Introducing Garden on Starknet: A direct path for BTC bridging

Starknet has launched Garden, a dedicated BTC bridge designed to bring Bitcoin-native liquidity directly into its Layer 2 ecosystem. As a ZK-Rollup settling on both Ethereum and (soon) Bitcoin, Starknet aims to unify two dominant blockchains and scale Bitcoin to thousands of transactions per second - trustlessly. Garden makes it easy for users to move BTC and assets like WBTC, cbBTC, and USDC from networks such as Ethereum, Base, Berachain, and Hyperliquid to Starknet, streamlining access to DeFi for Bitcoin holders.

Key Ideas

BTC-native swaps open Starknet’s DeFi ecosystem to Bitcoin users with speed, low fees, and minimal trust assumptions.
Starknet’s cross-chain ambitions position it as Bitcoin’s future execution layer, enabling smart contract-based BTC applications previously deemed impossible.

This is one of the boldest plays to merge BTC’s pristine liquidity with Ethereum’s programmability. Want to brainstorm what a BTC-native DeFi product might look like here? Let’s work together!