$1.7T of bitcoin is sitting on the sidelines of DeFi. Not because people don't want yield or liquidity, it's because they don't trust the wrapper.
cirBTC is Circle's answer: 1:1 backed, onchain-verifiable, and built on infrastructure the market already trusts.
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Circle Wrapped Bitcoin is coming.
Backed 1:1 by BTC and readily verifiable onchain, cirBTC is being built to work seamlessly with Circle infrastructure and the broader DeFi ecosystem.
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