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Botanix bet big on 'Bitcoin DeFi.' Its shutdown suggests users never cared
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CoinDesk Staff(12:00 PM UTC)
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A 'Bitcoin DeFi' project just shut down with a brutal post-mortem: Users just didn't care
"It did not work," Botanix said. "At lest not in this market and not in this timeline."
Bitcoin layer-2 network Botanix is being wound down a year after its mainnet went live.
The project cited market conditions and broader indifference within the cryptocurrency industry towards establishing greater utility…
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