Badger DAO
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Badger DAO (BADGER) ranks #1148 by market capitalization, at $6.32M. It belongs to the DeFi sector (Decentralized Yield Services). It has traded since Dec 3, 2020, across 102 markets on 8 exchanges, with $3.68K of volume in the last 24 hours. Its all-time high of $89.00 was reached on Feb 9, 2021; the current price is 99.7% below that peak. Its cycle low of $0.275174 came on Nov 5, 2026.
92.9% of the maximum supply of 21.00M BADGER is in circulation. 4 investors are recorded as backers, including Polychain Capital, ParaFi Capital, Blockchain Capital. Development data lists 6 core developers and 20,114 code commits. On Ethereum, 30,217 addresses hold BADGER. It is available on 5 networks.
About Badger DAO
BadgerDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization designed to bridge Bitcoin with decentralized finance (DeFi). It enables the use of Bitcoin as collateral across different blockchains, fostering its integration into various DeFi platforms. BadgerDAO offers yield-earning on wrapped Bitcoin through automated staking vaults. The BADGER token powers governance and utility across DeFi protocols like Curve, Balancer, and Convex, driving community-led growth in the Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem.
Background
Badger DAO was founded on the idea that despite Bitcoin being a highly productive collateral asset, there were only limited ways to collateralize $BTC in DeFi, meaning most users were custodying or borrowing against their $BTC via centralized offerings. With the strong adoption of wrapped Bitcoin tokens such as $wBTC and $renBTC on Ethereum from 2018-2020, the founding team saw an opportunitiy to provide a bridge for Bitcoin collateral to automated yield strategies in DeFi, first within the Ethereum ecosystem, then eventually with the vision of also bringing $BTC collateral to other blockchains.
In September 2020, Badger DAO launched its governance token, $BADGER, and distributed it according to an emission schedule via its own staking vaults/yield aggregators, called Setts. Today, Setts offer multiple yield strategies across the DeFi ecosystem, and offer boosted yields for assets locked up for longer periods as well as for accounts that are staked across multiple Setts. Users can bridge from $BTC to $renBTC natively, earn an algorhythmically rebasing $BTC-pegged token, called $DIGG, as well as exchange wrapped $BTC for an interest-bearing Bitcoin token, called $ibBTC.
In March 2021, after growing to over $1 bil. in TVL, the company received a direct investment of $21m from VCs into the Badger DAO treasury to serve as a liquidity backstop and security measure. The new VC partners agreed to participate actively in the DAO's ongoing governance.