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The latest from the BOB ecosystem.

BOB Ecosystem Spotlight #02 — Pell
Through our one-click staking portal, Pell users can restake their SolvBTC, tBTC, uniBTC, SolvBTC.BBN (or WBTC) on BOB to make additional yield.

Try the BOB BitVM bridge for yourself
Now BOB & Fiamma have launched the BOB BitVM bridge on testnet, you can grab yourself some Signet Bitcoin tokens and mint bobBTC.

BOB Integrates Fireblocks To Unlock Institutional Bitcoin DeFi
The integration provides secure, institutional-grade access to Bitcoin DeFi, combining Fireblocks’ MPC wallet with BOB’s hybrid L2 network.

Announcing BOB Rise: A New DeFi Campaign in Collaboration with Optimism
A share of 750,000 OP tokens is up for grabs for users who participate in DeFi Protocols on BOB.

BitVM Accelerated
BOB launches BitVM bridge on public testnet in collaboration with Fiamma, announces bitvm/acc working group with major institutional partners.

BitVM Status Report
A BOB Research report into the status of BitVM development and roll out.

BOB Launches Hybrid BTC Yield Products, Ushering in a New Era of Bitcoin DeFi
BOB solidifies its position as the ideal home for Bitcoin DeFi, pioneering a seamless and secure way to access Bitcoin yield across multiple chains.

BOB Will Be Attending Major Events in 2025
The BOB team will be traveling across the globe to present and network at some of the leading crypto and Bitcoin conferences this year.

Hybrid Data Availability: Enforcing BitVM Withdrawals on BOB
We are working on a hybrid solution: defaulting to Ethereum as DA while allowing users to force include transactions on BOB via a special transaction on Bitcoin.

The latest DeFi & points opportunities on BOB
As BOB continues to build the ideal home for Bitcoin DeFi, we thought we would summarise some of the latest opportunities and DeFi strategies available on the network.

BOB Adopts the Chainlink Standard As Its Canonical Cross-Chain Infrastructure For Native Assets
We’re adopting Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the canonical cross-chain infrastructure for tokens native to the BOB network.

Prediction: Bitcoin DeFi is set to explode in 2025
A look ahead at the changes coming to the world’s largest and most famous blockchain. We saw the first wave of Bitcoin DeFi in 2024, but this was just a taste of what’s to come.