The following is a guest post through Laura Wallendal” CEO at ACREBTC.
While I write this, Binance just had to clarify that their new APY token of 19.55% “is not a stablecoin” but a “reward-bearing margin assets”. If you had to read that description twice, you are not the only one. History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes – and this melody sounds suspiciously like siren song or complex returns from 2021, derivatives on derivatives and promises that it sounds too good to be true.
Bitcoin crosses $ 100,000 and Coinbase -Trending in the App Store brings more than just numbers on screens – It is tempting. With a market capitalization of $ 1.8 trillion, the pressure to put that capital to work has never been stronger.
The last cycle, which tempted millions to give up their bitcoin -sovereignty for promises of proceeds. They exchanged their keys for returns, their security for opportunities. The result? More than $ 20 billion in Bitcoin locked up in centralized platforms – wealth that evaporated in a cascade of frozen recordings, bankruptcy courts and hard lessons about the actual costs of giving up control.
But here is the reason why 2024 feels different: for the first time in Bitcoin’s history we have the infrastructure to earn yield without giving up our sovereignty. This is not just about technology – it is about maintaining the fundamental principles that have brought us to Bitcoin in the first place: freedom of intermediaries, real property of assets and resistance to centralized control.
Think of it as a modern home. Your grandparents were confronted with a choice: work their country independently or surrender to the promises of great agriculture about efficiency. Today’s sovereign farmers use technology while maintaining complete independence. They have their infrastructure, control their data, perform advanced operations – all without asking for someone’s permission. That is the model for the next Bitcoin chapter.
The figures tell the story, but look deeper: while others build complex layers of 2s and bridges, we see the rise of infrastructure that Bitcoin treats such as Bitcoin. When we talk about Bitcoin-Native yield at ACRE, we mean exactly that: Bitcoin deserves more bitcoin, under your control, without sacrificing what makes Bitcoin revolutionary in the first place. No packing, no bridge, no complexity – only bitcoin works as intended.
Just because we can Construction complicated financial instruments does not mean that we should have to. Every layer of financial engineering does not only add complexity; It requires a different layer of faith in someone else’s systems.
The lesson of the last cycle was not only about centralization – it was about complexity. The more complex the yield strategy, the more ways it can fail. Just like the complexity of the Federal Reserve for numbing, the power of Bitcoin lies in its simplicity.
That is why our focus is now different. Instead of exotic financial engineering, we build simple, bitcoin-native earnings options. Proceeds are supported by real economic activity, no use of games. Return that do not require trust in black boxes or surrender your financial sovereignty.
The infrastructure that we built at ACRE is ready for the first users. The technology has been tested, the security verified, the principles proven. The moment for sovereign Bitcoin output is here.
But since Bitcoin sets new highlights and market floods with complex schemes that promise higher and higher returns, then remember: our revolution was not only about price rating it was about taking back control over our financial destination.
For the first time we do not have to choose between putting sovereignty and Bitcoin to work.
Just don’t surrender those keys.
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