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There’s a growing momentum in web3 to turn the world’s largest crypto asset, Bitcoin, into the base layer of a programmable, yield-bearing financial ecosystem. While Ethereum has long been the hub of DeFi activity, Bitcoin has been historically “idle” and non-yielding.. However, Bitcoin DeFi is coming up as a fast-emerging movement to make Bitcoin productive without sacrificing its security, liquidity, or decentralization. Signifying this, Hunter Rogers, formerly a senior ecosystem lead at TRON DAO, is making big bets on turning the asset programmable. For this, he has joined Bitcoin-native yield protocol TeraHash as a co-founder, leaving his role at TRON. This is a move that spotlights growing momentum around “BTC-native” DeFi products that convert mining hashrate into liquid, on-chain yield. Ex-TRON Lead Hunter Rogers Joins TeraHash as Co-Founder We’re thrilled to welcome Hunter Rogers, former Senior Ecosystem Development Lead at TRON DAO, as Co-Founder of TeraHash. Hunter brings years of experience in institutional partnerships, ecosystem growth, and strategic… pic.twitter.com/O8RkNxQES4 — TeraHash (@TeraHash_xyz) November 6, 2025 Former TRON Leader’s New Project Bitcoin was designed as a simple, secure payment and store-of-value network, not a smart contract platform. That’s why DeFi initially exploded on Ethereum – it’s programmable by default. But over the past few years, new layers and protocols have started making Bitcoin programmable, bridging liquidity into DeFi, and introducing BTC-native financial primitives. With Bitcoin Layer2s and wrapped bitcoin continuing to work in that momentum, TerraHash is a bitcoin native yield protocol. It tokenizes Bitcoin mining hashrate into $THS, a token that yields BTC-based rewards. This, the company describes as, as a bridge between physical Bitcoin mining and composable DeFi, issuing tokens that represent real mining power and letting holders earn daily BTC rewards without operating miners. Hunter, now co-founder of TerraHash says, “Bitcoin mining generates over $20B in annual yield,…

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