📣 In case you missed the live stream of our Stakedrop virtual event 📣, we’ve put together a short summary of the details shared, along with a link to rewatch 📺 the event in its entirety.
Check out the post here 👈
We hope to get all newcomers comfortable running their testnet nodes 💻 before transitioning to mainnet. If you're still having trouble getting your node running, drop into our #staking channel on our Discord server - the Keep team 🏰 and our community 🤝 can get you going!
Check out the post here 👈
We hope to get all newcomers comfortable running their testnet nodes 💻 before transitioning to mainnet. If you're still having trouble getting your node running, drop into our #staking channel on our Discord server - the Keep team 🏰 and our community 🤝 can get you going!
Medium
Keep’s Stakedrop Kicks off with Live Crowdcast
The months-long event will let people stake ETH to earn KEEP
👉 We’re sponsoring several privacy-focused bounties through Gitcoin’s Protecting Privacy virtual hackathon, and giving you another way to earn KEEP! 💪
We’ve created a couple project ideas as starting points for bounties, but we encourage you to be creative here! The bounty titles are:
- Randomness for privacy 🔢
- tBTC privacy hacks 🔐
- Hack a Zcash relay for tZEC 💻
- Signature test vector library 👀
We’ve always been focused on privacy🔒 and ⛓open-source development, and this hackathon is one way we hope to support our communities. Find out more details about the specific bounties in our blog post and then sign up 📝 to hack with us on Gitcoin!
We’ve created a couple project ideas as starting points for bounties, but we encourage you to be creative here! The bounty titles are:
- Randomness for privacy 🔢
- tBTC privacy hacks 🔐
- Hack a Zcash relay for tZEC 💻
- Signature test vector library 👀
We’ve always been focused on privacy🔒 and ⛓open-source development, and this hackathon is one way we hope to support our communities. Find out more details about the specific bounties in our blog post and then sign up 📝 to hack with us on Gitcoin!
Medium
Calling all Hackers for a Chance to Win 50,000+ KEEP
The Keep Privacy Prize will be awarded as part of Gitcoin’s Protect Privacy Hackathon, of which Keep is a sponsor
🎉🎉🎉
Spencer Noon 🕛 is our Playing for Keeps guest judge in June!
Spencer gave us a little detail on some of the contributions he would like to see 👀and reward 🏅this month, particularly around analytics and tools to monitor network health.
🤔 Want to get some ideas for more Playing for Keeps contributions? Read more in our blog post 👈
Spencer Noon 🕛 is our Playing for Keeps guest judge in June!
Spencer gave us a little detail on some of the contributions he would like to see 👀and reward 🏅this month, particularly around analytics and tools to monitor network health.
🤔 Want to get some ideas for more Playing for Keeps contributions? Read more in our blog post 👈
Medium
What Spencer Noon is Looking For in Month 2 of Playing for Keeps
June’s focus will include analytics tools that can help provide a picture of the health of the Keep Network
Our project lead 💪 Matt gave a project update earlier this month at Messari Mainnet. If you missed the event, the recording is now available at 👉 https://messari.io/article/keep-network-project-update-mainnet-2020
Matt also recently appeared on the Zero Knowledge Podcast with Anna Rose and Fredrik Harrysson, where they dug into the relationship between thesis *️⃣, Keep 🏰, and tBTC⛓, the details behind the tBTC rc.0 bug, and some ideas for the future. Check it out at https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/134 👀
Matt also recently appeared on the Zero Knowledge Podcast with Anna Rose and Fredrik Harrysson, where they dug into the relationship between thesis *️⃣, Keep 🏰, and tBTC⛓, the details behind the tBTC rc.0 bug, and some ideas for the future. Check it out at https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/134 👀
messari.io
Keep Network Project Update - Mainnet 2020
Gain an edge over the crypto market with professional grade data, tools, and research.
Spencer Noon 🕛 reviewed June’s Playing for Keeps entries, and Itzler’s work pulling together a tBTC Dashboard with Dune Analytics took top prize!
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In all, we distributed 2 million KEEP(!), with over 100 community members receiving prizes of at least 5k KEEP. The full results from this month along with details of how to enter contributions for July are in our latest blog post 👀
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In all, we distributed 2 million KEEP(!), with over 100 community members receiving prizes of at least 5k KEEP. The full results from this month along with details of how to enter contributions for July are in our latest blog post 👀
Medium
With 2 Million KEEP Awarded, Month Two of Playing for Keeps is in the Books
Judge Spencer Noon’s top prizes went to contributions to the Dune dashboard among other submissions
We believe the most resilient projects in the space are transparent and open source. 🔍👀
We’ve partnered with Messari to bring token transparency for the KEEP token to their Disclosures Registry. 🤝We take transparency seriously, and hope that this provides valuable information for the community, compiled by an outside party.
You can find more information about what this means to us in our 👉 blog post 👈
We’ve partnered with Messari to bring token transparency for the KEEP token to their Disclosures Registry. 🤝We take transparency seriously, and hope that this provides valuable information for the community, compiled by an outside party.
You can find more information about what this means to us in our 👉 blog post 👈
Medium
Transparency at Keep
We’ve joined Messari’s Disclosure Registry
🚨Hackathon results incoming!🚨
We had a KEEP bounty in the recently wrapped Protect Privacy hackathon with Gitcoin, which focused on building out privacy-focused 🔐 tools sponsored by some of the leading teams in the blockchain and privacy spaces. Our top bounty winner of 50k KEEP was tBTC 🌪Tornado Cash, which implemented tBTC on Tornado Cash. Runners-up with prizes of 20k KEEP each were a second implementation of tBTC on Tornado Cash, tBTC Tornado, and a tBTC and Umbra Protocol mashup. 🙌
If you’re interested in more details about the projects, check out our latest 👉 blog post 👈
We had a KEEP bounty in the recently wrapped Protect Privacy hackathon with Gitcoin, which focused on building out privacy-focused 🔐 tools sponsored by some of the leading teams in the blockchain and privacy spaces. Our top bounty winner of 50k KEEP was tBTC 🌪Tornado Cash, which implemented tBTC on Tornado Cash. Runners-up with prizes of 20k KEEP each were a second implementation of tBTC on Tornado Cash, tBTC Tornado, and a tBTC and Umbra Protocol mashup. 🙌
If you’re interested in more details about the projects, check out our latest 👉 blog post 👈
Medium
Announcing the Winners of the Keep Privacy Prize Challenge
One winner and two runners-up are awarded a total of 90,000 KEEP for their submissions
ICYMI 👀
This week, Keep and tBTC was featured in Paul Veradittakit’s Newsletter 🗞. Paul breaks down the issue of privacy on public blockchains ⛓, how the Keep network enables private data interaction with public chains 🏰, and outlines some of the possible use cases this unlocks 🔓- a solid piece to check out if you’re considering building something that requires private data, or if you are interested in general privacy tooling for public blockchains.
👉You can read the post in full at the VeradiVerdict Substack 👈
This week, Keep and tBTC was featured in Paul Veradittakit’s Newsletter 🗞. Paul breaks down the issue of privacy on public blockchains ⛓, how the Keep network enables private data interaction with public chains 🏰, and outlines some of the possible use cases this unlocks 🔓- a solid piece to check out if you’re considering building something that requires private data, or if you are interested in general privacy tooling for public blockchains.
👉You can read the post in full at the VeradiVerdict Substack 👈
Veradiverdict
Bitcoin in DeFi
VeradiVerdict - Issue #94
🎉The winners from the Festival hackathon are now in! 🏆
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We chose Ple-BTC as the top winner of 75k KEEP. Read more about all the projects that came together in the Keep blog 👈
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We chose Ple-BTC as the top winner of 75k KEEP. Read more about all the projects that came together in the Keep blog 👈
Medium
75,000 KEEP Awarded to PleBTC in Festival Hackathon
The app’s developers built a method of porting BTC onto Ethereum as a token
There’s a strong chance that if you’re reading this, you’re a Millennial 👀 💅
That’s for good reason - you’re tuned into channels where we’re redesigning financial tools in the shadow of a financial system that has largely disenfranchised our peers. 🙅♂️🙅♀️
Matt explores how Millennials are reshaping the future of finance 🤑 in the International Business Times - you can read it here!
That’s for good reason - you’re tuned into channels where we’re redesigning financial tools in the shadow of a financial system that has largely disenfranchised our peers. 🙅♂️🙅♀️
Matt explores how Millennials are reshaping the future of finance 🤑 in the International Business Times - you can read it here!
International Business Times
How Millennial Finance Will Make The Legacy Banking System Irrelevant
As the first digital-native generation, millennials are driving change with fintech in the form of decentralized finance.
🚨Panel Alert!🚨
Join Matt as he discusses the state of #BTC pegs and how #tBTC functions as a supply pegged #ERC20. Matt will be joined by Summa’s James Prestwich, Chjango Unchained, and Nomic’s Matt Bell on the Cosmos YouTube channel. The panel is live at 5PM EDT!
Join Matt as he discusses the state of #BTC pegs and how #tBTC functions as a supply pegged #ERC20. Matt will be joined by Summa’s James Prestwich, Chjango Unchained, and Nomic’s Matt Bell on the Cosmos YouTube channel. The panel is live at 5PM EDT!
⏰ It’s tiiiiiiime ⏰
We are ready to start making noise 🎉 about the tBTC mainnet contracts being live on the Ethereum mainnet! 🙌
If you’re as excited as we are to be announcing the mainnet contracts today, help us spread the word!
- The new blog post is here: https://blog.keep.network/tbtc-the-safe-way-to-use-bitcoin-in-defi-is-live-on-tbtc-network-de2bb8b6eaf7
- The tBTC twitter announcement is here:
The tBTC Discord is here: https://discord.gg/TytRYBe
- You can mint tBTC (!!!) at https://dapp.tbtc.network
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We are ready to start making noise 🎉 about the tBTC mainnet contracts being live on the Ethereum mainnet! 🙌
If you’re as excited as we are to be announcing the mainnet contracts today, help us spread the word!
- The new blog post is here: https://blog.keep.network/tbtc-the-safe-way-to-use-bitcoin-in-defi-is-live-on-tbtc-network-de2bb8b6eaf7
- The tBTC twitter announcement is here:
The tBTC Discord is here: https://discord.gg/TytRYBe
- You can mint tBTC (!!!) at https://dapp.tbtc.network
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IOSG VC put out a blog post on tBTC 👀
We’re so happy to have them on board 💪 and are looking forward to developing a stronger Asian community presence in the future! 🙌
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Check out what they had to say about our system!
We’re so happy to have them on board 💪 and are looking forward to developing a stronger Asian community presence in the future! 🙌
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Check out what they had to say about our system!
Medium
A fully decentralized “bridge” between BTC and DeFi is now Live!
An opportunity worth tens of billions
Today at 1:20 EST our founder Matt Luongo is speaking on an ETHDenver panel called "War & Peace: The Multi-chain Reality" 🎙 👏
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1359151979298185222
Watch the full panel live👇
twitch.tv/ethereumdenver
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1359151979298185222
Watch the full panel live👇
twitch.tv/ethereumdenver
Many of you asked for it so we shipped it 👨🚀!! The KEEP-only stake pool is now live. This is super exciting for a few reasons:
🙅♂️There is no min stake amount so it increases staking accessibility
⏳There is a rewards multiplier of up to 3x based on time locked
💰The initial rewards are 100k KEEP per month
🔑In the future our community will be able to govern the pool with control over some of the key parameters
Full details are available in the blog post below 👇
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1359604707090522112
🙅♂️There is no min stake amount so it increases staking accessibility
⏳There is a rewards multiplier of up to 3x based on time locked
💰The initial rewards are 100k KEEP per month
🔑In the future our community will be able to govern the pool with control over some of the key parameters
Full details are available in the blog post below 👇
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1359604707090522112
Twitter
Keep #tBTC
Our community asked for it, we shipped it! KEEP-only pool is now live: 🙅♂️Increased access to staking with no KEEP min. ⏳Rewards multiplier up to 3x for time locked 💰100K KEEP monthly rewards 👨🚀Future community governance of parameters Full details 👇 h…
The KEEP-only pool launch has been extremely successful. We appreciate the continued community support 😎
Our friend Chandru built this quality step by step guide on how to use the new KEEP-only staking pool 👏
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1360022201374806020
Our friend Chandru built this quality step by step guide on how to use the new KEEP-only staking pool 👏
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1360022201374806020
Twitter
Keep #tBTC
The Keep community continues to support the recently launched KEEP-only staking pool which has already successfully drawn many new users into our ecosystem 🤩 Our friend @cryptocrs built a step by step guide on how to use the new pool 👏 https://t.co/fd0BDkHxoe
Keep v1 community governance is underway 🙏
We transferred ownership of the tBTC v1 contracts to our community multisig. This is a huge step towards empowering our community for the long-run through our progressive decentralized community governance plan.
In addition to the discussions that have been occurring on Discord (chat.keep.network) we now have community governance forums to chat about Keep Improvement Proposals or KIPs.
https://forum.keep.network/
Check out the full details on our v1 governance system so far and learn how to get involved👇
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1362150994482663425
We transferred ownership of the tBTC v1 contracts to our community multisig. This is a huge step towards empowering our community for the long-run through our progressive decentralized community governance plan.
In addition to the discussions that have been occurring on Discord (chat.keep.network) we now have community governance forums to chat about Keep Improvement Proposals or KIPs.
https://forum.keep.network/
Check out the full details on our v1 governance system so far and learn how to get involved👇
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1362150994482663425
Rewards update. The following liquidity rewards were distributed today 👏
☑️ 25k KEEP to Uniswap TBTC/ETH LP
☑️ 85k KEEP to Uniswap KEEP/ETH LP
☑️ 100k KEEP to Uniswap KEEP/TBTC LP
☑️ 250k KEEP to Saddle
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x8875c97632b9ade20b7498f2cbde94cb28c19b9e2af59862f7796853f2da3939
Claim your gains on the Keep Token Dashboard 🙏
☑️ 25k KEEP to Uniswap TBTC/ETH LP
☑️ 85k KEEP to Uniswap KEEP/ETH LP
☑️ 100k KEEP to Uniswap KEEP/TBTC LP
☑️ 250k KEEP to Saddle
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x8875c97632b9ade20b7498f2cbde94cb28c19b9e2af59862f7796853f2da3939
Claim your gains on the Keep Token Dashboard 🙏
The Keep Community and Multisig acted swiftly to update tBTC through the new Keep governance system 👏 . The following changes have been made:
1️⃣ The collateralization ratio is now 200%
2️⃣ The courtesy call threshold for new deposits is now 115%
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1363903915050360835
1️⃣ The collateralization ratio is now 200%
2️⃣ The courtesy call threshold for new deposits is now 115%
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1363903915050360835
Major news for our community 💪
Introducing the Keep Community Fellowship and Developer Grants Program. Quick details:
🏎 Continue to accelerate adoption of the Keep and tBTC ecosystem
👷 More building with our community
🌊 2M KEEP allocated for Wave 1
We will use the #development channel on our Discord as hub to discuss community grant proposals and maybe you'll even form project teams with other community builders there. Keep and eye on the channel because we will post grant proposal suggestions there.
Check out the full program details and find out more on how to apply👇
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1363929087677464577
Introducing the Keep Community Fellowship and Developer Grants Program. Quick details:
🏎 Continue to accelerate adoption of the Keep and tBTC ecosystem
👷 More building with our community
🌊 2M KEEP allocated for Wave 1
We will use the #development channel on our Discord as hub to discuss community grant proposals and maybe you'll even form project teams with other community builders there. Keep and eye on the channel because we will post grant proposal suggestions there.
Check out the full program details and find out more on how to apply👇
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1363929087677464577
The Keep Community has proposed to reduce current staking emissions to increase future allocation for tBTC v2 📣
1️⃣ Cut rewards by 30% for March, April, May, June, July and August vs current schedule
2️⃣ Rewards set at 4.35M KEEP per month for September, October, November and December
3️⃣ Cut all rewards after 2022 to zero
4️⃣ Retain 50M KEEP in stakedrop funds for launching tBTC v2
Check out the full proposal 👇
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1364367081244868619
1️⃣ Cut rewards by 30% for March, April, May, June, July and August vs current schedule
2️⃣ Rewards set at 4.35M KEEP per month for September, October, November and December
3️⃣ Cut all rewards after 2022 to zero
4️⃣ Retain 50M KEEP in stakedrop funds for launching tBTC v2
Check out the full proposal 👇
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1364367081244868619