CoinTelegraph 2025-04-17 11:05:53

Babylon total value locked drops 32% as wallets unstake $1.2B in Bitcoin

Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon saw $1.26 billion in BTC unstaked from its platform, reducing the protocol’s total value locked by 32%. On April 17, blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain flagged several addresses that had unstaked a total of 14,929 Bitcoin ( BTC ) from the staking platform. The security firm flagged four addresses that had unstaked 299 BTC, 499 BTC, 1,000 BTC and 13,129 BTC. One address held a majority of the unstaked assets worth $1.1 billion. With BTC prices hovering at around $84,400, the total unstaked BTC was worth about $1.26 billion. The unstaking event saw Babylon’s total value locked (TVL) drop by 32%. According to data tracker DefiLlama, Babylon’s TVL declined from $3.97 billion to $2.68 billion after the unstaking. Source: Lookonchain Unstaked Bitcoin may be “staked back” to Babylon Community members are speculating on who was behind the unstaking. One X user suspected that the Bitcoin may belong to the Chinese government, while another said the move may simply be a rotation, risk-off, or a trader getting liquid. While it’s unclear who’s behind the four addresses cited by Lookonchain, the fund movements could be related to a transition initiated by the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Lombard Finance. At the time of the unstaking, Babylon Labs retweeted an announcement from Lombard, saying it was unstaking Bitcoin as part of a transition to a new set of finality providers. Lombard Finance said it timed the unstaking with the end of Babylon’s phase 1 cap 1 on April 24 so users would not miss out on rewards. The protocol said it would stake the assets back. “All of this BTC will be staked back into Babylon as soon as the unbonding is complete,” Lombard Finance wrote . Cointelegraph reached out to Babylon Labs for comments but did not get a response by publication. Related: Bitcoin L2 ’honeymoon phase’ is over, most projects will fail — Muneeb Ali Bitcoin unstaking follows BABY airdrop The massive unstaking event follows a Babylon airdrop for early adopters . On April 3, Babylon announced the details of its early adopters airdrop program. The airdrop was allocated for its Phase 1 stakers, non-fungible token (NFT) holders and developers. The protocol allocated 600 million BABY tokens for the airdrop event. Following the airdrop, $21 million in BTC was unstaked from the protocol. Bitlayer co-founder Kevin He previously told Cointelegraph that this was a common short-term market behavior representing early redemption. Babylon is one of the largest Bitcoin DeFi players in the space, with a TVL reaching over $6 billion in December. Babylon co-founder Fisher Yu previously told Cointelegraph that the platform allows staking to be a native use case for Bitcoin , eliminating the need to trust another party while staking. Magazine: Your AI ‘digital twin’ can take meetings and comfort your loved ones

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