{"id":15684,"date":"2025-03-01T20:16:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T20:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=15684"},"modified":"2025-03-01T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T20:16:34","slug":"why-bitcoins-defi-boom-took-years-solv-protocols-ryan-chow-spills-the-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=15684","title":{"rendered":"Why Bitcoin&#8217;s DeFi Boom Took Years: Solv Protocol&#8217;s Ryan Chow Spills The Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong>&#8216;s (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) towering $1.5 trillion market cap has long outpaced its rivals, yet its decentralized finance (DeFi) utility has lagged due to slow infrastructure development and regulatory hurdles, according to <strong>Ryan Chow<\/strong>, co-founder of <strong>Solv Protocol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking from his vantage point at <strong>Solv <\/strong>(SOLV), a platform bridging Bitcoin to DeFi with $160 million in trading volume, Chow pinpointed the four-year maturation of Ethereum (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>)-based DeFi and a recent regulatory thaw as key factors now unlocking Bitcoin&#8217;s potential. <\/p>\n<p>His insights highlight an industry poised for a Bitcoin-driven shift, fueled by lending and staking applications.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Benzinga on the sidelines of Eth Denver, Chow traced Bitcoin&#8217;s delayed DeFi ascent to foundational challenges. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The potential\u2026 we start to unlock Bitcoin&#8217;s potential is from like 2024,&#8221; he said, noting that &#8220;DeFi needs some time to develop\u2026 after the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44066012\/why-bitcoins-defi-boom-took-years-solv-protocols-ryan-chow-spills-the-details\" alt=\"Why\" bitcoin defi boom took years: solv protocol ryan chow spills the details>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin&#8216;s (CRYPTO: BTC) towering $1.5 trillion market cap has long outpaced its rivals, yet its decentralized finance (DeFi) utility has lagged due to slow infrastructure development and regulatory hurdles, according to Ryan Chow, co-founder of Solv Protocol Speaking from his vantage point at Solv (SOLV), a platform bridging Bitcoin to DeFi with $160 million in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-15684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}