- Starknet has unveiled plans to choose Bitcoin and Ethereum.
- Crypto VC accomplice believes that BTC DeFi has an enormous development potential.
Starknet [STRK] seeks to unify and supply settlement on Bitcoin [BTC] and Ethereum [ETH], a primary of its form if achieved this 12 months. A part of its assertion learn,
“Starknet will become the first L2 to settle on both Bitcoin & Ethereum, bringing the two largest blockchain ecosystems on a single layer, unlocking new DeFi opportunities and greater liquidity.”
The ETH L2 scaling resolution added that it is likely one of the most cost-effective L2s and would convey low-cost transactions to unlock BTC DeFi potential.
Because of this, it will place itself as BTC’s ‘execution layer’ for DeFi actions like lending, borrowing, staking, and so on.
BTC DeFi potential
Observe, nevertheless, that there are different BTC scaling options, together with Stacks, Lightning Community, BitVM, and BitcoinOS. As of early 2025, BTC TVL (complete worth locked) on its DeFi was about 68K BTC or $5.3B.
The TVL hit an all-time excessive of 73.2K BTC in January 2025. For comparability, that was a comparatively small 4K BTC drop in Q1 2025.
When zoomed out from final December, BTC DeFI TVL grew from 48K BTC to almost 70K BTC, translating to 43% development.
It bolstered investor confidence in BTC DeFi, which was at present dominated by staking platforms Babylon, Lombard, SolvBTC, and cost supplier Lightning Community.
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Curiously, the elevated curiosity in BTC DeFi might increase the TVL even additional.
In line with Dan Held, a crypto VC at Uneven and BTC DeFi investor, the sector has the most important untapped potential and will explode to a $300 trillion market measurement. He stated,
“If DeFi could be unlocked on Bitcoin, it would be by far the biggest opportunity ever to happen in crypto.”
On the Starknet replace, Held termed it as ‘huge’ for BTC DeFi development and mindshare.
In a separate interview with the Provide Shock podcast, Held projected that BTC DeFi development might eat Ethereum and Solana’s market share.
“I think what will happen is that this just absorbs market share from the other ones significantly, but not totally, and that this increases Bitcoin’s dominance.”
Within the meantime, Starknet plans to make use of federated bridges to convey Bitcoin property to its platform because it waits for OP_CAT, a mushy fork that goals to reinforce the Bitcoin community’s sensible contract capability.
It stays to be seen how the DeFi renaissance would trickle right down to BTC’s worth on worth charts.
