Babylon Genesis at a glance.
Babylon Genesis launched its mainnet in April 2025 as a Cosmos SDK Layer 1 built around a specific idea: letting Bitcoin holders stake their BTC directly to help secure another chain, without bridging it or wrapping it into a synthetic token. Here is how it works and what it is used for, not the price.
$226,040
Value locked in DeFi protocols on Babylon Genesis. Updated Sep 19, 2026. Source: DefiLlama.
BABY
Used for fees and securing the network. See the live BABY price.
How Babylon Genesis works.
Babylon Genesis is a Cosmos SDK chain that combines its own Tendermint-style Proof of Stake with a Bitcoin staking protocol. BTC holders delegate their coins, which stay on the Bitcoin chain itself, to Finality Providers who participate in Babylon’s security process. If a Finality Provider acts maliciously, the delegated BTC stake can be slashed using an Extractable One-Time Signature scheme, giving the network an accountability mechanism without smart contracts on Bitcoin. BABY, the network’s own token, is staked alongside BTC in a dual-staking model, and stakers of both assets share in the network’s issuance.
Babylon Genesis is a Cosmos SDK chain that combines its own Tendermint-style Proof of Stake with a Bitcoin staking protocol. BTC holders delegate their coins, which stay on the Bitcoin chain itself, to Finality Providers who participate in Babylon’s security process. If a Finality Provider acts maliciously, the delegated BTC stake can be slashed using an Extractable One-Time Signature scheme, giving the network an accountability mechanism without smart contracts on Bitcoin. BABY, the network’s own token, is staked alongside BTC in a dual-staking model, and stakers of both assets share in the network’s issuance.
Native BTC staking
Bitcoin never leaves the Bitcoin chain or gets wrapped into a synthetic asset. It is delegated to a Finality Provider while remaining Bitcoin-native.
Finality Providers
These are the operators BTC and BABY holders delegate to. They participate in Babylon’s finality process and can be penalized if they misbehave.
Dual-staking security
The network is secured by both delegated BTC and staked BABY at once, pairing Bitcoin’s economic weight with BABY’s role in coordinating the chain.
Cosmos SDK foundation
Babylon Genesis is built on the Cosmos SDK, giving it Tendermint-style consensus and compatibility with the wider Cosmos/IBC ecosystem.
What Babylon Genesis is used for.
Babylon Genesis’s ecosystem centers on Bitcoin staking itself, plus the Finality Providers and applications that build around delegated BTC security.
Bitcoin staking
BTC holders can delegate their coins to earn staking rewards without selling, bridging or wrapping their Bitcoin.
Securing Babylon Genesis
Delegated BTC and staked BABY together provide the economic security for the Babylon Genesis chain.
Running a Finality Provider
Node operators can run Finality Providers that BTC and BABY holders delegate their stake to.
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