Building Bitcoin's Third Native Use Case with Babylon Labs Co-Founder Fisher Yu
The Smart Economy Podcast: Real-World Blockchain Applications with Crypto, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs · 2025-01-16 · 54 min
Episode notes
In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Mingchao (Fisher) Yu, co-founder and CTO of Babylon Labs, a non-custodial staking protocol that uses the underlying value of Bitcoin to secure a variety of proof-of-stake networks. Join them as they discuss: How Bitcoin can secure PoS chains trustlessly The journey from 1,000 BTC to $3.3B+ TVL Building truly decentralized security markets The roadmap for Bitcoin's evolution in DeFi Uniting traditional finance with crypto through BTC The future of cross-chain security sharing Real institutional adoption insights And much more! Fisher's career has spanned a variety of roles from deep technology systems engineering to leadership in blockchain innovations at Babylon, where he's currently steering efforts to integrate Bitcoin more fully into the decentralized finance landscape. Before Babylon Labs, Fisher was a managing director at Hash Laboratories, senior staff research engineer at Dolby Laboratories, and senior system engineer at InterfereX Communications.