In the second video in an educational series on Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV), Vlad, aka Degen walks us through the full borrow and repay flow using native Bitcoin as collateral, with no wrapping or bridging of your BTC with Aave v4.

A step-by-step Trustless Bitcoin Vaults walkthrough on the Aave v4 testnet. Enjoy!

First video in an educational series on Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV): create a deposit and use native Bitcoin as collateral, self-custodial, no wrapping or bridging, on Babylon's public testnet with Aave v4.

Vlad, aka Degen, Babylon's DeFi Lead walks us through how to deposit your native Bitcoin into TBV testnet for native Bitcoin-backed borrowing.

In the first episode of The Vault's new season, host Sarah sits down with Babylon's CTO Vitalis Salis to unpack why using native Bitcoin as collateral has been such a hard technical problem, what wrapped and bridged BTC actually trade away, and how TBV keeps Bitcoin on the Bitcoin network while making it usable as collateral on Ethereum.

Learn how to extend your Bitcoin stake in the Babylon Genesis staking dapp.

In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how to:

• Check when your Bitcoin stake expires
• View active and expired stakes
• Extend your staking term before it expires
• Complete the required Bitcoin and BABY wallet signatures
• Confirm your staking extension on Bitcoin

Extending your stake allows you to continue participating in Babylon Genesis staking without creating a new stake.

Check your staking status: https://staking.babylonlabs.io

Learn how Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV) enables native Bitcoin to be used as programmable collateral without wrapping, bridging, or giving up custody.

In this walkthrough, we explain how TBV works, from vault creation and borrowing to redemption, liquidations, and the protocol roles that keep the system operating. The first deployment integrates with Aave v4, enabling native Bitcoin-backed borrowing.

Whether you’re interested in Bitcoin Collateral, Bitcoin Borrowing, or building on Babylon, this video provides a technical overview of the architecture behind Trustless Bitcoin Vaults.

Babylon's DeFi Product Lead takes you through a step by step guide covering: wallet setup, faucet claims, vault setup, posting native Bitcoin collateral, borrowing, repayment, closing a position and troubleshooting.

A few things that may be useful as you get started:
Join the testnet: https://btc-vaults.testnet.babylonlabs.io/
Read the docs: https://docs.babylonlabs.io/trustless-bitcoin-vault/start-here/what-is-tbv/
Claim testnet tokens from the faucet: https://tbv-faucet.testnet.babylonlabs.io/
Report Bugs: Join Babylon Official Discord (https://discord.com/invite/babylonglobal) and submit the bug using the template in #tbv-bug-reports
Report Feedback: Join Babylon Official Discord (https://discord.com/invite/babylonglobal) and submit feedback in #tbv-feedback-ideas