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Ethereum's realtime-proving targets are met on the EF's own numbers. The harder problem is that some security assumptions underneath were already wrong.
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[BTCFi Series 9] Babylon: TVL Up, Yields Thin
Babylon secures ~$5.6B in native BTC with a token worth ~$78M. The unit economics of Bitcoin security-as-a-service, and why realized yield stays thin.
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