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Morning Edition · Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Bitcoin DeFi's Demand Problem Grows Harder to Ignore
A Bitcoin layer-2 reports uptime, transactions, and integrations, but native on-chain demand keeps routing through wrappers and institutions instead.
Bitcoin-based decentralized finance (DeFi) is facing a demand problem that infrastructure alone has not solved. As CryptoSlate reports, a Bitcoin layer-2 network achieved uptime, transaction throughput, and integrations, yet actual demand f…
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