📝 Bi-Weekly Babylon Digest

June 20 – July 3, 2025

Welcome back for our latest bi-weekly round-up 👋. Babylon has just shared its official 2025 roadmap, outlining the path to a fully trustless BTCFi economy.

With EVM support on the horizon, multi-staking entering testnet, and a growing ecosystem of tools, staking options, and builders, Babylon Genesis is moving fast. Whether you’re here to stake BTC, build with it, or just keep up, here’s everything that happened these past two weeks.

🔮 The Road to BTCFi: Babylon’s 2025 Roadmap

Babylon Labs has published its official 2025 roadmap, outlining the path to a fully integrated BTCFi economy.

Highlights include multi-staking, EVM integration, and liquidity apps secured by native BTC. Each step brings Babylon Genesis closer to powering a circular, trustless financial system for Bitcoin.

🔗 Read the roadmap on the blog here.

🔧 Dual VM Architecture: EVM Joins CosmWasm on Babylon Genesis

Babylon Genesis is adding EVM support alongside CosmWasm, creating a dual-VM design purpose-built for BTCFi.

CosmWasm is already live on mainnet and enables secure, high-performance Bitcoin-facing smart contracts written in Rust. EVM brings a massive ecosystem of BTCFi protocols, developer familiarity, and seamless wallet access through providers like Metamask.

Importantly, both VMs share a unified token ledger. This lets developers build fully interoperable dapps. For example, a synthetic BTC asset minted with CosmWasm can be used directly inside an EVM-based BTCFi protocol.

The rollout also introduces 0x address support:

• New to BTCFi? The ability to create a EVM wallet address and start using apps right away.
  
  
• Already staking or holding BABY? You will be able to migrate your assets to a 0x address, or continue using your existing bbn1 address with no changes needed.

Devnet is already live. The public testnet is on the way, with a full audit by the Interchain Foundation set to finish by the end of July. Mainnet integration is targeted for early Q4 2025.

🔍 New Babylon Explorer Experience by Xangle

The Babylon Explorer just got a major upgrade, thanks to Xangle. With new features that streamline on-chain activity tracking and give builders and users deeper insights, it's now easier than ever to navigate Babylon Genesis.

The update includes:

• Faucet Access: Instantly claim tBABY and start testing
  
  
• Token Overview: View native, IBC, and CW-20 tokens at a glance
  
  
• Relayer Mapping: Explore IBC channel and connection details
  
  
• Contract Activity: Inspect smart contract metadata and actions
  
  
• Enhanced Account Pages: Portfolio and transfer history tabs added
  
  
• Data Exporting: Download your full transaction history
  
  
• BTC Staking Data: Monitor withdrawals and unbonded stats
  
  
• Block Insights: Compare gas usage to max block limits
  
  

This enhanced explorer improves contract transparency, simplifies token tracking, and gives faster access to Babylon Genesis testnet tools.

Explore the new Babylon Explorer here.

🗽 Babylon Bitcoin Staking Now Available in the US

Babylon Genesis now supports native Bitcoin staking access for users in the United States. This marks a key step forward for BTCFi adoption.

For the first time, US-based Bitcoin holders can stake BTC directly through Babylon’s protocol without bridges, wrapping, or intermediaries. It’s pure, trustless staking that keeps users in control while securing Proof-of-Stake networks and earning rewards.

This expansion reflects growing demand for secure Bitcoin utility and sets the stage for broader ecosystem growth across BSNs.

🎙️ Babylon Genesis on Air: AMAs, X Spaces, and More

Babylon Labs recently hosted an X Space with Nexus Mutual, Native, and Immunefi to explore the evolving BTCFi landscape and how risk is being addressed as native Bitcoin staking gains traction.

The discussion dove into the Babylon Bitcoin protocol’s role in BTCFi, new insurance primitives with Nexus Mutual, and how security is being approached across multiple protocols.

Watch the full X Space.

🐲 The Intern Rises (Again)

Last time we handed our intern the keys to Babylon Labs’s X account, the instruction was simple: “Don’t go full degen.”

That request did not age well.

Since then:

• He removed the US geo lock
  
  
• Posted a Liberty-themed dragon in NYC
  
  
• And got hit with: “Why are you the way that you are?”

The memes are unhinged. The vibes are excellent.
Productivity? Actually, surprisingly high.

Follow along: @babylonlabs_io

🔭 Looking Ahead

With the roadmap now public, Babylon is focused on delivering the next major milestones.

The EVM public testnet is coming soon, opening the doors to BTCFi-native dApps and new developer communities. Multi-staking is also approaching testnet, allowing BTC holders to secure multiple chains using a single stake.

More updates, tools, and integrations are on the way as Babylon Genesis continues toward Phase-3.

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