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It’s always a pleasure talking to one of the more active developers in web3.
This week, we sat down with @rarity_garden to unpack everything that's been built over the past year:
Cross-chain trading without traditional bridges
• Major TAP Protocol upgrades
• Why Bitcoin's long-term security budget still matters $DMT-NAT
• What builders should be paying attention to next
The biggest opportunities usually don't appear when everyone's watching.
They show up while everyone else has already moved on
Bitcoin Has a Bigger Problem Than You Think | TAP Protocol Updates Interview w/ Benny | TBR #319
@rarity_garden from @tap_protocol and @TracNetwork joined us for a deep conversation about what has actually changed across the TAP and Trac ecosystem over the last year and why those changes matter more now than they might have when the broader market was still half-asleep. We start with the infrastructure most people never notice until it suddenly matters: the bridge, the AMM, the Trac wallet, and the newer TAP protocol upgrade that opens the door to more native programmability without forcing everything into heavier, messier execution models. Benny explains how the latest changes are not just incremental tooling updates, but the kind of base-layer improvements that make more serious applications possible on top.
From there, we dig into the new cross-dex on @TAP_scope and why it is more important than a simple trading feature. The bigger point is that TAP is getting closer to supporting the kinds of actions people actually want to coordinate across chains: trading, staking, yield, stable access, and more complex interactions that still stay relatively efficient. That matters because the conversation around Bitcoin-adjacent innovation usually gets trapped between two extremes: people either want hard protocol changes or they assume anything useful has to live somewhere else entirely. What Benny lays out is a path where meta-protocol design can do more than most people think, especially when it is built with real usage constraints in mind.
The second half of the episode turns back to NAT and the Bitcoin miner thesis that has slowly gone from a weird experiment to something a lot harder to dismiss. We revisit why we redirected NAT emissions to miners in the first place, how that decision exposed the deeper problem of Bitcoin's declining subsidy, and why the market response mattered so much once real miners started moving the token. The important signal was never just price. It was the fact that major mining pools engaged with the asset at all, and that the engagement kept compounding instead of fading out after the first headline moment. That is what turned NAT from a clever idea into a live economic argument.
We also spend time on the founder side of all this: how you build infrastructure before the market is ready, how you showcase new rails without faking momentum, and why products like https://t.co/inMF4EwURV matter even when the first launch is imperfect. Benny makes the @opensea comparison for a reason. A lot of the most important infrastructure looks early, underused, or even mistimed right before the narrative catches up to it. The hard part is surviving that awkward phase long enough to still be standing when people come back looking for what changed.
That is really the through line here. The edge is not just having a theory about where crypto, Bitcoin, NFTs, or creator platforms might go next. The edge is building the rails before the crowd agrees they are needed, then refining them through real usage instead of sponsored noise. If Bitcoin's incentive structure keeps getting stress-tested, if creator economies keep looking for better primitives, and if capital rotates back into crypto searching for fresh narratives, the projects that stayed busy during the quiet period are the ones most likely to matter when attention returns.
This is the perfect thread (🧵) for anyone who wants to learn more about our TAP CrossDEX 🔁
Here’s our guarantee to you:
Read this, and you’ll go from beginner to expert on cross-chain swaps & perps on Bitcoin, in less than 2 minutes.
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When we say our TAP CrossDEX is ‘permissionless’, we mean it!
TAP assets always remain on Bitcoin
Ethereum, Solana & BNB assets always remain on their chains
The special sauce comes from @tap_protocol & TAP Wallet native HTLC support
Swaps are executed from the user’s wallet
𝐓𝐀𝐏 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐃𝐄𝐗 is LIVE 🚨
TAP Wallet v1.0.44 users can now access:
> cross-chain swaps
> perps & liquidation bounties
> $TAP staking
Listings are free, no tx required
CrosssDEX is brought to you by @TAP_scope & Powered by @tap_protocol
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Introducing: ‘Perp Groups’ on 𝐓𝐀𝐏 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐃𝐄𝐗
Perp Groups are self-contained collateral pools for isolated long/short markets
Each Group has its own collateral, risk, and outcomes
So liquidations don’t bleed across the entire platform
Plus all groups have a Bounty! 😈