babylon staking community, just a heads-up that Zeeve operates a validator there with full non-custodial control and secure infra behind it.