As Decentralized Finance (DeFi) surges forward, Bitcoin—the world’s most established digital asset—remains surprisingly limited within this new financial paradigm. While Bitcoin is trusted and widely held, its role in DeFi is constrained due to its scripting limitations, making it primarily a store of value rather than an active participant in decentralized applications.
This challenge is precisely what Native seeks to address. By introducing a Zero Trust, bridgeless approach, Native enables Bitcoin to securely interact within DeFi, without the risks associated with traditional bridges or wrapped tokens.
The Hurdles of Integrating Bitcoin into DeFi
Bitcoin’s design prioritizes security, simplicity, and decentralization, using a basic scripting language that limits programmability. This security-first design, while fundamental to Bitcoin’s appeal, prevents it from easily interfacing with other chains or supporting smart contracts—both crucial for DeFi applications.
Historically, attempts to integrate Bitcoin into the broader DeFi ecosystem have relied on “bridges.” These bridges act as intermediaries, or, as I like to call them, "single points of failure" - enabling BTC to be locked on one chain and issued as a wrapped or synthetic version on another, such as wrapped BTC (wBTC) on Ethereum.
While these bridges enable interoperability, they introduce major security risks: bridge operators can be central points of failure, and if hacked or compromised, they pose a risk to users’ funds. These vulnerabilities have been a recurring challenge, leading to billions lost in bridge-related breaches. Even Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has voiced concerns over the high-risk nature of cross-chain bridges. Native’s approach replaces this risk with a direct, decentralized method for bringing Bitcoin into DeFi.
Native’s Zero Trust Approach: A Secure Framework for Bitcoin in DeFi
Native presents a new solution to bring Bitcoin into DeFi securely by introducing Zero Trust Protocols (ZTPs). Zero Trust Architecture, widely known for its applications in cybersecurity, requires that no single party or intermediary is implicitly trusted. Instead, security is ensured through continuous authentication and verification of each transaction, without placing reliance on centralized entities or trusted intermediaries.
Native’s Zero Trust Architecture positions Bitcoin to engage safely across blockchain networks, directly addressing the security challenges faced by bridges and wrapped tokens.
Core Components of Native’s Zero Trust Architecture
Non-Collusive MPC Network: Native’s security framework leverages Multi-Party Computation (MPC), a cryptographic method that requires multiple independent operators to cooperate in transaction verification to construct signature using a novel treshold signature scheme. This decentralized setup ensures that no single validator—or even a colluding group—can compromise user funds. Through the groundbreaking 2PC-MPC algorithm and partnership with dWallet Labs, Native achieves secure verification without ceding control of assets to third parties, maintaining Bitcoin’s decentralized and trustless ethos.
Bridgeless Interoperability: By allowing direct, secure interactions with Bitcoin assets, Native’s platform bypasses traditional bridges. This feature eliminates the need for wrapped tokens or synthetic Bitcoin derivatives, preserving the security of assets by ensuring they remain natively controlled, even when deployed in DeFi applications.
This architecture empowers Bitcoin to function seamlessly within multichain finance ecosystems, supporting a decentralized approach that aligns with Bitcoin’s original principles.
BLISS - A Unified Bitcoin Infrastructure for DeFi
At the heart of Native’s platform is the Bitcoin Liquidity and Interoperability Scaling Stack (BLISS), a powerful infrastructure layer that unifies Bitcoin’s liquidity across networks. BLISS combines zero-knowledge proofs and fraud-proof mechanisms, enabling secure cross-chain transactions with rapid finality.
Developers can use BLISS to build scalable Bitcoin applications that provide access to deep liquidity pools, faster transactions, and lower costs. By reducing fragmentation and making Bitcoin liquidity more accessible across chains, BLISS offers a unified structure for deploying and managing BTC in DeFi.
Through BLISS, Bitcoin becomes not just interoperable but also highly usable in multichain DeFi applications, addressing the long-standing issue of liquidity fragmentation in cross-chain environments.
Key Partnerships Strengthening Native’s Ecosystem
Native is advancing Bitcoin's integration into decentralized finance (DeFi) through a network of strategic partnerships, each addressing unique limitations in Bitcoin’s traditional role.
Among these partnerships, Native’s alliance with Union, Nuffle and Avail offers secure, trust-minimized bridges to enhance Bitcoin’s cross-chain interoperability and fast-finality, thus addressing long-standing challenges with state verification and liquidity fragmentation .
Secret Network adds another dimension by enabling privacy-preserving technology, allowing Bitcoin transactions to remain confidential and secure—an essential feature for both individual users and developers aiming to build privacy-first DeFi applications.
In collaboration with C4E, Native brings Bitcoin to the Cosmos and IBC ecosystems, enhancing Bitcoin’s accessibility across IBC-connected chains. This integration enables C4E users to tap into Bitcoin’s security for new DeFi applications, including staking, liquidity pools, and cross-chain transfers. The Agoric partnership introduces a frictionless, one-click mechanism to interact with native Bitcoin directly from Cosmos wallets, which greatly simplifies Bitcoin’s use within the Cosmos ecosystem.
Other partnerships include Nexio, Satochain, B² Network, Rooch Network, Zulu Network, Bitfinity Network, Autonomys, Tectum networks which are integrating with BLISS Stack for seamless and secure interoperability and unified liquidity possible with fast-finality. East Blue provides additional tooling and BQ labs provides security through decentralized insurance for staked Bitcoin and beyond.
Expanding Bitcoin’s Role in DeFi
Native’s ultimate vision extends far beyond simply integrating Bitcoin into DeFi. By offering a bridgeless, secure solution, Native aims to establish Bitcoin as a foundational asset within DeFi itself. The platform enables diverse DeFi applications directly with Bitcoin, allowing for decentralized lending, staking, yield generation, and much more without needing intermediaries or synthetic assets.
This approach supports the evolution of Bitcoin from a passive store of value into an active asset that can support complex financial ecosystems, setting the stage for an interconnected financial system where Bitcoin plays a pivotal role.
What’s Next - Mainnet Launch
As Native prepares for its mainnet launch, the focus remains on expanding the BLISS stack and introducing additional security layers to support more advanced DeFi use cases. Post-launch, Native plans to roll out a comprehensive suite of Zero Trust Protocols to further strengthen security in interactions with Bitcoin assets. This ongoing development is designed to create a safer DeFi ecosystem that minimizes the reliance on centralized trust points, putting more control back into the hands of Bitcoin holders.
Native’s expansion of Zero Trust Protocols will allow users to interact with Bitcoin assets across various chains confidently, fully retaining control over their funds without needing custodial solutions.
A New Era for Bitcoin in DeFi
Native’s approach of using Zero Trust Protocols for Bitcoin integration in DeFi is groundbreaking, as it fundamentally shifts how Bitcoin can participate in decentralized applications. By removing the risks associated with bridges and third-party custody, Native allows Bitcoin to engage safely and directly within DeFi, preserving its decentralized nature.
By positioning Bitcoin as a secure, active participant in DeFi, Native aims to drive forward a more interconnected, decentralized, and secure financial ecosystem.
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