Supported Assets
1. Core Asset – Native BTC Bitcoin remains the foundation. From day one, lenders earn yield in BTC and borrowers can draw either additional BTC (for leverage or shorting) or stable-value assets backed by BTC collateral.
2. Stable-Value Assets on Bitcoin
Taproot-based stablecoins
Taproot-Assets USDT, mUSD (Mezo)
Minting mechanics, oracle quality, mint/burn throughput
CDP-minted synthetics
Bima's USBD
Collateral ratio, liquidation latency, governance control
Runes / RGB tokens
Community-issued USD proxies
Provenance audits, secondary-market depth
All stablecoins are held and transferred as true Bitcoin UTXOs, so they inherit base-layer finality without wrapped-asset risk.
3. Tokenised Assets on Bitcoin
Runes / BRC-20 / RGB fungibles – Select large-cap tokens may be whitelisted as collateral once liquidity and volatility thresholds are met.
Taproot-Assets commodities – Future listings could include tokenised gold or hash-rate contracts that settle natively on Bitcoin.
4. Bridged Liquidity – Hyperlane & Beyond
While Helios is architected for Bitcoin-native value, it can ingest liquidity from other ecosystems when risk-reward justifies it:
USDT / USDC from Ethereum, Solana, etc. bridged via Hyperlane’s permissionless messaging layer.
Circuit-breaker limits and oracle-verified burn proofs cap exposure and quarantine any cross-chain incident to a predefined tranche of the pool.
This approach preserves optionality for Layer-2 or side-chain partners without diluting Helios’s primary security model.
5. Listing & Risk Governance
Every new asset—native or bridged—passes through a quantitative risk engine that assesses liquidity depth, volatility, oracle robustness, and smart-contract surface area. Parameters such as loan-to-value, reserve factors, and liquidation bonuses are calibrated accordingly and can be updated on-chain via decentralized governance.
Key Takeaway Helios starts with BTC but is engineered to expand safely across the entire spectrum of Bitcoin-resident and selectively bridged assets—providing borrowers and lenders with a diversified, yet security-aligned, menu of collateral and liquidity options.
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