Zest Protocol

Zest Protocol raises $3.5m Seed round to redefine Bitcoin lending Led by @drapervc, with participation from @BinanceLabs, @FlowTraders, @trustmachinesco, @goasymmetric and more 🤝

Zest Protocol is the place for BTC on BTC yield. Suppliers have earned 14.11 BTC so far 🟠

It's a great day to earn BTC on BTC yield on Zest Protocol.

@StackingDao 👀

Peak Bitcoin drawdowns: −80%, −84%, −77%, −49% so far. The cycle is compressing. For credit markets, volatility is the key input to collateral quality. Each cycle, BTC's credit profile improves.

Stacks by the numbers 🟠

Turning Bitcoin from idle asset into productive capital. That's why we're building Zest Protocol.

Going live to share the latest @ZestProtocol updates with the @Stacks community 🟧

@Stacks 👀

Most bitcoiners want the same thing: yield that doesn't cost them their keys. That's exactly what Stacks is building for.

An important update for Season 1 Points holders 📣 Two amendments to the airdrop claim schedule, both to align the distribution event more tightly with the Zest Protocol growth. First, a hard claim deadline. The initial TGE tranche must be claimed by July 15, 2026, 00:00 UTC. Anything unclaimed after that returns to the community treasury. An open-ended window lets dormant wallets sit on allocation indefinitely. A claim deadline recycles that allocation back to holders who actively participate. Unclaimed tokens are not destroyed. They fund future seasons, going to the people building the protocol's next chapter. Second, the remaining unlocks consolidate. Months 4, 5, and 6 were scheduled at 0.3% each. Those three tranches merge into a single 0.9% release during month 6. The new schedule more tightly aligns with key product launches. Stacks Bitcoin Staking and Bitcoin Collateral Vaults will be significant catalysts for Zest Protocol growth. This schedule tracks these launches more closely, especially Stacks Bitcoin Staking. All remaining elements remain unchanged: total Season 1 allocation, per-wallet math, Genesis NFT multipliers, Open Position Bonus, and the 5% wallet cap. Make sure to claim any remaining allocations before July 15 🟧

@danheld True words.

Gold has a $30 trillion market cap with zero merchant adoption. So why do people think Bitcoin can only have value if it’s used for coffee payments?

Spent a while looking at the institutional side of Bitcoin, and the thing that keeps coming up isn't the buying. Anyone can buy $BTC. It's everything after: custody, staying compliant, moving it between teams without breaking the processes these institutions already run on. That's the gap @FireblocksHQ fills. It's the security and ops layer a lot of institutions already trust to hold and move their assets What caught my attention is that Stacks is now integrated into Fireblocks. So instead of asking institutions to learn an entirely new setup, they can access Bitcoin DeFi through infrastructure they’re already familiar with. That means things like borrowing against BTC on @ZestProtocol, trading on @bitflow, or using products like @HermeticaFi become much easier to access from the same environment. The other interesting part is where this is heading. Stacks is working toward self-custodial Bitcoin staking, so institutions could eventually earn BTC-denominated yield on the Bitcoin they already hold, without touching the custody model they're comfortable with. Feels like a small integration on the surface, but it’s another step toward making Bitcoin more institutions friendly. Pleased to partner with @Stacks to highlight how institutional access to Bitcoin-native finance is evolving.

@thedefiedge 👀

@Chalinekam There is no second zest

@ZestProtocol And it’s only on Zest💪

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Additional borrow transaction: explorer.hiro.so/txid/0x3fda65f…

Whales keep coming back to Zest Protocol. With a renewed borrow, this user adds to their position while their sBTC out-earns the cost of borrowing USDC on @Stacks.