The newly launched bridge aims to connect bitcoin users to Avalanche-based DeFi protocols such as Platypus and TraderJoe.
Ethereum competitor Avalanche announced new support for native Bitcoin through its bridge solution built on its crypto wallet Core. Following the news, its native token AVX spiked higher, outperforming major digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum in the past 24 hours.Ava Lab – the foundation behind the smart contracts platform Avalanche – launched a new bridge solution that allows users to tokenize their BTC as an Avalanche-based asset called BTC.b.
The current BTC bridge is only available on Avalanche’s Web3 wallet Core. The post noted that Core Chrome Extension is a customized product that supports cross-chain bridging, enabling other blockchains-based assets to be accessed on the Avalanche network. “The Core Wallet Extension was custom built to support Bitcoin and the Avalanche Bridge and to handle the technical problems of linking Bitcoin and EVM chains within a wallet.”
Similar to how wrapped BTC – a tokenized type of Bitcoin living on the Ethereum blockchain – was introduced to ETH through smart contracts, Avalanche would also lock up each received Bitcoin as a deposit and mint an equivalent amount of BTC.b tailored to its network. The Labs stated that the bridge would not expose users to counter-party risk and trust issues as Ethereum-based wrapped BTC has.
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