The Citrea Recap — November
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November marked significant growth in Citrea builders, ecosystem partners and Citrea Testnet activities. The growing interest in our technology and vision strengthens and motivates us further. We've accelerated efforts across developer onboarding, essential integrations, and community expansion. In November, we began to see the first fruits of these efforts. We're marching into 2025 stronger than ever.
It's time to highlight some of our efforts. Sign up for the Citrea Recap to stay updated!
Here’s what we’ll be covering today:
- Citrea Team at Devcon Bangkok & Scaling Bitcoin Together
- Citrea Origins Hacker house #1
- Citrea Internal Hacker House
- Hackathons and Bounties
- Citrea Road to Mainnet
- Citrea's Growth
- Alpha for Next Month
Citrea Team at Devcon Bangkok & Scaling Bitcoin Together
The Citrea team had a strong presence at Devcon. We attended panels, gave developer workshops and hosted our flagship event series—Scaling Bitcoin Together.
Builders and founders across ecosystems joined us for panels and networking sessions with fellow builders.
Panel topics were carefully curated to explore critical aspects of Bitcoin scalability, such as BTC on different layers, the modular future of Bitcoin, and questions surrounding data availability.
At the end, we had a t-shirt workshop where we spray painted them!
The Main Squeeze: Scaling Bitcoin is a real need, and we’re fostering the dialogue it deserves.
Citrea Origins Hacker House #1
Citrea Origins is Citrea's unique incubation program designed to accelerate the Bitcoin-backed economy. This program helps exceptional developers and visionary founders while fostering a collaborative community. Together, these developers are building the financial systems possible only on Citrea.
The first group of Origins developers gathered in Bangkok from November 3-10! They focused on a diverse array of projects, including oracle-less lending protocols, undercollateralized lending protocols, payment systems, and prediction markets. The first hacker house was a hit.
If you’re passionate about creating a Bitcoin-backed economy with us, apply to Citrea Origins.
The Main Squeeze: Exciting applications are coming to Citrea—are you ready, anon?
Citrea Internal Hacker House
Our core engineering team went heads-down for an entire week to ensure mainnet arrives early in 2025. They've made incredible progress on the Clementine bridge and the core rollup developments.
Prover and Rollup Developments:
Light client proof and off-chain contract code are ready. Optimizations are done to ZK circuit memory usage.
Citrea's Bridge-Clementine Developments:
Bitcoin header chain circuit is completed. It now takes a total of 12 hours on M3 Max to prove the entire mainnet. Clementine is refactored to enhance the pre-signature collection pipeline. Bitcoin light client in bridge design is improved to achieve a fully permissionless bridge.
The Main Squeeze: The devs are locked in. 2025 will be a game-changer.
Hackathons and Bounties
As part of our developer outreach, Citrea has been actively posting bounties at hackathons and actively on the lookout for developers for the Citrea Origins program. In November, we joined the Encode Club's Bitcoin Hackathon in Bangkok.
Our hackathon tracks clearly showed the developers the difference they can make by building on Bitcoin. Our tracks focused on Experimental DeFi, Bets on Citrea, Privacy Applications on Citrea and Nostr-integrated Citrea Applications.
The Main Squeeze: The infrastructure is ready! Build the application that will shape the Bitcoin-adoption path.
Citrea Road to Mainnet by Orkun Kilic
Citrea Co-Creator Orkun Kilic recently detailed our progress and plans for the future in Citrea Road to Mainnet. In the article, you will find Citrea's task list, insights on multi-prover and light client proofs as well as improvements on Clementine (Citrea's bridge).
He also shared post-mainnet plans, including decentralized sequencing and the volition model. Read Citrea Road to Mainnet.
The Main Squeeze: We are on track for mainnet. Spread the word!
Citrea's Growth
November definitely marked the beginning of Citrea Testnet's growth. The number of accounts that have sent at least one transaction grew steadily throughout the month. The same goes with the number of transactions. We recently surpassed 2 million transactions on the Citrea Testnet.
The Citrea ecosystem is expanding rapidly, with numerous integrations in our pipeline.
The Main Squeeze: The Citrea Testnet is gaining traction—attention is surging!
Alpha for Next Month
December will bring more community activities and integrations. The Citrea Builder Movement is gearing up as we approach 2025. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s ahead:
- More projects will be coming to Citrea.
- Get ready to see the launch of Citrea native applications.
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