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Unlocking a new era of Bitcoin
Together, Input | Output and Fairgate are expanding what’s possible and sharing more at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Las Vegas
2025 sees the annual Bitcoin Conference take over the neon strips and boulevards of Las Vegas. It’s one of the biggest events for the global Bitcoin community and we’re excited to be a part of it. As always, thinkers, builders, and other innovators will be looking forward to seeing what Bitcoin can bring in the future.
But we know that the future is here now, because we’re building it.
It’s a future where everyone will be able to have control over their identity, data, and money. And one where Bitcoin’s utility will be extended, but without compromising any of its original principles.
So, how are we doing this?
It starts by expanding Bitcoin’s functionality by creating a seamless integration to empower BTC holders to deploy their Bitcoin assets across a full spectrum of DeFi applications. We’re talking about everything from lending, NFT-collateralized loans, swaps, leveraged trading, and beyond. It’s Bitcoin DeFi, reinvented.
This is made possible through an innovative, trust-minimized protocol leveraging BitVMX for secure Bitcoin-side operations. Crucially, our groundbreaking UPLC to RISC-V compiler allows expressive smart contracts from Cardano (written in Aiken, Typescript, or Haskell) to define and secure these Bitcoin DeFi services. This approach brings sophisticated logic to Bitcoin assets, without altering Bitcoin’s core principles, and it operates on a 1-out-of-n honest operator model for enhanced security. Users will even be able to pay transaction fees in BTC directly from their preferred wallet, like Lace. It’s a new era of interoperable finance, and it’s coming soon.
Join Charles Hoskinson, CEO & Founder of IO, members of the Lace product team, and representatives from Fairgate, Babylon, and key Cardano ecosystem enablers for an insightful learn and learn session at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 27 for a preview of the new Bitcoin DeFi functionality.
This will be a great opportunity to learn more about the future of finance and how we’re championing Bitcoin’s scalability. To request to join, visit our Luma page here.