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“You were right if you thought the smashing success of $TRUMP would make Trump greedy,” Bianco Research president Jim Bianco said on Jan. 19, following the launch of Mrs. Trump’s token.

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Just a day after Trump’s self-branded Official Trump (TRUMP) token launched and soared to a $15 billion market cap, Trump’s wife Melania launched a self-titled memecoin of her own — which led commentators to accuse the family of unseemly behavior.

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Donald Trump and his team have been accused of running a “pump and dump scheme” after back-to-back memecoin launches added billions of dollars to the net worths of the incoming US president and first lady.

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Phillips foresees Bitcoin’s maturing DeFi ecosystem eventually helping cement its status as the world’s reserve currency.

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Soon, “novel DeFi strategies will emerge across the risk curve with Bitcoin as a collateral asset, from simple buy-and-hold strategies with yield-bearing Bitcoin assets to basis trades and options strategies,” Jacob Phillips, Bitcoin staking protocol Lombard’s co-founder and head of strategy, told Cointelegraph.

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Some Bitcoin L2s — including RSK, Merlin and Stacks — already host Bitcoin-native DeFi ecosystems, including decentralized exchanges, lending protocols and all-in-one platforms such as Sovryn. Merlin even touts a Bitcoin-native derivatives protocol, Surf.

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Liquid staking tokens (LSTs) representing claims on staked BTC are proliferating, enabling more complex DeFi use cases. As of Dec. 30, Bitcoin LSTs command upward of $2.5 billion in total TVL, according to Staking Rewards.

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“Whether [staked BTC] makes it into an ETF structure in the United States, I’m not sure, but in Europe, definitely,” Hougan said.

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In November, asset manager Valour launched a Bitcoin-staking ETF in Europe. It stakes to Core, a Bitcoin L2, and pays upward of 5.65% APR as of Dec. 30, according to Valour’s website. Staking is not yet permitted for Bitcoin ETFs in the United States.

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Additionally, staked BTC ETFs could catalyze institutional interest in 2025, Hougan said.

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Staking Bitcoin involves locking BTC as collateral to secure Bitcoin L2s in exchange for rewards. Restaking involves taking a token that has already been staked and using it to secure other protocols simultaneously.

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As of Dec. 30, Babylon’s and Eigenlayer’s TVLs exceed $5 billion and $15 billion, respectively, according to data from DefiLlama.

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“The tech seems reasonable, even from a high-level perspective,” Hougan noted.

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Phillips foresees Bitcoin’s maturing DeFi ecosystem eventually helping cement its status as the world’s reserve currency.

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Soon, “novel DeFi strategies will emerge across the risk curve with Bitcoin as a collateral asset, from simple buy-and-hold strategies with yield-bearing Bitcoin assets to basis trades and options strategies,” Jacob Phillips, Bitcoin staking protocol Lombard’s co-founder and head of strategy, told Cointelegraph.

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Some Bitcoin L2s — including RSK, Merlin and Stacks — already host Bitcoin-native DeFi ecosystems, including decentralized exchanges, lending protocols and all-in-one platforms such as Sovryn. Merlin even touts a Bitcoin-native derivatives protocol, Surf.

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Liquid staking tokens (LSTs) representing claims on staked BTC are proliferating, enabling more complex DeFi use cases. As of Dec. 30, Bitcoin LSTs command upward of $2.5 billion in total TVL, according to Staking Rewards.

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“Whether [staked BTC] makes it into an ETF structure in the United States, I’m not sure, but in Europe, definitely,” Hougan said.

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In November, asset manager Valour launched a Bitcoin-staking ETF in Europe. It stakes to Core, a Bitcoin L2, and pays upward of 5.65% APR as of Dec. 30, according to Valour’s website. Staking is not yet permitted for Bitcoin ETFs in the United States.

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