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What is Garden?

Garden is the first instant Bitcoin liquidity layer in Web3, designed to provide fast and accurately priced Bitcoin liquidity for traders and dApps.

Garden exists at the crossroads created by the Bitcoin renaissance, which led to three parallel budding Bitcoin ecosystems or the Bitcoin 2.0 stack:

  1. Bitcoin L1 and L2s: Bitcoin as an ecosystem has become imaginative and moved from its 'liquid gold' beginnings. Ordinals and L2 chains have created an alternate BTC-powered DeFi ecosystem that wasn't considered possible before.
  2. Bitcoin on EVM: Bitcoin accounts for 85% of all cross-chain volume. Being the biggest asset in Web3, Bitcoin-related use cases are a mainstay of EVM DeFi.
  3. Centralized Markets: Bitcoin still tops the charts on Binance, and the approval of Bitcoin ETFs brought deserved credibility and institutional investments for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin 2.0 is like a complex financial organism with its various centralized, decentralized, and siloed parts. It requires a deep, instant, and ownerless liquidity layer to function. That's where Garden comes in.

Use Cases​

Swap​

Use Garden's Swap function to trustlessly swap your BTC to WBTC and any other asset (coming soon!) instantly on our Supported Chains.

If you're a new user, these guides will help you perform your first swap on Garden:

To learn how swapping works under the hood, check out the Swap section.

Build​

Garden is a community-driven project that encourages and appreciates developers' use of its composable dev stack to build cool Bitcoin cross-chain experiences. If you're a developer looking to integrate or build on Garden, these are good places to start:

  • SDK: A simple guide to using the Garden SDK.
  • Cookbook: If you're looking for some inspiration, you can find the projects cooked up by our devs and partners here! chef's kiss To get your hands dirty in Garden (pun intended), check out the Developers section.

Provide​

Provide liquidity to Garden and earn fees by facilitating swaps. Check out Liquidity Provision to understand the role of LPs or Fillers (as we like to call them) in the Garden ecosystem.

If you wish to run a Filler, contact us on Discord to discuss the next steps.

Stake​

Garden's Staking program creates a game-theoretic mechanism to both incentivize HODLing SEED (Garden's Token) and maintain Fillers' integrity. Check out Stake to understand the role of Stakers in the Garden ecosystem.

Jump straight to How to stake SEED for next steps.