Zest Protocol Overview
How Zest Protocol turns Bitcoin from an idle asset into productive capital through Bitcoin Collateral Vaults and its Stacks product suite.
Zest Protocol is the capital layer for Bitcoin, turning Bitcoin from an idle asset into productive capital.
Bitcoin Collateral Vaults let holders borrow stablecoins against BTC or put it to work on any chain that can read a proof. The team has built on Bitcoin since 2021 and previously ran a $100M+ Bitcoin credit market on Stacks.
Bitcoin Collateral Vaults
Bitcoin Collateral Vaults let BTC remain on Bitcoin while its value works wherever it is needed. Holders lock BTC in a vault on Bitcoin and borrow stablecoins against it on a destination chain.
Lending against Bitcoin has always meant giving up custody first: wrapping it into a token or handing it to a custodian. Bitcoin’s base layer couldn’t verify what happened to collateral elsewhere. BitVM changes that. It lets Bitcoin L1 verify the state of a lending market on another chain, so BTC can back a loan without ever leaving the base layer.
Stacks Suite
Zest Protocol is the DeFi superapp for Stacks, bringing lending, automated yield strategies and token swaps into one product suite: Stacks Market, Stacks Vaults and Stacks Swap.
ZEST
$ZEST is the native token of Zest Protocol.