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Bitcoin Could Get Ethereum-Style Revival as Startup Lombard Raises $16 Million
“Restaking” is all the rage in Ethereum blockchain circles. It allows users to earn interest by leveraging their staked assets to help secure other blockchain applications. Even developers in other ecosystems, such as Solana, are trying to replicate Ethereum’s resurgence in popularity.
So it was only a matter of time before the recovery reached the most valuable blockchain: Bitcoin.
In partnership with Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon, startup Lombard has raised $16 million to develop Bitcoin-based restaking. In addition to capitalizing on the restaking hype, Lombard is the latest startup to integrate Bitcoin into the broader world of decentralized finance (DeFi) — an industry that has so far been largely devoid of Bitcoin.
“Lombard aims to elevate BTC from a store of value to a productive asset that flows into the Web3 economy and drives sustainable growth,” the company said in a statement shared with CoinDesk.
Polychain Capital led Lombard’s funding round, joined by BabylonChain, Inc., dao5, Franklin Templeton, Foresight Ventures, Mirana Ventures, Mantle EcoFund, and Nomad Capital.
Restaking was introduced to Ethereum with EigenLayer, one of the biggest DeFi success stories in recent memory. EigenLayer has skyrocketed to US$18 billion in deposits in less than a year, promising users extra interest on assets they had already “staked” to help secure Ethereum.
EigenLayer’s “reclaimed” assets are pooled to secure a network of other cryptographic protocols that use proof of stake security. In essence, EigenLayer and other resumption protocols allow fledgling blockchain applications to bootstrap their security and provide investors with a new way to leverage their crypto assets.
Lombard’s dive into the recovery will be built on Babylon, which lets people use bitcoin to hedge other proof-of-stake networks. Paradigm previously led a $70 million funding round for the Bitcoin staking company.
Lombard is expanding Babylon’s cross-chain security technology with the advent of “liquid bitcoin” tokens, or LBTC — a type of tradable receipt on Babylon deposits that Lombard says will allow users to retain liquidity on the BTC they’ve staked to secure other networks.
“By bringing together leading DeFi ecosystems and protocols to integrate LBTC, over $1.3 trillion in Bitcoin can be used to lend, borrow and trade, providing new capital opportunities for bitcoin holders and new capital and users for the ecosystems and their protocols,” Lombard said in a statement shared with CoinDesk.
Ethereum’s ETH token started as the staked asset of the day on EigenLayer. ETH (and its derivatives) were considered less prone than most other digital assets to suddenly drop in price, which could undermine the security of proof-of-stake networks.
Many of the same attributes that make Ethereum an obvious comeback candidate also extend to Bitcoin, the oldest blockchain. Bitcoin boasts the largest market cap on any blockchain — 1 BTC is worth $63,000 at press time — and tends to be less volatile than other crypto assets.
“Our commitment to Lombard represents a deeper belief in the leverage that Bitcoin can have in catalyzing growth across the blockchain space,” said Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder of Polychain Capital, in a statement.
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Big Tech Outperforms Bitcoin (BTC) as Trump Deal Weakens Token
Bitcoin has lost out on an asset rally fueled by positive comments from the Federal Reserve, while a tight US election race casts doubt on whether Donald Trump will get the chance to implement his pro-crypto agenda.
The digital asset fell 2.4% on Wednesday, following a Fed-fueled surge in an index of megacap tech stocks Magnificent Seven by one of the largest margins in 2024. The token retreated further on Thursday, changing hands at $63,750 as of 6:10 a.m. in London.
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‘This is huge’ — Billionaire Mark Cuban issues ‘incredible’ Bitcoin and crypto prediction amid price slump
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came back with a vengeance this year when former President Donald Trump Cryptocurrency boosts US presidential election in November with ‘revolutionary’ plan.
The price of bitcoin has surged to more than its all-time high in recent months, surpassing $70,000 per bitcoin and triggering a wave of mega-optimistic predictions about the price of bitcointhough it fell again this week, falling below $65,000 after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady.
Now, as Elon Musk suddenly breaks his silence on bitcoin and cryptocurrenciesBillionaire investor Mark Cuban called a California plan to digitize 42 million car titles using blockchain an “incredible step forward” and “huge” for cryptocurrencies.
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Mark Cuban, famous Shark Tank investor and billionaire owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, has… [+] called a cryptocurrency update “amazing” amid bitcoin’s price slump.
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has digitized 42 million car titles using blockchain, it was reported by Reuters, through technology company Oxhead Alpha on the Avalanche blockchain and designed to detect fraud and facilitate the securities transfer process.
“This is an incredible development for crypto,” Cuban, best known as an investor on TV’s Shark Tank and owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, posted on X, joking that U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler could sue the state as part of his hostility toward cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
“The reason this is huge for crypto is because people who hold the tokens will have an app with an Avalanche wallet,” Cuban said. “Tens of millions of Californians having and using a crypto wallet in the next five years, or however long it takes, normalizes the use of wallets and crypto.”
John Wu, president of Avalanche developer Ava Labs, told Reuters that California’s DMV is “creating a wallet that you can download on your phone.”
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Bitcoin’s price has rallied this year, triggering a wave of bullish bitcoin price predictions from… [+] people like billionaire Mark Cuban.
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Last month, Cuban predicted that if the US dollar falls as the global reserve currency, bitcoin could become “a global ‘safe haven’” and a “global currency.” potentially sending the price of bitcoin to a much higher level.
According to Cuban, bitcoin could become what its most ardent supporters “envision” — a means “of protecting our economies… This is already happening in countries facing hyperinflation.”
The price of bitcoin has skyrocketed over the past year, largely due to the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, leading a bitcoin attack on Wall Street.
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