Babylon and Sui deepen technical ties expanding Sui’s growing connection with Bitcoin into the next frontier.
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, April 15, 2025 (Bitwire) -– Babylon Labs, a developer of the Babylon Bitcoin staking protocol, and Sui, a first-of-its-kind Layer 1 blockchain built for mass adoption, security, and scale, today announce Sui’s extended role in the Babylon Bitcoin ecosystem. This move comes as an expansion of the Sui integration with the Babylon Bitcoin staking protocol announced last year, with Sui becoming a Bitcoin Secured Network (BSN) on the Babylon protocol.
How Babylon Bitcoin staking works on Sui
Bitcoin holders can help secure the Sui network while retaining full custody of their BTC through the Babylon protocol while also earning staking rewards. Becoming a BSN allows Sui to leverage staked BTC for enhanced security. Simultaneously, it establishes an easy bridge for participants to contribute their BTC to the Sui ecosystem. This offers a novel opportunity for long-term Bitcoin holders to engage in DeFi with greater security.
“Together, Babylon and Sui are building the technological foundation for deepening cross-chain utility, which can bring more opportunities for rewards to BTC holders who want a more secure entrance to DeFi. Babylon is the infrastructure layer for Bitcoin and unlocks its full utility thanks to its trustless, self-custodial BTC staking that secures decentralized systems,” said Fisher Yu, CTO of Babylon Labs. “Sui becoming a Bitcoin Secured Network reflects the growing demand for Bitcoin security. Through the Babylon Bitcoin staking protocol, Sui taps into the largest, most decentralized security network while helping create new opportunities for BTC holders.”
“Sui becoming a Bitcoin Secured Network is about taking Bitcoin’s best traits – size, security, and liquidity – and bringing them into active, high-performance DeFi,” said Evan Cheng, Co-Founder and CEO of Mysten Labs, an original contributor to Sui. “With this integration, Sui continues to solidify itself as a premier destination for Bitcoin DeFi, where Bitcoin holders can more effectively utilize and create value with the asset.”
By integrating with Babylon, Sui introduces a new economic primitive: Bitcoin-backed scalability. The combined infrastructure will allow Bitcoin’s liquidity and security to scale alongside Sui’s network, unlocking new applications and decentralized services secured by Bitcoin.
This integration represents a broader shift in the blockchain industry—where the $1.5 trillion asset is extended to secure and empower fast, scalable, programmable blockchain ecosystems like Sui. For Bitcoin holders, the Babylon protocol extends Bitcoin’s utility beyond a store of value and medium of exchange by programmatically allowing users to independently transform an active asset into an active reward-generating cornerstone of the broader digital economy.
About Babylon Labs
Babylon Labs focuses on Bitcoin security-sharing protocols with a vision of building a Bitcoin-secured decentralized world. The latest software development is the world’s first trustless and self-custodial Bitcoin staking protocol, which enables Bitcoin holders to stake their BTC on other decentralized systems such as PoS chains, L2s, Data Availability (DA) layers, etc, enabling stakers to earn staking rewards without the need for third-party custody, bridge solutions, or wrapping services. The greater idea is to combine the high security and wide adoption of Bitcoin with the efficiency and scalability of PoS systems, increasing Bitcoin’s utility.
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About Sui
Sui is a first-of-its-kind Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform designed from the ground up to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible to everyone. Its object-centric model, based on the Move programming language, enables parallel execution, sub-second finality, and rich on-chain assets. With horizontally scalable processing and storage, Sui supports a wide range of applications with unrivaled speed at low cost. Sui is a step-function advancement in blockchain and a platform on which creators and developers can build amazing user-friendly experiences. For more information about Sui, please visit https://sui.io.
