{"id":611831,"date":"2026-06-09T18:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=821533"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:50:13","slug":"circle-deploys-cirbtc-on-ethereum-letting-btc-holders-tap-defi-without-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/circle-deploys-cirbtc-on-ethereum-letting-btc-holders-tap-defi-without-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Circle Deploys cirBTC on Ethereum, Letting BTC Holders Tap DeFi Without Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/circle-deploys-cirbtc-on-ethereum-letting-btc-holders-tap-defi-without-selling_nwmk-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Circle logo on a smartphone next to a desktop.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Circle has launched cirBTC on Ethereum, allowing institutions and BTC holders to deploy bitcoin as collateral in decentralized finance ( DeFi) markets without selling their underlying position. What cirBTC Is Every cirBTC token is backed 1:1 by native bitcoin. The underlying BTC is held at a regulated Circle entity and kept separate from the company\u2019s [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circle has launched cirBTC on Ethereum, allowing institutions and BTC holders to deploy bitcoin as collateral in decentralized finance ( DeFi) markets without selling their underlying position. What cirBTC Is Every cirBTC token is backed 1:1 by native bitcoin. The underlying BTC is held at a regulated Circle entity and kept separate from the company\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":611832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-611831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}