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We’ve raised $14M from Peter Thiel’s @foundersfund and other visionaries and top builders in the industry to expand Bitcoin beyond digital gold. More importantly, we’re launching @CitreaOrigins, a one-of-a-kind incubator to accelerate hyperbitcoinization. 🧵👇 1/7

General-purpose L1s/L2s shouldn’t, and can’t, have a retail-focused GTM. These are ecosystems. What matters in ecosystems are apps and distribution channels. Build a better product. Build a better ecosystem. Build opinionated. Let apps flourish and find their PMF.

Just a reminder, the criteria for receiving codes is clear. DMing for codes won’t work. Unfreeze ₿apps is an experiment, and we’re here to build with curious, committed users. Not code farmers. If you’re here to explore and contribute, you’re in the right place.

Cooking with chefs!

Contributing to Citrea’s BitVM TSC 🫡 Should I destroy my computer now? 👀👀👀

You don’t win by playing along. You win by breaking the rules that no longer serve. We’re here to challenge, and we’re doing it together. We'll win together.

Bitcoin is near ATH, and the demand for $BTC from institutionals and corporates has never been higher. Clearly bullish, but the bull case many still miss, is that Bitcoin is also on the verge of turning into the foundation of an entire, BTC-native DeFi ecosystem. In my article…

If you’d like to test out ₿apps on the Citrea testnet, the guide is simple: - Create original content about Citrea (not copy-paste or heavily AI-generated), in your own language or in English. - Tag @tugcesmith, @BryanNowlan, or @rollie1212. The team is working hard to read…

Good way to start your week: (re)read the ₿app Manifesto

We take security very seriously. Citrea’s codebase recently completed private audits with no critical findings. Now, we invite all security researchers to review our codebase, with a $100,000 reward pool. Show your security, Rust, and Solidity skills!

We launched our recent campaign to test our systems with real user activity and provide early user feedback to ecosystem projects, starting from @crest_btc, @nectraxyz, and @SatsumaDEX. Sybilling is a dead end. Learn, use, and enjoy ₿apps. More codes are on the way.

Built the infrastructure powering all live privacy protocols (Railgun, Privacy Pools), called Proof of Innocence, two years ago with our team at Citrea. Now building Citrea to enhance privacy, and beyond, on Bitcoin.

Citrea Testnet Campaign is Live! The “Unfreeze ₿apps” campaign is our way of: - Getting ready for the mainnet. - Showcasing the power of ZK and Bitcoin. - Celebrating the first ₿apps built on Citrea. Bitcoin's application layer is unfreezing 🫠 bapps.citrea.xyz

In the next 5 years, first-time Bitcoin buyers will create a bigger market than the entire non-Bitcoin crypto space. You’ve learned not to fade Bitcoin holders, never fade the next wave of Bitcoiners. It’s only up from here. The time to build on Bitcoin is now.

Ran out of mail codes already... Keep an eye on the account for further distributions.

Cypherpunks issuing paper Bitcoin now???

Turn on your notifications for tomorrow 🔔 ₿apps 🧊

If you’re an early-stage VC with no exposure to any Bitcoin apps on @CitreaOrigins I’m sorry, but ATH won’t save you.

Weekend vibe coding project: Citrea Pay Self-hosted BTC/USDT payment server with PoS screen. Generates EIP-681 compatible invoices with freshly derived addresses. Periodically sweeps funds to treasury using EIP-7702 for single tx USDT sweeps. github.com/orkunkilic/cit…