Trad.Fi plans to bring up to $650M in equipment finance originations onto programmable rails over the next four years, using W3 for underwriting and capital workflows. The goal is to reduce financing timelines from months to a single business day. Interesting example of DeFi infrastructure being applied to a real-world credit market.
What made you stop caring about BTC or stop buying it?
Genuine question. Was it the volatility, the price, better opportunities elsewhere, or something else?
Do you still have any long-term plans for Bitcoin?
BTCFi is getting a lot more interesting lately because the conversation is slowly shifting beyond “just hold BTC.”
Bitcoin has already proved itself as:
• secure money
• a global settlement asset
• a long-term reserve asset
The next question is whether native BTC can also become productive capital without sacrificing self-custody or Bitcoin’s core principles.
That’s where newer BTCFi infrastructure like Babylon starts getting interesting.
Use cases like:
• native BTC collateral
• BTC-backed liquidity
• lending systems
• treasury collateral
• cross-chain financial usage
• productive BTC reserves
Most BTC liquidity today still sits idle.
If even a small portion eventually moves into trust-minimized BTCFi systems, the sector could become much bigger than people expect.
Especially if utility expands without bringing back the same custody risks Bitcoin was created to avoid.
As I asked, do you think BTC will just stay like that? Or can it still evolve based on the new use cases being explored by different protocols?
Not sure how far it can go though. What do you guys think?🙊