$BTC Decentralized finance (DeFi) will transform Bitcoin from a passive store of value into an asset that can challenge traditional finance, prominent figures in the Bitcoin space say.

At the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, speakers shared their belief that the infrastructure of Bitcoin will drive the next generation of DeFi applications in the next chapter of the network, echoing the call of the original builders who envisioned a parallel financial system alongside fiat currency.

The conference featured DeFi projects like Liquid Network, which includes emerging Bitcoin DeFi companies looking to expand the decentralized "technology stack" in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

There is widespread consensus that Bitcoin is the foundation of finance and its emerging DeFi movement is supporting the expansion of the use of Bitcoin's infrastructure.