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Zest Protocol raises $3.5m Seed round to redefine Bitcoin lending
Led by @DraperVC, with participation from @BinanceLabs, @FlowTraders, @trustmachinesco, @goasymmetric and more 🤝
Zest Protocol
@ZestProtocol
🟧 The lending protocol built for Bitcoin, backed by @drapervc & @yzilabs
Borrow against your Bitcoin and earn up to 3% APY (paid in BTC)
Joined February 2022
- We run every frontier AI model against Zest Protocol's contracts the day it ships in a continuous automated harness. The results speak for themselves. Zero valid bugs reports in 2026. The strongest attacker on the market is always working for Zest Protocol, not against it.
- New week. Back to building Bitcoin Collateral Vaults.
- Get paid to borrow. Borrow USDCx against sBTC on Zest Protocol @Stacks market, earn rewards paid in BTC. Starting September.Starting Bitcoin block 966,350 (~Sep 10) Stacks distributes 1 BTC per month through a 90-day incentive program with @ZestProtocol and @bitflow. Rewards paid in BTC and target DeFi activities: → Borrowing USDCx against sBTC and STX → Liquidity activity in core USDCx pairs
- Zest Protocol is the largest lending protocol on any Bitcoin L2. The experience is now coming to Bitcoin L1: native BTC as collateral, stablecoins borrowed on EVM chains. That's Bitcoin Collateral Vaults.Stacks DeFi TVL: @ZestProtocol $64M @GraniteBTC $7.5M @HermeticaFi $5.3M @bitflow $2.6M Lending holds 90% of it. BTC holders don't want to trade their bitcoin, they want to earn on it without selling. Latest from @castle_labs 👇
