Babylon Enables Bitcoin-Native Staking on Sui
Babylon and Sui deepen technical ties, expanding Sui’s growing connection with bitcoin into the next frontier.
Today, Babylon Labs, developer of the world's first trustless and self-custodial bitcoin staking protocol, and Sui announce Sui’s expanded role in the Babylon bitcoin ecosystem. This move expands on Sui's integration with the Babylon bitcoin staking protocol announced last year.
How Babylon Bitcoin staking works
Bitcoin holders can help further secure the Sui network while retaining full custody of their BTC through the Babylon protocol while also earning staking rewards. The staked BTC enhances Sui’s security, while also creating an easy transfer protocol for participants to add their BTC to support the Sui ecosystem, presenting a new unlock for long-term bitcoin holders to safely participate in DeFi.
“Together, Babylon and Sui are building the technological foundation for deepening cross-chain liquidity, which can bring more opportunities for rewards to BTC holders who want a secure entrance to DeFi. Babylon is the infrastructure layer for bitcoin and unlocks its full utility thanks to its trustless, self-custodial BTC staking that secures decentralized systems,” said Fisher Yu, CTO of Babylon Labs. “Through the Babylon bitcoin staking protocol, Sui taps into the largest, most decentralized security network while helping create new reward opportunities for BTC holders.”
“This continued partnership is about taking bitcoin’s best traits – size, security, and liquidity – and bringing them into active, high-performance DeFi,” said Evan Cheng, Co-Founder and CEO of Mysten Labs, an original contributor to Sui. “With this integration, Sui continues to solidify itself as a premier destination for bitcoin DeFi, where bitcoin holders can more effectively utilize and create value with the asset.”
By integrating with Babylon, Sui introduces a new economic primitive: bitcoin-backed scalability. The combined infrastructure will allow bitcoin’s liquidity and security to scale alongside Sui’s network, unlocking new financial applications and decentralized services secured by bitcoin.
This integration represents a broader shift in the blockchain industry—where the $1.5 trillion asset is extended to secure and empower fast, scalable, programmable blockchain ecosystems like Sui. For bitcoin holders, the Babylon protocol extends bitcoin’s utility beyond a store of value and medium of exchange by programmatically allowing users to independently transform an idle asset into an active, reward-generating cornerstone of the broader digital economy.
