I'm tired of idiots spreading the false narrative of bitcoin being a "dumb rock." Fact is, people don't do research past their preferred chain. Most of crypto Twitter outsources its research to the maxi with the most followers (who is outsourcing his research to a co-opted crypto news site).

Fact is, the Bitcoin blockchain has everything any other chain has, including Ethereum. It has defi, art (NFTs) and web3 P2E games already.

BTC vs. ETH Infrastructure

Both BTC and ETH have evolved to use a two layer structure — the first layer is for transaction finalization, and the second is for scaling transactions.

This is the same infrastructure used by the SWIFT system, actually. Don't believe the hype of non-bitcoiners that the Bitcoin chain is slower than Visa or these other traditional payment railways. They are comparing the layer 2 of those gateways to the layer 1 of Bitcoin.

Ethereum began as a competitor to Bitcoin, attempting to put scaled transactions and transaction finalization on the same layer. It didn't work, and that's why you had the rise of scaling chains like Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, and many others. But it doesn't mean Ethereum is better than Bitcoin. If anything, the Bitcoin network saved time by keeping its layer 1 as the finalization layer. Ethereum conducted many experiments that will be helpful to all chains moving forward, but you can see that it moved scaling to a dedicated layer and will continue to do so even after the Merge to PoS.

Bitcoin also has layer 2 chains, most notably RSK and Stacks. Development on those chains is less popular in the Ethereum mainstream, which has taken a great deal of the crypto zeitgeist, but those in the know know better.

BTC Defi

Sovryn is the most developed defi project on Bitcoin. You can lend, borrow, farm and invest in projects through the launchpad. You can leverage trade up to 5X, and the project also has perpetual futures if you're into that. Most recently, the project has marketed 0% lending on BTC.

Tropykus is a simple lend/borrow protocol aimed at Latin America. The TropykusP2P link also leads you to a Telegram group where you can buy BTC with no KYC from other BTC owners. Don't worry; you can get loans and provide collateral from anywhere, not just Latin America.

BadgerDAO is the Bitcoin defi protocol most well integrated into the wider crypto infrastructure. You can farm numerous pools, and Badger has many partnerships that will help to bring BTC to the masses soon. My advice — get in early and HODL a few of these tokens.

Runner up: THORChain

Only because it got hacked does this protocol get a "runner up" position. But if they get it together, this has the ability to be THE decentralized cross chain protocol to attach the Bitcoin blockchain to the mainstream crypto zeitgeist. Its popularity means it already has the marketing half done, unlike some of the other projects mentioned here.

[Note: I do not recommend any use of Defichain although it is a layer 2 Bitcoin project. You must KYC to use Defichain, which completely defeats the purpose of a decentralized network and sovereign finance.]

BTC Art Community (NFTs)

Stacks plays host to many NFT marketplaces backed by BTC. Just because BTC is the most decentralized token doesn't mean its art market is any better than most. There's just a whole lotta useless shit here just like there is on Ethereum. But if you want to go through it looking for some hidden gem, you've got Gamma, Unico, and Tradeport. Now don't let anyone ever tell you there's no shitty NFTs on Bitcoin ever again.

BTC Games

For those saying Bitcoin can't have games, why is smart money giving $35 million to Zebedee to do just that? Oh, that's right. You only think something is real if Cobie or Bankless or CarltheMoon or Alex Becker says it.

In the meantime, there's an entire infrastructure being built and played on behind your back.

There is an entire casino of games on Bitcoin.com. This isn't the kind of gaming I prefer to endorse, and I never play it. But if you do, it's there. On Bitcoin.

You can find a number of games on the Bitcoin chain here as well, from racing to sci-fi. P2E and F2P.

BTC Infrastructure

Taro is actually a layer 3 project, as it is built on top of the Bitcoin layer 2 Lightning network. It will allow users to hold assets on the Lightning network other than BTC, which will open up major possibilities for protocols that want to reach out to other chains. This includes more shitty NFTs, joy of joys.

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