TREE NEWS update: Babylon’s proposal to bring native Bitcoin collateral to Aave V4 has entered a new governance stage. Further votes and security reviews are still required before the integration can launch. No date has been given for the remaining steps.
Babylon’s native Bitcoin lending proposal advances to new Aave V4 governance stage
The significance here is structural rather than immediate: native Bitcoin as collateral inside a major DeFi lending market would blur the line between BTC's store-of-value role and yield-bearing on-chain assets, a step RWA and Bitcoinfi builders have long targeted. It affects Aave governance participants, Babylon's staking ecosystem, and Bitcoin holders weighing custody tradeoffs. The open questions are the security review's findings and whether governance support holds through the remaining votes — no timeline has been set, so the process itself is the story for now.
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