Have you ever think of how you can use your Bitcoin in other financial apps without selling it? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ That is basically what cirBTC is trying to make possible. Think of cirBTC like a ticket for your Bitcoin. One cirBTC represents one real BTC held in reserve. So instead of your Bitcoin just sitting there, you can bring its value into other onchain apps and actually use it. --------------------------------------------------------- Now, how do you get it on Arc? ➻ If you already have USDC or other supported assets on Arc, you can swap for cirBTC directly on the Arc Portal. ➻ If your cirBTC is on Ethereum, you can bridge it to Arc. ➻ If you hold wBTC or cbBTC, you first swap it to cirBTC on Ethereum, then bridge it to Arc. --------------------------------------------------------- Once your cirBTC is on Arc, you can use it in lending markets. For example, you can use your Bitcoin as collateral and borrow USDC against it without selling your BTC. And this is the part I find interesting. You keep your Bitcoin exposure, but now that Bitcoin can actually be used inside an onchain financial system. --------------------------------------------------------- That's just it , your BTC doesn't have to just sit there. You can put it to work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━