Citrea is the first ZK rollup that settles directly on Bitcoin, verifies zero-knowledge proofs on-chain through BitVM, and preserves Bitcoin-level security while enabling fully programmable smart contracts through its in-house Type 2 zkEVM. The platform fosters a composable ecosystem of Bitcoin applications (₿apps) and features a compliant stablecoin, ctUSD, issued by MoonPay, alongside the first trust-minimized BTC bridge, Clementine. Citrea is backed by Founders Fund, Galaxy, Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, Erik Voorhees, Eric Wall, Maven11, Delphi, and more.
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The trust layer for digital finance
Reliable blockchain indexing for web3 engineering teams
Open, efficient, trustless lending for everyone
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LATEST: 📈 Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Morpho with a $60 end-2030 price target, saying the DeFi lending token could outperform both Bitcoin and Ethereum. https://t.co/RORUT9kydI
RT @A_Leutenegger: Really excited to be working with @citrea_xyz on their optimistic control framework. Vetoes = 1. Higher velocity 2.…
My understanding is Citrea uses BitVM and Liquid is also moving to that model. So, the security model of the two-way peg seems to be improving generally. I don't really buy that people don't use Liquid because it is "fake and dishonest." The entire history of crypto is users mostly not understandin
RT @citrea_xyz: 3 years of building 5 months of mainnet 4 weeks of CTR Job's not finished.
For the first ~7ish years of Bitcoin, the prevailing narrative for why altcoins were doomed was that they were test networks. The idea being that Bitcoin would add any functionality that proved valuable and subsume the market share. This was an early form of Bitcoin Maximalism. Thus you can imagine
🚨 Most people think #Strategy selling 847K $BTC at $50K is the risk. It's not. The real risk is $800M/yr in fixed dividends with only $900M cash left — obligations that don't care where #Bitcoin trades. Paper loss ≠ liquidity crisis. Until it does. Insights from: → @0x_orkun, co-founder & CEO o
RT @citrea_xyz: xCTR unstaking period is now 14 days 🍊🍋 The execution of CORE-10 reduced the unstaking period from 90 days to 14 days. Th…
RT @citrea_xyz: Citrea enabled Bitcoin to be used for lending, trading, yield & settlement. How we do it is the moon math part 🤓: - Clemen…
Voting Process for Citrea Governance: Due to its Optimistic Governance framework, xCTR holders do not need to vote if they agree with the proposal. Voting options: - Yes to Veto = No (disagree) - No to Veto = Yes (agree) - Abstain = Choosing not to vote
Borrow ctUSD against your BTC at 1.23% APY. With @Morpho on Citrea, Bitcoin loans finally combine trust-minimized BTC with a native stablecoin built specifically for the Bitcoin ecosystem. Accessible via the @mystic_finance UI: https://t.co/MI14AkFZjC https://t.co/DW5MpXRn9w