Building BTCfi: Building on Core

It's time for another Building BTCfi roundtable, tomorrow at 1PM UTC with ChainGPT Pad, COREx, Dzap, Rivera, XLink and Core contributor Adam.

Don't miss out🔽
https://x.com/i/spaces/1zkkz/i/spaces/1ZkKzRDMLjNKv

Institutional adoption of CORE is now a reality💥

After launching CORE ETP, DeFi Technologies added CORE to their treasury and plans to participate in CORE staking.

Read all about it🔽
https://prnewswire.com/news-releases/defi-technologies-expands-btc-treasury-holdings-and-diversifies-into-solana-core-and-core-dao-staking-302200118.html

2x Spark Multiplier + Badge + 6,000 Sparks for stCORE💥

Only in #CoreIgnitionDrop...
👉https://ignition.coredao.org

Read all about it🔽
https://x.com/Coredao_Org/status/1816117205764919540

The 2nd claiming phase of Core Ignition Drop is opening tomorrow, July 31st at 12PM UTC 🔥

stCORE rewards will be available to claim, and there are new Spark Multipliers - up to 7x - coming your way!

Get ignited with the latest news💥
🔗https://coredao.org/explore/blog/core-ignition-drop-up-to-7x-spark-multiplier-&-new-boosts-for-the-2nd-reward-claiming-phase

Core DAO teams up with PlayZap Games for the PlayZap @telegram mini app battle!

PlayZap is a play-to-earn community-driven gaming platform where players can compete in skill-based tournaments on proven and highly engaging casual games

Starting today, the Gaming Battle takes place on Core's Telegram

⚔️ 5 games, each with a tournament of their own
🗓 From Aug 7th - Aug 22nd
💰 10 winners per tournament

Join the battle and have some fun 👇
https://t.iss.one/officialcoredao

+100M Sparks are dropping in the latest #CoreIgnitionDrop campaign 🚗

💎 100K Sparks for connecting X to Core Ignition Dashboard
💎 50M Sparks split between the top 10 tweets containing #CoreIgnitionDrop and #CoreIgnitionSeason2
💎 50M Sparks split between the top 11-1000 tweets containing #CoreIgnitionDrop and #CoreIgnitionSeason2

💎 Bonus Sparks in TaskOn: 😍
https://taskon.xyz/campaign/detail/569334432

Get ignited! More details👇 : 🔥
https://coredao.org/explore/blog/core-ignition-drop-100m-sparks-campaign

It's your time to shine!

Expanding Core’s Active Validator Set 🚗

As the Core ecosystem continues to evolve and grow, there is a continuous need for efforts to ensure that the network remains decentralized, secure, and robust. As part of this need, Core Foundation is glad to announce the passing of the Core DAO community-approved CIP-2 proposal, which will expand the Core blockchain active validator set from 21 to 31 by Q2 of 2025. Following the first phase of successful expansion of the Core blockchain’s active validator set from 21 to 23.

https://x.com/corechain_devs/status/1830562443447451900

Giveaways for Coretoshis on Core DAO Discord 🚗

💎 Those of you who were at the first town hall will already have the alpha on this: We are bringing in giveaways and WL from other projects to the community.

💎 We aim to spread the message of Core to other ecosystems and pursue additional ways to bring value to the Core Community.

💎 If you are interested in being notified of all giveaway opportunities, please join the Core DAO Discord and grab the Giveaways role in ⁠📕〡get-roles channel.

💎 Remember while we seek to vet projects for ⁠alphabot-alerts channel , you are ultimately responsible for your own web3 journey, always DYOR. Projects on ⁠🎁・subber-giveaway channel are not vetted.

If you have any questions on how to take advantage of giveaways just reach out to a member of the team. Thank you for being an awesome community! 🔥

New integration :

Segment Finance is now live on Core 🚗

Segment Finance is a decentralized lending protocol and is live on Core with 12 markets, including CORE and $stCORE.

Ignition Drop Season 2 is finally here 🚗

Here's a quick recap of Season 1 and 2, and what's in store:

Season 1 of Core Ignition was a huge success, with over 50K user signups, 20+ engagement campaigns with 14 BTCfi projects, 200K+ social reach, 44M+ in asset engagements and billions of Sparks rewarded! 🚀🔥

For Season 1 participants, your hard-earned badges will carry over to Season 2. Your Season 1 team can continue, and those without an invite code will have a chance to unlock one. 🏆🔑

🔔 Important updates for Season 2!
1️⃣S1 token rewards will remain claimable for 6 months after S2 starts.
2️⃣S1 badges and invitees can be carried over to S2.
3️⃣S1 users without invite codes will unlock them upon logging in for S2.
4️⃣S1 Sparks will reset to 0 when S2 begins.

✨ What’s changing in Season 2?
💡A more user-friendly interface
👓A clearer dashboard to track your Sparks and assets
Expect even more Sparks to be awarded for participation! 💎

🎮 Get ready for an exciting Season 2 with:
1️⃣A gamified Spark mechanism to level up engagement
2️⃣New Web3 games to connect with more users
3️⃣Team play to collaborate and earn rewards! 🏆🌟

Shout out to our Season 1 dApp partners for their contribution to growing #BTCFi with us!

COREx, Colend, Glyph Exchange, Viridian, SushiSwap, Pell Network, NLX Trade, Archerswap, D3 Inc, Izumi Finance, Icecreamswap, Full Force, Bitreserve, Avalon Labs, Zeepr Labs, Wizard Gallery

🚀 Don’t miss out on the action! Season 2 will feature even more dApp partners to be revealed in the future.
Read our blog on Ignition Season 2 here: https://coredao.org/explore/blog/core-ignition-drop-season-2-is-live

P.S Don't forget that we have an upcoming spaces where we will cover Ignition Season 2 and a wrap up from #KBW2024 at Core Collective - alongside
Community of Core, nlx_trade, glyph_exchange, colend_xyz

We’re excited to onboard LemonX on Core 🚗, a decentralized derivative trading platform offering up to 50x leverage, deep liquidity, and an innovative fee structure—all wrapped up in a lightning-fast platform.

Davos Protocol is now live on Core 🚗

Davos is a unique CDP protocol that lets users use ETH and BTC reward-bearing assets (like LSTs and LRTs) as collateral to mint DUSD.

New integration - Gamma Strategies is now live on Core 🚗

With Gamma’s addition, Core's #BTCfi ecosystem is set to become even stronger, unlocking more opportunities for the #DeFi community!

We're excited to onboard Minelabs on Core 🚗

RuneMine is bridging BTCFi and Solana, opening up new possibilities for digital assets across both ecosystems.