At first I assumed a Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) vault was just another deposit pool with better branding. That framing collapsed the moment I read what a vault actually is on the Bitcoin side. It isnt a pool at all. Each vault is a single Bitcoin UTXO, one output holding one depositor's BTC, locked by a Taproot script the depositor co-signs at creation. Every legitimate spend path is pre-signed before any BTC moves, and after that no participant can fabricate a new one. Bitcoin's consensus rules simply wont accept a spend that was never encoded.
Nothing is co-mingled, so nothing can be rehypothecated. The contracts cannot lend the BTC elsewhere or route it into some internal balance sheet, because no such path exists in the script. DeFi spent years teaching everyone that "vault" means a shared capital pool with shared risk. TBV queitly returns the word to its older meaning, a segregated compartment that only its owner's pre-agreed rules can open.
Makes me wonder how many depositors anywhere ever stop to check whether their vault is a compartment or a pool before the deposit clears.
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