The SODAX SDK now brings native Bitcoin to partner applications.
For most of DeFi's life, the largest pool of capital in the industry has been on the sidelines. Developers across blockchain networks can now offer native Bitcoin within their apps, through the SODAX
“Bitcoin has been the most-watched asset in crypto since the start, and one of the least useful inside DeFi. That asymmetry is the clearest indicator of how much work the infrastructure still has to do. We didn’t ship native Bitcoin into the SDK to add a feature. We shipped it because the largest asset in the room is the least served by DeFi, and the most widely held by the public.”
— Min, SODAX
Bring Native Bitcoin to Your App
For most of DeFi’s life, builders trying to put Bitcoin into their products have had to choose between two unhappy paths. Wrap the asset and accept a custodian. Or route every flow through a centralized exchange and add a ten-minute round trip to the user experience.
This week, that changes for every application built on SODAX.
Native BTC is now available in the SODAX SDK. Real Bitcoin on the Bitcoin network on one side. Real assets across blockchain networks on each of the 18 networks SODAX integrates with, on the other. No wrapper. No bridge. No CEX hop in between.
The integration surface has not changed. The same single SDK call that addresses an existing network in our system, now addresses native Bitcoin. The infrastructure that makes the BTC side feel native is delivered through a partnership with Bound, whose work on Bitcoin-side settlement infrastructure made it possible to treat Bitcoin transactions as final once submitted to settle through our Solver.
DeFi with native Bitcoin
Bitcoin is not a network you bolt onto a cross-network execution system over a long weekend. We respect every team that has spent serious engineering effort here, and we have spent ours. Through the SODAX SDK we wish to share the technical effort our team has put in to help push the Bitcoin DeFi space forward and unlock the vast inactive balances held by the largest real user base on the blockchain.