Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Bitcoin was built to be held.
But today, holders have more options.

In episode 4 of Beyond Digital Gold: A Bitcoin DeFi Docu-series together with StarkWare, we break down the real ways people are putting bitcoin to work right now:
• borrowing against BTC without selling it
• earning yield through lending and staking
• spending BTC through Lightning
• providing liquidity in DeFi
• using more advanced structured BTC yield strategies

We also explain the tradeoffs behind each path.

Because putting bitcoin to work usually means making a choice between:
• more liquidity and more composability
• or fewer trust assumptions and a more Bitcoin-native setup

This video walks through the current Bitcoin DeFi landscape across Ethereum, Starknet, Babylon, Botanix, Stacks, Thorchain and more — showing where the opportunities are today, what the risks are, and what’s still missing.

Featuring Nathan Jeffay, Eli Ben-Sasson, Avihu Levy, Matt Luongo, David Tsai, Jacob Phillips, Ari Eiberman and more.

If you hold BTC and want to understand the real options for using it without just selling it, this episode is for you.

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