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 👀

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 👀

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 👈

🚨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 👈

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 👈

🎉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 👈

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!

🚨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!

⏰ 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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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!

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

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

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

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

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 🙏

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

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

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

Keep was added to the DeFiPulse community leaderboard, with the placement accounting for the value locked in BTC and ETH. We also have KEEP locked, but that’s some alpha 🤫

We look forward to increasing our leaderboard placement alongside our community!

https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1365010921014263808

Rewards update. The following liquidity rewards were distributed today 💪

☑️ 25k KEEP to Uniswap TBTC/ETH LP
☑️ 170k KEEP to Uniswap KEEP/ETH LP
☑️ 100k KEEP to Uniswap KEEP/TBTC LP
☑️ 250k KEEP to Saddle

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x8c932a39dcb46ef954f696427fdd10f25530352056fa4b9d9c9028b2b8478e98

Claim your gains on the Keep Token Dashboard 🙏