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    Home » Crypto News » Payments Platform Square Touts New DeFi Business Focusing on Bitcoin

    Payments Platform Square Touts New DeFi Business Focusing on Bitcoin

    Author: Martin Young

    Last Updated Jul 16, 2021 @ 06:34

    Jack Dorsey’s popular mobile payments platform Square is branching out with a new business venture that will be focused on Bitcoin.

    Details were thin on the ground in Dorsey’s July 15 tweet, but the company CEO said that it would launch a platform for developers to create non-custodial decentralized finance projects built around Bitcoin.

    Twitter CEO Dorsey added that the project will be completely open-source, just like its new Bitcoin hardware wallet. He continued to state that Square’s strategic development lead Mike Brock is leading and building the team.

    Square is creating a new business (joining Seller, Cash App, & Tidal) focused on building an open developer platform with the sole goal of making it easy to create non-custodial, permissionless, and decentralized financial services. Our primary focus is #Bitcoin. Its name is TBD.

    — jack (@jack) July 15, 2021

    The project named TBD will differ from Square Crypto, the open-source project development organization, Dorsey added.

    “TBD will be focused on creating a platform business, and will open source our work along the way.”

    Several responses to the tweet commented that Ethereum already exists, and this appeared to be another attempt to reinvent something that already does the job.

    Delving into Bitcoin DeFi

    The focus on Bitcoin was the interesting part, however, since BTC currently does not have smart contract capability, which makes it difficult to compete with DeFi on Ethereum.

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    The FT noted that the Bitcoin network has historically been considered slower and less efficient than its Ethereum counterpart.

    It will receive its first big upgrade in several years in November called Taproot, which will make it easier for smart contracts to be created on the network. Taproot is a Bitcoin soft fork that promises more secure, private, and lightweight transactions, making the network more scalable and helping to lower transaction fees.

    This will give a much-needed boost to Bitcoin-based DeFi, which is what Dorsey appears to be anticipating.

    Revenues at Square more than doubled in 2020 largely due to a rise in Bitcoin-related transactions made on its peer-to-peer mobile payments platform Cash App.

    Ethereum Still Dominates DeFi

    Decentralized finance is still primarily Ethereum’s domain, with Ethereum based platforms dominating the TVL (total value locked) charts.

    At the time of writing, the TVL fdefior all DeFi protocols was around $82 billion according to DappRadar, an increase of 273% so far this year.

    The platform also reports that there is around $6.3 billion locked up in wrapped BTC, the tokenized version of Bitcoin on the Ethereum network. This has almost doubled since the beginning of the year, highlighting the demand for Bitcoin-based DeFi.

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    Martin has been writing on cybersecurity and infotech for over two decades. He has previous trading experience and has been covering developments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry since 2017. Contact Martin: LinkedIn

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