Starknet expands BTCFi push as Vesu pays STRK rewards to Bitcoin borrowers

Borrowing money usually costs money. On Starknet, borrowers are now being paid to do it, at least partially. Vesu, a lending protocol on Starknet, lets users borrow against BTC and earn STRK rewards on those loans. The rewards for borrowers were announced on October 8, 2026. They are meant to lower the net cost of borrowing for users who come in through the Sats Terminal frontend. How the Vesu rewards work Vesu operates as a modular, permissionless lending market. Its pools can be set up for different assets and risk profiles instead of everything sharing one giant bucket. The tokens eligible for both collateral and rewards are WBTC, LBTC, SolvBTC, tBTC, and strkBTC. Each one is a tokenized version of Bitcoin, which is how BTC shows up on networks it was never built to run on. Borrowers who take out stablecoins against that BTC collateral can claim STRK rewards every week. Sats Terminal is the user-facing layer. It gives borrowers a simpler interface for setting up BTC-backed loans. During reward periods, loans taken through Sats Terminal can carry effective net APRs that sit near zero or even dip into negative territory. If the STRK a borrower collects is worth more than the inter...