Stargate Finance, a prominent cross-chain asset bridging and liquidity protocol, has announced its collaboration with Aptos, a cutting-edge L1 blockchain prioritizing scalability, security, and performance. The partnership is focused on launching Wrapped Bitcoin ($WBTC) on Aptos through Stargate and LayerZero, an advanced omnichain interoperability platform. The platform took to social media to announce this initiative.
Stargate Finance Partners with LayerZero to Release $WBTC on Aptos
With this partnership, Startgate Finance and LayerZero have officially launched Wrapped Bitcoin ($WBTC) on Aptos. Hence, more than $15B in $WBTC is currently in circulation. This integration leverages Stargate to enable the native movement of Bitcoin ($BTC) between ten linked blockchains and Aptos. This ensures transactions with zero fees and zero slippage when routed through the omnichain protocol of Stargate.
Apart from that, $WBTC’s launch underscores an exclusive chapter in the journey of Bitcoin beyond the native blockchain thereof. This reportedly offers comprehensive liquidity while also improving Aptos’ DeFi capabilities. Aptos also plays a crucial role in this development with the provision of modular architecture, parallel execution, and scalability. Additionally, this makes it the perfect hub to broaden the use cases of Bitcoin ($BTC) in decentralized finance (DeFi).
Now, on Aptos, $WBTC has already witnessed integrations with a broad range of DeFi entities. They include Hyperion XYZ, Kofi Finance, Cellana Finance, Tapp Exchange, Moar Market, Kanalabs, Pandora Exchange, Thala Labs, Echelon Market, and Aries Markets. Hence, the respective ecosystem-wide support delivers rapid liquidity of Bitcoin ($BTC) across Aptos-based yield farming, trading, and lending platforms.
By utilizing the Omnichain Fungible Token standard of Stargate, Bitcoin ($BTC) can smoothly move across diverse networks without facing liquidity fragmentation. This development also provides consumers with access to new DeFi opportunities in the Aptos ecosystem. At the same time, this also maintains unparalleled interoperability with the rest of the blockchains.
Strengthening Users and Developers with Comprehensive Liquidity, Security, and Speed
According to Stargate, the release of $WBTC on Aptos in collaboration with LayerZero advances BTCfi. Thus, this move allows users and developers to delve into the latest financial products that merge the liquidity and security of Bitcoin with the low-latency and high-speed infrastructure of Aptos. Overall, this unlocks wider liquidity, improved efficiency, as well as additional opportunities to benefit $BTC holders working across ecosystems.
