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No. sBTC is 1:1 Bitcoin-backed and secured by Bitcoin L1 consensus. You hold it under your own keys, with no third-party custodian and no wrapped-token bridge risk.

BitYield sponsors it for you. When you sign a deposit or withdrawal, our sponsor account pays the STX network fee, so you can start earning without first going out to buy STX. Sponsorship is part of early access and won’t run forever, so at some point network fees become yours to cover. Even then you won’t need to hold STX, just a small fee settled in sBTC or taken from the yield you’ve already earned.

Two strategies route real sBTC into live protocols today: deposits into Zest Protocol, the largest Bitcoin lending market on Stacks, are actually supplied into its lending pool, and Dual Stacking enrolls your sBTC in the Stacks network’s own rewards program. Both are new, unaudited deployments, and both rates are read live from each protocol, not a fixed BitYield number — a live rate moves with real market conditions and can be small (Zest’s reflects real borrowing demand, for example). A third strategy, Hermetica Structured, is a BitYield smart contract paying a fixed, transparent APY today, clearly labelled “Preview” and fully verifiable on-chain, while live routing to Hermetica itself is built.

Yes, always. Positions are non-custodial and open-ended. Trigger a withdrawal from your dashboard and your principal plus any accrued yield returns to your wallet. No lock-ups, no waiting periods.

sBTC is Bitcoin on Stacks: 1:1 Bitcoin-backed, so 1 sBTC always equals 1 BTC. You get it by sending BTC through the official sBTC bridge (sbtc.stacks.co), and BitYield links you straight there from the deposit screen.

We recommend Leather or Xverse. They are the two most widely used Bitcoin wallets built for Stacks, both are free, and either one takes a couple of minutes to set up. Connect in one tap; there is no separate BitYield account to create. If you already use a different Stacks wallet it will most likely work too, but Leather and Xverse are the ones we actively test and support.

BitYield is non-custodial by design: your funds live in open, on-chain smart contracts that only you can withdraw from, never on our servers. Every contract is public and verifiable on the explorer (see the Proof page), and we have deliberately kept them simple and transparent. A third-party security audit is on our roadmap as we scale.

No lock-ups and no hidden fees. Deposit and withdraw whenever you like. Today you pay nothing at all: no deposit charge, no withdrawal charge, and gas is sponsored. Nothing is ever taken from your position without being shown to you first, and anything that changes gets announced before it takes effect, never quietly.

Not from you, yet. There are no deposit fees, no withdrawal fees, and no cut of your yield during early access. Longer term BitYield will take a small percentage of the yield you earn, and nothing else: nothing to deposit, nothing to withdraw, and nothing at all in a period where your position doesn’t earn. We only do well when you do. We’ll publish the exact rate well before it applies, and rates on the site will always be shown net of fees, so the number you see is the number you keep.

They stay yours. Your position lives in an on-chain smart contract keyed to your address, not on our servers, so even if the BitYield app disappeared, only you can withdraw your funds by calling the contract directly.