Regardless of years of guarantees to host a bitcoin (BTC)-only convention, altcoins have overrun David Bailey’s 35,000-attendee occasion on the Venetian Expo Middle in Las Vegas.
Bitcoin 2025, the continent’s largest crypto occasion, is attracting hundreds of individuals selling a stunning variety of various digital property — together with endorsements of non-BTC tokens from the primary stage.
Certainly, Justin Solar took to the Nakamoto Stage to advertise his tokenized model of BTC, WBTC, which has been the topic of quite a few controversies.
Not solely that, Solar’s affiliated HTX DAO Ventures, which is linked to Huobi-promoted stablecoins just like the failed HUSD and USDD, is a convention sponsor.
Throughout his discuss, Solar referred to “raw bitcoin” as an amazing “way to get your bitcoin into a smart contract platform,” and echoed the risk of utilizing BTC as collateral to borrow stablecoins.
Up to now, the controversial founder has helped challenge or promote a dizzying array of altcoins, together with TRX, BTT, SUN, JST, USDJ, and lots of others.
For years, organizers promised to exclude altcoin promotions. Bailey and Bitcoin Journal employees repeatedly promised to disclaim altcoin promotions for the annual mega-conference.
In 2019, he requested attendees to “check everything else at the door and come build Bitcoin.” In 2020, he reiterated, “Bitcoin, and only Bitcoin.”
Regardless of this, there’s a considerable variety of non-BTC digital property sponsoring or exhibiting at Bitcoin 2025.
SUI: Sui is a blockchain with its personal proprietary token, SUI. Its greatest on-chain alternate, Cetus, lately suffered a multi-hundred-million-dollar hack.
Quantum Bitcoin: Quantum Bitcoin claims to be “the first quantum-safe proof-of-work roll-up.” It says its very-non-BTC asset, QBTC, might deal with considerations about quantum computing.
Quai Community: Quai Community (QUAI) says it’s constructing a blockchain (i.e. not Bitcoin’s blockchain) that makes use of Qi, some type of “energy dollar,” no matter which means.
Frax: Frax is constructing what it describes as “the future of digital money” and says a bitcoin-backed token referred to as frxBTC is “coming soon.” It already has a stablecoin (frxUSD), governance token (FXS), and quite a lot of different non-BTC property.
Core DAO: Core advertises its proof-of-stake “layer” and proprietary CORE token by way of Bitcoin podcasters like Pete Rizzo and the Bitcoin 2025 convention itself.
Citrea: Backed by Jameson Lopp, Citrea is creating a roll-up for Bitcoin that may energy stablecoins, incubators, and altcoin exchanges. Citrea is on the heart of a civil battle about Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN information storage limits.
Learn extra: Bitcoin nodes protesting OP_RETURN change hit all-time excessive
SALT Lending: SALT Lending is a bitcoin-backed mortgage supplier that performed its personal preliminary coin providing (ICO). The Securities and Alternate Fee initiated an administrative continuing towards SALT Lending and received by way of settlement.
IQ AI: IQ is a platform with a cornucopia of digital property and brokers, together with its personal IQ token, after all.
Goat Community: Goat Community is a Bitcoin-branded information roll-up that in some way gives yield on BTC deposits whereas encouraging DOGE staking.
Zeus Community: Zeus Community claims to be a Bitcoin layer on Solana.
DOGGOTOTHEMOON: This memecoin claims that the tiny fractions of BTC containing DOGGOTOTHEMOON information are extra invaluable than in any other case equal fractions of BTC.
It additionally has a Solana model of its memecoin.
YALA: Yala Lending claims to be creating a way for “bridging BTC’s liquidity across blockchains.” Conveniently, it has its personal stablecoin, YU.
Stacks: Stacks performed its personal ICO for STX and promoted quite a lot of altcoins which have declined 99% like MiamiCoin.
Psy: Psy (previously QED Protocol) issued a Solana-based proprietary token, PSY.
SoSoValue: SoSoValue was exhibiting 4 altcoins on the backdrop of its sales space on the primary expo corridor: MAG7, MEME, DEFI, and USSI.
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