- Hedera has launched a wrapped Bitcoin together with BitGo, BiTGlobalTrust and LayerZero.
- It comes in a high-performance environment with high ROI, low fees and near real-time finality.
The Hedera Foundation has launched a wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) on the Hedera blockchain announced. In collaboration with BitGo, BiTGlobalTrust and crosschain protocol LayerZero, it offers new opportunities for Bitcoin holders to earn returns without selling their BTC.
The first WBTC came onto the market in 2019. Since then, WBTC have become the most trusted tokenized version of Bitcoin. In fact, WBTCs have a market cap of $13 billion and over 126,000 BTC in custody.
Hedera is now opening up new opportunities for Bitcoin liquidity and turning a largely passive “hold and wait” model into an actively usable financial instrument.
WBTC, the industry’s leading tokenized form of Bitcoin, is now live on the institutional-grade @Ivy network.
This integration was made possible in collaboration with Hedera Council member @BitGo alongside industry-leading teams @BiTGlobalTrust and @LayerZero_Core
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— Hedera Foundation (@HederaFndn) November 13, 2025
The launch was made possible by three key players. One is BitGo, a Hedera Council member and industry leader in secure asset custody, providing institutional-level protection and multi-signature wallets that support WBTC one-to-one.
The second, BitGlobalTrust, supports this with a regulated custody infrastructure that ensures compliance and transparency. Meanwhile, LayerZero enables seamless cross-chain mobility, allowing WBTC to be securely transferred from other networks directly into Hedera.
Following the integration, the first liquidity pools for WBTC have gone live on SaucerSwap, a leading Hedera decentralized exchange. According to James Hodgkins, Chief Growth Officer at HBAR, Inc., the arrival of canonical Wrapped BTC, accessible through Stargate Finance, enables “vast amounts of unused Bitcoin liquidity” to flow into Hedera DeFi without risks such as frontrunning or MEV.
This provides institutional and retail investors with a safe, high-performance environment to earn returns and participate in decentralized financial products.
Hedera’s technological advantages make the network a compelling place for WBTC staking. With a settlement time of three to five seconds and low, predictable dollar fees and asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance for security, Hedera provides a reliable application.
Its enterprise-grade distributed ledger technology provides a solid foundation for tokenized assets, making it attractive to large-scale investors.
The integration also brings the BitGo standard for tokenization and custody to Hedera, expanding the network’s appeal to institutions seeking compliant DeFi exposure.
Currently, HBAR has just lost 10.55% and is now trading at $0.1604 with a market cap of $6.76 billion. Blockchain fundamentals are supported by strong institutional interest.
Interestingly, the Canary HBAR ETF has accumulated $68 million in just six trading days, underscoring the growing confidence in Hedera as a long-term investment.
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