Babylon is a Bitcoin-native staking and collateral infrastructure protocol that enables trustless, self-custodial Bitcoin staking without bridging or wrapping. Babylon's Twitter Score is 224 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,901 (top 0.5%) among 482,619 tracked accounts.
Babylon was founded by David Tse and Fisher Yu. Its core offering is trustless infrastructure for native Bitcoin collateral, with Babylon Genesis, a Cosmos SDK-based blockchain, serving as the protocol's coordination layer. Babylon launched its Bitcoin Staking Mainnet Phase-1 in August 2024, with Phase 1 attracting over 57,000 BTC staked, positioning Bitcoin as a top 10 staking asset by that measure.
Babylon raised $18M in December 2023 in a round co-led by Polychain Capital and Hack VC, with additional backing from Framework Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, OKX Ventures, Finality Capital, Breyer Capital, Symbolic Capital, IOSG Ventures, IDG, DHVC, and Binance Labs. In January 2026, a16z crypto provided a further $15M to support the development of Trustless Bitcoin Vaults.
Babylon is affiliated with Aave Labs, Ledger, Kraken, Sui, and Osmosis. Babylon's portfolio includes Lombard, CORN, Spicenet and Ride Follow Smart Traders. Babylon's account has published 5,245 posts and has been mentioned by 787 accounts a total of 3,156 times.
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