Pogun
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@pogun_io
The end to end Bitcoin DeFi solution for Cardano.
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Most crypto projects ask the community for money and move on. Pogun is asking for money — and committing to pay it back. 💡 What is Pogun? An end-to-end Bitcoin liquidity and credit engine. Built to position Cardano as the definitive home of Bitcoin DeFi. Three layers. One complete system: 🔐 A non-margin-call credit market — lock BTC, borrow stablecoins, no liquidation risk from volatility alone 📈 A yield dApp — put bridged BTC to work earning yield 🌉 A trust-minimized Bitcoin bridge — preserving UTxO identity end to end Lock your BTC. Borrow against it. Earn yield. Repay. Recover the exact same Bitcoin UTxO you locked — without custodians, without wrapped-token trust assumptions, and without triggering a taxable disposal event. Capital without compromise. 💰 Section 4 — The Financial Model This is what makes Pogun different from a standard treasury ask. Protocol fees generated across all three layers — the credit market, the yield dApp, and the bridge — return a portion directly to the Cardano treasury. Cardano does not just fund Pogun. Cardano earns from every Bitcoin DeFi transaction Pogun processes. The more Bitcoin liquidity flows through Cardano — the more the ecosystem that backed it benefits. 📊 The KPIs are milestone-gated Funding is not disbursed upfront. It is tied to delivery: ✅ Total Value Locked in the credit market ✅ Bridge transaction volume ✅ Yield dApp deposits ✅ Protocol revenue generated ✅ Treasury return actually delivered No delivery. No disbursement. The proposal holds itself accountable at every stage. 🗓 Four delivery phases: ➡ Phase 1 — Foundations and Credit Market — Q2 2026 ➡ Phase 2 — Yield Layer and Bridge Alpha — Q3 2026 ➡ Phase 3 — Bridge Mainnet and Yield Expansion — Q4 2026 ➡ Phase 4 — Observability and Revenue Maturity — Q1 2027 📌 One more thing worth knowing: This is Pogun's first ever Cardano Treasury request. Not a single ADA of prior treasury funding has been directed toward this project. They are not asking for more. They are asking for the first time — with a financial model that returns value to the community that backs them. 🌍 In Africa, Bitcoin is already in people's hands. What has always been missing is the infrastructure to make it work — to borrow against it, earn from it, and build with it — without surrendering it to a bank or an exchange. Pogun — built on Cardano — is that infrastructure. At ZAM, we run Cardano nodes from Zambia. We are a registered Mithril signer — part of the cryptographic attestation layer that Pogun itself depends on to verify Bitcoin withdrawals. We do not just support this ecosystem with words. We support it with the infrastructure we operate every day. Every delegation to our pool keeps a Cardano node alive in Africa and directs margin toward orphaned children in Zambia — because the future this technology is building should reach them too. Delegate to ZAM. Be part of what is being built. 🇿🇲 Stake with ZAM 🇿🇲 Source: Pogun Treasury Proposal — pogun.io/treasury-propo… #Cardano #ADA #Bitcoin #BitcoinDeFi #Pogun #BTC #Zambia #BlockchainForGood @Cardano @IOGroup @Cardano_CF @pogun_io
Before voting, you should know who's building Pogun. Here's some of the team 👇
1/5 Pogun’s treasury proposal is now live on the Cardano governance ballot! We're requesting $2.95M (₳12.29M) to build the definitive home of Bitcoin DeFi on Cardano: a credit market, a yield platform, and a Bitcoin bridge delivered by the end of 2026. pogun.io/treasury-propo…
