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Alpen
@AlpenLabs
Bitcoin’s financial system is coming online. Borrow, earn interest, use stablecoins & more — soon on Bitcoin.
Joined December 2022
- Alpen reposted
William Swanson joins Alpen Labs. Co-founder of Airbitz (now Edge), a pioneer in self-custodial Bitcoin wallets trusted by millions worldwide. Now he's helping us build what's next for Bitcoin on mobile. Unveiling 🔜.
- Alpen repostedSTRC showed the demand for Bitcoin fixed income. What's coming with Alpen → Bitcoin-native fixed income → Backed by verifiable Bitcoin loans. Transparent collateral. Real cash flows. Better economics.
00:00 - William Swanson joins Alpen Labs. Co-founder of Airbitz (now Edge), a pioneer in self-custodial Bitcoin wallets trusted by millions worldwide. Now he's helping us build what's next for Bitcoin on mobile. Unveiling 🔜.
- STRC showed the demand for Bitcoin fixed income. What's coming with Alpen → Bitcoin-native fixed income → Backed by verifiable Bitcoin loans. Transparent collateral. Real cash flows. Better economics.00:00
- Alpen repostedBTC credit could compete with the Eurodollar system. → Eurodollars created a global credit layer around USD → BTC credit could create one around Bitcoin collateral A transparent, globally accessible challenger is emerging • Chapter 7 of 7
00:00 - Financial markets don't emerge from protocols alone. They require the tooling stack that developers and fintechs can build on with confidence. We've partnered with @wakeuplabs to deliver the infrastructure stack needed to unlock financial markets on Bitcoin.Building programmability onto Bitcoin requires new infrastructure paradigms. We've been partnering with @AlpenLabs to help make this possible across: • Explorers • Multisig tooling • Wallet integrations • Testnet validation Read the full story below ↓
- Alpen reposted
Building programmability onto Bitcoin requires new infrastructure paradigms. We've been partnering with @AlpenLabs to help make this possible across: • Explorers • Multisig tooling • Wallet integrations • Testnet validation Read the full story below ↓ - Alpen reposted
unpopular opinion: we’re about to enter a golden era of safe DeFi cost of superhuman audits, fuzzing, formal analysis & verification are rapidly collapsing it’s wildPSA: I now consider *all* of DeFi unsafe. Coding agents are superhuman at finding vulnerabilities, and smart contract security is too asymmetric: defenders need to fix every bug while attackers need just one exploit to steal funds. - Fintechs aren’t deciding whether to offer Bitcoin anymore. They’re deciding which infrastructure they trust to scale BTC finance for millions long term, says @david_seroy.
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