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According to blockchain startup Babylon, as part of its staggered rollout, the forthcoming launch of its self-custodial bitcoin staking mainnet is slated to go live in two days.
The economic features of bitcoin will be used in this launch to improve the security systems of proof-of-stance blockchains. Users will be able to stake their bitcoin using a specifically created smart contract. Under a self-custodian model—where users have control over their assets without middlemen—this method seeks to leverage bitcoin’s economic security to reinforce different decentralized networks. This covers systems including data availability solutions, Layer 2s, sovereign PoS chains, and oracles.
Later on, Babylon’s BTC timestamping system will allow any data delivered to the platform to be timestamped using Bitcoin’s blockchain. Its documentation claims that a main use of this protocol is timestamping PoS blockchains, hence improving their security by preventing long-range assaults.
Bitcoin holders will start the staking process by submitting Bitcoin staking transactions to the Bitcoin blockchain during the first phase, as Babylon pointed out in a blog post. Babylon raised $70 million in a new investment round headed by the venture company Paradigm in May. In December 2023, Polychain Capital and Hack VC co-led their $18 million Series A investment round.
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