TREE NEWS update: Babylon has advanced a proposal to let Bitcoin be used as native collateral on Aave V4, with WBTC handling settlement of permissionless liquidations. Risk settings and further governance votes are still pending. The plan would keep collateral on Bitcoin rather than bridging it into a wrapped form for the lending market.
Babylon Advances Native Bitcoin Collateral Plan for Aave V4
The design choice matters more than the headline: keeping collateral native while using WBTC only for liquidation settlement tries to avoid the usual bridge-risk tradeoff, but it concentrates a new kind of dependency on the liquidation path. Aave governance is where this actually gets decided, and the pending risk parameters will determine whether Bitcoin collateral behaves like a conservative reserve asset or a volatile one. Whether the native-collateral model gets adopted beyond this single proposal is the open question.
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