Bitcoin News Update: Decentralized tBTC Bridge Competes with Centralized Alternatives in the Battle for Bitcoin Liquidity
- Threshold Network upgrades tBTC bridge to unlock $500B institutional Bitcoin liquidity for DeFi, enabling single-transaction minting to Ethereum , Arbitrum, and Base without gas fees. - Competitors like WBTC ($13B market cap) expand to Hedera , leveraging institutional-grade security and MEV-resistant infrastructure to challenge Threshold's decentralized model. - Threshold's 51-of-100 threshold signing model eliminates custodial risks, contrasting with WBTC/renBTC's centralized custodians and attracting
Threshold Network has rolled out a significant update to its tBTC bridge, targeting the release of $500 billion in institutional
This development arrives as rivals such as
With WBTC now available on Hedera, DeFi adoption is expected to accelerate thanks to lower transaction costs and robust, institutional-level security. James Hodgkins, chief growth officer at HBAR, Inc., noted that this integration lets "idle Bitcoin liquidity" enter DeFi without facing MEV or frontrunning risks
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