To get more value out of a house, you usually have to renovate it.
But what's interesting about Bitcoin is that its utility is growing without any renovation.
Bitcoin itself hasn't changed much.
Yet what people can do with Bitcoin today is completely different from a few years ago.
To be honest, the playbook used to be very simple.
Buy BTC.
Hold.
Wait.
Today, Bitcoin can participate in staking, restaking, liquidity provision, lending markets, and even cross-chain ecosystems.
What's interesting is that most of these changes didn't come from changing Bitcoin itself.
They came from building new infrastructure around it.
While reading through @Bedrock 's BTCFi framework, that idea kept coming back to me.
Bedrock's BTCFi 2.0 thesis didn't seem like an attempt to turn Bitcoin into something new.
Instead, it seems focused on expanding what Bitcoin holders can do while continuing to hold BTC.
For example, uniBTC allows holders to keep their Bitcoin liquidity while putting their capital to work.
Meanwhile, brBTC creates access to multiple restaking ecosystems through a single asset.
The same pattern can be seen in Bedrock's expansion across ecosystems such as Base, Rootstock, Aptos, and others.
Bitcoin didn't change.
The infrastructure changed.
The opportunities changed.
The utility changed.
Maybe that's one of the most interesting developments happening in crypto right now.
Many technologies become more useful because they change.
Bitcoin may be becoming more useful without changing itself.
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