One-Hop BTC: OFT WBTC Arrives on Aptos

Bitcoin’s (BTC) two-trillion-dollar hoard hardly touches DeFi, but Aptos (APT) just cracked open a new fire-hose. After OKX shipped custodial xBTC, interoperability giant LayerZero (ZRO) has now delivered a trust-minimized route: WBTC minted under its Omnichain-Fungible-Token (OFT) standard. 

Forget the lock-and-mint relay of legacy bridges - OFT WBTC burns on Ethereum (or any of 80+ networks) and mints on Aptos in a single transaction. No wrappers, no rehypothecation risk, no days-long exit queue.

Unified liquidity & hard-capped supply. Because the token disappears on the source chain, there is never more WBTC than the real BTC custodied (BitGo signs every mint/burn). One ticker, one cap, zero fragmentation.

Speed and fees. LayerZero’s Decentralised Verification Network finalizes messages in seconds; Aptos settles sub-second and each swap costs cents, not dollars.

Instant composability. The moment WBTC lands it slots into AMMs (Panora, Thala), money-markets (Aries, Echelon), and leverage venues (Hyperion), letting users farm, lend, or loop collateral without extra wrapping hops.

Getting started is a one-minute drill: open Stargate, choose a source chain, pick Aptos, input WBTC, approve, sign. Within one confirmation WBTC shows in Pontem or Petra wallet and can be shoved straight into LP ranges or lent for yield.

Aptos TVL already boasts $1.35 B in stablecoins and $430M in BTC-backed assets. Combining xBTC’s custodial rail with WBTC-OFT’s non-custodial pipe positions the chain to rival Solana for native Bitcoin depth. Arbitrage desks gain a single-hop route to quote BTC across 80 networks; long-only holders tap double yield; BTC upside plus Aptos lending APY.

Developers get perks too: OFT is a canonical ERC-20 look-alike on every chain, so Solidity code ports with zero edits. Oracle feeds can reference one contract address per chain instead of a patchwork of wrapped tickers.

Bitcoin hodlers now have the fastest, cheapest, most composable gateway into Aptos DeFi. Expect liquidity-mining programs, xBTC-versus-OFT basis trades, and fresh perpetual markets spinning up the moment volumes spike. BTC is finally leaving cold storage for sub-second yield.

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