Restaking Bitcoin? Babylon + Portal Are About to Revamp Everything Yesterday, we broke down how @PortaltoBitcoin is embedding BTC restaking into its security layer. Today, we’ll show you how it’s actually implemented & why @babylonlabs_io is significant to making it work. This is real BTCFi in action 🧵👇 1⃣Quick Reminder: Portal’s vision is simple but powerful: → Uses real (native) @Bitcoin → Keep it on the base layer → Turn it into protocol-grade security → Never wrap, bridge, or trust third parties Now, here’s how Babylon makes that possible, ELI5 style... 2⃣Babylon is building the primitives for Bitcoin-secured restaking using: 🟣Time-locks 🟣Threshold signatures 🟣Checkpoint attestations This lets Portal slash BTC trustlessly - without ever leaving the Bitcoin chain. So for us, what does that mean in practice? Let’s say you stake $BTC into #Portal. That BTC is: - Time-locked in secure contracts - Bound to a validator’s behavior - Slashable if validators break the rules And all using Babylon’s primitives. Totally Bitcoin-native. 3⃣Why’s this way better than $wBTC? ❌ Wrapped Bitcoin relies on custodians ❌ If they rug, you lose everything ❌ It’s not trustless - it’s TradFi in disguise But with the Portal model ✅ No custody risk ✅ No asset wrapping ✅ No external dilution But it doesn't end there because there’s upside for you, too. BTC restakers can earn: - Network fees from swap activity - Restaking yield (like @eigenlayer but for BTC) All while helping secure a trustless cross-chain network This is idle BTC → active capital, that institutions are going to really enjoy (and they're already edging their way in - seen the news? 4⃣But here's a direct example Let's say you swap BTC for USDC (on @solana, for example) via Portal’s DEX, the swap isn’t coordinated by random validators, it’s secured by nodes bonded in actual Bitcoin. If they screw up? They lose BTC, so that’s realest skin in the game we know of. And as the Babylon mainnet matures, this becomes default for securing Bitcoin-native infrastructure. Portal’s early integration puts it way ahead of the curve. BTCFi is no longer just an idea... it’s infrastructure. But the bigger picture is: → Bitcoin goes way beyond just digital gold to hold → It’s becoming the base layer of trustless finance Portal’s restaking model proves that you don’t need synthetic tokens or custodians to build cross-chain coordination. You just need Bitcoin. Share with someone still holding wBTC and follow us for more ELI5 crypto insights that no one else is talking about