Portal to Bitcoin is the Sleeping Giant of Kaito That's why i'd be explaining @PortaltoBitcoin to you like you're 5. 🧵

1/ Imagine you have a toy box full of Bitcoin. And your friend has another toy box full of Ethereum. Normally, if you want to trade your toys, you both have to give them to a teacher (middleman). The teacher holds both toys and swaps them for you.

2/ But what if the grown-up loses your toys? Or decides to keep them? That’s the risk with most crypto swaps today, they rely on bridges, wrapped tokens, or custodians. But what if you could trade directly, just the two of you?

3/ That’s what Portal to Bitcoin is for. It lets you trade your real Bitcoin for things like Ethereum or Solana or USDC... • without giving your Bitcoin to someone else • without wrapping it like a burrito • without any bridges. It’s just you and your wallet.

4/ Portal to Bitcoin uses something called atomic swaps, think of it like magic handshakes between two people. You only give your toy if they give theirs at the exact same time. If one side doesn't go through, nothing happens. Simple and safe.

5/ Other crypto chains like Ethereum and Solana have all kinds of DeFi stuff like swapping, lending, trading But Bitcoin was kind of left out until now. Portal to Bitcoin is building the tools to make Bitcoin play in the DeFi playground without changing what makes it unique.

6/ Portal to Bitcoin has already done a lot and some people even say they're ready for TGE • 14M+ swaps • 1M+ wallet installs • 500K+ swaps daily at peak • 21K+ LiteNodes • Big investors like Coinbase Ventures and OKX But to me, i think they’re just getting started.

7/ The best part? You get to keep your keys, stay in control, and still use DeFi all powered by Bitcoin and smart tech like Taproot and BitScaler.

8/ In short: • Cross-chain swaps • No custody • Real Bitcoin • New DeFi layer • Testnet is live • RAFA AI (I'd talk about this soon) Portal is like the missing piece for Bitcoin in the world of DeFi.

9/ Follow @ivysats and @PortaltoBitcoin to stay updated. This is one of the few projects trying to make Bitcoin actually do things again. Portal: Custody Less Blockchain Protocol For Bitcoin