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Babylon Labs

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Infrastructure for native Bitcoin as collateral

Palo Alto, United StatesFounded 2022Fintech

Valuation $250–500M Last recorded · 2026

Headcount <100 Current team size

Total funding $100–500M Disclosed equity funding

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About Babylon Labs

Babylon Labs (Babylon, formerly BabylonChain) is a Bitcoin infrastructure company building Bitcoin collateral solutions on the Bitcoin network. On LinkedIn it describes trustless infrastructure for native Bitcoin collateral and a focus on Bitcoin security-sharing protocols, with a vision of a Bitcoin-secured decentralised economy. Its infrastructure is meant to make native Bitcoin usable as collateral on any chain and in any application, supporting lending, stablecoins, protection, derivatives and real-world assets.

The company starts from a problem it states plainly: only around 3% of Bitcoin is used as collateral, on-chain and off-chain combined, compared with around 10% for gold and around 20% for ETH, because Bitcoin's limited programmability has meant taking on counterparty risk. Its answer, Trustless Bitcoin Vaults, lets holders borrow against their Bitcoin in on-chain credit markets without selling, wrapping, bridging or using intermediaries. The Bitcoin stays locked on the Bitcoin network in a self-custodial vault that the holder creates and activates. The first use case is native Bitcoin-backed borrowing, starting with Aave v4 on Ethereum, where holders post Bitcoin as collateral and borrow stablecoins, and the company reports it live on a public testnet.

Bitcoin Staking is the earlier product: holders lock native Bitcoin to help secure proof-of-stake chains and earn staking rewards while keeping full custody, with no wrapping, bridging or third-party risk. The site shows staking totals and a staking app, and the project publishes documentation, GitHub code, a research paper, a developer ecosystem, a community forum and bug bounties through security platforms.

Babylon provides protocol infrastructure for Bitcoin holders, proof-of-stake networks and lending applications, with users interacting through its vault and staking apps and builders integrating through its documentation and toolkit. It operates in the Bitcoin DeFi and blockchain infrastructure market, aiming to expand the utility of Bitcoin beyond a store of value.

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At a glance

Status: Operational
Founded: 2022
Headquarters: Palo Alto, United States
Employees: 78
Open positions: None listed
Dealroom signal: 76.0/100
Industry: Security, Fintech
Sub-industry: Crypto and DeFi
Sector: Fintech, Web 3.0, Crypto Yielding, Crypto Staking, Crypto and Web3
Technology: Blockchain
Business model: SaaS
Client focus: b2b
Investment activity: 1 company, latest Jul 2024
Capital deployed: $16M
Preferred round: EARLY VC
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Funding history

5 recorded events

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Deal type	Date	Amount	Valuation	Investors	Source
EARLY VCOther financing	Jan 2026	$15M	$350M	a16z crypto	↗
EARLY VCOther financing	May 2024	$70M	$280M	Polychain Capital · Bullish · Paradigm	↗

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Babylon Labs website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for Babylon Labs is 31K monthly website visits, down 27.9% over the last three months. Babylon Labs's team declined 2.5% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits31K 3-month web change-27.9% 1-year team growth-2.5%

Monthly website visitsNov 2022–Jul 2026

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