First Mover: Tron’s Play for WBTC Shows Competition to Relieve Ethereum Conge...

First Mover: Tron’s Play for WBTC Shows Competition to Relieve Ethereum Conge...

Competition builds in market for tokenized bitcoin, used to get extra profit off holdings of the cryptocurrency recently denigrated as a "pet rock."


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One percent of Bitcoin’s supply has been locked in the WBTC protocol

More than $6 billion worth of Bitcoin is now tokenized on Ethereum as WBTC. One percent of Bitcoin’s circulating supply is currently tokenized as Wrapped BTC (WBTC), equating to nearly $6.2 billion worth of BTC. The milestone was acknowledged by the product manager of crypto custody firm BitGo, Kia Mosayeri, who tweeted the news on June 7. BitGo is the custodian for the Wrapped Bitcoin protocol, which was launched its Bitcoin-backed ERC-20 token WBTC on Ethereum in January 2019.1% of all BTC has been wrapped into $WBTC! https://t.co/jOi0LZZUyi— WBTC (@WrappedBTC) June 7, 2021 According to....