You've heard about global and local fee markets, but how are they relevant to general-purpose Bitcoin bridges? 🧵

Happy New Year, fRens 🎊 Let's kick it off with some new research: a framework for dApps to operate their own Bitcoin bridge.

We’re at #ETHIndia! 🇮🇳 If you’re hacking, drop us a note to 🤝.

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I'm excited to serve as the first director of the Ren Foundation. Since the Roman empire, all currencies have suffered from a technology problem: unbacked and centralized ledgers. We have paid a price for this problem in the form of currency debasement. Governments spend…

Today, we're thrilled to introduce the Ren Foundation, an independent organization dedicated to the research and development of trustless blockchain interoperability.

We're excited to be at #ETHDenver2023. DM us if you'd like to meet up to talk about the future of the multichain.

A fast tracked vote has been launched to fund the launch of a legal entity for the #RENdao foundation. Links below 🧵 $ren #renvm #dao #DAOVERSE #DAOs #DAOLabs #DAOLabs

1) Quick reminder 📣 The Ren network is currently operational but is expected to go offline in the near future. The exact date is currently unknown. This is out of our control, but we will do everything in our power to make sure the peg of Ren assets is maintained.

1) Reminder that Ren assets need to be bridged back to the respective native chains ASAP ⚠️ The Ren 1.0 network is likely to imminently shut down, and any remaining assets are at risk of being lost. https://t.co/OLSMrjj6vb 1) Important notice ⚠️ As announced previously, the Ren 1.0 network is shutting down due to the events surrounding Alameda As compatibility between Ren 1.0 and 2.0 cannot be guaranteed, holders of Ren assets should bridge back to native chains ASAP, or risk losing them! https://t.co/20vpGBc8W0

📣 Calling all Ren community members Ren 2.0 funding and Ren Foundation set up proposal is live on the Ren Forum and Snapshot Proposal: https://t.co/yYjnCHl55y Voting link: https://t.co/JMjEmJgdTE Review, discuss and vote 🗳️☑️

1) Important notice ⚠️ As announced previously, the Ren 1.0 network is shutting down due to the events surrounding Alameda As compatibility between Ren 1.0 and 2.0 cannot be guaranteed, holders of Ren assets should bridge back to native chains ASAP, or risk losing them! https://t.co/20vpGBc8W0 1) We recently posted an update regarding how Ren will move forward from Alameda: https://t.co/VFEYHbjZmz

1/🧙🏼‍♂️! Call for action to all $xSUSHI holders!🍣 Abracadabra needs your help to address 2 time sensitive situations, and get approval to push interest rate increase on yvcrvstETH and cvxRenCrv markets!🚨 Read the proposal on @SushiSwap forum here👇🏻📖

Reminder that holders of Ren assets such as $renBTC, $renDOGE, $renZEC etc. should bridge back their assets to the respective native chains ASAP, before the Ren 1.0 network is sunset next month Also note if you are a liquidity provider in Curve and Uniswap renBTC pools ℹ️

1) We recently posted an update regarding how Ren will move forward from Alameda:

Moving on from Alameda

The Ren network remains fully operational without any disturbance from recent events. All bridging transfers are fully public, and the 1:1 backing for assets like renBTC can always be verified onchain The Ren Explorer serves as a useful verification tool:

The Ren network will continue operating as normal, and its safety and integrity will be protected. The Ren network has always belonged to the Ren community, and the partnership between Ren Labs and Alameda did not change this fact.

1) An update from Ren Labs regarding recent events:

From 150 to 200+ $BTC in volume and 550 to 1200+ transactions in less than 2 months! 🥳 With another milestone reached we wanted to share a little breakdown of the transactions beyond what is readily available on our analytics page: https://t.co/VBgJXsM9CN 👇

Wallet on Solana with native #BTC support through Ren? 👀 #RenVM #PoweredByRen

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Ren joins the @SolidlyETH family 🏳️🏴 To further boost $BTC liquidity on Ethereum, $12M will be supplied to the renBTC/wBTC pool, and $4M will be allocated to other volatile pools We're excited to work together with @SolidlyETH to deepen liquidity for cross-chain assets🤝

Ren 2.0's MPC protocol based on FROST massively increases Ren's scalability, and hence decentralization, as it's capable of supporting thousands of nodes signing transactions together A technical Q&A on it can be heard here from the latest community call:

This report highlights how challenging it is to build secure and reliable cross-chain bridges. With Ren 2.0 we’re ushering in a new era of security for interoperability. Dive into the details here: https://t.co/LR7rKpZ6iy

Ren’s new Ethereum address for @WrappedBTC as a Big DAO member is: 0xF54cf21835A12c825adbE2cFfF87a08C5aa1D430 https://t.co/B4NcUD52Ze https://t.co/rSoOWCrH1N #wbtc #Bitcoin #DAO

Talking with @MaxRoszko from @renprotocol ! Stay tuned🔥🔥

RT @MoonbeamNetwork: 1/ 🔥 New integration 🔥 @renprotocol now supports direct token transfers to & from Moonbeam for Ren assets, such as $BT…

Ren integrates Moonbeam 🏳️🏴 Bridge $BTC, $USDC and more directly to and from Moonbeam Start bridging here: https://t.co/7UYSDaTtGO

1/ The Ren DAO has funded its first community project 🎉 Renbase - Decentralized Liquid Staking for Ren nodes

Ren Development Update | September 2022 #RenVM

1/ It’s time for a new threadoooor. Project: @zerodaoHQ A messaging protocol bridging assets from Bitcoin/zcash <>Ethereum. For once, I will try to give some alpha before a token is launched. A project that got the potential to be a pioneer in the $BTC bridging ecosystem.

#zeroBRIDGE rolled by another milestone! There is now over 150 #Bitcoin of volume across 550 transactions. Bridge 10 assets across 5 chains in #DeFi Privately and Permissionlessly #Crypto #BTC #ETH #cryptocurrency #blockchain #Mainnet #Arbitrum #Avalanche #Polygon #Optimism

Quick method to find DeFi protocols with improving fundamentals: 1. Go to Token Terminal 2. Scroll down to the Data table 3. Select 'Total Revenue' 4. Sort by '30d trend' 5. Find a protocol with growth in the 7d and 30d trend 6. Due diligence

Ren Development Update | August 2022 #RenVM

If app chains could 2FA their own funds with a decentralized custodian, they could bootstrap and scale security independent of their own usage. An RFC I wrote in the @renprotocol community on the subject: https://t.co/WBqvFRMAov.

2/ What is Catalog? Catalog is Crypto, made easy Zero gas trades, free transfers, and multichain support through Ren, everything through your regular favorite browser wallet Details on the Beta in the Catalog Discord:

1/ Every transaction that goes through the Ren protocol is fully transparent and entirely traceable from start to finish during the bridging process.

1/ Today, we are excited to introduce the next iteration of Ren in this emergent Multichain world ✨ Ren 2.0: an open protocol enabling novel multichain application development with EVM support

RT @kava_platform: #KavaRise partners continue to deliver the goods. Here’s the low-down on another partner deploying to Kava’s #CosmosEVM…

RT @zerodaoHQ: Our vision to improve the user experience by bringing BTC ↔️ DeFi w/ SPEED is closer everyday. Our recent blog post gives a…

Ren integrates Kava ✨ Kava ecosystem keeps growing with rapid protocol onboarding to the #CosmosEVM, unique #KavaRise incentives, and the September 8th Kava 11 upgrade. Ren has integrated @kava_platform to provide native $BTC and more cross-chain support https://t.co/tMqlDJQu1H

RT @zerodaoHQ: Bridging is now live for @optimismFND at https://t.co/adiLceAGQb!😎 Native $BTC ↔️ $renBTC on Optimism More on how @zerodao…

RT @zerodaoHQ: zeroDAO is proud to announce we have closed a round of fundraising totaling $1.3m with participation by: @Magnus_fund @ledg…

Native Bitcoin bridge live on @symbiosis_fi ! Powered by Ren™️ https://t.co/sBVfRRIax0 Uh oh we've done the impossible again 🫢 We've created interchain communication protocol, so you can access renBTC by @renprotocol and interact with #Bitcoin 😍 Here you can read more about it 👇 https://t.co/GTuHHK4cOF https://t.co/DQOIeaTnFi

🤫 https://t.co/JEKOjFPMVL 2022 Catalog Roadmap https://t.co/fCQlV36p8p

Powered by Ren ™️ https://t.co/vyjowKQ436 Here @zerodaoHQ we are building a cross chain communication highway.😎 Swapping is live on @0xPolygon, @avalancheavax, and @arbitrum! $BTC ↔️ $MATIC on #Polygon $BTC ↔️ $AVAX on #Avalanche $BTC ↔️ $ETH on #Arbitrum 👉https://t.co/9zdTcs437G #crosschainhighway #zerobridge https://t.co/ll7VeKZcGC

RT @VelodromeFi: Welcome to #OPSummer @renprotocol! Let's get ya whitelisted. 😉

Ren | Community Overview Ren is an open protocol that enables the movement of value between blockchains. Use RenVM (dApps) 💻 RenBridge: https://bridge.renproject.io/ Badger Bridge: https://app.badger.finance/bridge Curve Finance: https://www.curve.fi/ren Varen Finance: https://varen.finance/ General Resources 👇 Developer Resources https://renproject.github.io/ren-client-docs/ren-js/ Ren Forum | In-Depth Protocol Conversations https://forum.renproject.io/ Darknode Installation Instructions https://docs.renproject.io/darknodes/ Bug Report Form 🐞 https://tinyurl.com/yckvmzcr RenVM Command Center https://mainnet.renproject.io/ Ren Resource Center https://docs.renproject.io/ren/ Social Media & Links Website: https://renproject.io Twitter: https://twitter.com/renprotocol Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RenProject Medium: https://medium.com/renproject GitHub: https://github.com/renproject Wiki: https://github.com/renproject/ren/wiki/Introduction Ren Forum: https://forum.renproject.io/ Ren Announcement Channel: https://t.me/renprojectann

Thank you Markus !