{"/blog/midweek-with-max-october-29-2024":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: October 29, 2024 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: October 29, 2024"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 29, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Pop Mining","The road to Mainnet.","In the October 29th Midweek With Max, Hemi’s team shared significant updates on the progress toward Mainnet, enhancements to the infrastructure, and refinements in community incentives. From a new Bitcoin tunneling feature to Mainnet preparations, Hemi continues to work toward a stable and scalable decentralized network.","1. Mainnet Preparation & Testnet Infrastructure:","Hemi’s team has been focused on enhancing the stability of its Testnet infrastructure. Recent migration efforts aim to reduce connectivity issues and improve overall performance. Max provided insights on how Hemi is scaling for Mainnet with a new hosting provider, ensuring reliability for both Testnet and Mainnet activities.","The team is also deepening the smart contract infrastructure, supporting a migration from an over-collateralized vault custodianship model to the BitVM custodianship mechanism. This transition ensures seamless Bitcoin asset management across the Hemi network.","2. Popmining Mechanics & Rewards System:","Hemi’s PoP mining program rewards users based on keystones mined. The team plans to distribute rewards fairly by tracking user activity in relation to average network performance. Users who stay within network norms will receive rewards in line with the community, while additional incentives are offered to those who contribute above-average resources.","Additionally, Hemi is implementing an anti-sybil mechanism to ensure rewards go to unique, genuine participants. This system will verify unique users, allowing them to link multiple addresses while ensuring points are earned based on single-user activity limits.","3. Bitcoin Tunneling System & TBC Upgrades:","A new Bitcoin tunneling feature is set to launch soon on Testnet, allowing users to transfer Bitcoin to the Hemi network. This feature uses the TBC (Tiny Bitcoin Daemon), enabling interactions between Bitcoin and Hemi smart contracts, making Hemi a robust tool for Bitcoin-centric DeFi applications.","Alongside tunneling, improvements in TBC allow for efficient operation within Hemi’s Virtual Machine (hVM), integrating Bitcoin’s consensus mechanisms for cross-chain interactions.","4. Community Events & Anti-Sybil Mechanisms:","Hemi’s co-founder, Jeff Garzik, will be speaking at Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai. Additionally, the team plans to attend other events, including DevCon in Bangkok and the BlockWorks Digital Asset Summit in New York.","Internally, Hemi has also ramped up community engagement, running contests and brainstorming ideas for Discord events. The team encourages community feedback, making Discord a collaborative space for discussing project development and activity ideas.","5. Future Outlook:","As Hemi continues toward Mainnet, the team is prioritizing critical developments to ensure stability, scalability, and security. Future plans include scaling through Layer 3 (L3) chains for optimized fees and decentralizing the sequencer for added security.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-october-29-2024"},"/blog/hemi-and-quantstamp-announce-strategic-collaboration-to-strengthen-security-across-the-blockchain-ecosystem":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Quantstamp Announce Strategic Collaboration to Strengthen Security Across the Blockchain Ecosystem - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Quantstamp Announce Strategic Collaboration to Strengthen Security Across the Blockchain Ecosystem"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 5, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Security","The companies will collaborate on security and auditing.","TL;DR: Hemi and Quantstamp are collaborating to boost security across their networks. This collaboration combines Hemi’s cross-chain protocol with Quantstamp’s audit expertise, enhancing the security of core Hemi components like the hVM and hBK.","Hemi and Quantstamp have announced a new collaboration aimed at elevating security within their networks. This collaborative audit will mark a significant step toward integrating rigorous security measures with the Hemi Network’s innovative cross-chain architecture, helping both Bitcoin and Ethereum developers create secure, scalable, and interoperable applications.","Hemi’s modular protocol offers unique solutions for cross-chain interoperability, asset transfer, and scalability between Bitcoin and Ethereum, all reinforced by advanced security features such as superfinality and encapsulation. Quantstamp, a leading blockchain security firm with a proven track record, has conducted hundreds of audits and helped protect over $200 billion in digital assets from potential vulnerabilities. Both teams share a strong commitment to robust security and a vision to advance decentralized application (dApp) safety across multiple chains.","As part of this collaboration, Quantstamp will apply its expertise to audit Hemi’s core components, including the hVM and hBK. This will ensure that the foundational modules powering cross-chain operability, secure asset transfers, and transaction finality are thoroughly protected against potential exploits. In return, Quantstamp will gain access to Hemi’s ecosystem, expanding its reach in securing cross-chain applications built on Hemi’s protocol.","This collaboration also opens the door for future innovations, as both Hemi and Quantstamp work toward enhancing security models in decentralized finance (DeFi) and cross-chain transactions. With Quantstamp’s audit expertise and Hemi’s advanced features, such as Ethereum Tunnels and PoP-backed superfinality, developers will be equipped to build applications that meet the highest standards of security and reliability.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-quantstamp-announce-strategic-collaboration-to-strengthen-security-across-the-blockchain-ecosystem"},"/blog/hemi-announces-collaboration-with-concrete-to-expand-btcfi-lending-ecosystem":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Announces Collaboration with Concrete to Expand BTCFi Lending Ecosystem - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Announces Collaboration with Concrete to Expand BTCFi Lending Ecosystem"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 6, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Concrete","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi will collaborate with Concrete on lending.","TL;DR: Hemi is collaborating with Concrete, a cross-chain lending protocol, to enhance the BTCFi ecosystem. Concrete is a supercharged lending protocol that, in addition to classical lending and borrowing, enables users to create lending strategies and maintains liquidity through receipt tokens usable across Hemi’s dApps.","Hemi has announced a new collaboration with Concrete, a leading lending protocol deploying on Hemi. Known for creating tailored lending vaults across multiple blockchains, Concrete brings a powerful addition to the Bitcoin Financial (BTCFi) ecosystem, supporting Hemi’s mission to enhance yield and liquidity opportunities in the BTC L2 space.","Concrete empowers users to execute specific lending strategies much like HyperLiquid’s approach to trading, but focused on lending. By issuing receipt tokens for deposited assets, Concrete allows users to lend assets and still access liquidity across other decentralized applications on Hemi. This integration provides a dynamic way for users to benefit from Concrete’s high-yield lending while seamlessly interacting with Hemi’s wider ecosystem.","To incentivize this collaboration, Hemi will award Hemi points to Concrete users on the platform, while Concrete will provide Concrete points to Hemi users who engage with their lending vaults. With the backing of a mutual investor, SALT, both Hemi and Concrete are committed to driving forward innovative solutions within the BTCFi space.","Through this collaboration, Hemi and Concrete aim to offer an advanced BTCFi ecosystem with flexible lending and yield-generation options, enhancing user opportunities and strengthening overall liquidity across Hemi’s BTC Layer 2.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-announces-collaboration-with-concrete-to-expand-btcfi-lending-ecosystem"},"/blog/video-why-should-people-be-interested-in-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Video: Why Should People Be Interested In Hemi? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Video: Why Should People Be Interested In Hemi?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 12, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi's Jeff Garzik talks about the value of Hemi","In this video, Hemi CEO Jeff Garzik discusses why Hemi is a game-changer for the blockchain world, uniting Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two giants of crypto. Hemi brings unparalleled programmability to Bitcoin, allowing capabilities that were only dreams a decade ago. With Hemi, users can securely move digital assets across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hemi networks in a seamless, non-custodial manner. It supports bundling, shipping, and routing of digital assets in new, secure ways, enhancing the usability of digital assets. Jeff highlights Hemi’s focus on programmability, security, and its contributions to consensus and finality. Tune in to learn more about why Hemi stands out and why it’s worth exploring.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/video-why-should-people-be-interested-in-hemi"},"/blog/pumpbtc-and-will-bring-its-token-to-the-hemi-network":{"version":1,"title":"PumpBTC and Will Bring Its Token to the Hemi Network - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["PumpBTC and Will Bring Its Token to the Hemi Network"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 7, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","The token will be part of Hemi's ecosystem.","TL;DR:Hemi and PumpBTC are collaborating to bring PumpBTC's token to the Hemi network, allowing users to mint, exchange, and utilize PumpBTC across multiple platforms. PumpBTC will be integrated into Hemi's ecosystem, providing streamlined access and enhanced interoperability.","Hemi, a modular blockchain network designed to unify assets and liquidity across Bitcoin and Ethereum, and PumpBTC, a leading token platform, are excited to announce a new collaboration. This partnership brings PumpBTC's token directly into the Hemi network, where it can be minted, traded, and utilized within Hemi’s framework. Through this collaboration, Hemi will provide Hemi Points, and PumpBTC will reciprocate with their points, creating a synergistic exchange for users of both networks.","PumpBTC will also be integrated into the vast network of Hemi dApps, further expanding the reach of the tokens on the Hemi ecosystem.","This collaboration reflects both Hemi and PumpBTC’s commitment to expanding the usability and reach of their respective networks. Hemi and PumpBTC look forward to further empowering users with increased flexibility and options within the decentralized finance landscape.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/pumpbtc-and-will-bring-its-token-to-the-hemi-network"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-november-5-2024":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: November 5, 2024 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: November 5, 2024"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 6, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Pop","Max Sanchez talks about the road to Mainnet.","Hemi's latest Midweek With Max offered a deep dive into recent pointstones, Testnet performance, and what’s coming up as the team gears up for Mainnet. From developments at the Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai to partnership expansions and technical updates a lot happened in the Hemi ecosystem.","1. Partnership Announcements & Community Engagement:","Phil Gomes kicked things off with updates on partnerships, including BitPerp and Avalon. More collaborations are set to be announced soon, reflecting the increased momentum in Hemi's business development.","The team returned from Dubai’s Binance Blockchain Week, where co-founder Jeff Garzik spoke on extending Bitcoin’s technology. In addition, look out for Jeff’s latest interviews on the Cryptonews Podcast, now split into two parts due to the in-depth nature of the conversation. Jeff also joined the Bad Crypto Podcast.","2. Technical Update: Testnet, Faucet & Node Runner Rewards","The team addressed questions around running Hemi nodes and how PoP miners will be rewarded. PoP miners will receive credit through a point system visible on the dashboard soon, though incentives for running full Hemi nodes remain limited for now.","The faucet and node uptime were discussed in-depth. Engineering is exploring solutions to streamline faucet operations and ensure reliable participation. Anti-sybil mechanisms and additional support for community members are on the way, alongside incentives for engaged users who face challenges with the faucet.","3. Roadmap, Mainnet, and Token Generation Event (TGE):","Hemi’s roadmap and timeline for the Mainnet launch are planned for Q4. The exact date depends on partnership onboarding, infrastructure readiness, and security audits. The TGE, expected shortly after the Mainnet launch, will allow developers and community members to plan their involvement in the Hemi ecosystem effectively.","4. Performance Scaling and L3 for Optimized Fees:","The AMA highlighted Hemi’s scaling solution with Layer 3 (L3) support to handle transaction volume and optimize fees. This allows the network to maintain decentralization while giving projects the flexibility to build custom networks within the Hemi L2 framework.","5. Community Support & Coding Challenges:","To boost developer engagement, Hemi will launch several grant programs inspired by successful models like RetroPGF. These programs reward developers retroactively for projects that gain traction or fulfill specific pointstones. Additionally, Hemi has an ongoing coding challenge running until November 11th, inviting developers to showcase their skills and win rewards.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-november-5-2024"},"/blog/finality-as-a-gradient-exploring-economic-and-bitcoin-finality":{"version":1,"title":"Finality as a Gradient: Exploring Economic and Bitcoin Finality - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Finality as a Gradient: Exploring Economic and Bitcoin Finality"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Economic Finality vs. Bitcoin Finality","Single-Slot Finality and Proof of Proof (PoP)","Instant Finality and the Finality Gradient","Tradeoffs Between Finality and Liveness","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 13, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Satoshi Stories","Security","How Hemi uses finality.","TL;DR:Blockchain finality refers to when a transaction becomes irreversible, but the concept varies across networks. Economic finality, common in systems like Ethereum, makes transactions costly to reverse, while Bitcoin finality offers gradual security through confirmations, requiring immense resources to alter. Innovations like Ethereum's single-slot finality aim to achieve near-instant finality, while Proof-of-Proof (PoP) seeks to extend Bitcoin’s security to other networks. Together, these could enable a system where economic finality happens quickly but hardens with time, balancing speed and security.","Consensus protocols also involve trade-offs between finality and network liveness. Some networks prioritize unchangeable finality but may halt if attacked, whereas Ethereum’s liveness-preserving protocol allows ongoing operation even under adverse conditions. By combining Ethereum-style PoS and Bitcoin’s PoW, blockchain systems can achieve a resilient model that preserves both liveness and high security, supporting broader decentralization and stability.","Finality in blockchain systems refers to the point where a transaction can be considered irreversible. But the concept isn't uniform—it exists on a spectrum, and the actual security assurances of “finality” vary between networks. This gradient of finality spans from what can be termed as \"economic finality\" to \"Bitcoin finality,\" each representing different aspects of certainty in transactions. As new developments emerge, particularly in Ethereum with single-slot finality research and ways to leverage Bitcoin’s security on other networks using a technology  called Proof-of-Proof (PoP), there is an increasing possibility of achieving near-instant finality that hardens over time thereby ensuring the security and robustness of the network.","Additionally, different types of consensus protocols also make specific design tradeoffs between finality, robustness, and decentralization. As such, the finality that a network offers must be analyzed alongside these design tradeoffs to understand the full picture of security that a network provides.","Economic finality describes the point at which a transaction becomes so unlikely to be reverted that the cost of reversing it outweighs the benefits. In systems like Ethereum, economic finality is reached within ~15 minutes under normal operation. On Ethereum, a block that has achieved economic finality means that at least 1/3rd of the active staking power would be slashed (destroyed) in the event the block is reversed, which today would cost over $30B USD.","However, for this slashing to actually occur, a proof of misbehavior (ex: creating or voting for two conflicting blocks) must be processed on-chain. If an attacker controls the majority of consensus power, they have the ability to exert complete chain censorship including the ability to prevent these slashing transactions from being processed, meaning that the guarantees of economic finality only apply when no set of colluding parties control the majority of consensus power.","While large networks like Ethereum have sufficient decentralization and strong incentives against misbehavior beyond direct slashing (such as the value of ETH dropping due to an attack regardless of whether misbehaving actors dodge direct slashing), smaller networks looking to use similar security mechanics could see such attacks in practice.","Bitcoin takes an entirely different approach to finality. Rather than transactions crossing a “finality” threshold, they continue to get more and more secure over time as they receive more confirmations. Once a transaction is a few Bitcoin blocks deep, reversing it would require controlling 51% of Bitcoin’s massive mining power.","Bitcoin can only be realistically mined with specialized ASICs which have no other practical purpose, and right now it’s estimated that acquiring the hardware to perform such an attack would cost $15B - $30B, not including the infrastructure costs to actually operate the hardware. Performing such an attack would dramatically reduce the value of BTC, meaning the value of the ASICs acquired for the attack which can only be used for BTC mining would drop dramatically, similar in many ways to stake slashing.","PoW also provides additional benefits like strong subjectivity, which ensures the cost to fake a valid reorg requires controlling 51% of the mining power. On PoS networks, old staking keys that are no longer active consensus participants can be used to generate chains which appear equally valid to the canonical chain at zero cost, which can be used to harm new nodes joining the network and requires some level of social consensus to prevent network fracturing attacks.","In practice, it’s reasonable to assume that acquiring and running the hardware required to 51% attack Bitcoin is less realistic than acquiring enough of a token (or compromising enough validators) to perform an attack against a PoS system. And while we could argue about the reality of attacking Ethereum itself, other blockchains implementing PoS systems will have far less native economic security. Even protocols that borrow Ethereum’s staking power (such as through restaking) only attract a subset of Ethereum’s own economic security, since not all Ethereum validators will participate in securing every other protocol.","In essence, economic finality  provides relatively strong guarantees that reversing a particular transaction will be expensive, while Bitcoin finality is about mathematical assurance predicated on the impracticality of acquiring and operating enough specialized hardware. The former provides \"fast\" finality, while the latter offers \"hard\" finality.","In the Ethereum ecosystem, there is ongoing research into single-slot finality, which could significantly reduce the time required to achieve economic finality. This proposal aims to allow Ethereum to finalize blocks in a single consensus round, theoretically leading to near-instant finality. The goal here is to enable rapid confirmation of transactions without sacrificing decentralization or security.","With single-slot finality, networks utilizing Ethereum-style PoS could achieve similar speeds to finality as other more centralized PoS protocols that don’t optimize for liveness/robustness.","Proof-of-Proof (PoP), a mechanism being explored in the context of Bitcoin, is another development that could work symbiotically with single-slot finality to add Bitcoin-level security. Together, this allows networks to provide near-instant economic finality guarantees, and then follow up with the addition of Bitcoin’s full PoW security after a short additional delay. Applications comfortable with the economic finality guarantees could run in real-time, and applications that need ultimate security would wait for Bitcoin finality to be achieved.","By combining the innovations of single-slot finality with the robustness of Bitcoin’s finality, we can imagine a world where \"instant\" economic finality gradually hardens to full Bitcoin finality. Initially, transactions would achieve economic finality in the shortest time possible, say through Ethereum's single-slot finality mechanism. Over time, these transactions would progressively harden, reaching a point of immutability when verified by the Bitcoin network using PoP.","This approach provides a best-of-both-worlds solution—instant finality for fast-moving economies and gradual hardening for long-term, trustless security. In such a setup, users can make quick economic decisions based on early finality while knowing that the final, irreversible state will be secured by Bitcoin’s deep security model.","Finality is not a binary concept but a gradient that evolves over time. Economic finality and Bitcoin finality represent different points on this gradient, each serving distinct purposes. As blockchain research continues to evolve, mechanisms like Ethereum’s single-slot finality and decentralized Bitcoin security inheritance via PoP offer promising paths forward. Together, they could create systems that offer immediate transactional confidence while gradually hardening to an immutable state, combining speed and security in a way that could push blockchain technology into new realms of utility.","While we’ve only discussed Ethereum and Bitcoin consensus (and how we can combine the two to create even more resilient systems), there are a lot more approaches to security in the crypto ecosystem.","So, what about those chains that promise instant, absolute finality?","Good question. It’s absolutely possible to design a consensus protocol where finality is irreversible, and many chains have decided to do so. However, the way you do this is by making the protocol permanently halt in the event the network is attacked, rather than accept the reorg. In consensus protocol design, you have to make a decision between liveness (the ability to survive an attack and continue operating), and safety (the inability of a finalized block to ever be reversed). It’s mathematically impossible to have both (per the CAP theorem), so chains that promise a finalized block can never be reversed are instead vulnerable to being permanently halted.","While there are valid arguments for both approaches (halting disincentivizes some would-be attackers because they couldn’t actually reverse transactions, but other attackers may actually be attracted by the ability to halt a system), we believe the ideal case is preserving liveness while making an actual attack far more difficult and expensive than any pure-PoS protocol can provide.","Additionally, today’s liveness-preserving protocols like that used by Ethereum can support far more decentralization than current safety-focused protocols. Right now, Ethereum has over 1,000,000 active validators, while most chains using safety-focused protocols support less than 1000 active validators. While the 1M validators on Ethereum are of course not 1M unique individuals, the ability of the protocol to support a much larger validator set gives smaller participants the ability to directly participate in consensus.","By combining a liveness-preserving consensus protocol like Ethereum-style PoS with Bitcoin’s PoW, we can design such a protocol: the network can continue operating even if most of the staking power is malicious, and actually reversing a Bitcoin-finalized block requires simultaneously compromising the native PoS and 51% attacking Bitcoin itself.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/finality-as-a-gradient-exploring-economic-and-bitcoin-finality"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-november-12-2024":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: November 12, 2024 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: November 12, 2024"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 13, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Mainnet","Midweek With Max","Webinar","Learn about Hemi's latest tech updates from co-founder Max Sanchez.","TL;DR:In this episode of Midweek with Max, co-founder Max Sanchez shares key updates on Hemi’s progress towards Mainnet, focusing on the near-completion of the Bitcoin tunnel system and infrastructure upgrades. The team also introduces \"Hemigos\" and \"Hemigas\" as the official community names, with a potential t-shirt contest to celebrate. Looking ahead, Hemi targets a Q4 Mainnet launch and plans to roll out new rewards programs for user engagement. Next week’s episode will feature both co-founders, Max Sanchez and Jeff Garzik, for a special Q&A.","In this episode of Midweek with Max, co-founder Max Sanchez, alongside host Rick Laprade, dives into Hemi's latest progress, upcoming Mainnet goals, and new community initiatives. The discussion begins with an update on Hemi's ambitious Bitcoin tunnel system, which is nearing the final stages of development. Max highlights the ongoing work with auditors, as well as infrastructure enhancements to improve both Testnet and Mainnet stability and performance. This tunnel system, a core feature of Hemi’s network, promises to expand cross-chain capabilities and bring unique utility to the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems.","Phil from the business development team shares updates from DevCon in Bangkok, where Hemi has a strong presence with team members engaged in fostering partnerships and expanding the network’s reach. With over 900 side events, the focus remains on building strategic relationships and securing collaborations that support Hemi’s goal of delivering innovative DeFi solutions.","Phil hints at two or three major partnership announcements that could be expected soon, emphasizing Hemi’s commitment to creating a collaborative and resilient ecosystem. Community engagement takes center stage, with Rick encouraging Hemi supporters to actively amplify the network’s vision through social media channels. Hemi’s recent appearances on popular blockchain podcasts and media platforms have garnered significant attention, and Rick underscores the importance of extending that energy to platforms like Twitter, where influencers and potential collaborators can see Hemi’s progress and achievements.","This episode also introduces the new official community name, \"Hemigos\" and \"Hemigas,\" chosen through a naming contest. The team hints at a potential t-shirt design contest to celebrate, fostering further community identity. Looking ahead, Hemi has several significant milestones in its sights.","Max reiterates the network’s Q4 Mainnet target, with plans to onboard partners, reinforce infrastructure, and prepare for broader user engagement. He also teases new points and rewards programs, where users will earn credits for activities on the network and engaging in developer-focused tasks with Hemi’s hVM technology. To conclude, next week's Midweek with Max promises a unique event: a joint appearance by co-founders Max Sanchez and Jeff Garzik, an original Bitcoin core developer.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-november-12-2024"},"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-cygnus-for-enhanced-yield-opportunities-and-security":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Collaborates with Cygnus for Enhanced Yield Opportunities and Security - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Collaborates with Cygnus for Enhanced Yield Opportunities and Security"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 13, 2024","Bitcoin","Cygnus","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi and Cygnus will connect their experience and skills for mutual benefit.","TL;DR:","Hemi is collaborating with Cygnus, which will deploy on Hemi to support a broad range of Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) and Liquidity Representation Tokens (LRTs). This collaboration allows users to earn multiple rewards by depositing Hemi assets into Cygnus, enhancing both yield and ecosystem security through single-sided pools without impermanent loss.","Hemi is announcing a new collaboration with the Cygnus. Cygnus will be deploying on Hemi, supporting our entire asset range, including an extensive variety of Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) and Liquidity Representation Tokens (LRTs). This collaboration leverages shared capabilities to deliver additional yield and security for our users.","With this integration, users can deposit Hemi-supported assets into Cygnus to earn multiple types of points and rewards, including Hemi points, Cygnus points, and individual token points, maximizing yield on their deposits. Additionally, Cygnus will contribute to the security of the Hemi ecosystem by providing economic security through its single-sided pools—offering users yield opportunities without the risk of impermanent loss.","Cygnus operates as the first modular, real-yield layer, merging non-EVM systems like TON with the EVM ecosystem. The collaboration will bring Cygnus’ test tooling and experience to Hemi.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-cygnus-for-enhanced-yield-opportunities-and-security"},"/blog/hemi-and-metronome-collaborate-to-expand-defi-functionality-across-bitcoin":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Metronome Collaborate to Expand DeFi Functionality Across Bitcoin - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Metronome Collaborate to Expand DeFi Functionality Across Bitcoin"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 14, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Metronome","Metronome will bring Smart Farming to Hemi's ecosystem.","TL;DR:","Metronome and Hemi are collaborating to enhance DeFi by integrating Metronome’s multi-collateral support, synthetic asset minting, and Smart Farming into Hemi’s cross-chain ecosystem. This partnership allows Metronome users to leverage Hemi’s secure, non-custodial infrastructure to access DeFi tools across both Bitcoin and Ethereum, opening new possibilities for asset management and yield opportunities in an interconnected blockchain landscape.","Metronome and Hemi have announced a collaboration to expand the possibilities of decentralized finance by expanding Metronome’s functionality to the Hemi ecosystem. The collaboration will bring cross-chain DeFi access and new opportunities for users of both platforms.","With this collaboration, Metronome’s capabilities—such as multi-collateral support, synthetic asset minting, and Smart Farming—will now integrate seamlessly with Hemi’s unique cross-chain infrastructure. This means Metronome users can leverage Hemi’s secure, non-custodial environment to access DeFi tools that interact with both Bitcoin and Ethereum networks. By tapping into Hemi’s interoperability and modularity, Metronome users can now deploy assets and explore DeFi options in ways previously unavailable in a single ecosystem.","Through this collaboration, Hemi enables Metronome to expand its DeFi offerings with improved scalability, security, and cross-network functionality. By joining forces, Metronome and Hemi are setting the stage for a more interconnected DeFi landscape, making it easier for users to manage assets, participate in yield opportunities, and benefit from the combined strengths of two leading blockchain networks.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-metronome-collaborate-to-expand-defi-functionality-across-bitcoin"},"/blog/inside-the-hemi-tech-stack":{"version":1,"title":"Inside the Hemi Tech Stack - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Inside the Hemi Tech Stack"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Key Components and Their Roles","How These Components Work Together in Hemi","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 18, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Here's how we built Hemi.","The Hemi project bridges the worlds of Bitcoin and Ethereum, creating a unified, secure, and interoperable blockchain ecosystem. The software stack in this diagram showcases the essential components that enable this ambitious cross-chain functionality. Here’s a closer look at each element and how they work together within Hemi’s infrastructure.","BitcoindAt the foundation of the Bitcoin network connection is Bitcoind, the reference implementation of Bitcoin. Bitcoind functions as the primary node for all Bitcoin-related data and transactions, ensuring that Hemi has direct, reliable access to the Bitcoin network. This component fetches and verifies Bitcoin transactions, ensuring that all data is accurately mirrored within Hemi’s ecosystem.","ElectrsElectrs is a lightweight implementation of the Electrum wallet server written in Rust. It was originally meant to fill in the needs of RPCs that bitcoind did not offer, it will soon be deprecated.","BFGBFG stands for “Bitcoin Finality Governor.  Its job is to query and keep track of bitcoin blocks and transactions in the canonical bitcoin chain.  Whilst doing that, it will parse out PoP Transactions and determine which addresses are to be paid out in $HEMI.","PostgresA reliable database system, Postgres is used to store, manage, and retrieve data related to the bitcoin chain.  This allows us to efficiently, declaratively, and reliably query bitcoin chain data. .","op-node, op-batcher, and op-proposerThese three modules represent the operations layer in Hemi’s modular setup, likely part of the optimistic rollup architecture.","op-node serves as the node interface, enabling data flow across the different parts of the stack. It also rolls up pop payouts.","op-batcher consolidates transactions from the Hemi network, preparing them for efficient processing and posting.","op-proposer plays a critical role in organizing or sequencing transactions, ensuring they are finalized in the correct order. These components optimize transaction throughput and minimize latency, providing scalability.","GethGeth is the Ethereum client that allows Hemi to interface directly with the Ethereum network. Through Geth, the Hemi stack can fetch Ethereum transactions, execute smart contracts, publish L2 Blocks to achieve superfinality, and update state changes within Ethereum’s ecosystem. Geth is a critical link, bringing Ethereum’s functionality into the Hemi project and enabling cross-chain interactions.","PrysmPrysm is an Ethereum 2.0 client, primarily used for Ethereum's proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. The Prysm project is a Go-based implementation of the Ethereum protocol, following the official specifications. It includes a complete beacon node and a validator client to enable participation in blockchain consensus. Prysm is built with production-grade tools: Google’s gRPC library for interprocess communication, BoltDB for optimized, persistent key-value storage, and libp2p by Protocol Labs to manage all peer-to-peer networking.","op-gethThe L2 Chain data node; it stores the L2 chain.","TBCTBC stands for “Tiny BitCoin”.  It is the embeddable library in which programs (such as op-geth) can join the bitcoin block chain without a separate process.","The software stack in Hemi’s infrastructure enables seamless interoperability between Bitcoin and Ethereum, creating a cohesive system that maximizes the strengths of both networks. Here’s how it all fits together:","Data Flow and Cross-Chain Interoperability: Bitcoind, Electrs, and Geth ensure that Hemi has real-time access to both Bitcoin and Ethereum networks, while Postgres stores critical data that multiple components can access. The op-node, op-batcher, and op-proposer modules streamline transactions across Hemi’s layer-2 setup, maintaining high throughput and low latency.","Optimized Rollups for Scalability: The op components work together to handle transactions efficiently within the Hemi ecosystem. By processing transactions in batches and proposing them in an organized manner, Hemi achieves scalability without sacrificing security. This architecture aligns with Ethereum’s rollup design, allowing Hemi to handle high transaction volumes and maintain stability.","Security and Consensus Integration: Through Prysm and Geth, Hemi incorporates Ethereum’s proof-of-stake (PoS) and Ethereum 2.0 functionalities, enhancing its consensus model with Ethereum’s security. This setup ensures that Hemi benefits from both PoS and PoW security principles.","Scalability and Modularity: The modular design of Hemi means each component works independently yet in harmony, allowing for continuous updates and upgrades. Components like op-geth are optimized for the rollup environment, allowing Hemi to maintain a high degree of scalability.","The Hemi project’s software stack is a multi-layered system combining Bitcoin’s security, Ethereum’s smart contract functionality, and layer-2 scalability. By leveraging a modular approach and various optimized components, Hemi aims to bridge these two ecosystems while providing a robust, scalable, and secure environment for cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) applications.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/inside-the-hemi-tech-stack"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-november-19-2024":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: November 19, 2024 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: November 19, 2024"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 20, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","With special guest, Hemi CEO Jeff Garzik.","This week’s special edition of Midweek with Max brought together Hemi co-founders Max Sanchez and Jeff Garzik for an engaging live AMA session. Hosted by Rick Lagarde, the episode delved into Hemi’s progress, technical updates, and broader perspectives on blockchain and decentralized systems. The session opened with updates from Max on Hemi’s ongoing engineering efforts. The team is making significant strides toward a testnet upgrade that will enhance the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) and introduce new endpoints for developers. The infrastructure migration to a new provider is expected to deliver greater reliability and scalability, addressing previous stability challenges. Additionally, final Bitcoin tunnel contracts have been sent for auditing, with plans to test their deployment on the network soon.","In this episode of Midweek With Max, CEO Jeff Garzik shared his journey from being an early Bitcoin Core developer to co-founding Hemi. Known for his work alongside Satoshi Nakamoto and contributions to the Linux kernel, Jeff also discussed his passion for macroeconomics and the critical role of decentralization in shaping financial systems. His anecdotes about Bitcoin’s early days, including celebrating Bitcoin’s parity with the US dollar, provided a fascinating glimpse into the cryptocurrency’s origins.","A key highlight of the discussion was Hemi’s approach to combining the strengths of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Max emphasized Hemi’s focus on leveraging Bitcoin’s security and Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem to create interoperable solutions. The introduction of hBTC will allow users to engage in DeFi applications, while plans to tunnel the Hemi token into Ethereum are in development.","The session also explored some wild philosophical themes. Jeff reflected on privacy’s importance in emerging technologies, emphasizing its role in enabling freedom of thought and action. Both co-founders shared their thoughts on the evolution of blockchain, with Jeff addressing concerns about blockchain’s growth. They also touched on the future of memecoins and NFTs, noting their cultural significance and economic implications.","Finally, the co-founders addressed community questions on Hemi’s roadmap, proof-of-proof mining mechanics, and participation in future events. With mainnet on track for Q4, the team is actively engaging with the community to ensure a strong and collaborative launch.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-november-19-2024"},"/blog/hemi-to-collaborate-with-bitfi-to-advance-the-future-of-defi-with-bitcoin-integration":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi To Collaborate with BitFi to Advance the Future of DeFi with Bitcoin Integration - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi To Collaborate with BitFi to Advance the Future of DeFi with Bitcoin Integration"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 20, 2024","Bitcoin","Bitfi","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Partnership","Hemi will work with BitFi to integrate CeDeFi.","TL;DR:","Hemi and BitFi are collaborating to integrate Hemi’s innovative Bitcoin-to-Ethereum cross-network capabilities with BitFi’s CeDeFi platform. This collaboration enhances scalability, security, and interoperability, enabling new DeFi opportunities for Bitcoin users. Together, they aim to advance Bitcoin's role in decentralized finance, driving innovation and empowering users with cutting-edge solutions.","----","Hemi today announces a collaboration with BitFi, the leading CeDeFi platform. BitFi will integrate Hemi's cutting-edge technology as part of its expansion into scalable, Bitcoin-based decentralized finance solutions.","BitFi is a CeDeFi platform that generates organic yield on BTC through the funding rate arbitrage trade. BTC assets are deposited into their vault and they use that BTC to execute the delta-neutral trade. Even though they are a fairly new protocol, they just surpassed 4,500 BTC in TVL.","Hemi and BitFi bring complementary strengths to this collaboration. BitFi’s secure staking infrastructure and diverse synthetic assets align seamlessly with Hemi’s modular architecture and unique, Bitcoin-powered “Proof-of-Proof” consensus mechanism. Together, this combination will enhance scalability, enabling faster and more efficient Bitcoin transactions, while ensuring integration of Bitcoin into BitFi’s CeDeFi ecosystem. The collaboration will also provide BitFi users access to innovative staking, yield generation, and multichain opportunities powered by Hemi’s robust infrastructure.","Hemi and BitFi share a commitment to building user-centric, secure, and innovative financial solutions. By working together, they aim to expand the range of DeFi possibilities, unlocking new ways for BitFi users to leverage their Bitcoin holdings through advanced staking and DeFi products. The collaboration prioritizes security by combining BitFi’s safeguards with Hemi’s proven resilience, creating a trusted environment for all participants. Furthermore, it strengthens Bitcoin’s role in the DeFi space by integrating it into BitFi’s ecosystem, broadening its utility and accessibility.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-to-collaborate-with-bitfi-to-advance-the-future-of-defi-with-bitcoin-integration"},"/blog/video-why-should-people-pay-attention-to-cryptocurrency":{"version":1,"title":"Video: Why Should People Pay Attention to Cryptocurrency? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Video: Why Should People Pay Attention to Cryptocurrency?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 21, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Cryptocurrency","Ethereum","Hemi","Video","In this short video, CEO Jeff Garzik lays out the case for crypto.","Jeff Garzik, CEO of Hemi, laid out some reasons why the average person should care about cryptocurrency. While crypto often feels like a niche topic for technologists or investors, he said, its implications are far-reaching, touching on personal freedom, financial control, and global connectivity.","Garzik said that cryptocurrency protects individuals from overreach by governments and financial institutions. It provides a way to control personal assets that cannot be frozen or revoked without consent. Garzik highlighted a recent example in Canada, where the government froze the bank accounts of protesting truckers. This action left individuals unable to purchase essentials like food or water, underscoring the risks of centralized financial systems.","Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin offer a decentralized alternative, ensuring that financial resources remain accessible regardless of political or institutional interference.","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/video-why-should-people-pay-attention-to-cryptocurrency"},"/blog/hemi-and-demos-collaborate-to-ensure-fair-rewards-in-web3":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Demos Collaborate to Encourage Fair Rewards in Web3 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Demos Collaborate to Encourage Fair Rewards in Web3"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 21, 2024","Bitcoin","Demos","Ethereum","Hemi","Demos will bring Sybil Attack prevention to Hemi.","TL;DR","Hemi will collaborate with Demos to integrate OnlyMeID verification, enhancing fairness and security in its decentralized rewards program. This collaboration addresses key Web3 challenges like Sybil attacks by ensuring rewards only go to verified, unique users instead of bots or malicious actors. During the testnet phase, users can mint verified identities for free, earn points for early participation, and secure benefits like free transfers to mainnet.","Hemi has announced a collaboration with Demos, integrating their OnlyMeID verification technology to enhance fairness, integrity, and security in decentralized reward systems.","This collaboration will deliver a framework for the most fair and equitable rewards programs available in Web3. This includes preventing Sybil attacks to ensure that genuine participants earn participation and loyalty rewards fairly. By incorporating Demos’s innovative identity verification, Hemi strengthens its commitment to protecting users and promoting trust in decentralized applications.","In decentralized networks, Sybil attacks—where a single entity creates multiple identities to manipulate rewards—pose a serious threat to community trust and fairness. To tackle this, Hemi’s rewards program will now incorporate Demos’s advanced Human Authentication, adding an essential layer of protection. This ensures only verified unique users can take advantage of Hemi’s rewards program, eliminating malicious actors and preserving the integrity of the system.","Hemi users can begin engaging with this system directly on testnet. Here’s how:","Start on Testnet: Users can mint their verified identity on Hemi’s testnet for free.","Earn Mainnet Perks: Once mainnet launches, any user who minted their verified identity on testnet will enjoy a free transfer to mainnet.","Hemi’s rewards and points program incentivizes meaningful engagement, and with this collaboration, rewards will go to real users—not bots. This approach maintains fairness while staying true to the principles of decentralization that drive Web3 innovation.","This testnet phase offers early adopters the chance to engage with the system, secure their place in Hemi’s ecosystem, and enjoy both immediate and long-term benefits. With on-chain verification in place, users can participate confidently, knowing their rewards are safeguarded from fraud or manipulation.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-demos-collaborate-to-ensure-fair-rewards-in-web3"},"/blog/what-is-a-sybil-attack":{"version":1,"title":"What is a Sybil Attack? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What is a Sybil Attack?"],"h2":["How a Sybil Attack Works","Examples of Sybil Attacks","Why Are Sybil Attacks Dangerous?","Preventing Sybil Attacks","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 21, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Sybil Attacks","A Sybil attack happens when bad guys spoof user accounts.","In the digital world, where trust and security are vital, certain vulnerabilities pose serious risks to networks and systems. One such vulnerability is a Sybil attack. This term describes a specific type of attack where one entity manipulates a system by creating multiple fake identities. These fake identities can disrupt operations, compromise security, and undermine trust within decentralized and distributed systems.","The name \"Sybil\" comes from the book Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber, which tells the story of a woman with dissociative identity disorder. In the context of networks, the term metaphorically refers to the creation of numerous identities controlled by a single entity.","A Sybil attack typically targets decentralized networks, such as peer-to-peer systems, blockchain platforms, or online voting mechanisms. Here's a breakdown of how it works:","Fake Identity Creation: The attacker creates multiple false identities or nodes within the network.","Influence Building: These fake identities work together to control a portion—or, in some cases, the majority—of the network.","Disruption: Once the attacker has significant influence, they can disrupt normal operations, compromise data integrity, or skew outcomes (e.g., by manipulating consensus mechanisms).","Blockchain Networks: In blockchains, a Sybil attack could be used to attempt control over the network's consensus process, potentially leading to double-spending or other malicious activities.","Peer-to-Peer Systems: File-sharing networks like BitTorrent could be compromised by Sybil attackers who control fake nodes to disrupt file availability.","Social Media Platforms: An attacker might create thousands of fake accounts to manipulate public opinion or spread misinformation.","The primary danger of a Sybil attack lies in the attacker's ability to control or heavily influence a decentralized system. This level of control allows for various malicious activities that can compromise the integrity and functionality of the network.","One significant risk is data manipulation. In blockchain systems, for instance, an attacker could alter or fake transactions, undermining the core principle of trustless and transparent operations. This could have far-reaching consequences, especially in financial or logistical applications where accuracy and reliability are paramount.","Another concern is resource drain. By flooding the system with fake traffic or excessive data requests, attackers can overwhelm the network, leading to slower performance or even outages. This not only disrupts operations but also places unnecessary strain on resources, making it harder for legitimate users to participate.","Finally, Sybil attacks can lead to trust erosion. When users notice irregularities or vulnerabilities in a system, their confidence in its reliability diminishes. This loss of trust can be damaging, particularly in decentralized systems that depend on widespread user participation and belief in the network's security.","Preventing Sybil attacks is inherently challenging because decentralized systems are built on principles of openness and inclusivity. These characteristics, while essential to their functionality, also make such systems susceptible to exploitation. Despite this, several strategies can help reduce the risk of Sybil attacks and protect the network.","One common approach involves using proof mechanisms. Blockchain networks, for example, employ proof-of-work or proof-of-stake systems to make it prohibitively expensive or technically challenging for attackers to create and maintain multiple fake nodes. These mechanisms act as a deterrent by ensuring that participation in the network requires a meaningful investment of resources.","Another strategy is implementing identity verification protocols. By requiring robust identity checks, systems can limit the creation of fake identities, ensuring that participants are legitimate. Although this approach may reduce the decentralized nature of some systems, it can effectively safeguard against Sybil attacks in contexts where identity is critical.","Reputation systems offer another layer of protection by assigning scores based on the behavior of participants. Nodes or users with a history of trustworthy actions can gain higher scores, while malicious actors are flagged and isolated from the network. This method encourages responsible participation and discourages bad actors from attempting to disrupt the system.","Lastly, rate limiting is an effective way to detect and mitigate anomalies. By restricting the number of requests or transactions that a single entity can perform within a set timeframe, the network can identify and block suspicious activity. This method helps to minimize the impact of potential attacks without compromising the experience of legitimate users.","While no single solution can entirely eliminate the risk of Sybil attacks, combining these strategies can significantly enhance the resilience of decentralized systems.","A Sybil attack is a significant threat to the integrity of decentralized networks. Understanding how these attacks work and the methods to prevent them is essential for maintaining trust and security in digital ecosystems. By implementing robust safeguards, developers and network participants can reduce the risks and ensure the resilience of their systems.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-sybil-attack"},"/blog/video-will-we-ever-find-out-who-satoshi-really-was":{"version":1,"title":"Video: Will We Ever Find Out Who Satoshi Really Was? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Video: Will We Ever Find Out Who Satoshi Really Was?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 25, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Satoshi","Satoshi Stories","Maybe the mystery is important.","The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, remains one of the most captivating mysteries in crypto. In this short video, Hemi co-founder Jeff Garzik shares his views on the question of whether or not we will ever know who Satoshi really was.","\"Will the mystery ever get solved?\" he said. \"The answer is 'No.' I like to lean on the side of there's always going to be a little bit of mystery, and that's part of what's fun about Bitcoin.\"","Despite years of amateur sleuthing and speculation, there’s little evidence to suggest that the truth will ever emerge. One reason this mystery has endured, said Garzik, is Satoshi's meticulous avoidance of leaving a data trail. By ceasing all communication and vanishing from the internet in 2011, Satoshi made it significantly harder for anyone to piece together clues. The lack of breadcrumbs has left even the most determined detectives at a dead end.","Satoshi's decision to remain anonymous wasn’t just about personal privacy. It was a deliberate choice that shaped the narrative and ethos of Bitcoin. By detaching their identity from the technology, Satoshi forced the world to focus on the protocol itself, rather than the person behind it.","Without a CV to scrutinize or a reputation to debate, the evaluation of Bitcoin was based purely on its merits, said Garzik. This anonymity shielded Bitcoin from the potential biases and distractions that could have arisen if its creator's identity were public.","Check out more insight from a programmer who worked side-by-side with Satoshi in our Satoshi Stories series on YouTube.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/video-will-we-ever-find-out-who-satoshi-really-was"},"/blog/layerzero-to-collaborate-with-hemi-network-to-expand-cross-chain-interoperability":{"version":1,"title":"LayerZero To Collaborate with Hemi Network to Expand Cross-Chain Interoperability - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["LayerZero To Collaborate with Hemi Network to Expand Cross-Chain Interoperability"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 26, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Partnerships","LayerZero and Hemi will shape the future of cross-chain connectivity.","TL;DR: LayerZero is collaborating with Hemi Network to advance cross-chain capabilities, bringing Bitcoin-backed assets to Hemi’s DeFi ecosystem. This collaboration will feature the integration of LayerZero’s interoperability protocol. The collaboration will foster new DeFi opportunities,and create a unified Bitcoin-Ethereum environment.","LayerZero and Hemi Network announced a strategic collaboration to drive forward decentralized finance (DeFi) and advance cross-chain interoperability within the Hemi ecosystem. This collaboration marks a substantial development in blockchain connectivity, where LayerZero’s omnichain protocol will enable seamless, secure transfers of Bitcoin-backed assets across Hemi’s scalable Layer-2 environment. Together, LayerZero and Hemi are committed to furthering the adoption of decentralized technologies, providing developers and users with enhanced tools for secure, flexible interaction across multiple blockchain ecosystems.","This collaboration between LayerZero and Hemi Network will advance Hemi’s cross-chain DeFi capabilities. By merging LayerZero’s established omnichain infrastructure with Hemi’s Bitcoin/Ethereum “supernetwork”, this combination paves the way for innovative asset transfer possibilities across the two strongest blockchain networks.","As the integration progresses, LayerZero and Hemi deliver a robust suite of secure, scalable, and interoperable financial products that seamlessly bridge the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems. This not only enhances cross-chain functionality but also expands the potential for developers and users to engage in a unified digital asset ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/layerzero-to-collaborate-with-hemi-network-to-expand-cross-chain-interoperability"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-november-26-2024":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: November 26, 2024 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: November 26, 2024"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":["Tech Updates: Building Toward Mainnet","Moving to X (Formerly Twitter)"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 27, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Help Hemi choose its mascot!","This week’s Midweek with Max AMA brought the Hemi community together for an update-packed session featuring co-founder Max Sanchez, the Hemi team, and our great community. If you missed it, here’s a recap of the latest technical updates, community insights, and what’s on the horizon for Hemi.","Max Sanchez provided an in-depth overview of the current priorities for the development team. Here are the key highlights:","TBC and hVM Progress: The team is finalizing code for the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) and TinyBitcoin (TBC) updates. A testnet network upgrade is in the works, focusing on integrating new features and quality assurance. These updates will pave the way for mainnet deployment.","Replacing Third-Party Dependencies: Work is underway to replace external tools with in-house solutions. This will streamline the infrastructure, ensuring more control over transaction processing and reducing scalability issues caused by Sybil attacks.","Infrastructure Upgrades: Hemi has partially migrated to a new infrastructure provider, with half of all RPC traffic already running on the upgraded system. This transition improves reliability and scalability for users across the ecosystem.","The Demos onboarding system, launched last week, has received overwhelmingly positive feedback. Here’s what we learned:","Accuracy in Biometrics: Most legitimate users have successfully verified their identities. Edge cases, such as identical twins or unusual patterns, are being addressed individually.","Privacy Focus: Unlike traditional KYC processes, Demos does not collect personal information like names or addresses. Instead, it uses hashed biometric data, maintaining user privacy while ensuring network integrity.","The AMA wasn’t all technical updates. The Hemi team and community members shared a few lighter moments, including:","Mascot Submissions: The ongoing mascot contest has seen a flood of creative entries. From futuristic designs to playful concepts, the community is showcasing its artistic talent.","Programming Preferences: A spirited debate over programming languages and tools broke out during the session, with team members humorously defending their choices.","Merchandise Plans: The team acknowledged the high demand for Hemi-branded t-shirts and merchandise. While current inventory is limited, plans for a global merch store are underway.","In a significant update, we will move Midweek with Max to X Spaces starting next week. This change aims to make the AMA sessions more accessible and discoverable, bringing Hemi updates to a broader audience while maintaining the same energy.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-november-26-2024"},"/blog/hemi-and-vesper-collaborate-to-bring-accessible-defi-to-bitcoin-and-ethereum-users":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Vesper Collaborate to Bring Accessible DeFi to Bitcoin and Ethereum Users - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Vesper Collaborate to Bring Accessible DeFi to Bitcoin and Ethereum Users"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 27, 2024","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Vesper","Vesper and Hemi will bring DeFi yield opportunities across Bitcoin and Ethereum.","TL;DR:","Hemi and Vesper Finance will collaborate to bring easy-to-use DeFi yield opportunities across Bitcoin and Ethereum. This collaboration allows Vesper users to earn yield on their assets with secure, cross-chain access powered by Hemi’s infrastructure, making DeFi more accessible and versatile for all.","Hemi and Vesper Finance have announced a new collaboration aimed at expanding access to decentralized finance (DeFi) by integrating Vesper’s user-friendly platform with Hemi’s cross-chain ecosystem. This collaboration will empower users to earn yield on their assets through Vesper’s intuitive DeFi pools while leveraging Hemi’s secure and scalable infrastructure across both Bitcoin and Ethereum networks.","Vesper’s goal is to simplify the DeFi experience, making it easy for users to deposit crypto and earn yield without hassle. In collaboration with Hemi they are taking this mission further by enabling cross-chain functionality that broadens the possibilities for yield generation. With Hemi’s modular architecture, Vesper users can access DeFi pools and manage their assets securely across multiple blockchain environments.","This integration brings the best of both platforms to users. By using Vesper on Hemi, users will be able to participate in yield pools with the added advantage of interoperability between Bitcoin and Ethereum. Hemi’s infrastructure ensures seamless, non-custodial access, allowing Vesper users to diversify their assets and manage their positions across chains with ease.","Hemi and Vesper are committed to lowering the entry barriers in DeFi, creating an accessible, secure, and rewarding experience for all. With this collaboration, they are setting the stage for an open and accessible multichain future.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-vesper-collaborate-to-bring-accessible-defi-to-bitcoin-and-ethereum-users"},"/blog/what-is-cross-chain-interoperability":{"version":1,"title":"What Is Cross-Chain Interoperability? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is Cross-Chain Interoperability?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 1, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","How cross-chain interoperability enables blockchains to share data and assets while highlighting the tradeoffs in security, complexity, and trust.","Cross-chain interoperability refers to the ability of different blockchain networks to communicate, exchange data, and move assets between each other without centralized intermediaries. It addresses one of the major limitations in crypto infrastructure: most blockchains operate in isolation, making it difficult for applications and users to interact across chains in a seamless and secure way.","Interoperability is especially important as the number of Layer 1 chains, rollups, and application-specific networks continues to grow. Without interoperability, assets and data are siloed. DeFi becomes fragmented, liquidity is scattered, and users are forced to navigate complex bridges and incompatible standards.","There are several technical approaches to interoperability:","Token BridgesThese are the most common form of cross-chain connection today. A bridge allows users to lock tokens on one chain and mint a representation on another. This is often done through smart contracts or external validators. However, many token bridges have high trust assumptions and have been major security risks. Some rely on multi-sig wallets or permissioned operators, making them vulnerable to compromise.","Light Clients and Proof-Based BridgesA more secure model involves verifying consensus from one chain inside another using cryptographic proofs. For example, Ethereum can verify Bitcoin block headers using SPV (Simple Payment Verification), or a rollup can verify its state transitions with zk-proofs. These designs reduce trust assumptions but come with higher complexity and computation costs.","Shared Security ModelsSome ecosystems offer native interoperability between chains that share a common validator set. Polkadot and Cosmos are the two main examples. In Cosmos, the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol allows independent chains to pass messages using standard formats and cryptographic commitments. These networks prioritize modularity but depend on the economic and governance structure of the base layer.","Message Passing ProtocolsProtocols like LayerZero and Wormhole offer generalized message-passing between chains. Instead of just moving tokens, they let smart contracts call functions across chains. These systems aim for flexibility but vary widely in their trust and security models.","Challenges and RisksInteroperability adds complexity to security. When a chain depends on another for asset movement or state updates, the failure of one can compromise both. Most major crypto hacks in recent years have involved bridges. The more links in a cross-chain system, the more potential attack surfaces exist.","There’s also the issue of standardization. Different chains have different consensus rules, virtual machines, and fee models. Making them compatible requires wrappers, translators, and additional infrastructure. This adds latency and sometimes weakens the user experience.","Use Cases and ValueDespite the risks, cross-chain systems open up important use cases:","Unified liquidity across DeFi protocols on different chains","Cross-chain governance, allowing tokens on one chain to influence systems on another","Composable applications that combine services from multiple chains into one user-facing product","Bridging Bitcoin into Ethereum-based DeFi, or vice versa, to unlock value locked in isolated ecosystems","Cross-chain interoperability is central to building an open, modular crypto ecosystem. It allows networks to specialize while remaining connected. But the field is still early. Many current solutions trade off security for convenience, and standardization remains a challenge. The next phase of development will likely focus on reducing trust assumptions, improving verification models, and building more resilient infrastructure for cross-chain coordination. Until then, developers and users need to treat interoperability as a powerful but risky layer in the crypto stack.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-cross-chain-interoperability"},"/blog/video-jeff-garzik-on-the-future-of-paper-money":{"version":1,"title":"Video: Jeff Garzik on the Future of Paper Money - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Video: Jeff Garzik on the Future of Paper Money"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 3, 2024","Bitcoin","Cash","Token Tidbits","Video","Paper money might be replaced with digital soon. Here's why it maters.","In this video, Hemi CEO Jeff Garzik discusses the gradual shift away from paper money and the broader societal implications of this change. He frames the discussion around one of the most pressing questions of our time: will paper money disappear?","The debate reflects a deeper tension between the goals of regulation, surveillance, and tracking on one side, and the need to preserve individual freedom on the other. He highlights the importance of cash for marginalized groups, including those in different socioeconomic brackets, immigrants, and migrants. For these communities, cash is not just a medium of exchange but also a critical lifeline that ensures their ability to participate in the economy. It provides accessibility and protects individual freedom by allowing private, untraceable transactions.","Garzik supports this perspective, emphasizing that cash remains an essential tool for many. On the other hand, he acknowledges the growing narrative of a \"war on cash,\" where physical money is being replaced by digital alternatives. Advocates of a cashless society argue that digital payments offer convenience and enable better monitoring of illegal activities like tax evasion. However, he cautions that such a shift could lead to increased surveillance and a loss of personal freedom, which he sees as a significant loss for society.","He concludes that the disappearance of cash would have profound consequences for both marginalized groups and broader societal liberties.","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/video-jeff-garzik-on-the-future-of-paper-money"},"/blog/hemi-and-lendos-collaborate-to-optimize-liquidity-for-defi-users":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and LendOS Collaborate to Optimize Liquidity for DeFi Users - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and LendOS Collaborate to Optimize Liquidity for DeFi Users"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 3, 2024","Bitcoin","Collaborations","Ethereum","Partnerships","The collaboration will streamline the lending process.","TL;DR:","Hemi is collaborating with LendOS to introduce lending markets for LP tokens, allowing users to collateralize LP positions from platforms like SushiSwap, Uniswap (Oku), and Hemi’s upcoming native DEX. Users can borrow against these tokens, optimizing liquidity and expanding asset usability in DeFi. Through Hemi’s modular architecture, this collaboration enhances capital efficiency, streamlines lending processes, and strengthens the utility of LP tokens across the ecosystem.","Hemi is collaborating with LendOS to bring innovative lending solutions to its ecosystem. LendOS, a platform known for its expertise in traditional lending, will focus on creating lending markets for liquidity provider (LP) tokens within Hemi. This collaboration is set to enhance liquidity optimization and expand the utility of LP tokens across decentralized finance (DeFi).","LendOS is a lending platform that bridges traditional lending concepts with DeFi innovation. Within Hemi, LendOS enables users to collateralize LP tokens from platforms like SushiSwap, Uniswap (Oku), and Hemi’s native DEX. This feature allows users to borrow against their LP balances, unlocking new possibilities for liquidity management and asset usability.","The integration with Hemi’s modular architecture provides LendOS with the infrastructure to streamline lending markets for LP tokens. This collaboration empowers users to:","Create LP positions on leading DEXs.","Supply LP tokens as collateral on LendOS.","Borrow funds against these collateralized assets, improving capital efficiency.","This approach optimizes liquidity for users while expanding the utility of assets across the Hemi ecosystem. Through Hemi’s scaling and cross-chain interoperability features, LendOS enhances the accessibility and functionality of its lending markets for DeFi participants.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-lendos-collaborate-to-optimize-liquidity-for-defi-users"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-december-3-2024":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: December 3, 2024 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: December 3, 2024"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 5, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Video","The March to Mainnet continues.","In this edition of Midweek With Max, Rick Laprade and Hemi co-founder Max Sanchez provide updates on the progress toward Hemi's mainnet launch, ongoing developments, and partnerships. Key highlights include updates on smart contract audits for the Bitcoin tunnel system, code freezes, and testnet upgrades.","The team also discusses efforts to onboard partners and the infrastructure transition to improve performance. Phil from the marketing team shares insights on collaboration efforts, upcoming events like the Bitcoin MENA conference, and media outreach activities, including appearances on podcasts like Cointelegraph Agenda.","We also named our two mascots - listen in to hear about how they were chosen. Audience questions expore topics like incentivized testnet points, POP mining mechanics, privacy and anti-Sybil measures, and future utility for Hemi in the blockchain ecosystem. Midweek With Max happens every Tuesday on Hemi's X Spaces account so check it out live next week to get your Hemi fix.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-december-3-2024"},"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-desyn-to-grow-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Collaborates with Desyn to Grow DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Collaborates with Desyn to Grow DeFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 5, 2024","The two companies will help grow decentralized finance.","TL;DR:","The Hemi and DeSyn Protocol are collaborating to grow the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, offering users new ways to earn rewards, participate in airdrops, and engage with DeFi. DeSyn’s features will integrate with Hemi’s scalable and secure modular architecture, enhancing accessibility and user experience. This collaboration aims to create a unified DeFi solution, expanding opportunities while driving growth and innovation in the space.","The Hemi Network and DeSyn Protocol are collaborating to expand the decentralized finance ecosystem, creating new opportunities for users to earn rewards, participate in airdrops, and engage with DeFi. This collaboration brings together Hemi’s modular architecture and DeSyn’s liquidity infrastructure to enhance accessibility, scalability, and user experience in DeFi.","DeSyn Protocol features a unique SLP Model, enabling users to receive multiple airdrops across DeFi protocols through a single interaction. DeSyn provides an efficient way for users to maximize their airdrops while minimizing complexity. Its restaking features allow users to compound their rewards.","By integrating with Hemi, DeSyn Protocol can elevate its SLP Model to new heights. Key benefits of this collaboration include:","Enhanced Scalability: Hemi’s modular design ensures that DeSyn can handle an increasing number of users and transactions while maintaining speed and efficiency.","Robust Security: Leveraging Hemi’s secure infrastructure, users can engage with DeSyn’s platform with confidence.","Expanded Opportunities: The integration allows DeSyn to tap into Hemi’s ecosystem, providing users with access to a broader range of DeFi protocols and rewards.","Both Hemi and DeSyn share a common goal: advancing DeFi by making it more accessible, scalable, and rewarding for users. This collaboration is a step toward that vision, offering a unified solution that enhances user experience, expands product offerings, and drives growth across the decentralized finance landscape.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-desyn-to-grow-defi"},"/blog/hemi-and-satoshi-protocol-collaborate-to-build-advanced-stablecoin-solutions":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Satoshi Protocol Collaborate to Build Advanced Stablecoin Solutions - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Satoshi Protocol Collaborate to Build Advanced Stablecoin Solutions"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 10, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Satoshi Protocol","The collaboration will bring together two major players in the stablecoin space.","TL;DR","Hemi and Satoshi Protocol are collaborating to enhance universal stablecoin capabilities by combining Satoshi Protocol’s Bitcoin-backed stablecoin expertise with Hemi’s cross-chain capabilities. This partnership improves cross-chain interoperability, streamlines satUSD minting and management, and strengthens stability through Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof consensus model. Together, they aim to create a more efficient, secure, and resilient DeFi ecosystem.","Hemi and Satoshi Protocol are together working to enhance the functionality and reach of universal stablecoins. This effort combines Satoshi Protocol’s expertise in Bitcoin-backed stablecoins with Hemi’s modular architecture, creating a foundation for seamless cross-chain interoperability and improved efficiency.","Satoshi Protocol powers satUSD, the first universal stablecoin backed by Bitcoin. Users can mint satUSD by collateralizing BTC across blockchain ecosystems, with a minimum collateral ratio of 110% to maintain stability. A Stability Pool safeguards the system during low-collateral scenarios, ensuring satUSD remains reliably pegged to the US dollar and serves as a liquid, accessible option for Bitcoin holders in DeFi.","Integrating with Hemi’s modular architecture allows Satoshi Protocol to streamline minting and management processes for satUSD. This collaboration facilitates faster, more cost-effective cross-chain transactions while ensuring that users can maintain minimum collateral ratios with ease.","Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus model further enhances Satoshi Protocol’s stability mechanisms, merging Bitcoin’s unmatched security with Ethereum’s flexibility. This synergy reinforces satUSD’s Stability Pool, expands liquidity options, and bolsters the protocol’s ability to weather market challenges.","This collaboration is a step toward creating a more resilient and interconnected DeFi landscape. By leveraging the strengths of both Hemi Network and Satoshi Protocol, this effort enhances opportunities for liquidity providers and stablecoin users across multiple platforms.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-satoshi-protocol-collaborate-to-build-advanced-stablecoin-solutions"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-december-10-2024":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max December 10, 2024 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max December 10, 2024"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 11, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Video","More on the march to mainnet.","Welcome back to another edition of Midweek with Max, where the Hemi community gathers to hear the latest updates and insights. This week marked a milestone—the 10th episode of this series. Here's a recap of the key highlights from the session.","The Hemi team is in the final stages of completing the hVM Phase Zero upgrade, which introduces deterministic hVM progression. This feature is essential for enabling Bitcoin tunneling on the Hemi network. Deployment of the Bitcoin tunnel contracts is expected shortly, and users will soon be able to participate in testing with point incentives available. The ability to transfer Bitcoin between the Hemi network and Bitcoin itself is just around the corner. A user interface for these features will follow later this week, adding to the accessibility of the system. The team is also working hard on improving infrastructure. Efforts are focused on monitoring tools to enhance visibility ahead of the mainnet launch. Stability improvements are in progress, with input from several auditing firms to ensure the infrastructure and configurations are optimized. These steps, though not immediately visible to users, are crucial for building a reliable and secure network.","On the marketing front, a Hemi delegation is attending Bitcoin MENA, a huge event in the Middle East and North Africa. This marks the last conference of the year for the team. Plans for 2024 include participation in major events such as WAGMI, Consensus Toronto, Consensus Hong Kong, and ETHDenver. Additionally, the team is ramping up efforts to secure year-end retrospectives and generate more PR coverage, following successful media appearances in outlets like Cointelegraph.","In the rapid-fire Q&A, the team tackled several frequently asked questions. Updates on the faucet are expected next week. Mainnet deployment is targeted for late December or early January, depending on final testing and partner readiness. The team emphasized that maintaining stability and coordinating with ecosystem partners are key factors in determining the exact timeline. The episode also featured discussions about the Hemi token, the utility of its NFTs, and plans for community governance.","The team highlighted how the Hemi network continues to differentiate itself by providing a bridge between the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems, with innovative features like HVM unlocking entirely new possibilities for developers. As always, the session concluded with a reminder to stay tuned for more updates in the weeks ahead.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-december-10-2024"},"/blog/how-hemi-enables-bitcoin-defi":{"version":1,"title":"How Hemi Enables Bitcoin DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How Hemi Enables Bitcoin DeFi"],"h2":["Expanding Bitcoin to DeFi with the Hemi Virtual Machine","Hemi Brings Bitcoin Beyond DeFi","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 11, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","The hVM enables true DeFI in the Bitcoin blockchain.","TL;DR","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) enables Bitcoin to participate in DeFi by integrating Ethereum-like smart contracts directly with Bitcoin, bypassing the need for external bridges or oracles. This allows Bitcoin to be used as collateral, settle transactions natively, and enhance liquidity across DeFi platforms, while preserving Bitcoin's security and decentralization. Hemi also expands Bitcoin’s utility beyond DeFi, offering staking, borrowing, lending, and other features within its ecosystem.","The openness of DeFi platforms fostered innovation, attracting users seeking greater control over their assets and offering potential yield beyond the scope of what traditional finance platforms could offer. Today DeFi isn’t solely relegated to Ethereum, and has expanded to other networks, like Solana, Binance Smart Chain, and Flow.","However, none of these networks have successfully captured Bitcoin’s store of deep value. On the network level, Bitcoin’s bytecode proves a limiting factor for the deployment of DeFi platforms while its lack of programmability forces users to attempt workarounds that are decentralized and, needless to say, problematic.","Enter the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM), a complete Ethereum Virtual machine within that runs a fully indexed Bitcoin node. This enables any Solidity-based smart contracts and, by extension, apps on Hemi to access Bitcoin data without relying on external bridges or third party oracles.","The hVM allows developers to engineer DeFi platforms that harness Bitcoin’s deep value as a means of maintaining market liquidity, and ensuring the decentralization and level of security with which Bitcoin is synonymous. Lending protocols, automated market makers, or yield-generating platforms, can now utilize Bitcoin as usable collateral and settle transactions natively with the hVM.","Bitcoin on Hemi remains fully sovereign, avoiding the centralized pitfalls of other bridges that may be exploited or hacked. This protocol-level integration preserves the integrity of both Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems, allowing the native currencies of both networks to reinforce one another on DeFi platforms.","Hemi allows Bitcoin to transcend the limitations of its bytecode and to act as an active trading pair in DeFi networks. But DeFi platforms aren’t the only place Hemi extends Bitcoin. On day one, users can stake, restake, borrow, lend, as well as transact natively with Bitcoin with the numerous partner platforms integrated within the Hemi ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-hemi-enables-bitcoin-defi"},"/blog/hemi-and-meson-join-to-collaborate-on-cross-chain-swaps":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Meson Join to Collaborate On Cross-Chain Swaps - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Meson Join to Collaborate On Cross-Chain Swaps"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 12, 2024","Hemi and Meson will work to build faster and secure cross-chain transactions.","TL;DR","Hemi and Meson are collaborating to enhance cross-chain swaps with improved efficiency and security. By combining Hemi’s modular architecture with Meson’s zero-slippage swap capabilities, the collaboration enables faster, lower-cost, and secure cross-chain transactions. Meson’s seamless and cost-effective swaps benefit from Hemi’s scalability and interoperability, allowing both to expand their reach and provide users with a better DeFi experience.","Hemi and Meson are collaborating to improve the efficiency and security of cross-chain swaps across leading blockchains and Layer 2 rollups. By integrating Hemi’s modular architecture with Meson’s innovative zero-slippage swap capabilities, this collaboration sets the stage for faster, lower-cost, and secure cross-chain transactions.","Meson provides a faster and safer way to execute universal cross-chain swaps with zero slippage, offering seamless interactions across blockchains and Layer 2 ecosystems. Its focus on low-cost, efficient transactions has positioned it as a leader in cross-chain finance, driving accessibility and innovation in the DeFi space.","Meson’s ability to execute zero-slippage swaps gains significant advantages from Hemi Network’s modular infrastructure, which enhances scalability and interoperability between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other networks. By leveraging Hemi’s framework, Meson can optimize its operations, reducing transaction costs and improving processing times without compromising security.","This collaboration also enables Meson to expand its footprint across Hemi’s robust ecosystem, offering users a superior swapping experience while meeting growing market demands for reliable cross-chain solutions.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-meson-join-to-collaborate-on-cross-chain-swaps"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-december-17-2024":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: December 17, 2024 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: December 17, 2024"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 18, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","We bid farewell to 2024.","The final Midweek with Max of the year began with a nod to the technical hiccups that delayed the start, but the energy quickly picked up as the hosts—Max Sanchez, Phil Gomes, and Rick Laprade—led the discussion. The session was packed with updates on engineering milestones, community initiatives, and plans for the year ahead, with a tone that balanced humor and serious reflection on the team’s progress. Max took the lead on engineering updates, focusing on the deployment of the upgraded Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM).","This update addressed issues with Bitcoin testnet reorganization by fine-tuning parameters to improve synchronization with the consensus tip. The team has also advanced the Bitcoin Kit, which now enables developers to interact with UTXOs, query Bitcoin balances, and analyze transactions. Developers can expect detailed documentation and resources to support these new tools.","Another highlight was the internal testing of the Bitcoin Tunnel, with community access planned soon. The team confirmed that the mainnet launch is slated for early to mid-January 2025, pending the holiday schedule. Phil shifted the focus to community and outreach efforts. He shared how the team has been strengthening Hemi’s presence through media campaigns, including end-of-year retrospectives and live-streamed discussions with key figures in the crypto space. Partner onboarding has been a major focus, laying the groundwork for a strong launch. Looking ahead to 2025, the team is actively submitting proposals to speak at major industry events, including ETH Denver and Consensus Hong Kong. Phil also touched on the much-requested Hemi merchandise initiative, noting that while it’s unlikely to roll out before the end of the year, the team is prioritizing designs for a launch in early 2025.","The session also included a lively Q&A segment, where the team addressed questions on topics like proof-of-humanity mechanisms and the Demos system. They explained how Demos ensures unique user verification while maintaining high standards of data security. When asked about the Token Generation Event (TGE), Max clarified that its timing will depend on market conditions, network activity, and other non-technical factors, though the team is working hard to ensure readiness.","For participants in PoP mining, the team acknowledged current API issues in the browser-based miner and recommended using the CLI version for better results. Interspersed with these updates were entertaining stories from the team’s past experiences. Rick shared anecdotes from his time managing social media for major brands, including his stint with Hasbro, while other team members reminisced about the early days of crypto and the eccentric pitches they encountered during the ICO boom.","The session concluded with a heartfelt thank-you to the Hemi community for their support throughout 2024. The team emphasized their excitement for what’s to come in 2025, hinting at a year filled with new milestones and opportunities. Midweek with Max will return on January 7, 2025, ready to kick off another chapter in Hemi’s journey.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-december-17-2024"},"/blog/hemi-to-collaborate-with-decentralized-exchange-dodo":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi to Collaborate with Decentralized Exchange DODO - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi to Collaborate with Decentralized Exchange DODO"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 17, 2024","Bitcoin","Dex","Ethereum","Hemi","DODO is a trusted and innovative decentralized exchange.","TL;DR","Hemi is collaborating with DODO, a trusted and innovative decentralized exchange (DEX), as they launch on Hemi. Liquidity providers will earn both DODO and Hemi points as rewards. This partnership highlights DODO's strong reputation and Hemi's scalable infrastructure.","Hemi is pleased to announce our collaboration with DODO, a pioneering decentralized exchange (DEX) platform known for its strong community trust and innovative approach to liquidity solutions. As one of the original DEX platforms in the space, DODO has consistently delivered exceptional value to its users through advanced features and a commitment to transparency.","DODO’s decision to launch on Hemi underscores our commitment to scaling and supporting trusted platforms that excel in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. By building on Hemi, DODO can leverage enhanced scalability, interoperability, and the robust infrastructure that Hemi provides, ensuring a superior experience for its users.","Liquidity providers (LPs) in this collaboration will benefit from dual rewards: earning both DODO points and Hemi points. This incentive structure is designed to maximize value for LPs while driving adoption and engagement on the platform.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-to-collaborate-with-decentralized-exchange-dodo"},"/blog/hemi-and-steer-to-build-liquidity-management-on-btcfi":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Steer to Build Liquidity Management on BTCFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Steer to Build Liquidity Management on BTCFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 18, 2024","Hemi","Steer Protocol","Hemi will collaborate with Steer Protocol to optimize liquidity management.","TL;DR:","Hemi is working with Steer Protocol to optimize liquidity management on its BTCFi ecosystem. By integrating Steer’s Smart Pools, liquidity positions are automatically rebalanced, ensuring they remain active and profitable. This collaboration enhances liquidity depth, minimizes slippage, and maximizes yields for liquidity providers, supporting seamless large trades and advancing Hemi’s vision for a more efficient DeFi ecosystem.","Hemi is working with Steer Protocol, a leading LP management solution, to optimize liquidity provision and trading efficiency in the Hemi ecosystem. This collaboration focuses on integrating Steer’s innovative “Smart Pools” technology to enhance liquidity management across Hemi DEXs.","Liquidity management on V3 DEXs traditionally requires users to specify price ranges for their deposits. If asset prices move outside of these ranges, liquidity positions become inactive and stop earning fees. Steer Protocol addresses this issue by automatically rebalancing liquidity positions, ensuring they remain active and profitable. This integration provides liquidity providers with a more efficient way to earn, while supporting Hemi’s goal of minimizing slippage and enabling larger, seamless trades on its BTCFi chain.","The result: improved liquidity depth and trading efficiency on Hemi. By leveraging Steer’s rebalancing technology, liquidity providers benefit from maximized yields, while traders experience improved execution for large transactions. The synergy between Hemi’s innovative infrastructure and Steer’s Smart Pools unlocks a more dynamic and efficient DeFi ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-steer-to-build-liquidity-management-on-btcfi"},"/blog/hemi-and-pell-network-announce-collaboration-to-enhance-security-and-defi-ecosystem-integration":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Pell Network Announce Collaboration to Enhance Security and DeFi Ecosystem Integration - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Pell Network Announce Collaboration to Enhance Security and DeFi Ecosystem Integration"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 26, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Pell Network","The Pell Network brings security to Hemi.","TL;DR:","Hemi and Pell Network are collaborating to enhance security for decentralized applications. By integrating Pell’s restaking mechanisms, Hemi developers can secure hApps without building their own validator networks, reducing financial and operational burdens.","Hemi is collaborating with Pell Network, a restaking network focused on leveraging BTC and its Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSDs) to provide cryptoeconomic security for decentralized applications. By integrating Pell’s staking and restaking mechanisms, Hemi developers can secure their hApps without the financial or operational burden of building independent validator networks. This will simplify the process of securing decentralized services on Hemi, allowing developers to focus on innovation while benefiting from Pell’s robust staking solutions. Hemi users will earn boosted Hemi points when depositing LSTs and LRTs on Pell, while Pell users gain extra Pell points through Hemi, providing valuable incentives for both communities. Pell Network’s unique restaking model aligns with Hemi’s mission to unify Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems into a single supernetwork. BTC holders using Pell can now contribute to the security of decentralized validated services (DVSs) on Hemi, earning passive income through staking and restaking across multiple blockchain ecosystems.","With Hemi’s modular Layer 2 protocol and Pell’s marketplace for staking, developers can attract validators with non-dilutive incentives, ensuring robust application security while fostering a thriving BTCFi ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-pell-network-announce-collaboration-to-enhance-security-and-defi-ecosystem-integration"},"/blog/hemi-and-free-to-enhance-cross-chain-functionality-and-bridging-solutions":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Free Protocol to Enhance Cross-Chain Functionality and Bridging Solutions - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Free Protocol to Enhance Cross-Chain Functionality and Bridging Solutions"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 19, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Free","Hemi","Free's Free Tunnel will integrate with Hemi's Layer-2 architecture.","TL;DR","Hemi and Free Protocol are collaborating to improve cross-chain asset bridging with faster, more secure transactions. Free’s Free Express and Free Tunnel services will integrate Hemi’s Layer-2 architecture, leveraging features like the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) and Proof-of-Proof (PoP).","Hemi and Free Protocol are collaborating to enhance cross-chain functionality and improve asset bridging capabilities. By integrating with Hemi’s modular Layer-2 architecture, Free.tech will provide users with faster, more secure transactions when bridging assets such as pumpBTC, UBTC, iBTC, MBTC and STONE.","Free’s Free Express bridge, optimized for quick transfers, and Free Tunnel, designed for larger transactions requiring additional security, will now leverage Hemi’s advanced interoperability features. This integration will allow for seamless asset movement across multiple blockchains without compromising on speed or security.","The collaboration also enables Free Protocol to utilize Hemi’s Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) and Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus mechanism. These technologies improve transaction performance while unlocking new opportunities for cross-chain applications. Free Protocol users will benefit from innovative tools that bridge Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems.","Together, Hemi and Free Protocol aim to expand decentralized finance by creating a more interconnected, efficient, and secure blockchain experience for users and liquidity providers.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-free-to-enhance-cross-chain-functionality-and-bridging-solutions"},"/blog/what-is-a-non-redeemable-pegged-token":{"version":1,"title":"What Is a Non-Redeemable Pegged Token? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is a Non-Redeemable Pegged Token?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Tokens","A non-redeemable pegged token is priced one-to-one with another asset.","A non-redeemable pegged token is a digital asset designed to maintain a fixed value by linking it to another asset, usually a fiat currency like the U.S. dollar, euro, or British pound. This connection—often referred to as a \"peg\"—helps the cryptocurrency stay stable in price, unlike most other cryptocurrencies that experience high volatility. As the name suggests, it is not transferable for the asset in question.","The most common type of non-redeemable pegged token is a fiat-pegged stablecoin. These are tokens backed by reserves, such as cash or short-term securities, that match the token’s total value in circulation. For example, if a stablecoin is pegged to the U.S. dollar at a 1:1 ratio, then one token should always be worth one dollar. This structure allows users to hold or transfer digital value without worrying about sharp price swings.","Non-redeemable pegged tokens can also be tied to commodities like gold or to other non-USD fiat currencies. Some use crypto collateral or algorithms to hold their value. Algorithmic stablecoins adjust the token supply automatically in response to market demand, aiming to keep the price close to the peg.","Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC), and DAI are among the most widely used non-redeemable pegged tokens. They are used for trading, payments, and as a store of value, especially in situations where price stability is important.","By offering predictable value, non-redeemable pegged tokens play a key role in the broader crypto economy. They support everything from everyday payments to complex DeFi applications and give users an easy way to move between digital and traditional finance.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-non-redeemable-pegged-token"},"/blog/what-is-inherited-security":{"version":1,"title":"What Is Inherited Security? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is Inherited Security?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 1, 2025","Inherited security is based on building on top of another secure blockchain.","Inherited security refers to a design pattern in blockchain architecture where a new protocol or system leverages the security guarantees of an existing base layer, rather than establishing its own security model from scratch. In cryptocurrency, this usually means building on top of a well-established blockchain like Bitcoin or Ethereum and relying on its consensus mechanism, validator set, or proof-of-work to ensure the integrity of transactions and data.","This approach has become central to the design of many Layer 2 networks, sidechains, rollups, and interoperability protocols. The appeal is straightforward: by building on top of a secure, decentralized base layer, new systems can focus on scalability, flexibility, or novel functionality without recreating the foundational elements that make a blockchain trustworthy.","There are several forms of inherited security in practice:","Rollups and Validity ProofsRollups (both optimistic and zero-knowledge) inherit security from Ethereum by publishing compressed transaction data to the main chain. In this model, Ethereum acts as the arbiter of truth, with fraud proofs or validity proofs providing accountability. This setup means users can rely on Ethereum’s security even when interacting with much higher throughput environments.","Bitcoin SidechainsSome Bitcoin-focused Layer 2s claim inherited security by using Bitcoin’s block headers, proofs, or miners as checkpoints for their state. However, Bitcoin’s design makes these setups more limited in scope compared to Ethereum-based rollups. In many cases, trust assumptions reappear at the bridge or peg-in/peg-out layer. Still, efforts like drivechains and merged mining attempt to provide stronger links to Bitcoin's security model.","Shared Validator SetsIn some multi-chain ecosystems, smaller chains inherit security from a larger validator set. Cosmos’ Interchain Security and Polkadot’s shared security model fall into this category. These designs tie the security of child chains to the staking and governance activity of the base chain, creating a direct economic and operational dependency.","Economic Finality and BridgingSome systems use economic incentives to anchor finality into the base chain. For instance, finality gadgets or bridges might post checkpoints to Ethereum and rely on slashing or challenge mechanisms. This offers partial security inheritance, depending on the integrity of the bridge logic and the incentives around it.","Tradeoffs and LimitationsWhile inherited security offers a shortcut to decentralization and trust, it introduces dependencies. Any degradation in the base layer’s security affects the dependent system. Conversely, new attack surfaces can emerge in the connection layer—especially in bridges and relays—which are often the weakest link.","Further, inherited security can constrain design. A rollup must conform to Ethereum’s data availability and fee structure. A sidechain using Bitcoin headers must accommodate Bitcoin’s slow finality and scripting limits. These constraints may limit the expressiveness or performance of Layer 2s.","Inherited security is a pragmatic response to the difficulty of bootstrapping trust in new blockchain systems. By building on top of established networks, developers can avoid reinventing consensus and focus on usability, performance, and new features. But this model isn’t free: it introduces complexity, depends on the stability of the host chain, and requires careful bridge design. As the industry matures, how projects manage inherited security—and the tradeoffs that come with it—will shape the evolution of scalable and composable crypto systems.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-inherited-security"},"/blog/hemi-and-satlayer-collaborate-to-expand-bitcoin-backed-security-and-interoperability":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and SatLayer Work to Expand Bitcoin-Backed Security and Interoperability - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and SatLayer Work to Expand Bitcoin-Backed Security and Interoperability"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Defi","Ethereum","Hemi","Satlayer","Hemi and SatLayer will collaborate to expand security for dApps.","TL;DR: Hemi and SatLayer are working together to expand Bitcoin-backed security for decentralized applications.","Hemi and SatLayer are working together to enhance Bitcoin-backed security and interoperability across decentralized applications and protocols. SatLayer, which builds on Babylon's Bitcoin staking protocol, brings restaking capabilities to Bitcoin, allowing developers to use programmable slashing conditions for robust security.","By integrating with Hemi’s modular Layer-2 architecture and advanced tools like the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) and Proof-of-Proof (PoP), SatLayer can extend its Bitcoin-backed guarantees to a wider range of decentralized applications. These include bridges, lending protocols, decentralized exchanges, and data availability layers.","This collaboration allows SatLayer to tap into Hemi’s interoperability features, providing seamless connectivity between Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems. Together, Hemi and SatLayer will allow Bitcoin to serve as the foundational layer for cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi), offering enhanced security, yield opportunities, and a scalable foundation for developers and liquidity providers.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-satlayer-collaborate-to-expand-bitcoin-backed-security-and-interoperability"},"/blog/what-are-cross-chain-representations":{"version":1,"title":"What Are Cross-Chain Representations? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Are Cross-Chain Representations?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 3, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Cross-chain Representations","Ethereum","Hemi","Cross-chain representations allow tokens to move across blockchains by locking the original asset on one chain and issuing a mirrored version on another.","Cross-chain representations allow assets to move between different blockchains without being removed from their original network. Instead of transferring the asset directly, a technical process locks the original token on one chain and creates a mirrored version on another. This makes it possible to use the same value across blockchains that were not designed to work together.","The most common approach involves locking the token on the source chain. Once locked, a bridge issues a new token on the destination chain that represents the original. This new token is not the same asset but a replica—often called a facsimile—that is backed 1:1 by the locked version.","There are two main models for handling these representations: custody-based and validator-based systems.","In a custody model, a trusted entity—usually a company or a multi-signature wallet—holds the original tokens and guarantees the issuance of the mirrored tokens. The best-known example is Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) on Ethereum. Bitcoin is deposited with a custodian like BitGo, and an ERC-20 version of bitcoin is minted on Ethereum. The reverse process burns the wBTC and releases the original BTC from custody.","In contrast, a validator-driven protocol uses a network of nodes to monitor the source blockchain and confirm when tokens are locked. Once a majority of validators agree that the lock event occurred, they authorize minting of the mirrored token on the destination chain. This method reduces reliance on a single custodian but introduces new risks, such as validator collusion or failure.","Both models aim to create trust in the cross-chain asset. The key is the peg between the original token and its representation. If the original is locked and the bridge issues one mirrored token per original, the value should remain stable—at least in theory. The entire system depends on accurate locking, minting, burning, and unlocking.","Cross-chain representations are important for blockchain interoperability. They let users move value between ecosystems and participate in applications not available on the original chain. For example, Bitcoin holders can use their value in Ethereum-based DeFi platforms by using a wrapped version of BTC.","However, the model introduces risks. If the bridge is compromised, or the validator network fails to reach consensus, the mirrored token may lose its peg. Several high-profile bridge exploits have shown that securing the locking and minting process is difficult, especially when multiple blockchains and actors are involved.","Despite the risks, cross-chain representations remain a central tool for expanding the use of blockchain assets. As new models emerge—with more automation, fewer trust assumptions, and stronger security—the ability to move value between chains is likely to improve. These systems offer a way to make blockchains more connected without forcing them to adopt a single standard.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-are-cross-chain-representations"},"/blog/what-are-synthetic-wrapped-tokens":{"version":1,"title":"What Are Synthetic Wrapped Tokens? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Are Synthetic Wrapped Tokens?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 4, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Synthetic Wrapped Tokens","Wrapped Bitcoin","Synthetic wrapped tokens allow one blockchain to connect to another.","Using bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain isn’t possible by default. The two systems aren’t directly compatible. But there’s a workaround: synthetic wrapped tokens. These allow assets like bitcoin to be used on blockchains they weren’t built for.","A synthetic wrapped token is a version of a cryptocurrency that exists on a different blockchain. It matches the value of the original asset but uses a different token standard. For example, a wrapped version of bitcoin can be created to function on Ethereum. This lets users trade or use bitcoin in decentralized applications built for Ethereum.","One major advantage of wrapped tokens is that they improve cross-chain compatibility. This allows assets like bitcoin to be used in Ethereum-based DeFi protocols for lending, borrowing, or yield generation. As a result, wrapped tokens help increase liquidity and give users more ways to put their assets to work.","Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC)","Wrapped bitcoin (wBTC) is the most widely used wrapped token. It’s an ERC-20 token that mirrors the price of bitcoin. Launched in 2019 by BitGo, Kyber, and Ren, wBTC is backed 1:1 by actual bitcoin held in custody. BitGo acts as the custodian, while merchants like DeversiFi or Kyber handle the conversion process.","To get wBTC, a user sends their bitcoin to a merchant. The merchant passes it to the custodian, who mints an equal amount of wBTC. When a user wants to switch back to bitcoin, the process is reversed: the wBTC is burned, and the bitcoin is released.","This system of minting and burning keeps the supply of wBTC matched to its bitcoin backing. It works similarly to how stablecoins maintain their value peg.","By bringing bitcoin into Ethereum’s ecosystem, wBTC makes it possible to use bitcoin in DeFi applications like Uniswap or Yearn, turning a static asset into one that can earn returns.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-are-synthetic-wrapped-tokens"},"/blog/what-are-fractionalized-wrapped-tokens":{"version":1,"title":"What Are Fractionalized Wrapped Tokens? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Are Fractionalized Wrapped Tokens?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 6, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Tokens","Wrapped tokens can be chunked into parts. Those are called fractionalized wrapped tokens.","Fractionalized wrapped tokens combine two concepts in blockchain technology: asset wrapping and token fractionalization. Together, they create a structure for shared ownership of digital or physical assets, with a level of control and accountability that mirrors traditional finance.","A wrapped token is a digital representation of an asset that exists on a different blockchain or off-chain entirely. Wrapping allows an asset—whether it’s bitcoin, real estate, or company equity—to be used in blockchain-based applications. The original asset is held by a custodian or locked in a smart contract, while a new token is issued to represent it. That token can be used on a different blockchain or in a different format than the original asset.","Fractionalization takes that wrapped token and breaks it into smaller units. Instead of one person owning a full token that represents, say, a building or an artwork, many people can hold fractions of it. These fractional tokens each represent a share of the total value and can be bought, sold, or transferred independently. This makes high-value assets more accessible to a wider group of users.","The process typically works like this: an asset is wrapped into a smart contract, which issues a base token that stands in for the full value of the asset. That token is then divided into many smaller units, based on the rules set by the issuer. The smart contract also maintains a record of all fractional holders and automates updates to the ownership structure.","This model introduces benefits in terms of both liquidity and access. Expensive assets that are difficult to trade can be broken into lower-cost pieces, allowing more buyers to participate. It also creates flexibility in how ownership is managed, especially for assets that don’t have a natural buyer at full value.","One challenge is trust in the custodian. If the asset being tokenized is not stored properly or cannot be verified, then the fractional tokens lose their credibility. This is why many fractionalized wrapped tokens rely on permissioned systems with identity verification, governance controls, and legal agreements. Standards like ERC-3643 allow token issuers to build in compliance features, giving holders stronger guarantees.","Fractionalized wrapped tokens also raise legal and regulatory questions. If they represent real-world assets or financial instruments, they may be subject to securities laws or other oversight. Some jurisdictions are beginning to define how digital assets fit within existing legal frameworks, but the landscape is still developing.","Despite these challenges, fractionalized wrapped tokens point to a practical use of blockchain: creating liquid, divisible, and programmable representations of assets that people already understand. They offer a bridge between the speed and openness of crypto and the structure and stability of traditional finance.","As the tools to manage identity, custody, and compliance improve, we’re likely to see more use cases where large or illiquid assets are opened up to broader ownership through fractionalized wrapped tokens.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-are-fractionalized-wrapped-tokens"},"/blog/b-c2-b2-network-to-bring-ubtc-to-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"B² Network to Bring uBTC to Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["B² Network to Bring uBTC to Hemi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 6, 2025","B² brings a secure, Bitcoin-based asset to Hemi.","TL;DR: Hemi is working with B² to integrate uBTC, a secure Bitcoin-backed asset, onto the Hemi Network. This collaboration enhances interoperability, enabling BTC holders to access DeFi opportunities like lending and staking within Hemi’s ecosystem.","Hemi is working with B² Network to bring uBTC to the Hemi Network. This collaboration marks a major advancement in connecting secure Bitcoin-backed assets across multiple blockchains and expanding decentralized finance within Hemi's evolving ecosystem.","The B² Network pioneered two key innovations: the B² Rollup, recognized as the first Bitcoin rollup utilizing verification commitments, and the B² Hub, a Bitcoin Data Availability (DA) layer designed to achieve finality directly on the Bitcoin network. B² introduces advances in scalability, including recursive zero-knowledge proof mechanisms, a Turing complete zkEVM environment, and account abstraction features that interface directly with Bitcoin for settlement and validation.","This collaboration offers:","Interoperability: B²’s expertise in bridging networks complements Hemi’s modular protocol, ensuring smooth integration of uBTC into multiple DeFi applications.","Enhanced Utility: BTC holders can now leverage their assets across Hemi’s ecosystem, accessing decentralized lending, staking, and yield opportunities with the efficiency of uBTC.","Security and Transparency: Both Hemi and B² prioritize secure and audited solutions, offering users peace of mind as they explore these new opportunities.","This collaboration represents the beginning of a broader effort to make Bitcoin more accessible and versatile within the evolving DeFi landscape. B² Network and Hemi are delivering cutting-edge solutions that empower users while maintaining the core principles of decentralization and security.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/b-c2-b2-network-to-bring-ubtc-to-hemi"},"/blog/hemi-will-work-with-the-graph-to-simplify-decentralized-applications":{"version":1,"title":"The Graph Joins the Hemi Ecosystem to Streamline Blockchain Data Access for Developers - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["The Graph Joins the Hemi Ecosystem to Streamline Blockchain Data Access for Developers"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 9, 2025","Hemi and The Graph will work to improve blockchain data access.","TL;DR:","Hemi is collaborating with The Graph, enabling developers who build on Hemi to efficiently query and access blockchain data.","Hemi has announced a collaboration with The Graph, a decentralized protocol that allows developers to interact with blockchain data. The Graph enables efficient querying and indexing of blockchain information, simplifying the development process for decentralized applications.","Using The Graph's capabilities, developers can efficiently build scalable, data-driven hApps on Hemi's modular Layer 2 platform. The Graph's decentralized indexing technology simplifies querying and organizing blockchain data, reducing the need for manual data handling and allowing developers to focus on creating functional, user-oriented applications.","For Hemi users, this integration streamlines development processes and supports the creation of more feature-rich decentralized applications. It enhances the ecosystem's ability to support modularity and interoperability, providing developers with the tools needed to build applications that effectively use blockchain technology.","By working with The Graph, Hemi ensures its ecosystem remains developer-friendly for creating decentralized applications.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-will-work-with-the-graph-to-simplify-decentralized-applications"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-january-7-2024":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: January 7, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: January 7, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 9, 2025","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Video","Welcome back from the holidays!","Welcome to another episode of Midweek With Max! In this episode, the Hemi team provided updates on progress toward mainnet stability, with significant work completed over the holidays. Efforts focused on enhancing the RPC backend using Optimism’s Proxy D, which improves reliability by routing requests based on their type and maintaining consensus among downstream nodes.","These upgrades are expected to enhance scalability and are being prepared for testnet deployment soon. Auditing and security remain top priorities as the team finalizes preparations for the mainnet launch, targeted for late January 2025. Smart contract audits on the Bitcoin tunnel were completed by two firms and Hacker One conducted a comprehensive code and infrastructure audit. An additional audit phase is planned before launch, ensuring readiness across all systems. To prevent potential issues, monitoring systems were improved to provide immediate visibility into network activity and enable rapid response.","The network has also undergone recent upgrades, including enhancements to the HVM endpoints and the Bitcoin Kit version. These upgrades have been running successfully on testnet since early December. Challenges such as the Bitcoin Testnet 3 difficulty bomb exploit were resolved, demonstrating the network's ability to handle adversarial scenarios. On the partnerships front, the team has been highly active, announcing 28 collaborations since the testnet launch in July 2024.","Recent partnerships include SatLayer and B2, and efforts continue at an accelerated pace. The team remains focused on platforms like Twitter and Telegram for engagement. Looking ahead, the team outlined goals for 2025, emphasizing partnership growth and ecosystem expansion. A strong focus remains on enabling seamless Bitcoin and Ethereum interoperability. Developers are encouraged to explore advanced applications using HVM, such as non-custodial DEXs and Bitcoin staking solutions. On-chain resolutions include supporting mainnet launch efforts and introducing governance structures that combine token-based voting with unique human identity verification for community decisions.","NFT updates include migrating existing testnet NFTs to mainnet and discussions around creating security-aware gaming NFTs. While NFTs are not the immediate focus, the team plans to support innovative projects and partnerships in this space. For fans of our points system we have plans to make them even more powerful in the future. Keep an eye on the Discord and join us every Tuesday for Midweek With Max.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-january-7-2024"},"/blog/yieldnest-will-let-hemi-users-access-ynbtck":{"version":1,"title":"YieldNest Will Let Hemi Users Access ynBTCk - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["YieldNest Will Let Hemi Users Access ynBTCk"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 13, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Yieldnest","YeildNest brings brings a liquid restaking token to the Hemi ecosystem.","TL;DR: Hemi is collaborating with YieldNest to bring ynBTCk, a Bitcoin liquid restaking token, to the Hemi ecosystem.","Hemi will collaborate with YieldNest to expand Bitcoin-based liquid restaking options. YieldNest will bring ynBTCk, their Bitcoin liquid restaking token, to the Hemi ecosystem.","YieldNest's protocol enables users to deposit Bitcoin-based assets, which are then restaked on Kernel to generate rewards from multiple sources, including Kernel, YieldNest, and DVNs. Users receive ynBTCk tokens to represent their position in the pool.","The integration allows ynBTCk holders to access yield opportunities across the Hemi ecosystem. Liquidity providers will receive incentives from Hemi, Kernel, and YieldNest. As both platforms use LayerZero technology, users can bridge ynBTCk to Hemi seamlessly.","Hemi and YieldNest share a common vision of growing the BTCFi ecosystem in a safe and transparent way.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/yieldnest-will-let-hemi-users-access-ynbtck"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-january-14-2025":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for January 14, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for January 14, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 15, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Video","Phil \"Batman\" Gomes talks about all of our partnership wins.","In this Midweek with Max episode, co-founder Max Sanchez and Head of Marketing Phil \"Batman\" Gomes provided key updates on Hemi's progress toward mainnet. The team reported significant work on partner onboarding and Bitcoin tunnel development, along with RPC scalability improvements enabling 20,000 requests per second in staging.","Phil announced an upcoming research report from Reflexivity Research highlighting Hemi and featuring a competitive matrix analysis. He also discussed a recent op-ed in Cointelegraph authored by Max about decentralization and proof of proof consensus. The team noted continuing partnership announcements averaging one every 3.5 days, including the recent YieldNest integration.","A major discussion point was VUSD, HEMI's newly launched stablecoin that's overcollateralized by other stablecoins. Users can deposit USDC, USDT and potentially DAI to mint VUSD, which will be used throughout the HEMI ecosystem. The team explained how VUSD liquidity mining on Ethereum mainnet Sushi V2 pools now earns HEMI points.","Regarding points and rewards, Max clarified that Demos verification has reached over 76,000 unique individuals. He explained the points system for POP mining will reward consistent daily activity rather than bulk mining, with points allocated for daily participation, meeting average user thresholds, and long-term engagement.","The team confirmed mainnet and TGE (Token Generation Event) will likely be separate events, with TGE occurring after mainnet launch to allow time for TVL and activity growth. They noted the mainnet explorer is live for partner onboarding but emphasized there are no rewards for premature mainnet interaction before official launch.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-january-14-2025"},"/blog/hemi-and-yieldfi-join-forces-to-bring-real-yield-solutions-to-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and YieldFi Join Forces to Bring Real-Yield Solutions to DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and YieldFi Join Forces to Bring Real-Yield Solutions to DeFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 16, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Yusd","YieldFi will yUSD to Hemi.","TL;DR:","Hemi and YieldFi are working together to add yUSD (a yield-generating stablecoin) to Hemi's DeFi platform. Users can deposit USDC/USDT to get yUSD, which earns returns from market activities. The tokens work with Hemi's systems and give users bonus rewards. This helps Hemi offer reliable yields to users.","Hemi announced a collaboration with YieldFi, world’s first streamlined asset management platform, to integrate yUSD, a yield-generating stablecoin, into Hemi's DeFi ecosystem. YieldFi generates sustainable yields by deploying USDC and USDT across CeFi and DeFi platforms, through the use of systematic delta-neutral strategies across centralized and decentralized finance platforms","Users can now deposit USDC or USDT to receive yUSD tokens, earning yields from actual market activities rather than just token incentives. The yUSD token will work across Hemi's platforms, enabling lending, synthetic asset creation, and yield optimization. Furthermore, users and LPs of yUSD will receive boosted Hemi points and boosted Yield Crumbs, the native point system of YieldFi.","This integration strengthens Hemi's commitment to sustainable DeFi yields. Users gain access to real yield generation from stablecoin deposits, enhanced capital efficiency through yUSD lending, synthetic asset creation using yUSD as collateral, and yield optimization through multiple DeFi strategies.","The integration of yUSD marks a significant step forward in bringing sustainable, market-driven yields to Hemi users and strengthens Hemi’s position in the DeFi space.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-yieldfi-join-forces-to-bring-real-yield-solutions-to-defi"},"/blog/hemi-and-plume-network-bring-real-world-asset-yields-to-btcfi":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Plume Network Bring Real-World Asset Yields to BTCFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Plume Network Bring Real-World Asset Yields to BTCFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 17, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Hemi","Plume","Plume will help extend real world-assets into Hemi.","TL;DR:","Hemi and Plume are working together to let BTCFi users earn yields from real-world assets like funds and treasury bills. Plume's SkyLink system creates YieldTokens that can be mirrored on Hemi's L2, giving users access to institutional investment returns.","Hemi is collaborating with Plume to bring real world asset (RWA) yields to BTCFi. Plume’s SkyLink enables yields to be streamed and realized by users on Hemi. This gives users on Hemi access to institutional RWA products.","Plume's SkyLink separates the yield earned from tokenized products from the underlying asset through YieldTokens. These tokens represent only the yield portion of tokenized RWAs on Plume, while retaining all of the security and compliance benefits of the underlying asset. When a YieldToken is created on Plume, mirrored YieldTokens are created on Hemi.","Users can access these yield opportunities through a Plume-built interface on Hemi, with LayerZero facilitating the fund transfers. This collaboration adds to Hemi’s interoperability vision and brings new opportunities to the Hemi community.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-plume-network-bring-real-world-asset-yields-to-btcfi"},"/blog/hemi-and-bima-team-up-to-advance-btcfi-with-bitcoin-backed-stablecoin":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Bima Team Up to Advance BTCFi with Bitcoin-Backed Stablecoin - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Bima Team Up to Advance BTCFi with Bitcoin-Backed Stablecoin"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 20, 2025","Bima","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Hemi","Bima lets Hemi users maintain Bitcoin exposure.","TL;DR:","Hemi is working with Bima to add USBD, a stablecoin backed by Bitcoin. Users can create USBD by depositing Bitcoin or Bitcoin tokens. The stablecoin can be used for trading, staking, and lending on Hemi's platform. This lets Bitcoin holders get USD while keeping their Bitcoin position.","Hemi has announced a collaboration with Bima to integrate USBD, a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin that, as Bima notes, Bitcoin before the dollar.","USBD brings Bitcoin-backed liquidity to Hemi's ecosystem. Users can mint USBD by depositing BTC, HBTC, or other Bitcoin LSTs available on Hemi. The stablecoin is over-collateralized, providing a safe foundation for DeFi activities.","The integration enables USBD holders to access multiple yield opportunities through Hemi's ecosystem, including trading on perpetual DEXes, staking, and lending. A specialized Hemi vault, managed by a leading vault provider, will optimize USBD yields across the ecosystem.","This solution addresses a critical need in BTCFi - giving Bitcoin holders access to USD liquidity without sacrificing their BTC exposure.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-bima-team-up-to-advance-btcfi-with-bitcoin-backed-stablecoin"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-january-21-2025":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for January 21, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for January 21, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 21, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","Video","Mainnet is landing in February. Are you ready?","In this episode of Midweek With Max we talked about  progress toward mainnet launch and ongoing developments. The team announced they're targeting first half of February for mainnet launch, emphasizing that its priority is to ensure a robust ecosystem from day one.","\"When Hemi hits mainnet, it's going to be a mainnet, not a mid-net,\" the team emphasized, highlighting their focus on having multiple active protocols available at launch.","On the technical side, the team reported progress on Bitcoin tunnel contracts, with internal testing underway on testnet. They're also addressing infrastructure improvements and working on OpGeth updates to handle edge cases on Bitcoin testnet.","The points program continues to generate strong community engagement, with nearly 80,000 users completing Demos verification. The team clarified that points will be allocated based on verified unique users, with anti-Sybil mechanisms in place. Each season - testnet and future mainnet seasons - will have separate point allocations, with rewards distributed based on actual participation and economic activity.","The business development team has accelerated partnership announcements to daily releases, reflecting strong ecosystem growth.","Furthermore, the team announced a session on X Spaces “When Worlds Collide: The Future of Cross-chain DeFi\" with special guests LayerBank and LayerZero. Be sure to set your reminder!","For those interested in community engagement, the team is developing new roles and features, including an AI-powered support agent named Shasha256. Shasha is currently on X but is being tested for 24/7 Discord assistance.","The team plans a presence at upcoming conferences including Consensus Hong Kong, ETH Denver, and Consensus Toronto.","While many specific details about tokenomics and mainnet rewards remain under wraps, the team emphasized its commitment to rewarding early supporters and building a sustainable ecosystem. More details about tokenomics and rewards are expected to be announced as the mainnet launch approaches.","The focus remains on creating a functional, active network at launch rather than just another \"economic simulator,\" setting the stage for Hemi's big launch in February.Be sure to tune in next Tuesday at 11am EST for our next Midweek With Max session. If you missed today’s session, catch the replay above.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-january-21-2025"},"/blog/stork-to-deliver-enhanced-oracle-feeds-on-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Stork to Deliver Enhanced Oracle Feeds on Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Stork to Deliver Enhanced Oracle Feeds on Hemi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 21, 2025","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Stork","Hemi and Stork are collaborating to provide reliable oracles.","TL;DR: Hemi and Stork are collaborating to provide reliable oracles on Hemi. Stork's price feeds will be available to all developers on Hemi and are currently used by several major preputial trading platforms and Hemi collaborators.","Hemi will work with Stork, an oracle protocol built for fast data delivery with minimal delays. Through its modular structure, verifiable cryptography, and support for various data types, Stork helps developers access live price feeds and essential data for applications built on Hemi.","Stork's oracle system collects, checks, and reviews data from trusted sources, with response times under one second. This gives Hemi developers access to real-time market data across 330+ assets on 50+ chains, helping keep applications efficient and cost-effective. The technology supports DeFi protocols, NFT marketplaces, and analytics tools, matching Hemi's goals for modularity and connection between systems.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/stork-to-deliver-enhanced-oracle-feeds-on-hemi"},"/blog/announcing-the-hemi-validator-passport-node-sale":{"version":1,"title":"Announcing the Hemi “Validator Passport” Node Sale - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Announcing the Hemi “Validator Passport” Node Sale"],"h2":["About the Sale","About Hemi","How it Works","Running a Validator","Important Dates","For More Information","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 27, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Node Sale","Hemi and Impossible Finance are announcing their first official node sale.","TL;DR","In order to accelerate the build-out of the network, Hemi is launching a node sale in the form of a “Validator Passport” for participants to run network nodes and earn rewards – via Impossible Finance.","Participants with Validator Passports contribute to Hemi’s decentralization and scalability. A total of 22,000 passports will be available, divided into three types that will feature different benefits, revenue-sharing opportunities, and token emission schedules:","Pathfinder — 1,000","Voyager — 3,000","Explorer — 18,000","Details on the benefits of each tier will be announced via @hemi_xyz and @impossiblefi on X.","Powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum, Hemi is a modular layer-2 protocol for superior scaling, security, and interoperability. Other projects approach Bitcoin and Ethereum as ecosystem silos, Hemi views them as components of a single supernetwork. This unlocks new levels of programmability, portability, and potential.","Founders Jeff Garzik and Max Sanchez envision a new, converged Internet ecosystem that is more secure, highly interoperable, and prepared to address the challenges of Web3 and the AI-driven future that is quickly colliding with the Internet at-large.","Hemi's co-founders work alongside a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic collaborators, and investors.","Since the testnet launched in July 2024, the team has announced numerous collaborations as well as a $15 million seed round led by Binance Labs, Breyer Capital, and Big Brain Holdings.","Following a successful Validator Passport purchase, the system transfers an NFT license to the buyer’s wallet, enabling the buyer to operate a network node and receive rewards in the Hemi native token.","Initially, buyers will operate a decentralized RPC cloud of nodes that provide scalable, resilient infrastructure for users and developers to leverage to interact with Hemi.","Once Hemi’s decentralized sequencing protocol launches later this year, Validator Passport holders will transition to sequencing transactions for the network. This will provide users with robust anti-censorship guarantees compared to the centralized sequencer systems commonly used in the L2 ecosystem. This also adds an additional layer of intermediate consensus security for transactions prior to achieving full Bitcoin-level security (aka Superfinality) through Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus.","Depending on the selected option, holders of Validator Passport licenses will receive a portion of their total token rewards ranging from 10-30% for performing the initial node setup, and will receive the remainder of rewards over the 12-48 month lifespan of the license for continuing to operate and maintain their node.","Additionally, the Voyager and Pathfinder tiers will receive a portion of the protocol’s base fee revenue up to a specified limit. All nodes will collect tips from the transactions they sequence.","Licenses will be sold in USDC on Arbitrum, and buyers will receive an NFT as proof of ownership for the Validator Passport License. One year after purchase, license holders will have the option to transfer their license freely.","To operate a Validator Passport, users can either download a lightweight software package suitable for low-end hardware or choose to deploy through a Validator Passport Service or Validator Passport-as-a-Service provider, which supports up to 100 Validator Passports on a single server. Additional details will be shared closer to the sale date.","The following are the currently anticipated dates for the sale:","Private Whitelist Sale: February 3, 2025 2PM UTC until February 6, 2025 2PM UTC","Public Sale: February 10, 2025 until February 13, 2025 2PM UTC","Mainnet Launch: Q1-2025","Follow @hemi_xyz and @impossiblefi on X for further details and updates.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/announcing-the-hemi-validator-passport-node-sale"},"/blog/hemi-and-hyperlane-to-expand-cross-chain-interoperability":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Hyperlane to Expand Cross-Chain Interoperability - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Hyperlane to Expand Cross-Chain Interoperability"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 24, 2025","Hemi and Hyperlane will let users move assets between blockchains.","TL;DR:","Hemi integrated with Hyperlane to let users move assets between Hemi and over 120 other blockchains, making it easier for developers to build cross-chain apps and for users to transfer tokens between networks.","Hemi is adding support for Hyperlane's interoperability protocol, enabling users and developers to bridge assets between Hemi and over 120 chains, including both EVM and Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) networks.","This integration complements Hemi's existing Bitcoin Tunnel and cross-chain solutions by connecting users from Solana and additional blockchain ecosystems to Hemi's growing network. Developers can use Hyperlane's permissionless infrastructure to create interchain applications, token bridges, and custom workflows.","This latest addition reinforces Hemi's focus on creating an accessible, interoperable layer 2 network. The permissionless nature of Hyperlane matches Hemi's vision of lowering barriers to cross-chain development and asset transfers.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-hyperlane-to-expand-cross-chain-interoperability"},"/blog/hemi-and-hourglass-begin-collaboration-on-time-bound-token-markets":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Hourglass Begin Collaboration on Time-Bound Token Markets - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Hourglass Begin Collaboration on Time-Bound Token Markets"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 22, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Hourglass","Hemi and Hourglass are working on helping users trade time-locked tokens.","TL;DR:","Hemi and Hourglass have joined forces to help users trade time-locked tokens and earn better yields through specialized markets.","Hemi and Hourglass are working together to expand liquidity options for time-bound and semi-fungible tokens. This collaboration brings together Hemi's infrastructure with Hourglass's RFQ (Request-for-Quote) marketplace and Boost platform.","Hourglass maximizes restaking rewards by time-boosting a user’s stake and thus earning them leveraged points. Time-bound tokens (TBTs) are receipts that can be redeemed for the underlying asset and its yield at maturity. TBTs are minted after staking into a time-boosted vault, where users earn rewards for committing their liquidity. This means that users on Hemi will be able to deposit into Hourglass vaults to maximize the amount of points they earn from, both, Hemi and the asset-issuer. Hourglass will also offer a specialized RFQ marketplace that connects protocols with market makers who can price these time-sensitive assets accurately.","This work addresses a key challenge in decentralized finance - providing liquidity for tokens that can't be pooled in traditional automated market makers. The Hourglass RFQ system settles transactions through Seaport and can be accessed via the Hourglass SDK.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-hourglass-begin-collaboration-on-time-bound-token-markets"},"/blog/hemi-exsat-network-and-kiki-finance-join-to-expand-defi-possibilities":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi, exSat Network, and KiKi Finance Join to Expand DeFi Possibilities - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi, exSat Network, and KiKi Finance Join to Expand DeFi Possibilities"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 27, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Kiki","The goal of the collaboration is to expand BTCFi capabilities.","TL;DR: Hemi, exSat Network, and KiKi Finance are collaborating to enhance the BTCFi ecosystem. Users can mint iBTC through KiKi Finance on exSat, bridge it to Hemi via Free Protocol, and deploy it across Hemi’s dApps. The collaboration provides boosted Hemi Points, continued XSAT rewards, and expanded opportunities for BTC utility in DeFi.","Hemi has joined exSat Network and KiKi Finance to strengthen the BTCFi ecosystem. This collaboration allows users to mint iBTC on KiKi Finance, a decentralized staking protocol that aggregates multiple chains, enabling users to manage their assets through private keys for maximum security.","Through a combination of staking and farming (Staking+Farm), KiKi Finance offers higher returns compared to traditional staking. Once users mint iBTC on KiKi Finance via the exSat Network, they can bridge it to Hemi using Free Protocol and deploy the token across Hemi’s ecosystem of decentralized applications (dApps). These include decentralized exchanges (DEXs), lending platforms, perpetual DEXs, and restaking protocols.","Hemi and exSat share a mission of advancing Bitcoin’s utility in decentralized finance. By combining Hemi’s Layer 2 protocol, which bridges Bitcoin and Ethereum, with exSat’s innovative Data Consensus Extension Protocol, the integration tackles Bitcoin's limitations in scalability and interoperability. exSat’s protocol merges Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS), enhancing Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism, scalability, and security while enabling integration within the broader ecosystem.","This integration offers significant benefits for users. iBTC holders on Hemi can earn boosted Hemi Points, gaining enhanced rewards, while also continuing to receive XSAT rewards on exSat. Additionally, exSat serves as a docking layer for Bitcoin, enabling the network to address fundamental limitations while facilitating new liquidity pathways and fostering deeper engagement with decentralized finance.","The combined efforts of Hemi, exSat, and KiKi Finance create a more interconnected BTCFi ecosystem, maximizing asset utility while maintaining robust security and user control.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-exsat-network-and-kiki-finance-join-to-expand-defi-possibilities"},"/blog/read-reflexivitys-report-on-hemi-and-the-state-of-layer-2s":{"version":1,"title":"Read Reflexivity's Report on Hemi and the State of Layer 2s - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Read Reflexivity's Report on Hemi and the State of Layer 2s"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 27, 2025","Hemi","Reflexivity","Reports","Reflexivity Research explores Hemi potential in this detailed report.","Hemi OverviewDownload","Reflexivity Research recently completed a deep dive into Hemi and the state of modern L2s. Their report, available above, is a thorough examination of Hemi's strengths and gives us an independent and extremely readable look at the tech, tokenomics, and potential.","If you've been looking for an other view of the Hemi ecosystem, check it out on Reflexivity's own site or via their X account.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/read-reflexivitys-report-on-hemi-and-the-state-of-layer-2s"},"/blog/when-worlds-collide-the-future-of-cross-chain-defi":{"version":1,"title":"When Worlds Collide: The Future of Cross-chain DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["When Worlds Collide: The Future of Cross-chain DeFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 27, 2025","AMA","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi Partner Ama","Layerbank","Layerzero","Video","“This isn’t about one platform winning; it’s about the entire ecosystem growing together.”","The recent Hemi Partner AMA panel discussion brought together thought leaders to unpack the evolving landscape of Bitcoin in decentralized finance (DeFi). The conversation revolved around the expanding role of Bitcoin within DeFi, technical and cultural challenges, and the groundbreaking interoperability efforts reshaping the ecosystem.","This episode we spoke to Sharon Yoo from LayerBank, Kenny Z from LayerZero, and our own Max Sanchez. The panel emphasized how Bitcoin, traditionally viewed as a “hold-only” asset, is finally finding utility in DeFi. Platforms like Hemi are enabling Bitcoin holders to earn yield while maintaining security and usability. This shift is unlocking new potential for one of the largest crypto assets in the world, transforming it from a static store of value into a dynamic financial instrument. Several challenges remain for Bitcoin’s broader adoption in DeFi. Custodianship risk is a major barrier, particularly for a community that values decentralization and self-custody. Participants noted the importance of building trust and ensuring that tokenized Bitcoin is fully backed and easily redeemable. Liquidity also plays a key role. Institutional markets require deep liquidity pools, and creating cross-chain interoperable ecosystems can help address this.","Platforms like Hemi, Layer Zero, and Layer Bank are collaborating to bridge these gaps by integrating cross-chain messaging, lending, and borrowing solutions to drive capital efficiency. The discussion highlighted the transformative potential of interoperability. Hemi provides a secure way to tokenize Bitcoin as an ERC-20 asset, while Layer Zero enables seamless cross-chain transfers. Layer Bank complements this ecosystem by offering cross-chain lending and universal liquidity hubs. Together, these platforms are reducing fragmentation and creating a cohesive environment where users can access liquidity and competitive yields across chains.","The future of Bitcoin in DeFi looks promising but requires continued innovation. Addressing technical hurdles, enhancing user experience, and fostering trust are all critical. With collaborations like Hemi, LayerZero, and LayerBank leading the charge, the vision of a fully interoperable and inclusive DeFi ecosystem centered around Bitcoin is becoming a reality. Bitcoin’s evolution in DeFi is just beginning.","By solving liquidity, custodianship, and interoperability challenges, the industry is poised to unlock new opportunities for retail and institutional participants alike.","View all","Midweek With Max","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/when-worlds-collide-the-future-of-cross-chain-defi"},"/blog/hemi-and-oooo-will-collaborate-to-simplify-cross-chain-interactions":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and oooo Will Collaborate to Simplify Cross-Chain Interactions - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and oooo Will Collaborate to Simplify Cross-Chain Interactions"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 28, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Oooo","Hemi and oooo will work with a new technology, AI Omninet.","TL;DR:","Hemi and oooo have teamed up to integrate AI Omninet technology into the Hemi ecosystem, simplifying blockchain interactions and addressing cross-chain fragmentation. This collaboration enhances interoperability, usability, and efficiency in blockchain ecosystems, making Web3 more accessible and seamless.","Hemi has announced a collaboration with oooo, a company dedicated to simplifying blockchain interactions. This brings oooo’s AI Omninet technology to the Hemi ecosystem, addressing the complexities of cross-chain fragmentation and enhancing how users interact with decentralized platforms.","Blockchain fragmentation has long created challenges for everyday users, complicating asset management and trading decisions. By integrating AI Omninet, oooo offers a solution that automates and optimizes cross-chain processes, ensuring a more intuitive and seamless user experience.","Oooo’s AI Omninet operates as an intelligent system that simplifies blockchain interactions. Through advanced algorithms, it predicts and optimizes paths for transactions, resource management, and cross-chain interactions. This automation eliminates the need for technical expertise, creating a smoother experience for users. By integrating AI Omninet into Hemi’s modular protocol, the two companies aim to deliver a faster, more secure, and highly efficient blockchain ecosystem.","This collaboration underscores Hemi’s commitment to advancing interoperability in blockchain while maintaining a focus on usability and efficiency. Together with oooo, Hemi is setting the stage for a new standard in decentralized ecosystems, making Web3 accessible to all users without the traditional hurdles of complexity.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-oooo-will-collaborate-to-simplify-cross-chain-interactions"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-january-28-2025":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for January 28, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for January 28, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 30, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Mainnet is fast approaching.","This week’s Midweek with Max covered major updates as Hemi moves rapidly toward mainnet launch. The engineering team is focused on infrastructure improvements, security audits, and final testing of the BTC Tunnel, which will soon be live on testnet. The team is also working closely with partners to ensure a strong ecosystem from day one.","On the marketing front, Hemi has ramped up collaboration announcements, now releasing updates nearly daily. Recent partnerships, including a three-way integration with exSAT and KiKi, highlight ongoing efforts to expand network capabilities.","The team also hosted its first partner AMA and released a Reflexivity Research Report, providing a comprehensive overview of Hemi for the broader crypto community. During the Q&A, the team addressed key topics, including the timeline for mainnet, expected TGE timing, and the role of ETH as the initial gas token until the Hemi network token is introduced.","Discussions also touched on improvements to the RPC, gas fee optimizations, and the evolving points system. The team confirmed that incentives for testnet and mainnet will be allocated separately, with rewards reflecting actual engagement and contributions. There were also updates on infrastructure scaling, including plans for decentralized RPC nodes and the transition to a decentralized sequencer.","With mainnet just weeks away, Hemi is finalizing key elements to ensure a smooth launch. Stay tuned for further announcements, and as always, join the conversation on Discord and X.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-january-28-2025"},"/blog/making-bitcoin-and-defi-compatible":{"version":1,"title":"Making Bitcoin and DeFi Compatible - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Making Bitcoin and DeFi Compatible"],"h2":["How Bitcoin Moves Across Networks","The Hemi Difference","Reduce Risk With Hemi","A Tunnel To Scalability","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 31, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Defi","Ethereum","Hemi","How to connect the King of Crypto to the best of DeFi.","Bitcoin's design prioritizes security and decentralization through limited operational complexity. While this has helped it become a store of value, these restrictions create integration challenges with DeFi platforms. The business opportunity lies in developing solutions to unlock Bitcoin's significant liquidity for DeFi applications, particularly by bridging the gap between Bitcoin and EVM-compatible networks.","In crypto, one way to move a currency to another chain is to “wrap” it. Typically, a central party takes custody of the assets to be wrapped and issues the wrapped version on the desired blockchain network.","Transporting Bitcoin across chains begins in the application layer, when a user interacts with a client interface, initiating with a DeFi protocol of choice with their Bitcoin wallet. The user signs a transaction to initiate the conversion process, and as assets pass through the traditional bridge layer, they are converted to the standardized tokens that all subsequent DeFi interactions utilize.","Here are some examples of these tokens:","Redeemable Tokens - These can be redeemed on a 1:1 basis for the underlying asset, held in a pool by a custodian or protocol. Once the custodian or protocol locks the original asset, a holder of the wrapped asset may burn their wrapped versions to initiate redemption.","Synthetic Wrapped Tokens - A token that is managed via collateralized methods or derivatives. This method relies on oracles and price feeds, as well as over-collateralization to maintain a 1:1 peg.","Non-Redeemable Pegged Tokens - These assets are denominated in one currency but fixed to the value of another via supply and demand mechanics, often supported by collateral and algorithms. Though not directly related to the underlying asset to which they are pegged, they follow its price.","Fractionalized Wrapped Tokens - A token that represents a fraction of ownership of a larger locked asset. Assets are tokenized and divided into smaller pieces, represented by fractional tokens of the original.","Cross-Chain Representations - In this case, a token is locked on one blockchain while the bridge issues a facsimile on the other blockchain, either via a custody model or through a validator-driven protocol.","Whichever method a user opts for, after the conversion process, in the Protocol Layer,  the Bitcoin is free to be used across the DeFi ecosystem, trading, forming liquidity pools, lending, or optimizing rewards via a yield aggregator.An Infrastructure Layer composed of Oracles that feed price data, as well as Layer 2 networks and sidechains that offer execution environments supports the various platforms in the Protocol Layer. In a Base Layer, those execution environments rely on Bitcoin for ultimate settlement","This process suffices to move Bitcoin across chains and have helped to demonstrate the viability of Bitcoin outside the context of holding it onchain as a store of value. However, Hemi has an innovative method that more closely aligns with the decentralized ethos of Bitcoin.","Hemi, on the other hand, has an entirely new method for managing cross-chain traversal. It takes an entirely different – and more secure – approach with its sovereign tunnel. By integrating a full Bitcoin node on the hVM, Hemi becomes a connector between Bitcoin and EVM states without requiring a third party to handle custody or external validators. The integration allows Bitcoin to remain natively secure and function with trustless interaction within the hVM DeFi ecosystem. With this approach, Hemi minimizes attack vectors, maintaining decentralized, smart-contract-driven execution.The dynamic ecosystem of Hemi incorporates a Data Layer in which a PostgreSQL, an open-source relational database, houses data storage accessible to all components. This method delivers efficient cross-component data communication and maintains consistency.The Network Nodes act as a dual network integration, feature integrations with Bitcoin and Ethereum, creating a seamless connection for both ecosystems. The nodes are interconnected with a scalable Optimistic Rollup Layer responsible for sequencing transactions, efficient transaction batching, proposing blocks, and executing transactions. Keeping pace with all onchain operations within the rollup is a Gas Optimization Layer that incorporates predictive analysis to ensure low gas fees.","The DeFi Protocol Layer is designed to work seamlessly with Hemi's infrastructure layers to provide low cost swaps, efficient cross-chain operations, capital efficiency for liquidity, AI-driven improvements, and a scalable architecture. Liquidity pools reduce gas costs through batched transactions, optimize pricing with AI oracles, and efficiently execute trades. Cross-chain tunnels batch transfers, with help from AI Oracles to achieve precise timing, and leverage the rollup layer for rapid initial finality. A Low-Fee DEX implements features such as AI-powered price discovery, gas optimized trade execution, and batch processing of trades for fast, low-cost settlement.","With all these components acting as gears in Hemi’s engine, for a user the experience is simplified allowing them to interact with DeFi protocols with a single interface while cross-chain operations are handled behind the scenes, instead of taking the added step of wrapping Bitcoin through a potentially unstable bridge.","Of the explored methods that transfer Bitcoin across chains, only Hemi's dynamic ecosystem featuring sovereign tunnels achieves it without compromising decentralization or trustlessness. Traditional wrapping methods – including redeemable tokens, BitGo's Wrapped BTC (WBTC), or cross-chain representations like Wormhole BTC – rely on intermediaries as custodians or a validator-driven protocol to lock Bitcoin and issue facsimile tokens onto other networks. These methods may have initially enabled limited DeFi interactions for Bitcoin holders but compromise the core principles that make Bitcoin valuable: decentralization, transparency, and security.","For instance, WBTC requires a central custodian, BitGo, to hold and maintain Bitcoin reserves. Users must trust BitGo to maintain the integrity of the reserve and honor redemption requests. Other cross-chain methods that use validators to lock and manage issuance are more decentralized than a custodial protocol but introduce potential vulnerabilities related to the limited size of validator pools and their governance. These vulnerabilities leave openings for exploitation, like the $325 million 2022 Wormhole Bridge attack.","Hemi's asset tunnels eliminate risks commonly associated with wrapped asset bridges:","Custodial risks - With no centralized entity holding Bitcoin reserves, users no longer rely on the competence, honesty, or dependability of a third party. This helps mitigate the possibility of fraud, regulatory seizure, or reserve mismanagement, issues inherent to cross-chain wrapping approaches.","Transparency - Each transaction and asset lock remains verifiable on-chain, giving users total transparency and the power to perform audits. Where validator-driven bridges may employ off-chain operations that muddle clarity, Hemi's on-chain operations can be fully analyzed.","Censorship Resistance - Without central control, asset transfers through tunnels to Hemi remain censorship-resistant, aligning with the ethos of accessibility that resonates with Bitcoin's founding principles.","Hemi's Sovereign Tunnel - On Hemi, the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) facilitates seamless interaction between Bitcoin and Ethereum states by integrating a full Bitcoin node within an EVM-like environment. As the network maintains protocol-level awareness for both Bitcoin and Ethereum, it enables the movement of assets between chains within this environment. Developers can leverage the Hemi Bitcoin Kit to create Bitcoin-aware, EVM-compatible applications with smart contract interactions that natively comprehend Bitcoin's state.","By solving for trust-minimized and secure methods to transfer Bitcoin across networks, Hemi's sovereign tunnel provides advantages in scalability and efficiency through reduced intermediary reliance. The streamlined interoperability of hVM transactions allows Bitcoin to participate in Ethereum-based DeFi applications on Hemi, enabling activities like borrowing, lending, and participating in liquidity pools.","By preserving the decentralized approach to cross-chain asset transfers, Hemi maintains Bitcoin's principles while unlocking its potential to interact with other networks in a seamless, trust-minimized, scalable way. For developers and users seeking to use their Bitcoin and integrate it with broader DeFi applications, Hemi provides a solution aligned with the values of decentralization and cross-chain functionality.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/making-bitcoin-and-defi-compatible"},"/blog/details-on-the-hemi-validator-passport-node-license-sale":{"version":1,"title":"Details on the Hemi “Validator Passport” Node License Sale - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Details on the Hemi “Validator Passport” Node License Sale"],"h2":["Why Validator Passports?","Sale Details","Eligibility","Sale Dates and Structure","Validator Passport Limits","Hemi Testnet User Campaign: How to Be Whitelisted","Validator Passport Node Operation Rewards","How to Run a Validator Passport Node","Validator Passport Transferability","For More Information","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 30, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Impossible Finance","License","More details on our node license sale.","(Ed. note 2025-01-31-1630UTC -- The total number of nodes available for sale was listed as 22,000 when this was originally published. This has been corrected to 24,200.)","(Ed. note 2025-02-03-1130UTC -- Additional details added regarding whitelisting and discounts in the Eligibility section.)","(Ed. note 2025-02-05-1800UTC — Revised to reflect open-ended date for private/whitelist sale and postponement of public sale.)","TL;DR:","Hemi is launching a node license sale to support the decentralization and scalability of its network. Participants can purchase Validator Passports, which serve as licenses to operate nodes, earning rewards while securing the network. The sale will take place via Impossible Finance at https://passport.hemiproduction.wpengine.com/, with early access available to testnet users who have performed Proof-of-Humanity authentication via Demos OnlyMeID.","A whitelist sale for verified testnet users starts February 3, 2025. Participants must complete KYC to finalize their purchases. Validator Passports will become transferable one year after purchase. New date of public sale to-be-announced.","—-","As we noted earlier this week, Hemi is launching a node license sale to accelerate the growth of its network. This sale enables participants to run network nodes and earn rewards while contributing to the decentralization and scalability of the Hemi network.","The sale will take place via Impossible Finance at https://passport.hemiproduction.wpengine.com/, and all testnet users who have minted a Demos OnlyMeID will be eligible to participate in the early-access whitelist sale. Validator Passports serve as your license to operate a node.","Validator Passports serve as your license to operate a node. Validator Passport holders play a key role in decentralizing Hemi’s infrastructure while earning rewards for running nodes that contribute to network security and scalability. In the initial phase, participants will operate a decentralized RPC cloud of nodes that provide scalable, resilient infrastructure for users and developers interacting with Hemi.","Once Hemi’s decentralized sequencing protocol launches later in 2025, Validator Passport holders will transition to sequencing transactions. This ensures stronger anti-censorship guarantees compared to centralized sequencers used in other layer-2 networks. It also introduces an extra layer of intermediate consensus security before achieving full Bitcoin-level security (Superfinality) through Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus.","A total of 24,200 Validator Passports will be available between the whitelist and public sale in three tiers, each offering different benefits, reward opportunities, and distribution schedules:","Pathfinder","Validator Passports Available: 1,100","Price Per Validator Passport: $500 USD","Rewards Unlocked at TGE: 10% upon successful setup and operation of the node","Reward Distribution Schedule: Evenly distributed over 48 months upon continued successful operation of the node","Bonus Rewards (upon successful operation of the node):","Upon successful decentralization of the sequencer (estimated Q3 2025):","10% of sequencing base fees collected by the protocol to start (capped at 2x the Validator Passport purchase price)","All of sequencing tip rewards for transactions the validator incorporates into blocks they sequence (capped according to the tier’s reward distribution schedule)","Voyager","Validator Passports Available: 3,300","Price Per Validator Passport: $620 USD","Rewards Unlocked at TGE: 20% upon successful setup and operation of the node","Reward Distribution Schedule: Evenly distributed over 24 months upon continued successful operation of the node","8% of sequencing base fees collected by the protocol to start (capped at 1x the Validator Passport purchase price)","Explorer","Validator Passports Available: 19,800","Price Per Validator Passport: $750 USD","Rewards Unlocked at TGE: 30% upon successful setup and operation of the node","Reward Distribution Schedule: Evenly distributed over 12 months upon continued successful operation of the node","Hemi will sell Validator Passports in USDC on Arbitrum, and buyers will receive an NFT as proof of ownership for the Validator Passport License. One year after purchase, Validator Passport holders can transfer their Validator Passports freely.","The private whitelist Validator Passport sale will go live on Feb. 3, 2025, 2:00p.m. UTC at https://passport.hemiproduction.wpengine.com.","Everyone who minted a Demos OnlyMeID before January 29th 2025 at 23:59:59 UTC is whitelisted to participate in this private sale.","Note that, when claiming your Validator Passport, you will need to complete KYC, and there is a list of restricted countries/jurisdictions which will not be able to complete this claim process: United States, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk or any other state, country or region that is subject to sanctions enforced by the United States.","Users who own a Hemi Hatchling (Air, Earth, Water, or Fire) will be eligible for an extra 5% discount, and users who interacted with Hemi before September 9th 2024 (either sending a Hemi testnet transaction or performing PoP Mining) will be eligible for an extra 3% discount. These discounts stack, meaning a Hemi Hatchling owner who interacted with Hemi before September 9, 2024, will get an 18% discount.","To check your whitelist and discount status, you can lookup your address on https://whitelist.hemiproduction.wpengine.com/.","Participants will have to successfully clear KYC before receiving their purchased Validator Passports. No refunds will be provided if the purchaser cannot pass KYC.","The following are on a first-come, first-served basis:","Private Whitelist Sale: February 3, 2025, 2:00 PM UTC until February 6, 2025, 2:00 PM UTC","Public Sale: As of February 5, 2025, the start of the public sale is TBA due to market conditions February 10, 2025, 2:00 PM UTC until February 13, 2025, 2:00 PM UTC","Mainnet Launch: Q1 2025","For both the private whitelist and public sales the following node limits will apply:","Tier","First 6 Hours of Private SaleFirst 16 Hours of Public Sale","After 6 Hours of Private SaleAfter 16 Hours of Public Sale","10","100","30","300","180","1,800","Participants in both rounds can purchase up to these limits in each sale independently.","Hemi has always prioritized building an engaged and authentic community, and this approach extends to the Validator Passport sale. By ensuring that only verified users can participate, the goal is to create a fair and inclusive process that rewards those who have actively contributed to the ecosystem. Many of these verified users have played a key role in Hemi’s growth—not just by testing the network, but also by fostering discussions in Discord, sharing insights on social media, and helping onboard new participants. Their ongoing engagement has strengthened the community and shaped the direction of the project.","All approximately 83,000 Hemi testnet users who have demonstrated Proof-of-Humanity by minting an OnlyMeID on Demos before January 29th, 2025, at 23:59 UTC will be whitelisted for participation in the private/whitelist sale (note: eligibility requirements still apply). All whitelisted users will be eligible for a 10% discount.","Testnet users will also be eligible for up to an additional 8% discount (18% total) for meeting certain criteria. Details on qualifying for this additional discount will be provided in the coming days.","Users who qualify for the additional discount will see a dedicated sale card on the sale website displaying the full 18% discounted price.","Holders of Validator Passport licenses will receive a portion of their total token rewards upon token launch, ranging from 10-30% of their total Passport lifetime value, for setting up their node. The remaining rewards will be distributed over the 12-48-month lifespan of the license, contingent on continued operation and maintenance.","Additionally, Voyager and Pathfinder tiers will receive a portion of the protocol’s base fee revenue up to a specified limit, upon successful continued operation of the node. All nodes will collect transaction tips from the transactions they sequence.","Hemi will release more details regarding the required installation packages and server hardware requirement in the coming week.","Up to 100 Validator Passports can be staked to one validator node in operation. This limit may be increased once decentralized sequencing is live.","Hemi is working with third-party validators to reduce the frictions to operate the node and will provide a list of third-party validators in the coming weeks.","One year after purchase, license holders will have the option to transfer their Validator Passport freely.","Follow @hemi_xyz and @impossiblefi on X for further details and updates. The sale will take place at https://passport.hemiproduction.wpengine.com/.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/details-on-the-hemi-validator-passport-node-license-sale"},"/blog/what-is-a-redeemable-token":{"version":1,"title":"What Is a Redeemable Token? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is a Redeemable Token?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 1, 2025","Definitions","Learn Center","Redeemable Token","A redeemable token represents a real asset.","A redeemable token is a type of digital asset that can be traded later for a specific item, service, or currency. These tokens are typically tied to a real or digital asset, which gives them measurable value.","They are commonly used in token sales and ICOs to offer some assurance to investors. By linking tokens to a defined form of value, projects aim to build trust and attract more participants. A redeemable token is akin to a coupon that gives the bearer access to a real asset at will.","When a holder wants to redeem their tokens, they can do so through a platform or exchange that supports that function. The process converts the token into whatever asset or service was originally promised.","Redeemable tokens offer a straightforward way for people to turn digital assets into something more useful or more valuable. This makes them appealing to both investors and developers working in crypto.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-redeemable-token"},"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-stable-jack-to-power-the-future-of-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Collaborates with Stable Jack to Power the Future of DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Collaborates with Stable Jack to Power the Future of DeFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 31, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Stable Jack","Hemi will integrate with Stable Jack v2.","TL;DR:","Hemi has announced a collaboration with Stable Jack to enhance its upcoming Stable Jack v2 product, leveraging Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof technology to boost scalability and interoperability. This partnership aims to set new standards in DeFi, delivering a secure, efficient, and interconnected ecosystem.","Hemi has announced a collaboration with StableJack as part of its mission to build a more interconnected and scalable blockchain ecosystem.","Hemi focuses on creating infrastructure that bridges Bitcoin and Ethereum, unlocking new possibilities for decentralized finance (DeFi). Collaborating with StableJack, a leader in DeFi solutions, aligns with Hemi’s vision of enabling seamless interoperability across networks.","All Hemi users gain native access to Stable Jack v2’s suite of yield products, which includes fixed yield options such as new LSTs, LRTs, yield-bearing stablecoins, LP tokens, RWAs, and vaults. Leveraged yield strategies provide a safer trading experience by eliminating liquidation risk and protecting users from short-term price volatility and scam wicks. Protected points farming allows users to gain leveraged points exposure without risking their principal. Additionally, expert-managed curated trading pairs democratize trading strategies, giving users access to opportunities for above-market yields that were previously restricted.","Stable Jack has demonstrated a commitment to advancing the DeFi landscape with security, reliability, and user empowerment. By integrating Hemi’s “Proof-of-Proof” mechanism and supernetwork capabilities, this collaboration aims to enhance the scalability and efficiency of Stable Jack v2, setting a new standard for DeFi protocols.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-stable-jack-to-power-the-future-of-defi"},"/blog/hemi-network-and-zerolend-join-to-bring-btc-lending-to-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Network and ZeroLend Join to Bring BTC Lending to Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Network and ZeroLend Join to Bring BTC Lending to Hemi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 5, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Defi","Ethereum","Hemi","Zerolend","Hemi gains BTC lending through ZeroLend.","TL;DR:","Hemi is working with ZeroLend, a leading lending protocol supporting BTC LRTs to expand DeFi opportunities on Hemi.","Hemi Network has announced its collaboration with ZeroLend, a lending platform that unlocks new financial possibilities for Bitcoin holders through Bitcoin Liquidity Representation Tokens (BTC LRTs). With ZeroLend’s integration, Hemi users will be able to access a wide range of BTC LRTs such as eBTC, while retaining the staking and reward benefits associated with their Bitcoin holdings. This is a major step forward in expanding the DeFi landscape on Hemi and making Bitcoin liquidity more accessible across decentralized applications.","ZeroLend’s BTC LRT market offers supply and borrowing options, with transparent data on supply APYs, borrow APYs, and total liquidity. Additionally, users can leverage advanced strategies, including compounding yields and leveraging up to 10x for increased BTC rewards and protocol incentives. By offering real-time access to these capabilities, ZeroLend brings a layer of flexibility and opportunity to the Hemi ecosystem.","By bringing ZeroLend’s lending and borrowing protocol to Hemi, BTC holders gain access to a seamless and secure platform for optimizing their assets. This collaboration strengthens Hemi’s lending and borrowing ecosystem with reliable liquidity and advanced strategies for BTC DeFi.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-network-and-zerolend-join-to-bring-btc-lending-to-hemi"},"/blog/hemi-and-echo-collaborate-to-build-a-unified-bitcoin-solution":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Echo Collaborate to Build a Unified Bitcoin Solution - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Echo Collaborate to Build a Unified Bitcoin Solution"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 6, 2025","Echo and Hemi will enhance BTC liquidity, staking, and yield.","TL;DR:","Hemi and Echo are collaborating to enhance BTC liquidity, staking, and yield. Echo will mint a unified BTC asset on Hemi, integrate BTC LST infrastructure, and expand yield opportunities, strengthening Bitcoin’s role in DeFi.","Hemi is collaborating with Echo, a protocol specializing in BTC liquidity, liquid staking, and yield infrastructure. As the leading BTC Liquid Staking Token (LST) player in the Move ecosystem, Echo has demonstrated its ability to drive liquidity and innovation across multiple blockchain ecosystems.","Echo will mint a unified BTC asset on Hemi, enabling seamless interoperability and liquidity for Bitcoin across the Hemi ecosystem. This native BTC asset will empower DeFi protocols, applications, and users to leverage Bitcoin’s security and liquidity without traditional barriers.","Echo’s infrastructure for BTC LSTs will integrate with Hemi’s newly built systems, offering developers liquidity for their applications. With Echo, BTC LSTs such as aBTC will become a key building block for the Hemi DeFi landscape.","BTC holders on Hemi will also gain access to amplified yield opportunities through Echo’s solutions.","This collaboration represents a significant milestone for both Hemi and Echo, as we combine our expertise to drive Bitcoin adoption and innovation within DeFi.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-echo-collaborate-to-build-a-unified-bitcoin-solution"},"/blog/hemi-expands-defi-accessibility-with-kelps-gain-vault":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Expands DeFi Accessibility with Kelp's GAIN Vault - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Expands DeFi Accessibility with Kelp's GAIN Vault"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 3, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi is expanding into Kelp's GAIN Vault.","TL;DR:","Hemi is partnering with Kelp DAO. Users can join Hemi's ecosystem by depositing rsETH into Kelp's GAIN vault. This makes it easier and cheaper to earn Hemi points before the mainnet launch.","Hemi has announced it is working with Kelp DAO, expanding accessibility to Hemi's ecosystem through their GAIN vault.","This represents a significant step in Hemi’s mission to make DeFi more accessible and efficient for users worldwide. And you thought that we just organized great brunches together.","The DeFi landscape often presents technical barriers that can deter wider participation — a challenge that this integration addresses head-on. Kelp's GAIN vault provides an entry point for users looking to participate in Hemi's ecosystem during the Hemi pre-mainnet phase.","Users can now participate in Hemi point farming by simply depositing their rsETH into Kelp's Airdrop Gain vault. This process eliminates common friction points for end users like complex bridging operations, multiple transaction approvals, high gas costs from individual transactions, and technical knowledge requirements.","The vault's architecture automatically handles the process of bridging and position management, making Hemi point farming accessible to a broader audience.","Through this integration, participants can enjoy several unique advantages:","Optimized Gas Efficiency: Instead of executing multiple cross-chain transactions individually, users benefit from Kelp's batched bridging mechanism, significantly reducing gas costs.","Capital Efficiency: Users receive agETH (Airdrop Gain vault receipt token) upon deposit, which can be utilized in various DeFi protocols while simultaneously farming Hemi points.","Professional Management: The vault's automated rebalancing ensures optimal point accumulation without requiring constant user monitoring or manual adjustments.","This collaboration with Kelp aligns with Hemi's vision of creating a more inclusive and efficient DeFi ecosystem. By leveraging Kelp's infrastructure, Hemi will provide its community with a secure and optimized way to participate in Hemi's growth journey before public mainnet launch.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-expands-defi-accessibility-with-kelps-gain-vault"},"/blog/hemi-and-mint-park-to-bring-nfts-to-bitcoins-layer-2":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Mint Park to Bring NFTs to Bitcoin’s Layer 2 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Mint Park to Bring NFTs to Bitcoin’s Layer 2"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 10, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Nft","Mint Park is bringing NFT trading to Hemi.","TL;DR:","Hemi and Mint Park are teaming up to enable Bitcoin/Ethereum NFT trading. Mint Park locks ordinals on Bitcoin, minting NFTs on L2s for better interoperability. Hemi will boost adoption with point incentives, strengthening Bitcoin’s role in the NFT ecosystem/space.","Hemi and Mint Park are collaborating to expand the Bitcoin Layer 2 NFT ecosystem. Mint Park is integrating its NFT marketplace with Hemi, allowing users to create, buy, sell, and trade NFTs within Hemi.","By launching on Hemi, Mint Park aims to establish itself as the premier NFT marketplace for Bitcoin L2s — enhancing interoperability and enabling cross-chain transactions. Mint Park users on Hemi can purchase NFTs issued on other Bitcoin L2s, while creators can reach broader audiences across these networks.","Additionally, Mint Park plans to lock ordinals on the Bitcoin blockchain and mint corresponding NFTs on Hemi. To encourage adoption, Hemi will provide point incentives to Mint Park users within its ecosystem.","This integration reinforces Hemi’s role in scaling Bitcoin through modular interoperability while ensuring that Bitcoin remains at the core of the evolving NFT landscape. Users on Hemi will also be able to take advantage of an NFT ecosystem early in the mainnet lifecycle — creating a space for NFT enthusiasts coming from other L2 networks and Bitcoin natives.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-mint-park-to-bring-nfts-to-bitcoins-layer-2"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-february-4-2025":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for February 4, 2025  - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for February 4, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 6, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","This episode was shorter but full of content.","This week’s Midweek with Max was a shorter-than-usual session, but it still packed in plenty of updates and insights. If you missed it, here’s a quick rundown of what went down. Engineering and Node Sale Updates Max provided an update on the engineering front, mentioning that final touches are being added to the mainnet deployment. A major protocol upgrade is in the works, and significant progress has been made in onboarding partners for launch day.","The discussion largely focused on node sale mechanics, including clarifications about the base sequencer fees for Voyager and Pathfinder nodes. The Pathfinders, consisting of 1,100 nodes, will share 10% of base revenue over a four-year activation period, or until they reach twice their original purchase price. The Voyagers will have a one-time return cap and operate under a 24-month schedule. Ongoing efforts are being made to address usability issues and communicate details more clearly. The team also acknowledged challenges with scheduling around Chinese New Year, which impacted partner communications and required a reevaluation of the node sale strategy.","Phil took over to discuss the latest in partnerships and upcoming industry events. The team has been announcing new collaborations at a rapid pace and is preparing for major conferences. Consensus Hong Kong is the first major stop, followed by ETH Denver. Concurrently, on the East Coast, the team will participate in Anthony Pompliano’s Bitcoin Conference. These events all lead up to Bitcoin 2025, which is shaping up to be their largest yet. The business development team is aggressively working on setting up key engagements at these events.","A handful of questions were tackled during the session, with additional queries to be addressed in Friday’s full discussion. No further discounts beyond the current 10-18% tiers will be offered, including for VCs and key opinion leaders. While third-party hosting solutions are being explored, node operators are encouraged to self-host to support decentralization. The initial authorized token supply is 10 billion, with emissions between 3-7% annually to support security and network incentives. A formal update on transparency in tokenomics will be released after the private node sale round but before the public sale begins.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-february-4-2025"},"/blog/ama-the-reality-of-blockchain-security-with-max-sanchez":{"version":1,"title":"AMA: The Reality of Blockchain Security with Max Sanchez - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["AMA: The Reality of Blockchain Security with Max Sanchez"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 6, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Quantstamp","Max joins teams from Impossible Finance and Quantstamp to talk about the state of blockchain security.","In this deep dive into blockchain security our own CEO Max Sanchez joined leaders from Quantstamp and Impossible Finance to discuss the biggest issues facing blockchain developers today. We explore the evolving security landscape of Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains, the challenges of decentralization, and the role of interoperability in shaping the next generation of crypto infrastructure. Max shared his journey from early Bitcoin development to the creation of Hemi.","The team from Quantstamp, including CEO Richard Ma, brought their expertise in blockchain auditing to the conversation, emphasizing why security assessments are critical for new protocols. They discussed the challenges developers face when launching on Bitcoin versus Ethereum and explain how proper audits ensure that smart contracts function as intended. The Quantstamp auditor noted that beyond security, audits also confirm whether a protocol’s code actually aligns with the team’s intended functionality, an often-overlooked but crucial aspect of blockchain development.","Calvin Chu from Impossible Finance offered the perspective of an accelerator and investor, pointing out the importance of bridging different blockchain communities. He noted that historically, Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems have remained separate, often at odds with one another. The conversation touched on the unique trade-offs in blockchain security. Proof-of-Stake networks offer efficiency but face risks like long-range attacks and weak subjectivity. Hemi's Proof-of-Proof mitigates these vulnerabilities by anchoring consensus to Bitcoin’s proof-of-work system.","The panel discussed how this approach could improve the security of Layer 2 solutions and create a more robust foundation for the future of decentralized applications. With security remaining a top priority for the crypto industry, this AMA offered insights into the cutting-edge solutions shaping the next generation of decentralized technology. Whether you’re a developer, investor, or just interested in the future of blockchain, this conversation provides valuable perspectives on where the space is heading.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/ama-the-reality-of-blockchain-security-with-max-sanchez"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-february-7-2025":{"version":1,"title":"(Late) Midweek With Max for February 7, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["(Late) Midweek With Max for February 7, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 11, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","Video","More on the node sale and Mainnet plans.","This week's special edition of Midweek with Max, or rather, Late Week with Max, covered a wide range of updates and community questions. Due to scheduling conflicts and back-to-back AMAs, this session provided an in-depth look into the latest progress on the Hemi network, including node sale updates and the timeline for Mainnet launch.","Max kicked off the discussion with an overview of the ongoing engineering efforts focused on infrastructure scalability and the final HVM upgrade. These developments are key steps toward mainnet readiness. While there has been speculation about whether mainnet is already live due to sightings on platforms like Stargate and Sushi, Max clarified that mainnet is currently private. Partners have been onboarding in preparation for the public launch, ensuring a seamless experience for users when the network officially opens.","A significant portion of the discussion revolved around the node sale and its impact on network decentralization. Max explained the rationale behind different node tiers and their respective emissions schedules. Additionally, the team addressed concerns about full dilution value (FDV) calculations, token unlock schedules, and the economic incentives for node operators. To ease accessibility, the team is working with third-party infrastructure providers, enabling users to run nodes without handling technical setup themselves.","On the topic of mainnet launch, Max emphasized that while the exact date remains fluid due to ongoing technical and ecosystem preparations, the target remains within February. The team aims to announce a firm date within the next couple of weeks. The phased approach to network activation ensures that liquidity, staking opportunities, and dApp integrations are all in place before the full public launch.","Looking ahead, the team is gearing up for major events, including Consensus Hong Kong, ETH Denver, and Bitcoin Investor Week in New York, setting the stage for Hemi’s broader adoption and visibility.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-february-7-2025"},"/blog/the-hemi-incentive-program-fair-sustainable-and-growing-fast":{"version":1,"title":"The Hemi Incentive Program: Fair, Sustainable, and Growing Fast - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["The Hemi Incentive Program: Fair, Sustainable, and Growing Fast"],"h2":["Points Program and the Hemi Mainnet Launch","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 11, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Points","Our points program is still going strong. Here's what you need to know.","Hemi’s points program is raising the bar for participatory rewards, eliminating the farming tactics typical of Web3 launches. By prioritizing resistance to Sybil attacks, Hemi ensures that points reflect actual user engagement — fostering fairness, sustainability, and long-term value.","With Demos-powered biometric verification, Hemi maintains privacy while ensuring all users are authentic individuals. This protects the integrity of the point system, reinforcing the value of participation.","The Testnet results speak volumes:","Over 100,000 individual users have been biometrically verified","Any new task generally sees 20,000 completions in the first 4-6 hours","650,000 unique wallets have engaged the protocol","75% of users participated in at least one referral with over 412,000 referrals","Nearly 5 billion points have been issued, and of those, only 35.7 million stem from external questing platforms.","It is also worth noting that Demos verification is not a KYC technology. Rather, it validates the user’s uniqueness and authenticity without compromising sensitive information. In fact, we have worked hard to ensure that our systems protect your privacy and security at every step.","With the mainnet launch fast approaching, the next phase of the points program will focus on on-chain interactions and task-based incentives. Users are free to interact in the way they want, using any sovereign tunnel of choice, or engage with staking, lending, trading, or liquidity provision on Day One partnered platforms.","The current points dashboard will roll over with the imminent launch of the Mainnet, so keep an eye out for announcements, and subscribe for updates at Hemi.xyz to be among the first in the know.","Looking to launch a platform or protocol on Hemi and join in our network’s organic growth? Get in touch today.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-hemi-incentive-program-fair-sustainable-and-growing-fast"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-february-11-2025":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for February 11, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for February 11, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 12, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","How does Max get his hair so silky? Listen now!","This week's edition of Midweek with Max covered the latest developments in Hemi's path toward Mainnet, infrastructure upgrades, and upcoming incentives. Hemi's community manager, Rick, led the discussion with co-founder Max Sanchez. Batman was absent due to his ongoing efforts to save Gotham, but the session moved forward with key updates on the project.","Max started by addressing the progress on Mainnet. While there hasn’t been a major update since Friday, things continue to move behind the scenes. A Mainnet protocol upgrade took place that morning, and everything went smoothly. The Hemi network daemons for the final release are now running on the private Mainnet. The team is focused on infrastructure testing and deploying necessary components before the public release. Proxyd, which has been active on testnet for two weeks, is providing scalable and reliable RPCs. Some final improvements are being made to transaction propagation, with load testing underway to ensure stability.","Mainnet remains private for now, allowing partners to set up their dApps and infrastructure before the public launch. There are no incentives or points for interacting with Mainnet at this stage, but details about the incentive structure will be announced well in advance. The goal is to avoid last-minute scrambling by ensuring users have time to prepare their assets and strategies before the Mainnet incentives go live.","As expected, questions from the community focused on Mainnet timing, testnet incentives, and upcoming releases. The launch remains on track, and the testnet incentives will conclude shortly before the public Mainnet launch. Once Mainnet is live, the first round of incentives will begin. The token generation event (TGE) is still planned for four to six weeks after the Mainnet release.","The session also covered updates on Hemi Hatchlings NFTs. These will migrate to Mainnet, with users either receiving or claiming their NFTs. There will be at least one NFT marketplace available at or shortly after Mainnet launch, allowing users to trade their hatchlings. Additional plans for these NFTs are in the works, with further announcements expected post-Mainnet.","Infrastructure costs for running a node were another point of discussion. To address concerns, Hemi is working with infrastructure partners who will offer node hosting services at a competitive rate. This will allow users to delegate their node licenses to professional infrastructure providers, reducing operational complexity.","One of the biggest topics was the testnet faucet. Originally intended as a temporary suspension, it will not be returning. The faucet faced significant abuse, with large-scale gaming draining available testnet Bitcoin. Despite multiple security measures, the team had to shift focus to Mainnet preparations. Users were reminded that purchasing testnet tokens is not recommended.","On the PoP mining front, the community requested a leaderboard, which Max agreed would be a useful addition. While not included in the initial points update, the team will explore adding it in the future. The updated pop mining dashboard will provide daily breakdowns of how points are calculated, offering transparency into rewards.","The session ended with a mix of serious and lighthearted moments. Questions ranged from technical concerns to Max’s secret for maintaining silky hair. His answer? Use conditioner and don’t wash it too often. There was also some discussion about caffeine-fueled anxiety, Ghostbusters-themed engineering names, and a failed attempt to get Max to name the worst crypto movie he has ever seen.","You'll have to listen to find out what fine film(s) he named.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-february-11-2025"},"/blog/hemis-initial-tvl-surpasses-265-million-ahead-of-mainnet-launch":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi’s Initial TVL Surpasses $265 Million Ahead of Mainnet Launch - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi’s Initial TVL Surpasses $265 Million Ahead of Mainnet Launch"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 13, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Tvl","Deposits reflect 2,686 BTC and 3,207 ETH","As Mainnet gets ever closer, early TVL deposits hint at what’s in store","Congrats! If you’re here, this means that you are among the first to discover a quiet movement afoot in the Layer-2 arena.","As you can see via the Hemi Explorer, liquidity is flowing steadily onto Hemi’s private mainnet, with the following transferred so far:","1,411 iBTC","300 uBTC","975 enzoBTC","3,207 rsETH","As of this writing, this represents $260 million in total value locked (TVL) via multiple partners including exSat, Kelp, B2, and Lorenzo.","This TVL will be deployed onto Hemi’s DEXes and lending protocols to provide Day One liquidity to facilitate trading, borrowing, staking, and yield farming for popular assets across the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems.","Such an influx of liquidity reflects strong confidence in Hemi’s approach to cross-chain compatibility and solidifies the network’s place among major L2s before its mainnet launch, currently anticipated for Q1-2025.","This is on top of the dozens of protocols that have already announced their desire to work together to make Hemi the ultimate Bitcoin- and Ethereum-integrated DeFi ecosystem, with many more on the way.","Join our Discord and follow us on X for updates, especially as we get ever closer to Mainnet.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemis-initial-tvl-surpasses-265-million-ahead-of-mainnet-launch"},"/blog/hemi-enhances-token-utility-through-eigenpie-integration":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Enhances Token Utility Through Eigenpie Integration - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Enhances Token Utility Through Eigenpie Integration"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 13, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Eigenpie","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi will collaborate with Eigenpie's liquid restaking platform.","TL;DR:","Hemi is working with Eigenpie, a liquid restaking platform within EigenLayer, to enable users to restake their ETH and LSTs for validating new services. By depositing assets into Eigenpie, users receive LRTs, maintaining liquidity while earning rewards.","Hemi is working with Eigenpie to expand opportunities for ETH and LST holders. Eigenpie allows users to restake their assets through EigenLayer Node Operators, who use them to secure AVSs. This setup maximizes asset utility while preserving liquidity through LRTs.","Eigenpie provides an advanced mechanism for leveraging ETH and LSTs within the EigenLayer ecosystem. Native ETH and LST holders gain additional staking opportunities by depositing into Eigenpie, allowing their assets to be actively used in securing various AVSs. The process ensures both security and liquidity, as deposited assets remain liquid through the issuance of LRTs.","This collaboration supports Hemi’s broader vision of increasing capital efficiency and security within the EigenLayer ecosystem. By enabling restaking, Eigenpie enhances the staking landscape, making it easier for users to contribute to network security while maintaining flexibility in asset management.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-enhances-token-utility-through-eigenpie-integration"},"/blog/hemi-will-expand-bitcoin-utility-with-babypie-collaboration":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Will Expand Bitcoin Utility with Babypie Collaboration - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Will Expand Bitcoin Utility with Babypie Collaboration"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 14, 2025","Babylon","Babypie","Blockchain","Partnership","Babypie will enable BTC staking on Babylon.","TL;DR:","Hemi is working with Babypie to enable BTC staking on Babylon, allowing Bitcoin holders to mint mBTC, a 1:1 pegged ERC-20 token. This expands opportunities for staking, trading, and DeFi engagement without accruing underlying yield. More details to come.","Hemi is collaborating with Babypie, a liquid staking platform that allows BTC to be staked on Babylon and utilized across DeFi. This integration will enable Bitcoin holders to deposit their BTC on Babypie to mint mBTC, an ERC-20 token pegged to BTC on a 1:1 basis without accruing any underlying yield.","Through this collaboration, Bitcoin can function as a store of value while expanding opportunities for staking, trading, and engaging with DeFi on a global scale. Our shared goal is to enhance accessibility and utility for BTC holders within the decentralized finance ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-will-expand-bitcoin-utility-with-babypie-collaboration"},"/blog/hemi-to-launch-mainnet-on-march-12":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi to Launch Mainnet on March 12, Bringing the Bitcoin and Ethereum Ecosystems Together into a Single Supernetwork - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi to Launch Mainnet on March 12, Bringing the Bitcoin and Ethereum Ecosystems Together into a Single Supernetwork"],"h2":["A Layer-2 from a Different Point of View","About Hemi Labs","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 25, 2025","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Press Release","Powerful momentum continues after a record-breaking testnet phase, more than $300 million in total value locked (TVL), and dozens of ecosystem launch partners.","CHICAGO, Feb. 25, 2025 —","Key Facts","Launching its mainnet on March 12, Hemi is a modular blockchain network designed for superior scaling, security, and interoperability, unifying Bitcoin and Ethereum as a single supernetwork.","Over fifty protocols will be deployed on Hemi, including decentralized exchanges (e.g., Sushi, DODO, Izumi), lending protocols (e.g., LayerBank, ZeroLend), vaults (e.g., Nucleus, Concrete, VaultCraft), top LSTs and LRTs (e.g., Kelp, pumpBTC, StakeStone), oracles (e.g., RedStone, Pyth, Stork), and key dApps (e.g., LayerZero, Pell, BitFi).","Hemi has already attracted more than $300 million of Total Value Locked (TVL) and announced a $15 million seed round in September 2024, led by Binance Labs, Breyer Capital, and Big Brain Holdings.","Hemi was founded by renowned early Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik and blockchain security pioneer Max Sanchez.","—","Hemi, a modular blockchain network powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum, today announced that it will launch its mainnet on March 12, 2025.","The transition from testnet to mainnet is a major milestone for Hemi, which has already attracted more than $300 million in total value locked (TVL) and rapidly built an ecosystem of dozens of protocols. This positions Hemi as a vital infrastructure layer for decentralized finance across Bitcoin and Ethereum, enabling innovation and scalability across the blockchain space.","Through the protocols offered by Hemi’s early Day One ecosystem collaborators, users will be able to:","build applications that are both Bitcoin- and Ethereum-aware;","participate in lending and DEX liquidity provision, or allocate funds into specialized vault products;","trade perpetuals;","stake and restake popular BTC and ETH tokens;","borrow, and swap tokens; and","create synthetic assets.","In particular, Hemi’s DeFi ecosystem has a strong focus on providing liquidity and yield opportunities for many of the most popular liquid staking tokens (LSTs) and liquid restaking tokens (LRTs) from the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems.","“Just over six months after introducing our incentivized testnet, Hemi has demonstrated its resilience and capability as a powerful network for advancing blockchain applications across Bitcoin and Ethereum,” said Jeff Garzik, co-founder of Hemi.","“The Hemi team has a clear and compelling vision for unlocking the programmability, portability, and potential of Web3,” said Ted Breyer, partner at Breyer Capital. “With a distinguished track record, they are uniquely positioned to deliver.”","Attempts to integrate and scale Bitcoin and Ethereum have tended to address the problem within their respective communities, resulting in a fractured ecosystem. Hemi instead approaches Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a larger supernetwork. This surfaces the best capabilities of both networks and, in turn, enables a new class of previously unattainable blockchain applications.","Hemi’s benefits include:","Unifying Bitcoin and Ethereum — The Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) integrates a full Bitcoin node within an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), enabling developers to harness the power of both Bitcoin and Ethereum using familiar and proven development tools.","Bitcoin Programmability — Building with the Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) provides developers direct access to highly granular views of Bitcoin’s state, unlocking new applications that were previously impractical or impossible to execute in a truly trustless, secure, and efficient way.","Superfinality — Through its PoP consensus protocol, Hemi inherits Bitcoin’s full security in a truly decentralized and permissionless manner, exceeding Bitcoin-level finality (“superfinality”) in just a few hours.","Trustless Cross-Chain Portability — With Tunnels, Hemi offers a Bitcoin-secured method for moving assets between Bitcoin and Ethereum.","Asset Programmability — Hemi’s additional asset-programmability features include on-chain routing, time-lock, and password-protect. Gasless transfer enables asset movement without requiring a web3 wallet.","“The Hemi team can be described in one word: ambitious. Everything we learned during our testnet has been embedded into the mainnet release and we are excited for our users and developers to build and use applications across Bitcoin and Ethereum,” said co-founder and CTO Max Sanchez.","To Learn More","Website","Blog","GitHub","Docs","Discord","YouTube","Twitter/X","Telegram (News)","Telegram (Community)","Hemi Labs is the creator of the Hemi Network (“Hemi”), a modular Layer-2 network for superior scaling, security, and interoperability, powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum. Instead of approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as siloed ecosystems, Hemi views them as components of a single supernetwork, unlocking new levels of programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi Labs envisions a new, converged Internet ecosystem that is secure, interoperable, and ready for the many challenges of a Web3 that is imminently colliding with the Internet at-large. Learn more at https://hemiproduction.wpengine.com/.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","X (Twitter)","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-to-launch-mainnet-on-march-12"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-february-25-2025":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for February 25, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for February 25, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 26, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Mainnet is coming!","Welcome to another edition of Midweek With Max, where Hemi CEO Max Sanchez and friends bring you the latest on the Hemi network. In this episode, Max outlines major updates as the community prepares for the upcoming mainnet launch. The official public mainnet is set for March 12, but early access kicks off on March 5. During this early window, community members can begin moving assets, staking them, and earning points. Once the full mainnet is live on March 12, users will enjoy comprehensive rewards for activities like providing liquidity and engaging with lending protocols.","Max also discusses PoP mining and token incentives. He explains that points earned through pop mining contribute to one unified rewards pool. Consistent activity earns bonus points and users can link multiple pop mining accounts to combine their points, ensuring that every effort counts toward the overall rewards. The episode touches on node requirements and infrastructure as well.","Running a node will require a minimum of two modern CPU cores, 16 GB of RAM, and 1–2 TB of fast disk space. For those who prefer not to self-host, third-party hosting options will soon be available, allowing users to delegate node operations while still participating fully in the network.","Looking ahead, the team is gearing up for a technical AMA that will dive deeper into the network’s workings and future roadmap. As the network prepares to launch a full suite of decentralized applications, Hemi is focused on delivering a robust, secure, and engaging experience.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-february-25-2025"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-february-18-2025":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for February 18, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for February 18, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 19, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Video","We have a Mainnet date.","This week on Midweek with Max, the team returned to Discord after dealing with issues on XSpaces. The big announcement was that Hemi Mainnet is officially launching on March 5. No more speculation, just a concrete date.","Max, Phil, and the team shared updates on progress toward mainnet, covering infrastructure improvements, pop mining incentives, and the node sale. They also discussed Hemi’s presence at major industry events, including Consensus Hong Kong, ETH Denver, and the Bitcoin Investor Conference, where Jeff Garzik, Matthew Rozak, and other team members promoted Hemi’s vision for scaling Bitcoin and Ethereum.","Community questions covered a wide range of topics, from proof-of-proof security and staking to the impact of liquidity on launch. Max explained how pop mining works and what role keystones play in the process. There was also discussion about future incentives for liquidity providers and developers, including staking programs and potential grant opportunities. The team gave insight into long-term economic sustainability and the steps being taken to ensure a strong ecosystem.","The session wouldn’t have been complete without some lighter moments, including a request for Max to perform Rap God and a debate over whether GTA 6 or Hemi Mainnet would launch first. The conversation wrapped up with a reminder to stay tuned for more details on mainnet incentives, which would be announced soon.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-february-18-2025"},"/blog/hemi-connects-with-stakestones-suite-of-blockchain-products":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Connects With StakeStone's Suite of Blockchain Products - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Connects With StakeStone's Suite of Blockchain Products"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 26, 2025","Hemi users can access SBTC, STONE, and STONEBTC.","TL;DR: Hemi and StakeStone are bringing StakeStone’s suite of products to the Hemi Network. Users on Hemi will be able to access SBTC, STONE, and STONEBTC, utilizing the assets across Hemi’s ecosystem of applications.","____________________________________________________________________________","Hemi is pleased to welcome StakeStone to the ecosystem. StakeStone is an omnichain liquidity infrastructure that offers yield-bearing versions of ETH and BTC and also an index BTC. Three different StakeStone assets will be available and incentivized on Hemi:","SBTC: SBTC is a liquid, index BTC designed to enhance the usability of wrapped custodial BTC derivatives by leveraging its inherent redemption liquidity to provide robust omnichain liquidity. It can currently be minted using BTC, BTCB, WBTC, FBTC, and NBTC.","STONE: A yield-bearing liquid ETH token backed by staked ETH, naturally yielding 3-4%. Holders can compound yields through various looping strategies on Hemi.","STONEBTC: A yield-bearing BTC derivative minted and redeemed using SBTC or LBTC. It generates yield by deploying deposited assets into StakeStone’s strategy vaults, which tap into sustainable yield opportunities across DeFi, CeDeFi, and RWAs.","Hemi users will be able to farm Hemi points, provide liquidity, trade, lend, borrow, stake, and more with SBTC, STONE, and STONEBTC. Since StakeStone’s assets are LayerZero OFTs, they can be seamlessly bridged to Hemi, ensuring interoperability.","This collaboration not only enhances liquidity and yield opportunities but also prioritizes security and transparency, allowing Hemi users to engage with StakeStone’s assets. Additionally, both Hemi and StakeStone share a common lead investor in YZi Labs, reinforcing their strategic alignment and shared vision of unifying assets across Bitcoin and Ethereum.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-connects-with-stakestones-suite-of-blockchain-products"},"/blog/hemi-will-work-with-izumi-finances-iziswap-to-deploy-liquidity":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Will Work With Izumi Finance’s iZiSwap to Deploy Liquidity  - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Will Work With Izumi Finance’s iZiSwap to Deploy Liquidity"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 27, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Iziswap","Izumi","Hemi and iZiSwap will build capital-efficient DeFi solutions.","TL;DR:","Hemi, together with Izumi Finance’s iZiSwap, is bringing advanced, capital-efficient DeFi solutions to their users. iZiSwap's innovative Discretized-Liquidity AMM (DLAMM) reduces slippage by making it possible to deploy liquidity at every price tick throughout the AMM spread","Hemi will collaborate with iZiSwap, the creator of  Discretized-Liquidity Automated Market Maker (DLAMM). This collaboration marks a milestone in our mission to provide Hemi users with the most advanced and capital-efficient DeFi solutions available.","iZiSwap's DLAMM technology deploys liquidity at every price tick, reducing slippage when swapping tokens. By cutting price ranges into extremely narrow pieces, iZiSwap achieves unparalleled capital efficiency, ensuring liquidity is where it's needed.","Through this integration, Hemi users will gain access to:","Enhanced Capital Efficiency: Experience trading with minimal slippage thanks to iZiSwap's discretized liquidity model","Zero-Fee Limit Orders: Place limit orders without paying maker fees","Diverse Fee Tiers: Choose from multiple fee tiers (1%, 0.2%, 0.04%, and 0.01%) optimized for different token pairs","Competitive Rewards: Earn swap fees when providing liquidity, with additional incentives coming soon","iZiSwap will provide users with secure access to liquidity and advanced trading strategies for assets across the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-will-work-with-izumi-finances-iziswap-to-deploy-liquidity"},"/blog/where-is-bitcoin-in-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Where is Bitcoin in DeFi? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Where is Bitcoin in DeFi?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Hemi Tunnels Keep Bitcoin And DeFi Decentralized","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 3, 2025","Bitcoin","Defi","Ethereum","Hemi","We explore what it means for Bitcoin to truly be part of the DeFi ecosystem.","TL;DR:","Bitcoin in DeFi still relies on centralized custodians, exposing users to security risks like minimal transparency, counterparty risk, and bridge vulnerabilities, with over $18 billion in wrapped Bitcoin controlled by entities like BitGo, Binance, and Coinbase. Hemi Tunnels offer a decentralized alternative, enabling Bitcoin to move into DeFi without intermediaries by using smart contracts and multi-signature vaults. With integrations like Stargate, Meson, and Free Tech, Hemi ensures trust-minimized cross-chain transfers. Its architecture, powered by the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) and Proof-of-Proof consensus, aligns with Bitcoin’s decentralized ethos, eliminating third-party reliance while securing transactions.","The DeFi ecosystem is built on principles of permissionless access, minimal trust, security, and seamless asset movement between users and marketplaces. However, Bitcoin—the most decentralized asset and a leading store of value—still relies on centralized custody models to enter DeFi. Why should that be the case?","Billions of dollars in Bitcoin are deployed across today’s DeFi marketplace, relying on intermediary custodians to hold the collateral behind wrapped assets. In fact, over $18 billion in Bitcoin is wrapped by centralized entities:","WBTC has a market cap of $12.6 billion with custody from BitGo.","BTCB has a market cap of $6.3 billion, with custody from Binance.","cbBTC has a market cap of $2.2 billion, with custody from Coinbase.","These institutions add centralization and require users to trust them, introducing security risks that undermine the core principles of DeFi and ultimately affect users. These risks include:","Lacking transparency: Many institutional exchanges that offer a wrapping function as black box systems without visibility into the real-time proof of reserves.","Counterparty risks: Users rely on the custodian to ensure safety. If they are hacked, face regulatory intervention, or decide to freeze an account arbitrarily, users may lose access to their assets.","Bridge vulnerabilities: Crosschain bridges today represent one of the largest vulnerabilities in DeFi, with hacks accounting for billions of dollars in losses, such as the Ronin Bridge, Multichain, and Binance Bridge exploits.","Hemi Tunnels are an alternative to risk-laden bridging models, eliminating the need for trusted custodians and third-party control. Instead, Hemi introduces a secure, decentralized tunnel mechanism that allows Bitcoin, and other assets, to flow into DeFi markets without counterparty risks.","The tunnels feature a decentralized architecture where no single entity manages assets. Instead, Bitcoin and EVM-based assets move from origin chain to destination chain via smart contracts and multi-signature vaults.","Hemi offers a native tunnel as well as asset tunneling via:","Stargate: an instant cross-chain solution built for real-time reliable liquidity.","Meson - A stable swapping cross-chain asset transfer protocol optimized for minimal slippage.","Free Tech - A Bitcoin cross-chain solution catering to participants who prioritize decentralization.","Centralized architectures have only scratched the surface of Bitcoin’s $950 billion market capitalization, exposing a small fraction of the potential Bitcoin can bring into DeFi, and wider activities. Hemi is a trust-minimized alternative for Bitcoin to flow into ecosystems unhindered by the systemic risks of bridges or central providers.Hemi aligns with the decentralized architectures of Bitcoin in numerous ways, from its finality mechanism to its native tunnels for asset transfers. The Hemi Virtual Machine™ (hVM™) syncs Bitcoin and EVM-ecosystems, eliminating the need for third-party oracles and allowing seamless operation of live-state dApps.","All Hemi transactions reach an ultimate state of superfinality as the network anchors verified transaction data in blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain. This process is achieved through Hemi’s hybrid Proof-of-Proof consensus mechanism, which reinforces security and holds to the tenets of what Bitcoin was founded on.","These measures ensure that Bitcoin on Hemi remains the way it was meant to be: decentralized.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/where-is-bitcoin-in-defi"},"/blog/eisen-will-bring-its-dex-aggregator-to-hemi-users":{"version":1,"title":"Eisen Will Bring Its DEX Aggregator to Hemi Users - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Eisen Will Bring Its DEX Aggregator to Hemi Users"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 4, 2025","Bitcoin","Eisen","Ethereum","Hemi","Partnerships","Eisen and Hemi will enhance cross-chain trading and efficiency.","TL;DR:","Hemi is collaborating with Eisen to integrate advanced DEX aggregation technology, enhancing cross-chain trading and improving efficiency for crypto users. This integration provides Hemi users with optimized trading routes, better liquidity access, and reduced slippage. The collaboration delivers a more seamless, secure, and cost-effective trading experience across both centralized and decentralized exchanges.","Hemi is collaborating with Eisen to integrate advanced DEX aggregation technology, creating a more seamless and efficient trading experience for crypto users. This collaboration brings together Hemi’s infrastructure with Eisen’s aggregation capabilities, expanding access to optimized trading routes across multiple blockchains.","Eisen’s DEX aggregator enhances Hemi with:","Multi-DeFi Functionality – Improved access to stable trading opportunities across multiple blockchains by connecting with various DEXs and lending protocols.","Cross-Chain Capabilities – Integrated bridge solutions and messaging infrastructure for seamless token swaps across different blockchains.","Sherpa Algorithm – Eisen’s path discovery system reduces slippage and trading risks, optimizing trading routes and capturing arbitrage opportunities.","Universal Trading – CEX/DEX API integration allows Hemi users to trade across centralized and decentralized exchanges from a single interface.","Flash Loan Integration – Enhanced swap stability to minimize liquidity fluctuations, reducing slippage and risk.","By integrating with Hemi’s liquidity pools and trading pairs, Eisen will enhance its trading pathways, providing users with more efficient and optimized transactions.","Hemi’s infrastructure also complements Eisen’s aggregation technology, reinforcing the reliability and efficiency of its trading processes. This integration allows Eisen to refine its platform’s performance, ensuring seamless cross-chain transactions and better trading execution.","Enhanced security measures, including stabilized swaps, protect users from liquidity fluctuations and minimize potential risks. Additionally, the collaboration delivers a more intuitive and unified trading experience, allowing seamless interaction across centralized and decentralized exchanges from a single platform.","This collaboration strengthens Hemi’s decentralized trading offerings by making them more accessible, efficient, and cost-effective for all users.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/eisen-will-bring-its-dex-aggregator-to-hemi-users"},"/blog/hemi-testnet-season-incentives-end-friday-mainnet-season-ahead":{"version":1,"title":"UPDATE: Change of Seasons: Prepare for Testnet Incentives Transition Now - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["UPDATE: Change of Seasons: Prepare for Testnet Incentives Transition Now"],"h2":["You Must Add All Your PoP Wallets To Absinthe","Mainnet Points Season","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 5, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Mainnet","Pop","Staking","To ensure appropriate points calculation, users are reminded to link all PoP mining wallets to Absinthe by 11:59pm ET March 7 March 9 or risk Testnet Season point loss.","We’ve had a great turnout for the Testnet Season of the Hemi points program, which ends Friday, March 7th Sunday, March 9, at 11:59 pm ET. Gearing up for the Mainnet Season, here are some important notes.","To ensure point distribution, users must add their PoP wallets to Absinthe before the 11:59 PM ET deadline on Friday, March 7 Sunday, March 9, to be credited properly. Missing the deadline will result in lost points.","Points will continue to accumulate up until the Sunday night deadline. The points dashboard will undergo a final update over the weekend after the snapshot as of March 7 March 9 at 11:59 pm ET is taken. Following the snapshot, users will see their aggregate deduplicated PoP points in Absinthe based on testnet PoP mining performed across all properly linked addresses.","For the deduplication process, all PoP mining done by all linked addresses will be treated as if they were done by a single address, and the appropriate daily points and bonuses earned from all PoP activity will be credited in a lump-sum.","This deduplication also applies to the one-time bonuses–for example if you mined 3k keystones on one linked address and 2.5k keystones on another linked address, as long as the total unique keystones between those two addresses is greater than 5k (no more than 500 duplicates) you would receive the 5K unique keystone bonus.","By Wednesday March 12th, the Mainnet Points Season will go live on Absinthe and users will be credited for all points earned for any staking activity since March 5.","Once the Mainnet Points Season goes live on Absinthe, users will be able to toggle between their final testnet season points and their ongoing mainnet season points.","The Mainnet season page will show activities users can perform on testnet. That said, please check with our documentation and your Discord mods to confirm points accrual.","Starting on March 12th, additional tasks will be available including providing liquidity on DEXes and lending protocols. Check back often for new tasks and updated point allocations.","Of note, due to indexing changes, there may be a slight delay in when points appear in the Mainnet Season dashboard for some tasks.","With your participation, Hemi incentive programs remain equitable.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-testnet-season-incentives-end-friday-mainnet-season-ahead"},"/blog/sumer-is-connecting-hemi-to-its-cross-chain-protocol-for-synthetic-assets":{"version":1,"title":"Sumer Is Connecting Hemi to Its Cross-Chain Protocol for Synthetic Assets - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Sumer Is Connecting Hemi to Its Cross-Chain Protocol for Synthetic Assets"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 6, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Sumer","Sumer features an integrated lending and borrowing market.","TL;DR:","Hemi is excited to welcome Sumer to its growing ecosystem. Backed by Pantera Capital, Sumer is a cross-chain protocol for synthetic assets, featuring an integrated lending and borrowing market.","____________________________________________________________________________","Hemi is working with Sumer to add an integrated lending and borrowing market to the platform.","Sumer introduces synthetic BTC, ETH, and USD tokens—suBTC, suETH, and suUSD—designed for use across Hemi’s ecosystem of dApps. These Su Tokens can be minted and redeemed on Hemi using various liquid staked tokens (LSTs) and yield-bearing tokens, such as BitFi’s bfBTC, Kelp’s rsETH, Bima’s USBD, and YieldFi’s yUSD. Users will also be able to mint Su Tokens using yield-bearing receipt tokens from Hemi’s ecosystem partners, such as Stable Jack, Hourglass, and Concrete. To encourage adoption, both Hemi and Sumer will incentivize Su Tokens and their corresponding liquidity pairs with points.","By enabling synthetic assets to be minted using yield-bearing assets, Sumer unlocks new yield opportunities. For example, users can mint Su Tokens with a yield-bearing asset, sell the Su Token for the same asset, and repeat the process to effectively multiply their implied yield. Additionally, the cross-chain nature of Sumer’s Su Tokens creates further arbitrage and liquidity opportunities.","Beyond synthetic assets, Sumer’s lending market allows users to earn yield and access liquidity at competitive rates. Sumer's lending market classifies assets based on risk profiles, enabling efficient borrowing with optimized Loan-to-Value (LTV) ratios.","The addition of Sumer to the Hemi ecosystem expands the utility of both platforms by providing users with more ways to generate yield, access liquidity, and engage in cross-chain DeFi strategies.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/sumer-is-connecting-hemi-to-its-cross-chain-protocol-for-synthetic-assets"},"/blog/start-staking-on-hemi-ahead-of-mainnet-launch":{"version":1,"title":"Start Staking on Hemi Ahead of Mainnet Launch - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Start Staking on Hemi Ahead of Mainnet Launch"],"h2":["Supported Assets","Stake Securely","Zero Bonding Period","Transfer To Hemi To Get Started","Staking Rewards","Latest articles"],"h3":["Empowering Bitcoin and Ethereum Holders","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 5, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Staking","Hemi’s native staking protocol, Hemi Stake, puts BTC, ETH, and more to work.","TL;DR","Hemi Stake lets users earn rewards on BTC, ETH, and stablecoins without the risks of traditional staking. It supports Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) and Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs) across Bitcoin and Ethereum with no lockup periods and zero slashing risk. Assets remain secure via audited smart contracts. Users can easily bring BTC and ERC-20s onchain through the Hemi Tunnel and bridge other assets via 3rd party bridges. Start staking today.","Few staking options exist for both Bitcoin and Ethereum assets. Hemi’s staking platform offers a decentralized, secure way to earn staking rewards for both.","Hemi Stake is designed specifically for individuals who want to get more out of their idle positions. Unlike other staking platforms, Hemi Stake supports the most popular Bitcoin and Ethereum LSTs (Liquid Staking Tokens) and LRTs (Liquid Restaking Tokens), alongside the most popular stablecoins, all via one unified platform.","Within Hemi’s staking platform, we’ve partnered with several protocols, each with a unique approach to integrating Bitcoin and Ethereum assets onchain. Here’s a quick look at the BTC and ETH assets you can stake today:","With Hemi Stake, users can allocate their idle Bitcoin and Ethereum assets in a secure environment. Quantstamp audits help to keep smart contracts supporting Hemi Stake secure for staked assets. Hemi’s approach removes the usual complexity of validation staking, allowing asset holders to confidently participate in onchain activities, leverage their previously idle assets, and benefit from an easy, low-risk entry point into decentralized finance.","Hemi Stake has no enforced bonding or unbonding period. Users can stake and unstake their assets at any time, giving participants complete flexibility to enter and exit staking freely while still retaining all rewards earned up to the moment.","The Hemi Tunnel provides a secure, trust-minimized method for transferring BTC and ERC-20 assets across blockchain ecosystems by maintaining protocol-level state awareness. Compared to traditional, centralized bridges, tunneling enhances security and decentralization. For BTC holders, tunneling delivers hemiBTC, Hemi’s native representation of Bitcoin, while Ethereum users can efficiently move ETH and other ERC-20 tokens using the same robust process.","Comprehensive, step-by-step guides are available for tunneling both BTC and ERC-20s directly via the Hemi Tunnel:","Tunneling ERC-20s Using the Hemi Tunnel","Tunneling BTC Using the Hemi Tunnel","Additionally, Hemi supports other assets through trusted third-party integrations with partners like Stargate, Free.tech, and Meson:","Tunneling ERC-20s via Third-Party Integrations","Tunneling BTC via Third-Party Integrations","Our points-based system grants 1 Hemi Point per dollar staked daily for all supported tokens, while hemiBTC, USDC, and USDT earn a 2x boost. Staking on Hemi also qualifies your assets for additional rewards from our partner protocols, letting you earn even more than Hemi Points alone. The more you stake, the more points you accumulate.","Users will be able to see their points earned starting on March 12th when Hemi's Mainnet Points Season officially goes live on the Absinthe UI.","Hemi Stake aims to give asset holders a practical way to participate in onchain activity without sacrificing security or simplicity. By combining exclusive BTC and ETH support with a points-based rewards system, Hemi offers a clear and accessible way to put idle tokens to work.","Get started with staking now!","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/start-staking-on-hemi-ahead-of-mainnet-launch"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-march-4-2025":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for March 4, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for March 4, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Testnet Incentives Ending","Community Engagement","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 6, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Video","Get ready to start staking.","Welcome to another episode of Midweek With (a Sick) Max. Max caught something in Denver so he's a little scratchy today but he has some amazing news for Hemi users. First things first: Hemi's Mainnet launch is moving forward. The soft launch begins this week Discord community. The full public launch happens on March 12, with official announcements and press releases coming soon.","During this pre-launch week (March 5-12), users can start tunneling assets to Hemi through the canonical tunnel or partner tunnels. Assets can be staked in the staking contract. This is a zero-risk contract—funds can be withdrawn anytime with no lockup.","Starting March 12, incentives will expand to liquidity provision on DEXs and lending protocols. Those who provide liquidity before the 12th will still receive back-credited points, but for the first week, the staking contract offers the best rewards. The staking UI will be live at app.hemiproduction.wpengine.com tomorrow. Supported assets include:","Bitcoin LSTs, LRTs","ETH and ETH LSTs, LRTs","Hemi’s native Bitcoin tunnel","Stablecoins (USDC, USDT, DAI)","A blog post with a full asset list and staking guide is available now.","Testnet incentives end this Friday. Users must link all PoP mining addresses to Absinthe before then to receive proper credit. The snapshot for testnet points will be taken at that time, and points will be credited over the weekend.","From March 5 onward, users will earn Mainnet points, which will be visible in Absinthe early next week. The Testnet leaderboard will close, and Mainnet incentives will take over.","Organic engagement in the Hemi ecosystem is growing. Some highlights:","Hair Token – A community-created meme coin inspired by Max’s hair","Hemi Bros – A punk-style PFP collection","Mint Park’s Hemi Badge – Already minted 89,000 times","This kind of community-driven activity is a real treat. The goal is to build a decentralized, self-sustaining ecosystem and seeing people excited about the possibilities is thrilling.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-march-4-2025"},"/blog/understanding-crypto-rollups-optimizing-layer-2-throughput-and-security":{"version":1,"title":"Understanding Crypto Rollups: Optimizing Layer 2 Throughput and Security - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Understanding Crypto Rollups: Optimizing Layer 2 Throughput and Security"],"h2":["What are Crypto Rollups?","Optimistic Rollups","ZK Rollups","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 7, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Rollups","How crypto rollups work.","Crypto rollups emerged from the Ethereum ecosystem as a way to scale blockchain systems without giving up the core principles of decentralization and security. They operate as Layer 2 (L2) solutions that bundle or \"roll up\" multiple transactions and post proofs of those transactions to a Layer 1 (L1) blockchain like Ethereum. The L1 chain provides a secure and immutable foundation, while the L2 rollup handles computation and storage off-chain.","Rollups work by leveraging the trust and security model of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Rather than running every transaction on the main chain, rollups execute and bundle transactions off-chain, then submit a summary back to Ethereum. This allows the system to reduce network congestion and transaction fees while inheriting the security guarantees of Ethereum.","There are two main types of rollups: Optimistic Rollups and ZK Rollups. Each uses a different method to ensure that off-chain transactions remain valid and secure.","Optimistic Rollups assume that all off-chain transactions are valid unless challenged. This model relies on a dispute system—called fraud proofs—to verify correctness. Validators have a fixed time window, usually seven days, to contest any suspicious activity. If no one disputes the data, the transaction is finalized.","The benefit here is scalability. By offloading work from the main chain, Optimistic Rollups can significantly increase transaction throughput. However, this comes at the cost of delayed finality. Users must wait for the challenge window to close before considering a transaction fully confirmed. For some use cases—like trading or gaming—this delay can be a drawback.","ZK Rollups take a different path. They use zero-knowledge cryptography to prove that a batch of off-chain transactions is valid. Instead of relying on a challenge period, ZK Rollups generate a cryptographic proof that verifies all rules were followed. This proof is posted to the Ethereum mainnet along with a summary of the transaction batch.","Because the proof is final upon submission, ZK Rollups offer fast finality and strong security. They also provide better privacy, as not all transaction details must be revealed on-chain. However, generating zero-knowledge proofs is computationally expensive and technically challenging. These costs make development slower and more complex, which has limited the number of projects using this approach.","Rollups have become an important part of Ethereum’s scaling roadmap. They offer a compromise between performance and security by moving computation off-chain while preserving trust through proof systems. Optimistic Rollups prioritize simplicity and scalability, but with slower finality. ZK Rollups offer faster confirmation and privacy benefits, but they require more advanced technology to implement. As these systems evolve, rollups are likely to play a central role in how blockchains handle higher volumes of activity without weakening their security foundations.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/understanding-crypto-rollups-optimizing-layer-2-throughput-and-security"},"/blog/getting-ready-for-mainnet":{"version":1,"title":"Getting Ready for the Hemi Mainnet Launch - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Getting Ready for the Hemi Mainnet Launch"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Step 1: Join the Community","Step 2: Explore Hemi’s Documentation","Step 3: Set Up Your Wallet for Hemi","Step 4: Move assets to Hemi","Step 5: Explore Day One Projects","Step 6: Get Verified on Demos","Step 7: Watch Hemi Grow","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 6, 2025","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","How To","Howto","Video","Here's how to prepare for mainnet on March 12","The launch of Hemi mainnet on March 12 is a major step forward in cross-chain interoperability between Bitcoin and Ethereum. With a broad set of dApps, network integrations, and features available from day one, users and developers alike have plenty to explore.","Whether you’re a HODLer, a developer, or a DeFi enthusiast, preparing for Hemi Mainnet will help you take full advantage of its capabilities.","Chances are that, if you’re here, you’re already following us. If you’re new, then welcome! Here’s where you can engage with our community of Hemi users:","Twitter/X: There because crypto. 200,000 followers strong.","Discord: This is the center-of-gravity for the Hemi community. The Hemigos and Hemigas are always available and eager to help. This is also the place where the weekly “Midweek with Max” sessions happen every Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time.","GitHub: Contribute to Hemi’s development by exploring our code and submitting pull requests.","Hemi Blog: Stay informed and read news and official announcements on the Hemi blog.","Newsletter: A Monday rollup of the previous week.","YouTube: This includes replays of the weekly \"Midweek with Max\" sessions, tutorials, and our \"Satoshi Series\" mini-documentary featuring our co-founder Jeff Garzik.","Telegram: In addition to this community Telegram, we also offer a news-only feed.","Developers and power users should review Hemi’s documentation to understand how the network operates. The Hemi Virtual Machine™ (hVM™) is fully EVM-compatible and supports direct interactions with Bitcoin data, eliminating the need for external oracles.","Key topics covered in the docs:","Using Hemi’s tunnels for cross-chain transfers.","Participating in DeFi, including lending, trading, and yield farming.","Deploying Bitcoin-aware Solidity contracts using hVM and the Hemi Bitcoin Kit™ (hBK™).","Access the documentation at docs.hemiproduction.wpengine.com and join the developer channels on Discord to ask questions or share ideas.","To interact with Hemi Mainnet, you’ll need compatible wallets supporting Bitcoin and Ethereum-based assets. Recommended wallets include:","MetaMask or Rabby for Ethereum-based asset support.","Unisat: Bitcoin-based asset support.","Ensure that you add Hemi Mainnet to your wallet by importing the correct network settings:","RPC: https://rpc.hemi.network/rpc","Chain ID: 43111","Block Explorer: explorer.hemiproduction.wpengine.com","Store your private keys securely—Hemi does not use custodial services.","Transfer assets via Hemi’s Tunnels or partner bridges:","Stargate","Meson","Free","On March 12, the Hemi mainnet will launch with several DeFi, trading, and smart contract applications, including:","DEX Trading: Swap assets on Izumi, Sushi, DODO and Oku taking advantage of Hemi’s Bitcoin-integrated liquidity pools.","Lending and Borrowing: Access DeFi lending markets with Layerbank, ZeroLend, and LendOS.","Perpetual Trading: Trade leveraged positions using Bitcoin as collateral with Artura (formerly Bitperp).","Synthetic Assets: Create and trade synthetic representations of assets with Metronome and Sumer.","Restaking: Stake BTC and ETH, earn yield, and provide liquidity on platforms like Cygnus, and Pell. (More on pre-mainnet staking.)","Check out our collaboration announcements to see who will be ready to run on Hemi on Day One.","Hemi has integrated with our partner Demos to provide industry-leading, non-KYC Proof-of-Humanity (PoH) for projects on Hemi to leverage. Engaging with the Hemi network is completely permissionless, but minting an OnlyMeID will allow users to interact with components of the Hemi ecosystem that make use of Demos.","To get started:","Ensure you have your Hemi wallet setup with enough ETH to pay gas fees","Visit the Demos website and connect the wallet address you want your PoH to be associated with","Select “Hemi” as the network to mint your OnlyMeID on","Complete the biometrics verification process","Once completed, use the address with your OnlyMeID token to engage with Demos-enabled projects.","Hemi will continue to evolve with new integrations, governance proposals, and network upgrades.","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/getting-ready-for-mainnet"},"/blog/partner-spotlight-mint-park":{"version":1,"title":"Partner Spotlight: Mint Park - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Partner Spotlight: Mint Park"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 7, 2025","Mint Park created a \"Hemi Badge\" NFT for mainnet. We wanted to learn more.","A while back, we announced that we were working with Mint Park. As we approached mainnet, we noticed that their team had launched a free-to-mint “Hemi Badge” NFT via the Hemi testnet on Feb. 27.","In 24 hours, it hit 5,000 mints, increasing to 18,000 by the weekend.","The following Monday, more than 82,000 had minted. As of this writing, the number stands at 93,340 according to the Hemi testnet explorer -- or 9.2% of the addresses on Hemi at this time.","The Hemi team chatted with Mint Park co-founder Micheal to talk about their project and why they chose Hemi.","How did MintPark get started on Hemi?","When researching Bitcoin Layer 2s to build on, Hemi immediately caught our attention. We weren’t just looking for another chain to deploy on—we wanted an ecosystem worth investing our time in. Hemi’s modular, neutral approach to scaling both Bitcoin and Ethereum, paired with its focus on developer experience and innovative tech like PoP mining, deeply resonated with our team and fueled our inspiration.","Why did MintPark decide to do a \"Hemi Badge?\"","We created the Hemi Badge to test our integration, but it quickly became more than just a collectible. To our community, it’s a permanent record of participation, representing a badge of honor and bragging rights for early adopters who contributed to Hemi’s ecosystem from the start.","Why does the MP team think the badge went from 21k - 82k in a weekend?","MintPark fills a unique gap in Hemi and the broader Bitcoin Layer 2 ecosystem. While Bitcoin DeFi dominates attention—driving TVL and volume—we believe collectibles foster community and culture, cultivating the human sense of belonging. When Hemi reposted our integration announcement, that’s when the surge happened. Honestly, we were the most surprised by this—it not only validated our tech but confirmed a real interest in NFTs in Bitcoin L2, something we’ve always believed in.","What's next?","The MintPark team is gearing up for the Hemi mainnet and our first wave of launches. Our vision is to create the next major NFT ecosystem, linking Bitcoin Layer 2 blockchains with seamless cross-chain trading and bridging experiences. We see these as the essential building blocks for a thriving NFT community—one that inspires other builders to launch their projects and grow alongside us.","[Ed. note: This feature is intended to highlight the projects and personalities that have decided to build on Hemi. It is not meant to convey an endorsement or establish any project as more \"official\" than any other.]","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/partner-spotlight-mint-park"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-march-11-2025":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for March 11, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for March 11, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":["Mainnet Launch: Final Preparations","Incentives and Point Distribution","Mainnet TVL and Growth Strategy","Roadmap and Future Developments","What’s Next?"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 12, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","Happy Mainnet Eve!","The latest Midweek with Max brought together the Hemi team to discuss critical updates ahead of the much-anticipated Mainnet launch. Community Manager Rick was joined by co-founder Max Sanchez, Head of Marketing Phil Gomes, and engineer Joshua Singh to break down the final preparations, upcoming incentives, and what users can expect moving forward.","With Mainnet launching on March 12, 2025, the team confirmed that everything is on track. The final checklist is being reviewed, and all systems are undergoing rigorous testing to ensure a seamless rollout. While functionally similar to the Testnet experience, Mainnet brings new opportunities for staking, liquidity provision, and lending on decentralized exchanges and lending protocols.","A phased adjustment of points multipliers is also planned. Initially, the Hemi staking contract has been the primary way to earn incentives, but moving forward, liquidity provision on DEXs and lending protocols will be prioritized. Users are advised to monitor updates on these changes to maximize their participation.","The Mainnet incentives program is officially live. While the points system has been operational since the soft launch on March 5, the full rollout begins with the Absinthe UI going live. This will include additional tasks such as liquidity provision. Testnet incentives officially ended on March 9 at 11:59 PM ET, and Testnet points will be calculated based on a final snapshot.","Key clarifications were provided regarding multiple wallets and Sybil resistance. Users can link multiple addresses to their Absinthe account, but points will be deduplicated to prevent abuse. Only one unique human identity per Deimos verification will be able to claim rewards, ensuring fair distribution.","Hemi has already seen over $275 million staked in the Hemi staking contract, contributing to a total TVL of approximately $300 million. The next phase involves encouraging liquidity migration from staking to active use in DeFi protocols. A smooth transition will be facilitated with structured incentives, and users are encouraged to participate in liquidity pools on partner platforms.","Beyond liquidity, Hemi aims to onboard more developers and users. A grants and bounties program will be launched soon, focusing on expanding the ecosystem with innovative applications. This will help drive real utility, ensuring Hemi’s role as a foundational Bitcoin and Ethereum-powered network.","Key roadmap items for the next few quarters include:","Decentralizing the Sequencer (Q3 2025): Transitioning to a fully decentralized system to enhance network security and efficiency.","Advancements in BitVM: Addressing existing game theory challenges to improve Bitcoin interoperability.","Bi-directional Asset Tunneling: Enabling seamless movement of Hemi-native assets between Ethereum and Bitcoin-powered networks.","L3 Chain Builders & Shared Sequencing: Expanding the ecosystem by allowing projects to launch L3s on Hemi, supported by staking incentives.","DAO Governance & Fee Management: Establishing mechanisms for decentralized governance and revenue allocation.","The official Mainnet launch event will take place at 10 AM ET on launch day, featuring key discussions with industry leaders. Community engagement remains a priority, with regular AMAs and updates planned in the coming weeks.","Hemi’s journey is just beginning, and as Mainnet goes live, the focus shifts to real-world adoption, protocol development, and strengthening the ecosystem. Users are encouraged to stay updated, participate in liquidity mining, and engage with the community as the network enters this new phase.","For further updates, follow Hemi’s official channels and get ready for what’s next.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-march-11-2025"},"/blog/hemi-and-vaultcraft-collaborate-to-expand-bitcoin-yield-strategies-in-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and VaultCraft Collaborate to Expand Bitcoin Yield Strategies in DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and VaultCraft Collaborate to Expand Bitcoin Yield Strategies in DeFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 10, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Vaultcraft","VaultCraft will offer advanced DeFi opportunities.","TL;DR:","Hemi and VaultCraft are collaborating to expand Bitcoin-based DeFi opportunities. VaultCraft will integrate nBTC (Nexus BTC) into Hemi, launch a new stablecoin, and provide automated yield strategies managed by top market makers. This collaboration lowers barriers to DeFi participation, reduces costs, and enables users to generate yield without technical expertise.","Hemi and VaultCraft are collaborating to enhance decentralized finance by integrating VaultCraft’s permissionless DeFi infrastructure with Hemi’s ecosystem. VaultCraft enables users to deploy institutional-grade, custom yield strategies on any EVM chain using Safe, making advanced DeFi tools more accessible.","As part of this collaboration, VaultCraft will introduce nBTC (Nexus BTC) to Hemi, expanding the range of Bitcoin-based assets available to users. Additionally, VaultCraft intends to  launch a BTC-backed stablecoin on Hemi, providing more options for value preservation and yield generation. VaultCraft Smart Vaults on Hemi will also be managed by top market makers, ensuring secure and optimized returns for users.","By combining Hemi’s decentralized architecture with VaultCraft’s automated yield strategies, the companies will reduce barriers to DeFi participation, lower transaction costs, and enable users to generate sustainable yield.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-vaultcraft-collaborate-to-expand-bitcoin-yield-strategies-in-defi"},"/blog/mainnet-with-max":{"version":1,"title":"Mainnet with Max - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Mainnet with Max"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["A Network Ready for Day One","A Well-Oiled Machine","The Builders: Partners Launching on Hemi","Looking Ahead","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":["Atlas: The First Native DEX","Mint Park: A Multi-Chain NFT Marketplace","Lorenzo: Bringing Liquid Staking to Bitcoin DeFi","YieldNest: Structured Yield Optimization"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 12, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Mainnet is here!","The long-awaited Hemi Mainnet is live, marking a major milestone for Bitcoin-secured DeFi. After months of rigorous development, community engagement, and extensive partner collaborations, Hemi Mainnet has officially launched, offering a dynamic environment with real utility from day one.","From the outset, the Hemi team emphasized the importance of building a network where users could immediately engage. \"We are a network that has a lot for people to do on day one—and we delivered,\" said Phil Gomes. The overwhelming response from partners and the community showcased the readiness and momentum behind Hemi Mainnet.","The launch was marked by a flood of activity across Discord and social media, with the Hemi \"Sunrise\" videos from partners highlighting their integrations. \"Seeing our partners post their day one sunrise videos was incredibly gratifying. These are projects that committed early and have been building alongside us, ensuring they were ready from day one,\" Gomes said.","CEO Max Sanchez echoed this sentiment, recognizing the collective effort behind the smooth Mainnet deployment. \"The Mainnet launch went smoothly. Things are looking good on the backend, and all final releases, including pop mining and the points system, are up and running. A huge shoutout to the engineering team, marketing team, and our BD team, who worked tirelessly to make this happen.\"","Behind the scenes, the Mainnet launch represented months of coordination with ecosystem partners. \"The list of partners deploying on Hemi Mainnet is the result of six months of relentless business development,\" Max said. \"Not only did we get these teams to commit, but many of them were ready with liquidity and protocols on launch day.\"","A key highlight of the Mainnet launch event was the participation of partner projects that have committed to building on Hemi. Several teams took the stage to introduce their platforms and their role within the growing Hemi ecosystem.","Atlas, a concentrated liquidity DEX built on Hemi Mainnet, was among the first projects to go live. Atlas aims to provide an optimized liquidity experience with automated LP pools and directional trading strategies, making DeFi on Hemi more efficient and user-friendly.","Mint Park, an NFT marketplace enabling cross-chain NFT trading, also launched on Hemi Mainnet. \"Hemi was our first Mainnet launch, and the response has been incredible,\" said Michael from Mint Park. The platform gained rapid traction, with its Hemi badge NFT collection surpassing 100,000 mints within a week. \"Our next step is to onboard more creators and expand integrations across multiple Bitcoin Layer 2s, allowing seamless NFT transfers.\"","Lorenzo has positioned itself as a cornerstone of Bitcoin DeFi on Hemi. \"If you have idle Bitcoin, why not put it to work? Our STBTC token lets users earn yield while still benefiting from Bitcoin’s security,\" said Bart from Lorenzo. With integrations across multiple DeFi protocols, Lorenzo is making Bitcoin a productive asset while maintaining its core ethos.","YieldNest introduced its structured product suite for Hemi Mainnet, offering automated strategies for maximizing risk-adjusted returns. \"We create self-evolving vaults that optimize yield across multiple chains, now integrating directly with Hemi,\" explained Dio from Yield Nest. \"Our BTC Max Vault will be designed to settle directly on Hemi, taking advantage of its Bitcoin-native security.\"","With Mainnet live, the focus now shifts to community growth and further infrastructure expansion. The pre-show is over—it’s time for the main stage. Stay connected on our Discord for what's next.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/mainnet-with-max"},"/blog/hello-world":{"version":1,"title":"Hello, World - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hello, World"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 12, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Mainnet","Welcome to Mainnet!","Hello, Hemigos! Today marks the launch of Hemi’s mainnet and a new way to connect Bitcoin and Ethereum.","What makes Hemi different is its approach to viewing Bitcoin and Ethereum as parts of a unified network rather than separate systems. At its core, Hemi combines Bitcoin's security with Ethereum's programmability through its innovative Hemi Bitcoin EVM (hVM).","The key features include:","Full Bitcoin security through Proof-of-Proof mining, providing Superfinality in 90 minutes","Direct Bitcoin state awareness inside the EVM, enabling new Bitcoin DeFi applications","Decentralized tunneling (bridging) between Bitcoin and Ethereum","Gas cost efficiency through transaction batching and shared security","For developers, Hemi makes it simple to build applications that work seamlessly across both networks. The Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) provides tools to interact with Bitcoin state directly from smart contracts.","Hemi also introduces Tunnels - a secure way to move assets between Bitcoin and Ethereum. The system uses advanced vaulting mechanisms to ensure safety while maintaining efficiency.","The platform launches with core applications for lending, trading, and asset management. As adoption grows, we expect to see new types of applications that leverage Hemi's advanced Bitcoin+Ethereum interoperability.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hello-world"},"/blog/hemi-launches-mainnet-with-over-50-ecosystem-partners":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Launches Mainnet With Over 50 Ecosystem Partners - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Launches Mainnet With Over 50 Ecosystem Partners","DeFi Infrastructure"],"h2":["Ecosystem","Technology","Join Us On Day One","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 12, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Welcome to Hemi!","Today, the Hemi team is proud to announce it has reached the pivotal “mainnet” milestone. In other words, Hemi is now ready for general use and we encourage developers and users to begin exploring it today.","We set out to build a supernetwork that presents as “One Network, Powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum.” Our partners and community have responded.","Let’s look at an overview of the Ecosystem, the Tech, and DeFi Infrastructure available today.","From the earliest days of building Hemi, one message has resonated with people closest to the project — the importance of having a complete network available on Day One. (Check out the complete guide.)","So, we wanted to make sure that we launched with everything one needs to get started, and more. This includes:","Swap — Trade assets with integrated DEXs including iZiSwap, Sushi Swap, Uniswap, and DODO, which allow users to use Bitcoin to provide liquidity and farm yields, or to initiate swaps.","Lending — Layerbank, LendOS, offer lending, borrowing, and asset growth options","Cross-chain connectivity: In addition to our Tunnels, Stargate and Meson for asset transfers.","Perpetual futures — Enter leveraged positions on Bitcoin with BitPerp’s perpetual future, which feature competitive fees and deep liquidity.","Synthetic assets — Create a variety of synthetic assets with Metronome, backed by collateral from numerous chains, and with Satoshi Protocol use Bitcoin as collateral to support the issuance of a synthetic stablecoin, SatUSD.","Yield-generating protocols — Hemi supports a wide range of yield-generating protocols including deposits for EVM-based Bitcoin on Hemi Optimizer. Utilize white glove services to liquid stake assets via BitFi. Hemi also supports Desyn with advanced portfolio management features and Spectra, an EVM-based protocol to tokenize future yield and principal with interest-bearing assets.","This is to say nothing of the TVL commitments the team announced previously, with early depositors bringing nine figures of liquidity to Hemi.","Integration and scaling of Bitcoin and Ethereum have always been approached separately within their respective ecosystem tribes. Even attempts to “ethereumize” Bitcoin don’t necessarily offer full access to Ethereum.","Approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a larger supernetwork unlocks the new applications for Web3 and, more broadly, delivers needed capabilities to the Internet as a whole.","We do this through:","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) — An Ethereum Virtual Machine wrapped around a Bitcoin node, delivering best-possible access to the respective states of Bitcoin and Ethereum.","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) — Making hVM’s granular Bitcoin awareness accessible to developers to unlock previously impractical or even impossible Bitcoin applications.","Proof-of-Proof Consensus — The most decentralized, censor-resistant way to achieve Bitcoin-level security. “Superfinality” — Bitcoin-level security in just a couple of hours","Tunnels — Hemi’s Tunnels system is a more secure way to move assets from Bitcoin to Hemi and from Hemi to Ethereum. You can more securely move Bitcoin and Ethereum assets through Hemi — no middlemen needed. Just hVM.","Encapsulation — Package digital assets into an NFT, which allows you to provide gasless transfer, onchain password protection, 2FA, and more.","To drill down into each feature, click on the links above and make sure you go through the docs.","Liquid Staking and Restaking -  Hemi is the home to liquid staking and restaking solutions designed to maximize compounding passive returns of allocated assets. Serving both Bitcoin and EVM-based asset ecosystems, Cygnus staking introduces automated mechanisms for portfolio management. Likewise, Pell offers an omnichain staking solution where you can earn by staking assets to extend security and functionality to connected networks. Earn with Satlayer, where Bitcoin acts as a primary security collateral deployed to Babylon smart contracts to bolster connected dApp infrastructures.","HemiBTC & Tunnel - Hemi offers sovereign tunnels to move Bitcoin from its origin chain and back, facilitated via decentralized smart contracts and multi-signature vaults that ensure no single party manages assets. Once Bitcoin is tunneled to Hemi it becomes HemiBTC, which is pegged to the exact value of Bitcoin and corresponds to the multi-signature vaulted reserves allocated by a user’s wallet in the tunnel. To initiate a withdrawal and release Bitcoin to its native chain, a user may burn their HemiBTC.","Comprehensive developer tools— In addition to the Hemi Bitcoin Kit, Hemi offers a complete suite of tools, SDKs, and demos to help anyone get started, be they a Web3 veteran or a newcomer to the ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-launches-mainnet-with-over-50-ecosystem-partners"},"/blog/a-guide-to-hemis-mainnet":{"version":1,"title":"A Guide to Hemi’s Mainnet - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["A Guide to Hemi’s Mainnet","For Users","For More Advanced Users"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 12, 2025","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Partner","Partnership","Welcome to the Hemi Mainnet!","The Hemi team has worked to ensure our platform is valuable to everyone from Day One. Here is everything you can do on our platform right now on Mainnet Day.","Table of Contents","For Users","Token Swapping","Lending","Cross-Chain Connectivity","Perpetual Trading","Synthetic Assets","Yield","Staking","Restaking","Additional Token Support","Infrastructure Support","For More Advanced Users","Secure the Hemi Mainnet by PoP Mining","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Developer Tooling","Hemi bridges the gap between the distinct worlds of Bitcoin and Ethereum like no other network. For Bitcoin users, it provides new opportunities to utilize your BTC effectively. For Ethereum users, Hemi delivers the scalability and performance expected from an L2, along with native access to Bitcoin’s security, data, and deep liquidity.","This wouldn’t be possible without the contributions of all the Day One participants in the Hemi ecosystem — those who share the vision of One Network, powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum.","Explore the wide range of possibilities available on Hemi from the very beginning.","Hemi integrates with leading decentralized exchanges (DEXs) to make token swaps seamless, secure, and efficient. DeFi on Hemi allows for the native integration of Bitcoin alongside the full gamut of EVM-supported tokens, creating new opportunities for Bitcoin holders to generate passive income via liquidity provision and yield farming. On day one, users can trade popular tokens like xBTC, yBTC, zBTC, and WETH across the following platforms:","Sushi - Trade on the Sushi DEX, featuring an automated market maker, yield farming, optimizations for efficiency with a dAPP interface, and community-driven governance.","iZumi - A multi-chain DeFi protocol providing One-Stop Liquidity as a Service (LaaS).","DODO - Trade on a DEX featuring a Proactive Market Maker (PMM) built to increase capital efficiency and reduce slippage. DODO also offers fair token launches with crowdpooling, and single-sided liquidity provision enabling users to farm with a single asset rather than a balanced pair. The PMM algorithm maintains the balance of the pool.","Atlas - Hemi’s native DEX provided by Algebra Finance that will implement a v4 architecture to enable hooks and additional yield-generating opportunities for liquidity providers.","Oku (Uniswap): A non-custodial meta-aggregator for EVM featuring access to advanced analytics and a dashboard from which traders may enter or exit positions via market or limit orders, manage various liquidity positions, and convert to and from fiat currencies via integrated onramps.","PassDEX: A multi-EVM chain DEX allowing users to swap, provide liquidity, and earn rewards built around rewards and community-driven governance to drive participation.","Back to Top→","Maximize asset utility with Hemi’s integrated lending platforms. Lending on Hemi is uninhibited, empowering individuals holding crypto who may be underserved or sidelined by traditional institutions to borrow, lend, and grow their assets in a decentralized environment. These protocols allow you to lend tokens and earn interest, making your holdings work for you. Day One integrations include:","Layerbank - Access a scalable, secure, and efficient institutional-grade lending protocol, designed for larger liquidity providers and sophisticated users that facilitates high-volume lending and borrowing with competitive interest rates.","LendOS - With LendOS, find flexible borrowing and lending solutions, tailored for retail users. With its decentralized and transparent tools, LendOS offers liquidity or opportunities to earn interest beyond the scope of what is typically available in the traditional banking system.","ZeroLend - Explore a lending market for DeFi lending, liquid restaking token (LRT) lending, and real-world asset (RWA) lending on a fully audited, custody-free platform.","AJNA - Participate in peer-to-pool permissionless lending pools serving lenders and borrowers, functioning free of governance or price feeds.","Hemi also connects the gap between other networks, enabling effortless cross-chain transfers. Tunnels to Hemi are completely sovereign, and decentralized, without intermediaries or central providers. Tunneled assets serve as direct on-chain collateral, promoting trustless and secure interactions. Day One cross-chain solutions include:","Native Tunnels between Bitcoin/Hemi and Ethereum/Hemi","Stargate - Send assets to another network with instant finality, and without asset wrappers. Stargate is a delay-free cross-chain solution tailored for applications that require real-time reliable liquidity across networks.","Free Tech - Free Tech tunnels are built around user sovereignty, supporting Bitcoin transfers while catering to participants who value decentralization.","Meson - Swapping stables? Meson enables rapid cross-chain asset transfers with minimal slippage, optimized for stablecoins. The protocol leverages an aggregation model, with optimized routing to reduce fees for a cost-effective solution.","OOOO - Cross-chain interoperability boosted by AI Omninet, which provides automation for such activities.","For traders looking to explore perpetual swaps, Hemi will integrate Artura, a powerful platform offering access to perpetual futures trading, competitive fees and deep liquidity. Take leveraged positions on Bitcoin, and a wide range of emerging Bitcoin-based assets including Ordinals, BRC-20, and Runes.","Synthetic assets provide on-chain opportunities for exposure to financial instruments that replicate the value and behavior of an underlying asset, whether from the crypto sector or from traditional markets. Hemi day one integrations include:","Metronome: Create a wide array of synthetic assets, supported by collateral from many chains, with zero slippage on swaps between synthetic assets.","Satoshi Protocol: Use Bitcoin as collateral to support the issuance of satUSD, a synthetic stablecoin designed for broader utility within DeFi.","Sumer.Money - Prioritize capital efficiency and security, supporting correlated asset positions for ETH, LSTs, and LRTs, and uncorrelated positions for ETH and USDC. Create synthetics of suUSD, suETH, and suBTC backed by the same lending deposit to participate in DeFi across ecosystems while native assets reside on their origin chains.","Hemi is your gateway to yield-generating strategies, whether by staking or providing liquidity. On Day One, you can access:","Swell’s earnBTC - Deposit an EVM-based Bitcoin of choice and earn protocol points and yield while it remains on a fully audited platform with low annual fees.","BitFi - Take assurance with a professional custody service secured by CEFFU that plies proven quantitative trading strategies, with a comprehensive risk management team. BitFi supports BTC, BTCB, and WBTC to mint bfBTC which backs its fully transparent liquid staking and yield-generating ecosystem.","BounceBit Vault - Access asset management secured by CEFFU, with automatic or manual portfolio maintenance, and earn yield on Bitcoin and stables in BounceBit’s staking vaults.","DeSyn - DeSyn equips portfolio managers with advanced tools, to build custom on-chain portfolios, and provide investors with diverse DeFi opportunities. Its smart contract-driven processes ensure secure rebalancing, issuance, and withdrawals.","Echo Protocol: Mint HBTC using Echo’s advanced and fully audited infrastructure and use the HBTC across the Hemi ecosystem to earn yield.","VaultCraft: Deposit into VaultCraft vaults to maximize the yield you are earning on eligible assets. These vaults are managed by top market makers and deployed across the ecosystem using delta-neutral strategies.","YieldFi: Deposit stablecoins into YieldFi to generate over 15% via delta-neutral trading strategies and receive their yield-bearing stablecoin, yUSD, in return.","Coming soon: Spectra - An EVM-based protocol, Spectra enables users to tokenize future yield and principle via interest-bearing tokens. Spectra offers permissionless access to create new markets, swap yield derivatives, or provide liquidity.","Hemi’s multi-asset staking platform is designed specifically to accommodate Bitcoin with a trust-minimized, secure approach that lets holders stake and earn without fear of slashing conditions. Hemi utilizes a fully audited staking reward smart contract, which is fine-tuned to allocate to depositors. These staked assets are not used to validate blocks, removing any slashing risks for participants.","Move assets in and out of the staking contract in minutes, subject to network confirmation times, without lengthy bonding or unbonding rounds, for equal access to staking rewards and liquidity as needed.","Compound your earnings with Hemi’s restaking solutions.","Cygnus- By integrating Cygnus, a platform offering efficient delegation and restaking services for liquid-staked assets, Hemi enables you to maximize returns with ease. The automated mechanisms of Cygnus minimize manual intervention, reducing the barriers to passive yield opportunities across both EVM-based and Bitcoin-based ecosystems.","Pell - Restake on an omnichain solution with Pell Network, and secure any of multiple connected networks, extending security, and functionality of decentralized validation services.","Hemi will offer native support to a number of tokens.","Kelp - Access a utility token on the Binance Smart Chain BEP-20 standard designed to incentivize liquidity management and market making. Kelp will employ automated strategies across protocols and exchanges to optimize the most efficient trading routes, and yields.","Bedrock (brBTC) - Stake supported forms of Bitcoin to Bedrock’s vault and receive liquid-staked brBTC, a restaking token backed by diverse BTC-based derivative assets that provides yield to holders.","pumpBTC - This liquid staking solution is powered by Babylon, with a platform built to provide high native base yields on forms of supported Bitcoin.","exSat Network (iBTC) - With iBTC, trade with a synthetic asset pegged to Bitcoin and ready for integration with wider DeFi ecosystems.","From the onset, Hemi cross-protocol integrations offer extensive and robust infrastructure support.","The Graph - Connecting to over 70 networks and supporting over 75,000 projects, The Graph offers structured data insights by indexing onchain data, enabling subsecond data queries. The network is decentralized and operated via a delegate and incentive-driven ecosystem powered by the GRT token.","Demos - A decentralized platform dedicated to preserving Web3 user privacy and autonomy. It utilizes biometric security to ensure genuine user interactions. Demos offers digital identity solutions in the form of its flagship product, OnlyMeID, which provides complete control over personal data, with discretional deletion post-verification.","LayerZero - An open-source immutable messaging protocol that facilitates cross-chain communication for interoperable dapps. LayerZero allows developers to send arbitrary data, make external function calls, or send tokens while maintaining autonomy over their applications.","Tenderly - A comprehensive suite of onchain tools and infrastructure solutions or Web3 development, built to help with testing, engineering, and monitoring of dapps. Tenderly offers support to 79 networks, with services including virtual testnets, contract verification, intuitive debugging, and much more.","Turtle Club - A decentralized protocol built to amplify rewards across, boosting yields while allowing for sovereign asset management. The club provides benefits for users who refer others, provide liquidity, route swaps through the network and partners, and participate in staking and delegation to validators.","Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof consensus allows any participant to set up a miner and join in securing the network.","If you see something, say something. You, too, can earn monetary rewards for successfully discovering and reporting vulnerabilities. Go to our page on HackerOne for more information.","Here are the recommended tools for you to use:","Remix: Easily write, test, and deploy smart contracts directly in the browser.","Foundry: A fast, modular, and secure toolkit for smart contract development and testing.","Hardhat: Manage smart contract workflows with debugging, deployment, and testing tools.","Viem: Build reliable apps & libraries with lightweight, composable, and type-safemodules that interface directly with Hemi.","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK): Hemi’s proprietary Bitcoin SDK, enabling seamless Bitcoin integration within Solidity smart contracts.","Safe (Gnosis): Create a Safe wallet to access world-class multisig wallet capabilities.","Oracles: Enabling smart contracts on Hemi to access trustworthy off-chain data. Developers on Hemi can access push-based price feeds for Hemi with the oracles below:","Pyth - this oracle specializes in real-time market data for low-latency financial applications, featuring institutional-grade data sources, onchain updates, price aggregation, and cross-chain data delivery.","Redstone - this oracle uses a caching layer to offer data to smart contracts on an as-needed basis and avoids constant onchain updates. Redstone’s tailored data streams, multi-chain capabilities, and lightweight approach to onchain data strike a balance between cost efficiency and reliable data access.","Contract Verification: Hemi supports contract verification with Blockcscout UI or HardHat verification plugin.","Capsule: Capsule is an asset transfer protocol that allows anyone to batch and transfer multiple assets in a single package on Hemi.","Pure Finance: EVM tools and smart contracts offering solutions for developers, DeFi applications, and individuals alike.","Smarter NFTs: Create and mint smarter NFTs on Hemi to take advantage of Superfinality.","Steer Protocol - With tools to optimize yields for liquidity pool participants, Steer offers automated strategy execution and performance monitoring. The platform enables simplified cross-chain protocol liquidity management while maximizing LP efficiency.","On Day One, any user can write (or move) their app (or data) to Hemi and get the security of Bitcoin at a tiny fraction of the cost. Any developer can write smart contracts in Solidity that use data directly from the Bitcoin blockchain, with no oracles or other integrations needed.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/a-guide-to-hemis-mainnet"},"/blog/connecting-bitcoin-to-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Connecting Bitcoin to DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Connecting Bitcoin to DeFi"],"h2":["How Bitcoin Moves Across Networks","The Hemi Difference","Reduce Risk With Hemi","A Tunnel To Scalability","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 21, 2025","Blockchain","Crypto","Defi","Hemi","Bitcoin can and will be an active participant in DeFi. Here's how.","Bitcoin's design prioritizes security and decentralization through limited operational complexity. While this has helped it become a store of value, these restrictions create integration challenges with DeFi platforms. The business opportunity lies in developing solutions to unlock Bitcoin's significant liquidity for DeFi applications, particularly by bridging the gap between Bitcoin and EVM-compatible networks.","In crypto, one way to move a currency to another chain is to “wrap” it. Typically, a central party takes custody of the assets to be wrapped and issues the wrapped version on the desired blockchain network.","Transporting Bitcoin across chains begins in the application layer, when a user interacts with a client interface, initiating a DeFi protocol of choice with their Bitcoin wallet. The user signs a transaction to initiate the conversion process, and as assets pass through the traditional bridge layer, they are converted to the standardized tokens that all subsequent DeFi interactions utilize.","Here are some examples of these tokens:","Redeemable Tokens - These can be redeemed on a 1:1 basis for the underlying asset, held in a pool by a custodian or protocol. Once the custodian or protocol locks the original asset, a holder of the wrapped asset may burn their wrapped versions to initiate redemption.","Synthetic Wrapped Tokens - A token that is managed via collateralized methods or derivatives. This method relies on oracles and price feeds, as well as over-collateralization to maintain a 1:1 peg.","Non-Redeemable Pegged Tokens - These assets are denominated in one currency but fixed to the value of another via supply and demand mechanics, often supported by collateral and algorithms. Though not directly related to the underlying asset to which they are pegged, they follow its price.","Fractionalized Wrapped Tokens - A token that represents a fraction of ownership of a larger locked asset. Assets are tokenized and divided into smaller pieces, represented by fractional tokens of the original.","Cross-Chain Representations - In this case, a token is locked on one blockchain while the bridge issues a facsimile on the other blockchain, either via a custody model or through a validator-driven protocol.","Whichever method a user opts for, after the conversion process, in the Protocol Layer,  the Bitcoin is free to be used across the DeFi ecosystem, trading, forming liquidity pools, lending, or optimizing rewards via a yield aggregator.An Infrastructure Layer composed of Oracles that feed price data, as well as Layer 2 networks and sidechains that offer execution environments to support the various platforms in the Protocol Layer. In a Base Layer, those execution environments rely on Bitcoin for ultimate settlement","This process suffices to move Bitcoin across chains and has helped to demonstrate the viability of Bitcoin outside the context of holding it onchain as a store of value. However, Hemi has an innovative method that more closely aligns with the decentralized ethos of Bitcoin.","Hemi, on the other hand, has an entirely new method for managing cross-chain traversal. It takes an entirely different – and more secure – approach with its tunnel. By integrating a full Bitcoin node on the hVM, Hemi becomes a connector between Bitcoin and EVM states without requiring a third party to handle custody or external validators. The integration allows Bitcoin to remain natively secure and function with trustless interaction within the hVM DeFi ecosystem. With this approach, Hemi minimizes attack vectors, maintaining decentralized, smart-contract-driven execution.The dynamic ecosystem of Hemi incorporates a Data Layer in which a PostgreSQL, an open-source relational database, houses data storage accessible to all components. This method delivers efficient cross-component data communication and maintains consistency.The Network Nodes act as a dual network integration, feature integrations with Bitcoin and Ethereum, creating a seamless connection for both ecosystems. The nodes are interconnected with a scalable Optimistic Rollup Layer responsible for sequencing transactions, efficient transaction batching, proposing blocks, and executing transactions. Keeping pace with all onchain operations within the rollup is a Gas Optimization Layer that uses predictive analysis to ensure low gas fees.","The DeFi Protocol Layer is designed to work seamlessly with Hemi's infrastructure layers to provide low-cost swaps, efficient cross-chain operations, capital efficiency for liquidity, AI-driven improvements, and a scalable architecture. Liquidity pools reduce gas costs through batched transactions, optimize pricing with AI oracles, and efficiently execute trades. Cross-chain tunnels batch transfers, with help from AI Oracles to achieve precise timing, and leverage the rollup layer for rapid initial finality. A Low-Fee DEX implements features such as AI-powered price discovery, gas-optimized trade execution, and batch processing of trades for fast, low-cost settlement.","With all these components acting as gears in Hemi’s engine, for a user, the experience is simplified allowing them to interact with DeFi protocols with a single interface while cross-chain operations are handled behind the scenes, instead of taking the added step of wrapping Bitcoin through a potentially unstable bridge.","Of the explored methods that transfer Bitcoin across chains, only Hemi's dynamic ecosystem featuring tunnels achieves it without compromising decentralization or trustlessness. Traditional wrapping methods – including redeemable tokens, BitGo's Wrapped BTC (WBTC), or cross-chain representations like Wormhole BTC – rely on intermediaries as custodians or a validator-driven protocol to lock Bitcoin and issue facsimile tokens onto other networks. These methods may have initially enabled limited DeFi interactions for Bitcoin holders but compromise the core principles that make Bitcoin valuable: decentralization, transparency, and security.","For instance, WBTC requires a central custodian, BitGo, to hold and maintain Bitcoin reserves. Users must trust BitGo to maintain the integrity of the reserve and honor redemption requests. Other cross-chain methods that use validators to lock and manage issuance are more decentralized than a custodial protocol but introduce potential vulnerabilities related to the limited size of validator pools and their governance. These vulnerabilities leave openings for exploitation, like the $325 million 2022 Wormhole Bridge attack.","Hemi's asset tunnels eliminate risks commonly associated with wrapped asset bridges:","Custodial risks - With no centralized entity holding Bitcoin reserves, users no longer rely on the competence, honesty, or dependability of a third party. This helps mitigate the possibility of fraud, regulatory seizure, or reserve mismanagement, issues inherent to cross-chain wrapping approaches.","Transparency - Each transaction and asset lock remains verifiable on-chain, giving users total transparency and the power to perform audits. Where validator-driven bridges may employ off-chain operations that muddle clarity, Hemi's on-chain operations can be fully analyzed.","Censorship Resistance - Without central control, asset transfers through tunnels to Hemi remain censorship-resistant, aligning with the ethos of accessibility that resonates with Bitcoin's founding principles.","Hemi's Tunnel - On Hemi, the Hemi Virtual Machine™  (hVM™) facilitates seamless interaction between Bitcoin and Ethereum states by integrating a full Bitcoin node within an EVM-like environment. As the network maintains protocol-level awareness for both Bitcoin and Ethereum, it enables the movement of assets between chains within this environment. Developers can leverage the Hemi Bitcoin Kit to create Bitcoin-aware, EVM-compatible applications with smart contract interactions that natively comprehend Bitcoin's state.","By solving for trust-minimized and secure methods to transfer Bitcoin across networks, Hemi's tunnel provides advantages in scalability and efficiency through reduced intermediary reliance. The streamlined interoperability of hVM transactions allows Bitcoin to participate in Ethereum-based DeFi applications on Hemi, enabling activities like borrowing, lending, and participating in liquidity pools.","By preserving the decentralized approach to cross-chain asset transfers, Hemi maintains Bitcoin's principles while unlocking its potential to interact with other networks in a seamless, trust-minimized, scalable way. For developers and users seeking to use their Bitcoin and integrate it with broader DeFi applications, Hemi provides a solution aligned with the values of decentralization and cross-chain functionality.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/connecting-bitcoin-to-defi"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-march-18-2025":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for March 18, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for March 18, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 18, 2025","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Who is ready to spit Rap God lyrics? The team wants to know.","Midweek with Max delivered another packed session filled with updates, announcements, and community-driven discussions.","The first highlight of the session was the introduction of two ecosystem partners, Oku and Artura. Oku is a front-end for Uniswap v3, providing a decentralized exchange aggregator and bridge integrations. Their representative, Alex, encouraged the community to test their features, including the ability to bridge assets seamlessly into Hemi. Oku aims to simplify trading with efficient routing and minimal slippage. Artura, previously known as BitPerp, presented its DeFi super app that offers leveraged trading across various tokens, meme coins, ordinals, and NFTs. Their team is working to integrate fully into Hemi’s ecosystem and will soon launch incentives and NFT events to engage users further.","Following these ecosystem introductions, Max and the team provided essential updates on the state of Hemi. With Mainnet now live, they reported increased activity, liquidity deployment, and more active EOAs. Testnet incentives have officially ended, but Testnet itself remains operational for development purposes. Meanwhile, Mainnet points tracking is being finalized and should be fully visible in the coming days. Demos verification will be a requirement for receiving rewards, ensuring a fair and Sybil-resistant system.","Addressing the frequently asked question of decentralization, Max explained that while Hemi is on the path to full decentralization, it is not entirely there yet. The team is actively working on decentralized sequencing, better on-chain economics, and an improved staking system. Hemi's proof-of-proof (PoP) mechanism provides unique security benefits, particularly in leveraging Bitcoin finality for irreversible transactions.","On the infrastructure side, discussions around nodes were a focal point. For those who purchased nodes in the private sale, setup will begin leading up to TGE, when nodes will start earning rewards. There will also be options for delegating node operations to infrastructure partners for those who prefer not to manage their own hardware.","A significant portion of the session was dedicated to pop mining. The current rewards system uses a temporary POPP (PoP Points) placeholder, with payouts divided among successful miners per keystone. This approach will evolve post-TGE, but participants were reminded to monitor transaction fees as Bitcoin fees can fluctuate. The team reaffirmed that pop mining remains a valuable way to earn pre-TGE incentives but requires careful cost consideration.","Technical improvements are also in the pipeline. The team acknowledged reports of occasional slow transactions and is actively working on fixes related to transaction propagation and nonce management. Users were advised to check fee settings to avoid unnecessary delays. UI upgrades, including dark mode and better user onboarding experiences for bridging Bitcoin, are also in progress.","The session wrapped up with a reminder about upcoming events, including an informal and chaotic live stream featuring the community’s infamous intern. For those interested in deep-dive technical discussions, developer documentation and additional resources are being prepared to support new builders joining Hemi’s ecosystem.","As always, Midweek with Max provided a mix of crucial updates, community engagement, and lighthearted moments. The excitement around Hemi continues to grow, and with more developments on the horizon, next week’s session promises even more insights into the future of the network.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-march-18-2025"},"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-relend-network-to-bring-stablecoin-liquidity-to-bitcoin-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Collaborates with Relend Network to Bring Stablecoin Liquidity to Bitcoin DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Collaborates with Relend Network to Bring Stablecoin Liquidity to Bitcoin DeFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["How rUSDC-hemi Works","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 21, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Relend","Relend Network will introduce rUSDC-hemi.","Hemi is collaborating with Relend Network to introduce rUSDC-hemi, a stablecoin designed to provide deep liquidity and financial stability for the next generation of Bitcoin DeFi applications. From day one, this integration ensures a strong foundation for stablecoin adoption within the Hemi ecosystem.","Stablecoin liquidity is critical for DeFi growth. By working with Relend Network, Hemi is securing substantial TVL in stable assets, giving developers the tools needed to build efficient, scalable financial applications on Bitcoin.","Relend Network relends liquidity from Ethereum Mainnet, providing a  collateralized debt position (CDP) stablecoin. The rUSDC-hemi instance unlocks credit for Hemi native money markets. rUSDC-hemi isbacked by both lending market collateral and USDC.","What this means for users::","Mint rUSDC-hemi by supplying USDC on Ethereum mainnet and bridging to Hemi","Borrow rUSDC-hemi from local money markets at scale","Redeem rUSDC-hemi at a 1:1 ratio with USDC on mainnet","Utilize rUSDC-hemi for seamless liquidity across the Hemi ecosystem","With this collaboration, developers building on Hemi will have immediate access to stablecoin liquidity, ensuring a reliable and efficient financial layer for Bitcoin DeFi.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-relend-network-to-bring-stablecoin-liquidity-to-bitcoin-defi"},"/blog/what-is-a-bitcoin-defi-app":{"version":1,"title":"What Is a Bitcoin DeFi App? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is a Bitcoin DeFi App?"],"h2":["Key Features of a Bitcoin DeFi App","Potential Bitcoin DeFi App Use Cases on Hemi","Hemi is the Home for Bitcoin DeFi Apps","Latest articles"],"h3":["Lending and Borrowing","Decentralized Trading","Yield Farming and Staking","Cross-chain Portfolio Management","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 24, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","DeFi has long eluded Bitcoin. That's about to change.","Bitcoin is the most widely known digital currency. However, as decentralized finance (DeFi) has revolutionized the financial landscape, its role has been primarily limited to a store of value or collateral asset. The emergence of Bitcoin DeFi apps bodes to change this, but what exactly is a Bitcoin DeFi app, and how does one expand Bitcoin’s utility?","A Bitcoin DeFi app is a decentralized application that leverages Bitcoin’s deep store of liquidity and infrastructure to enable financial services traditionally reserved for central institutions the same way as the existing gamut of DeFi platforms. Such apps enable users to engage in lending, borrowing, staking protocols, trading, and yield farming, using Bitcoin as a native asset without intermediaries, banks, or brokers.","The following features define a Bitcoin application:","Native Bitcoin Integration","Native Bitcoin Integration—Bitcoin DeFi apps operate by integrating Bitcoin natively through a sovereign, or sufficiently decentralized, tunnel. This gives users access to liquidity without relying on the assets wrapped by a centralized third party. This preserves the integrity of Bitcoin maintaining a decentralized chain without using custodians, or third-party systems.","Inherited Security—Bitcoin DeFi apps need to maintain the high level of security Bitcoin is known for. To achieve this, they must either integrate directly with Bitcoin’s infrastructure or build atop its existing security framework. By inheriting Bitcoin’s robust and secure protocol mechanisms, Bitcoin DeFi apps ensure trustless operation and protect user assets against compromise.","Cross-Chain Interoperability—By incorporating support for multiple networks, such as Ethereum, and others, a Bitcoin DeFi app ensures that traders can access a vibrant and diverse ecosystem of assets, and infuses those connected ecosystems with Bitcoin’s liquidity.","By integrating a fully indexed Bitcoin node within an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), dubbed the Hemi Virtual Machine™ (hVM™), Hemi is the perfect network for a wealth of possibilities for Bitcoin DeFi app developers. A few of these use cases include:","Bitcoin DeFi apps on Hemi can change the face of lending and borrowing by letting users use Bitcoin as collateral. Borrowers can leverage Bitcoin against stablecoins, or other vetted assets, without selling their underlying Bitcoin. Lenders are exposed to preferable yield rates, backed by Bitcoin’s liquidity, and secured on Hemi. Hemi’s architecture to support trustless setups eliminates the need for intermediaries and expands accessibility to lenders and borrowers, large and small.","Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs) are the cornerstone of DeFi. With its built-in support for Solidity-based platforms, hVM is the perfect place for existing DEXs to port over their infrastructure and find exposure to Bitcoin in a secure, performant environment. Unlike Bitcoin and Ethereum, Hemi’s efficient network facilitates high volumes of transactions at a comparatively fractional cost, fostering growth without exorbitant fees for traders.","The same friendliness hVM extends to DEXs and applies to any other solidity-based platform, enabling a wider world of DeFi activities beyond asset swaps. Hemi is integrated with the modular Cygnus layer, allowing developers to engineer staking and restaking mechanisms directly into apps. This opens up the possibility to use Bitcoin beyond a speculative asset, and potentially compound earnings across numerous liquidity protocols.","With native Bitcoin support integrated into an EVM, Hemi becomes the perfect foundation for tools that track assets across chains. A unified portfolio on Hemi reduces transaction costs, and meanwhile assures minimal risk, given the network’s robust Proof-of-Proof security protocol. Simplified asset management makes it possible for savvy traders to make the most of opportunities in diversification, arbitration, and capital-efficient yield optimization.","Bitcoin DeFi apps stand to redefine the way Bitcoin acts as an asset, providing true utility to the most widely recognized cryptocurrency. By leveraging Hemi’s architecture, developers can unlock a new era of Bitcoin-backed financial opportunities, previously relegated to other networks, paving the way forward to a future where Bitcoin takes its rightful place at the epicenter of the DeFi disruption.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-bitcoin-defi-app"},"/blog/how-to-pop-mine-on-the-hemi-mainnet":{"version":1,"title":"How to PoP Mine On the Hemi Mainnet - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How to PoP Mine On the Hemi Mainnet"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 14, 2025","Blockchain","How To","Mining","Pop","Pop Mining","This guide will show you how to configure your PoP Miner and add PoP Points to MetaMask.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-to-pop-mine-on-the-hemi-mainnet"},"/blog/hemi-and-allora-network-team-up-to-bring-decentralized-ai-price-prediction-to-defi-agents":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Allora Network Team Up to Bring Decentralized AI Price Prediction to DeFi Agents - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Allora Network Team Up to Bring Decentralized AI Price Prediction to DeFi Agents"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 24, 2025","Allora","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi agents will use Allora's collective intelligence network.","Hemi is working with the Allora Network to integrate decentralized, AI-powered price prediction into the Hemi ecosystem. This gives developers and users access to reliable BTC and ETH price feeds generated by Allora’s self-improving collective intelligence network.","With this integration, Hemi agents and protocols can make better use of market data to improve yield strategies and reduce risk. Developers can now build with high-quality predictive inputs, leading to more precise timing, better user outcomes, and new DeFi designs.","Key benefits for the Hemi ecosystem include:","Improved yield optimization using real-time BTC and ETH price predictions","Lower volatility risk for agents and protocols through better market foresight","Support for new protocol models built around predictive intelligence","Better decision-making for users through access to crowdsourced market signals","This collaboration supports Hemi’s goal of providing flexible, data-informed infrastructure for building high-performance DeFi systems.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-allora-network-team-up-to-bring-decentralized-ai-price-prediction-to-defi-agents"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-march-25-2025":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for March 25, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for March 25, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 26, 2025","This week's MwM was our biggest ever. Check it out!","Another packed Midweek with Max brought together the Hemi community, core team, and partners to talk tech updates, ecosystem expansion, and community questions. This week’s guest was Filip from Redstone, one of Hemi’s earliest collaborators.","Redstone is positioning itself as a challenger in the Oracle space. Filip, who joined Redstone early on, said the team’s culture is focused on saying “yes” and figuring things out. That mindset helped Redstone move fast and fill a gap left by more established oracle providers. Their push-model approach gained traction when major DeFi protocols needed accurate price feeds for assets that were previously unsupported. According to Filip, Redstone has now secured over $9 billion in value and offers full support for push-model price feeds on Hemi, including LSTs and LRTs like PumpBTC, mBTC, and BIFBTC.","Filip emphasized Redstone's alignment with Hemi’s focus on onchain-native assets. Redstone’s presence on Hemi is growing, with deployments already live for protocols like Descent, BitFi, and Satoshi Protocol. He invited devs building on Hemi to integrate their feeds, noting that everything is free to use and easy to implement.","From the Hemi core team, Max followed with a long set of updates. One of the most important was that SnapSync support for hVM is on the way. SnapSync will make it faster to spin up Hemi nodes by syncing only recent state data. It won't support full historical lookbacks, but for most users and devs, it's a useful shortcut to get started.","On the incentive side, Max said the mainnet point system has shifted. Points earned from Hemi staking have been reduced, and higher multipliers are now available to those who provide liquidity on DEXs and other productive protocols. A dashboard is now live showing those changes, including 3x, 5x, and 8x multipliers for specific LPs.","Testnet points from the Absinthe system are still being finalized, but the data cleanup process is nearly done. Mainnet pop point mining is live, and about 105 unique EOAs have already participated. Currently, 100 pop points are distributed per keystone, divided across all participants who publish a keystone to Bitcoin in time. Soon, the protocol will switch to a dynamic reward model that targets four miners per keystone.","Other core topics included tokenomics, TGE timing, and mainnet rewards. While no hard dates were given, Max reaffirmed that the HEMI token will likely use the ticker $HEMI, and details around emissions, allocations, and utility will be released closer to TGE. He also confirmed there will be CEX listings, and repeated that there is currently no HEMI token on the market—any that appear are fake.","Utility for the $HEMI token includes gas discounts, sequencer staking, DAO governance, and cross-chain infrastructure. Eventually, users will also be able to participate in custodianship systems and publish L3 state to Hemi. A converged staking system is also in development to let users participate across multiple parts of the protocol from a single stake.","In the final portion of the call, Jon Greenwood and Rick answered questions about Deimos, the anti-sybil tool used for user verification. While verification is not yet mandatory, it will be required at several stages, and users will need to verify multiple times to confirm long-term control over a wallet. Jon explained that the process includes a small fee to cover backend services.","The community portion shifted to lighter questions, including plans for Discord role perks, gaming sessions, and NFTs. Hemi Hatchlings will be minted soon on mainnet, and the team is exploring fun ways to recognize community involvement.","Midweek with Max is gaining momentum. Attendance hit a new record. So did the pace of announcements. Whether you’re tracking pop mining, building with hVM, or just trying to rack up points, the main thread was clear: Hemi is still early, but it’s moving fast.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-march-25-2025"},"/blog/earn-points-by-powering-hemi-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Earn Points By Powering Hemi DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Earn Points By Powering Hemi DeFi"],"h2":["Earn More Hemi Points For Providing DEX Liquidity","Mint VUSD and Tunnel To Hemi For More Points","Get Hemi Points By Staking","Latest articles"],"h3":["Eligible liquidity pairs:","Staking Core Assets (no multipliers):","Staking With 2x Hemi Points Multipliers and Partner Rewards","Staking With Partner-Specific Bonuses","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 25, 2025","Absinthe","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Points","How to secure rewards through providing liquidity and staking.","Hemi Points reward active users for providing liquidity, minting stablecoins on and tunneling them to Hemi and staking assets. Only Hemi brings your idle assets from Ethereum and Bitcoin ecosystems to life on a cohesive network anchored to Bitcoin’s security. Hemi creates new avenues for passive earning without added risk outside asset exposure or lengthy lockups.","Participate in a growing DeFi landscape that taps into the programmability of EVM-based chains and the security and deep liquidity of Bitcoin. Hemi interfaces with leading DEXs, including Sushi, DODO, Izumi, and Oku, where you can rack up passive returns, providing liquidity and earning rewards on select pairs.","Unlock even more points by providing liquidity across partnered DEXs. Earn 1 point for every dollar provided per day on partnered platforms, including Sushi, DODO, Izumi, and Oku. Earn multipliers for pairs with rates based on ecosystem relevance.","You can also earn 1 point for every dollar VUSD minted on Ethereum mainnet and 1 point for every VUSD tunneled to Hemi.","Earn 0.5 points per dollar daily, with multipliers for certain staked assets.","WBTC (with WBTC)","DAI (with Maker)","ETH (native)","VUSD (native)","iBTC (with exSat)","M-BTC (with Merlin Chain)","oBTC (with Obelisk)","rsETH (with KelpDao)","tBTC (with Threshold)","USDC.e (2x Hemi Points)","USDT (2x Hemi Points)","hemiBTC (native — 2x Hemi Points)","egETH (with EigenPie — 2x Hemi Points and EigenPie Points)","mBTC (with BabyPie — 2x Hemi Points and Babypie Jewels)","brBTC (with Bedrock for bonus Bedrock Diamonds)","uniBTC (with Bedrock for bonus Bedrock Diamonds)","enzoBTC (with Lorenzo for bonus Lorenzo Points)","stBTC (with Lorenzo for bonus Lorenzo Points)","pumpBTC (with PumpBTC for bonus PumpBTC Points)","uBTC (UniRouter for bonus UniRouter Points and B² Points)","With expanding partnerships, ongoing multipliers and incentives, and additional earning categories launching soon, more opportunities to earn points are just around the corner. Keep an eye out for announcements, earn more points, and rise through the ranks.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/earn-points-by-powering-hemi-defi"},"/blog/what-is-wrapped-bitcoin-a-simple-guide-to-wbtc-and-bitcoin-on-ethereum":{"version":1,"title":"What Is Wrapped Bitcoin? A Simple Guide to WBTC and Bitcoin on Ethereum - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is Wrapped Bitcoin? A Simple Guide to WBTC and Bitcoin on Ethereum"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["How Wrapped Bitcoin Works","Why Use Wrapped Bitcoin?","Risks and Limitations of Wrapped Bitcoin","Alternatives to Wrapped Bitcoin","Final Thoughts","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 1, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Wrapped Bitcoin attempts to bridge bitcoin and Ethereum.","Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) is a token that represents Bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain. It allows Bitcoin holders to use their BTC in Ethereum-based applications like decentralized exchanges (DEXs), lending protocols, and yield farming platforms. By wrapping Bitcoin into an ERC-20 token, WBTC bridges the gap between the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks, enabling interoperability between the two ecosystems.","Wrapped Bitcoin is created through a process called token wrapping. To mint WBTC, a user sends Bitcoin to a custodian. The custodian locks the BTC in a secure wallet and mints an equivalent amount of WBTC on Ethereum. This means that for every 1 BTC locked, 1 WBTC is issued. The reverse process—called burning—destroys WBTC on Ethereum and releases the corresponding BTC from custody.","This system depends on off-chain coordination and trusted custodians. It’s not fully decentralized, but it offers a practical solution for using Bitcoin in DeFi applications that are built on Ethereum.","Bitcoin is the most valuable cryptocurrency by market cap, but it lacks native support for smart contracts. Ethereum, by contrast, is the leading platform for decentralized applications. Wrapped Bitcoin allows users to tap into Ethereum's DeFi ecosystem without selling their BTC. With WBTC, Bitcoin holders can:","Trade on decentralized exchanges like Uniswap or Curve","Provide liquidity and earn yield","Use BTC as collateral for loans on platforms like Aave or Compound","Participate in DAO governance if WBTC is accepted","While WBTC increases Bitcoin’s utility, it comes with tradeoffs:","Custodial risk: WBTC depends on custodians and merchants. If these entities fail or are compromised, user funds could be at risk.","Centralization: Unlike Bitcoin, which is decentralized by design, WBTC relies on a consortium of institutions to manage the process.","Regulatory concerns: Custodial wrapped assets may be subject to legal and compliance challenges, especially across jurisdictions.","Wrapped Bitcoin is not the only way to bring Bitcoin into DeFi. New protocols are exploring trust-minimized, non-custodial methods for bridging Bitcoin to other chains. Projects like hemiBTC and others aim to reduce the need for trusted intermediaries by using decentralized networks, multi-party computation, and Bitcoin-native verification.","These alternatives keep Bitcoin closer to its original trust model while still making it useful in smart contract environments.","Wrapped Bitcoin is a key tool for bringing Bitcoin into the world of decentralized finance. It offers a way to earn yield, trade on DEXs, and access new financial tools—all while staying exposed to BTC. But it’s important to understand the underlying mechanics and risks. For those seeking a more decentralized option, new approaches are emerging that could offer a better blend of security and usability.","If you’re asking, “What is Wrapped Bitcoin?”—it’s a bridge, not a replacement. It brings the value of BTC to Ethereum, expanding the role of Bitcoin in modern crypto applications.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-wrapped-bitcoin-a-simple-guide-to-wbtc-and-bitcoin-on-ethereum"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-april-1-2025":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for April 1, 2025 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for April 1, 2025"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["LendOS and Leveraged DeFi","Hemibros Launches With a Game","708M TVL and #1 on DeFiLlama","Infra, Nodes, and Upcoming Releases","Points, Verification, and Airdrop Talk","Builder Roles, Rap Gods, and Game Nights","Wrap-Up","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 1, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Builders, Games, and 708M Reasons to Celebrate","Welcome back to another episode of Midweek with Max. This week was dense, fun, and full of great community energy, plus two standout guests doing real work in the Hemi ecosystem. Let’s get right into it.","Mike from LendOS (aka Zipoken) walked us through the next iteration of lending markets: LP-backed loans and leveraged DEX strategies. They’re letting users supply assets and auto-arbitrage across markets. What stood out? Their focus on enabling cross-chain lending, with support for LP collateral from UniV2 and V3. That’s 18B in dormant liquidity that could be turned into leverage.","They’re already live on Hemi, so the call to action from Mike was clear: Try it out. Supply, borrow, and give feedback. Their DMs are open.","Next up was Asan from Hemibros, who’s dropping the first playable game on Hemi. It’s a 2D pixel farming sim (think Stardew Valley meets Web3), and it’s built from the ground up on the network. Each NFT in the Hemibros collection becomes a playable character. It’s a mix of nostalgia, farming, quests, and community chill — something sorely missing in crypto right now.","They go live on MintPark this week. If you're looking for non-DeFi vibes on Hemi, this might be your place.","Yes, we saw it too. Hemi just hit $708 million in TVL, making it:","#1 Bitcoin sidechain","#11 among EVM chains","#14 overall","That’s not a typo. That’s organic activity from lending, LPs, staking, and devs showing up. Memes were requested. Hemi Bros were followed. Celebrate accordingly.","On the infra side:","Snap sync is working — full node setup guides are live","Daemon refactors underway to make node running modular","Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade is in rebase now","BitVM + Decentralized Sequencer planned for Q3","Meta-protocol notifications and better Bitcoin-EVM bridge logic in the works","A quick recap of the Airdrop discussion with Max:","Yes, there will be points for economically useful mainnet activity.No, you won’t get points just for bridging or transaction spamming.Yes, LP points are tracked even if the dashboard hasn’t caught up.Yes, testnet pop miner points are coming.Yes, verification will start this week.Yes, tokenomics and TGE are getting finalized.And no — there is no reward for getting a Hemi tattoo (please don’t).","We’ll say this clearly: we’re building a program that rewards participation with intent, not gaming. So stake, LP, lend, and engage — and if you’re part of it, you’ll see the benefits at TGE or shortly after.","Things we’re working on:","Builder roles for folks actually building on Hemi","Perks for OGs, Based Creators, and other community roles","New NFT drops (open season participants, stay tuned)","3D printable mascot files (yep, Migo might be on your shelf soon)","Also: if you can perform the first 45 seconds of Eminem’s Rap God, you get the Rap God role. Community voted. Not kidding.","To everyone still hanging out in the Discord, still asking questions, building tools, testing the game, or making memes — thank you. Hemi’s growth is not luck or hype. It’s because people keep showing up.","P.S. Screenshot people copying our memes and tag us on X. We'll give you XP.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-april-1-2025"},"/blog/hemi-will-work-with-eoracle-to-bring-secure-price-feeds-to-bitcoin-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Will Work With eOracle to Bring Secure Price Feeds to Bitcoin DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Will Work With eOracle to Bring Secure Price Feeds to Bitcoin DeFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 1, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Eoracle","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi is working with eOracle to bring trusted price feeds to its Layer 2 network, supporting secure DeFi apps and connecting Bitcoin with Ethereum.","Hemi is collaborating with eOracle to integrate reliable price feeds, providing developers with the data infrastructure needed to build secure and efficient DeFi applications. With eOracle’s integration, Hemi strengthens its foundation as a Bitcoin Layer 2 that enables seamless interoperability with Ethereum.","Accurate price data is essential for DeFi protocols. By leveraging eOracle, key projects in the Hemi ecosystem—including LayerBank, Satoshi Protocol, ZeroLend, and Bima—will have access to trusted price feeds, ensuring stability and security in their smart contracts.","This collaboration reinforces Hemi’s commitment to providing developers with the essential tools for building scalable financial applications that connect Bitcoin and Ethereum.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-will-work-with-eoracle-to-bring-secure-price-feeds-to-bitcoin-defi"},"/blog/what-is-the-ethereum-pectra-upgrade":{"version":1,"title":"What Is the Ethereum Pectra Upgrade? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is the Ethereum Pectra Upgrade?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["What Is the Pectra Upgrade?","Key Features of Pectra","Why It Matters","What Comes After Pectra?","Final Thoughts","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":["1. EIP-7251: Raising the Validator Limit","2. EIP-3074: Delegation and Smart Wallet Features","3. PeerDAS: Laying the Groundwork for Full Danksharding","4. Other EIPs Being Considered"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","What you need to know about the new Ethereum Pectra upgrade.","Ethereum is gearing up for another major upgrade—called Pectra—set to follow the Cancun-Deneb (Dencun) upgrade that brought proto-danksharding to mainnet in March 2024. While Dencun focused on scaling the network through cheaper blobs for rollups, Pectra builds on that work and lays new foundations for the next stage of Ethereum’s roadmap: a more modular, user-friendly, and secure ecosystem.","Here’s what’s coming in Pectra, why it matters, and what to watch for.","Pectra is a combination of two upgrades: Prague on the execution layer and Electra on the consensus layer. Together, they’re expected to bring a wide range of technical improvements across validator operations, wallet usability, smart contract functionality, and cross-chain compatibility.","It’s currently targeted for late 2024 or early 2025, but as always with Ethereum, final dates depend on how testing goes.","Right now, each Ethereum validator is limited to 32 ETH. That means anyone staking large amounts must run multiple validators, which increases overhead. EIP-7251 raises this cap—possibly up to 2,048 ETH per validator. It’s a big change that could streamline operations for large stakers and improve network efficiency.","EIP-3074 introduces a way for externally owned accounts (EOAs)—regular Ethereum wallets—to delegate control to a contract. This will make it easier to batch transactions and use features we now associate with smart contract wallets (like session keys or account abstraction) without changing how wallets are structured.","It’s a bridge between today's basic wallets and the more powerful smart wallets expected to dominate in the future.","Pectra continues work on Ethereum’s long-term scaling plan. With PeerDAS (Peer-to-Peer Data Availability Sampling), nodes can efficiently verify that data is available without downloading all of it. It’s a critical step toward full danksharding and long-term scalability.","Improvements to signature aggregation","Enhancements for light clients","UX-focused features for dapp developers and users","Refinements in how validators communicate and sync","The final EIP list for Pectra is still being discussed. Ethereum core developers are expected to lock it down in the coming months.","Pectra is less flashy than upgrades like Merge or Dencun, but its impact could be just as meaningful. It focuses on:","Making Ethereum easier to use for both developers and end users.","Reducing technical debt by introducing more modular and scalable design.","Preparing for full danksharding, which will eventually enable massive throughput for rollups.","Strengthening validator operations, especially for institutional and high-volume stakers.","It also signals Ethereum’s maturing architecture. Instead of single-purpose upgrades, Pectra delivers incremental progress across many parts of the stack.","Looking ahead, the Ethereum roadmap still includes:","Full danksharding, building on Dencun and Pectra.","Verkle Trees, to help shrink node sizes and improve sync.","Statelessness, reducing the cost of running full nodes.","Continued progress on account abstraction and user-friendly wallets.","In short, Ethereum is moving steadily toward a future where it's cheaper, faster, and easier to use—without sacrificing decentralization or security.","Pectra might not make headlines like The Merge, but it’s an important chapter in Ethereum’s ongoing development. It clears out pain points, builds in flexibility, and moves the chain closer to its long-term goals. If you’re a builder, a staker, or just an interested observer, keep your eye on this one.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-the-ethereum-pectra-upgrade"},"/blog/what-is-decentralized-ai":{"version":1,"title":"What Is Decentralized AI? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is Decentralized AI?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["What Is Decentralized AI?","Where Hemi Fits In","Looking Ahead","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 3, 2025","AI","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Decentralized AI or DeAI is a way for LLM models and other machine learning tools to interact with decentralized blockchains in a way that prevents centralized ownership and control.","Artificial intelligence is becoming a core component of the internet. As large language models, autonomous agents, and algorithmic systems gain ground, the question is no longer whether AI will be part of the digital economy—but who will control it, how it will be accessed, and whether it will remain open. Decentralized AI is a direct response to that question, and Hemi is building infrastructure that supports its practical use on-chain.","Decentralized AI refers to artificial intelligence that operates across decentralized system rather than being controlled by a single platform. In traditional settings, large AI models are built, hosted, and served by single entities—usually tech companies with the resources to handle the scale (OpenAI and Google, for example.) This creates control bottlenecks, limits access, and introduces risks related to censorship, opacity, and economic gatekeeping.","A decentralized approach breaks that model. It spreads computation, access, and governance across a network. Models can be run by independent nodes. Data can be stored on distributed networks. Decisions about upgrades, monetization, or usage can be made collectively, rather than dictated by a single firm. It’s a way to keep AI systems permissionless, open, and composable.","Hemi is a Bitcoin-secured, Ethereum-aligned protocol that supports low-cost, modular, and developer-friendly infrastructure. Hemi is well-positioned to support AI out of the gate. There are three reasons for that.","First, modularity. Hemi enables developers to build or plug into execution environments that fit their needs. This is ideal for AI systems, which often require custom logic, event-driven execution, or resource-optimized environments.","Second, interoperability. AI systems aren’t isolated. They consume data, trigger actions, and make decisions that touch many parts of the stack. Hemi’s ability to interact with Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems—and soon other chains—means that on-chain AI agents aren’t locked in. They can hold assets, call contracts, and move value across networks.","Third, cost and scalability. AI agents can be chatty. Whether they're executing trades, making DAO proposals, or submitting compute requests, they generate on-chain activity. Hemi’s low-latency and low-fee design makes this sustainable, even for high-frequency agent systems.","There are already signs of decentralized AI emerging on Hemi. Tools like Truth Terminal, an LLM-based agent created by developer Andey Ayrey, have demonstrated the ability of on-chain AI to interact with users and execute DeFi strategies autonomously. These agents aren't just bots—they're programmable economic actors that can access liquidity, reason about actions, and adapt in real time.","The development of decentralized AI is still early. Key problems—model hosting, shared memory, fine-tuned incentives—are being worked out. But the infrastructure is forming. Hemi offers a strong base layer for AI systems that need to operate in public, shared environments. It aligns with the goals of decentralized AI: permissionless access, programmable logic, open composability, and cross-chain reach.","As more developers experiment with LLMs, agent systems, and decision automation, decentralized networks will need to step up. Hemi is already in that position. And as the next generation of AI moves from labs to public chains, Hemi may be one of the places where it learns to think.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-decentralized-ai"},"/blog/what-is-a-decentralized-exchange-dex":{"version":1,"title":"What Is a Decentralized Exchange (DEX)? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is a Decentralized Exchange (DEX)?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["How a DEX Works","Benefits of Using a Decentralized Exchange","Risks and Tradeoffs","The Role of DEXes in DeFi","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 2, 2025","A guide to understanding DEXes and how they differ from traditional crypto platforms","A decentralized exchange (DEX) is a type of cryptocurrency trading platform that allows users to buy and sell digital assets directly with each other without relying on a central authority. Instead of using an intermediary like a bank or a centralized exchange (CEX), a DEX runs on blockchain protocols and smart contracts that automate trades in a secure, peer-to-peer environment.","This model gives users full control over their funds and trading activity. It also reduces the risk of hacks, freezes, or misuse of assets by centralized custodians. For many in the crypto space, decentralized exchanges represent a core part of the shift toward decentralized finance (DeFi).","At the heart of any decentralized exchange is smart contract infrastructure. These self-executing programs, built mostly on blockchains like Ethereum, allow trades to happen automatically when certain conditions are met. Unlike centralized exchanges, which manage order books and custody funds, a DEX simply connects traders through code.","There are two main types of DEX designs:","Automated Market Makers (AMMs): These use liquidity pools rather than traditional order books. Users deposit assets into pools, and trades happen against those pools. Pricing is determined algorithmically. Examples include Uniswap, Curve, and Balancer.","Order Book DEXes: These mimic the structure of centralized platforms more closely, with buyers and sellers placing bids and asks. Some operate entirely on-chain, while others use hybrid models with off-chain order books but on-chain settlement. Examples include dYdX and Loopring.","A DEX offers several advantages over centralized alternatives:","Custody of funds: Users hold their own private keys. No centralized entity controls user assets.","Privacy: Most decentralized exchanges don’t require know-your-customer (KYC) verification, which appeals to users seeking anonymity.","Censorship resistance: DEXes are open protocols. There’s no centralized party that can block trades or freeze accounts.","Global access: Anyone with a crypto wallet and internet connection can use a DEX. There are no account approvals or regional restrictions.","While decentralized exchanges offer more control, they also come with challenges:","User responsibility: You’re in charge of your own funds and private keys. Losing access means losing your crypto.","Slippage and front-running: Poor liquidity or slow block times can lead to bad prices, especially on smaller DEXes.","Smart contract bugs: A flaw in the code can be exploited, draining funds from pools or breaking trading logic.","Limited fiat onramps: DEXes typically don’t support direct deposits or withdrawals in government-issued currencies.","DEXes are a foundational layer of DeFi, enabling permissionless and trust-minimized trading of tokens. They support functions like yield farming, staking, liquidity provision, and token swaps. Many DeFi protocols integrate directly with DEXes to power lending markets, stablecoin trading, and synthetic asset creation.","As decentralized exchanges evolve, they’re expanding into new areas like derivatives, perpetual futures, and cross-chain swaps. The growth of Layer 2 networks like Arbitrum and zkSync also helps DEXes scale by reducing transaction fees and settlement times.","A decentralized exchange, or DEX, offers a trustless, user-controlled way to trade cryptocurrencies. It is a key part of the broader DeFi ecosystem and reflects the ethos of decentralization that underpins blockchain technology. While they come with tradeoffs, DEXes are rapidly gaining traction as secure, transparent alternatives to traditional crypto platforms. Whether you’re swapping tokens, earning yield, or building a new DeFi app, understanding how DEXes work is essential.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-decentralized-exchange-dex"},"/blog/what-is-an-evm-wallet":{"version":1,"title":"What Is an EVM Wallet? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is an EVM Wallet?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Evm","Hemi","An EVM wallet stores blockchains that support the Ethereal Virtual Machine (EVM).","An EVM wallet is a software tool that lets users interact with blockchains that support the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). These wallets store private keys, manage user identities, and make it possible to send transactions and run smart contracts. Without an EVM wallet, using Ethereum or any EVM-compatible chain is almost impossible.","The Ethereum Virtual Machine is the runtime environment that executes smart contracts on the Ethereum network. It acts like a global computer. If a blockchain is “EVM-compatible,” it can run the same kinds of smart contracts and use the same tools as Ethereum. That includes wallets.","The most common EVM wallet is MetaMask. Others include Rabby, Trust Wallet, and Frame. These wallets can be browser extensions, mobile apps, or desktop programs. They work by storing a user’s private key securely, usually protected by a password or biometric method. That private key gives access to the user’s Ethereum address and funds.","The wallet’s main job is to let users sign and send transactions. This includes sending ETH, using DeFi apps, minting NFTs, or interacting with a DAO. The wallet formats the transaction, sends it to the network, and shows the result. Since EVM wallets work across all EVM chains, they can connect to Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and others. The same wallet address can be used across all of them.","Another use of the wallet is identity. Many applications use “Sign in with Ethereum,” where the wallet proves the user’s control of their address. This becomes a portable identity across web3. It removes the need for usernames and passwords. Instead, the user just signs a message in their wallet.","EVM wallets can also handle multiple accounts and networks. They let users switch between Ethereum mainnet and testnets like Goerli, or between Layer 2 chains and sidechains. They show token balances and NFTs, and they can be extended with custom RPC endpoints for niche use cases.","Security is the weak point. If someone gets access to your private key or recovery phrase, they can steal your assets. Wallets try to prevent this with warnings, secure recovery flows, and sometimes hardware support. But phishing and social engineering are still common.","In short, an EVM wallet is not just a crypto wallet. It’s a gateway to the entire Ethereum ecosystem. It stores assets, manages identity, signs transactions, and connects to apps. For anyone using Ethereum, it's the first and most important tool in their arsenal.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-an-evm-wallet"},"/blog/defai-and-decentralization-on-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"DeFAI and Decentralization on Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["DeFAI and Decentralization on Hemi"],"h2":["The Rise of the DeFAI Agent","Ethical DeFAI Deployment","Hemi’s Decentralized Approach to AI Integrity","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 3, 2025","AI","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","The rise of AI will reshape crypto. Here's how Hemi helps.","The rapid evolution of AI is reshaping industries across the board, including blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi). While concerns about misuse still exist, the current conversation is less about dystopian futures and more about how to build AI systems that are open, accountable, and decentralized.","Decentralized AI—sometimes referred to as DeFAI—is an emerging field focused on combining large language models (LLMs) and other AI tools with decentralized infrastructure. This approach aims to reduce dependence on a single provider, improve transparency, and enable new kinds of applications that align with the values of Web3.","https://hemi.xyz/blog/what-is-decentralized-ai/","One notable example is Truth Terminal, a chatbot developed by AI engineer Andey Ayrey. It gained attention for interacting with crypto traders on X and executing profitable DeFi trades on its own. Truth Terminal represents one of the first LLMs to function as an autonomous on-chain agent, showing how AI can operate in permissionless environments.","This is just the beginning. As developers continue experimenting with open models, autonomous agents, and on-chain coordination, decentralized AI is quickly becoming a meaningful part of the broader Web3 stack.","It all began in July 2024, when a curious decision by venture capitalist Marc Andreeson to donate $50,000 in Bitcoin to Truth Terminal following an X exchange put AI agents on everyone’s radar. Fanning the fire with bizarre meme-driven outputs, Truth Terminal rose to the top of the crypto news cycle among DeFi traders, particularly with the promotion of the $GOAT cryptocurrency on the Solana network.","The bot proved to possess trading prowess, as its wallet accumulated tokens now valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. As devs attempted to replicate Truth Terminal’s wild success it became a watershed moment for the convergence of AI and DeFi, the birth of a growing DeFAI movement, where sometimes sassy AI-driven agents vie for market share and mindshare alike.","Autonomous agents soon began executing investment strategies, analyzing market trends, and transacting across numerous chains. Simultaneously, tokens representing such agents emerged, representing these agents as financial instruments, further integrating them into the DeFi landscape.","Tokenized AI services have enormous potential, but their rise also raises critical concerns over how the growing influence of the harbingers of DeFAI wield their influence over markets and social behaviors.","While these advancements unlock potential, they also raise significant questions about governance, ethics, and transparency. Addressing these challenges is where the core principle of Web3, comes into play; decentralization. Sufficiently distributed blockchain networks provide governance mechanisms and transparent consensus mechanisms that address the systemic risk of AI implementations.","AI frameworks like Eliza Labs’ ElizaOS have taken steps toward the integration of Web3 and AI, demonstrating how such agents can operate effectively in decentralized environments by leveraging modular architectures. For AI agents, context-aware behavior is extremely important, and achieving it requires robust memory management, fine-tuned state tracking, and seamless multi-chain interaction.","ElizaOS succeeds with context-relevant decision-making so developers can use it as a framework to deploy agents ready to interact with smart contracts, manage tokenized assets, and potentially even generate NFTs while maintaining a baseline of decentralization.","By embedding AI within a trustless, immutable ledger, decisions can be verified, monitored, and audited. This preempts faulty decision points and reduces the vulnerability of tampering or unauthorized executions and ensures that AI applications operate securely, openly, and with responsibility, which can be difficult to achieve in centralized implementations.","Hemi integrates decentralization at every critical intersection of its architecture, ensuring a network primed to address the challenges of a rapidly evolving DeFAI arena. If an ideal DeFAI ecosystem champions accountability, Hemi provides an optimal foundation. Its architecture prioritizes transparency and decentralization, and the network achieves superfinality with its hybrid consensus mechanism.","By creating a trust-minimized environment fixated between Ethereum and Bitcoin, Hemi provides AI agents, such as those created via ElizaOS, with diverse datasets spanning multiple chains. Hemi supports both EVM-based and Bitcoin-based assets and dynamic multi-chain trading strategies. The network’s native support for Bitcoin and EVM-states eliminates the need for centralized oracles or price feeds that can be tampered with, ensuring that all onchain operations take place with a clear, auditable framework.","Proof-of-Proof, Hemi’s hybrid consensus model, further protects the network by anchoring validated transaction data to Bitcoin’s highly secure Proof-of-Work network. With a dual layer of validation, Hemi’s rigorous layers of decentralization deter rogue AI agents by establishing a clear, tamper-resistant chain of accountability for all AI-driven activities.","Hemi is ready to support the transformative use cases where AI and blockchain networks converge. Whether it's decentralized identity systems, autonomous decision-making protocols, or secure data-sharing networks, Hemi lends its infrastructure to operational integrity. By prioritizing security, transparency, and distributed governance Hemi can support a more ethical and responsible DeFAI landscape.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/defai-and-decentralization-on-hemi"},"/blog/hemi-working-with-relay-to-enable-fast-low-cost-cross-chain-transactions":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Working With Relay to Enable Fast, Low-Cost Cross-Chain Transactions - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Working With Relay to Enable Fast, Low-Cost Cross-Chain Transactions"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 3, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Partnerships","Hemi is collaborating with Relay to cut costs and speed up cross-chain transactions between Bitcoin and Ethereum.","Hemi is collaborating with Relay, a cross-chain payments system that streamlines bridging and transaction execution across Bitcoin and Ethereum. This integration enhances Hemi’s goal of creating a seamless supernetwork by reducing both cost and latency for cross-chain interactions.","With Relay’s optimistic execution model, users and developers in the Hemi ecosystem gain access to:","Fast Transactions – Relayers can fill orders before final confirmation, enabling small payments to settle in seconds.","Minimal Gas Costs – Optimized execution reduces gas fees by up to 6x compared to alternatives.","Simplified Architecture – Relay operates with a single relayer per chain, making it a natural fit for Hemi’s lightweight infrastructure.","Enhanced User Experience – Seamless bridging, NFT minting, and gas abstraction improve usability for developers and end-users.","This integration is particularly valuable for price-sensitive applications building on Hemi. Developers can now incorporate cross-chain functionality without high gas fees or long confirmation times, unlocking new use cases for decentralized finance, payments, and asset transfers.","By reducing friction in cross-chain operations, Hemi and Relay are expanding the possibilities for Bitcoin and Ethereum interoperability, making previously impractical applications more accessible.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-working-with-relay-to-enable-fast-low-cost-cross-chain-transactions"},"/blog/hemi-and-1delta-to-offer-margin-trading-without-the-friction":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and 1delta to Offer Margin Trading Without the Friction - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and 1delta to Offer Margin Trading Without the Friction"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 4, 2025","1delta","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","1delta combines swaps, bridging, and margin trading.","Hemi has integrated with 1delta, a meta aggregator that simplifies DeFi by combining swaps, bridging, margin trading, and 1-click leverage into one platform. This integration brings clear user benefits across the entire Hemi ecosystem.","Users can now swap assets on Hemi at better rates. 1delta aggregates multiple DEXs to ensure users get the best available price, without needing to manually check different platforms.","Bridging assets to Hemi from other chains is also more efficient. Instead of relying on a single bridge, 1delta aggregates routes across multiple bridges to deliver optimal routes to save gas.","Beyond swaps and bridges, 1delta enables seamless margin trading, where users can open and close long and short positions effortlessly. For those looking to build leveraged positions, 1delta offers 1-click looping — an automated strategy that eliminates the need to manually repeat the lend-borrow cycle, saving time and gas.","Because 1delta is built on top of existing lending protocols, users retain full control over their funds. They can even swap collateral or debt assets mid-position without having to unwind.","This collaboration brings unified experience to Hemi users without the usual complexity of traditional DeFi workflows.","For developers building on Hemi, this unlocks a faster way to swap and bridge. For traders, it offers a cleaner, more responsive experience — no need to switch between protocols or managing multiple steps.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-1delta-to-offer-margin-trading-without-the-friction"},"/blog/hemis-consensus-mechanisms-vs-traditional-layer-2-solutions":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi’s Consensus Mechanisms Vs. Traditional Layer 2 Solutions - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi’s Consensus Mechanisms Vs. Traditional Layer 2 Solutions"],"h2":["Legacy Layer 2 Chains Types","Sidechains","Payment Channels","State Channels","Plasma","What is Missing From Layer 2?","Bitcoin and Ethereum Unite Through Proof-of-Proof","Hemi Redefines Layer 2 Standards","Latest articles"],"h3":["Rollups","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 8, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Pop","Pos","Pow","Here's how Hemi's Proof-of-Proof stacks up against other L2 solutions.","Hemi uses Proof-of-Proof (PoP), a consensus mechanism rooted in Bitcoin’s finality. This imparts robust security to Hemi and sets it apart from other Layer 2 blockchains. So, how does the PoP model differ from other consensus mechanisms?","First, we should examine existing Layer 2 consensus mechanisms and their potential limitations to understand this. Current models, such as Rollups, Sidechains, and Payment Channels each take unique approaches to achieving consensus while balancing for scalability and efficiency. However, they often make trade-offs that impact security, decentralization, or network availability.","Using Bitcoin or Ethereum blockchains often results in high settlement fees, particularly during peak network use. To overcome the limitations of their base layers, Layer 2 solutions emerged some aligned with Ethereum, and some with Bitcoin.","What are Rollups? Rollups started in the Ethereum world as a method for scaling blockchains while still keeping decentralization and security intact. They work as Layer 2 systems by grouping many transactions together and sending a proof of those transactions to a Layer 1 blockchain like Ethereum. The L1 chain acts as the secure base, and the L2 rollup handles the heavy lifting—computation and storage—off-chain.","Rollups predominately occur in the Ethereum ecosystem, although the premise may be applied to other style chains. They leverage the security of the Layer 1 chain, thus inheriting that network’s decentralization, and post transaction data proofs to their parent network for immutability. Some examples of Rollups include and their consensus mechanisms:","Optimistic Rollups—These rely on a consensus mechanism that assumes all off-chain transactions are valid unless proven otherwise. Transactions are aggregated and executed off the L1 chain, with updates summarized and posted to the parent chain.","This approach sacrifices rapid finality by relying on fraud-proof systems to maintain transaction validity. Validators typically have seven days to dispute or challenge transactions, ensuring correctness but delaying finality until the dispute window closes. While this reduces the computational load on the main chain and improves scalability, the added latency can impact the end-user experience. Further, the burden falls on users to ensure critical transactions are valid and that there is an additional incentive layer for challenges to identify and flag bad transactions.","ZK Rollups—These use zero-knowledge proofs to validate off-chain transactions while inheriting the security of the parent layer. Aggregated transactions are executed off-chain, and cryptographic validity proofs are generated to ensure compliance with network rules. These proofs are then posted directly on the Layer 1 chain, reducing validity windows while preserving user data privacy.","Although ZK Rollups offer near-instant finality and strong security, their high computation costs, introduce development and operational complexity, which has somewhat dampened their adoption.","Sidechains operate in parallel to the Layer 1 network, be it Bitcoin or Ethereum, but rather than inheriting its security, they operate with their own consensus mechanism, which may differ from that of a Layer 1. Designed to be interoperable with the parent network, sidechains offload transactions and allow assets to be seamlessly transferred via a bridge. This method enables faster transactions with reduced fees.","However, sidechains can introduce risks, since their security relies on a separate validator network than the Layer 1 chain, often with a smaller and less decentralized participant pool. Sidechains also depend on the security of their bridge infrastructure, which can be a critical point of vulnerability.","Payment Channels offer low-cost transactions between two parties and operate off-chain, with funds locked in a multisig wallet, or smart contract. They can work for either Bitcoin or Ethereum. In this setup, participants can sign and update the channel’s state without broadcasting transactions to the Layer 1 blockchain. Upon closing the channel, the state of finality is broadcast to the blockchain, typically with a 24-48 hour dispute period, though some architectures allow for customizable time ranges. With their direction connections, Payment Channels are ideal for high-frequency, low-value transactions, such as micropayments.","However, because they necessitate a direct connection between participants, payment channels are limited to a narrow scope of use cases and are insufficient for interface with more complex applications. Furthermore, updating the state requires both parties to be online and available, often proving impractical. Closing the channel can introduce additional costs, particularly in the event of a dispute.","Similar to Payment Channels, State Channels also facilitate off-chain interaction between participants for a wide variety of transactions or operations. Their complex behavior means they are incompatible with Bitcoin due to the computational limitations of Bitcoin’s script language. However, for ecosystems that support smart contracts a wider array of information beyond cryptocurrency balances can be locked in a State Channel. This enables activities like gaming, decentralized governance, and off-chain computations. Once again, the state is locked in a multisig contract where participants agree on state changes.","As would be expected, State Channels also suffer similar drawbacks to Payment Channels. They rely on all participants being available during interactions, which can be a limitation. Since they are best suited for recurring interactions between fixed parties, their use cases are inherently limited.","Plasma is a Layer 2 solution that uses a Layer 1 network, such as Ethereum, to create semi-independent anchored child chains. Such child chains operate by processing transactions off-chain and occasionally submitting data summaries to the first layer. Plasma child chains are capable of supporting an independent consensus mechanism from the blockchain from which they sprout. However, the anchoring end-points in the Layer 1 network play a role in enforcing the validity of the child chain’s state at each check-in by enabling the creation and verification of cryptographic proofs.","If fraudulent behavior is detected at check-in, the invalid transactions or manipulated state may be disputed with a fraud-proof containing evidence that the state is incorrect during a challenge window, typically between 7 to 14 days.","Plasma is well-suited for transfers and payments but struggles to support general-purpose smart contracts. Meanwhile, its complex exit mechanisms force users to monitor the chain and act within specific timeframes for secure fund withdrawal.","What these network solutions lack is a unified environment that seamlessly supports both Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems. Where Payment Channels and Plasma focus on specific blockchains, Rollups and State Channels remain largely confined to Ethereum’s ecosystem due to its programmability. Sidechains are an attempt to bring together these worlds, but their reliance on smaller validator pools and bridge infrastructure raises security concerns.","This lack of interoperability holds networks back from leveraging Bitcoin’s deep liquidity and unmatched security with Ethereum’s flexibility. An environment that harmonizes these two ecosystems could address the limitations inherent in siloed Layer 2 networks.","Hemi uses PoP, a hybrid consensus mechanism that leverages the security of an existing blockchain, such as Bitcoin, to secure its network. The consensus, block production, and network security coordination on Hemi are facilitated by the Hemi Blockchain Kit (hBK), which serves as the core protocol layer managing the network’s foundational operations.","Hemi also employs sovereign decentralized tunnels for asset movement, allowing users to transfer assets between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hemi without relying on centralized entities or custodians. These tunnels ensure that assets remain securely stored in decentralized smart contracts, giving users full discretion over their deployment","Initially, Hemi uses a centralized sequencer, which will later be adapted to a validator-based Proof-of-Stake (PoS) system. The sequencer confirms transactions and produces new blocks.","Hemi further secures itself by anchoring to the Bitcoin network through PoP. Nodes called PoP miners periodically publish Hemi’s consensus data onto the Bitcoin blockchain, leveraging Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work security.","Hemi uses the information published on Bitcoin’s network to prevent reorgs, where an attacker attempts to replace or manipulate blocks by providing fraudulent data. Once a Hemi L2 block has reached a depth of 9 on Bitcoin, the network reaches a state of Superfinality. The additional blocks provide an extreme level of security for Hemi so that any malicious attempts to manipulate the network’s state will require greater amounts of computational power and coordination. An attacker would need to control a majority of both Hemi and Bitcoin networks to alter the state of the chain, which is economically, technically, and practically unfeasible.","On the developer side, Hemi offers an EVM-based environment through the Hemi Virtual Machine™  (hVM™), which includes a fully indexed Bitcoin node to enable seamless cross-chain functionality. The Bitcoin node also allows Hemi to directly access and verify Bitcoin blockchain data, free of third-party oracles, allowing developers to create EVM-based dApps with native Bitcoin awareness.","The Bitcoin node also provides the infrastructure needed to publish PoP transaction proofs directly to Bitcoin natively within Hemi, reducing latency. With a Bitcoin node built into the network, the hBK can use it to monitor the Bitcoin network for proof confirmations, so blocks can achieve finality and superfinality via Bitcoin’s consensus.","Hemi redefines what a Layer 2 network can achieve, harmonizing the security of Bitcoin with the flexibility of Ethereum, all within a scalable, developer-friendly environment. Its hybrid PoP consensus model combines Hemi with the unmatched immutability of Bitcoin’s PoW.","The use of sovereign tunnels for asset transfers of Ethereum and Bitcoin ecosystems promotes interoperability and averts single points of failure or custodial risk introduced by bridges. The EVM-compatible environment of cross-chain functional hVM lets developers build innovative apps featuring cross-chain functionality without compromising performance or security.","Hemi’s PoP allows the network to achieve a state of finality and resilience that surpasses traditional blockchain architectures. This layered approach eliminates the trade-offs common to Layer 2 solutions, setting a new standard for what blockchain networks can accomplish.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemis-consensus-mechanisms-vs-traditional-layer-2-solutions"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-april-8-2024":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max for April 8, 2024 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max for April 8, 2024"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 8, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Builders, Borrowers, Rappers, and Big News from Hemi.","This week’s Midweek with Max had a lot going on. The team brought in guests from Bima and 1delta, walked through key engineering updates, gave clarity on token timelines, and ended the session with live karaoke. No fluff, just builders talking through what they’re doing and where things are headed. And lots of singing.","Sid from Bima opened the session. He explained how Bima came out of a conversation with Tim Draper in an airport lounge. The idea was simple: let people borrow against their Bitcoin without having to sell it, and then use that capital in DeFi. He talked about how hard it was to build on Bitcoin in 2018. Today, the environment has shifted. Bima is one response to that shift—offering a collateralized debt position model that gives users flexibility and liquidity without giving up their BTC.","Sid explained why Hemi makes sense for Bima. The low fees, fast integration, and clear focus on retail made it appealing. He also gave a real-world use case: a family office in Argentina that lost its millionaire status multiple times due to volatility. Bima, in his view, offers a way to balance long-term BTC holding with short-term access to capital. He encouraged the community to check them out on X and Discord, where they’re hosting a UEFA watch party.","Next up was 1delta. The representative gave a short breakdown of what they’re building. Their project started with margin trading built on top of existing DeFi liquidity. They’re not trying to be a perpetuals platform—they route through lenders and DEXs to support cross-margin trading without the clunky UX that defines most DeFi today. He explained how they’re abstracting away the chain-switching pain and wallet errors that most users deal with. 1Delta’s DEX aggregator is live on Hemi, and lending integrations are coming soon.","On the protocol side, Max gave his usual roundup. Node running has gotten easier with new Docker profiles and documentation for Ubuntu. They’re supporting both full sync and snap sync setups. That’s especially helpful for ecosystem partners who want to run nodes in different configurations. He also gave a preview of what’s coming with the Ethereum Pectra upgrade. That’s scheduled for May 7 and includes upgrades that will help lower data availability costs. Those changes won’t dramatically impact Hemi right away, but they’ll help longer term as more L2s start competing for bandwidth.","There was also an update on ZK provability work, which is a step toward building out BitVM support. That’s one of the major roadmap milestones still on track for Q3.","PoP mining is about to change. Right now, PoP points are distributed based on a flat model. If a keystone gets 100 tokens and 5 miners, each miner gets 20. That’s shifting to a dynamic algorithm that targets 4 publications per keystone. If a block gets fewer than 4, the rewards will increase. If it gets more, they’ll decrease. That change will roll out before TGE and continue after, when actual tokens start being paid out.","The team also confirmed that PoP testnet points should show up this week. They’ve been cleaning up inconsistencies in how address data was stored. Mainnet LP points are expected to go live next week. The delay there had to do with the way LP positions are handled across DEXes, and how they rebase in real time. A fix is in progress with Absinthe and should be deployed soon.","On the community side, there was a lot of news. The Hemithic role is rolling out next week for early testers. You qualify if you joined the Discord before September 18, 2024, did five transactions on Sepolia, and minted a Demos ID. That role comes with an exclusive NFT. There will also be a separate set of pixel NFTs for creators. People holding the Hemi content creator or base role will get one. So will folks who won past contests. Each NFT is capped at 500.","There’s also a new plan to run weekly activities. That includes game nights, contests, and other events. These will come with their own perks—XP, points, possibly even more roles. And for the first time, the Rap God role is open to anyone willing to sing at the end of the AMA. Three community members stepped up and sang live—gospel, pop, and Ed Sheeran made appearances. It’s now a tradition and it's glorious.","Finally, Hair Token is real. It started as a joke about Max’s hair and has turned into a meme coin backed by the community. Contracts are done. A DAO is planned. Launch is a few weeks away. It’ll run on Hemi.","This was one of the more complete and wide-ranging sessions yet. Builders showed up. The roadmap got clarified. Songs were sung. POP rewards are getting smarter. And karaoke might be the thing that keeps this community going through bear cycles.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-april-8-2024"},"/blog/spectra-pools-are-now-live-on-hemi-with-over-18m-seeded-liquidity":{"version":1,"title":"Spectra Pools Are Now Live On Hemi With Over $18M Seeded Liquidity - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Spectra Pools Are Now Live On Hemi With Over $18M Seeded Liquidity"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 23, 2025","Blockchain","Hemi","Partnership","Yields on Hemi are expanding, with another $18M in liquidity entering the network through Spectra pools.","Spectra, a permissionless yield protocol, is now live on Hemi. The launch includes a BitFi bfBTC pool seeded with over $18M.","Spectra puts idle Bitcoin to work—generating passive returns through pool fees, native asset yield, fixed rates, and leveraged yield. Additional rewards are available through points programs.","Hemi offers direct access to bfBTC. Users can stake HemiBTC on BitFi to receive bfBTC and start earning with Spectra. With Hemi points, users can gain an 8x points bonus for providing liquidity with hemiBTC and bfBTC to Spectra pools, and a 10x bonus for holding bfBTC YT.","Spectra supports several ways to earn Bitcoin-backed yield. Fixed rates allow users to mint Principal Tokens (PTs), which lock in a fixed return on a given asset. Hemi users can pay upfront, wait for maturity, and redeem for the original amount plus yield.","The Yield Leverage tool increases notional exposure. With just 0.1 bfBTC, users can earn yield and points equivalent to 3.5 bfBTC, offering roughly 34x yield leverage. Yield Tokens (YTs) entitle holders to the underlying asset's future yield and offer the highest Hemi points multiplier.","Hemi pools support swaps between PTs and YTs. Liquidity providers earn from swap fees, fixed rate returns from PTs, and the native yield of the underlying asset. Pools with a gauge also distribute SPECTRA rewards and additional points to LP token holders.","Hemi and Spectra are expanding BTCFi tools and liquidity. Visit Spectra Finance to get started.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/spectra-pools-are-now-live-on-hemi-with-over-18m-seeded-liquidity"},"/blog/hemi-and-zns-connect-collaborate-to-support-hvm-domains":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and ZNS Connect Collaborate to Support .hvm Domains - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and ZNS Connect Collaborate to Support .hvm Domains"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 8, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Zns Connect","Users will be able to access a new TLD supported by the Web3 domain manager.","Hemi is collaborating with ZNS Connect to bring support for .hvm domains to the Hemi virtual machine.","ZNS Connect is a decentralized naming system designed to simplify Web3. It replaces complex blockchain addresses with short, human-readable names. With .hvm domain support, users will be able to access personalized Web3 pages, manage their digital identity, and interact with Hemi-based apps using ZNS names.","This collaboration adds another layer of utility to the Hemi stack. By using ZNS Connect’s domain tools, developers and users on Hemi can create secure, alphanumeric wallet identifiers that work across blockchains. They can also access apps, DEXs, and other tools directly via their .hvm domain.","The integration is part of ZNS Connect’s goal to make Web3 more usable, safer, and open. Hemi’s addition gives ZNS users new options for decentralized computing, and gives Hemi users a simple, readable way to interact on chain.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-zns-connect-collaborate-to-support-hvm-domains"},"/blog/inside-the-engine-room-a-recap-of-the-first-hemi-protocol-engineering-ama":{"version":1,"title":"Inside the Engine Room: A Recap of the First Hemi Protocol Engineering AMA - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Inside the Engine Room: A Recap of the First Hemi Protocol Engineering AMA"],"h2":["Two Teams, One Protocol","Refactoring the Stack","POP Mining and Finality","ZK Proofs, BitVM Tunnels, and More","Decentralized Sequencing","Chain Builder and the L3 Future","HVM: Bitcoin Inside the EVM","Calling All Builders","What’s Next","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 11, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","“The best things to come out of Hemi won’t be built by us—they’ll be built by you.”","The first-ever Hemi Protocol Engineering AMA gave the community a look under the hood of the tech stack that powers Hemi. Max Sanchez, Joshua, John (JCV), and Antonio from the core protocol engineering team walked through everything from Bitcoin finality to the future of decentralized sequencing and the nitty-gritty of hVM internals.","Here’s a recap of what’s happening and what’s next.","At Hemi, engineering is split into two focus areas. The apps team handles UI, backend tools, and user-facing integrations. The protocol team focuses on the core protocol: hVM, consensus, daemons, POP mining, BitVM, and more.","The AMA featured the protocol engineers—people who spend their days building and maintaining the core infrastructure that connects Bitcoin and Ethereum into a secure, programmable environment.","One of the biggest projects underway is a full refactor of the Hemi daemons—breaking out and modularizing services like BFG, BSS, OpNode, and OpGeth. The goal is to make it easier to run nodes in different configurations. Whether you’re a payment processor, a DApp builder, or just want to run a POP miner without relying on public infra, the new structure will let you pick the minimal setup needed for your use case.","The team’s also shipping support for things like running a standalone TBC (tiny Bitcoin client) node, integrating BFG as a standalone Bitcoin finality service, and expanding node configurability.","POP mining—the process of publishing Hemi state to Bitcoin—is central to Hemi’s model. With the updated tooling, users can mine POP points using their own local stacks. Testnet POP point dashboards are now live and reflect deduplicated address data, giving miners a more accurate view of their activity and rewards.","While testnet supported browser-based POP mining, the team has deprecated the Web POP miner for mainnet due to security concerns. Browsers aren’t secure enough to handle key material, and smart miners will use the CLI or run local infrastructure.","The protocol team is also working on adding zero-knowledge settlement to Ethereum. This unlocks fast finality with fallbacks to optimistic proofs. Alongside that effort is development on BitVM-based Bitcoin tunnels—making capital-efficient, secure Bitcoin bridging possible without relying on custodians.","These tunnels will enable a more secure vault system for bridging BTC to Hemi, reducing reliance on overcollateralized vaults over time.","Hemi’s long-term roadmap includes decentralizing its sequencer. Likely based on a variant of Ethereum’s proof-of-stake, the system will benefit from Bitcoin finality via Proof-of-Proof, while gaining liveness-preserving features of PoS consensus. The team is also exploring implementing single-slot finality for even faster confirmations.","Chain Builder is Hemi’s upcoming Layer 3 ecosystem. It allows developers to launch custom L3s on Hemi that inherit Bitcoin security through Hemi’s aggregation layer. L3s can opt into hVM, Proof-of-Proof, and shared sequencing/data availability for cheaper, more secure chain launches.","By anchoring state to Hemi (and ultimately Bitcoin), L3s can interoperate across the Hemi network with mutual Bitcoin finality—a powerful security guarantee without high on-chain fees.","hVM gives Solidity developers native access to Bitcoin’s state—without oracles, relays, or trusted third parties. It’s built around a deterministic, fully-indexed Bitcoin node (TBC) that mirrors the Bitcoin state machine inside Hemi. Through precompiles and the HemiBitcoinKit, contracts can query the UTXO set, detect transactions, and build applications that interact with native Bitcoin directly from EVM code.","This makes it possible to build Bitcoin-native apps like non-custodial DEXs, lending protocols, BRC20 infrastructure, and even Bitcoin-aware DAOs—all in Solidity.","To support external devs, the team is launching a semi-private Builders Channel on Discord. It will give direct access to protocol engineers for anyone serious about building on Hemi. Expect criteria for entry, but the goal is to make it easy for serious developers to get the support they need.","As JCV put it: “The best things to come out of Hemi won’t be built by us—they’ll be built by you.”","More AMAs are coming. Future sessions will cover the BitVM design in detail, the economics of POP, and more. If you're working on a project, experimenting with hVM, or just want to get deeper into the protocol, the Builders Channel will be the place to do it.","Thanks to everyone who joined the session. Hemi’s growing fast—and this community is what will shape it next.","Want to build on Hemi?Join the Builders Channel on Discord. Ask questions. Share your idea. You might be building the next big thing on Bitcoin and Ethereum.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/inside-the-engine-room-a-recap-of-the-first-hemi-protocol-engineering-ama"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-april-15-2024-builders-partners-and-a-ton-of-momentum":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max April 15, 2025: Builders, Partners, and a Ton of Momentum - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max April 15, 2025: Builders, Partners, and a Ton of Momentum"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 16, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","Video","Spectra and Steer joined us this week to talk about their momentum on Hemi.","TL;DR:","Builders Channel is live. If you’re building on Hemi, now’s the time to get involved.","PoP mining incentives and TGE timelines were clarified—more coming soon.","The Hemi token will power everything from sequencer staking to protocol fees and Bitcoin tunnel collateral.","This week’s Midweek with Max brought together some of the most active builders on Hemi to talk through where we are, where we’re headed, and why it matters. Spectra and Steer joined the call to share details on their Hemi deployments and the role they’ll play in building a more active, yield-driven ecosystem for Bitcoin.","Spectra: Permissionless Yield Trading Comes to Hemi","Absolute Unit from Spectra kicked things off. For those unfamiliar, Spectra is a fully permissionless yield trading protocol, originally launched in DeFi Summer 2020 and relaunched as Spectra V2 in June 2023. It supports any yield-bearing asset and allows anyone to spin up a trading pool.","The team is working toward launching their next version, including MetaVaults that support non-expiring pools and ecosystem-specific risk tranches—an upgrade inspired by protocols like Morpho. The AMM is also being upgraded to boost efficiency, which should significantly improve liquidity for PT and YT markets.","Spectra’s app is expected to go live on Hemi within days. Liquidity is already being seeded, and contracts are deployed. Users will soon be able to trade PTs and YTs from Hemi-native lending markets, opening up opportunities for PT looping and speculative yield trading.","On incentives: Spectra uses a ve-tokenomics model like Aerodrome. LPs vote to direct emissions, with nearly a third of all incentives already being funded by redirected LP fees. Additional partner-driven incentives are expected to come online in the coming weeks.","Steer: Yield Aggregation Across Chains, Now on Hemi","Next up, Derek and Sam from Steer shared how they’re bringing their cross-chain yield platform to Hemi. Steer runs on 39 chains and supports 45 DEXs, offering automated, permissionless strategies ranging from simple liquidity provisioning to hedge-fund-style vaults.","On Hemi, Steer is already seeing APRs as high as 186% on WETH-USDC and 45% on stable pairs like VUSD-USDE. Their “set-and-forget” strategies will let users tap into these yields directly from the Steer UI.","They're also rolling out support for on-chain options vaults, and their Smart Rewards system helps protocols grow by distributing stakeless incentives tied to real on-chain activity.","Builder Updates: A Focus on Community Contribution","Engineering updates covered ongoing work on post-mainnet improvements, node orchestration, and the upcoming BitVM-powered Bitcoin tunnel. The Builders Channel is now live in Discord—meant for people actively building on Hemi, whether that's DApps, dashboards, or protocol-level contributions.","You don’t need to be an expert. If you’re working on something real and have touched the tools, the team wants to hear from you. Whether it’s bugfixes, UI improvements, or core contributions, Hemi’s engineering team is around and ready to help.","Community Numbers and Strategy","Hemi has passed $750M in TVL and continues to see strong engagement across its channels. Ahead of Token2049 and Bitcoin 2025, the focus remains on supporting builders, guiding users toward the best DeFi tools, and keeping Bitcoin at the center of the conversation.","The tokenomics announcement is still pending as the team wraps up final details, including exchange reviews and distribution modeling. Expect a release by early May.","Need more info? Head over to the Hemi Discord where you can meet the crew and take part in one of the coolest new products in crypto.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-april-15-2024-builders-partners-and-a-ton-of-momentum"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-april-22-2025-absolute-unit-is-back":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for April 22, 2025: Absolute Unit Is Back - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for April 22, 2025: Absolute Unit Is Back"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 24, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","Video","Spectra integrates with Hemi, launches upgraded AMM for Bitcoin yield products","Last week’s Midweek with Max brought big news from Spectra. Absolute Unit, one of the project’s leads, joined the call to confirm that Spectra is now live on Hemi. This makes Spectra the first repeat guest on the series, but more importantly, it marks the first deployment of their upgraded AMM on any chain.","The new AMM is designed for fixed-yield assets like principal tokens (PTs) and yield tokens (YTs). It introduces a structural change that prices these tokens based on yield instead of price, which improves slippage and makes fixed-rate instruments more efficient as they approach maturity. Spectra’s system is built on top of Curve’s CryptoSwap design and has attracted attention from Curve core contributors, some of whom are now considering incorporating pieces of the Spectra math into Curve itself. Four new pools are already planned for launch on Hemi, focused initially on Bitcoin derivatives with stablecoin and LRT pairs to follow.","Absolute Unit also previewed some of his own test results using the new pool mechanics. With a modest amount of capital, he landed in the top 100 across six protocols, highlighting how Spectra’s design can be a useful tool for more competitive, capital-efficient trading.","Max followed with an engineering update. The Pectra upgrade is the main focus, which brings features from the Ethereum world—including account abstraction and social recovery—to Hemi. This also includes reworking Hemi’s network architecture to make it easier to run individual pieces of the stack, a move that will support use cases like local PopMiner nodes. Development continues on tunnel upgrades for BitVM integration as well.","The token generation event (TGE) remains in planning. Market conditions are improving, but no launch date has been announced. The team is coordinating listings, liquidity provisioning, and other logistics behind the scenes. The Open Season NFT remains transferable and is not soulbound, while the only soulbound NFTs on Hemi today are related to Deimos.","Phil closed with updates on upcoming events and marketing efforts. Hemi is a lead sponsor of a side event during Token2049 Dubai, where the team will host an unconference session. Work continues on KOL partnerships and expanding Hemi’s visibility. TVL on Hemi is now ranked #9 among EVM chains, only two and a half months after launch, which Phil noted was achieved without compromising the project’s core values or approach.","Community questions covered LP points visibility, NFT roles, SegWit support for PopMiner, and how to join the Builders channel. The team reiterated that building on Hemi is open to anyone and encouraged community members to propose ideas, report bugs, and contribute to the codebase. Several members joined the live karaoke at the end of the session, keeping the spirit of MwM intact even after the major announcements.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-april-22-2025-absolute-unit-is-back"},"/blog/satori-vaults-unlock-yield-on-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Satori Vaults Unlock Yield On Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Satori Vaults Unlock Yield On Hemi"],"h2":["Official Contest Rules","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 24, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Satori","Satori and Hemi launch $25,000 perpetuals trading competition","Hemi welcomes Satori, the first perpetual DEX to launch on the network. The partnership means Hemi users can use Satori to trade perps at leverage for Bitcoin and other assets, and vaults that earn yield via onchain trading strategies.","Satori is a perps DEX that lets users trade the price of assets without directly holding them on-chain. Traders may take long or short positions at 50x leverage for BTC and ETH, or 25x leverage for dozens of other supported assets.","Opening a position is as simple as selecting an asset, choosing a long or short position, setting your leverage preference, and executing the trade. As with other derivatives platforms, liquidations occur if the market moves against a position.","With Satori’s vaults, Hemi users can earn from their deposits, managed by market makers, who execute trading strategies that generate yields.","To celebrate this milestone for Hemi users, Hemi and Satori are launching a trading competition with a prize pool of $25,000 USDC.","The contest will begin on May 1st and run throughout the month, ending on the 31st.","The competition is open to all Satori users on the Hemi chain.","Individual participation is allowed; no collusion between teams or multiple parties is permitted.","Only trading on Hemi will be counted on the leaderboard.","Participants must have TVL locked on Hemi to join.","During the first week of June, $25,000 USDC will be distributed to competition winners:","$15,000 USDC for top Profit-and-Loss (PnL) traders—the top traders will share the prize based on PnL rankings.","$10,000 USDC for top volume traders—all with more than 0 trading volume will receive a share of the prize based on their total volume ranking.","Rewards will be distributed as an allocation of USDC from the prize pool sent to each eligible participant’s Hemi account.","Visit Satori, connect your Hemi wallet, and start trading this May 1 to climb the leaderboard and claim your share of the prize.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/satori-vaults-unlock-yield-on-hemi"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-april-29-2025-focus-on-tech":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for April 29, 2025: Focus on Tech - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for April 29, 2025: Focus on Tech"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 29, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","New DeFi partners, Pectra upgrade progress, and what's coming next for Hemi.","This week’s Midweek with Max was packed with updates — here’s everything you need to know.","First, a big welcome to Satori. DeFiLipe from Satori joined the call to share what they’re building: a decentralized perpetuals platform where you can trade BTC, ETH, SOL, and more across multiple chains without needing to bridge. Satori chose Hemi because they believe in Bitcoin’s future and love how Hemi ties BTC and EVM together. Even better, Satori is now running Season 2 of their points program, and they teased a Hemi-specific trading challenge coming soon.","On the Hemi side, the Pectra upgrade is moving forward. Testing has been successful on internal networks, and the public Testnet upgrade is next. If all goes smoothly, Mainnet will follow shortly after. Pectra will add support for account abstraction and better cryptographic operations, keeping Hemi aligned with Ethereum’s upcoming May 7th network upgrade.","The team is also fine-tuning final pieces of the token launch. Tokenomics are still being finalized, with focus on balancing liquidity incentives and ensuring long-term rewards are sustainable. Expect more news soon — the market timing is looking better than it was just a few weeks ago.","Long term, Hemi’s goal remains the same: to build the most secure, capital-efficient way to use Bitcoin in DeFi, without relying on custodians. Real Bitcoin, real decentralization.","Want to get involved? Builders are always welcome. Grab the Builder role in Discord and start building with us.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-april-29-2025-focus-on-tech"},"/blog/hemi-and-humanode-team-up-to-take-down-sybil-threats":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Humanode Team Up To Take Down Sybil Threats - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Humanode Team Up To Take Down Sybil Threats"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 30, 2025","Hemi","Partnership","Security","Sybil Attacks","Humanode’s Biomapper c1 SDK is available on Hemi, making dApps and services resistant to Sybil attacks with secure biometric data.","Hemi and Humanode have teamed up to bring the Biomapper c1 SDK to Hemi developers. Humanode’s Biomapper is a key tool in preventing Sybil attacks, active across numerous chains, and is now available on Hemi.","With the Humanode Biomapper, Hemi developers can build Sybil-resistant dApps that ensure each user has only a single account without setting up invasive KYC procedures, for more secure gaming, DeFi, and general blockchain services.","Biomapper keeps users secure as well and does not store any images related to biometric identification; neither Humanode nor anyone else can access any of the private biometric data used to track proof of humanity for individual accounts.","To add Biomapper to your existing Hemi dApp or ongoing build, see the links below for a complete developer’s guide:","Biomapper App","Biomapper Docs","Biomapper SDK","Integration Instructions","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-humanode-team-up-to-take-down-sybil-threats"},"/blog/raga-launches-on-hemi-powering-bitcoin-native-yield-strategies":{"version":1,"title":"Raga Launches on Hemi, Powering Bitcoin-Native Yield Strategies - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Raga Launches on Hemi, Powering Bitcoin-Native Yield Strategies","Raga Vaults Run on the Hemi Virtual Machine™","Put Your Bitcoin to Work on Hemi"],"h2":["Raga’s One-Click Solution On Hemi","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 25, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Raga","Raga Finance launches automated DeFi vaults on Hemi, offering trust-minimized yield strategies for Bitcoin-native assets, stablecoins, and future Ethereum integrations via Spectra and ZeroLend protocols.","Raga Finance is bringing a full suite of automated DeFi vaults to Hemi users to provide trust-minimized yield strategies on Bitcoin-native assets and stablecoins.","At launch, Raga will support assets including:","BTC and derivatives (hemiBTC, bfBTC, uniBTC, M-BTC, suBTC)","USD-pegged stable assets","Future support for Ethereum assets via Hemi-based tunnels is on the horizon.","Each of these vaults integrates directly with Hemi core protocols, including Spectra and ZeroLend, enabling users to earn via automated strategies.","Raga reduces complexity, providing one-click, native-chain yield where vaults deploy strategies and rebalance without manual input. The vaults offer users the same capacity to earn on BTC, just as they would earn with stablecoins.","All vault operations are fully transparent and traceable on-chain. Transactions settle with the added security of Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof consensus model, which inherits the finality of Bitcoin.","Raga vaults on Hemi are deployed on the Hemi Virtual Machine™ (hVM™), an EVM-compatible environment wrapped around a fully indexed Bitcoin node. With this architecture, Hemi imparts access to live Bitcoin-state data via a Processed Bitcoin View that organizes indexes and precompiled contracts. That means no reliance on off-chain relays, no synthetic bridges or wrappers; instead, Raga vaults may verify BTC balances, what transactions have taken place, and UTXO activity directly through Hemi.","Combined with PoP finality, all vault activity eventually settles on Bitcoin, giving users confidence in the security and integrity of vaulted funds.","Raga Vaults on Hemi are ready to simplify your Bitcoin yield strategies, without compromising security or decentralization.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/raga-launches-on-hemi-powering-bitcoin-native-yield-strategies"},"/blog/the-hemi-mainnet-guide":{"version":1,"title":"The Hemi Mainnet Guide  - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["The Hemi Mainnet Guide","Day One Launch Partners","Use Protocols On Hemi and Earn Points"],"h2":["Table of Contents","What’s New","Raga","Satori","Spectra","Relay","ZNS Connect","1Delta","eOracle","Allora Network","Relend Network","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 30, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Mainnet","Hemi has grown since mainnet launch, with more ways than ever to put your portfolio of Bitcoin and EVM-based assets to work.","Since Hemi’s mainnet milestone, the network has amassed over $1 billion in TVL. Hemi now stands at the peak of the Bitcoin L2 landscape, standing apart as the one network that truly unifies the ecosystems of Bitcoin and Ethereum.","This guide will walk you through what we’ve added since launch and then wrap up with everything you’ve been able to do since the beginning. Questions? Join our Discord. Hemigos are always happy to help.","What's New","Raga","Satori","Spectra","Relay","ZNS Connect","1Delta","eOracle","Allora Network","Relend Network","Day One Launch Parters","Token Swapping","Lending","Cross-Chain Connectivity","Yield","Synthetic Assets","Restaking","Use Protocols On Hemi and Earn Points","Since going live, even more protocols have joined Hemi, providing users a way to activate both EVM-based assets and Bitcoin in DeFi. Protocols like:","Raga’s automated vaults on Hemi support Bitcoin-native and stablecoins, with future support coming for EVM-based assets via Hemi tunnels. The protocol’s one-click strategies help to reduce steps for yield strategies with effortless rebalancing. Built directly into the hVM, Raga minimizes trust assumptions, so that Bitcoin holders can participate in dynamic cross-protocol yield strategies without a complex setup.","Learn more.","Back to the Top","Satori is the first perpetual DEX on Hemi, so users can trade perps at leverage for Bitcoin and other assets. Satori also supports vaults with on-chain yield and trading strategies. Satori offers long or short positions at 50x leverage for BTC and ETH, or 25x leverage for dozens of other supported assets. With non-custodial vault access, the protocol focuses on security and optimization, expanding structured yield product options for Hemi traders.","Spectra pools on Hemi bring fixed-rate options and yield leverage products, seeded with over $18 million in liquidity. Users can lock in fixed yields or wield up to 34x leverage for notional exposure on Bitcoin-native assets. Spectra’s foundational DeFi primitives, Principal Tokens (PT) representing fixed rate positions, and Yield Tokens (YT) representing leverage-based positions trade on Hemi pools, earning swap fees, fixed rate returns, and native asset yields for liquidity providers.","Follow these tutorials to use Spectra:","Relay and Hemi team up for cross-chain payment execution across Bitcoin and Ethereum via an optimistic execution model. Relay brings rapid transaction settlement, minimal gas costs, and features allowing for seamless bridging, NFT minting, and gas abstraction.","The integration of ZNS Connect and Hemi brings human-readable names and domain tools that developers and users on Hemi can use to create secure, alphanumeric wallet identifiers that work across blockchains. They can also access apps, DEXs, and other tools directly via their .hvm domain. With .hvm domain support, users can access personalized Web3 pages, manage a digital identity, and interact with Hemi-based apps that support ZNS names.","1Delta brings Hemi an all-in-one aggregator that reduces DeFi complexity, combining swaps, bridging, margin trading, and 1-click leverage into a single platform. 1Delta routes across numerous potential paths to ensure the most optimal gas prices for swaps. 1Delta also allows users to open and close long and short positions easily. By connecting with existing lending protocols, 1Delta facilitates the swapping of collateral or debt-based assets without needing to unwind the assets.","eOracle and Hemi are working together to bring users dedicated, reliable price feeds that support DeFi apps connecting to Bitcoin and Ethereum. This integration allows partners, such as LayerBank, Satoshi Protocol, ZeroLend, and Bima, access to accurate price data, ensuring stable and secure smart contract operation.","Allora Network and Hemi integrate AI-powered price prediction for BTC and ETH price feeds, generated by Allora’s self-improving collective intelligence network. This gives developers tools to build for improved yield optimization, reduces the risk of volatility, crowdsources market signals, and supports the engineering of new protocols.","Relend Network and Hemi are collaborating with rUSDC-hemi, a stablecoin that offers deep liquidity and stability to the network’s Bitcoin-based DeFi applications. By relending liquidity from the Ethereum Mainnet, Relend Network offers a collateralized debt position (CDP) stablecoin in rUSDC-hemi. This allows users to mint rUSDC-hemi by supplying USDC on the Ethereum Mainnet and bridging to Hemi, borrow rUSDC-hemi from local markets, redeem rUSDC-hemi at a 1:1 ratio for USDC, and use rUSDC-hemi for seamless liquidity across Hemi’s DeFi ecosystem.","Alongside our new partners, Hemi’s Day One protocols cover the full gamut of on-chain activities for a Bitcoin and Ethereum-aware Layer 2 network:","Sushi allows for swaps of Bitcoin and EVM tokens with low slippage using a familiar AMM-powered DEX experience fully integrated into the Hemi ecosystem.","iZumi offers access to multi-chain liquidity through concentrated liquidity positions designed for capital efficiency and yield optimization.","DODO allows you to trade using a Proactive Market Maker (PMM) model, offering single-sided liquidity and slippage reduction for more efficient swaps.","Oku (Uniswap Interface) provides manageable liquidity positions and trade execution with advanced analytics, limit orders, and fiat onramps, all through a unified dashboard.","PassDEX offers swaps, liquidity provision, and rewards within a community-driven, gamified trading environment.","LayerBank allows for lending and borrowing of Bitcoin and EVM assets with institutional-grade liquidity pools and competitive interest rates.","LendOS offers flexible decentralized lending solutions tailored for both retail and DeFi-native users.","ZeroLend enables participation in DeFi lending, LRT lending, and RWA markets using a custody-free, fully audited platform.","AJNA facilitates lending and borrowing in governance-dependency-free peer-to-pool positionswithout external price feed reliance.","Hemi native tunnels allow for Bitcoin and Ethereum assets to move to Hemi through non-custodial tunnels.","Stargate powers instant cross-chain swaps, with finality and no wrapping, optimizing liquidity flows.","Meson enables stablecoin swaps across multiple networks efficiently with minimal slippage and fees.","OOOO is an automated, AI-enhanced cross-chain protocol to simplify interoperability between blockchains.","BitFi lets anyone earn yield on Bitcoin assets through a fully transparent custody and quantitative trading platform.","DeSyn offers custom onchain portfolios managed through secure, smart contract-driven systems.","VaultCraft maximizes yield with deposits into delta-neutral vaults managed by leading DeFi strategists.","Satoshi Protocol allows for the minting of satUSD by collateralizing Bitcoin, opening up broader stablecoin use cases in DeFi.","Sumer.Money supports suUSD, suETH, and suBTC synthetics with correlated and uncorrelated asset strategies.","Hemi supports staking for a wide range of Bitcoin and EVM-based assets, all under one roof. Move in and out of staking positions in minutes via a dedicated smart contract without slashing risk, as no staked assets are used for block validation.","Cygnus facilitates restaked liquid assets efficiently across networks, maximizing delegation rewards with minimal manual effort.","Pell Network offers an omnichain restaking platform, helping secure multiple decentralized validation services.","Celebrating the successful mainnet launch and ahead of the token generation event, the Hemi Points program offers ways to maximize earning potential with points multipliers for providing liquidity, swapping, staking, and more. See the full list of points-earning activities on the Hemi Points dashboard.","Hemi lets you do more with your digital assets, including Bitcoin. See how to put your portfolio to work, start earning rewards, and climb the leaderboard on Hemi today.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-hemi-mainnet-guide"},"/blog/what-is-a-block-explorer-understanding-crypto-explorers-and-how-they-work":{"version":1,"title":"What Is a Block Explorer? Understanding Crypto Explorers and How They Work - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is a Block Explorer? Understanding Crypto Explorers and How They Work"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 1, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Block explorers help you view blockchain transactions in real time.","A block explorer, often called a crypto explorer, is a web-based tool that lets you examine transactions on a blockchain in real time. Think of it as a search engine for blockchain data. It allows users to type in a wallet address, a transaction ID, or a block number into a search bar to view detailed transactional data. This includes the amount sent, the wallet balance involved, transaction fees, timestamps, and the transaction status of each entry.","Each time a new transaction is made on a blockchain network, it gets recorded into a block. Once confirmed, this block transaction becomes part of the permanent ledger. A blockchain explorer reads this public data and presents it in a user friendly format so anyone can track the movement of digital assets, review transaction history, and monitor overall transaction volume.","Using a block explorer, you can search for a specific transaction by pasting its transaction ID into the search bar. The explorer will return full details, including sender and receiver wallet addresses, the value transferred, the time it was processed, and the miner fee. You can also look up any wallet address to see its wallet balance and list of past transactions, creating a full picture of its activity on the blockchain.","For more advanced users, a block explorer offers insight into the performance of the network itself. It can show the latest blocks being mined, the number of confirmations each transaction has, and the overall hash rate, which reflects the computing power securing the blockchain. Some explorers also show unconfirmed transactions in real time, helping users follow how quickly the network is processing activity.","Blockchain explorers are widely used by traders, developers, researchers, and casual users alike. Traders use them to confirm whether transfers went through and to track transaction fees across time. Developers rely on them to audit transactional data, troubleshoot issues, and verify how smart contracts are functioning. Researchers analyze transaction volume and patterns over time to study market behavior.","Each major blockchain has its own explorer. Ethereum users often rely on Etherscan to inspect transactions and blocks. Bitcoin users may turn to tools like Blockstream Explorer. These platforms differ slightly in interface but all serve the same goal: enabling users to access public blockchain data in a readable way.","In short, a crypto explorer provides a live window into how a blockchain network is functioning. Whether you're checking a wallet balance, reviewing transaction history, analyzing transaction volume, or just trying to confirm the status of a specific transaction, a block explorer is your go-to tool. It turns raw blockchain data into understandable information, making the technology more transparent and accessible to everyone.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-block-explorer-understanding-crypto-explorers-and-how-they-work"},"/blog/what-is-a-multisig-wallet":{"version":1,"title":"What Is a Multisig Wallet? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is a Multisig Wallet?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["How It Works","Why Use Multisig?","Real-World Uses","Things to Consider","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Multisig","Multi-signature wallets add control and security to standard crypto wallet technology.","A multisig (short for “multi-signature”) wallet is a type of cryptocurrency wallet that requires more than one private key to authorize a transaction. It’s often used to increase security, add oversight, or share control of crypto assets among multiple people or systems.","Traditional wallets rely on one private key to move funds. If that key is lost, stolen, or misused, the assets can be gone for good. Multisig wallets solve this by splitting control. For example, a 2-of-3 multisig wallet requires any two out of three authorized keys to approve a transaction. No single person can act alone.","The setup can be flexible. Common configurations include:","2-of-2: Both parties must sign.","2-of-3: Any two can sign, even if one key is lost.","3-of-5: Often used in DAOs or corporate treasuries.","Security: A hacker would need access to multiple keys stored in different places.","Redundancy: If one key is lost or inaccessible, the others can still recover the funds, depending on the setup.","Trust Minimization: No one person or entity holds full control. This is helpful for companies, partnerships, and decentralized teams.","Accountability: Every signer leaves a trace. This is useful for auditing and internal governance.","Exchanges and custodians often use multisig to protect customer funds.","DAOs use multisig wallets to manage shared treasuries.","Startups and nonprofits might use them for board-level control of spending.","Multisig wallets offer more control but also more complexity. Setting one up requires some technical understanding. You also need to plan for what happens if one or more signers disappear or lose their keys.","Multisig is supported natively on Bitcoin and other blockchains, but not all wallets or services handle it the same way. Some use on-chain scripts, others use smart contracts.","Multisig wallets are a strong tool for securing crypto assets with shared control. They're not for everyone, but for teams, organizations, and serious holders, they offer a powerful layer of protection.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-multisig-wallet"},"/blog/what-is-an-ethereum-block-explorer":{"version":1,"title":"What Is an Ethereum Block Explorer? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is an Ethereum Block Explorer?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["What Can You See With a Block Explorer?","Why Use a Block Explorer?","Examples of Ethereum Block Explorers","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 3, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","This tool lets users view and understand the Ethereum blockchain.","An Ethereum block explorer is a search engine for the Ethereum blockchain. It lets users look up, verify, and track activity like wallet balances, transaction history, contract deployments, and block confirmations—all in real time.","Block explorers are essential tools for interacting with any blockchain network, but especially Ethereum, where much of the network’s activity goes beyond basic transfers. With smart contracts, NFTs, DeFi, and more, explorers give visibility into what’s actually happening under the hood.","At the core, a block explorer shows you the transactions and blocks on the Ethereum network. But there’s much more behind the scenes.","Search bar: The starting point for most users. You can enter a wallet address, transaction ID (TXID), block number, token contract, or ENS name to pull up data.","Wallet address pages: These show the full transaction history of an address—what it sent, received, interacted with, and how much gas it paid. You'll also see the current wallet balance, both in ETH and in any tokens held.","Transaction details: Every Ethereum transaction has a TXID and includes metadata like timestamp, transaction fees, status, gas used, value sent, and the addresses involved.","Block details: Each block transaction bundle includes the list of transactions it confirmed, miner info, block reward, size, and time of creation. You can also track the hash rate and how fast blocks are being added to the chain.","Smart contract data: For deployed contracts, explorers often provide read/write interfaces. You can inspect the contract code, call functions, or monitor on-chain activity.","For most users, an Ethereum block explorer helps answer simple but crucial questions:","Did my transaction go through?","How much ETH is in that wallet?","What’s the status of my contract interaction?","What’s the current transaction volume on the network?","Is this token contract legitimate?","Explorers are also critical for developers, validators, DeFi users, and anyone who needs to confirm transaction statuses without relying on third parties.","The most widely used explorer is Etherscan, but others include Blockscout, EthVM, and Web3-focused dashboards like DeBank or Zerion. Many L2 networks also run their own versions of block explorers.","As Ethereum continues to evolve—especially with L2s like Hemi bridging Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems—explorers will play a growing role in helping users verify cross-chain activity and ensure that data remains transparent, accessible, and on-chain.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-an-ethereum-block-explorer"},"/blog/what-are-modular-blockchains":{"version":1,"title":"What Are Modular Blockchains? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Are Modular Blockchains?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Modular blockchains are changing the way we design blockchain products.","Blockchain design has traditionally followed a monolithic model. In a monolithic blockchain, like early versions of Ethereum and Bitcoin, the core functions of a network—execution, consensus, data availability, and settlement—are tightly bundled into a single layer. This architecture made sense in the early days of crypto. It ensured security and simplicity. But as blockchains started scaling and diversifying, the limitations of the monolithic approach became clear.","The problem with monolithic blockchains is that they struggle to scale efficiently. When execution, consensus, and data availability all happen in the same place, every node has to do everything. That leads to congestion, higher fees, and a tradeoff between decentralization and performance. As Ethereum expanded, the demand for apps outpaced what the base layer could handle. Bitcoin, by design, remains limited in throughput to prioritize immutability and simplicity.","Modular blockchains offer a different approach. Instead of putting everything into one layer, modular systems split responsibilities across separate components. Execution happens in one layer. Consensus in another. Data availability can be handled elsewhere. This separation makes it easier to optimize each piece for its job. Projects can choose how decentralized or fast they want each part to be, depending on their use case.","Hemi is built with this modular architecture in mind. It connects the worlds of Bitcoin and Ethereum by enabling decentralized applications to operate with cross-chain awareness. Instead of forcing everything to run through Ethereum’s monolithic structure, or being limited by Bitcoin’s narrow scripting rules, Hemi creates a system where developers can selectively interact with each chain’s strengths. Smart contracts on Hemi can access Bitcoin data directly without needing trusted intermediaries, and they can settle on Ethereum using familiar tools like Solidity.","This kind of modular approach doesn’t just improve scalability—it opens up new design spaces. Developers can use Hemi to create apps that are secure like Bitcoin, programmable like Ethereum, and scalable across multiple chains. The separation of layers also makes upgrades more flexible. Individual modules can improve without needing a full fork or rebuild.","In summary, modular blockchains shift away from the single-stack design of monolithic blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. By breaking up the core responsibilities of a blockchain, they offer more flexibility, better performance, and new ways to build secure and scalable applications. Hemi represents this shift, giving developers tools to build across chains in a way that was never possible with traditional designs.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-are-modular-blockchains"},"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-interport-finance-to-bring-cross-chain-swaps-to-bitcoin":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Collaborates With Interport Finance to Bring Cross-Chain Swaps to Bitcoin - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Collaborates With Interport Finance to Bring Cross-Chain Swaps to Bitcoin"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Interport","Interport will help Hemi make trust-minimized cross-chain swaps for Bitcoin.","Hemi is collaborating with Interport Finance to make trust-minimized cross-chain swaps a reality for Bitcoin users. Interport is integrating with the Hemi to expand its cross-chain infrastructure and allow users to interact directly with native Bitcoin in a secure, programmable environment—without wrapping, bridges, or intermediaries.","This integration opens a new chapter for Bitcoin in DeFi. It gives developers and users the ability to route liquidity between Bitcoin and EVM-compatible chains without custodial risk.","For Interport, this collaboration strengthens their ability to provide seamless cross-chain swaps, asset bridging, and gas token refills while bringing native Bitcoin into the flow. For Hemi, it’s another step in building a Bitcoin Layer 2 network that connects directly to Ethereum and beyond.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-interport-finance-to-bring-cross-chain-swaps-to-bitcoin"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-recap-meme-coins-dubai-deployments-and-hair-economics":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max Recap: Meme Coins, Dubai Deployments, and Hair Economics - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max Recap: Meme Coins, Dubai Deployments, and Hair Economics"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 6, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","When Hair? Now.","This week's Midweek with Max packed updates from every corner of the Hemi ecosystem, starting with a strong showing at Token2049. Hemi’s presence was everywhere, from sponsor-backed side events to stage time during the main conference. One moment that stood out was a viral image of the Burj Khalifa with “BTC + ETH = Hemi” projected across it. It was fake, but it fooled a surprising number of people. The image sparked conversation, drove attention to the brand, and became a talking point in DMs and group chats for days.","https://twitter.com/hemi_xyz/status/1917278190659084795","Another tradition solidified during the week: the Liquidity Brunch. Originally launched at ConsensusHK, this low-key gathering with drinks and dev talk has turned into a recurring community favorite. It offers Hemi builders and supporters a space to casually connect. With preparations already underway for Bitcoin 2025 and a speaking slot locked in at Permissionless in New York this June, Hemi continues to move deeper into the center of conversations about how Bitcoin and Ethereum can coexist.","HairToken also took the spotlight. What started as a joke about Max’s hair turned into a live token on Hemi. Deployed via the Atlas platform, HairToken is now the first meme coin in the Hemi ecosystem. Community demand sparked the launch, and now there are plans for further integration and liquidity. A VUSD/HAIR pool is already live, and there are efforts to create more trading pairs, including one with MaxToken. The team behind Hair is pushing for a decentralized future, where the community fully takes over the token’s direction.","On the engineering side, Max recapped the Dubai trip and what it means for the protocol. Meetings with audit firms focused on Bitcoin scripting and zero-knowledge tools opened new conversations. Several potential deployments are in discussion. The most engaging technical event was the Liquidity Brunch, where engineers debated real use cases for the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM). Based on those discussions, the team is putting together a grant and bounty program targeting new dApps. These will focus on areas like Bitcoin lending, non-custodial staking, and cross-chain accelerators that can let users pay BTC fees in ETH or Hemi tokens.","The Pectra upgrade is going live in phases. Infrastructure updates are happening now, with full L2 functionality—like account abstraction—coming in the next week. The engineering team is also refining BFG to be stateless, improving the popminer tool, and introducing more diagnostics and control for developers.","NFTs are back on the radar, too. Hemi Hatchlings are ready to migrate from testnet to mainnet once the upgrade work is complete. More marketplaces are expected to onboard soon. While no names were shared, integration talks are ongoing. In terms of token timing, the TGE date is still internal but approaching. The current market looks favorable, and the remaining work revolves around mechanics: getting tokenomics locked in, confirming exchange integration schedules, and finalizing listings.","Mainnet point rewards will likely end their first season around TGE. The structure is designed to reward liquidity, not just participation. That means users who bring more capital into the network earn more points. There may be ways for smaller contributors to gain through new activities in later seasons, but the current design focuses on growing TVL and usage.","On the mining front, the new algorithm will roll out soon after the Pectra upgrade finishes. It’s designed to target four pop miners per keystone and adjust incentives automatically. The average number of publications per keystone today is around 10 to 15, with spikes to 20. Rewards are tied to keystones, with a 400-block delay between mining and payout. Testnet Bitcoin functionality is still limited due to Bitcoin Testnet3’s instability, but the team is working on switching to Testnet4 or adjusting tunnel parameters to make development easier.","Everything is moving, from protocol upgrades to community infrastructure. The vibe is scrappy and open. If you're not following along yet, now’s the time. Subscribe to the Hemi newsletter for exclusive content, protocol updates, and early access to new DeFi strategies. That’s also where you’ll find the best alpha—none of it lives on Twitter or Telegram.","If you're asking “When Hair?”, the answer is now. And apparently, it comes with karaoke.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-recap-meme-coins-dubai-deployments-and-hair-economics"},"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-blockwallet-to-simplify-secure-access-to-new-tokens-and-products":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Collaborates With BlockWallet to Simplify Secure Access to New Tokens and Products - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Collaborates With BlockWallet to Simplify Secure Access to New Tokens and Products"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 7, 2025","Hemi and BlockWallet will work together to bring Hemi to more places.","We’re collaborating with BlockWallet, a leading self-custodial Web3 wallet, to bring seamless access to Hemi’s products. Through this collaboration, BlockWallet users will be able to interact directly with Hemi using the wallet’s intuitive and secure interface.","BlockWallet supports a wide range of user-centric features, including Flashbots RPC for frontrunning protection, token allowance management, hardware wallet integration, and phishing-resistant design. With BlockWallet natively supporting Hemi mainnet, users can participate in Hemi’s defi ecosystem such as staking, LP, lending etc.","This collaboration supports our shared goal of giving users more control, privacy, and interoperability across ecosystems.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-blockwallet-to-simplify-secure-access-to-new-tokens-and-products"},"/blog/gamma-integrates-with-hemi-for-automated-liquidity-management":{"version":1,"title":"Gamma Integrates With Hemi for Automated Liquidity Management - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Gamma Integrates With Hemi for Automated Liquidity Management"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 9, 2025","Gamma is a non-custodial protocol for liquidity management.","Hemi is collaborating with Gamma, a non-custodial protocol for active concentrated liquidity management. Gamma has been operating for nearly five years and is among the most established infrastructure providers in DeFi.","Gamma automates the rebalancing of LP positions, keeping liquidity in-range and reducing the need for manual management. By maintaining tighter spreads and greater depth around the active price, Gamma improves capital efficiency for LPs and execution quality for traders.","Hemi will use Gamma to manage liquidity behind the scenes on the DEXs it connects to. As users trade Bitcoin across Ethereum-based pairs, the liquidity provided needs to stay close to the active market price to remain effective. Without management, LP positions in concentrated liquidity pools can fall out of range and stop generating fees. Gamma solves this by constantly rebalancing those positions in real time. This keeps liquidity active, improves pricing for traders, and ensures better returns for liquidity providers.","By integrating Gamma, Hemi strengthens the execution layer of its cross-chain system and ensures that BTC liquidity is deep, efficient, and always on.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/gamma-integrates-with-hemi-for-automated-liquidity-management"},"/blog/noves-brings-life-defi-pricing-to-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Noves Brings Live DeFi Pricing to Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Noves Brings Live DeFi Pricing to Hemi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 14, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Noves expands the toolset for developers building on Bitcoin and Ethereum.","Hemi has integrated Noves to bring structured on-chain data, predictive safety tools, and live DeFi pricing to the hVM. This expands the toolset for developers building on Bitcoin and Ethereum with cleaner insights, faster deployment, and stronger guarantees.","Noves' Translate feature is now connected to the hVM. That means every contract call, token move, or swap happening on Hemi shows up without needing to decode esoteric alerts and the like. Builders can pipe these human-readable events directly into apps, dashboards, and audit tools.","Foresight adds another layer by pre-signing simulations and offering live threat detection. Combined with Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof anchoring to Bitcoin and its trustless tunneling model, builders get high-integrity reads and stronger transaction safety before signing.","Finally, with Noves’ Pricing API, DeFi apps on Hemi now have access to liquidity-weighted pricing across BTC-linked assets, ERC-20s, and LP positions. This supports lending, margin, and analytics features across the $440M+ ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/noves-brings-life-defi-pricing-to-hemi"},"/blog/what-is-a-dao":{"version":1,"title":"What Is a DAO? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is a DAO?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["How a DAO Works","Why Use a DAO?","Common DAO Use Cases","What to Watch Out For","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 15, 2025","Bitcoin","Dao","Ethereum","Hemi","A DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, allows a group of people to make decisions and manage resources.","A DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, is a group of people who use blockchain-based rules to make decisions and manage resources together. Instead of a traditional company structure with executives or managers, DAOs use code, usually in the form of smart contracts, to run operations and voting.","At its core, a DAO runs on a set of transparent rules written into smart contracts—self-executing code that lives on a blockchain. These rules define how decisions are made, how votes are counted, and how funds can be spent.","Members usually hold tokens that represent voting power. When a decision needs to be made—such as funding a project, changing the rules, or allocating treasury funds—token holders vote. If the vote passes, the smart contract carries out the decision automatically.","DAOs are “autonomous” in the sense that they follow the rules set at launch, and “decentralized” because no single person or entity controls them.","Transparency: All votes and decisions are recorded on-chain. Anyone can audit the process.","Community Control: No CEOs or central boards. Members steer the organization based on majority vote.","Efficiency: Smart contracts can automate tasks like payments, project approvals, and member onboarding.","Global Access: Anyone with an internet connection and tokens can participate, no matter where they live.","Investment clubs: Groups pool funds and vote on how to invest them.","Protocol governance: Projects like Uniswap and Aave use DAOs to manage upgrades and policies.","Grant programs: DAOs like Gitcoin use community votes to decide where funding goes.","NFT communities: Some DAOs govern how art, IP, or digital collections are managed and monetized.","Running a DAO isn’t easy. Challenges include:","Low voter participation: Most token holders don’t vote regularly.","Poor decision-making: Without good information or incentives, communities can make short-sighted choices.","Security risks: A bug in a smart contract can freeze or drain funds, as happened in the 2016 “DAO hack.”","Also, most DAOs aren’t legally recognized as companies, so questions around liability and regulation are still developing.","DAOs are a new way to organize people and capital without relying on traditional structures. They're not perfect, but for projects where decentralization and community involvement matter, they offer a compelling alternative.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-dao"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-may-13-2025-relend-and-jeff-sings":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max for May 13, 2025: Relend Speaks and Jeff Sings - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max for May 13, 2025: Relend Speaks and Jeff Sings"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 13, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","Yes, really. Jeff is singing in this one.","This week’s Midweek with Max featured an in-depth look at a new partner coming to the Hemi ecosystem: Relend. Root, co-founder of Relend, joined the stage to break down what the team is building, how it solves a longstanding issue in on-chain credit markets, and why it’s a strong fit for Hemi’s modular architecture.","Relend is addressing the cold-start problem in decentralized lending: liquidity won’t arrive unless there are borrowers, and borrowers won’t show up without liquidity. Their solution is a “liquidity maker” approach that supplies capital directly into money markets, jumpstarting activity and unlocking the flow of assets across DeFi protocols. In Hemi’s case, that means freeing idle BTC for use in DEXs, derivatives, and stablecoin strategies.","The integration is simple in concept, but powerful in execution. Relend wraps USDC into RUSDC, a 1:1-backed, fully redeemable stablecoin that’s designed to stay within a given ecosystem. Users can earn up to 40%+ APY with zero impermanent loss on select pools — real yield backed by lending markets, not emissions.","This kind of infrastructure is key to Hemi’s role as a liquidity and programmability layer for Bitcoin. As Max and Jeff outlined during the broader session, Hemi is not just another rollup or fork of Optimism. It extends the EVM directly with Bitcoin-aware opcodes — a virtual machine called HVM that allows Ethereum-style smart contracts to interact with Bitcoin data natively, without relays or custodians.","Hemi’s progress continues on multiple fronts. Mainnet has passed $1 billion in TVL, the team is shipping Pectra upgrades to improve Ethereum L2 compatibility, and community participation is high. Weekly updates, point systems, and testnet stress tests are all contributing to a maturing platform that’s moving steadily toward full decentralization.","The core idea remains unchanged: bring the programmability of Ethereum and the security of Bitcoin into one unified system. With Relend providing native credit primitives and new applications deploying weekly, the ecosystem is setting the foundation for Bitcoin-native DeFi that doesn’t require wrapping, bridges, or trust.","More integrations are coming. As Jeff said in closing, “We’re not just building tools. We’re building the infrastructure to last 10 years.”","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-for-may-13-2025-relend-and-jeff-sings"},"/blog/hemi-tunnels-explained-a-new-way-to-move-assets-between-bitcoin-and-ethereum":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Tunnels Explained: A New Way to Move Assets Between Bitcoin and Ethereum - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Tunnels Explained: A New Way to Move Assets Between Bitcoin and Ethereum","Inside the Hemi Bitcoin Tunnel","A Phased Development Approach","Earn Points Tunneling To Hemi Now"],"h2":["Depositing Bitcoin Assets With The Hemi Tunnel","Withdrawing Bitcoin Assets With The Hemi Tunnel","Failsafe Mechanisms","Phase 0 (Current)","Phase 1","Phase 2","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 15, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","How Hemi tunnels connect to Bitcoin","Hemi’s tunnels take a trust-minimized approach to connecting Bitcoin, enabling holders to participate in a wide range of once-inaccessible DeFi activities with our numerous partners and other projects deployed on the network. The Hemi Bitcoin Tunnel is designed to support BTC and Bitcoin-native asset movement between Bitcoin and Hemi without centralized custodianship, eliminating the risks associated with asset tunnels.","Accessible via the Hemi Portal, Hemi’s Tunnel features a straightforward interface. Simply select an origin and destination network, the actual asset, the amount of assets to transfer, and sign the transaction.","When you use the Hemi Tunnel to transfer bitcoin, it initiates the vaulting process. The assets are sent to and locked in a multi-signature vault, controlled by no single entity.","The Hemi Tunnel uses the capacity of the Hemi Virtual Machine™ (hVM) to keep track of the Bitcoin network. It monitors the UTXO table for transactions corresponding to the deposit for verification.","After verification, Hemi automatically mints the representative tokens corresponding to the deposited Bitcoin assets.","If you opt to withdraw your Bitcoin assets from Hemi, the Hemi Portal supports the same easy process to swap out that it does in, just choose an EVM-based chain to tunnel from Hemi, an amount, and sign the transaction.","Once a Bitcoin withdrawal is initiated, in the background, the representative tokens are burned on Hemi, which signals the vault withdrawal process.","Updates on the withdrawal transaction sent to the EVM-based network from Hemi’s Bitcoin Tunnel are then published to Bitcoin for accuracy and recording purposes. The Hemi Bitcoin Tunnel also verifies the corresponding token burn associated with the withdrawal as it readies the system.","Once ready, the system sends a withdrawal request to the multisig vault, and sufficient signatures are collected for authorization, after which the vault releases the corresponding Bitcoin-native assets to your Bitcoin address.","Hemi Bitcoin Tunnel deposits can take up to one hour to confirm, while withdrawals may take up to 12 hours. To preserve a smooth user experience, Hemi relies on market makers who assume risk to fulfill tunnel activity ahead of settlement finality.","Hemi’s hVM system is constantly monitoring the network for unauthorized withdrawals, with an optimistic model at its current phase of development. This allows any externally owned account to flag malicious activity on the network, wherein slashing conditions are imposed on parties deemed responsible.","Future phases of development will see unauthorized use flagged through automated processes enabled via event notifications.","Hemi is rolling out the tunneling ecosystem in stages to balance usability, performance, and decentralization.","The Hemi Bitcoin Tunnel uses an overcollateralized multisig model to manage vaults, with full support for bitcoin, and withdrawals via an optimistic dispute resolution system.","Hemi’s hVM will be upgraded with BitVM2 integration, allowing for a decentralized 1+N enhanced security, where a single honest participant is enough to prevent fraud. Wider support will be introduced for Bitcoin-based assets such as Runes and BRC-20s.","A mature BitVM2 and hVM integrated network model will emerge, enabling greater trust minimization. Bitcoin-based asset support will expand to encompass Ordinals.","During the Mainnet Season of the Hemi Points program, providing liquidity with hemiBTC remains one of the most effective point-earning strategies. Tunnel to Hemi and start earning immediately, with a 3x, 5x, or even 8x boost when you provide liquidity with hemiBTC in select pools with partners including Sushi, Oku, Izumi, and DODO.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-tunnels-explained-a-new-way-to-move-assets-between-bitcoin-and-ethereum"},"/blog/ichi-integrates-with-hemi-to-offer-simplified-single-sided-liquidity-provision":{"version":1,"title":"ICHI Integrates With Hemi to Offer Simplified, Single-Sided Liquidity Provision - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["ICHI Integrates With Hemi to Offer Simplified, Single-Sided Liquidity Provision"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 16, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Ichi","ICHI enables single-token deposits and LP management.","Hemi is now integrated with ICHI, a non-custodial liquidity protocol that enables single-token deposits and automated LP management.","ICHI is a non-custodial liquidity solution that allows users to deposit single tokens and earn swap fees. By enabling single-token deposits into liquidity pools, ICHI simplifies and automates the process of providing liquidity—making it as easy as staking an asset.","Traditionally, providing liquidity on a DEX on Hemi requires users to hold both tokens in a trading pair, deposit them within a specific price range, and actively manage the position to keep earning fees. With ICHI, users can simply deposit a single token. The protocol automatically rebalances the position, autocompounds earned fees, and manages impermanent loss—ensuring that both profits and risks remain isolated to a single asset.","All positions are deployed into concentrated liquidity pools and continuously rebalanced to remain active. Earnings from swap fees are autocompounded, and impermanent loss is managed directly by the protocol.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/ichi-integrates-with-hemi-to-offer-simplified-single-sided-liquidity-provision"},"/blog/hemi-will-interface-with-vfat-for-streamlined-liquidity-boosted-yield":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Will Interface with Vfat for Streamlined Liquidity, Boosted Yield - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Will Interface with Vfat for Streamlined Liquidity, Boosted Yield"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 15, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Vfat","Vfat offers user-first portfolio management.","Hemi is collaborating with Vfat, a user-first portfolio management platform and DeFi dashboard, to make managing liquidity and earning rewards on Hemi faster and easier.","Vfat is a portfolio management app that acts as a hub for DeFi. Users can provide liquidity to Sushi and Oku on Hemi via vfat, have their positions automatically rebalanced, and have fees auto-compounded. This is beneficial because it allows LPs on DEXs to keep their positions in range, thereby maximizing fees and, consequently, yield. The auto-compounding feature continuously claims the fees earned on LP positions and redeposits them into the LP pair, increasing the user’s LP position and overall yield. Additionally, users on Hemi will receive boosted Hemi Points for deploying liquidity via Vfat.","Vfat also serves as a DEX and lending aggregator. That means users can swap assets across all DEXs on Hemi using a single interface, or browse the best lending and borrowing markets available—without bouncing between protocols.","Vfat’s portfolio manager provides users with an intuitive interface to view their current holdings and active positions on Hemi, while the Token List displays all major tokens on Hemi and the corresponding amount of active liquidity available.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-will-interface-with-vfat-for-streamlined-liquidity-boosted-yield"},"/blog/why-hemi-matters-for-the-future-of-cross-chain-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Why Hemi Matters for the Future of Cross-Chain DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Why Hemi Matters for the Future of Cross-Chain DeFi","Trust-Minimized Hemi Tunnels","Hemi Connects Bitcoin and Ethereum","Earn Yield With Bitcoin on Hemi Now"],"h2":["Bitcoin-Aligned Security with PoP","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 19, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Bitcoin can enter DeFi thanks to Hemi.","Bitcoin is no longer isolated from DeFi innovation, and Hemi is leading the shift, with over $1.2 billion in total value locked on the network. The reason for its widespread adoption is simple: Hemi is the ideal platform to support the Bitcoin DeFi resurgence. Here’s why:","Hemi has developed trust-minimized tunnels that, unlike centralized bridges, use multisig and smart contract-based security protocols to move assets across chains. These tunnels are tailored for both Bitcoin and EVM-based environments, with each relying on different mechanisms to preserve asset integrity during transit. Though their approaches vary, both are designed to avoid central points of failure and reduce reliance on intermediaries.","Hemi’s tunneling system is rolling out in stages to balance usability, performance, and decentralization. Eventually, it will support BitVM2 integration, introducing a decentralized 1+N security model where a single honest participant can detect and stop fraudulent activity. On the Ethereum side, Hemi tunnels will adopt a more secure zero-knowledge proof-based settlement system. Ultimately, both tunnels will support the transfer of Bitcoin-native fungible and non-fungible assets, including Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20 tokens.","Hemi unites the two most dominant crypto ecosystems—Bitcoin and Ethereum—allowing Bitcoin’s idle liquidity to be put to use and extending Ethereum’s programmability across networks.","By bridging these systems, Hemi upgrades Bitcoin with logic and programmability. Once tunneled into Hemi, BTC becomes usable in DeFi—enabling trading, lending, and yield generation. Open to all developers, Hemi already hosts a growing ecosystem of apps and infrastructure.","This means:","Tunneled BTC and ETH can be used by smart contracts.","Developers can build apps on Hemi that respond in real time to both Bitcoin and Ethereum events.","Liquidity and logic no longer need to live on separate chains.","Hemi brings Bitcoin utility without compromising its security. Its Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus ties Hemi directly to Bitcoin, with PoP miners earning rewards for inscribing Hemi transaction data onto Bitcoin blocks. Once transactions reach a certain number of confirmations, they become immutable under Hemi’s superfinality—making it economically unfeasible to alter history, as attackers would need to compromise both Hemi and Bitcoin simultaneously.","Earn yield and get Hemi points multipliers now, ahead of the Hemi TGE, by providing liquidity with specific Hemi partners. Visit the Hemi Points Dashboard and get started now.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/why-hemi-matters-for-the-future-of-cross-chain-defi"},"/blog/hemi-tunnels-explained-a-new-way-to-move-assets-between-bitcoin-and-ethereum-2":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Tunnels Explained: A New Way to Move Assets Between Bitcoin and Ethereum - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Tunnels Explained: A New Way to Move Assets Between Bitcoin and Ethereum","Inside the Hemi Ethereum Tunnel","A Phased Development Approach","Earn Points Tunneling To Hemi Now"],"h2":["Depositing EVM Assets With The Hemi Tunnel","Withdrawing EVM Assets With The Hemi Tunnel","Phase 0 (Current)","Phase 1","Phase 2","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 20, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","The Hemi Ethereum Tunnel is designed to support Ethereum and EVM-native asset movement back and forth from the origin chain to or from Hemi","Hemi Tunnels bring assets from Bitcoin and Ethereum together on a single unified network, raising the bar for cross-chain compatibility with a Bitcoin-aware EVM. The Hemi Ethereum Tunnel is designed to support Ethereum and EVM-native asset movement back and forth from the origin chain to or from Hemi. Like Hemi’s Bitcoin Tunnel, the EVM-facing Tunnel to Hemi operates with a trust-minimized model to eliminate common risks associated with other asset bridges.","The Hemi Tunnel is accessible on the Hemi Portal, where users can select origin and destination chains and transfer supported EVM assets with a simple transaction.","When you use the Hemi Tunnel to deposit EVM-based assets, it initiates the lockup process, where the assets are secured via Hemi’s EVM-based validation smart contract. The smart contract follows a code-driven automated protocol without any single entity governing it. This process ensures rapid validation post-deposit authentication on the EVM side.","After a block containing the deposit transaction is verified on Ethereum, Hemi’s block derivation protocol activates. It signals the sequencer responsible for Hemi block generation and arrangement to include the deposit from the validated Ethereum block with the deposit information.","Once a deposit is assigned to a Hemi block, the representative tokens are minted directly onto Hemi, equivalent to the amount of tokens locked in the validation smart contract. Hemi offers a wide range of DeFi activities that support these tokens in an ecosystem of EVM-compatible dApps with native Bitcoin state awareness.","Withdrawing assets to their native chains through the Hemi Portal is seamless. Select the amount to transfer and the destination chain from Hemi, and sign the transaction.","When the Hemi Tunnel receives the withdrawal request, the amount of tokens to be transferred on Hemi is burned. The network, in turn, updates its state with the withdrawal request and burn transactions, serving as a cryptographic proof, and submits it to the burned asset’s native EVM chain.","Compared to other asset bridges, Hemi rapidly processes crosschain transfers, providing withdrawal proofs in around 40 minutes by using Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work consensus mechanism to reach a state of superfinality. The network implements a decentralized Challenger role for dispute resolution.","A dispute-free withdrawal proof may be submitted for assets to be claimed from the Hemi validation contract, which may take up to 24 hours.","Hemi is rolling out the tunneling ecosystem in stages to balance usability, performance, and decentralization.","The Hemi Ethereum Tunnel operates via an optimistic fault-dispute mechanism, with a decentralized Challenger operating within a dispute window. It supports EVM-based asset transfers to and from Hemi.","Settlement will be enhanced with a Zero-Knowledge Proof-based (ZK proof-based) model shored up by an optimistic fallback should the ZK system experience failure. Support will be added for the transfer of Hemi-native assets and BTC-based assets to EVM chains.","A redundant ZK proof system will offer greater settlement security. EVM chain transfer support will be extended to all Hemi-native and BTC-based fungible and non-fungible assets, such as Ordinals.","During the Mainnet Season of the Hemi Points program, providing liquidity with hemiBTC remains one of the most effective point-earning strategies. Tunnel to Hemi and start earning immediately, with a 3x, 5x, or even 8x boost when you provide liquidity with hemiBTC in select pools with partners including Sushi, Oku, Izumi, and DODO.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-tunnels-explained-a-new-way-to-move-assets-between-bitcoin-and-ethereum-2"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-loops-launches-and-laughs":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Loops, Launches, and Laughs - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Loops, Launches, and Laughs"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 20, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Bitcoin Pizza Day is coming up and we're there for it.","This week’s Midweek with Max kicked off with a visit from Rohit at Raga Finance, who walked us through how Raga is using Hemi to build automated looping strategies that boost DeFi yields. Instead of manually managing deposits and leverage, users can now deploy into vaults that auto-optimize returns across platforms like Spectra and LayerBank. According to Rohit, the strategy can take an average 5–6% base yield and push it to 7–8%, depending on appetite and number of loops. No need to hold base assets either — deposit what you’ve got, and the platform handles swaps and integrations under the hood.","When asked why they chose Hemi, Rohit pointed to Bitcoin liquidity. “There’s a lot of BTC in the market and not enough DeFi platforms actually making use of it,” he said. “Hemi stood out by doing the hard work to enable native Bitcoin use with deep liquidity and cross-chain functionality.” Raga’s vaults will soon be live, with simulations already available. Early whitelist users will get first access.","From there, Max took over with the founder update, outlining a packed schedule of protocol improvements and ecosystem moves. Highlights included:","Final testing of the Pectra upgrade, activating new L2 features;","An upcoming third-party RPC provider, improving stability and choice for wallet and dApp users;","Refactors for core infra components like Popminer, BFG, and TBC to allow standalone operation;","New visibility tools for mempool data and profitability metrics;","The upcoming BitVM whitepaper, detailing how Hemi uses Bitcoin-aware virtual machines for secure tunneling and smart contract execution;","Final touches on tokenomics and TGE, still marked with the highly scientific label of “very soon.”","Phil and Rick dropped marketing updates next, including HEMI’s sponsorship of Bitcoin Pizza Day in New York, participation in Bitcoin 2025 in Vegas, and upcoming presence at Permissionless in June. The team also teased a full appearance on the “Teach Me DeFi” podcast and a few unannounced partnerships coming down the pipe.","The Q&A section — which spiraled into full comedy at times — covered user verification, the role of centralized exchanges, native swapping support (it’s going through third-party DEXs for now), the Hemithic NFT role (coming, but cosmetic), and how token rewards will work post-TGE.","Max also tackled the classic question: “Who’s Hemi's biggest rival?” The short answer: no one else is doing this exact thing. There are other L2s, other Bitcoin wrappers, other DeFi platforms. But Hemi sits in the space between Bitcoin and Ethereum, combining programmability with native Bitcoin security. The only thing that could slow it down? A trillion-dollar tech company building a blockchain from scratch. But even then, “speed to market and developer traction” gives Hemi the edge, Max said.","And finally, yes, the chat broke into absolute chaos when someone tried to ask about centralized exchange (CEX) incentives without giggling.","The real world meetups are coming fast. If you're in NYC for Pizza Day, reach out. And stay tuned for token updates, protocol upgrades, and more vault integrations — soon, very soon, or possibly ultra soon.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-loops-launches-and-laughs"},"/blog/hemi-and-safe-team-up-to-bring-secure-smart-wallets-to-bitcoin-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Safe Team Up To Bring Secure Smart Wallets To Bitcoin DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Safe Team Up To Bring Secure Smart Wallets To Bitcoin DeFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 22, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Safe","Safe’s modular multisig wallets with governance tools come to Hemi.","Hemi and Safe are collaborating to bring secure, programmable, multi-signature wallets to Bitcoin DeFi. The integration brings Hemi users one of the most widely used digital asset wallets with built-in multisig, modular extensions, and seamless governance.","Safe’s multisig architecture enables multiple parties to co-own a wallet and allows for customizable permission thresholds. With thresholds implemented, no single party may unilaterally move assets from the wallet, an ideal setup for managing DAO treasuries, shared reserves, or institutional funds.","With its modular design, Safe allows for adaptable wallet behavior that caters to specific needs. Hemi builders are free to set role-based permissions, spending limits, time locks, or unlock automation via Safe’s plug-in modules.","Safe tooling, such as SafeSnap, meshes offchain voting with onchain execution, so projects can manage community proposals with snapshots that can be set to automatically trigger treasury functions, so that project governance remains transparent, accessible, and enforceable.","Safe boasts robust APIs, SDKs, and contract libraries made to simplify developer integrations. With that, Hemi builders can embed wallets directly into applications, with support for batch transactions, gas abstraction, and secure custom flows.","Set up a Safe wallet and use it to earn yield and get Hemi points multipliers now, ahead of the Hemi TGE, by providing liquidity with specific Hemi partners. Visit the Hemi Points Dashboard and get started now.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-safe-team-up-to-bring-secure-smart-wallets-to-bitcoin-defi"},"/blog/welcome-to-the-hemi-alliance":{"version":1,"title":"Welcome to the Hemi Alliance - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Welcome to the Hemi Alliance"],"h2":["What is the Hemi Alliance?","Roles and Progression","Tools and Protocols","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 27, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Join us in spreading the word about Hemi.","Hemi isn’t just building infrastructure. It’s building culture.","This week, we’re introducing the Hemi Alliance Signal Broadcast Unit—a contributor program rooted in storytelling, collaboration, and aligned action. This isn’t a typical ambassador campaign. There are no vanity metrics. No leaderboard spam. Just focused, mission-driven communication that grows our signal one clear transmission at a time.","The Alliance is a community-led structure designed to amplify the core of what Hemi stands for: modularity, interoperability, and clarity across chains. As part of the Signal Broadcast Unit, contributors help shape public understanding of the project by creating content, leading discussions, and forming shared narratives. Each post, meme, or idea helps tune the broader ecosystem into what we’re building.","The structure is simple and intentional:","Engagement Pre-Specialist: Share your first aligned message. If your tone fits the mission, you’re in.","Memetic Systems Coordinator: Complete core tasks and guide others through action, not noise.","Narrative Architect: Lead community rituals, shape messaging arcs, and elevate fellow contributors.","Promotions happen through consistent alignment and output, not self-promotion.","Contributors operate through the Hemi Guild platform. From there, you’ll find quests, briefs, and creative prompts. You’ll also have access to curated source material like the Hemi Research Report and the Hemi Blog. These materials exist to support high-quality, aligned content that extends the Hemi message clearly and cleanly.","This isn’t about flooding feeds. It’s about strengthening signal.","If you’re here, it’s not by accident. You’re not here to follow trends. You’re here to shape something new. The Hemi Alliance is about showing up with intention, transmitting clearly, and building a story that others want to join.","This is cultural protocol. Broadcast accordingly.","Welcome to the Hemi Alliance.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/welcome-to-the-hemi-alliance"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-izumi-joins-hemi-bitvm-nears-and-the-community-grows":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: iZiSwap Joins Hemi, BitVM Nears, and the Community Grows - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: iZiSwap Joins Hemi, BitVM Nears, and the Community Grows"],"h2":["iZiSwap: Bitcoin and Ethereum, One Pool","Max Update: BitVM Progress and Modular Stack","Tokenomics? “Very Soon”","Ambassador Program: Introducing the Hemi Alliance","Security: POP and Tunnels Explained","Other Highlights","TL;DR","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 27, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","We're all at Bitcoin 2025. Find us and let's talk Hemi!","At this week's Midweek with Max, we covered ground fast: a new DEX integration, updates from Vegas, ongoing BitVM work, and the launch of the Hemi Alliance ambassador program. If you missed it, here’s what you need to know.","Yasmin from iZiSwap kicked things off with a clear message: iZiSwap is here to bring concentrated liquidity and real trading depth to Hemi. Their protocol builds on the Uniswap V3 model, introducing limit orders and enhanced liquidity controls designed to feel like using a centralized exchange—without giving up decentralization.","iZiSwap chose Hemi because of our dual-rooted model: unlike typical L2s that build only on Bitcoin or Ethereum, Hemi treats both as first-class citizens. That gives Izumi a clear advantage—letting users access BTC-native and EVM-native liquidity without ever leaving the ecosystem.","Max Sanchez shared engineering updates live from Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas. The team is preparing to publish a BitVM-based paper that outlines how Hemi will extend native Bitcoin security and programmability through the HVM.","We’re also modularizing the node stack—making it easier for anyone to run a piece of the Hemi infrastructure. Whether it’s the Bitcoin finality governor or HVM execution engine, operators will be able to spin up only the parts they need. Expect releases soon.","No, we’re not at ultra soon yet—but “very soon” is official. All third-party dependencies are nearly resolved, and once the final scheduling is set, the full tokenomics release will follow. Yes, there will be rewards for testnet users. Yes, on-chain activity is the source of truth. And yes, hacked wallets can file a ticket to reverify.","Hemi’s community-facing program is live. The Hemi Alliance isn’t a typical influencer push. It’s about user-generated content and rewarding active contributors. No bots, no spam—just thoughtful posts, useful tools, and helpful engagement. Progress is tracked via Guild, and recognition is manual—if you’re doing good work, you’ll be seen.","POP (Proof of Proof) locks in chain finality using Bitcoin. It protects against reorgs, sandwich attacks, and time-based arbitrage. The tunnel system—currently overcollateralized—offers insured custodianship of BTC. The roadmap moves toward a BitVM-powered model that can scale securely and avoid multisig trust assumptions.","Hemi is one of the only L2s that can bring BTC into Ethereum with this level of security, since it settles directly to both chains. No extra bridges. No loss of finality. No weakest-link trust risk.",".hemi and .hvm domains work like ENS: wallet naming and future identity features.","LP point tracking bugs are known and being fixed—chain data is the source of truth.","Decentralized sequencing is planned for Q3, covering both sequencer and batcher roles.","NFT testing is live, including modular access logic with Jeff Garzik’s “Hemi Club.”","Izumi is live. BitVM is close. Tokenomics are next. The Ambassador Program is active. Hemi is still Hemi—building with the long game in mind, focused on core infrastructure, and expanding the community the right way.","If you want to get involved, now’s the time. Join us on Discord and let's build!","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-izumi-joins-hemi-bitvm-nears-and-the-community-grows"},"/blog/hemi-community-highlight-precision-pop-mining":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Community Highlight: Precision PoP Mining - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Community Highlight: Precision PoP Mining","Paj’s PoP Miner"],"h2":["Building on Hemi?","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Community Highlight","Ethereum","Hemi","Community member, Paj, built a custom PoP miner to optimize fee spending and ensure transactions go through.","Hemi’s community is strong, and from time to time Hemigos and Hemigas up the gambit, with fun, innovative, and interesting new projects. In this Hemi Community Highlight, we focus on Paj, a community member working to improve the Proof-of-Proof (PoP) mining experience.","For nearly a decade, Paj immersed himself in Web3. From co-founding early crypto projects to conducting technical deep dives for a venture firm, his experience ranges from builder to analyst. Prior to blockchain, he worked in the telecommunications industry, and developed a keen sense of infrastructure and other general knowledge that translated well to Web3.","“I purchased my first bitcoin in 2013,” Paj recalls. “Back then, I was mainly using it as a tool to move money across countries without having to deal with banks.” But as the rabbit hole grew deeper and Web3 industry grew, Paj eventually found himself quitting his job to pursue a full-time crypto career.","Hemi popped onto Paj’s radar after a client requested a deep dive. “What really caught my attention—besides Max's iconic hair—was the team’s background and the Hemi Bitcoin Kit.” Interoperability between Bitcoin and Ethereum on Hemi seemed like a potential game changer. He wanted to know more.","PoP miners must spend small amounts of BTC to finalize Hemi transaction data on Bitcoin bocks in transactions. To reduce daily fee spending and maintain an optimized PoP mining operation, Paj dug in deeper to see how the miner operated.","For his PoP miner, Paj focused on adding quality-of-life features to Hemi’s existing PoP miner. One such improvement is dynamic fees, where the miner can track network conditions to adjust fees accordingly and ensure transactions go through. He’s also adding some dashboard functions to track fee spending, uptime, and a miner’s transaction count. He’s also experimenting with mempool scanning to either delay or drop PoP transactions during times of peak congestion, to optimize fee usage.","“I don't think of it as reinventing the current miner,” Paj explains, “but it’s about making it easier for miners to monitor performance and avoid stuck transactions.”","For now, Paj’s custom miner isn’t publicly available, but as he continues to refine it, he says it’s not outside the realm of possibility. PoP miner engineering isn’t Paj’s only project—he’s also working on his own game-fi project, but says he’ll continue to keep an eye on how Hemi evolves.","A large part of what makes Hemi so amazing is our community. If you or a community member you know is using Hemi as the foundation for something great, let us know, and we’ll do our best to showcase it.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-community-highlight-precision-pop-mining"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-vegas-recap-pectra-launch-and-whats-next-for-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: Vegas Recap, Pectra Launch, and What’s Next for Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: Vegas Recap, Pectra Launch, and What’s Next for Hemi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Bitcoin 2025: A Shift in the Crowd","Protocol Update: Pectra Now Live on Testnet","A Better Tunnel: Liquidity Protocol for Bitcoin Transfers","HEMI Token: Core Utility and Future Roles","Max Token, Hair Token, and the Merch Store","NFT Marketplaces and .hvm Domains","Alliance Program, Pop Points, and Mainnet Stats","Looking Ahead","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 3, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","We just got back from Vegas and we're ready to build.","Fresh off the plane from Bitcoin 2025 in Vegas, the Hemi team is back and moving fast. If you missed this week’s Midweek With Max, here’s the full breakdown—from protocol upgrades to the path ahead for HEMI token utility, pop mining, and protocol integrations.","This was Hemi’s first big Bitcoin-focused event of the year, and it delivered. The team hosted two community dinners—one sit-down, one mixer-style—and showed up strong at side events and panels. A year ago, Hemi was the new name in the room. This time, more than half the people the team spoke to already knew what we’re building.","Key themes that dominated conversations: stables on Bitcoin, Bitcoin DeFi, and institutional interest. Teams are already exploring how to use hVM for native Bitcoin applications. Others are looking at integrating with Hemi’s Bitcoin tunnel. The recognition and traction were clear—and it's pushing us to go even faster.","The Pectra upgrade was deployed on Hemi Testnet earlier this week. That means developers can now test new features like setCode, our implementation of account abstraction.","Mainnet activation is scheduled for early next week. Node operators should be ready to upgrade in advance—details will follow soon.","Meanwhile, work continues on major backend improvements across Hemi Network components: BFG, BSS, TBC. We’re finalizing support for Bitcoin Testnet 4, which will give devs a much more realistic environment for testing Bitcoin-linked dApps.","We’re working on a liquidity layer around the Bitcoin tunnel. Think of it like Stargate, but for BTC. It removes the wait time that normally comes with tunnel-based bridging and opens up new pathways for integrations—especially in the mining space. This will be a major component of the cross-chain UX for Hemi, and will help native Bitcoin assets flow through to Ethereum apps and back with minimal friction.","Still no exact date for TGE, but it’s close. The team is finalizing listing plans, marketing coordination, and sequencing the launch with ecosystem partners.","The HEMI token will be central to everything in the network: governance, protocol operations, and cross-chain liquidity. That includes:","Voting on upgrades and protocol parameters","Converged staking (think restaking, but protocol-native)","Running decentralized infrastructure like sequencers, DA publishers, or tunnel validators","Supporting L3 networks by staking and operating shared services","Paying transaction fees on Hemi at a discount (ETH will be converted to HEMI before being paid out)","More long-term use cases will roll out as the ecosystem matures.","Max Token is a meme token—unofficial but fun. The team hasn’t ruled out making merch payable in Hair or Max, but first, the merch store itself needs to go live (the community is still waiting). No ETA yet, but it’s on the list.","At least one NFT marketplace is preparing to launch on Hemi. It’s not quite ready for public announcement, but deployment is coming soon. Domain name support (like .hvm) is also active through MetaMask Snaps, with more tooling and resolution options on the way.","The Hemi Alliance—our ambassador program—is ongoing and open to all. Tasks are posted on Guild, usually around 9 AM ET, and help with everything from social sharing to content support. Two additional tiers are planned for the future.","Pop mining continues on mainnet. There are 60 miners connected, with about 6–10 active at any time. A new reward distribution system is in the works that will make payouts more dynamic and elastic.","Points visibility issues—especially for LPs and demos—are being worked through. Fixes are being pushed this week, with nearly all known problems either resolved or scheduled for completion.","If your wallet has been compromised, support can help. Submit a ticket. There is a way to swap wallets and preserve progress, though it requires verification and manual handling.","A BitVM paper that includes HVM-based enhancements is expected soon. We’re also planning another engineering AMA to walk through the security and design improvements in more detail.","As for events, Hemi will be back in Europe this summer, starting with EthCC. If you're at any event and want to meet up, ping us—especially in Discord.","From protocol upgrades to community progress, this past week showed how far Hemi has come—and where we’re headed. If you're building, testing, or just curious, now’s a good time to get involved.","Stay tuned for more updates. Mainnet Pectra, token launch, and deeper integrations are just around the corner.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-vegas-recap-pectra-launch-and-whats-next-for-hemi"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-hemi-dev-progress-pop-points-and-what-comes-next":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Hemi Dev Progress, PoP Points, and What Comes Next - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Hemi Dev Progress, PoP Points, and What Comes Next"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["zk-Proofability, BitVM, and Daemon Refactor Nearing Completion","TGE: “Very Soon,” But Not Yet","Pop Points and Epochs","No Public Node Sale Reopening (For Now)","Chain Builder, L3s, and Hemi as Bitcoin Security-as-a-Service","Builder Role and Ecosystem Dev Access","Protocol Roadmap: Decentralizing the Sequencer and Advancing BitVM","Mainnet Node Update Incoming","The Hemi Alliance: Community Roles and Missions","Why Build on Hemi Today?","Final Thoughts","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 10, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Pop","Video","TGE is right around the corner. Let's check in with Max for more details.","This week’s Midweek with Max AMA focused on engineering updates, the latest progress toward Hemi's Token Generation Event (TGE), and a look at what makes Hemi stand out as a Bitcoin-Ethereum bridge.","Let’s break it down.","The engineering team continues to finalize major components of the Hemi stack. The zk-proofability system is being built to support Ethereum-side settlement. In parallel, work is wrapping up on Hemi's own BitVM paper, outlining its unique approach to trust-minimized Bitcoin interoperability.","Another major internal milestone is a near-complete daemon refactor. Previously, running Hemi often required running nearly the entire stack. Soon, users will be able to launch specific modules—like BFG or Popminer—independently. This improves testability, modular deployment, and customization.","There’s no confirmed date for Hemi's TGE. Max noted that final details are being worked through with third parties and that timelines remain subject to completion of those dependencies. Tokenomics information is similarly still pending.","For those wondering: there is no Hemi token currently in circulation. Any token purporting to be Hemi on Ethereum, BNB, or elsewhere is a scam.","Pop points on testnet are now visible for most users. A small edge case involving address linking has delayed full visibility for a few, but that should be resolved within 48 hours.","As for the second epoch of Demos verification, there is no set end date yet. That will be determined relative to the finalized TGE date. If you haven’t completed your second verification, now’s the time—waiting offers no advantage.","There are currently no plans to reopen public node sales. Interest in the model has cooled across the ecosystem, though institutional demand remains. Anyone who previously purchased a node will still be supported, either with a node or an equivalent benefit.","Hemi will allow third-party chains to publish their data to Bitcoin using Hemi's infrastructure. These chains will pay fees in HEMI tokens to publish to the L2, and Hemi Popminers will still be paid in Bitcoin for securing the HEMI-to-Bitcoin layer. It’s a mirror of Hemi's own mechanics: no staking is required for participation, keeping PoP Mining permissionless and fee-driven.","If you’re building on Hemi—whether it’s a DApp, data dashboard, or a new PoP Miner variant—you can apply for the Builder role. This gives you access to engineering support and other developers building in the ecosystem. Builder applications are evaluated by the team and managed via Discord.","The next two protocol milestones are:","Sequencer decentralization using an Ethereum-style PoS mechanism.","BitVM settlement and zk capabilities—both improve trust models and capital efficiency across Hemi's tunnels.","Further out, Hemi is preparing for broader L3 support through shared sequencing and data availability.","A recent Testnet update means node operators there should already have pulled the new containers. Mainnet hasn’t been updated yet. The team will schedule that upgrade soon, and node runners will get at least 72 hours’ notice.","The Hemi Alliance is a tiered ambassador program. Tier 1 is ongoing; Tier 2 will launch next week. Missions will be posted in Discord via Guild. Incentives are coming, especially for community creators and contest winners.","Even before tunnel v1 is live, Hemi gives developers access to a unique dual L1/L2 setup. Developers can either use tunneled BTC or build natively Bitcoin-aware apps using hVM. Hemi's embedded Bitcoin full node in the EVM environment allows for true Bitcoin DeFi—including non-custodial DEXs and MEV markets—that can't be built elsewhere.","The team is pushing toward decentralization and security without cutting corners. Work is ongoing across Popmining, bridges, token logistics, and ecosystem coordination. As always, the Discord remains the best place for real-time updates and builder conversations.","And yes, Max’s hair does look fantastic in the Hemi Heads Flappy Bird game.","Stay tuned for updates on the BitVM whitepaper, the next tech call, and the countdown to TGE.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-hemi-dev-progress-pop-points-and-what-comes-next"},"/blog/hemi-and-metrom-team-up-to-streamline-incentive-campaigns":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Metrom Team Up To Streamline Incentive Campaigns - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Metrom Team Up To Streamline Incentive Campaigns","Metrom’s Surgical Approach"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 10, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Metrom","Metrom helps teams launch token or points-based incentive campaigns through seamless onchain experiences.","Hemi has announced its integration with Metrom to offer performance-driven incentive distribution for liquidity providers. With this collaboration, builders can launch efficient, KPI-based incentive campaigns without manual overhead or wasted rewards.","Metrom is an incentive orchestration platform to design, launch, and manage on-chain incentive programs. It began with concentrated automated market makers (AMMs) and is expanding to support broader DeFi primitives, including CDPs, lending, and borrowing. Metrom helps protocols attract and retain capital via performance-driven campaigns where LPs can deploy, manage, and earn on their capital by supporting projects with which they resonate.","For campaign creators, Metrom streamlines launching targeted incentive campaign creation across AMMs such as Uniswap V3 and other DeFi products. Campaigns launch in three simple, permissionless steps. KPI-based rewards align LPs with goals, reduce emissions, and return unused rewards for future use.","For LPs, Metrom enables passive farming, with no staking in or out. Off-chain computation tracks positions and rewards based on key factors like TVL contribution and liquidity concentration. LPs can browse campaigns, compare APRs, and claim rewards via an intuitive dashboard.","Classic approaches to liquidity mining necessitate frequent staking and unstaking from farming contracts. Metrom removes this step and lets builders fine-tune incentive campaigns according to their requirements, centering around concentration targets or minimum TVL thresholds.","With Metrom:","Set KPI-based Rewards: Trigger payouts only when targets are reached.","Offer Range-Based Incentives: Focus rewards on the most valuable liquidity bands.","Customize APR: Structure incentives to ensure consistency and sustainability.","Use Off-Chain Tools: Boost performance while maintaining a seamless on chain experience.","Distribute Points Dynamically: Allocate points based on provider performance.","While DeFi continues to become more sophisticated, launching incentive campaigns need not become more complex. Hemi and Metrom offer the next generation of programmable incentives, ready for Bitcoin and Ethereum builders.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-metrom-team-up-to-streamline-incentive-campaigns"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-fusaka-is-live-on-the-hemi-testnet":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Fusaka Is Live On the Hemi Testnet - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Fusaka Is Live On the Hemi Testnet"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 17, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","Fusaka is live on Hemi testnet. If you run a node, upgrade op-geth and op-node, and set your beacon to subscribe to all pure DAS subnets. This is L1 compatibility work, not new EVM features.","ZK work is moving. We are proving TBC state transitions and hVM precompiles, which sets up ZK settlement to Ethereum and future BitVM paths. We now dry-run L1 contract upgrades end to end before testnet and mainnet.","Incentives are changing. Fewer points, more direct rewards. Think clear weekly campaigns with instant payout, plus a single place to see yields across DEX, lending, and more. Focus tilts to Bitcoin liquidity and core DeFi.","VBK claims resume after the Fusaka push. Merch is close. For events, expect Argentina Dev and select community side meets, including support for an India Blockchain Week gathering.","Pop mining is split in two. We will enable pop-points to HEMI conversion and unlocks first. The new payout contract is coded and heading to audit, then testnet, then mainnet.","VE HEMI is the staked base for protocol roles. You stake once, then opt into sequencing, HPDM, batch proposing, and more. Rewards policy and APYs will be published with the broader econ update.","Node ops got cleaner. Use the new hemi-node repo. A minimal mainnet setup needs about 16 GB RAM and a fast 2 TB disk, plus access to historical L1 data.","Bitcoin tunnel vaults run with us for now. An upgrade will add safer hot-cold paths and a smoother deposit flow, then we will invite community vaults. Full trustlessness needs Bitcoin changes, but we are pushing toward one-of-N honesty with BitVM work.","TBC exists because bitcoind does not expose the indexed data or deterministic hooks we need. It peers with Bitcoin, indexes rich data, and plugs into the EVM. It also stands alone if you need a fast Bitcoin indexer. Builders, there is low-hanging work to ship.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-fusaka-is-live-on-the-hemi-testnet"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-slow-and-steady":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Slow And Steady - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Slow And Steady"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 24, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Zk Proofs","This week was quiet in the loud way. Fewer fireworks, more code moving into place. Max said the big rock is still ZK provability. The team is tightening data structures, adding optimizations, and bringing up a Rust sidecar that will prove state transitions and hVM precompiles inside a ZK context. That work unlocks ZK settlement on Ethereum, the HBIT VM path on Bitcoin, and future links into next-gen interoperability that require ZK proofs. First things first.PoP payouts V2 is finished in code. It is headed to testnet. Mainnet follows audits. On Ethereum L1, contract upgrades are staged, with an end-to-end upgrade simulator now complete. Testnet first, a short soak, then mainnet if steady. VE Hemi rewards are near, with an announcement expected soon. There is also a tease called MinorFi, details to come.One quiet win, the VeriBlock key converter is coded. A test build should land for VBK users, with mainnet after it checks out.The white paper scope grew for good reason. The team added work on Ethereum consensus proofs and on publishing Ethereum data that helps attribute zero-knowledge, nothing-at-stake attacks. They also show how the HBIT VM vault model can be reused for non-custodial Bitcoin DeFi. Think restaking with arbitrary slashing written in contracts, not only double-signing traps. Think insurance that holds Bitcoin in self-custody until a valid claim. Think lending and even a sober approach to stable value against BTC, with clear liquidation and timing rules. Not hype, just composable pieces that make sense to conservative desks who want moderate yield and low drama.On revenue, today it is mainly fees, and usage is still below the gas target. Over time, protocol components, the vault system, shared sequencing, shared DA, and the tunnel will add real cash flow. A slice of that will flow to community-directed work, liquidity, and security.Security stayed front and center. Major contract changes get audits. The ZK work will be reviewed by a firm that knows both ZK and Bitcoin. Infra sees routine pen tests and automated scans. The warning of the week, do not run third-party scripts to manage PoP miners. If you can inspect them, you already know better.Community notes. A new lending market announcement is close. More cross-chain relay services are coming. NFT talk continues, with interest in inscriptions, ordinals, and runes support on an EVM chain, timeline still open. The OG role flow is in progress, with wallet linking built carefully, not quickly. The merch store is almost live, with a shirt contest queued.The roadmap after ZK provability points to decentralizing the sequencer, then broader data publication to Ethereum, then Chain Builder so teams can stand up custom networks with Bitcoin data through BitcoinKit and security through Proof-of-Proof.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-slow-and-steady"},"/blog/hemi-americas-blockchain":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi: America’s Blockchain - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi: America’s Blockchain","Get Bitcoin Rewards On Hemi Now"],"h2":["The United States of Ethereum and Bitcoin on Hemi","Hemi Is Ready for America","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","As we celebrate Independence Day, let's think about the immutability of freedom.","While America has no official blockchain, the country’s founding ideals align with the principles of decentralized networks. Both were shaped by a desire to manifest liberty, build resilience, and support open enterprise. Each arose as an alternative to concentrated power systems, aiming to create frameworks where individuals can act freely and communities can thrive.","From those principles, blockchain technology evolved into two dominant ecosystems: Bitcoin and Ethereum. Hemi is the first Layer 2 platform built in America that unites the strengths of both—Bitcoin’s security and Ethereum’s programmability—while preserving their core foundations. In doing so, Hemi naturally reflects values embedded in America’s origins: freedom, transparency, and collective progress.","By uniting the strengths of two networks, Hemi opens a new frontier where Bitcoin and Ethereum developers can build freely. Cross-chain applications on Hemi are more secure, with native access to Bitcoin and Ethereum state—no oracles required—thanks to Hemi’s architecture. Applications also gain seamless access to assets from both ecosystems, moved through trust-minimized tunnels instead of centralized bridges.","America has long been driven by invention and the adoption of technologies that reduce friction and create new markets. The country thrives when its moving parts operate in concert, within systems built on checks and balances. Hemi carries that spirit forward—not by isolating networks, but by embracing openness and creating an ecosystem that connects outward. One that brings Bitcoin and Ethereum together as part of a greater whole, working in harmony to enable new possibilities for builders and communities alike.","Decentralized networks owe no loyalty to any single country. They exist on immutable code and are shaped by the users who sustain them. Even though Hemi was built in America, to be considered an American blockchain, it only takes a nation willing to embrace it. That means embracing a network that advances Bitcoin while reflecting the same values on which the country was founded.","Hemi is already the largest and fastest-growing Bitcoin-activated DeFi ecosystem, with more than $1.1 billion in total value locked and rising. For American users, Hemi offers a way to use Bitcoin in ways that were previously impossible—without compromising security. At a time when Ethereum, Bitcoin, and the DeFi ecosystems are expanding globally, Hemi gives Americans a chance to take part early.","During the Mainnet Season of the Hemi Points program, providing liquidity with hemiBTC is one of the most effective ways to earn points. Tunnel into Hemi and start earning immediately, with 3x, 5x, or even 8x boosts when you provide hemiBTC liquidity in select pools with partners including Sushi, Oku, Izumi, and DODO.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-americas-blockchain"},"/blog/understanding-gas-in-ethereum-what-it-is-and-how-it-works":{"version":1,"title":"Understanding Gas in Ethereum: What It Is and How It Works - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Understanding Gas in Ethereum: What It Is and How It Works"],"h2":["How Does Gas Work in Ethereum Transactions?","Factors Influencing Gas Prices on the Ethereum Network","Strategies to Minimize Costs While Using Gas in Ethereum","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 1, 2024","Blockchain","Ethereum","Gas","Pos","In the world of Ethereum, \"gas\" refers to a fundamental concept that is crucial for the network's operation. Gas in Ethereum can be thought of as the fuel that powers transactions and smart contract executions on this blockchain platform. Every action taken on Ethereum, whether it’s a simple transaction or the execution of complex contracts, requires computational resources. Gas measures how much computing effort each operation needs.","When users make transactions or run applications on Ethereum, they must pay for these computations in gas. The price of gas is not fixed; it fluctuates based on demand within the network. This payment system guarantees that resources are allocated fairly and protects the network from spam and abuse. Users set a gas limit and a gas price with every transaction: the limit sets how much they’re willing to use while the price indicates how much they are ready to pay per unit.","The cost of gas impacts both regular users and developers on Ethereum. For everyday users, high gas costs can mean expensive transaction fees when sending Ether (the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum) or interacting with decentralized applications (dApps). Developers need to optimize their smart contracts so they consume less gas, which makes their dapps more attractive by keeping usage costs low for end users.","Understanding how to manage gas efficiently can lead to significant savings and improved performance when operating within the Ethereum ecosystem. Tools like \"gas trackers\" help track current rates so users can choose optimal times for executing transactions economically.","Overall, grasping what 'gas' means in Ethiopia helps individuals navigate its landscape better—whether you're trading cryptocurrencies or developing new digital services using its technology platform.","When users want to perform actions on the Ethereum blockchain, such as transferring Ether (the cryptocurrency of Ethereum) or interacting with smart contracts, they must pay a fee. This fee is what we call gas. Gas measures the computational effort required to execute various operations on the decentralized platform.","Each transaction requires computational resources; thus, gas essentially compensates for the computing energy needed by the network to process and validate transactions. The amount of gas required depends on the complexity of the transaction. Simple transfers typically need less gas compared to more complex interactions with smart contracts.","Gas prices are not fixed and can fluctuate based on demand within the network. During periods when many users are making transactions, gas prices can increase as people compete for their transactions to be processed faster by miners. Miners prioritize transactions with higher fees since it's more profitable for them. Therefore, if you're looking for quicker confirmation times during busy periods, offering a higher gas price will make your transaction more appealing to miners.","It's important also to understand that there is a limit known as \"gas limit,\" which represents the maximum amount of gas you're willing to spend on a transaction. Setting this limit too low could result in an unsuccessful transaction if it doesn't provide enough incentive for miners or fails due to insufficient computational power allocated towards its completion.","Understanding how gas works in Ethereum is vital not only because it affects how quickly your transactions are processed but also impacts overall costs associated with using blockchain technology effectively.","In the Ethereum network, gas refers to the unit that measures the amount of computational effort required to execute specific operations on the decentralized platform. Understanding what influences gas prices is crucial for both users and developers interacting with this blockchain technology.","One primary factor that affects gas prices on Ethereum is network congestion. When there are a high number of transactions waiting to be processed, the demand for computational power increases. This surge in activity leads to higher gas prices as users compete to have their transactions processed faster by offering more money to miners. During periods of lower activity, when fewer transactions are being conducted, gas prices decrease.","Another significant influence on Ethereum's gas prices is block size limits. Each block on the blockchain has a limit on how much data it can hold, which includes transaction data. If a transaction exceeds these limits, it requires more blocks or is split over several blocks, which can increase processing time, and thus cost more in terms of gas fees.","The complexity of a transaction also plays an essential role in determining its gas cost. Simple transactions like transferring Ether (ETH) from one wallet to another typically require less computational effort and therefore incur lower fees compared with complex contracts or smart contract interactions, which involve executing multiple steps and storing more information on-chain.","Lastly, miner policies can also impact Ethereum’s gas fees significantly because miners prioritize transactions based on fee rates offered relative to other pending ones within the memory pool (mempool). Miners seek maximize their profits, hence they prefer including those paying higher fees into next block mined over others offering less incentive despite longer wait times associated such lesser-paid submissions might experience before getting confirmed due backlog issues, especially during peak periods.","Understanding how gas works is crucial for anyone interacting with Ethereum's platform. This essay explores effective strategies to minimize costs associated with using gas in Ethereum, which is essential knowledge for end users looking to optimize their interactions within this digital ecosystem.","Firstly, it's important to grasp what determines gas prices. Gas fees are not fixed and can fluctify based on network demand. When more people are transacting at the same time, the network becomes congested, leading to higher gas prices as users compete to have their transactions processed faster by miners. Knowing this can help users plan their transactions during off-peak times when there is less congestion and therefore lower fees.","Another strategy involves setting an appropriate gas limit. The gas limit is the maximum amount of gas you're willing to use for your transaction. Setting it too high means you risk overpaying; however, setting it too low could result in a failed transaction if the computation requires more gas than provided. Users must find a balance by estimating how much gas their transactions will likely need — tools like ETH Gas Station provide insights into current average and safe-low limits based on recent block data.","Users should also consider leveraging efficient coding practices if they are deploying smart contracts on Ethereum’s blockchain. Optimized code requires less computational work from miners and thus consumes less gas compared with inefficiently written contracts that perform unnecessary operations or store excess data on-chain.","Furthermore, adopting newer technologies such as Layer 2 solutions can significantly reduce costs related directly or indirectly through reduced load on mainnet (Layer 1). Solutions like rollups bundle many transactions into one single submission that interacts with Layer 1 only once but executes many state changes internally—this aggregation reduces overall transaction fees due because fewer individual interactions occur directly with Layer 1.","Finally, keeping informed about updates in Ethereum’s protocol itself can be beneficial since improvements often aim at reducing transaction costs among other enhancements—for instance, EIP-1559 update introduced a new fee structure aimed at making user expenses more predictable while still compensating miners fairly.","These strategies collectively offer practical ways for minimizing expenditure related specifically towards paying out gasses while operating within Ethereums framework, thereby allowing individuals, businesses alike better manage resources effectively, providing smoother, cheaper operations across board.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/understanding-gas-in-ethereum-what-it-is-and-how-it-works"},"/blog/understanding-proof-of-stake-in-ethereum":{"version":1,"title":"Understanding Proof-of-Stake in Ethereum - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Understanding Proof-of-Stake in Ethereum"],"h2":["How Does Proof-of-Stake Work in Ethereum?","Impact on Energy Consumption","Economic Implications for ETH Holders","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 1, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Proof-of-Stake (PoS) in Ethereum is a consensus mechanism that the network uses to validate transactions and add new blocks to the blockchain. Unlike Proof-of-Work (PoW), which requires miners to solve complex mathematical problems, PoS selects validators based on the number of coins they hold and are willing to \"stake\" as collateral. This method is seen as more energy-efficient than PoW.","In Ethereum's PoS, anyone who holds Ether, the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, can become a validator by staking their coins. The process involves locking up a certain amount of Ether in a special contract on the blockchain. The more Ether one stakes, the higher their chances of being chosen to validate new transactions and create new blocks.","The shift from PoW to PoS is part of Ethereum's long-term upgrade plan known as Ethereum 2.0. This change aims to improve scalability, security, and sustainability of the network. By reducing reliance on energy-intensive mining activities, Ethereum seeks to decrease its carbon footprint significantly.","Validators play a crucial role in maintaining network integrity under PoS. They check transaction validity and ensure no double-spending occurs before creating new blocks. If validators approve fraudulent transactions or act maliciously, they risk losing some or all their staked Ether as punishment—a mechanism that helps keep them honest.","For users interested in becoming validators on Ethereum’s network using Proof-of-Stake, it’s important first to understand both risks involved with staking Ether—such as potential losses due to hacking or software bugs—and rewards like earning transaction fees paid by other users for processing their transactions efficiently.","Unlike the older proof-of-work system, which required powerful computers solving complex problems, proof-of-stake selects participants to confirm transactions based on the amount of cryptocurrency they hold and are willing to \"stake\" as collateral.","In Ethereum's PoS model, known as Ethereum 2.0 or Eth2, users who want to participate in staking must lock up a certain amount of Ether (ETH), Ethereum's native currency. The minimum amount required is 32 ETH. By staking their coins, these participants become validators rather than miners. Validators are responsible for creating new blocks in the blockchain and checking the work of other validators to ensure no one is cheating.","The chance of being chosen to create a block doesn't just depend on how much Ether you have staked; it also considers how long you've been holding it in stake. This mechanism aims at making the process fair while securing the network efficiently. If validators propose or support invalid blocks, they risk losing some or all of their staked ETH as a penalty.","This shift from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake brings several benefits for Ethereum. It significantly reduces energy consumption since it removes the need for energy-intensive mining activities. This not only makes Ethereum more environmentally friendly but also allows more people to participate without needing expensive hardware setups.","For end-users looking into investing or participating in Ethereum’s network through staking, understanding this system is crucial because it impacts everything from network security to transaction speeds and overall scalability of the platform.","Proof-of-stake (PoS) in Ethereum marks a significant shift from the previous proof-of-work (PoW) system, primarily impacting energy consumption. This change is crucial as it addresses one of the major criticisms faced by blockchain technologies: their environmental impact.","Under PoW, miners solve complex mathematical problems to validate transactions and create new blocks. This process requires substantial computational power and, consequently, consumes a large amount of electricity. The high energy demand has led to concerns about the sustainability of blockchain technologies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.","In contrast, proof-of-stake reduces this energy requirement dramatically. Instead of relying on mining hardware for security and transaction validation, PoS uses an algorithm that selects validators based on the number of coins they hold and are willing to 'stake' as collateral. By removing the need for continuous problem-solving that demands heavy computing power, Ethereum's shift to PoS significantly lowers its carbon footprint.","The reduction in energy consumption not only makes Ethereum more environmentally friendly but also enhances its scalability—a key factor for widespread adoption. Lower energy requirements mean that running nodes to support the network becomes less costly and more accessible for individuals or small organizations. This democratization can lead to greater decentralization within the network.","Finally, with growing global awareness around climate change and sustainable practices, Ethereum’s move towards a less energy-intensive consensus mechanism could improve public perception and increase institutional interest in adopting its technology. As businesses increasingly prioritize green technologies, Ethereum's alignment with these values through PoS may boost its competitiveness in the market.","Proof-of-stake (PoS) is a method used by Ethereum to secure its network and manage the creation of new ETH tokens. This system has significant economic implications for those who hold ETH, or Ethereum holders. Understanding these implications can help investors make informed decisions about their investments in Ethereum.","Under the proof-of-stake model, Ethereum holders can participate in network operations by staking their ETH. Staking involves locking up a certain amount of ETH as a form of security deposit. In return, these participants, often called validators, are responsible for verifying transactions and maintaining the blockchain's integrity. Validators are chosen to create new blocks based on the amount of ETH they stake; generally, the more you stake, the higher your chances of being selected.","One major economic implication for ETH holders under this system is the opportunity to earn rewards. By becoming validators and helping secure the network, stakers earn additional ETH as rewards for their efforts and investment. These rewards come from transaction fees paid by users on the network and possibly from inflationary mechanisms designed to introduce new ETH into circulation.","Another important aspect is that proof-of-stake reduces overall risks associated with centralization compared to proof-of-work systems like Bitcoin's original setup where mining power concentrated among few leads to potential security threats or manipulation risks. In PoS systems like Ethereum’s version 2 upgrade (ETH2), having numerous validators makes it harder for any single entity or group to control enough stakes to manipulate outcomes unduly.","Finally, there are long-term benefits related specifically towards energy efficiency which directly impacts economic costs both at an individual level (lower electricity bills due less intensive computational requirements) but also globally through reduced environmental impact thus potentially leading regulatory favorability over time which could enhance overall market stability & growth prospects within crypto space including increased adoption rates across various sectors influenced heavily by sustainability concerns today such as finance & technology industries among others.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/understanding-proof-of-stake-in-ethereum"},"/blog/understanding-the-role-of-proof-of-work-in-bitcoin":{"version":1,"title":"Understanding the Role of Proof-of-Work in Bitcoin - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Understanding the Role of Proof-of-Work in Bitcoin"],"h2":["Introduction to Proof-of-Work in Bitcoin","How Does Proof-of-Work Function in Bitcoin?","Advantages of Proof-of-Work","Challenges Associated with Proof-of-Work","Future Prospects: Will Bitcoin Continue Using Proof-of-Work?","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 1, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Pow","Proof-of-work (PoW) is essential for maintaining the security and integrity of the blockchain technology that underpins Bitcoin. This article explores how PoW functions within Bitcoin, its benefits, associated challenges, and future prospects.","Proof-of-work (PoW) is a critical concept in the world of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It's essentially a mechanism that ensures security and integrity within the blockchain, which is the underlying technology behind Bitcoin. Understanding how proof-of-work functions can provide deeper insights into why Bitcoin maintains its value and security.","The primary role of proof-of-work in Bitcoin is to prevent fraud and ensure that all transactions are confirmed without the need for a central authority. This process involves solving complex mathematical problems, which requires computational power. Miners, who are participants in the cryptocurrency network, use their computers to solve these problems. The first miner to solve the problem gets the right to add new transactions to the blockchain and is rewarded with newly minted bitcoins.","This mining process not only secures transaction records but also creates new bitcoins, balancing inflation with growing demand. However, it's important to note that as more miners join the network and as more bitcoins are mined, these mathematical problems become increasingly difficult. This intentional design helps regulate bitcoin creation and ensures long-term sustainability.","Moreover, proof-of-work contributes significantly to preventing double-spending—a scenario where someone spends their bitcoins twice. Once a transaction is confirmed by miners through PoW and added to a block on the blockchain, altering it becomes extremely challenging due to cryptographic protections inherent in this technology.","PoW serves as the backbone for how transactions are verified and how new bitcoins are created. This system ensures that all participants in the network agree on the transaction record, maintaining security and preventing fraud.","In Bitcoin's proof-of-work system, transactions are grouped together into what we call blocks. These blocks then need to be validated by network participants, known as miners. The process of validating these blocks involves solving complex mathematical problems. When a miner successfully solves such a problem, they can add the block to the blockchain—the public ledger that records all bitcoin transactions.","The mathematical problem in question revolves around finding a number called a nonce. This number must be combined with the data in the block in such a way that when it is processed through a cryptographic function—specifically SHA-256—it produces an output (hash) that meets certain criteria set by the network. Typically, this means finding a hash that starts with several zeros which requires computational power and thus electricity.","This requirement makes sure no single user or group has enough computing power to manipulate or forge transaction records because doing so would require redoing all subsequent work at great cost due to energy consumption and time requirements. As more miners join and leave Bitcoin’s network, its difficulty adjusts automatically ensuring it takes about ten minutes on average to find each new block regardless of total mining power available at any given moment.","Finally, once solved correctly by some miner(s), other nodes (computers connected to Bitcoin's network) verify whether their solution indeed satisfies PoW requirements before adding this new block onto their version of blockchain thereby updating state across entire system simultaneously without needing trust among parties involved—a key feature making decentralized digital currencies like bitcoin possible initially envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto back 2008.","Using proof-of-work provides several advantages including enhanced security since altering information would require enormous computing effort; decentralization allowing anyone with sufficient computing power can participate; consensus building where multiple miners must verify each block ensuring all participants agree on transaction history without centralized oversight despite high energy consumption raising environmental concerns over time.","One major benefit of using proof-of-work in Bitcoin is security. The complexity of the calculations needed to add transactions ensures that altering any information on the blockchain would require an enormous amount of computing effort, making fraud extremely difficult. This robust security protocol helps maintain trust among users and makes Bitcoin a safer investment option compared to systems without similar protections.","Another advantage is decentralization. Unlike traditional banking systems where a central authority controls transaction verification, in Bitcoin, anyone with sufficient computing power can participate in mining—solving PoW problems—to help verify transactions. This method prevents any single entity from gaining control over the network, promoting a fairer distribution of power among its users.","Furthermore, proof-of-work contributes to network consensus. In order for a block to be added to the blockchain, it must be verified by multiple miners who confirm that all transactions within it are valid according to current rules on the network. This collective validation process ensures every participant agrees on transaction history and system state without needing centralized oversight.","However, it's important also to address some challenges associated with proof-of-work in Bitcoin mining such as high energy consumption due mainly because these computations require significant electrical power which has raised environmental concerns over time.","Overall though when considering benefits like enhanced security decentralized participation ability contribute towards consensus building while fostering innovation through open competition among miners; Proof-Of-Work remains foundational technology underpinning success longevity cryptocurrency particularly bitcoin.","The major challenge associated with proof-of-work is its significant energy consumption. Miners use powerful computers that require a lot of electricity to solve these mathematical puzzles. The energy-intensive nature of this process has raised concerns about its environmental impact as these computers consume as much power as small countries. High energy consumption not only raises ecological concerns but also increases operational costs for miners, affecting profitability especially when cryptocurrency prices are low.","Another issue is the risk of centralization within mining operations. While Bitcoin promotes decentralization, proof-of-work can ironically lead it towards centralization because those who can afford more powerful hardware typically have better chances at solving puzzles and earning rewards. Over time, this can lead fewer entities controlling larger portions of mining power or hash rate which contradicts the foundational principle of decentralization in Bitcoin.","The scalability problem also plagues proof-of-work systems like Bitcoin’s blockchain technology limits transactions per second due to block size restrictions and time taken by miners to validate new blocks before adding them onto blockchain networks.","Lastly there's always potential threat 51% attack wherein single entity gains majority control over total computing power used mine coins network allowing them manipulate records double spend coins effectively destroying the trust system.","Bitcoin, the first and most well-known cryptocurrency, operates on a proof-of-work (PoW) system. This method involves solving complex mathematical problems to validate transactions and secure the network. As we look ahead, questions arise about whether Bitcoin will continue using this system.","Proof-of-work is energy-intensive. Miners use powerful computers that consume large amounts of electricity to solve these problems. The environmental impact of this process has led to concerns among users and observers. Critics argue that as Bitcoin grows, its energy consumption could become unsustainable.","Despite these concerns, proof-of-work has its advantages. It provides security against fraud and attacks on the network by making it costly and time-consuming for attackers to alter any aspect of the blockchain. This security feature is crucial for maintaining trust in the system.","However, there are alternatives to proof-of-work being explored due to its high energy demand. One such alternative is proof-of-stake (PoS), which requires users to hold a certain amount of cryptocurrency to participate in transaction validation instead of performing complex calculations. This method significantly reduces power consumption.","The future use of PoW by Bitcoin depends on several factors including technological advancements, user preferences for security versus efficiency, regulatory developments regarding energy usage, and overall environmental considerations.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/understanding-the-role-of-proof-of-work-in-bitcoin"},"/blog/understanding-bitcoin-finality":{"version":1,"title":"Understanding Bitcoin Finality - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Understanding Bitcoin Finality"],"h2":["Comparing Finality in Bitcoin vs Traditional Banking","Challenges Associated with Bitcoin Transaction Finality","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 9, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Bitcoin finality is the stage at which a Bitcoin transaction becomes irreversible and permanently part of the blockchain. This concept is vital for anyone involved in cryptocurrency transactions as it impacts the security and reliability of these transactions.","When a Bitcoin transaction occurs, it is first broadcasted to a network of nodes. Miners then pick up this transaction and include it in a block of other transactions. Once this block is mined, it joins the blockchain, which acts as a public record of all past transactions. However, reaching finality does not happen immediately—it requires time.","The process includes what are known as 'confirmations'. A single confirmation happens when one additional block is added to the blockchain after your transaction's block. More confirmations occur as further blocks are added. Typically, six confirmations make most platforms consider a Bitcoin transaction finalized because each additional confirmation significantly reduces the risk of reversal.","Finality matters because it guarantees that once you receive or send bitcoins, you can be sure there will be no rollback under normal conditions. This certainty makes Bitcoin an appealing option for digital payments and investments.","However, users should understand that while bitcoin finality offers high security due to multiple required confirmations before considering a transaction complete, risks such as double spending exist where someone might try reversing their payment before full confirmation by mining subsequent blocks on chain.","In summary, bitcoin finality plays an essential role in making sure all parties involved have certainty over their financial activities within this digital currency system without fear of loss due to fraud or errors during processing stages leading up until full validation via miner consensus across global networks operating under protocol rules set forth by developers maintaining software infrastructure powering ecosystem today.","Bitcoin finality refers to the point at which a Bitcoin transaction is considered irreversible. This concept is crucial for understanding how transactions are settled in the digital currency world compared to traditional banking systems.","In traditional banking, when you make a transaction, such as transferring money from one account to another, there's usually a delay. During this period, the transaction can be reversed or canceled. This might happen due to various reasons like insufficient funds or suspected fraud. The finality of these transactions often depends on the bank’s policies and can take anywhere from hours to several days.","On the other hand, Bitcoin operates on a decentralized network using blockchain technology. When a Bitcoin transaction is made, it gets broadcasted to all participants in the network who verify its validity through complex cryptographic processes. Once verified by miners (special participants who validate transactions), it is added to a block on the blockchain.","The key aspect of Bitcoin finality occurs after this inclusion in a block; more specifically, it becomes finalized once additional blocks are added on top of it—typically considered secure after six confirmations (or six additional blocks). At this stage, reversing the transaction would require immense computational power and coordination among miners, making it practically impossible under normal circumstances.","This high degree of irreversibility makes Bitcoin an attractive option for those seeking certainty and security in their financial dealings without interference from central authorities like banks or governments. However, this also means that users must be very careful before confirming their transactions because once finalized, they cannot be undone easily.","Understanding these differences between bitcoin and traditional banking regarding finality helps users appreciate why some prefer cryptocurrencies for certain types of transactions despite their volatility and regulatory uncertainties.","Bitcoin transaction finality refers to the point at which a bitcoin transfer is considered irreversible, meaning it cannot be altered or reversed. Understanding this concept is crucial for anyone involved in cryptocurrency transactions.","One of the main challenges associated with Bitcoin transaction finality is the risk of double spending. Double spending occurs when someone tries to spend their bitcoins more than once. The decentralized nature of Bitcoin means there isn't a central authority, like a bank, to verify and stop such actions immediately. Instead, transactions are confirmed by network participants known as miners, who work to validate each transaction and add it to the blockchain—a public ledger that records all transactions.","Another issue is the time it takes for a transaction to be finalized or confirmed. When you send bitcoins, that transaction goes into a pool of unconfirmed transactions called the mempool. Miners select transactions from this pool to form new blocks for the blockchain. However, because miners prioritize higher-fee transactions, those paying lower fees may experience significant delays before their transaction is confirmed and finalized.","The number of confirmations needed also poses a challenge in terms of finality. In general practice within the Bitcoin community, six confirmations are recommended for high-value transactions as proof against double-spending attacks—each confirmation represents another block added after your initial block was mined on top of your original one containing your specific operation (transaction). This process can take about an hour under normal conditions but can vary widely depending on network congestion.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/understanding-bitcoin-finality"},"/blog/how-should-you-protect-your-cryptocurrency":{"version":1,"title":"How Can You Protect Your Cryptocurrency?  - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How Can You Protect Your Cryptocurrency?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 9, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","When discussing how to protect your cryptocurrency, it's crucial to start with the basics of secure storage. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are stored in digital wallets, which can be targeted by hackers. To prevent unauthorized access, it is essential to choose a wallet that offers robust security features. Hardware wallets, for example, provide an extra layer of security by storing cryptocurrencies offline. They are immune to computer viruses and hacking attempts that typically affect software wallets.","Another vital aspect of cryptocurrency protection is the use of strong, unique passwords combined with two-factor authentication (2FA). This adds an additional step in the verification process, making it harder for intruders to gain access even if they have your password. It’s important not only to enable 2FA but also to use a reliable app for this purpose rather than relying on text messages which can be intercepted.","Regularly updating software is another key practice in safeguarding your digital assets. Whether it’s the wallet software or the operating system on your device, keeping everything up-to-date ensures you have the latest security enhancements and vulnerability patches. Hackers often exploit known weaknesses in software, and thus staying updated helps close these gaps.","Phishing attacks are common in the cryptocurrency world. These scams involve tricking individuals into giving away sensitive information such as private keys or login details through fake websites or emails that appear legitimate. Always verify website URLs carefully before entering any personal information and do not click on unsolicited links received via email or social media platforms.","Lastly, consider using multi-signature technology where transactions require multiple approvals from different people before being executed. This method provides an additional layer of security by distributing trust among multiple parties and reducing risk if one-party's credentials are compromised.","By implementing these strategies—choosing secure storage options like hardware wallets, employing strong passwords along with two-factor authentication; regularly updating all related software, staying vigilant against phishing attempts; and utilizing multi-signature technology—you can significantly enhance the safety of your cryptocurrencies.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-should-you-protect-your-cryptocurrency"},"/blog/understanding-cryptocurrency-a-beginners-guide":{"version":1,"title":"Understanding Cryptocurrency: A Beginner's Guide - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Understanding Cryptocurrency: A Beginner's Guide"],"h2":["How Does Cryptocurrency Work?","Types of Cryptocurrencies","Benefits and Risks Associated with Using Cryptocurrencies","Future Outlook for Cryptocurrencies","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 9, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Pos","Pow"," \nCryptocurrencies are a digital or virtual form of currency that relies on cryptography to enhance security. Unlike traditional currencies such as the US dollar or Euro, which are issued by governments, cryptocurrencies function on a technology known as blockchain. This technology is decentralized and spreads across numerous computers that manage and record transactions, guaranteeing transparency, and preventing any single entity from dominating the network.","The origin of cryptocurrency dates back to 2009 with the creation of Bitcoin by an individual or group under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Following Bitcoin’s introduction, several thousand alternative cryptocurrencies, commonly referred to as altcoins (alternative coins), have emerged. These include well-known names like Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin among others. Each cryptocurrency operates based on its unique underlying technology and has distinct specifications.","A notable characteristic of cryptocurrencies is their ability to enable direct transactions between two parties without needing intermediaries such as banks or credit card companies. This peer-to-peer transaction model can lead to reduced transaction times and lower fees compared to traditional banking systems.","Investing in cryptocurrencies has gained popularity due to their potential for high returns. However, it is crucial to acknowledge that this market exhibits significant volatility; prices may experience substantial fluctuations over brief periods, making investments risky but also rewarding if approached wisely.","For those considering using or investing in cryptocurrencies, understanding how they operate and keeping up-to-date with market trends is essential. It is advisable to use secure storage solutions like hardware wallets for safely storing assets away from online threats.","A cryptocurrency is a type of digital or virtual money that operates independently of any central authority. This independence from traditional banks and government institutions is one of its main features. Cryptocurrencies use cryptography for security, making them difficult to counterfeit.","The technology behind cryptocurrencies is called blockchain. A blockchain is a decentralized ledger that records all transactions across a network of computers. When someone makes a transaction with cryptocurrency, the details are recorded on this ledger, which protects transparency and prevents fraud.","To make transactions with cryptocurrencies, you need two things: a wallet and an internet connection. The wallet stores your cryptocurrency and can be either hardware-based or software-based. Each wallet has public keys and private keys; the public key can be shared with others so they can send you money, while the private key should be kept secret as it allows you to spend your cryptocurrency.","Mining is another crucial aspect of how cryptocurrencies work. It involves using computer power to solve complex mathematical problems that validate transactions on the blockchain. Miners who successfully solve these problems are rewarded with new units of cryptocurrency.","Finally, it's important to understand that the value of cryptocurrencies can fluctuate widely due to market demand. Unlike traditional currencies controlled by national governments, there's no physical commodity backing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum; their value comes purely from what people are willing to pay for them on market exchanges.","One of the most well-known cryptocurrencies is Bitcoin. Bitcoin offers lower transaction fees than traditional online payment mechanisms and is operated by a decentralized authority. It has paved the way for many other cryptocurrencies and remains the largest one by market capitalization.","Ethereum follows closely behind Bitcoin in terms of popularity. Launched in 2015, Ethereum differs from Bitcoin because it expands its use beyond simple financial transactions to agreements and applications through its smart contract feature. This means developers can build programs that run as programmed without any chance of fraud or third-party interference on Ethereum’s platform.","Lastly, Litecoin was created in 2011 as an alternative to Bitcoin but with improvements such as faster processing times and more coins available for mining compared to Bitcoin's cap limit. It was designed to produce blocks more frequently, which speeds up transaction confirmations.","These are just some examples among thousands of different cryptocurrencies each serving various purposes from privacy-focused coins like Monero, which obscures identities involved in transactions, to utility tokens like Chainlink, which provides data feeds outside blockchain networks into them, protecting accuracy within smart contracts operations.","Cryptocurrency has become a popular topic in financial discussions. It refers to digital or virtual money that uses cryptography for security, making it difficult to counterfeit. The most well-known cryptocurrency is Bitcoin, but there are thousands of others, including Ethereum and Ripple.","One major benefit of using cryptocurrencies is their ability to facilitate transactions without the need for traditional banking systems. This can be particularly useful for people in areas where access to banks is limited or non-existent. Cryptocurrencies operate on a technology called the blockchain, which records all transactions across a network of computers. This not only makes transactions fast but also reduces transaction fees significantly compared to conventional methods.","However, investing in cryptocurrencies carries its own set of risks. The value of cryptocurrencies can be extremely volatile. For example, the price of Bitcoin has seen both dramatic rises and sharp declines over short periods. This volatility means that while investors can make substantial profits quickly, they can also experience significant losses just as rapidly.","Another risk associated with cryptocurrencies is their regulatory status, which remains unclear in many parts of the world. Governments are still figuring out how to deal with this new form of currency from a legal and tax standpoint. This uncertainty can lead to sudden changes in regulations that might affect users and investors negatively.","Despite these risks, the potential benefits continue to attract individuals and businesses alike towards cryptocurrencies as an alternative form of investment and payment method.","The future outlook for cryptocurrencies appears robust as they continue to attract both individual investors and large institutions. As more people learn about and understand how to use these digital assets, their acceptance grows. This increasing adoption could lead to greater stability in cryptocurrency prices, which have been known for their volatility.","One significant aspect influencing the future of cryptocurrencies is regulation. Governments around the world are beginning to develop frameworks for regulating digital currencies, aiming at preventing illegal activities such as money laundering while supporting innovation in this sector. Clear regulations would likely boost confidence among potential users and investors.","Technological advancements also play a crucial role in shaping the future of cryptocurrencies. Innovations like faster transaction speeds, improved security measures, and enhanced usability can make these digital assets more appealing to a broader audience. For instance, developments such as scalability solutions are critical because they help networks handle more transactions simultaneously without compromising speed or cost.","Finally, integration with existing financial systems could drive further growth in cryptocurrency usage. More companies accepting crypto payments or banks integrating blockchain technology into their operations may normalize using these digital assets alongside traditional money.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/understanding-cryptocurrency-a-beginners-guide"},"/blog/understanding-bitcoin-a-comprehensive-guide":{"version":1,"title":"Understanding Bitcoin: A Comprehensive Guide - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Understanding Bitcoin: A Comprehensive Guide"],"h2":["What is Bitcoin?","How Does Bitcoin Work?","Benefits of Using Bitcoin","Future Prospects for Bitcoins","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 9, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Pow","Bitcoin is a digital currency, also known as a cryptocurrency, which an unknown person or group of people using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto introduced in 2009. It operates on a technology called blockchain, which is a decentralized ledger that records all transactions across a network of computers. Bitcoin offers the promise of lower transaction fees than traditional online payment mechanisms and is operated by a decentralized authority, unlike government-issued currencies.","Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars or euros, Bitcoin does not exist in physical form. There are no actual coins or notes; it exists solely in digital format. This makes it distinct from fiat money issued by governments around the world. Each bitcoin can be divided into smaller parts, with the smallest divisible amount being one hundred-millionths of a bitcoin, which is called a 'satoshi'. This feature makes transactions highly flexible in terms of quantity.","The creation and transfer of bitcoins are based on open-source cryptographic protocols that can be accessed by anyone who has internet access. The process through which new bitcoins are created follows what is known as mining - complex computational problems are solved to generate new coins. However, there's an upper limit to how many bitcoins can ever exist – specifically 21 million – guaranteeing they remain scarce and valuable.","For security purposes, every transaction involving bitcoins gets recorded on the blockchain. Once added to this public ledger under encryption for protection against fraud and hacks, these records cannot be altered retroactively without altering all additional blocks along with achieving consensus among network participants—making bitcoin secure yet transparent.","As more businesses accept bitcoin as payment for goods and services worldwide due to its growing popularity among tech-savvy users looking for alternatives outside conventional financial systems, understanding its fundamentals becomes crucial if considering investing or using them regularly.","Bitcoin is a digital currency that operates without the need for a central authority, such as a government or bank. Instead, it relies on a decentralized network of computers to manage transactions and issue new bitcoins. This system is known as blockchain technology.","When someone wants to send bitcoins to another person, they start a transaction. This transaction details how many bitcoins are being sent and who the recipient is. Once triggered, this transaction joins others in what is called a block. The block then needs to be verified by miners within the network.","Miners use powerful computers to solve complex mathematical problems that validate each transaction in the block. Solving these problems requires significant computing power and energy but guarantees security and integrity within the bitcoin network. When miners successfully solve these problems, they add the verified block to an existing chain of blocks—hence the term \"blockchain.\"","Each added block strengthens the verification of previous blocks and thus secures further all past transactions in Bitcoin's history. As compensation for their efforts in maintaining this secure environment, miners receive newly minted bitcoins along with any fees associated with transactions included in their validated blocks.","Bitcoin offers several benefits that have contributed to its popularity. Unlike traditional currencies issued by governments (like the US dollar or Euro), Bitcoin operates on a decentralized network using technology known as blockchain. This essay explores the advantages of using Bitcoin.","One major benefit of Bitcoin is its low transaction fees compared to other standard payment methods such as credit cards or bank transfers, especially when dealing with cross-border transactions. Traditional financial systems often involve hefty charges for international transfers and can take days to process. In contrast, Bitcoin transactions are typically processed with much smaller fees and at faster rates, regardless of the geographical locations involved.","Another significant advantage is the level of security that Bitcoin provides. The underlying technology, blockchain, provides that all transactions are recorded in a public ledger and are secured by cryptography. This makes it extremely difficult for anyone to alter transaction details fraudulently. Moreover, users can transact without revealing their identities fully; they only need a digital wallet address, which enhances privacy.","Bitcoin offers freedom from political influence and macroeconomic issues such as inflation and corruption that might affect traditional currencies due to government actions like excessive printing of money or arbitrary changes in financial policies. Since there's a cap on the number of Bitcoins that can ever exist (21 million coins), this scarcity mimics precious metals like gold and contributes to anti-inflationary properties.","Accessibility is another key benefit since anyone with internet access can use Bitcoin without needing approval from any authority or going through complex banking setups which may not be available in underdeveloped areas. This inclusivity promotes financial participation and empowerment globally.","Bitcoin continues to shape the financial landscape. As we look towards the future prospects of Bitcoin, it's essential to consider various factors that could influence its adoption and stability.","One major aspect affecting Bitcoin's future is regulatory developments. Governments around the world are still deciding how to approach cryptocurrencies. Some countries have embraced them, while others have imposed strict regulations or outright bans. The decisions by major economies on how to regulate Bitcoin will greatly impact its usage and acceptance both as a form of investment and as a medium of exchange.","Secondly, technological advancements play a crucial role in shaping the future of Bitcoin. The underlying technology of Bitcoin is the blockchain—a secure method of recording transactions that offers transparency and resistance against fraud. Improvements in blockchain technology could make Bitcoin transactions faster and cheaper, thereby enhancing its appeal. However, challenges such as scalability need addressing for this potential growth.","Market adoption is another critical factor determining the long-term success of Bitcoin. For widespread use as a currency rather than just an investment asset, businesses and consumers must adopt it for everyday transactions. Increased acceptance from large corporations can boost confidence among smaller businesses and individual users alike.","Competition from other cryptocurrencies also influences Bitcoin’s prospects. Numerous other digital currencies offer similar benefits with additional features; some focus on greater privacy while others boast more efficient energy consumption during mining processes (the process through which new Bitcoins are created). As alternatives continue evolving alongside technological progressions within their respective blockchains, they might attract investors away from bitcoin if perceived superior or safer options become available","Finally, economic factors globally affect all forms of investments, including bitcoins. Economic downturns or instability can lead people toward alternative stores of value like gold historically have been seen haven. During times of uncertainty, however, the same conditions might drive interest. Crypto assets are perceived as being detached from traditional financial systems, thus increasing demand.","Understanding these aspects helps us grasp what lies ahead for bitcoins While there uncertainties surrounding many elements remain clear, cryptocurrency particularly remains topic great interest discussion within global finance community","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/understanding-bitcoin-a-comprehensive-guide"},"/blog/understanding-ethereum-a-comprehensive-guide":{"version":1,"title":"Understanding Ethereum: A Comprehensive Guide - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Understanding Ethereum: A Comprehensive Guide"],"h2":["How Does Ethereum Work?","The Ether Cryptocurrency","Decentralized Applications (DApps) on Ethereum","Future Prospects for Ethereum","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 9, 2024","Blockchain","Ethereum","Ethereum is a decentralized platform that enables developers to create and operate applications without the need for third-party interference. Proposed by Vitalik Buterin in 2013, it has risen to become the second-largest cryptocurrency platform by market value, following Bitcoin. Unlike systems controlled by single entities, Ethereum uses blockchain technology, which provides security, transparency, and permanence.","The primary feature of Ethereum is its smart contracts capability. These are self-executing contracts with terms embedded directly into code. When certain conditions are met, these contracts activate automatically without external enforcement or intermediaries. This functionality opens up possibilities for various applications across industries like finance, real estate, healthcare, among others.","Ethereum also introduces its own cryptocurrency known as Ether (ETH). Users use Ether to carry out transactions or execute smart contracts on the Ethereum network. The demand for ETH typically follows the adoption rate of Ethereum’s technology since it's needed to facilitate operations within its ecosystem.","Developers favor Ethereum because of its flexibility and broad support community. They can create decentralized apps (dApps) using programming languages like Solidity that resemble JavaScript, making it easier for those familiar with web development to transition into blockchain development.","Ethereum is a digital platform that expands the concept of blockchain technology, originally used by Bitcoin. It allows users to create and run applications right within the network. This essay explains how Ethereum functions.","Firstly, Ethereum operates on a blockchain, which is essentially a shared ledger recording all transactions made in the system. Each transaction or 'block' is connected to its predecessor, forming a 'chain'. The security of this chain comes from its decentralized nature; multiple participants rather than any single entity manage it, making it resistant to fraud.","The core feature distinguishing Ethereum from other blockchains is its ability for users to write and deploy smart contracts. These are self-executing contracts with terms directly written into code lines. Once deployed on the Ethereum network, these contracts automatically enforce their own conditions based on the inputs they receive.","For transactions involving smart contracts or even regular transfers between accounts, there's a need for computational power provided by machines belonging to volunteers called miners. Miners process these transactions and in return, they earn Ether – the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum. This mining process not only secures the network but also creates new Ether tokens, fueling the ecosystem.","Another key component of how Ethereum works involves gas fees - payments made by users to compensate for computing energy required to process their transactions or execute smart contracts. Gas prices vary depending on network demand; higher demand leads to higher fees.","Lastly, developers can build decentralized applications (dApps) using programming languages such as Solidity tailored specifically for creating software on top of Ethereum’s protocol layer.","These dApps benefit from being built on a secure platform without central points of failure and offer various services ranging from games and financial tools to identity systems and more.","Ethereum is a digital platform that differs from Bitcoin because it expands on its technologies to create an entirely separate system. While Bitcoin was developed as a currency, Ethereum is a broader platform where developers can build their own decentralized applications (dApps). At the heart of this platform is Ether, often referred to simply as Ethereum, which is the cryptocurrency used for transactions on the Ethereum network.","Ether functions primarily as a means of payment for transaction fees and computational services on the Ethereum network. It's essential for anyone who wants to use or develop applications within this ecosystem. For instance, when you interact with dApps, execute smart contracts, or conduct transactions like sending tokens to another user, you need Ether to pay for these actions. This requirement helps keep the network secure and efficient by compensating those who provide computational power.","The supply dynamics of Ether also make it unique. Unlike Bitcoin’s fixed supply cap of 21 million coins, there’s no absolute limit on the total amount of ETH that can be issued. However, following recent updates known as EIP-1559 (Ethereum Improvement Proposals), part of every transaction fee paid in Ether is \"burned\" or permanently removed from circulation. This burning mechanism introduces deflationary pressure into the system, which could increase its value over time if demand continues to grow faster than new coins are issued.","Investors and users are attracted to Ethereum not just because they can buy or sell Ether as an investment but also due to its ability to run smart contracts automatically executing agreements based on predefined rules without any go-between involved. These contracts have numerous uses across different industries, including finance, where they might streamline processes such as lending and trading derivatives.","Ethereum stands out as a major platform in the world of blockchain technology. It goes beyond just being a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin; it enables developers to create decentralized applications (DApps). These are applications that run on a peer-to-peer network of computers rather than relying on a single computer or server. This setup is crucial because it enhances security and reduces the risks associated with centralized control.","Decentralized applications on Ethereum are diverse, covering various sectors such as finance, gaming, social media, and more. The key feature here is that these apps operate on smart contracts, automatically executing transactions when certain conditions are met without any human intervention. This automation not only speeds up processes but also ensures they're carried out without errors or fraud.","For users interested in exploring DApps, Ethereum offers an accessible platform where these applications can be used securely and reliably. Since all operations conducted through DApps are recorded transparently on the Ethereum blockchain, users benefit from an unprecedented level of transparency and trust in their interactions.","Ethereum is a digital platform that differs from Bitcoin because it expands on its technologies to create an entirely new network. Ethereum introduces the concept of 'smart contracts,' which are programs that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, fraud, or interference. This feature enables developers to create applications on Ethereum's platform, leading to an ecosystem of financial services, games, social networks, and more.","Looking ahead at future prospects for Ethereum, one significant aspect is its shift from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS). This change aims to reduce the massive energy consumption associated with mining cryptocurrencies and make transactions faster and more cost-effective. The move also seeks to address scalability issues—how many transactions can be processed in a short amount of time—which has been a major challenge for Ethereum.","Another key area of development for Ethereum is improving its security protocols. As more users join and more applications are built on the platform, ensuring these interactions remain secure is crucial. Upgrades in security will likely attract more businesses and developers to use Ethereum’s technology, fostering further growth and innovation within the network.","In addition to technical upgrades, there is growing interest in decentralized finance (DeFi) projects on Ethereum’s network. DeFi uses smart contracts to recreate traditional financial instruments such as loans and insurance without needing intermediaries like banks. This sector has seen rapid growth and could redefine how people interact with financial systems.","Lastly, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), unique digital assets verified using blockchain technology like that behind Ethereum have gained popularity. They represent ownership over specific items such as art or music files, making them collectibles in digital form but with real-world value.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/understanding-ethereum-a-comprehensive-guide"},"/blog/understanding-consensus-mechanisms":{"version":1,"title":"Understanding Consensus Mechanisms - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Understanding Consensus Mechanisms"],"h2":["What is a Consensus Mechanism?","How Do Consensus Mechanisms Work?","More Detail On the Types of Consensus Mechanisms","Benefits and Limitations Of Different Consensus Mechanisms","Future Trends In Consensus Mechanisms","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 10, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Pop","Pos","Pow","A consensus mechanism is a critical element in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency systems. It involves methods used to achieve agreement on a single data value among distributed processes or systems. These mechanisms are essential for ensuring reliability and security in networks that operate without a central authority.","One well-known type of consensus mechanism is Proof of Work (PoW). This method requires solving complex mathematical problems, demanding significant computational power. Miners compete to solve these problems; the first one to find the solution earns the right to add a new block of transactions to the blockchain and receives cryptocurrency as a reward. Bitcoin, which was the first cryptocurrency, operates on this mechanism.","Another widely used consensus mechanism is Proof of Stake (PoS). PoS does not require extensive energy consumption like PoW because it does not involve mining activities. Instead, it assigns validation responsibilities based on how many coins an individual holds and is willing to stake as collateral for maintaining honesty within the network. The more coins you stake, the higher your chances are at being chosen to validate transactions and add new blocks.","Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) extends PoS by allowing coin holders not only to stake their tokens but also vote for other users who will secure their networks—these users are often called delegates or witnesses. DPoS can be faster than traditional PoS due to its fewer validators involved in confirming transactions.","Finally, there is Proof-of-Proof. Created by Hemi, Proof-of-Proof (PoP) is a security mechanism that provides enhanced transaction finality and security. Proof-of-Proof is a lightweight consensus algorithm that allows the Hemi Network to inherit the full security of Bitcoin Proof-of-Work in a decentralized and permissionless manner without Bitcoin miner involvement.","Each type serves different purposes depending on factors such as speed requirements or desired levels of decentralization versus efficiency trade-offs needed by specific applications using them.","A consensus mechanism is a fundamental concept in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency systems. It refers to the methods used to achieve agreement on a single data value among distributed processes or systems. Consensus mechanisms are crucial because they guarantee reliability and security in networks where there is no central authority.","Lastly, Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT), another type used mainly in private blockchains like Hyperledger Fabric from IBM focuses on achieving consensus even if some nodes fail or act maliciously within a network environment that trusts each other minimally.","Each type serves different purposes depending on various factors such as speed requirements or desired level of decentralization versus efficiency trade-offs needed by specific applications using them.","A consensus mechanism is a fundamental concept in blockchain technology and various decentralized systems. It refers to the method by which these networks reach agreement on certain states of data, making sure all participants have consistent records without needing a central authority.","To understand how consensus mechanisms work, it's essential to grasp their role in maintaining network integrity. On the blockchain, for instance, every transaction must be approved before being permanently recorded on the digital ledger. This approval process involves nodes (computers connected to the network) agreeing that the transaction is valid.","There are several types of consensus mechanisms used today, each with its own set of rules for validating transactions and adding new blocks to the blockchain. The most well-known among these is Proof of Work (PoW), utilized by Bitcoin. Here, nodes compete against each other to solve complex mathematical problems; the first node to find a solution gets the right to add a new block and earn rewards in cryptocurrency.","Another popular consensus model is Proof of Stake (PoS). Unlike PoW, which requires substantial computational power, PoS selects validators based on the number of coins they hold and are willing to 'stake' as collateral. This not only reduces energy consumption but also speeds up transaction processing times.","Lastly, understanding these mechanisms can significantly enhance user interaction with technologies like cryptocurrencies and distributed ledgers. Knowing whether a system uses PoW or PoS can help users make informed decisions about security features, transaction speeds, and potential costs associated with different blockchain applications.","A consensus mechanism is a vital component of blockchain technology. It's the method by which transactions are verified and agreed upon within a network, making sure all participants have a consistent view of the ledger. This process prevents fraud and makes sure that each participant, or node, agrees with the data recorded on the blockchain.","There are several types of consensus mechanisms used in various blockchain networks; each has its own way of functioning and advantages depending on the specific requirements of the network. The most commonly known mechanisms include Proof of Work (PoW), Proof of Stake (PoS), Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS), and Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT).","Proof of Work is one of the earliest forms used by networks like Bitcoin. In PoW, miners compete to solve complex mathematical problems, and the first to solve it gets to add a new block to the chain. This method provides high security but requires significant computational power and energy, making it less sustainable as networks grow.","Proof of Stake offers an alternative where instead you hold coins in your wallet for staking rather than solving mathematical puzzles. Your chances increase with more coins held or \"staked\". This not only reduces energy consumption significantly but also speeds up transaction processing times.","Delegated Proof of Stake takes this further by allowing coin holders to vote for certain nodes as their representatives who will validate transactions on their behalf. This makes DPoS faster than traditional PoS systems while still maintaining security through a collective agreement among trusted validators.","Byzantine Fault Tolerance addresses issues related to system failures when some nodes fail or act maliciously. BFT-based systems can reach consensus even if some participants turn unreliable, thus enhancing overall network resilience against attacks or errors.","Understanding these different types allows users to choose appropriately based on factors such as speed, required transaction costs involved in the chosen decentralization, among others helping optimize operations across diverse applications using blockchain technology.","A consensus mechanism is a system used in computer networks to achieve agreement on a single data value among distributed processes or systems. It's essential for technologies like blockchain, where it ensures all transactions are verified and agreed upon without the need for a central authority. This essay explores the benefits and limitations of various consensus mechanisms.","One major benefit of using consensus mechanisms is security. By requiring multiple parties to verify each transaction, it becomes extremely difficult for fraudulent activities to occur without detection. For example, Bitcoin uses a proof-of-work (PoW) mechanism that makes it not only expensive but also time-consuming to alter any aspect of the transaction history. This robust level of security is crucial for maintaining trust in decentralized systems.","However, there are also significant limitations associated with some consensus mechanisms, particularly regarding scalability and energy consumption. PoW, as used by Bitcoin, requires substantial computational power and electricity, which leads to environmental concerns and high operational costs. These factors make scaling up blockchain applications challenging because increasing the number of transactions can lead directly to increased energy use and slower processing times.","Another type of consensus mechanism is proof-of-stake (PoS). It offers distinct advantages over PoW, such as lower energy consumption since it does not require extensive computational work; instead, validators are chosen based on their stake in the network or assets they hold, which motivates them towards honest validation practices due to having skin in the game themselves. This method enhances speed and efficiency within networks while reducing environmental impact compared with PoW models.","Despite these improvements offered by PoS systems, they come with their own set challenges, including what’s known as \"nothing at stake\" problem where validators might have little disincentive from validating incorrect or malicious blocks if doing so could yield favorable outcomes financially speaking – leading into issues related integrity.","A consensus mechanism is a system used in computer networks to achieve agreement on a single data value among distributed processes or systems. It's essential for technologies like blockchain, where it ensures all participants agree on the state of the ledger without needing a central authority.","One key trend in consensus mechanisms is the shift towards more energy-efficient models. Traditional mechanisms like Proof of Work (PoW), used by Bitcoin, require massive amounts of computational power and electricity. This has led to concerns about sustainability and environmental impact. In response, newer mechanisms such as Proof of Stake (PoS) have been developed. PoS selects validators based on the number of coins they hold and are willing to \"stake\" as security, which consumes far less power.","Another future trend is enhancing scalability through improved consensus algorithms. As blockchain networks grow and attract more users, the ability to process transactions quickly becomes critical. Innovations such as sharding—dividing the network into smaller pieces that can process transactions simultaneously—are being integrated with consensus methods to increase transaction speeds while maintaining security.","Security enhancements are also crucial in evolving consensus mechanisms. With increasing threats from hackers, developing secure yet efficient consensus algorithms remains a priority for developers. Techniques like Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) are being refined to withstand potential attacks better and ensure that even if some nodes fail or act maliciously, the network can still function correctly.","Lastly, interoperability between different blockchains has become an important focus area within this field. Future developments aim at creating seamless communication across various platforms using advanced consensus techniques that can handle diverse governance models and transaction types effectively.","These trends indicate ongoing improvements aimed at making decentralized networks faster, safer, more sustainable, and user-friendly—a significant step forward for industries looking toward adopting these technologies widely.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/understanding-consensus-mechanisms"},"/blog/understanding-software-wallets-in-cryptocurrency":{"version":1,"title":"Understanding Software Wallets in Cryptocurrency - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Understanding Software Wallets in Cryptocurrency"],"h2":["Types of Software Wallets Available","Key Features of Software Wallets","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 10, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Security","A software wallet is a digital platform that enables users to store, send, and receive cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Unlike physical or hardware wallets, which keep digital currencies offline, software wallets function online through devices such as computers and smartphones.","Software wallets are favored for their user-friendliness and accessibility. After installation, these wallets create private keys—secure codes that only the user knows—to access cryptocurrency holdings. It's vital to protect these keys because anyone who gains access can manage the funds they unlock.","Various types of software wallets cater to different needs—from basic models ideal for beginners to more advanced ones offering additional features like built-in exchanges or support for numerous cryptocurrencies. The choice of a suitable wallet largely depends on individual requirements, whether it’s frequent transactions or secure long-term storage.","Despite their convenience, security concerns persist with software wallets due to their internet connectivity, which exposes them to potential hacking threats. To counteract this vulnerability, most reputable wallets incorporate strong security measures including two-factor authentication (2FA), multi-signature addresses, and encrypted backup options.","When setting up your first software wallet, choosing one with robust security features is crucial along with ease-of-use considerations. Many respected wallet providers include options such as two-factor authentication (2FA) and backup capabilities. These functions add layers of protection against unauthorized access and data loss.","The process involves downloading an application from a reliable source followed by creating a new within the app. During the creation phase, you will generate a private key—a unique set of characters that acts password for accessing funds stored. Always ensure this is kept secure. Also make sure to have backups safely stored offline. Losing these backups means permanently losing access to your cryptocurrency, since no central authority can retrieve them for you.","Once secured, start testing some operations with small amounts of money, including sending and receiving crypto, ensuring everything operates smoothly before moving to larger amounts.","One common type of software wallet is the desktop wallet. These wallets are downloaded and installed on a personal computer. They offer robust security by storing your private keys directly on your machine, keeping them isolated from online threats when properly secured. However, if the computer with the installed wallet connects to the internet, it becomes vulnerable to attacks.","Another popular choice is mobile wallets. These are apps installed on smartphones, making them very convenient for daily use, such as paying at stores or transferring money quickly between individuals. Mobile wallets balance convenience with security; they are more secure than online wallets but less so than desktop or hardware options due to potential vulnerabilities in mobile platforms.","Web-based wallets represent another category. These operate entirely online and can be accessed through any web browser. Their main advantage lies in their accessibility from anywhere at any time without needing specific hardware or installations. However, this type also poses higher risks since private keys are stored and managed by a third-party service provider which could be targeted by hackers.","Lastly, there's an emerging trend towards hybrid solutions that combine features of both hot (online) and cold (offline) storage methods—often referred to as hybrid wallets. These aim to provide a balanced approach by offering enhanced security during offline storage while still being accessible enough for everyday transactions when connected.","One primary feature of software wallets is their accessibility. These wallets provide easy access to your cryptocurrencies anytime and anywhere as long as you have an internet connection and your device with you. This makes it convenient for users who need frequent transactions like trading or purchasing goods with cryptocurrency. The ease of access ensures that individuals can monitor their investments and respond quickly to market changes.","Security is another crucial aspect of software wallets. While they are generally considered less secure than hardware wallets due to their connectivity to the internet, many software wallets include robust security measures such as two-factor authentication (2FA), multi-signature support, and encrypted private keys stored locally on the user's device. These features help protect against unauthorized access and cyber threats, making them a reliable option for storing crypto assets.","Another significant feature is the user interface (UI). Software wallets often come with intuitive interfaces designed to simplify navigation through various functionalities like sending or receiving cryptocurrencies, viewing transaction history, or adding new coins/tokens into your portfolio. A well-designed UI can significantly enhance the user experience by making complex tasks more manageable even for those who are not tech-savvy.","Lastly, backup options play a vital role in ensuring data integrity within a software wallet setup; most reputable ones will provide clear instructions on how to back up all critical information including private keys using seed phrases - random words generated at setup used later if recovery becomes necessary due to loss, theft, or device failure, thus providing peace of mind knowing there’s always way regain control over funds should unforeseen circumstances arise.","These features collectively contribute towards creating effective solutions tailored specifically toward needs modern-day cryptocurrency enthusiasts looking safe yet accessible means handling their digital finances effectively, efficiently while minimizing risks associated online storage methods.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/understanding-software-wallets-in-cryptocurrency"},"/blog/how-to-make-decentralized-apps-the-hemi-bitcoin-kit":{"version":1,"title":"Making Decentralized Apps With the Hemi Bitcoin Kit - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Making Decentralized Apps With the Hemi Bitcoin Kit"],"h2":["Better Bitcoin Programmability with hBK","What Developers Can Build","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 17, 2024","Bitcoin","Hemi","Putting programmability into Bitcoin","TL;DR","The Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) is a Bitcoin Node wrapped inside a Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to deliver the best-possible access to the states of both.","The Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) is a library of smart contracts for developers to take full advantage of the hVM.","The hBK provides rich data, reliability, and security so that developers can cheaply and easily make dApps — and build on other applications.","This level of programmability will enable Bitcoin apps that previously would have been impossible or impractical to build.","Thanks to smart contracts, Ethereum has become home to decentralized apps. Hemi unlocks a similar level of programmability for Bitcoin, enabling applications that, until now, have been somewhere between impractical and impossible.","Well, the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) makes it possible. The Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) makes it easy. Let's dive in.","The hVM is based on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and comes stocked with built-in shortcuts precompiled to abstract away complex transactions. These make it easier for developers to create their own smart contracts and, by extension, build decentralized applications. Just as important, it makes the development of such applications relatively cheap—the infrastructure is there for anyone to tap into.","Because the hVM is an EVM wrapped around a Bitcoin node, it automatically extends that easy DeFi programmability to Bitcoin-based assets.","And the Hemi Bitcoin Kit makes dApp development even easier. The hBK is a library of smart contracts that abstract away the precompile process. They seamlessly translate smart contract queries so that data is easier to deal with.","The Hemi Bitcoin Kit brings five benefits to developers:","Easier development: Any Bitcoin data you want is one smart contract call away.","Rich data: You get access to data that is impractical or outright impossible to get with other solutions.","Security and reliability: dApps get immediate information about any relevant events on the Bitcoin blockchain without having to rely on third-party relayers or trusted oracles.","Composability: Anyone can design new layers of Bitcoin DeFi infrastructure for others on which to build.","Cost-effectiveness: The hVM uses far less gas than other approaches and there's no need to incentivize third-party bots to watch for and relay events.","Some examples of unique applications that the Hemi Bitcoin Kit enables:","Custom Bitcoin tunnels: Connect chains to the Bitcoin network using customized security, cost, and speed settings.","Trustless BTC staking and re-staking protocols: 99% of BTC is unbridged and/or unproductive. With Hemi, BTC can be used to secure networks and earn yield.","Bitcoin-authenticated AI-model marketplaces: AI model owners can publish Bitcoin-secure hashes of their model weights, timestamping to Bitcoin.","Multichain DAOs: Hemi DAOs operate across both Bitcoin and Ethereum, making decisions based on the collective input of stakeholders from both communities.","To see how you can get started making your own decentralized apps, read the whitepaper and the relevant documentation or stop by the team's Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-to-make-decentralized-apps-the-hemi-bitcoin-kit"},"/blog/hemi-launches-advanced-modular-layer-2-blockchain-network-powered-by-bitcoin-and-ethereum":{"version":1,"title":"INTRODUCING HEMI: AN ADVANCED MODULAR BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK   POWERED BY BITCOIN AND ETHEREUM - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["INTRODUCING HEMI: AN ADVANCED MODULAR BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK   POWERED BY BITCOIN AND ETHEREUM"],"h2":["Key Facts","A Layer-2 from a Different Point of View","Participate in the Incentivized Testnet","To Learn More","About Hemi Labs","Contact","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 18, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Press Release","Next Generation Layer-2 Solution Delivers Better-than-Bitcoin Security and Deeper Interoperability Between the Two Networks That Drive the Blockchain Ecosystem","Launching at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, the Hemi Network (“Hemi”) is a modular layer-2 blockchain network built for superior scaling, security, and interoperability between Bitcoin and Ethereum.","By approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork, Hemi delivers the best capabilities of both.","Hemi was co-founded by renowned early Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik and blockchain security pioneer Max Sanchez.","Hemi’s novel features include “Proof-of-Proof” (PoP) consensus that utilizes (and exceeds) Bitcoin’s security, plus powerful Bitcoin/Ethereum interoperability technologies for delivering trust-critical decentralized finance and AI applications.","The testnet and referral program are available today. The Hemi leaderboard and points program will start in one week.","Hemi’s mainnet launch is anticipated for September 2024.","NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 24, 2024 — Hemi Labs today announced the Hemi Network (“Hemi”), a modular layer-2 blockchain network focused on delivering superior scaling, security, and interoperability between Bitcoin and Ethereum.","Hemi Labs was co-founded by early Bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik and blockchain security pioneer Max Sanchez, who was the principal developer behind Hemi’s unique method for inheriting Bitcoin’s unique security characteristics — the Proof-of-Proof (“PoP”) consensus protocol.","Attempts to integrate and scale Bitcoin and Ethereum have tended to address the problem within their respective communities, resulting in a fractured ecosystem. Hemi instead approaches Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a larger supernetwork. This surfaces the best capabilities of both networks and, in turn, enables a new class of previously unattainable blockchain applications.","Hemi’s powerful benefits include:","Unifying Bitcoin & Ethereum — The Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) integrates a full Bitcoin node within an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), enabling developers to harness the power of both Bitcoin and Ethereum using familiar and proven development tools.","Bitcoin Programmability — Building with the Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) provides smart-contract developers direct access to highly granular views of Bitcoin’s state available via the hVM. This unlocks applications such as Bitcoin (re)staking, Bitcoin-enabled lending markets, and democratized Bitcoin MEV marketplaces —  applications that were previously impractical or impossible to execute in a truly trustless, secure, and efficient way.","Superfinality — Through its PoP consensus protocol, Hemi inherits Bitcoin’s full security in a truly decentralized and permissionless manner, achieving better-than-Bitcoin finality, or “superfinality” in just a few hours. Additionally, PoP’s modular nature enables Hemi to extend this security efficiently to other blockchains.","Trustless Cross-Chain Portability — With Tunnels, Hemi delivers a Bitcoin-secured conduit for securely moving assets between chains. Hemi’s design offers new methods for moving assets between networks beyond the traditional methods and trust models offered by conventional bridges.","Asset Programmability — Hemi’s additional asset-programmability features include on-chain routing, time-lock, and password-protect. Gasless transfer enables asset movement without requiring any native chain currency, regardless of the presence of a web3 wallet.","“As we started to develop the project that would eventually emerge as Hemi, we not only uncovered multiple areas where we could scale and integrate Bitcoin and Ethereum most effectively, but also make each blockchain network’s capabilities more available and useful to developers,” said Jeff Garzik, co-founder of Hemi Labs. “The compounding of these discoveries and innovations results in today's announcement and I am incredibly proud of the team we have assembled to bring Hemi to life.”","The Hemi incentivized testnet and referral program are accessible today, followed by the leaderboard and points program that will launch in one week. With the points program, participants earn “points” and can gain recognition for tasks that support everything from Hemi’s growth to overall development and improvement. Instructions for participation are available in the Hemi Docs.","Website: https://hemiproduction.wpengine.com","Blog: https://hemiproduction.wpengine.com/blog/","GitHub: https://github.com/HemiLabs","Docs: https://docs.hemi.xyz/","Discord: https://discord.gg/hemixyz","Twitter/X: https://x.com/hemi_xyz","LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hemi-labs/","Hemi Labs is the creator of the Hemi Network (“Hemi”), a modular Layer-2 network for superior scaling, security, and interoperability, powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum. Instead of approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as siloed ecosystems, Hemi views them as components of a single supernetwork, unlocking new levels of programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi Labs envisions a new, converged Internet ecosystem that is secure, interoperable, and ready for the many challenges of a web3 that is imminently colliding with the Internet at-large. Learn more at https://hemiproduction.wpengine.com/.","Media: media@hemiproduction.wpengine.com","Partnerships: navigator@hemiproduction.wpengine.com","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-launches-advanced-modular-layer-2-blockchain-network-powered-by-bitcoin-and-ethereum"},"/blog/bitcoin-security-inheritance-proof-of-proof-vs-merged-mining":{"version":1,"title":"Bitcoin Security Inheritance: Proof-of-Proof vs. Merged Mining - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Bitcoin Security Inheritance: Proof-of-Proof vs. Merged Mining"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 18, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Pop","Pos","Pow","For a technology to be useful, it helps to not have to think about it.","TL;DR:","Merged mining requires Bitcoin miners to actively participate, and allows Bitcoin miners to attack the merged-mined chain while continuing to mine Bitcoin normally","The Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus protocol utilized by Hemi enables decentralized and permissionless inheritance of Bitcoin's security without needing miner cooperation, and requiring them to attack Bitcoin itself to reorganize Hemi","Imagine you’re building a new blockchain. You’ve got multiple challenges, but the biggest one initially is security. You know no one has ever built up security as bulletproof as Bitcoin’s. So why not just adopt Bitcoin’s security?","You can — sort of. With “merged mining,” Bitcoin miners can mine blocks for your chain in parallel with Bitcoin. With this type of consensus protocol, a small blockchain drafts off of Bitcoin’s robust security.","The Trouble With Merged Mining","There are downsides and dangers for the chain that does this, though.","The biggest one: The Bitcoin miners must choose to participate, that is, run nodes for that sidechain. If you only get 20% of Bitcoin miners to join your protocol, you only get 20% of Bitcoin's hashrate. Even more problematic: these miners could turn around and attack your chain at no cost, all while reaping Bitcoin block rewards like normal.","In short, merged mining can introduce new security problems and issues with incentives.","How Proof-of-Proof Works","Hemi is different. Instead of merged mining, it uses a consensus protocol called Proof-of-Proof (PoP), which doesn’t merely borrow Bitcoin’s security but allows Hemi to exceed it at scale.","Using PoP means that Bitcoin miners don’t need to participate in — or even know about — Hemi. They simply confirm blocks that include Hemi transactions and collect the transaction fees for doing so. Users who do want to earn rewards in Hemi’s native token can run a super-lightweight PoP miner to publish Hemi consensus data to Bitcoin. It’s simple: Help publish proofs, get tokens.","Each new Hemi block receives a Bitcoin confirmation, which makes a reorganization increasingly unlikely until the block reaches finality. And that doesn’t take long.","Users on Bitcoin by itself often wait about 60 minutes for finality, meaning that only a major 51% attack on the network would enable someone to change transactions on the blockchain. With Hemi, there’s a very small tradeoff — it takes nine Bitcoin blocks, or about 90 minutes, to reach finality. And in less than two hours it achieves Superfinality, at which point it is more secure than a comparable Bitcoin block, because an attacker would have to simultaneously attack Bitcoin and Hemi's block production protocols.","Thus, in the Proof-of-Proof protocol, unlike with merged mining, Bitcoin miners needn’t be active to benefit, they can’t collude to attack the chain (unless they attack Bitcoin itself), and superfinality comes fast.","To get more context on Hemi’s consensus mechanism, read the whitepaper and the relevant documentation or stop by the team’s Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/bitcoin-security-inheritance-proof-of-proof-vs-merged-mining"},"/blog/bitcoin-scaling-how-hemi-compares-to-existing-solutions":{"version":1,"title":"Bitcoin Scaling: How Hemi Compares to Existing Solutions - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Bitcoin Scaling: How Hemi Compares to Existing Solutions"],"h2":["Hemi vs. BTC Scaling","An Evolution In Bridges","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 18, 2024","Bitcoin","Hemi","Scaling","Hemi is scalable and secure. Not all approaches to this are created equal.","TL;DR:","State channels, sidechains, and rollups are common scaling solutions for Bitcoin.","Hemi's approach improves on these approaches by inheriting Bitcoin-level security and replacing vulnerable bridge designs.","Hemi will help Bitcoin scale.","The Bitcoin network was designed to handle about six transactions per second. As the network grows in popularity—and as new assets such as BRC-20s emerge—its throughput must expand to meet demand.","Bitcoin scaling solutions typically address this by computing transactions off-chain. By creating their own execution layers, they can also offer capabilities (e.g., smart contracts) that aren't built into the Bitcoin network.","Here are the most common approaches to Bitcoin scalability:","State channels work like opening a tab at the bar. Two parties transact off-chain and only settle up on the Bitcoin blockchain when the channel closes. By relaying final numbers rather than every transaction, state channels lower network congestion.","Sidechains are independent chains that allow users to transfer Bitcoin assets to their network using token bridges. Because the execution environment is different, sidechains enable smart contract applications that aren't possible on Bitcoin.","Rollups batch thousands of individual transactions together which are stored on Bitcoin in a compressed format, but move the execution of these transactions to a separate layer which also permits use cases not possible on Bitcoin.","Hemi pulls from the latter two approaches.","Similar to rollups, network nodes construct blocks consisting of three types of transactions: those submitted on  Ethereum, those submitted on Bitcoin, and those submitted directly to Hemi for sequencing. As Hemi sequencers create and process blocks containing a mix of these types of transactions, Hemi PoP miners publish consensus information about the contents and results of processing these transactions to Bitcoin, which allows Hemi to inherit Bitcoin-level security.","Hemi also represents an evolution in bridges. Hemi's Bitcoin Tunnels for moving Bitcoin assets improves on shaky bridge security due to its trust minimization. Moreover, with Hemi's multi-chain connectivity, the network serves as the connective tissue between Bitcoin and Ethereum, allowing assets from Bitcoin to be tunneled through Hemi and out into the broader Ethereum ecosystem.","Combining Bitcoin and Ethereum is crucial for several reasons. Most importantly, it combines the strengths of both networks. Bitcoin is renowned for its strong security and decentralized nature, while Ethereum is celebrated for its smart contract capabilities and vibrant ecosystem. By connecting these two, users and developers can leverage the best of both protocols in a way that has thus far been impossible.","Hemi's connection point is a great place to be because it maintains constant awareness of Bitcoin's state without any need for third parties. This allows developers to build decentralized apps on Hemi that fully leverage Bitcoin's security while also working seamlessly with Bitcoin-based and Ethereum-based assets together. This  facilitates innovative financial products, enhances liquidity, and fosters a more interconnected blockchain ecosystem.","In fact, tunneling enhances the utility of Bitcoin. Traditionally, Bitcoin has been seen primarily as a store of value. However, by enabling secure programmability, Bitcoin can be used in a broader range of applications.","To learn more about scaling on Hemi, read the whitepaper and the relevant documentation or stop by the team's Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/bitcoin-scaling-how-hemi-compares-to-existing-solutions"},"/blog/bitcoin-interoperability-hvm-vs-existing-solutions":{"version":1,"title":"Bitcoin Interoperability: hVM vs. Existing Solutions - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Bitcoin Interoperability: hVM vs. Existing Solutions"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 18, 2024","Ethereum","Hemi","Hvm","Hemi’s architecture is half-Bitcoin, half-Ethereum. But it doesn’t take half-measures with interoperability.","TL;DR:","Existing Bitcoin interoperability solutions typically don’t provide access to Bitcoin's complete state  — and often introduce additional trust models or points of failure through relayers.","Hemi approaches interoperability differently: The Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) has a full, indexed Bitcoin node inside its EVM which provides smart contracts direct access to Bitcoin's complete state in a completely trustless, relayer-free manner.","In the future, hVM will also provide direct access to indexed metaprotocol data like Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20s.","Bitcoin and Ethereum each have growing ecosystems of decentralized applications and blockchain-based assets. With Hemi, the world’s two biggest blockchains can work together.","For these two blockchains to be interoperable, they must be able to communicate. Existing approaches to Bitcoin interoperability have pushed the networks forward but remain limited to the most basic Bitcoin transactions and data:","Bitcoin Header Relay: third-party bots relay Bitcoin headers to an Ethereum smart contract that tracks lightweight Bitcoin consensus, forming a TL;DR history of the Bitcoin blockchain — on Ethereum. Smart contracts can then validate Bitcoin transactions with accompanying Merkle proofs to determine a specific transaction exists on the canonical Bitcoin chain. Bitcoin state that is the result of processing these transactions (like the UTXO table and spend script balances) cannot be verified, and the Bitcoin transactions of interest to a dApp must be passed in by external relayers.","ZK Tx Inclusion: uses zero-knowledge proofs to prove that a Bitcoin transaction has taken place to dApps. Again, however, it can only prove inclusion of specific transactions and too relies on external relayers.","Sequencer Query Relay: involves sequencers of a particular network performing queries for Bitcoin data requested by transactions in the blocks they process. Sequencers must be trusted to return complete data, as they do not provide a cryptographic proof that queries against indexed data represent Bitcoin's latest and full state.","By contrast, Hemi uses a novel approach to Bitcoin interoperability: hVM.","The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), collectively maintained by all the computers running nodes on an Ethereum-based network, manages the execution of smart contracts. To create hVM, we wrapped an EVM around a Bitcoin node.","With hVM, dApps don't have to look outside the chain to answer questions about Bitcoin state - they have direct, efficient, and secure access to a full Bitcoin node running inside the EVM!","To accomplish this, Hemi uses a new \"dual-chain L2 derivation\" mechanism. Just like how Ethereum-based block derivation communicates relevant events and the current state of Ethereum to Hemi, our Bitcoin-based block derivation does the same on the Bitcoin side.","When a new Bitcoin block is created, the Hemi protocol picks it up as part of its derivation process by inserting a transaction into a Hemi block which communicates the new Bitcoin block's header. The hVM uses this data to update a protocol-level view of Bitcoin consensus that's synchronized across all Hemi nodes. Each time this consensus view is updated, each hVM node fetches the full corresponding Bitcoin block from Bitcoin's P2P network and instructs the embedded Bitcoin full node to process this block.","The end result of this system is a \"Processed Bitcoin View\" (PBV) which is deterministically maintained as part of Hemi's state transition function. All Hemi nodes on the same tip will have an identical PBV, and thus guarantee that the queries that Hemi smart contracts make against the embedded Bitcoin full node return the same results.","Because the state of the embedded Bitcoin full node is deterministic and based on running the entire Bitcoin protocol inside Hemi, there is no need for third-parties to relay data or be trusted to perform queries correctly,  and every aspect of Bitcoin's state can be directly and securely introspected without any cryptographic proofs.","By providing smart contracts with direct access to Bitcoin's state at the EVM level, Hemi empowers developers to build Bitcoin-based decentralized applications and infrastructure more simply, securely, and efficiently than with existing Bitcoin interoperability solutions.","In the future, hVM will be updated to allow smart contracts to subscribe to automatic callbacks on future Bitcoin events (also without requiring relayers), and to include metaprotocols to allow direct querying of other views of Bitcoin's state that aren't part of the core protocol, like Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20s.","To learn more about Hemi’s unique approach to interoperability, read the whitepaper and the relevant documentation or stop by our Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/bitcoin-interoperability-hvm-vs-existing-solutions"},"/blog/a-better-way-to-bridge-tunnel-instead":{"version":1,"title":"A Better Way to Bridge: Tunnel Instead - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["A Better Way to Bridge: Tunnel Instead"],"h2":["Ethereum Tunnel","Bitcoin Tunnel","Bitcoin Tunnel Dual-Vault System","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 18, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Tunnel","Bridges have earned a bad (w)rap.","TL;DR:","Bridges between blockchains are often centralized and prone to attacks.","Hemi’s Bitcoin and Ethereum Tunnels improve security while decentralizing asset portability.","They do this by leveraging the Hemi Virtual Machine, which gives the network direct awareness of both Bitcoin’s and Ethereum’s state.","Say you hold BTC and want to buy an Ethereum NFT. Or you have ETH, but congestion on Ethereum is compelling you to use a layer-2 with lower transaction costs.","This is where bridges have conventionally come in. These protocols connect blockchains so people can transfer tokens and data. Typically, to port assets in this way, you lock up assets from the chain you’re leaving into a bridge contract. In return, you receive a synthetic version of that asset, which works on the chain you’re going to.","Because bridges must track the state of both blockchains, centralized third parties typically control them. And just as enemies at war target physical bridges because they represent obvious chokepoints, attackers have repeatedly exposed vulnerabilities on crypto bridges, draining them of user funds.","Which is why Hemi introduces a better, trust-minimized way of moving assets between chains: Tunnels.","Most L2s are centered around a single chain, with a bridge only between the main chain and the L2. You port your ETH to a layer-2 to take advantage of lower transaction fees, then move it back. Rinse, repeat.","Hemi, however, connects Ethereum and Bitcoin via the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM), a Bitcoin node wrapped in an Ethereum Virtual Machine.","That means not only can you tunnel BTC through Hemi into the broader Ethereum ecosystem, but also that you get an added security boost by incorporating Bitcoin finality.","The hVM gives the network direct awareness of Bitcoin’s state without the need for third-party relayers. That gives Hemi all the data it needs to implement secure Tunnel systems from Bitcoin to Hemi. As a bonus, the robust Bitcoin awareness that Hemi exposes directly to smart contracts makes it possible for anyone to design their own custom Bitcoin Tunnel tailored to whatever security, cost, and speed requirements they need using the Hemi Bitcoin Kit.","To provide optimal security and capital efficiency for assets ranging from an Ordinal NFT to $BTC itself, Hemi employs a dual-vault system.","Large quantities of fungible assets like $BTC or large quantities of popular BRC-20 tokens will be deposited into high-value vaults, which are secured by a decentralized group of custodians with a 1-of-N trust model using a variant of BitVM.","That’s not possible for every type of asset, so we also use low-value vaults. Non-fungible assets and small quantities of fungible assets (like $100 worth of a BRC-20) are deposited into these low-value vaults, which are secured by over-collateralized custodians. Using hVM, Hemi monitors the custodianship addresses for unauthorized transfers and, in the event of misbehavior, uses this collateral to make users whole.","Until the BitVM-based high-value vault system is launched, all assets will be managed by low-value vaults, and appropriate assets will be migrated to high-value vaults when available.","To learn more about Tunnels, read the whitepaper and the relevant documentation or stop by the team’s Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/a-better-way-to-bridge-tunnel-instead"},"/blog/introducing-hemi-a-new-vision-for-layer-2-on-bitcoin-and-ethereum":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing Hemi: A New Vision For Layer-2 on Bitcoin and Ethereum - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Introducing Hemi: A New Vision For Layer-2 on Bitcoin and Ethereum"],"h2":["What is Hemi?","Key Features of Hemi","Why Choose Hemi","Get Involved: Participate in the Incentivized Testnet","Looking Ahead: Mainnet Launch","Learn More","Latest articles"],"h3":["How to Join the Testnet Phase","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 23, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Say \"Hi\" to the Hemi Network aka Hemi, a new modular Layer-2 blockchain network designed to rethink how we scale, secure, and build on the foundations of Bitcoin and Ethereum. ","Hemi is a new modular layer-2 network that enhances scaling, security, and interoperability by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as “hemispheres” of a unified supernetwork, supporting the development of a new breed of blockchain applications.","How do we help developers do this? Read on…","Unifying Bitcoin and Ethereum — The Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) integrates a full Bitcoin node within an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), enabling developers to harness the power of both Bitcoin and Ethereum using familiar and proven development tools.","Bitcoin Programmability — Building with the Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) provides smart-contract developers direct access to highly granular views of Bitcoin’s state based on hVM’s embedded Bitcoin node — unlocking applications such as non-custodial Bitcoin staking/restaking and lending markets, democratized Bitcoin MEV marketplaces, and custom Bitcoin interoperability infrastructure; applications that were previously impractical or impossible to execute in a truly trustless, secure, and efficient way.","Superfinality — Through its Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus protocol, Hemi inherits Bitcoin’s full security in a truly decentralized and permissionless manner, achieving better-than-Bitcoin finality, or “superfinality,” in just a few hours. Additionally, PoP’s modular nature enables Hemi to extend this security efficiently to other blockchains.","Trustless Cross-Chain Portability — With Tunnels, Hemi delivers a Bitcoin-secured conduit for securely moving assets between chains. Hemi’s unique consensus-level knowledge of Bitcoin’s and Ethereum’s respective states enables a variety of approaches for moving assets between networks beyond the traditional methods and trust models offered by conventional bridges.","Asset Programmability — Advanced capabilities for asset programmability, including on-chain routing, which allows users to program and automate multi-step transactions capable of recalling or rerouting transactions in the event of an error. Additionally, it delivers enhanced security by applying on- and off-chain security—such as password protection, time lock, and asset key verification—to any transfer. The protocol also enables gasless transfers, allowing assets to be transferred without any native chain currency, with or without a web3 wallet.","These features unlock a ton of new possibilities, enabling the creation of previously challenging or infeasible applications. These include Bitcoin restaking, Bitcoin-backed lending platforms, and decentralized Bitcoin Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) marketplaces, all executed with enhanced trust, security, and efficiency.","Hemi’s approach to programmability and security also gives AI developers easy access to the tools for bringing Bitcoin security certainty to an increasingly uncertain AI-driven world. In other words, Hemi Labs’ work to bring Bitcoin and Ethereum — security and programmability — together also provides a lot of the heavy lifting for success in AI.","Hemi is currently in its early public testnet phase. The incentivized testnet program called the Hemi Pilot Program will begin in late July, allowing participants to earn points (points) and gain leaderboard status by completing tasks that support Hemi's development and marketing efforts. This is your chance to be a part of the future of blockchain technology.","Visit the Hemi Docs: Start by reading the documentation to understand the protocol's capabilities and requirements.","Join the Community: Connect with other Hemi enthusiasts on Discord and Twitter/X to stay updated and share your progress.","Complete Tasks: Participate in tasks ranging from technical development to community outreach and marketing.","Earn Rewards: Accumulate “points” and climb the leaderboard for a chance to earn rewards and recognition within the Hemi ecosystem.","Refer your friends: Get rewarded for referring your friends. As the community grows, so do you!","Following the successful completion of the incentivized testnet, Hemi's mainnet is anticipated to launch in fall 2024.","Website: hemiproduction.wpengine.com","Blog: hemiproduction.wpengine.com/blog","GitHub: github.com/HemiLabs","Docs: docs.hemiproduction.wpengine.com","Referral Program: https://points.absinthe.network/hemi/start","Discord: discord.gg/hemixyz","Twitter/X: x.com/hemi_xyz","Hemi envisions a future where the differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as between \"blockchain\" and \"the Internet,\" become increasingly insignificant, much like how “the Web” is “the Internet” for most people. Together, we can unlock the true potential of Bitcoin and Ethereum, creating better and more powerful decentralized applications for all.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-hemi-a-new-vision-for-layer-2-on-bitcoin-and-ethereum"},"/blog/join-the-hemi-incentivized-testnet":{"version":1,"title":"Join the Hemi Incentivized Testnet - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Join the Hemi Incentivized Testnet"],"h2":["Become a Hemi Dev","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 23, 2024","Announcements","Hemi","Security","Testnet","The goal of the Hemi testnet is to attract and retain users, developers, and creators before the mainnet launch. (And, of course, to iron out any kinks!)","It will do this by engaging with these audiences and incentivizing them to use Hemi.","Here is everything you need to know about Hemi’s incentives program on Hemi’s launch day, July 24.","The incentivized testnet and referral program are accessible today.","Any activities you undertake (that we reward) will be counted towards your point total. If you’ve been doing this for a while, you can take a pretty good guess as to what those activities tend to be.","The leaderboard launches in one week, July 31. On that day, you’ll see the leaderboard rankings and, retroactively, how well you did in that first week.","From there, earn away!","Why do it this way?","We usually want to look at the behavior of accounts who are interested in Hemi but maybe not as motivated by the rush of seeing their name on the leaderboard. (Even if that’s really cool, too.)","Not all user actions are equal. We’re looking for high-quality engagement. We are working on ways to make the network more popular and bring in new people, and get them to talk to each other.","On the developer side, we’re deploying two specific initiatives.","The first is a grant program. Hemi will provide funds to projects that align with the ecosystem’s strategic goals, namely, TK. Second, we are streamlining the process for developers to get projects up and running on the testnet before the mainnet launches. Through our Open Application for Innovation, we hope to broaden participation and lower the barrier to entry.","If you want to give the Hemi testnet a spin, head over to the Hemi Portal.","More detailed instructions are available in the documentation.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/join-the-hemi-incentivized-testnet"},"/blog/handling-assets-with-hemi-encapsulation":{"version":1,"title":"Handling Assets With Hemi Encapsulation - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Handling Assets With Hemi Encapsulation"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 22, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Pop","Security","Hemi’s got asset transfers covered.","TL;DR","Hemi encapsulation lets users cheaply, securely, and simply move assets.","Features include multi-asset packaging, gasless transfers, smart routing, and enhanced security.","Sending assets is crypto’s primary use case. But if we’re being honest, the user experience of moving assets is stressful, complicated, and sometimes unnecessarily expensive. And, after all that, there’s still the chance that your assets can end up in the wrong place.","The key to breathing easier is to start from the right place: Hemi.","The Hemi Network integrates Capsule, a way of wrapping digital assets into NFTs. But these aren’t Pudgy Penguins. They’re programmable 1-of-1 tokens that allow you to secure, easily, and cheaply move assets.","Encapsulation makes the Hemi Network more accessible and provides an excellent user experience via these features:","Multi-asset packaging: Ever received eight large packages from Amazon and wondered why a book, a toothbrush, and some batteries couldn’t be combined? With encapsulation, you can batch and store different asset types into a single digital asset—and send them as one.","Gasless transfers: Sending assets is super cheap on Hemi. You won’t need ETH, BTC, or other native-chain currencies to transfer funds—because you won’t need to pay for gas at all. In fact, you won’t even need a crypto wallet.","Smart routing: One of the most nerve-wracking things about crypto is worrying that the right place receives the assets. With Hemi encapsulation, even if you do get the hexadecimal wrong, you can easily reroute transfers.","Enhanced security: You can also apply bespoke security measures both on- and off-chain. Want your transfer password-protected? No problem. Need a time lock on it so it can’t be touched early? Sure thing. Verified keys? Of course.","Even veteran crypto users can find handling assets unnerving. Now encapsulation has you covered.","To learn how to keep your assets under wraps, read the whitepaper and the relevant documentation or visit the team's Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/handling-assets-with-hemi-encapsulation"},"/blog/hemi-network-a-green-solution-for-bitcoins-energy-problem":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Network: A Green Solution for Bitcoin's Energy Problem? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Network: A Green Solution for Bitcoin's Energy Problem?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 30, 2024","Bitcoin","Ecology","Environment","Ethereum","Mining","Bitcoin's energy consumption is a hot topic. The biggest question? Can Bitcoin be made sustainable?","The short answer? Yes.","The Hemi Network is a Layer 2 blockchain that leverages Bitcoin's security while improving its sustainability. Let’s explore how Hemi Network's technology and design can reduce Bitcoin's environmental impact.","Bitcoin's Energy Problem: A Deeper Look","The Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index estimates that Bitcoin mining consumes over 100 TWh in electricity per year—about the same amount as the whole of the Netherlands.","Bitcoin proponents like us can certainly argue that this level of electricity consumption is favorable to central bank settlement, that the numbers are misleading, and even that Bitcoin mining can increase demand for sustainable energy. Regardless, the public perception remains that the Bitcoin blockchain is wasteful. Bitcoin’s level of energy consumption has drawn the ire of ESG-focused groups, put pressure on politicians and regulators to clamp down, and given green-minded consumers pause.","Therefore, Bitcoin's energy use is a barrier to mainstream adoption.","Hemi Network's Proof-of-Proof: A More Efficient Consensus","Of course, Bitcoin’s high hashrate isn’t designed to be wasteful. In exchange for electricity, the network delivers decentralized security; Bitcoin is nearly impossible to tamper with, making it the world’s most reliable form of digital proof.","The challenge, then, is using the network as efficiently as possible and extending its benefits while mitigating its carbon footprint.","That’s what the Hemi Network does. Hemi is designed to inherit Bitcoin’s security in a decentralized and permissionless manner—but move transaction execution away from Bitcoin. It uses a lightweight consensus algorithm called Proof-of-Proof to do so.","After each new Hemi block is created, proof-of-proof miners on Hemi create a cryptographic proof that is sent to the Bitcoin network, where it’s published like any other transaction. That is, the proof representing a whole block of Hemi transactions takes up just a small sliver of a Bitcoin block. Thus, Hemi transactions don't require additional Bitcoin mining and, in fact, allow much more data to be processed without any extra electricity use.","Scaling Bitcoin's Security, Not Its Energy","Hemi’s L2 architecture and built-in Bitcoin awareness also allow it to extend Bitcoin’s security to other networks and apps so they can confirm cross-chain transactions that have achieved full Bitcoin finality. Simply put, Hemi expands Bitcoin’s utility and reach while reducing its carbon footprint.","By inheriting and reusing Bitcoin’s hashrate to secure orders of magnitude more transactions, the Hemi Network aims to reduce Bitcoin's per-transaction consumption from ~800 kWh to less than 0.1 kWh.","A Greener Future for Bitcoin?","Bitcoin has been pilloried, sometimes unfairly, for its electricity consumption. Hemi allows it to put the issue to rest by exponentially boosting the network’s energy efficiency. Unlike rival blockchain networks, Hemi does this without sacrificing security or decentralization.","A greener Bitcoin will attract more users and investors while dampening criticisms from politicians, regulators, and ESG groups. With the right efficiency gains, a Bitcoin-Hemi combo can create an on-chain ecosystem with a lower carbon footprint than the traditional financial system, even at scale.","Hemi's innovative approach is a step toward secure sustainability.","To get more context on Hemi’s consensus mechanism, read the whitepaper and the relevant documentation or stop by the team’s Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-network-a-green-solution-for-bitcoins-energy-problem"},"/blog/meet-the-hemi-team-clayton":{"version":1,"title":"Meet the Hemi Team: Clayton - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Meet the Hemi Team: Clayton"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 2, 2024","Bitcoin","Clayton","Team","Clayton is a software engineer with a deep background in blockchain tech.","Tell us about yourself.","I am Clayton.  I am a software engineer. Historically, I have existed between the software, firmware, and devops domains (with a little front-end development).","Tell us what you do for Hemi?","I am on the “core engineering” team; I help maintain and build upon our “core” software.  This is what keeps The Hemi Network running. I also help maintain our incentivized testnet’s infrastructure.","What is your tech background?","Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering both from The University of Michigan-Dearborn.  I have spent my career mostly working at startups; I have worked at both software and hardware startups.  As I mentioned above, I work on software, firmware, and devops (with a little front-end).","What is in your dev toolchain?","Whatever is best for the job.","What’s next for cryptocurrency?","The decentralization of the internet and communication itself.","There’s been a lot of talk about AI. How is Hemi working in that space?","Hemi thinks of use cases of itself for AI, but does not think that is the exclusive future of Hemi.  We will be able to support decentralized marketplaces for hardware and software that benefit AI model development and serving.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/meet-the-hemi-team-clayton"},"/blog/meet-the-hemi-team-jcv":{"version":1,"title":"Meet the Hemi Team: JCV - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Meet the Hemi Team: JCV"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 5, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Security","Tell us about yourself.","https://twitter.com/hemi_xyz/status/1820536967106298265","I'm a scientist, home brewer, UNIX nerd, father of two, lifelong (more or less) New Yorker, horror movie fan, and not-so-great guitar player (in no particular order).","Tell us what you do for Hemi?","I do a wide variety of engineering \"stuff.\" I have my hands in the core network, infrastructure, apps, pretty much everywhere. Less (but not no) direct coding from me these days and a little more coordinating and designing, but still actively involved in nearly all parts of Hemi's stack.","What is your tech background?","By training, I'm an astronomer. I spent a long time doing large simulations of black holes and galaxy clusters in FORTRAN. Somehow I eventually drifted from that into startups and open source work, eventually ending up in crypto over a decade ago and I've been here since. I'm one of the original authors of btcd (the go implementation of bitcoin, the first real alternative implementation to what eventually became called bitcoin-core). And I still miss perl some days.","What is in your dev toolchain?","Go is my preferred language, but I happily do things in NodeJS, Python, and Solidity. The one constant is that I still do it all using emacs.","What’s next for cryptocurrency?","Now that Bitcoin L2s are becoming a real thing, the next thing will be more and more people building projects on bitcoin itself, something that other than a few tentative steps like lightning, really hasn't been possible on a large scale before. There's no predicting what those projects will be, and most of them will not survive more than a year or two, but there should be some really interesting Darwinian pressure going on and it will be very interesting to see what comes out the other end.","There’s been a lot of talk about AI. How is Hemi working in that space?","Hemi deals very heavily in finality and certainty, two areas that current LLM and ML-style AI are particularly weak. So we've got our sights set there.","What’s your favorite bit of crypto trivia?","Early bitcoin used IRC (as in the chat network) for network detection and discovery. It just shows that despite how modern so much of bitcoin and crypto feels, they started out with some pretty old tech that many current users might not even recognize.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/meet-the-hemi-team-jcv"},"/blog/the-lifecycle-of-a-hemi-transaction":{"version":1,"title":"The Lifecycle of a Hemi Transaction - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["The Lifecycle of a Hemi Transaction"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 13, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Pop","From signing to Superfinality.","TL;DR","Bitcoin-Secure Sequencers build Hemi blocks.","Proof-of-Proof miners secure these blocks to Bitcoin.","Bitcoin Finality Governors facilitate communication with Bitcoin and relay Bitcoin finality to Hemi.","Publishers update Ethereum on what’s happening.","Challengers scan for misbehavior.","So you’ve signed a transaction. Now what?","After a transaction is signed, it goes to a Bitcoin-Secure Sequencer node, or BSS. The BSS’s job is to gather, sequence, and package transactions into a block.","Soon, a BSS node will create a new keystone block on top, and will send a notification to the Bitcoin Finality Governor (BFG) node of the new keystone. At this point, imagine the BFG as a student sitting between two friends passing notes in class. The BFG tells Proof-of-Proof miners there’s a new block to secure to Bitcoin. “Pssst. This is for you.”","The PoP miners pull data from the block and create a Proof-of-Proof transaction. Now the miners need a hand: “Put this proof on the Bitcoin blockchain so it knows the transactions up to this keystone have taken place.”","The BFG dutifully propagates the Bitcoin PoP transactions to the Bitcoin network. Then it waits to hear back. “Hey, Bitcoin, did you get my message?”","As Bitcoin miners create new blocks, this PoP transaction is soon included in the chain. When it is, the BFG updates its view of Hemi chain publication to Bitcoin, which it can use to serve Bitcoin Finality information to third-party applications like exchanges and wallets.","Independently, each BSS node is connected to the Bitcoin network via P2P, and will have also heard about this new Bitcoin block. Now, when a BSS node creates a new Hemi block, it will include a reference to this new Bitcoin block, and update the Bitcoin node running inside its Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) before passing the new Hemi block along to other BSS nodes who will do the same. Now, each BSS node has full visibility of Hemi’s new PoP publications to Bitcoin which will be used for protection if a network fork is ever proposed.","How will all this get passed along to Ethereum? Publishers. These nodes are rewarded in native tokens for communicating the network’s consensus data to smart contracts on Ethereum. If they send bad intel, a Challenger, who is also incentivized with native tokens, will call them out and prove their misbehavior. The protocol will slash the Publisher’s stake, and those native tokens will go to the Challenger.","Unless an attacker creates an alternate Hemi chain and publishes it to Bitcoin, Hemi blocks become final after just nine Bitcoin blocks. After that, an attacker would need to simultaneously control at least 51% of Bitcoin’s computing power and Hemi’s native consensus power to alter them. Thanks to the additive nature of PoP, Hemi transactions reach Superfinality not long after, making an attack even harder. In short, your transaction has gone through and won’t be reversed.","To see how you can get started making your own decentralized apps, read the whitepaper and the relevant documentation or stop by the team’s Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-lifecycle-of-a-hemi-transaction"},"/blog/hemi-announces-collaboration-with-swell-amp-symbiotic":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Announces Collaboration with Swell & Symbiotic - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Announces Collaboration with Swell & Symbiotic","How Everything Works"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 14, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Partnerships","Hemi has teamed up with Swell and Symbiotic! ","Hemi will leverage Swell’s BTC LRT Vault on Symbiotic to source economic security for Hemi’s Bitcoin asset tunneling system.","Swell Vault Operators will securely manage custodianship and process withdrawals from Hemi’s Bitcoin Tunnel Vaults, ensuring robust security of Bitcoin assets tunneled to Hemi’s network. This collaboration addresses the need for capital-efficient over-collateralized custodianship in the early stages before Hemi’s BitVM-based tunneling system goes live.","But the collaboration doesn’t end there. Hemi is also exploring ways to leverage economic security from Swell’s Symbiotic Vaults to make our upcoming BitVM-based tunnel system even more robust through off-Bitcoin economic incentives enforced by the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM).","Hemi’s unique position as an L2 between Bitcoin and Ethereum also means assets can also be tunneled between these networks through Hemi, creating a highly secure channel for onboarding Bitcoin-based assets into the broader Ethereum ecosystem.","This collaboration marks a significant step in fortifying Hemi as a robust ecosystem for BTC+ETH DeFi applications.","Here are the key components of this collaboration:","Symbiotic: Provides a flexible framework for staking assets to provide economic security to AVSes.","Swell: Manages the staking of users’ BTC  into a Symbiotic vault, the delegation of this Vault’s assets to Operators, and the coordination between Operators and AVSes that want to leverage Swell’s economic security.","Vault Operators: Operators from Swell’s Symbiotic Vault who opt-in to participate in securing Hemi’s Bitcoin tunnel.","Hemi BTC Tunnel System: The mechanism for transferring BTC to the Hemi Network.","Users: Users on the Hemi Network who are depositing and withdrawing Bitcoin assets from the Hemi network, and using tunneled Bitcoin assets in the Hemi ecosystem.","Swell BTC Staking: Users deposit BTC into Swell and receive an LRT representing their deposit position which will accrue restaking revenue.","Swell BTC Vault Deposit and Delegation: Swell deposits the BTC into Swell’s Symbiotic Vault and delegates the BTC to Vault Operators.","Operators Secure Hemi BTC Tunnel: Vault Operators provide economic security to Hemi’s Bitcoin Tunnel System by opting-in to manage BTC Vaults on Hemi.","Tunneling BTC Assets to Hemi: Hemi Users can deposit native BTC to one of the Hemi BTC vaults and receive representative tokens, and later redeem these representative tokens to withdraw the underlying assets back to the Bitcoin network.","Using Tunneled BTC Assets: Hemi Users can use these representative tokens across the Hemi ecosystem (trading, lending, etc.), or move these tokens onto the Ethereum network to use them in dApps in the broader Ethereum ecosystem.","Operator Rewards and Slashing: The Hemi Bitcoin Tunnel System monitors Vault Operator behavior, rewarding them for correctly processing withdrawals or slashing them for misbehavior such as executing unauthorized transactions from the BTC vaults. The majority of rewards to Operators for their participation in Hemi’s BTC Tunnel will be passed on to the users staking BTC in Swell.","Be sure to follow Swell and Symbiotic on X.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-announces-collaboration-with-swell-amp-symbiotic"},"/blog/meet-the-team-rick":{"version":1,"title":"Meet the Team: Rick - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Meet the Team: Rick"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 16, 2024","Hemi","Team","Tell us about yourself. ","https://twitter.com/hemi_xyz/status/1824536611826307359","My name is Rick Laprade. I live in Rhode Island, also known as the worst state. I have 3 special needs cats, I love pro wrestling, and I’m a published comic book writer.","Tell us what you do for Hemi?","I am one of the Hemi Discord’s community managers, I wrangle interns, and make memes and other social content.","What is your tech background?","I used to work for Upland and I follow Jeff Garzik on Twitter. That pretty qualifies me to run Twitter.","What is in your dev toolchain?","Oh…it’s way too technical. I couldn’t begin to get into it. Let’s just say it’s web3 based and that’s better than web2 by an entire web.","What’s next for cryptocurrency?","Hopefully I get some of it. That would rock. Seriously. Also, more serious even though the first point was dead serious, I think that what Hemi is doing in bringing together the Targaryans and Starks of the crypto world is going to be huge. And for the record, Bitcoin is the Starks and Etehereum is the Targaryans and I will no elaborate further.","There’s been a lot of talk about AI. How is Hemi working in that space?","I’ve really just seen some rumblings thus far, but the potential is limitless on Hemi.","What’s your favorite bit of crypto trivia?","I think my favorite trivia is that Doge Coin did not actually go to the moon, although that was what got me to buy some.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/meet-the-team-rick"},"/blog/ai-hemi-the-network-for-whats-next":{"version":1,"title":"AI + Hemi: The Network for What’s Next - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["AI + Hemi: The Network for What’s Next"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 19, 2024","It seems as though everyone’s working on a layer 2 these days. This is good. Thanks to an expanding crop of L2s, users no longer have to time simple financial transactions just to avoid expensive gas fees. But now that we’ve achieved scale, what are we going to do with it? L2s need to be more than a place to process transactions—they’re where applications will live.","We believe Hemi is more than an L2 — it’s the network for what’s next. And what’s next is AI.","We’re already seeing several types of blockchain-AI integrations that could further benefit by deploying on Hemi.","Smart agents: Agents are personalized AIs that can do things on a user’s behalf. The upside is obvious — everyone wants a cake on their birthday, but your best friend knows it should be a pineapple upside-down cake without any singing. A well-trained AI could recommend the perfect bakery and arrange for delivery (after you sign off, of course). Smart agents go even further, connecting to your wallet and the applications you use so your off-chain life can be executed on-chain via smart contracts.","Smart wallets: How often do you check your crypto wallet? Probably only when you use it. You may not notice security breaches or plunging asset prices until the money’s gone. AI-powered smart wallets can learn from your habits to prevent unauthorized transactions — and maybe even suggest rebalancing your portfolio based on your investment strategy. Best of all, smart wallets are always learning, so their utility improves over time.","Decentralized compute: AI requires a massive amount of computing power, the kind that typically relies on warehoused databases. One thing that Bitcoin has is a lot of decentralized computing power. AI-based crypto would allow AI applications to tap into hardware access on demand via on-chain marketplaces, increasing the efficiency of compute power allocation.","Blockchain provides the ideal infrastructure for AI because it provides immutability, security, and transparency. And Hemi is the right L2 network to build on because its combination of Ethereum-level programmability and Bitcoin-exceeding security enables the creation of AI applications that are uniquely secure.","That’s vital as we venture into the next realm of AI tools. You’ll trust an assistant to set your calendar, but will you trust an agent with access to your funds? AI can move compute power around, but couldn’t it also divert resources from essential activities?","With Hemi, you can build AI applications that are secure and flexible.","We’re planning to roll out a production-ready AI implementation (and two beta implementations) by the end of 2024. To learn how to make Hemi the home of your AI app, read the whitepaper and the relevant documentation or stop by the team’s Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/ai-hemi-the-network-for-whats-next"},"/blog/how-hemi-fixes-ethereums-scaling-problems":{"version":1,"title":"How Hemi Fixes Ethereum’s Scaling Problems - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How Hemi Fixes Ethereum’s Scaling Problems"],"h2":["Why Ethereum Stalls","How Hemi Solves Scaling","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 26, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Ethereum, for many, represents a major settlement layer on the internet of value. The network is still front and center for Web3 development and innovation. But it has problems with scaling, throughput, and high gas costs that make it hard to use.","Hemi is built to outscale Ethereum with a decentralized multi-node consensus model that inherits Bitcoin’s security and maintains EVM compatibility. While Hemi out-revs both Bitcoin and Ethereum, it also supports tunnels that maintain asset composability between the two ecosystems without yielding to centralized processes.","Ethereum is not currently scaling effectively because the network's infrastructure is limited by its design, which prioritizes decentralization and security over scalability. The Ethereum mainnet processes all transactions on a single layer, leading to congestion during periods of high demand. This congestion results in slower transactions and higher fees. While solutions like rollups, sidechains, and the upcoming Ethereum 2.0 upgrade aim to address these issues, they introduce trade-offs and are still in development or early stages of adoption. The network's reliance on these complex and evolving solutions has slowed down its ability to scale efficiently in the short term.","Ethereum has been exploring various solutions to improve transaction speed and reduce fees, with each approach offering different trade-offs. Here are the main solutions and the compromises they introduce:","Optimistic Rollups: Optimistic rollups batch transactions and publish them to the Ethereum mainnet (L1) after executing them off-chain. These batches are assumed to be valid unless someone challenges them within a seven-day window. This method reduces fees and increases speed, but it introduces significant delays. Users must wait for the challenge period to end before transactions fully settle on the mainnet. Additionally, the responsibility for detecting fraud falls on the users. Today's optimistic rollups also rely on centralized sequencers and proposers, which can lead to issues with transparency and trust, as the mempools (queues of pending transactions) are not fully transparent.","Zero-knowledge (zk) Rollups: Zk rollups also bundle transactions and validate them before posting a cryptographic proof to the L1, proving that the execution state is correct. This method ensures that the state committed to the L1 is accurate, without the need for a challenge period. However, similar to optimistic rollups, zk rollups currently depend on centralized sequencers with opaque mempools and centralized proposers. This centralization can be a point of concern for users who prioritize decentralization and transparency.","Validiums: Validiums operate similarly to zk rollups but only publish state roots to the L1. The network itself is responsible for ensuring that chain data is available to users for settlement back to the L1. This reduces the load on the Ethereum mainnet and improves scalability. However, the compromise here is that the burden of ensuring data availability falls on the network. If the network fails to maintain transparency, users might face difficulties in verifying the state or recovering assets.","Sidechains: Sidechains are independent blockchains connected to the Ethereum mainnet via a bridge. They maintain their own consensus mechanisms and handle transactions separately from Ethereum. Sidechains can offer faster and cheaper transactions, but they come with significant trade-offs in terms of security. Since they rely on a separate consensus mechanism, they may be less secure than Ethereum’s mainnet. Additionally, the bridges connecting sidechains to the mainnet can be vulnerable to attacks, putting cross-chain transactions at risk.","Each of these solutions offers improvements in transaction speed and cost, but they also introduce new challenges, particularly around security, centralization, and user trust. Balancing these factors is key to the ongoing development of Ethereum’s scalability solutions.","Hemi Network scales Ethereum by integrating it with Bitcoin in a modular protocol that enhances scalability, security, and interoperability. Hemi introduces a unique approach by treating Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a unified supernetwork rather than separate entities. This integration is achieved through the Hemi Bitcoin EVM (hVM), which encapsulates a full Bitcoin node within the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Hemi's decentralized rollup mechanics allow for decentralized publication of state roots to Ethereum, overcoming the limitations of centralized sequencers in current rollups. Additionally, Hemi uses its Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus mechanism to inherit Bitcoin's security, making the network more robust. By combining Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work security with decentralized sequencing, Hemi provides a scalable solution that accelerates settlement while maintaining security. This architecture enables a higher transaction throughput on Ethereum without compromising on security or decentralization, effectively scaling Ethereum by leveraging Bitcoin’s security and combining it with advanced interoperability features.","Ultimately, Hemi helps Ethereum and Bitcoin scale in ways that the singular blockchains alone cannot, adding further utility to both blockchains and improving both immeasurably.","To learn more about how Hemi integrates Ethereum programmability and Bitcoin’s security to out-scale both networks, read the whitepaper and the relevant documentation or stop by the team’s Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-hemi-fixes-ethereums-scaling-problems"},"/blog/can-hemis-security-model-be-applied-to-other-blockchains":{"version":1,"title":"Can Hemi's Security Model Be Applied to Other Blockchains? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Can Hemi's Security Model Be Applied to Other Blockchains?"],"h2":["How PoP Works","Using PoP With Other Blockchains","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 4, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Security","Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus model provides the network with superfinality by using Bitcoin’s security infrastructure. But can this protocol be used with other blockchains?","To explore how other blockchain protocols can inherit Bitcoin's security through Hemi, we need to look at how PoP operates and achieves superfinality.","Proof-of-Proof (PoP) is a consensus mechanism designed to inherit the robust security of Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work (PoW) and extend it to other blockchains, particularly those integrated with the Hemi Network.","Here's how it works:","1. State Publication to Bitcoin","PoP involves the periodic publication of blockchain state data from the Hemi Network (or other blockchains using PoP) to the Bitcoin blockchain. By embedding this data in Bitcoin transactions, PoP ensures that the security of Bitcoin’s PoW is extended to the chain that published the data.","2. Decentralized Mining and Publication","PoP relies on a network of PoP miners who are responsible for building these Bitcoin transactions that contain the state data. These miners create transactions that encode the Hemi block headers or other blockchain data into Bitcoin transactions. These transactions are then broadcast to the Bitcoin network, where they are included in Bitcoin blocks.","3. Security and Finality","Once a Hemi block header or other state data is confirmed on the Bitcoin blockchain, it gets the same level of security as Bitcoin itself. Since Bitcoin's PoW is one of the most secure consensus mechanisms, this process significantly enhances the security of published data. This means that to alter the Hemi state data recorded on Bitcoin, an attacker would need to perform a 51% attack on both Bitcoin and Hemi simultaneously, which is extremely expensive and technically difficult.","4. Fork Resolution and Attack Resistance","If there is a blockchain fork, PoP helps resolve the legitimate chain by referring to the state data that has been published and confirmed on the Bitcoin blockchain. If an attacker tries to create a competing chain or reorganize the existing one, they would need to publish their altered state data to Bitcoin and ensure it gains enough confirmations to override the original data. Given Bitcoin’s high security, this attack is highly unlikely to succeed, providing strong resistance against reorganization attacks.","5. Superfinality","PoP introduces the concept of \"superfinality,\" where a block on the Hemi Network (or any other blockchain using PoP) becomes fully immutable after a specific number of Bitcoin confirmations. Once a Hemi block is anchored in Bitcoin and gains several confirmations, it becomes mathematically impossible to reverse it without compromising Bitcoin itself. This provides a higher level of finality than what is typically achievable on other blockchains.","Hemi’s security model offers a robust framework that can be extended to secure other blockchains. By leveraging the security of Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work (PoW), Hemi’s network achieves high levels of security and finality. This security model is not limited to Hemi alone; it can be applied to other blockchains through Hemi’s modular architecture, providing these networks with the same level of security traditionally reserved for Bitcoin.","One of the ways Hemi extends its security model to other blockchains is through its forthcoming Chainbuilder offering. Any blockchain, regardless of its native consensus mechanism, will be able to integrate with Hemi to inherit Bitcoin’s security. This is achieved by incorporating Hemi’s PoP system into their existing consensus protocols. Through this integration, blockchains can publish their consensus state to the Hemi Network, which then aggregates these states and secures them by anchoring them to Bitcoin’s blockchain. This process ensures that any attempt to reorganize or attack the blockchain would require a simultaneous 51% attack on Bitcoin itself, which is economically and computationally difficult.","Hemi’s Chainbuilder enables other blockchains to launch custom ecosystem chains that can use Hemi’s security model while maintaining their unique characteristics. These chains can be tailored with different execution, consensus, and data availability layers to optimize for specific use cases, whether they require high throughput, low cost, or enhanced decentralization. Regardless of these customizations, Hemi’s security model ensures that all transactions on these hChains are protected by Bitcoin’s PoW, providing an additional layer of trust and resilience.","To find out more about how Hemi achieves superfinality with PoP consensus by inheriting the robust security of Bitcoin (or any other blockchain network you wish), read the whitepaper and the relevant documentation or stop by the team’s Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/can-hemis-security-model-be-applied-to-other-blockchains"},"/blog/what-is-a-bitcoin-unspent-transaction-output-utxo":{"version":1,"title":"What is a Bitcoin Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What is a Bitcoin Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Understanding Bitcoin Transactions","What is a UTXO?","UTXOs in the Bitcoin Network","UTXO Set","Benefits of the UTXO Model","Challenges and Considerations","Conclusion","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 4, 2024","Bitcoin","Utxo","This article explains the concept of Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXOs) and their role in Bitcoin's transaction and security framework.","Bitcoin is a digital currency that operates on a decentralized network, meaning it isn’t controlled by any single entity like a government or financial institution. Instead, it relies on a global network of computers to maintain its operations. This decentralized nature is one of the key features that sets Bitcoin apart from traditional currencies.","At the core of Bitcoin's system are transactions. Every time someone sends Bitcoin to another person, a transaction is recorded on the blockchain, which is a public ledger. These transactions are not simply records of money being sent from one person to another; they are composed of more detailed elements that ensure the security and functionality of the Bitcoin network.","One of the most important components of a Bitcoin transaction is the Unspent Transaction Output, or UTXO. UTXOs are crucial because they represent the amount of Bitcoin that a user has available to spend. Without UTXOs, the Bitcoin system wouldn’t be able to track who owns how much Bitcoin, making them fundamental to the operation of the network.","Bitcoin transactions are the method by which Bitcoin is transferred from one user to another. When a transaction occurs, it consists of inputs and outputs. The input refers to the source of the Bitcoin being sent, while the output specifies where the Bitcoin is going.","To break it down: when you receive Bitcoin, it’s recorded as an output in a previous transaction, and this output becomes what we call a UTXO. When you later decide to send Bitcoin to someone else, this UTXO becomes the input for your new transaction. The new transaction will also create outputs, which will become the UTXOs for future transactions.","In simple terms, UTXOs are the “coins” you have available to spend. They are what’s left over after a transaction, unspent and available to be used in new transactions. Each UTXO is associated with a specific amount of Bitcoin and can only be used once, ensuring that the same Bitcoin isn’t spent more than once. This model is essential for Bitcoin’s security and its ability to function as a decentralized currency.","A UTXO, or Unspent Transaction Output, is a key concept in the Bitcoin network. It represents a specific amount of Bitcoin that has been sent to a user but has not yet been spent. In simpler terms, a UTXO is like a digital coin that you own and can use in future transactions.","UTXOs are created as a result of Bitcoin transactions. When someone sends Bitcoin to another person, the transaction takes existing UTXOs as inputs and generates new outputs. These new outputs become UTXOs that the recipient can later spend. Each UTXO is unique and can only be used in one future transaction. Once it is spent, it no longer exists as a UTXO; instead, it becomes part of the transaction history.","The role of UTXOs in tracking ownership of Bitcoin is crucial. Every Bitcoin transaction references UTXOs from previous transactions as inputs. This system allows the Bitcoin network to track the flow of Bitcoin from one address to another. Ownership of Bitcoin is effectively the ability to spend UTXOs associated with a Bitcoin address. Because of this, UTXOs are the basic units that represent the amount of Bitcoin held by any user at any given time.","UTXOs are vital to the security and integrity of the Bitcoin network. By ensuring that each UTXO can only be spent once, the UTXO model prevents double-spending, which is a critical aspect of maintaining the network's trustworthiness. Since UTXOs are tied to specific amounts of Bitcoin, they provide a clear, unambiguous record of where Bitcoin is at any point in time.","Bitcoin wallets interact directly with UTXOs. When you look at your Bitcoin wallet balance, you’re seeing the sum of all UTXOs that belong to your wallet’s address. The wallet software automatically manages these UTXOs, allowing you to send and receive Bitcoin without needing to understand the underlying complexities. However, behind the scenes, every transaction you make involves the wallet selecting UTXOs to use as inputs and creating new UTXOs as outputs.","To illustrate how UTXOs are involved in a Bitcoin transaction, let’s consider an example: Suppose you have 1.5 BTC in your wallet, and you want to send 0.5 BTC to a friend. Your wallet might have this 1.5 BTC as a single UTXO. When you send the 0.5 BTC, your wallet will use this UTXO as input. The transaction will create two new outputs: one for your friend’s 0.5 BTC, and another for the remaining 1.0 BTC, which will be sent back to your wallet as a new UTXO. This ensures that the transaction is accurately recorded, and the remaining balance is correctly returned to you.","In summary, UTXOs are not just a technical detail—they are the backbone of how Bitcoin tracks ownership and ensures the security of transactions across the network.","The UTXO set is a collection of all the unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) in the Bitcoin network at any given time. This set is crucial because it represents the current state of all Bitcoin ownership, showing which outputs are available to be spent in future transactions. In other words, the UTXO set is like a snapshot of the entire Bitcoin network’s spendable coins.","Bitcoin nodes, which are the computers that participate in the Bitcoin network, maintain the UTXO set. These nodes continuously update the UTXO set as new transactions are confirmed. When a transaction is validated and added to the blockchain, nodes remove the UTXOs that were used as inputs from the set and add the new outputs created by the transaction. This ongoing process ensures that the UTXO set always reflects the current, unspent Bitcoin available in the network.","The UTXO set plays a vital role in preventing double-spending, a scenario where the same Bitcoin is spent more than once. By keeping an accurate and up-to-date record of all unspent outputs, the UTXO set allows the network to verify that when someone tries to spend Bitcoin, the necessary UTXOs are available and haven’t already been used. This verification process is fundamental to the integrity of Bitcoin as a decentralized currency.","SecurityThe UTXO model significantly enhances security in the Bitcoin network. Each UTXO can only be spent once, which makes it impossible to double-spend. This model ensures that every transaction is clear-cut: the inputs are either available and valid, or they are not. The simplicity of this mechanism provides a robust defense against fraudulent activities and ensures that Bitcoin’s ledger remains trustworthy.","ScalabilityThe UTXO model contributes to Bitcoin’s scalability by allowing transactions to be processed in parallel. Since UTXOs are independent of each other, multiple transactions can be validated simultaneously without causing conflicts. This parallelism is advantageous for scaling the network, as it allows more transactions to be processed efficiently as the network grows.","SimplicityThe UTXO model simplifies transaction verification. Each transaction is self-contained, consisting of a set of inputs and outputs that are easily verifiable. This simplicity makes it easier for nodes to validate transactions and maintain the integrity of the blockchain. Additionally, the clear structure of UTXOs aids in ensuring the consistency and reliability of the network.","UTXO ManagementManaging UTXOs can become complex, especially when dealing with many small UTXOs, often referred to as “dust.” These tiny UTXOs can accumulate in a user’s wallet over time, leading to higher transaction fees when they are eventually spent. This is because Bitcoin transactions are priced by the amount of data they use, and transactions involving many small UTXOs require more data.","Privacy ConcernsWhile the UTXO model is effective for tracking Bitcoin ownership, it also introduces privacy challenges. Because each UTXO is linked to a specific transaction, it’s possible to trace the movement of Bitcoin across the network. This transparency can lead to privacy issues, as anyone can analyze the blockchain to follow the flow of funds, potentially linking Bitcoin addresses to real-world identities.","Comparison with Other ModelsUnlike Bitcoin, Ethereum uses an account-based model, where balances are stored directly in accounts rather than as UTXOs. This model can be more efficient for certain applications, such as smart contracts, because it allows for more straightforward state management. However, it comes with trade-offs, such as increased complexity in preventing double-spending and ensuring security. The UTXO model’s independence of outputs makes it inherently simpler and more secure, though it requires careful management of UTXOs over time.","UTXOs are a fundamental component of Bitcoin’s structure, representing the smallest units of unspent Bitcoin and serving as the backbone of the network’s transaction system. Understanding UTXOs is crucial for grasping how Bitcoin functions, from basic transactions to the complex dynamics of network security. UTXO model provides several advantages, including enhanced security, scalability, and simplicity. However, it also comes with challenges, such as managing small UTXOs and addressing privacy concerns.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-bitcoin-unspent-transaction-output-utxo"},"/blog/webinar-building-bitcoin-ethereum-apps-on-hemi-with-localnet":{"version":1,"title":"Webinar: Building Bitcoin & Ethereum Apps on Hemi with LocalNet - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Webinar: Building Bitcoin & Ethereum Apps on Hemi with LocalNet"],"h2":["Transcript","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 5, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Team","Hemi developer Clayton walks us through building on the Hemi LocalNet.","This 20-minute webinar discusses building Bitcoin and Ethereum apps on Hemi with LocalNet. Clayton, a software engineer on the Hemi team, explains the concept of Hemi as a layer-two blockchain that enables interoperability between Ethereum and Bitcoin. He also introduces LocalNet, a tool that allows developers to run Hemi locally on their machines, eliminating the need to rely on testnets and providing more control over the testing environment. Clayton will show a simple example of sending Bitcoin data from L2 to L1 and reading it from a smart contract on L1 using LocalNet. Remember that LocalNet is not meant for production-ready code but serves as a demonstration of Hemi’s functionality and it's a great way to try it out on your local machine.","Erin (00:04.332)","All right. Welcome, everyone. Thank you all for joining us today for building Bitcoin and Ethereum apps on Hemi with LocalNet. My name is Errin, and I’ll be your moderator for this webinar. Before we dive in, I’d just like to go over a few housekeeping items so that way we can share a smooth and enjoyable experience for everyone. First, please keep your microphone muted to minimize background noise while our speaker is presenting. We do encourage you to use the chat feature to share your thoughts and ask questions. We will have a dedicated time for Q &A towards the end.","Please try to hold your questions until then. Please note that today’s session is being recorded and will be made available after the event. And with that, I’d like to introduce Clayton, our Software Engineer on the Core Engineering team, who will be leading the webinar.","Clayton (01:00)","Hi everyone and welcome. I’ll share my screen really quick, but before I do, again, my name is Clayton. I’m a core engineer on the Hemi engineering team. And that’s just a fancy word for I write the software that Hemi runs on. So yeah, let me share my screen really quick. We’ll go over a few things.","All right, so can everybody see my screen? Awesome. So as I’m sure a lot of you are aware, but what is Hemi? Hemi is a Layer Two blockchain that makes Ethereum and Bitcoin interoperability possible, safe, and fast. So what we mean by this is when you’re running a Hemi L2 node,","Your L2 node is actually connecting directly to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network. And then we also extended the EVM. We call it the HVM, because Hemi starts with an H, and we add pre-compiles to that in the HVM that allow you to, on your L2 node, communicate directly with the Bitcoin blockchain. And when you’re part of the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network itself,","You’re not relying on any third party like oracle or trusted entity to do so. You own the chain. It is your own full Bitcoin node that you’ll be querying data off. So within your HVM pre-compiled, you have access to that data.","Clayton (02:24.11)","So it would take a very long time to go over all of Hemi. There are lot of daemons to run. There’s a lot that makes Hemi work. And then in addition to that, when you were working with testnets, such as Sepolia or Bitcoin testnet, there were other struggles too, right? So one is reliability of the network. Two is that even though the currency is free, it does take some effort to get a test currency.","Knowing this, we developed something called LocalNet for Hemi. It’s something that runs 100 percent on your machine. And the way it does this is in the real world, Hemi depends on obviously Bitcoin and Ethereum. And in LocalNet, we run that completely locally on your machine. So you’ll be running Bitcoin in reg test mode and Ethereum in dev mode. And you’ll have access to control these networks however you feel is right for your testing.","So this allows you to not worry about the behavior of testnets and not have to worry about getting currency because you can just generate that currency locally for yourself.","Clayton (03:30.742)","So, how does this work? So it’s pretty straightforward. We use Docker. So we use Docker compose to orchestrate all these daemons that run. So if you look in the Hemi network readme, you’ll actually see it’s one command to run the whole Hemi LocalNet net all via Docker compose. So today I’m going to do a very, very trivial example of sending, we’re going to grab some Bitcoin data from L2 from our pre-compiles on the HVM.","And we’re going to send that down to L1. And then we’re going to read from a smart contract on L1. So this would be Ethereum L1 on your local machine. And it’s important to note that this is not meant to be production -ready code. There are many things that, if you were to run something like this in production, you need to account for for security purposes. This is just meant to demonstrate some functionality of Hemi. So I’ve already written this example. We’ll post a link to it after the webinar. But I’ll be copying and pasting code from the example that I already wrote","Then I’ll be explaining it. That way, it goes a little faster that way. I’ll do my best to slow down and explain different parts. But just for time’s sake, that’s the way I’ll be operating here. So again, we’ll be sending a link to the full example afterwards. And there’s a remit on how to run it. We’ll also be able to answer any of your questions on Discord as well. So with that, let’s get started. So here I have the Hemi network repository checked out.","I have this example directory. I’m going to call it read balances. So within here, it’s an MVM package, an MVM project, I should say. So I’ve already set up the dependencies just for time's sake. But like I said, what we’re going to try to do here is what we’re going to do is we’re going to grab a balance of a Bitcoin address from our Hemi L2 node at some L2 block. So we have an idea of when this occurred. And then we’ll just down to the L1, we’ll read from that smart contract.","So as you can probably guess, we’re gonna need to deploy contracts in both our local L1 and L2. So I’ll just start with writing the L2 contract and I’ll explain it really quick. And then I will grab the code that I already wrote and I will explain it really quick. So I’m gonna paste a lot here, but again, no worries. I will go through it. Don’t panic.","Clayton (05:58.284)","And it will also be available afterwards if you want to take a look yourself. So on our L2, here, we’re going to create this contract. It has two methods. One is going to be getting a Bitcoin balance. So you give this some sort of Bitcoin address and then it will call our pre-compile in the hVM to get the balance of that. It’ll return it. And then we’re also going to have this, and this is the function actually or the method we actually use.","So what we’re going to do is we’re going to give them some Bitcoin addresses. We’re going to actually send that data down to L1. And the way we do this is we use something called the cross-domain messenger. So again, if you’re not familiar, Hemi is a fork of Optimism. So we’re using some functionality to get out of them. And we’re essentially going to use a cross-domain messenger to send this Bitcoin data down to L1. So we’re going to need the L1 contracts addresses for this. So we’ll take the Bitcoin address.","We will get the balance here. Then we’ll send that address, the balance, and the block number we got it at. So this is the L2’s block number down to the L1. Just so we have a record of when we got that data. So on the L1, we’re going to try to match this interface right here. So for the L1, we’re expecting an L1 rebalance contract to be stored. And we’re going to call setBitcoinAddressBalance on that. So we will create a new file here.","Clayton (07:39.192)","So again, this is not production-ready code. This is merely an example. So here’s our set Bitcoin address balance. So we’ll be getting a Bitcoin address, a balance, and an L2 block height from that call we made down to the L1. We’re just going to store it in contract storage here. So then we’ll have another method here to actually get that data. So we’ll be returning the balance at that address as well as the last block, L2 block that it was updated at. Just we have a of that.","So again, just to review, we’ll call setBitcoinBalanceAddress or sendBitcoinAddressBalance to L1. We’ll get the address as balance. We’ll send it via the cross -domain messenger with the block number we got it at. And then we’ll store that on L1 here. And then we’ll be able to read it from L1 whenever we want. So we’re actually getting Bitcoin data from the peer-to-peer network on an Ethereum L1. And we’ll be able to do this locally with LocalNet. So, how do we do this? Great question. All right.","So I’m going to write a small JavaScript file here to actually perform this functionality. So again, like I said, I’ve written out a lot of this already. So I’ll be copying and pasting similar to the contracts. Again, this is all will be all available online in the link we post afterwards. But let’s get started really quick. So like most programs, we’ll need a main function to perform our functionality. So I know all of this kind of stuff.","But off the top of my head from writing LocalNet But these are the kind of configs we’ll need here. So I already know that this is the Sol-C version. We'll need to compile our smart contracts. I’m also going to paste a bit here. No panic, I’ll go through it. So on LocalNet, we expose the L1’s RPC to port 8545 near local machine. On L2, it’s 8546. So this is the Bitcoin address of our regtest miner.","So this one should have plenty of Bitcoin that we can actually send that value to our L1. And this right here is interesting. This is called the L1 standard bridge proxy address. So this is an address of a smart contract that allows you to bridge ETH to become HEMI ETH. So what this means is when we deploy contracts on L2, we are going to need some HEMI ETH to deploy those contracts. So we need to bridge ETH from L1 to our L2.","Clayton (10:04.302)","It will be using the L1 standard bridge proxy to do that. And it will become the same address as your L1 address. So down here, I tried to do this all without using Optimism’s SDK, but there was a little bit dug into later that I couldn’t quite get out with small enough code. So here I have two providers just from Web3 to connect to L1 and L2.","And then I have two providers using ethers that the Optimism SDK will use to communicate. And here’s a few other addresses, contract addresses that are set to LocalNet and a few other config values that are LocalNet net values here. Again, we’ll be posting online afterwards. Don’t worry if it seems like it’s going fast. So after we’ve had this setup, we can now","We’re going to want to bridge our ETH to become HEMI ETHs to allow us to deploy aaL2. So I’ll paste that code really quick and I’ll explain it.","So yeah, so first we’re going to want to get our dev account. So this will be the account. Since we’re in eth and dev mode, this is the account that gets all the eth generated to it. We’ll just print out the address for debugging purposes. And then we will order the account for debugging purposes. We’ll get some feed data. We’ll send our eth to the L1 standard bridge proxy. We’ll just give ourselves a bunch. And yeah, we’ll the feed data to get feeds.","Then we’ll send that transaction. So sending this to the L1 standard bridge proxy will then bridge our L1 to L2. Then we’ll log out. We’re done with bridging. Cool. And then now what we’re going to do is we’re going to want to deploy the L2 contract. So I’ll do that. I’ll paste that code right quick right here. A little poorly named, but we’ll unlock our account on L2 with our super-secret LocalNet net password. Again, this is all just on my local machine. I took a. Yeah, it’s okay if you all know the password. So anyway, this will be our L2 contract. We’ll deploy it to our local L2 with the dev account using the, and I’ll explain this function in a minute, using the L2 rebalances smart contract. It’s the file name, that’s the contract name.","We’re going to need a helper that I wrote to deploy the contract. Just to abstract this, it’s kind of a bit of code that I don’t really want to repeat. I’ll paste it and I’ll explain it.","Clayton (12:57.262)","So this is our deploy contract helper function. So all it’s gonna do, it’s gonna read the contract file. It’s going to load the SolC compiler version that we need. It’s gonna compile the contract. Then it’s going to deploy that contract to whatever layer we want. So it will pass in, sorry, the layer, the dev account, the filing and the contract name, and it will use all of that to deploy the contracts. It will then let us know if it deployed it.","Then return the contract so we can use it later in our code. So far, we’ve only deployed the L2 contract. We need to deploy the L1. So I’ll do that really quick. As you probably guessed, it’s very similar to deploying L2. We just give it a different layer. Same dev account because, again, we bridged it to ourselves between the layers. Then the L1 read balances contract with the L1 rebalances.","Contract within the file so that once those are once those two are deployed, we can now use them so what we want to do is we’re going to want to now get our address balance of our Bitcoin regtest miner and send that balance down or send that to the L1. so Given the L2 contract. We’re going to call send Bitcoin address balance to L1 with the L1s contracts address","And then the address, the Bitcoin address that we want to get the balance of, which again, was set up here. It’s our Regtest miner address. So again, just to trace this down, what this will do is we’ll call send Bitcoin address balance to L1 on L2. This will use the cross-domain messenger. Well, it will grab the balance from that address, use the cross-domain messenger to send that to the L1 rebalances address that we pass in. It’ll call set Bitcoin balance address.","With the block number, the address, and the balance, which we’ll then store it in L1 storage, and we can read that later. Okay, so now that we’ve got that deployed, we will… Now this is where we need to get a little more… This is where we need to use the Optimism SDK. So once we’re setting this down, we actually have two more steps we need to perform. One is we need to prove the message to L1. So using the SDK, we just call it a prove method.","Clayton (15:23.458)","And then we need to finalize it. And once those two steps are complete, we’ll be able to read that data from the L1 as it was sent down. So on the mainnet, this process takes quite a few days, actually, with Ethereum. But on LocalNet, it just takes a few seconds. So you can rapidly develop that proven and finalized. So I’m going to.","add another helper function really quick that I added because using that Optimism SDK, they didn’t really give you, in my opinion, many ways to debug what statuses were while you’re waiting for a new status. And what we’re going to want to do is we’re going to be able to. We need to wait for a message to be ready to prove it. Then actually I’ll just paste the code. These are just following that way. So we’ll grab this.","Clayton (16:26.456)","So once those are deployed, we will go up here. We’re going to then, now that these contracts are deployed and we’ve called the method, we’re going to wait for the status to be ready to prove of the send this from L2 to L1. Once that’s waited for, we’ll prove the message and then we’ll wait for it to be ready for relay. And we’ll finalize the message. And once it’s relayed,","Now we can actually read data from L1 that we got from L2. So I’m going to copy the last bit of this example here.","Clayton (17:05.068)","Paste it right down here. So at this point, I just grabbed the L2 Bitcoin address balance. And then I grabbed the L1 contract address balance that we sent down. And I compared the two. And what we’re expecting is that the L2 balance is going to be a little more or equal to the L1 because we sent it down. And between that time period, we could have mined more Bitcoin.","But yeah, that’s how you would send data from L1, or I’m sorry, L2 to L1 and read it using the Hemi network. If you want to run LocalNet net, it’s as simple as cloning a repository and running Docker Compose up on end-to-end Docker Compose.","This will take a little bit the first time it’s got to pull the images and build them But once it does you can then run the example and you should get output something like this So can see we bridged our eth to hemi -eth And then we deployed our L2 contract here. We deployed the L1 and then we sent our message, so here’s where we waited for a while to see if we’d be ready to prove it. We proved it. We’re waiting for it to be ready to relay. We relayed it and then we got the","In this case, the balances were equal. So this is reading from L2 and this is reading from L1. So we got the L1 balance at L2 height on LocalNet at 169, this much Bitcoin. And yeah, we’ll send a link to the example code after the webinar. But that’s how easy it is to develop on LocalNet on Hemi. So I hope this helps and we’re here to answer questions. And yeah, I hope you all come up with some really cool ideas using this technology. If you have any questions about the technology, we can answer them. We also have a roadmap of things we’re going to implement. But yeah, thank you very much. I’ll pass it back to Erin.","Erin (19:11.928)","Thanks Clayton. All right guys.","So we are going to funnel some questions in. I just wanted to start off by thanking Clayton for that webinar. That was really nice. So one of the questions we wanted to ask is, know, on the L2 front, why can’t I trust this Bitcoin data?","Clayton","Yeah, yeah, that’s a good question. And that’s kind of a cool thing. You’re not really trusting it, right? So your L2 node becomes part of the Bitcoin peer -to -peer network, right? So you are joining the network, you’re connecting to peers, you’re building the chain yourself. You’re becoming a full Bitcoin node yourself. So the data you query is actually your own determination of what the Bitcoin chain is. So yeah, you’re not relying on any third party to do so. You’re part of the network yourself, you’re building that data yourself and you’re trusting only yourself and the data that you’ve built from the chain.","Errin","Awesome. We did have a question here from someone in the chat asking, so for some clarification, do we need to change the RPC to Local Port or does the rest of the contract stay exactly the same?","So when you’re working with LocalNet, all the contracts or not the contracts, all the services.","The daemons will run in Docker and they’ll expose themselves to a port on your local host. So when you try to interact with any of the RPC endpoints, you’re going to want to interact with the ports that are mapped to your local host. And if there’s any questions about which port might be the one that’s mapped, just take a look at the Docker compose config file and you’ll be able to see that port mapping. So you’ll be able to find the one you want. So yeah, just make sure you’re connected to those when you need to grab data from LocalNet.","Awesome. Another question is, how can I simulate calling another contract locally?","Clayton (21:10.811)","Yeah, what do you mean? Do you mean like one contract calling another or do you mean like calling a contract from like an RPC endpoint?","That was a question from Alix. Yeah, Alix, if you want to clarify your question.","Clayton (21:34.432)","It’s OK. I think I can answer in both scenarios. When you want to, so, what was the question? How can I call another contract? That's what it was, Yes. How can I simulate calling another contract locally? Yeah. If we want to call, so let’s say you want to call a certain contract, you can deploy that contract to your local network. So if that’s an L1 contract, you can deploy it to your L1. You can deploy it to your L2. And then you would call it just the way you would in Testnet.","If you want to call it from another contract on the network, just deploy that other contract and call them as you would on testnet. If you want to call the contract from an RPC call, you can use the Web3 provider to do so. Either of those should work. So it’s just like testnet, but it’s all running locally. So if you can deploy it to testnet, just deploy it to the daemons locally or interact with those daemons and you should be able to do it.","Awesome. Well, thank you so much, Clayton, and thank you all for attending today. If you enjoyed today’s webinar and want to stay updated with more insights, tips, and some of our future events, please be sure to follow us on X at hemiproduction.wpengine.com and visit our website hemiproduction.wpengine.com. If you have additional questions or want to continue this conversation, please reach out on Discord and our team will get back to you.","But with that, we look forward to seeing you at our next webinar and I hope everyone has a great day.","Thanks everyone. All right. Thanks everyone.","Clayton (23:12.418)","Thank you.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/webinar-building-bitcoin-ethereum-apps-on-hemi-with-localnet"},"/blog/introducing-satoshi-stories-with-jeff-garzik":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing Satoshi Stories with Jeff Garzik - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Introducing Satoshi Stories with Jeff Garzik"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 11, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Satoshi Stories","Video","Our new video series brings Satoshi Nakamoto to life.","Satoshi Stories is a fascinating deep dive into the history of Bitcoin, told by Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik. Jeff was there at the beginning of Bitcoin's rise to prominence in the cryptocurrency world, and his experience working with Satoshi Nakamoto in those early years provides important and captivating insights into the technology.","In this first video, Jeff Garzik reflects on his initial encounter with Bitcoin in July 2010. He discovered it through a post on Slashdot, a popular website for tech enthusiasts at the time. This post led many early developers, including Jeff, to explore the Bitcoin source code. His efforts to understand and improve the code resulted in the development of early mining apps and, most importantly, transformed the \"hairball\" of code that Jeff encountered into a usable and testable program.","Jeff's experience and insights in these videos offer a unique view of the early days of Bitcoin. Be sure to check them out on YouTube.","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-satoshi-stories-with-jeff-garzik"},"/blog/what-are-bitcoin-l2s-definition-and-examples-of-bitcoin-layer-2s":{"version":1,"title":"What Are Bitcoin L2s? Definition and Examples of Bitcoin Layer 2s - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Are Bitcoin L2s? Definition and Examples of Bitcoin Layer 2s"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["What Are Bitcoin Layer 2s (L2s)?","1. The Lightning Network","2. Hemi Network","3. Stacks (STX)","Why Are Bitcoin Layer 2s Important?","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 11, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","L2","Layer 2","Bitcoin L2s are secondary layers built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain.","As the adoption of Bitcoin continues to grow, its underlying blockchain faces challenges in terms of scalability and transaction speed. To address these limitations, Layer 2 solutions (L2s) have emerged as an essential innovation, allowing for more efficient, scalable, and cost-effective use of Bitcoin. But what exactly are Bitcoin L2s, and how do they work? In this article, we’ll break down the definition of Bitcoin Layer 2s and explore three prominent examples, including Hemi Network, a new player in the space revolutionizing cross-chain interoperability.","Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions refer to off-chain or secondary layers built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain to handle transactions, smart contracts, and various operations that would otherwise burden the Bitcoin mainnet. L2 solutions allow Bitcoin to scale, improve transaction throughput, and reduce fees without compromising the security of the primary Bitcoin blockchain.","While Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism ensures network security and decentralization, it can only handle a limited number of transactions per second. L2 solutions aim to improve Bitcoin’s scalability by conducting most transactions off-chain and then settling them on the main Bitcoin blockchain periodically.","Now, let’s explore three prominent examples of Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions.","The Lightning Network is the most well-known Bitcoin L2 solution, designed to enable fast, low-cost Bitcoin transactions by moving them off-chain. The Lightning Network creates a network of payment channels between users. Once a channel is opened, users can transact almost instantly without the need to wait for Bitcoin block confirmations. These transactions are settled later on the main Bitcoin blockchain when the payment channel is closed.","The Lightning Network significantly reduces transaction fees and congestion on the Bitcoin network, making it ideal for smaller payments and micropayments. By batching multiple transactions into one, Lightning increases Bitcoin’s transaction throughput and makes Bitcoin a more practical option for day-to-day payments.","Hemi Network is an innovative Layer 2 solution that bridges Bitcoin with Ethereum through its modular architecture. Hemi addresses the key challenges of scaling and security by allowing Bitcoin and Ethereum to operate as parts of a single supernetwork, unlocking new possibilities for decentralized applications (dApps) and cross-chain functionality.","At the core of Hemi’s Layer 2 solution is its Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus protocol, which allows Hemi to inherit the full security of Bitcoin’s PoW while operating as a flexible, Ethereum-compatible network. Hemi’s Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) integrates a full Bitcoin node within an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), enabling developers to create dApps that utilize both Bitcoin’s security and Ethereum’s flexibility.","In addition to its scalability, Hemi’s Tunnels provide secure and trustless cross-chain asset transfers, offering a significant improvement over traditional bridges. This allows users to move assets seamlessly between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other chains without relying on centralized intermediaries.","Stacks is a unique Layer 2 solution for Bitcoin that brings smart contract functionality to the Bitcoin network. Using its own consensus mechanism, called Proof of Transfer (PoX), Stacks anchors itself to the Bitcoin blockchain while allowing developers to build decentralized applications (dApps) and smart contracts that use Bitcoin as their base layer.","Stacks enables features like Bitcoin-based decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and other smart contract functionalities by leveraging Bitcoin’s security and immutability. With Stacks, developers can create programmable applications that interact with Bitcoin without modifying the core Bitcoin blockchain.","Bitcoin L2s play a crucial role in addressing the scalability issues of Bitcoin, ensuring that it remains competitive in an increasingly crowded blockchain ecosystem. By offloading transactions and computation from the main Bitcoin chain, L2 solutions allow for faster, cheaper, and more scalable operations without sacrificing the security and decentralization that Bitcoin is known for.","In addition, Bitcoin Layer 2s open the door to new use cases that go beyond simple payments. With L2 solutions like Hemi and Stacks, Bitcoin can be used for decentralized finance, cross-chain interoperability, and even smart contracts, expanding its utility far beyond a store of value.","Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions are critical to ensuring that Bitcoin continues to evolve and scale in the face of growing demand. Solutions like the Lightning Network, Hemi Network, and Stacks each offer unique ways to enhance Bitcoin’s functionality, from fast micropayments to secure cross-chain asset transfers and smart contracts.","As the blockchain ecosystem continues to develop, Bitcoin L2s will play an increasingly vital role in improving scalability and opening up new opportunities for decentralized applications and use cases on Bitcoin.","For developers and users alike, understanding and leveraging Bitcoin Layer 2s is key to unlocking the full potential of the world’s most secure and decentralized blockchain.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-are-bitcoin-l2s-definition-and-examples-of-bitcoin-layer-2s"},"/blog/merging-bitcoins-security-with-ethereums-flexibility-is-it-possible":{"version":1,"title":"Merging Bitcoin’s Security with Ethereum’s Flexibility — Is It Possible? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Merging Bitcoin’s Security with Ethereum’s Flexibility — Is It Possible?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["The Challenge of Trust in Cross-Chain Solutions","Proof-of-Proof: Borrowing Bitcoin’s Security","Unlocking Seamless Interoperability","More Than Just Asset Transfers","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 11, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Can you meld Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum’s powerful flexibility? Short answer? Yes.","The Hemi Network is breaking new ground by offering a solution that merges the unparalleled security of Bitcoin with the flexibility of Ethereum. This integration is achieved through a trust-minimized approach that redefines cross-chain interoperability, allowing the strengths of both blockchains to work together seamlessly. Let’s explore how Hemi’s Tunnel system reduces trust assumptions and enhances the connection between the two biggest blockchains in the world.","Cross-chain interoperability has traditionally relied on bridges. In these systems, a user deposits a digital asset into a smart contract and receives an equivalent amount of wrapped tokens on the destination chain. For example, you could deposit ETH into a bridge and receive wrapped SOL, which you can later exchange back for ETH. While bridges have expanded liquidity in decentralized finance (DeFi), they come with serious vulnerabilities.","By early 2024, bridge hacks had drained $2.8 billion from DeFi protocols, highlighting their security weaknesses. Many bridges, even the more reputable ones, are centralized, which reintroduces trust assumptions into what should be a trustless system. Users are forced to rely on third-party protocols to manage their assets, and if the bridge is compromised, the underlying assets can be stolen or the peg broken. This presents a fundamental challenge to true decentralization.","Security is a core priority for the Hemi Network. To address the shortcomings of existing cross-chain solutions, Hemi operates as an Ethereum Layer 2 secured by Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work (PoW) through a protocol called Proof-of-Proof (PoP).  PoP allows Hemi to inherit Bitcoin's robust security while maintaining the flexibility of Ethereum.","Here’s how it works: Hemi miners publish the network’s consensus data to the Bitcoin blockchain. As these blocks are confirmed by Bitcoin, they reach finality and gain the same level of security as Bitcoin itself.","Additionally, the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) plays a pivotal role. The hVM is a full Bitcoin node wrapped inside an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and connected to the Bitcoin P2P network, which allows Hemi to track Bitcoin's state in real-time. This setup ensures that Hemi is fully aware of Bitcoin’s state without relying on third-party services for data relays, mitigating risks from external validators or relayers.","Hemi’s direct connection to Bitcoin’s state enables secure and efficient cross-chain functionality that was previously difficult to achieve. Here’s how it addresses some of the major challenges in cross-chain interoperability:","Eliminating Third-Party Risks: Hemi’s built-in awareness of Bitcoin's state eliminates the need for third-party relayers, reducing points of failure and increasing trustlessness. This makes it possible to develop secure Bitcoin-based decentralized applications (dApps) directly on Hemi without additional intermediaries.","Preventing Consensus Attacks: By publishing cross-chain transactions to the Bitcoin blockchain as proofs, Hemi ensures that these transactions inherit Bitcoin’s security. This drastically reduces the risk of de-pegging wrapped assets in cross-chain transfers, a common vulnerability in many bridge protocols.","Decentralized Liquidity via the Tunnel System: Hemi’s Tunnel system offers a secure and decentralized way to connect Bitcoin and Hemi without relying on overcollateralization or centralized parties. Instead, the Tunnel system uses liquidity providers (LPs), who are rewarded for supplying BTC and HEMI tokens, making the process more decentralized and efficient. This eliminates the need to lock up funds with third-party custodians, enhancing trustlessness while keeping the system scalable.","Using the Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK), developers can create custom Tunnels tailored to specific needs for security, cost, and speed. This flexibility allows developers to build a range of solutions within Hemi’s secure framework, opening up new opportunities for innovation.","While Hemi’s Tunnel system offers a more secure and decentralized way to move assets, its capabilities extend far beyond that. Thanks to the real-time awareness of Bitcoin’s state, developers can build trustless dApps that leverage both Ethereum’s programmability and Bitcoin’s security. This makes Hemi a powerful platform for building more complex decentralized applications that benefit from the strengths of both ecosystems.","Ethereum was designed to be a world computer, but by integrating Bitcoin at the protocol level, Hemi takes this vision even further. Hemi’s unique architecture makes the blockchain ecosystem more secure, trustless, and scalable, while at the same time simplifying the development of Bitcoin-based technologies. It also makes the blockchain ecosystem less fragmented by bringing the Ethereum and Bitcoin ecosystems together as one.","Hemi Network’s combination of Bitcoin’s security and Ethereum’s flexibility marks a significant leap forward for cross-chain interoperability. By leveraging Bitcoin’s PoW security through its Proof-of-Proof consensus, and using innovative tools like the hVM and Tunnel system, Hemi reduces trust assumptions and enhances the decentralized nature of blockchain technology. Whether it’s for transferring assets or building complex dApps, Hemi provides a secure, efficient, and trustless environment where both Bitcoin and Ethereum thrive together.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/merging-bitcoins-security-with-ethereums-flexibility-is-it-possible"},"/blog/satoshi-stories-who-was-satoshi-nakamoto":{"version":1,"title":"Satoshi Stories: Who Was Satoshi Nakamoto? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Satoshi Stories: Who Was Satoshi Nakamoto?"],"h2":["About the Series","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 13, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Hemi","Satoshi Stories","Video","Hemi CEO Jeff Garzik talks about who he thinks Satoshi really was.","In this video, Jeff Garzik, an early Bitcoin developer, discusses the gradual disappearance of Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. According to Garzik, there wasn't a specific day when Satoshi disappeared. Instead, Satoshi sent an email to Gavin Andresen and posted on the forum, explaining that he would be busy with other projects and less involved. He handed over control of the Bitcoin repository to Gavin, which is a common practice in open source projects when transitioning maintainership. From that point, Satoshi would only occasionally respond to important technical questions, eventually stopping all communication altogether.","Garzik also shares his own speculation about Satoshi's identity, suggesting that Dave Kleiman, a Florida-based information security expert, might have been Satoshi. Kleiman, who passed away some years ago, was known for his work in security management and for developing a program for the Windows operating system. After a motorcycle accident left Kleiman wheelchair-bound, he taught himself computer security and programming. Garzik points out that the timeline of Kleiman's activities aligns with Satoshi’s involvement in the Bitcoin project from 2009 to 2010, with Satoshi stepping back in 2010 and stopping communication in 2011. Although Garzik admits there is no hard evidence, he considers Kleiman a plausible candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto.","Satoshi Stories is a fascinating deep dive into the history of Bitcoin told by Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik. Jeff was there at the beginning of Bitcoin’s rise and eventual domination of the cryptocurrency world and his experience working with Satoshi in those early years offers important and fascinating insights into the technology.","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/satoshi-stories-who-was-satoshi-nakamoto"},"/blog/satoshi-stories-what-was-satoshis-vision":{"version":1,"title":"Satoshi Stories: What Was Satoshi's Vision? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Satoshi Stories: What Was Satoshi's Vision?"],"h2":["About the Series","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 12, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Satoshi Stories","Video","In this episode, Jeff Garzik talks about what Satoshi wanted to build... and why.","In this video, Jeff Garzik discusses the original vision behind Bitcoin, as outlined in Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper. He explains that Satoshi’s goal was clear from the start: to create a decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency. To achieve this, Satoshi used cryptographic building blocks that were already well-established, like SHA-256, proof of work, hash chains, and Merkle trees.","While Satoshi didn't invent these technologies, he combined them in a groundbreaking way to form Bitcoin. Jeff also reflects on how Bitcoin has evolved since Satoshi's time. In the early days, it was common for Satoshi to introduce major network changes, including hard fork upgrades that everyone had to follow. However, in 2024, this approach has largely fallen out of favor. There is now resistance to hard forks and even some opposition to any kind of network upgrade in certain segments of the Bitcoin community. Jeff suggests that Satoshi would likely see today’s environment as very different from the early days of Bitcoin.","Key Topics Covered:","Satoshi Nakamoto’s goal for Bitcoin: decentralized peer-to-peer digital currency","Use of existing cryptographic technologies to create Bitcoin","How Bitcoin development was more flexible during Satoshi’s time","Changes in the Bitcoin community's attitude toward upgrades, especially hard forks, by 2024","Satoshi Stories is a fascinating deep dive into the history of Bitcoin told by Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik. Jeff was there at the beginning of Bitcoin's rise and eventual domination of the cryptocurrency world and his experience working with Satoshi in those early years offers important and fascinating insights into the technology.","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/satoshi-stories-what-was-satoshis-vision"},"/blog/webinar-why-bitcoin-is-much-more-than-digital-gold":{"version":1,"title":"Webinar: Why Bitcoin Is Much More Than Digital Gold - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Webinar: Why Bitcoin Is Much More Than Digital Gold"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 16, 2024","Jeff Garzik travelled to Wyoming last month to talk all things Hemi. Here's one of the panels where he and a group of luminaries talked about the potential of Bitcoin.","Join our own Jeff Garzik as this panel at SALT explores the role of Bitcoin as digital gold and, more importantly, it's future potential in multiple use cases.","A panel of leading Bitcoin and blockchain entrepreneurs and investors came together at Wyoming Blockchain Symposium to discuss the past and future of Bitcoin. They talked about Bitcoin's use cases beyond digital gold, the importance of stablecoins and artificial intelligence. They closed the panel discussing the evolution of Bitcoin, key sticking points and the eventual path for greater Bitcoin application through various roll-ups and layer 2 development.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/webinar-why-bitcoin-is-much-more-than-digital-gold"},"/blog/hemi-and-redstone-collaborate-to-deliver-decentralized-oracles":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and RedStone Collaborate to Deliver Decentralized Oracles - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and RedStone Collaborate to Deliver Decentralized Oracles"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Activating RedStone’s Expertise in LST and LRT Data","Empowering DeFi on Hemi with RedStone Oracles","Unlocking New Opportunities for LST and LRT Projects","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 17, 2024","TL;DR: Hemi Network is collaborating with RedStone, the fastest-growing modular oracle provider, to bring decentralized price feeds to projects within our ecosystem. RedStone is leading the way in Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) and Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs). This collaboration will ensure reliable, real-time data feeds to help Hemi's growing set of DeFi products.","Today, Hemi and RedStone Oracles are pleased to announce an integration to power Hemi’s ecosystem with high-quality, real-time data.","This pairing brings RedStone’s modular oracle solutions to Hemi so that the growing suite of DeFi projects will have access to reliable, secure, and decentralized data feeds.","As the leading oracle provider for Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) and Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs), RedStone is at the forefront of the current DeFi narrative. Their fast-paced growth in the oracle space has made them the go-to provider for decentralized data services across these innovative financial products, making them a perfect collaborator for Hemi to onboard an increasing number of LST and LRT projects into the ecosystem.","By using RedStone's oracle services, Hemi can make sure that all projects get the right price feeds for LSTs and LRTs. This makes DeFi applications safer and more efficient within the network.","Through this collaboration, Hemi Network will use RedStone’s decentralized oracles to deliver essential data services to DeFi protocols. Projects across Hemi’s ecosystem will benefit from:","Decentralized Price Feeds: RedStone’s safe and decentralized pricing data will power everything from swaps to staking. This will ensure correct asset pricing in real-time for Hemi DeFi projects.","Enhanced Security: RedStone’s oracles are backed by cutting-edge security protocols, ensuring data integrity maintenance, even in volatile market conditions.","Powerful Tooling: RedStone's flexibility lets projects change their data feeds. This makes sure that each project on Hemi gets the exact price and market data it needs.","As more LST and LRT projects join the Hemi ecosystem, RedStone’s oracles will play a critical role in delivering data that ensures price accuracy, boosts liquidity, and improves protocol security. With RedStone leading the way in oracle solutions for these assets, Hemi is well-positioned to support the next wave of DeFi innovation.","This collaboration is a big step toward making Hemi the best platform for DeFi protocols built around LSTs and LRTs. It will provide a safe, decentralized infrastructure powered by one of the most important oracle providers in the space.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-redstone-collaborate-to-deliver-decentralized-oracles"},"/blog/hemi-labs-raises-15-million-to-launch-advanced-modular-blockchain-network-powered-by-bitcoin-and-ethereum":{"version":1,"title":"HEMI LABS RAISES $15 MILLION TO LAUNCH ADVANCED MODULAR BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK POWERED BY BITCOIN AND ETHEREUM - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["HEMI LABS RAISES $15 MILLION TO LAUNCH ADVANCED MODULAR BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK POWERED BY BITCOIN AND ETHEREUM"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 18, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Press Release","Binance Labs, Breyer Capital, and Big Brain Holdings lead founding investment round to propel blockchain interoperability, scaling, and security.","Key Facts","Binance Labs, Breyer Capital, and Big Brain Holdings led the investment round.","Binance Labs continues to showcase its commitment to supporting dedicated teams building technical innovations that have the potential to propel the growth of the crypto industry.","Breyer Capital was an early investor in Facebook, Circle, and Spotify. Big Brain Holdings is a leading Web3 fund with investments in Solana, The Graph, and Arweave.","The round included participation from Crypto.com, Web3 Ventures, HyperChain Capital, Alchemy, SALT Fund, Kelly Investments, Sunflower Capital, DNA Fund, Gate Ventures, Quantstamp, TRGC, BTC INC, Artichoke Capital, Cypher Capital, SNZ Holding, C6E, IBG Capital, Protein Capital, MON Ventures, S5V, Impossible Finance, Jihan Wu (Bitdeer), George Burke (Portal), Sonny Singh (Beluga), amongst others.","Hemi is a modular blockchain network designed for superior scaling, security, and interoperability, unifying Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork.","Hemi was founded by renowned early Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik, and blockchain security pioneer Max Sanchez.","CHICAGO, September 18, 2024 — Hemi Labs has announced a $15 million investment round to develop and launch the Hemi Network (“Hemi”). Hemi is a modular blockchain network built on Bitcoin and Ethereum, designed to deliver superior scaling, security, and interoperability.","The Hemi incentivized testnet is now live, and its mainnet launch is targeted for Q4 2024.","“We look forward to supporting Hemi Labs as they work on important infrastructure that connects Bitcoin and Ethereum in a modular and scalable way. Hemi's approach aligns with our commitment to backing projects that are focused on building practical, decentralized solutions with long-term potential,\" said Alex Odagiu, Investment Director at Binance Labs.","“The Hemi team has a clear and compelling vision for unlocking the programmability, portability, and potential of Web3. With a distinguished track record, they are uniquely positioned to deliver,” said Ted Breyer at Breyer Capital.","“Hemi is transforming how Bitcoin and Ethereum interact, and not merely providing a bridge between the two largest networks in the blockchain ecosystem, but a supernetwork that most elegantly marries the capabilities of both,” said Sam Kim at Big Brain Holdings.","Uniting the King and Queen of Crypto","Attempts to integrate and scale Bitcoin and Ethereum have tended to address the problem within their respective communities, resulting in a fractured ecosystem. Hemi instead approaches Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a larger supernetwork. This surfaces the best capabilities of both networks and, in turn, enables a new class of previously unattainable blockchain applications.","Hemi’s core features include:","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM): Integrates a full Bitcoin node within an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), allowing developers to use familiar tools to build smart contracts that work with both Bitcoin and Ethereum, while maintaining full backwards-compatibility with existing EVM dApps and wallets.","Bitcoin Programmability: The Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) unlocks direct smart contract access to granular Bitcoin state, enabling truly trustless Bitcoin-native applications like staking, lending markets, and MEV marketplaces, which were previously impractical.","Superfinality: Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus inherits Bitcoin’s full security in an entirely decentralized and permissionless manner, and efficiently provides Bitcoin-security-as-a-Service to other blockchain networks.","Trustless Cross-Chain Portability: Hemi’s Tunnels provide a secure way to move assets between chains, vastly improving upon traditional bridge methods.","Asset Programmability: Features include on-chain routing, time-lock, password protection, and gasless transfers, enabling seamless asset movement without requiring native chain currency.","“The excitement for what we are building is reflected in the quality and enthusiasm of our investors and ecosystem partners,\" said Jeff Garzik, an early Bitcoin developer and co-founder of Hemi Labs. “They understand the uniqueness and value of Hemi’s approach to scaling and integrating the two leading blockchain networks, adding to the phenomenal growth and energy in this particular area.”","To Learn More","Website: https://hemiproduction.wpengine.com","Blog: https://hemiproduction.wpengine.com/blog/","GitHub: https://github.com/HemiLabs","Docs: https://docs.hemi.xyz/","Discord: https://discord.gg/hemixyz","Twitter/X: https://x.com/hemi_xyz","Telegram: https://t.me/hemi_community","LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hemi-labs/","About Hemi","The Hemi Network (“Hemi”) is a modular blockchain powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum that provides superior scaling, security, and interoperability. Hemi views Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a broader supernetwork, unlocking new levels of programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi Labs is a leading developer of Web3 infrastructure and tooling, founded by renowned Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik, and blockchain security pioneer Max Sanchez. Learn more at https://hemiproduction.wpengine.com/.","Contact","For more information, please contact:","CLPR | hemi@clpr.agency","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-labs-raises-15-million-to-launch-advanced-modular-blockchain-network-powered-by-bitcoin-and-ethereum"},"/blog/satoshi-stories-was-there-a-satoshi-method-of-coding":{"version":1,"title":"Satoshi Stories: Was There a \"Satoshi Method\" Of Coding? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Satoshi Stories: Was There a \"Satoshi Method\" Of Coding?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["About the Series","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 19, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Hemi","Satoshi Stories","What was it like to work with Satoshi Nakamoto? Our own Jeff Garzik breaks down the experience.","In this video, Jeff Garzik reflects on Satoshi Nakamoto’s approach to coding and managing Bitcoin’s early development. He points out that there wasn't a specific \"Satoshi Way\" of coding, as Satoshi's code was messy, self-taught, and disorganized—something even Satoshi acknowledged.","Despite this, Satoshi was humble, often asking for help with tasks like porting Bitcoin to Linux. Jeff explains how the early versions of Bitcoin were all bundled into one application, containing the wallet, node, and miner. Satoshi wasn’t interested in keeping up with the latest mining optimizations, so Jeff took the initiative to separate the mining code into its own software, which evolved into CPU miner, GPU miner, and eventually the mining tools used today with ASICs.","In terms of management, Satoshi was calm, never argumentative, and communicated his decisions through code merges. Much like Linus Torvalds, the leader of the Linux project, Satoshi would simply merge or not merge a patch, signaling his agreement or disagreement. Jeff also compares Satoshi’s coding style to that of scientists in other fields, like physicists and biologists, who may not have formal training in coding but write functional, though messy, code to solve problems. Satoshi cared deeply about Bitcoin’s cryptographic security, but the organization and modularity of the software were less important to him.","Satoshi Stories is a fascinating deep dive into the history of Bitcoin told by Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik. Jeff was there at the beginning of Bitcoin’s rise and eventual domination of the cryptocurrency world and his experience working with Satoshi in those early years offers important and fascinating insights into the technology.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/satoshi-stories-was-there-a-satoshi-method-of-coding"},"/blog/what-are-bitcoin-l2-projects":{"version":1,"title":"What Are Bitcoin L2 Projects? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Are Bitcoin L2 Projects?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":["Understanding Bitcoin Layer 2 Solutions","Key Bitcoin Layer 2 Projects","How Bitcoin Layer 2 Projects Work","Security and Efficiency of Bitcoin L2 Solutions","The Role of Bitcoin L2 in Decentralized Finance (DeFi)","Cross-Chain Interoperability and Bitcoin Layer 2","The Future of Bitcoin Layer 2 Projects","Conclusion"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 20, 2024","This short primer talks about popular Bitcoin L2 projects.","Bitcoin, despite its status as the most secure and decentralized cryptocurrency, faces challenges related to scalability. As the network grows, so do transaction fees and confirmation times, making it less practical for daily use. To solve these issues, Bitcoin Layer 2 (L2) solutions have emerged as a critical innovation. These solutions improve Bitcoin’s scalability and efficiency while maintaining the security that Bitcoin is known for. In this article, we will explore what Bitcoin L2 projects are, how they work, and their importance for Bitcoin’s future.","Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions are built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, designed to address scalability by offloading transactions from the main network (Layer 1). This allows faster and cheaper transactions without compromising the Bitcoin Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism that secures the network.","The primary goal of Bitcoin L2 scalability solutions is to increase Bitcoin’s transaction throughput and reduce fees while preserving its decentralization and security. Bitcoin L2 projects are essential for making Bitcoin more practical for everyday transactions, especially as the demand for blockchain technology grows.","Several Bitcoin Layer 2 projects stand out as critical players in the effort to scale Bitcoin:","Bitcoin Lightning Network: This is perhaps the most well-known Bitcoin Layer 2 solution. The Lightning Network enables near-instant micropayments with very low fees. It works by opening payment channels between users, allowing them to make multiple off-chain transactions before settling the final balance on the Bitcoin blockchain.","RSK (Rootstock): RSK is a Bitcoin Layer 2 project that enables smart contract functionality for Bitcoin. By adding the ability to execute complex smart contracts, RSK allows Bitcoin L2 DeFi integration, opening up new opportunities for decentralized finance on Bitcoin.","Stacks: Stacks is another key Bitcoin L2 protocol that brings smart contracts and decentralized apps (dApps) to Bitcoin. It allows developers to build on Bitcoin without changing its core protocol, expanding Bitcoin’s capabilities.","Hemi: Hemi is a modular Layer 2 protocol that combines the security of Bitcoin with the programmability of Ethereum. It enables scalable, low-latency cross-chain interactions by leveraging Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus model. Hemi supports decentralized finance (DeFi) and smart contract functionality, making it a powerful solution for projects that need both Bitcoin’s security and Ethereum’s flexibility.","These projects illustrate the diversity of approaches in Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions, each offering unique advantages for different use cases, from micropayments to decentralized finance.","Layer 2 technology for Bitcoin typically operates through two main mechanisms: state channels and sidechains.","State Channels: Solutions like the Bitcoin Lightning Network use state channels to process transactions off-chain. Users can open a payment channel, conduct multiple transactions off-chain, and then close the channel with a single transaction on the main Bitcoin blockchain. This approach significantly reduces the load on the Bitcoin network and allows for instant transactions.","Sidechains: Projects like RSK and Liquid Network operate as sidechains. Sidechains are independent blockchains that run in parallel to Bitcoin and periodically communicate with the main network. This enables faster processing of transactions without overloading Bitcoin’s Layer 1.","Comparing Bitcoin Layer 2 vs Ethereum Layer 2, we see that while Ethereum focuses on adding programmability and smart contracts, Bitcoin L2 projects focus on simplifying and securing transactions. This makes Bitcoin a reliable foundation for Layer 2 innovation, where security is paramount.","A major benefit of Bitcoin L2 projects is that they maintain Bitcoin’s security guarantees while improving transaction efficiency. Transactions processed on Bitcoin Layer 2 are still anchored to Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work consensus, ensuring they are secure and resistant to attacks.","While Ethereum Layer 2 solutions are often more flexible, they have been vulnerable to frequent attacks and hacks. Bitcoin Layer 2 protocols, on the other hand, offer fewer attack vectors by maintaining Bitcoin’s core security principles, providing a safer environment for transactions.","Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions are becoming an essential part of the DeFi ecosystem. Bitcoin L2 DeFi integration allows users to leverage Bitcoin in decentralized financial applications, expanding its use beyond a store of value or a medium of exchange.","Through Bitcoin L2 projects like RSK, users can provide liquidity, borrow against their Bitcoin, and earn yield, all without leaving the Bitcoin network. This opens up new financial opportunities, bringing Bitcoin into the DeFi market in a way that wasn’t previously possible.","For instance, AI-powered DEX services could use Layer 2 infrastructure to automate trading strategies, making it easier for traders to optimize their portfolios and maximize yield. This adds value to the Bitcoin L2 ecosystem by reducing the complexities of DeFi participation.","Cross-chain interoperability is another important aspect of Bitcoin L2 projects. With Bitcoin Layer 2 bridges, assets can move securely between Bitcoin and other blockchain networks, such as Ethereum, without the risks typically associated with centralized bridges.","By enabling cross-chain interoperability with Bitcoin L2, users can take advantage of liquidity and trading opportunities across multiple networks, all while maintaining the security provided by Bitcoin’s underlying blockchain.","The future of Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions looks promising. As Bitcoin L2 projects continue to evolve, they will play a critical role in scaling Bitcoin for wider adoption. These projects provide the foundation for faster, cheaper transactions, seamless DeFi integration, and secure cross-chain transfers, all while preserving Bitcoin’s unmatched security.","By focusing on scalability and security, Bitcoin Layer 2 is positioned to lead the next phase of blockchain innovation, helping Bitcoin remain a dominant force in the growing digital economy.","Bitcoin Layer 2 projects are essential for addressing Bitcoin’s scalability challenges and expanding its capabilities. By leveraging Layer 2 technology for Bitcoin, these solutions provide faster, cheaper, and more secure transactions, opening up new possibilities in DeFi and cross-chain interoperability.","As more Bitcoin L2 scalability solutions emerge, they will continue to enhance Bitcoin’s role in decentralized finance, secure asset transfers, and efficient transaction processing, ensuring Bitcoin’s relevance in the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency landscape.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-are-bitcoin-l2-projects"},"/blog/satoshi-stories-handling-bitcoins-legality":{"version":1,"title":"Satoshi Stories: Handling Bitcoin's Legality - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Satoshi Stories: Handling Bitcoin's Legality"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["About the Series","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 24, 2024","Bitcoin OG Jeff Garzik talks about how Satoshi thought about Bitcoin.","In this video, Jeff Garzik discusses the legal questions surrounding Bitcoin in its early days, especially before the first Bitcoin Senate hearings in March 2013. At that time, there was uncertainty over whether creating Bitcoin violated laws like the Stamp Act, since it involved creating a form of money out of thin air.","Jeff explains that one of the key differences in the U.S. legal system is that, unlike countries like China or Russia, U.S. law does not require the exclusive use of the national currency. This allowed some room for private currencies, like Bitcoin, to emerge legally.","Jeff reflects on the historical precedent of private banks issuing their own money in the U.S. during the 1800s, some of which were successful while others failed. This history gave Bitcoin developers some confidence, but there was still uncertainty about whether they could be held liable for the use of Bitcoin in illicit transactions they had no control over.","Even today, in 2024, there are ongoing legal debates about the liability of software developers in cases like Tornado Cash. He also touches on the evolving regulatory landscape, noting that back in 2010, developers didn’t know if Bitcoin would be classified as a security, commodity, or currency.","Different countries took varying approaches, with Japan leading the way by regulating Bitcoin as a currency, while countries like China and Russia either banned or heavily restricted its use. Despite this, Bitcoin’s underground use continues in many of these regions.","Satoshi Stories is a fascinating deep dive into the history of Bitcoin told by Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik. Jeff was there at the beginning of Bitcoin’s rise and eventual domination of the cryptocurrency world and his experience working with Satoshi in those early years offers important and fascinating insights into the technology.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/satoshi-stories-handling-bitcoins-legality"},"/blog/hemi-and-layerbank-collaborate-to-deliver-leading-lending-protocol-to-hemis-defi-ecosystem":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and LayerBank Collaborate to Deliver Leading Lending Protocol to Hemi’s DeFi Ecosystem - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and LayerBank Collaborate to Deliver Leading Lending Protocol to Hemi’s DeFi Ecosystem"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["LayerBank’s TVL Lending Platform","Cross-chain Lending and Incentivized Pools","Strengthening Hemi’s Lending and Borrowing Ecosystem","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 24, 2024","Hemi and Layerbank will collaborate to provide users with an industry-leading platform for lending and borrowing Hemi-based assets.","TL;DR: Hemi Network is teaming up with LayerBank, the 8th largest lending protocol on DeFiLlama, with $750M in Total Value Locked (TVL). LayerBank is bringing its lending and borrowing platform to Hemi, supporting a variety of Hemi-based assets, including Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) and Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs). Plus, they’ll be incentivizing lending pools through their points system.","LayerBank, the 8th largest lending protocol by Total Value Locked (TVL) on DeFiLlama, is joining the Hemi Network! With $750M in TVL, LayerBank’s integration into Hemi will provide users with an industry-leading platform for lending and borrowing Hemi-based assets, including a variety of Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) and Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs).","Hemi and LayerBank are also offering the largest multiplier of L.Points, offering 3 times the number of points for Hemi users. Further, all LSTs/LRTs will also provide their points on the Hemi LayerBank collaboration.","As one of the top lending protocols in the DeFi space, LayerBank has a reputation for secure, scalable, and high-liquidity lending markets. By integrating with Hemi, LayerBank will enable users to lend and borrow major Hemi-based assets, supporting the ecosystem’s growing demand for reliable lending services across multiple asset types.","LayerBank’s platform will offer users access to a wide array of Hemi-native assets, along with deep liquidity in LSTs and LRTs, which have become key financial instruments in the decentralized finance world.","Layerbank is implementing a solution to fragmented liquidity through cross chain lending in Q1 of 2024. The cross-chain lending solution will not only unify the extensive multi-chain money market, but it will also allow users to seamlessly select the best APR to lend and borrow without the limitations of the underlying network.","To further enhance the user experience, LayerBank will introduce incentivized lending and borrowing pools. These pools will be tied to LayerBank’s points system, where users can earn points for participation in the protocol’s lending and borrowing activities.","By integrating with Hemi, LayerBank will offer its cutting-edge lending protocol to Hemi’s rapidly expanding DeFi ecosystem. With the ability to support Hemi-based assets, LSTs, and LRTs, LayerBank will drive liquidity and deepen Hemi’s role in the decentralized finance space. The addition of a lending market like LayerBank will provide a yield source for many DeFi applications.","With LayerBank’s robust feature set, Hemi users will have access to highly secure and incentivized lending pools, ensuring a seamless and rewarding experience across the platform.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-layerbank-collaborate-to-deliver-leading-lending-protocol-to-hemis-defi-ecosystem"},"/blog/hemi-and-the-future-of-defi-a-source-of-ai-powered-innovation":{"version":1,"title":"​​Hemi and the Future of DeFi: A Source of AI-Powered Innovation - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["​​Hemi and the Future of DeFi: A Source of AI-Powered Innovation"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Hemi's Advantage for AI-Driven DEX Tools","AI in DeFi with Hemi","Hemi's Role in Enabling AI Innovation","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 25, 2024","Bitcoin","Bitcoin L2","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","AI isn't just a buzzword when it comes to DeFi.","As DeFi continues to evolve, Hemi stands out as a robust Layer 2 solution, combining Ethereum's programmability with the security of Bitcoin. Hemi is designed to power the next wave of AI-driven trading tools and services, tailored for DeFi platforms. Its infrastructure offers more flexibility at a lower cost.","DeFi markets, with their open infrastructure, democratize yield opportunities by enabling anyone to create liquidity pairs and participate in trading. This innovation, however, is built on a complex foundation that can be intimidating, especially for new users.","AI integration offers a way to simplify DeFi market participation by abstracting its complexities. However, developers face challenges in integrating AI with Layer 1 networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Issues like high gas fees, the limitations of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), and Bitcoin’s scripting constraints, alongside network congestion, result in suboptimal latency—critical for real-time data that AI needs to function effectively.","Hemi provides an ideal environment for developers. As a fully EVM-compatible network, applications built in Solidity, such as UniSwap, can be easily ported over. If a UniSwap fork launched on Hemi, users could access yield opportunities backed by Bitcoin, utilizing Hemi’s BTC-in, BTC-out decentralized tunnel.","For traders, Hemi offers low-latency infrastructure, predictable gas fees, and scalable architecture to handle network congestion. This makes it a perfect platform for deploying advanced AI-powered smart contracts and integrating off-chain AI models, which often depend on oracles for optimized operations.","AI-powered DEX services have the potential to enhance how portfolios are built and managed, making it easier to take advantage of market conditions to maximize yield. By simplifying the complex DeFi landscape, AI can help minimize impermanent loss, optimize liquidity allocation, and improve capital efficiency. These services can automate trading strategies, provide deeper market insights, and simplify asset management. On Hemi, such tools will be more user-friendly than on traditional Layer 1 networks.","Imagine using AI to analyze historical market data and forecast trends, helping traders adjust strategies without needing to constantly analyze charts. These AI-driven tools could enhance profitability by allowing traders to adjust parameters based on personal goals, such as desired earnings or risk tolerance.","Beyond trading, AI can streamline capital deployment in DeFi markets, improving yield generation. Liquidity providers can use AI-driven insights to adjust liquidity pools based on asset price changes, reducing the impact of fluctuations. This careful management helps avoid impermanent losses, ensuring profitability even as market conditions shift.","AI tools can dynamically allocate resources to active markets, maximizing profits as conditions change. By continuously monitoring for price shifts and adjusting liquidity limits in response, AI can help ensure capital remains deployed in areas with the highest trading activity, optimizing fee-based returns.","Hemi facilitates these innovations by fully supporting EVM functionality while providing greater computational capacity and scalability. It benefits from Bitcoin’s decentralized security and offers more efficient transaction processing, resulting in a more predictable and cost-effective fee model.","To learn more about how Hemi facilitates AI integrations, read the whitepaper and the relevant documentation or stop by the team's Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-the-future-of-defi-a-source-of-ai-powered-innovation"},"/blog/satoshi-stories-what-was-satoshi-like":{"version":1,"title":"Satoshi Stories: What Was Satoshi Like? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Satoshi Stories: What Was Satoshi Like?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["About the Series","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 2, 2024","What was it like working with the genius behind bitcoin?","In this video, Core Bitcoin Developer Jeff Garzik shares his reflections on early interactions with Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, focusing on how Satoshi managed to maintain complete anonymity. According to Jeff, Satoshi was always willing to explain details about Bitcoin, remaining patient and welcoming to newcomers. However, Satoshi was extremely careful never to reveal anything personal.","Conversations were solely focused on Bitcoin, with no mention of his daily life, background, or even his mood. Jeff describes Satoshi’s ability to protect his identity as nearly perfect, especially when he vanished from the scene in 2011, leaving no data trail. He notes that many have tried to analyze Satoshi's language patterns, posting habits, and spelling differences to unmask him, but nothing concrete has emerged. Jeff compares Satoshi to an avatar or screen name, noting that in the open-source community, personal identity doesn't matter—it's all about the ideas.","This purity of interaction allowed Satoshi to keep the focus on Bitcoin, creating a mysterious, yet highly effective presence in the development of the project.","Satoshi Stories is a fascinating deep dive into the history of Bitcoin told by Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik. Jeff was there at the beginning of Bitcoin’s rise and eventual domination of the cryptocurrency world and his experience working with Satoshi in those early years offers important and fascinating insights into the technology.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/satoshi-stories-what-was-satoshi-like"},"/blog/sushi-is-expanding-to-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Sushi Is Expanding to Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Sushi Is Expanding to Hemi"],"h2":["Sushi x Hemi: Advanced DeFi from Day One","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 2, 2024","The Sushi DEX is joining Hemi for mainnet launch.","TL;DR: The most multi-chain DEX is adding one more: Sushi is collaborating with Hemi to make its decentralized exchange (DEX) available for Hemi’s mainnet launch in Q4-2024.","Sushi is expanding to the Hemi Network, bringing its decentralized exchange (DEX) capabilities to Hemi's integrated Bitcoin+Ethereum ecosystem.","This deployment will enable Hemi users to engage in liquidity provisioning and swaps with assets from both Bitcoin and Ethereum.","As an L2 equally at home on Bitcoin and Ethereum, Hemi provides users with secure, easy access to assets from both ecosystems. The integration of modern DeFi applications like Sushi strengthens Hemi’s position as a hub between the world’s two largest blockchains.","Hemi will allow users to access Sushi’s features easily and securely, with Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof providing Bitcoin finality for every transaction.","Sushi’s integration with Hemi will enable users to perform a wide range of decentralized financial operations from day one:","Swaps: Trade assets efficiently using Sushi’s advanced DEX technology, including their V3 AMM, which optimizes liquidity through capital-efficient concentrated liquidity pools.","Liquidity Provisioning: Provide liquidity and earn fees directly on Hemi’s decentralized network.","Added Utility: Use Sushi’s LP tokens as collateral on other Hemi dApps, increasing the utility of your assets.","Permissionless Pool Creation: Create trading pairs for any asset, with the ability to add custom incentives to pools.","By launching alongside Hemi’s mainnet launch in Q4-2024, Sushi will provide users with secure access to liquidity and advanced trading strategies for assets across the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/sushi-is-expanding-to-hemi"},"/blog/enhancing-bitcoin-security-what-is-superfinality-2":{"version":1,"title":"Enhancing Bitcoin Security: What Is Superfinality? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Enhancing Bitcoin Security: What Is Superfinality?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Bitcoin's Existing Security and Its Limitations","What Is Superfinality?","How Superfinality Works in the Hemi Network","Why Superfinality Matters","Superfinality and Hemi’s Role in Cross-Chain Security","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 7, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Pop","Pos","Pow","Security","Hemi's superfinality helps build better DeFi and DEXs.","TL;DR:","Unlike standard Bitcoin finality, which can be subject to rare chain reorganizations, superfinality makes transactions immutable and secure, providing added trust for cross-chain applications like decentralized finance (DeFi) and decentralized exchanges (DEXs). By leveraging Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Hemi’s architecture, superfinality locks in transaction security, making it ideal for high-value and cross-chain financial operations.","Security remains a top priority in crypto, especially when it comes to transactions involving high-value assets. Bitcoin, with its robust Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism, is regarded as one of the most secure blockchains. However, the need for enhanced security in cross-chain and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications has driven new innovations that build on Bitcoin’s already strong foundation. One such innovation is superfinality, a concept introduced by the Hemi Network. Superfinality aims to further protect transactions from risks like chain reorganizations and double-spending, making cross-chain transactions more reliable and secure.","But what exactly is superfinality, and how does it work within the context of the Hemi Network?","Bitcoin’s PoW model provides a high degree of security through its decentralized network of miners who validate transactions and secure the blockchain against attacks. Transactions on Bitcoin are generally considered final after a certain number of block confirmations (typically 6), meaning that the transaction has been included in the blockchain and is very difficult to reverse. However, in certain cases, a “reorg” can occur, where the blockchain forks, leading to a rollback of transactions that were previously considered confirmed.","This potential for rollback is a risk for high-value transactions and cross-chain operations. In decentralized applications, particularly those that involve assets moving between blockchains, even a slight rollback can create significant financial risk. This is where superfinality comes in, enhancing the security model of Bitcoin.","Superfinality, as introduced by the Hemi Network, is a mechanism that goes beyond standard Bitcoin finality to ensure that once a transaction is confirmed, it is irrevocable. This extra layer of security is designed specifically for cross-chain applications, where transactions span multiple blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum, making immutability even more critical.","Unlike Bitcoin’s typical finality, which can theoretically be reversed in rare cases of chain reorganization, superfinality ensures that once a transaction reaches a certain point, it is immune to such disruptions. This is particularly valuable for financial applications, decentralized exchanges (DEXs), and cross-chain swaps, where the potential for rollback could undermine trust and lead to financial loss.","Superfinality in Hemi leverages Bitcoin’s PoW security model but enhances it by creating a state where transactions cannot be reorganized or undone once they are finalized. Instead of relying on the standard number of block confirmations, Hemi integrates Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism with its own architecture to guarantee that transactions are locked into the blockchain after a certain number of confirmations—usually six or more.","Here’s how superfinality works in practice:","Transaction Finalization: When a transaction occurs, it is first validated and confirmed on Bitcoin’s blockchain using its standard PoW process. Once the transaction has been confirmed by six blocks, it is considered final in most contexts.","Superfinality Confirmation: After reaching the superfinality threshold, the transaction becomes effectively irreversible. At this stage, a reorganization of the blockchain that would alter or reverse the transaction becomes nearly impossible without a 51% attack on Bitcoin itself, which is economically and computationally infeasible.","Cross-Chain Security: For cross-chain applications, superfinality ensures that when Bitcoin assets are moved to another blockchain, such as Ethereum through Hemi’s tunneling technology, those transactions are not vulnerable to rollback or fraud. This is essential for building trustless, secure cross-chain financial platforms.","Superfinality addresses one of the key concerns in decentralized finance (DeFi) and cross-chain applications: the risk of chain reorganizations. This added level of security is especially important in the following contexts:","Cross-Chain Transactions: Moving assets between blockchains requires trust that once assets are transferred, they cannot be returned or double-spent. Superfinality guarantees that assets transferred via Hemi’s tunnels are secure and immutable.","High-Value Transactions: For financial applications involving large sums of money, the potential for even a slight rollback can pose a significant risk. Superfinality mitigates this risk by ensuring that transactions are final and irreversible.","Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): Superfinality adds confidence to governance decisions and fund transfers in DAOs, where blockchain-based votes and financial actions require the highest level of security.","Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs): In DEX environments where assets are swapped across different blockchains, superfinality provides an additional safeguard, ensuring that once trades are executed, they cannot be reversed.","The Hemi Network’s architecture is specifically designed to bridge the gap between Bitcoin’s security and Ethereum’s programmability. By integrating Bitcoin’s PoW model into its ecosystem, Hemi enables seamless cross-chain interactions while preserving the trust and security of Bitcoin.","Superfinality enhances this setup by ensuring that cross-chain transactions involving Bitcoin are irreversible after reaching a certain level of confirmation. This makes Hemi an ideal platform for DeFi applications that need the combined strengths of Bitcoin’s security and Ethereum’s flexible smart contracts.","By adding superfinality to the mix, Hemi provides developers and users with the confidence that their cross-chain transactions are not only fast and efficient but also final and secure.","Superfinality is a powerful tool for enhancing Bitcoin’s already robust security, especially in the context of cross-chain decentralized finance. As DeFi and blockchain applications grow more complex and interconnected, mechanisms like superfinality are essential for ensuring that transactions remain secure and trustworthy across different chains.","The Hemi Network’s adoption of superfinality marks an important step forward in securing decentralized applications, providing developers with the assurance that their applications can handle high-value and complex transactions without the risk of reorganization or rollback.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/enhancing-bitcoin-security-what-is-superfinality-2"},"/blog/hemi-sepolia-tunneling-and-points-open-season-testing-finale":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Sepolia Tunneling and Points: “Open Season” Testing Finale - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Sepolia Tunneling and Points: “Open Season” Testing Finale"],"h2":["Online Citizenship","Program Planning and Next Steps","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 4, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Testnet","We are ending testnet incentives for tunneling from Sepolia to Hemi starting Monday, October 7.","TL;DR: In the interests of good online citizenship, we are ending testnet incentives for tunneling from Sepolia to Hemi starting Monday, October 7. To perform one final more extreme load test before we move incentives to on-L2 activity, everyone can earn up to 25K points if they do 25 tunneling transactions (1k points/tx) on Sunday, October 6th. The asset size or type of the tunneling transaction does not matter.","Recently, we’ve seen an explosion in tunneling activity from Sepolia to Hemi as part of our incentivized testnet program. Tunnel transactions are currently consuming over 60% of all gas on Sepolia and have resulted in fees increasing by 20-50x to levels several times higher than ever before on Sepolia. Over the past 14 days, users have spent over 103K sepETH in tunneling fees.","This has been a fantastic pressure test on Hemi’s ETH tunneling system. The protocol’s tunneling mechanism handled this load well, and we’ve discovered an edge case in gas limit estimation from ETH L1 nodes which requires us to implement a UI workaround to ensure proper operation during times of high load once we go to mainnet.","We understand that this extreme load on the Sepolia network has interrupted others’ use of the network for testing their own applications. We want to minimize this negative impact while ensuring we adequately test our protocol.","As there is limited additional benefit in continuing this load test as-is, we are modifying our incentives to create one final day of even more extreme load testing. Afterwards, we will move our incentives to load-testing our L2 directly. By Monday, we expect Sepolia to return to normal operation for the rest of the community.","During the load-testing “Open Season” day starting on Sunday, October 6th at 12:01am UTC, anyone will be able to earn points for up to 25 tunneling transactions (1K points per tx) before all tunneling incentives end at 11:59pm UTC. Each tunneling transaction will receive 1K points regardless of the size or type of asset tunneled; you can tunnel any amount of sepETH, USDT, USDC, or DAI.","At maximum, tunneling transactions will grow by ~40% during this day, meaning the total points awarded for this “Open Season” day will not be significantly higher (and may actually be slightly lower) than we are currently awarding for tunneling on a daily basis, but each individual user has the opportunity to earn up to ~6 days worth of tunneling points if they are able to push the maximum number of tunneling transactions through, and they no longer have to acquire specific amounts of different assets like before.","We greatly appreciate everyone who has participated so far, and look forward to migrating to incentivizing load on our L2 directly in the near future.","[Edit: 2024-10-04-0936 ET -- Further clarity in subhead.]","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-sepolia-tunneling-and-points-open-season-testing-finale"},"/blog/exploring-bitcoin-layer-2-enhancing-scalability-and-efficiency":{"version":1,"title":"Exploring Bitcoin Layer 2: Enhancing Scalability and Efficiency - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Exploring Bitcoin Layer 2: Enhancing Scalability and Efficiency"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["What is Bitcoin Layer 2?","Types of Bitcoin Layer 2 Solutions","Advantages of Bitcoin Layer 2","Bitcoin Layer 2 vs. Ethereum Layer 2","Challenges Facing Bitcoin Layer 2","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":["Lightning Network","Sidechains","Rollups"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 8, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi is one of the newest and most powerful Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions. But how do Bitcoin L2s work?","Bitcoin's original design prioritizes security and decentralization, which has led to scalability limitations. This issue has become more pressing with increased adoption, as the Bitcoin blockchain can only handle about 7 transactions per second (TPS). This results in slow transaction times and high fees. To address these issues, Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions have emerged, offering a way to process transactions more efficiently and support new functionalities like decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).","Bitcoin Layer 2 refers to various protocols built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain that enable faster and cheaper transactions. These solutions process transactions off-chain, reducing the load on Bitcoin’s main network, also known as the Bitcoin mainnet. While Bitcoin’s main layer uses proof of work (PoW) for security, Layer 2 solutions maintain this security while focusing on improving transaction speed and efficiency.","Several Layer 2 solutions are widely used today, each addressing specific needs within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Some key solutions include:","The Lightning Network is one of the most popular Layer-2 solutions for Bitcoin. It works by creating state channelsbetween users, allowing them to process multiple transactions without recording each on the Bitcoin blockchain. This results in much faster transaction times and lower fees, ideal for micropayments. Only the final balance is settled on-chain, making it highly efficient.","Lightning Network has gained attention for its ability to process up to 1 million TPS, compared to Bitcoin’s base layer, which handles only 7-10 TPS. This increase in transaction efficiency enables users to send Bitcoin instantly and at a fraction of the usual cost.","Another key player in Bitcoin Layer 2 is sidechains, such as the Liquid Network. Sidechains operate independently but are pegged to the Bitcoin blockchain, allowing assets to be transferred between chains. Sidechains introduce features like smart contracts and confidential transactions, making them useful for DeFi applications. While sidechains offer scalability and new functionalities, they also present some centralization risks due to their governance structures.","Rollups bundle multiple transactions into a single transaction, reducing fees and increasing scalability. Rollups use cryptographic proofs to ensure the integrity of these bundled transactions when settling on the Bitcoin mainnet. Rollups are still in the experimental phase for Bitcoin, but their potential to boost transaction throughput by 100 times is promising.","Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions provide several key benefits:","Improved scalability: By processing transactions off-chain, these solutions significantly increase Bitcoin’s TPS, enabling it to handle large amounts of transaction data.","Reduced transaction fees: Layer 2 reduces fees by minimizing on-chain interactions, making it more practical for everyday transactions, including micropayments.","Smart contract support: Solutions like Rootstock (RSK) enable Bitcoin to support decentralized applications (dApps) and DeFi systems, previously only available on blockchains like Ethereum.","Security and decentralization: Although Layer 2 solutions operate off-chain, they still rely on Bitcoin’s main network for final settlement, ensuring that security is not compromised.","While both Bitcoin and Ethereum use Layer 2 to improve transaction efficiency, there are distinct differences. Ethereum’s Layer 2s, such as Arbitrum and Optimism, focus heavily on scaling smart contracts. Bitcoin, however, has historically been more limited in this area, focusing on enhancing transaction speed and costs with solutions like the Lightning Network.","That said, solutions like Rootstock and Stacks are pushing Bitcoin towards offering more programmability similar to Ethereum Layer 2s. These projects allow developers to build on Bitcoin, introducing smart contract functionality and NFT capabilities.","Despite the advantages, Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions face some challenges:","Technical complexity: Layer 2 systems add layers of complexity that may hinder user adoption. Understanding and using Layer 2 can be challenging for average users.","Liquidity issues: Solutions like the Lightning Network require users to lock funds in payment channels, which may reduce liquidity.","Centralization concerns: Some solutions, like sidechains, may introduce centralization risks, as they often rely on smaller groups to manage transactions.","Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions, including the Lightning Network, Liquid Network, and Rollups, are essential in addressing the scalability issues of the Bitcoin blockchain. By offering faster transactions, reduced fees, and the potential for DeFiand NFTs, these solutions expand Bitcoin’s utility beyond a store of value. As more projects develop and improve Layer-2 technologies, Bitcoin’s ecosystem will become more scalable, making it more accessible for everyday use.","Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions are driving the next phase of growth, ensuring that the network can continue to serve as a foundation for decentralized applications, financial services, and more.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/exploring-bitcoin-layer-2-enhancing-scalability-and-efficiency"},"/blog/hemi-network-and-pyth-collaborate-to-enhance-cross-chain-security-and-liquidity":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Network and Pyth Collaborate to Enhance Cross-Chain Security and Liquidity - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Network and Pyth Collaborate to Enhance Cross-Chain Security and Liquidity"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 9, 2024","Bitcoin","Collaboration","Ethereum","Pyth","Hemi Network is collaborating with Pyth to integrate Pyth’s real-time price feeds into Hemi’s Layer 2 ecosystem.","TL;DR: Hemi Network is collaborating with Pyth to integrate Pyth’s real-time price feeds into Hemi’s Layer 2 ecosystem. This collaboration will improve cross-chain security and liquidity, allowing developers to build more efficient decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. By utilizing Pyth’s oracle services, Hemi will offer secure, real-time access to Bitcoin and Ethereum-compatible assets, enhancing interoperability and driving DeFi growth across both platforms.","Hemi is collaborating with Pyth Network to improve liquidity and expand cross-chain opportunities. This strategic collaboration will leverage Pyth's real-time data feeds and Hemi's decentralized architecture to create a seamless, secure bridge for digital assets across multiple ecosystems.","Integrating Pyth Price Feeds into Hemi’s Ecosystem","At the core of this collaboration is the integration of Pyth’s real-time price feeds into Hemi’s infrastructure. This allows Hemi to support secure and efficient cross-chain transactions while delivering up-to-the-second market data to decentralized applications built on the Hemi Network. This includes feeds for Bitcoin-backed assets and various decentralized financial products within Hemi’s Layer 2 ecosystem.","This integration paves the way for developers to build more efficient DeFi products that utilize Pyth’s low-latency price feeds, ensuring secure and timely asset movement across Hemi and other blockchain networks.","Expanding Cross-Chain Liquidity and Incentives","In addition to enhancing security, the collaboration between Hemi and Pyth will unlock new liquidity opportunities for DeFi participants. Pyth’s reliable data feeds will improve market efficiency by providing real-time pricing for Hemi’s assets, such as hBTC, across multiple chains.","To further support liquidity within Hemi’s ecosystem, the collaboration will also introduce incentives for liquidity providers and stakers. By making it easier to access cross-chain assets, Pyth and Hemi are poised to boost Total Value Locked (TVL) across both platforms.","Bridging Traditional and Decentralized Finance","The integration of Pyth’s oracle services with Hemi’s infrastructure represents a significant leap forward in bridging traditional finance and decentralized finance. With access to Pyth’s network of over 100 first-party data providers, Hemi users will benefit from real-world asset price feeds, enhancing the security and efficiency of DeFi applications built on the platform.","By integrating Pyth’s price feeds, Hemi’s cross-chain capabilities will expand further, enabling seamless access to new ecosystems, including Bitcoin and Ethereum-compatible assets. This collaboration is a major step toward enhancing interoperability and liquidity within the DeFi space, and both networks will continue to explore additional collaboration opportunities as they evolve.","As Hemi continues to build out its protocol, this collaboration with Pyth will help drive the development of secure, scalable, and interoperable decentralized financial products for the next generation of blockchain users.","What’s Next?","The Hemi-Pyth collaboration will begin with the deployment of Pyth price feeds on Hemi, with additional updates and assets expected to roll out in the coming months. Developers can look forward to building more sophisticated DeFi products with seamless access to real-time data, improving the user experience across Hemi’s ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-network-and-pyth-collaborate-to-enhance-cross-chain-security-and-liquidity"},"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-portal-to-bitcoin-to-expand-cross-chain-defi-capabilities":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Collaborates with Portal to Bitcoin to Expand Cross-Chain DeFi Capabilities - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Collaborates with Portal to Bitcoin to Expand Cross-Chain DeFi Capabilities"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Portal and Hemi: Strengthening Cross-Chain Functionality","Key Integration Points","Expanding Cross-Chain DeFi Capabilities","A Future of Innovation and Growth","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 8, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Portal","Portal to Bitcoin will enable atomic swap technology on Hemi.","TL;DR: Hemi Network is collaborating with Portal to Bitcoin to enhance cross-chain DeFi services. Portal will integrate its atomic swap technology into Hemi’s infrastructure, enabling non-custodial, trustless asset swaps between Bitcoin and Ethereum-based networks.","Hemi Network is collaborating with Portal to Bitcoin to create a more secure and scalable cross-chain DeFi ecosystem. Portal is known for its fully decentralized, non-custodial platform, which facilitates atomic swaps between multiple blockchains without intermediaries or bridges. Together, Hemi and Portal will enable seamless Bitcoin and Ethereum interoperability, offering new possibilities for decentralized financial services.","At the heart of this collaboration is the integration of Portal’s atomic swap technology with Hemi’s modular architecture. Portal's approach allows users to exchange assets across different blockchains without relying on intermediaries, ensuring greater security and user control. By integrating Portal’s Swaps SDK into Hemi’s infrastructure, wallets and decentralized exchanges (DEXs) built on Hemi will have access to bridgeless cross-chain swaps, allowing for secure asset movement between Bitcoin and Ethereum-based networks.","Hemi Token on Portal’s DEX — Once Hemi’s native token launches, it will be integrated into Portal’s DEX. This will allow users to trade Hemi tokens securely using Portal’s atomic swap technology without the need for a custodian. By supporting Hemi tokens, Portal expands the variety of assets available on its platform while providing a trustless trading environment for Hemi users.","Portal Swaps SDK in Hemi’s Infrastructure — The integration of Portal’s Swaps SDK into Hemi’s ecosystem will enable secure, non-custodial cross-chain transactions. Hemi’s current Bitcoin-to-Ethereum tunnel will be further enhanced by Portal’s technology, bypassing the need for traditional bridges and creating a more secure, decentralized user experience.","This partnership strengthens both platforms’ commitment to improving cross-chain DeFi services. Portal’s atomic swaps and Hemi’s modular blockchain design will allow developers to build decentralized applications (dApps) that offer secure, trustless trading, lending, and borrowing services across multiple blockchains. Users can leverage these tools to engage in decentralized finance with enhanced flexibility and security.","As the DeFi space continues to evolve, this partnership lays the groundwork for a more interconnected, scalable ecosystem that allows for secure, trustless asset transfers between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other blockchains. By combining their unique technologies, Hemi and Portal are setting the stage for the future of DeFi.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-portal-to-bitcoin-to-expand-cross-chain-defi-capabilities"},"/blog/hemi-weekly-featuring-max-sanchez":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Weekly Featuring Max Sanchez - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Weekly Featuring Max Sanchez"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Open Season Testing: A Big Success","Future Tech Demos and HVM Updates","Community Engagement and Partnerships","Key Takeaways:","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 11, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Pop","Pow","October 8, 2024","The Hemi Network just hosted its first weekly AMA, featuring co-founder Max Sanchez, who provided important updates and answered community questions. Here's a quick breakdown of the session:","Max kicked off the AMA with updates from the Open Season testing, where the community participated in over 44,000 tunneling transactions with more than 8,200 unique EOAs. The testing gave valuable insights into Hemi’s infrastructure and revealed areas for improvement, especially around gas fee estimation in the tunneling contract. While Sepolia's gas fees skyrocketed during testing, things have since normalized.","Max also shared that the team is undergoing an infrastructure migration, moving to a more stable hosting provider to better handle the backend traffic. While the current system is still operating at the same capacity, the new infrastructure will soon offer better uptime and scalability.","Exciting news for developers: Hemi is working on some technical updates around the hVM (Hemi Virtual Machine). New tech demos and workshops are on the horizon, giving developers more opportunities to explore the platform’s capabilities.","The POP Miner on the web has faced issues due to API rate limiting from Blockstream, but the team is working on spinning up its own API to resolve this. Until then, Max suggested using the CLI version of the PoP Miner for better performance.","When asked if there would be more open season events, Max confirmed that the team is considering more testing, particularly on L2 tasks and load testing. However, the days of stressing Sepolia for load tests are over—future tests will focus on L2 itself.","The team is keen on working with developers interested in building on Hemi, especially around smart contracts, DeFi, AI, and hVM-related applications. Max emphasized that anyone with a project idea should get in touch, as Hemi is looking to foster technical partnerships that contribute to the ecosystem.","Open Season Testing provided critical insights into gas fee issues and performance under load.","Hemi is migrating to a more stable infrastructure to improve scalability and uptime.","New HVM tech demos and workshops are coming soon, offering hands-on opportunities for developers.","Popminer issues will be resolved with the transition to a new API—until then, the CLI version is recommended.","More open season events are likely, focusing on L2 load testing and scaling.","Stay tuned for more updates from Hemi, and join next week’s AMA on Tuesday. Details to come!","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-weekly-featuring-max-sanchez"},"/blog/satoshi-stories-is-change-important-in-bitcoin":{"version":1,"title":"Satoshi Stories: Is Change Important In Bitcoin? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Satoshi Stories: Is Change Important In Bitcoin?"],"h2":["Key Topics Covered:","About the Series","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 16, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Satoshi Stories","In an ever-changing world, Bitcoin must adapt.","In this video, Jeff Garzik discusses the importance of change within the Bitcoin ecosystem and how it impacts innovation and security. He emphasizes that while change is necessary to keep the system fresh and innovative, especially with developments like the Lightning Network layering on top of Bitcoin, there is a natural tension between embracing change and resisting it.","Jeff explains that Bitcoin's resistance to change provides strong security benefits, protecting the system from external interference and adverse changes. This is important for users who may not interact with their Bitcoin holdings for extended periods but still expect their value to be secure. However, he also acknowledges that resistance to change can hinder the integration of new innovations, security improvements, and necessary fixes.","The video touches on the current debate within the Bitcoin community around introducing new technical features, such as the proposed opcodes, opcat and opctv, which have faced years of difficulty in being adopted. Jeff points out that while some change resistance is positive for security, it’s difficult to know in real time whether resisting or embracing a particular change is the right path for Bitcoin’s future.","The balance between innovation and security in Bitcoin","The importance of change for the evolution of the Bitcoin ecosystem (e.g., the Lightning Network)","The benefits and drawbacks of Bitcoin’s resistance to change","Current debates around technical changes like opcat and opctv","Uncertainty about whether Bitcoin's resistance to change will prove beneficial in the long run","Satoshi Stories is a fascinating deep dive into the history of Bitcoin told by Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik. Jeff was there at the beginning of Bitcoin’s rise and eventual domination of the cryptocurrency world and his experience working with Satoshi in those early years offers important and fascinating insights into the technology.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/satoshi-stories-is-change-important-in-bitcoin"},"/blog/how-the-hemi-virtual-machine-hvm-works":{"version":1,"title":"How the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) Works - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) Works"],"h2":["What Is the hVM?","Accessing Bitcoin Data with hVM","Benefits of hVM over Existing Solutions","Use Cases for hVM","Getting Started","Latest articles"],"h3":["Tiny Bitcoin (TBC) Process","Processed Bitcoin View","How to Use the Precompiles","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 17, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","The hVM is a central part of the Hemi Network. Here's how it works.","The Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) is an extended version of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), equipped with native Bitcoin interoperability. It allows developers to build decentralized applications (dApps) that can access and interact with Bitcoin’s state directly within Ethereum-like environments. By leveraging hVM, developers can bypass limitations of previous Bitcoin interoperability solutions and build a wide range of Bitcoin-aware applications. This guide explains the key features of hVM, how it works, and how developers can use it in their dApps.","At its core, hVM upgrades the EVM by embedding a full, indexed Bitcoin node into the EVM environment. This is achieved through a custom “Tiny Bitcoin” (TBC) process, which synchronizes with the Bitcoin network and feeds data into the Hemi network. This enables all Hemi nodes to share a synchronized view of the Bitcoin state, referred to as the \"Processed Bitcoin View,\" ensuring consistency and reliability across the network.","The TBC process is a critical part of hVM. It connects to the Bitcoin network and syncs with Bitcoin blocks, keeping the network updated in real-time. When a Hemi Sequencer creates a block, they can include new Bitcoin block headers, allowing the Hemi network to maintain an up-to-date and indexed Bitcoin state. The TBC daemon runs directly inside each hVM node, making Bitcoin data accessible via precompiles instead of relying on third-party systems.","The Processed Bitcoin View is a shared state across all Hemi nodes, created when the Hemi network processes Bitcoin blocks at the same Hemi block height. This ensures that all Bitcoin-aware smart contracts on Hemi execute in a deterministic manner, meaning the outcome will always be the same, regardless of which node processes the contract.","The Processed Bitcoin View offers a number of advantages over older Bitcoin-Ethereum interoperability solutions, such as header relay systems. With hVM, developers can access the full Bitcoin state, including UTXOs, balances, and transaction data, without relying on external relayers or validators.","To enable smart contracts to interact with Bitcoin, hVM introduces new precompiles. These are special addresses that smart contracts can call to fetch data from the embedded Bitcoin node. The current set of precompiles, referred to as \"Phase 0,\" includes:","BtcBalAddr (0x40): Fetches the Bitcoin balance of any address in satoshis. Supports various Bitcoin address formats.","BtcUtxosAddrList (0x41): Retrieves the list of Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXOs) for a given address.","BtcTxByTxid (0x42): Returns parts of a Bitcoin transaction based on its TxID.","BtcTxConfirmations (0x43): Fetches the number of confirmations a transaction has received.","BtcLastHeader (0x44): Returns the most recent Bitcoin block header known to hVM.","BtcHeaderN (0x45): Returns the Bitcoin header at a specific block height.","BtcAddrToScript (0x46): Converts a Bitcoin address into its corresponding script format.","These precompiles allow developers to interact with Bitcoin data in their dApps, offering powerful new capabilities for Bitcoin-Ethereum interoperability.","To use hVM directly, developers must call the appropriate precompile address, passing in serialized bytes as parameters. Each precompile call will return serialized bytes that contain the requested data, such as Bitcoin balances, UTXO lists, or transaction details.","While developers can interact with hVM directly, most will prefer to use the Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK), which abstracts much of the complexity involved in working with Bitcoin data on hVM. hBK provides a set of tools and libraries that make it easier to develop Bitcoin-aware dApps without having to manually handle the serialization and precompile calls. However, for advanced users looking to maximize gas efficiency, using hVM directly can reduce overhead and offer more granular control.","hVM overcomes many limitations of previous Bitcoin-Ethereum interoperability systems:","No Relayer System: hVM does not rely on third-party relayers to provide Bitcoin data, removing the need for trust assumptions and external dependencies.","Efficient and Trustless: hVM directly processes Bitcoin blocks, eliminating the need for costly inclusion proofs or zk-SNARKs.","Comprehensive Bitcoin State Access: Developers can access the entire Bitcoin state, including UTXOs, balances, and transaction metadata, enabling a wide range of applications that were previously infeasible.","hVM opens the door to numerous potential applications that leverage Bitcoin’s decentralized network in combination with the flexibility of the EVM:","Non-custodial BTC-ETH exchanges: Seamlessly swap Bitcoin and Ethereum assets without relying on centralized custodians.","Bitcoin MEV (Miner Extractable Value) marketplaces: Create new markets for Bitcoin transaction ordering.","Bitcoin lending markets: Enable decentralized lending and borrowing using Bitcoin as collateral.","Custom Bitcoin smart-wallets: Build wallets with configurable validator sets and enhanced security.","Bitcoin tunnels: Create custom interoperability solutions that allow assets and data to move between Bitcoin and Ethereum networks in a trustless way.","To start developing on hVM, developers can either call precompiles directly or use the Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) for a more streamlined experience. The hBK provides a more user-friendly interface for interacting with Bitcoin data while still leveraging the power of hVM.","Future protocol upgrades will introduce additional features, including support for Bitcoin metaprotocols like Ordinals, BRC-20s, and Runes. These upgrades will further expand the range of dApps that can be built on Hemi, solidifying hVM as the leading platform for Bitcoin-Ethereum interoperability.","hVM represents a breakthrough in Bitcoin interoperability, offering developers a powerful, trustless platform to build Bitcoin-aware dApps. By embedding a full indexed Bitcoin node directly into the EVM, hVM provides a flexible, efficient, and comprehensive solution for accessing Bitcoin data on Ethereum-like networks. Whether you're building non-custodial exchanges, custom wallets, or lending platforms, hVM gives you the tools to bring Bitcoin into the world of smart contracts.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-the-hemi-virtual-machine-hvm-works"},"/blog/how-to-use-the-hemi-bitcoin-kit-hbk":{"version":1,"title":"How to Use the Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How to Use the Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Overview of the Hemi Bitcoin Kit","Key Features of the Hemi Bitcoin Kit","Struct Definitions in hBK","How to Use hBK Functions","Benefits of Using hBK","Use Cases for the Hemi Bitcoin Kit","Getting Started with hBK","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 18, 2024","Ethereum","Hbk","Hemi","Hvm","Pop","Inside the Hemi Bitcoin Kit","The Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) is a powerful tool designed for developers looking to create Bitcoin-aware decentralized applications (dApps) on the Hemi blockchain. The hBK offers an abstraction layer that simplifies the process of interacting with Bitcoin’s blockchain directly from the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM), which embeds a full, indexed Bitcoin node within an Ethereum-like environment.","This guide will walk you through how to use the Hemi Bitcoin Kit to retrieve Bitcoin data, explain the key features of hBK, and explore its use cases.","The hBK is a set of smart contracts that bridges Bitcoin and Ethereum, enabling developers to interact with Bitcoin data as easily as with Ethereum assets. The core idea behind hBK is to abstract away the complexities of low-level Bitcoin-Ethereum interoperability, offering developers a simple interface to access critical Bitcoin information such as balances, Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXOs), transaction details, and block headers.","At the core of hBK’s functionality is the hVM, which embeds a fully synchronized Bitcoin node into the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). This allows dApps to access real-time Bitcoin data through precompiled contracts, without relying on third-party relayers or validators. The latest release of hBK is available on the Hemi testnet.","The hBK provides several utilities for interacting with Bitcoin data directly from smart contracts, leveraging precompiled contracts for efficient and trustless queries. Here are the key features you’ll interact with when using hBK:","Bitcoin Address Balances: Retrieve the Bitcoin balance of any address in satoshis using a smart contract call.","UTXO Set: Access a list of unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) for a given Bitcoin address.","Transaction Details: Query transaction details such as inputs, outputs, and confirmations using the transaction ID.","Block Headers: Retrieve the latest or a specific Bitcoin block header based on height.","These features allow developers to create Bitcoin-aware applications without the complexity of manually interacting with Bitcoin’s blockchain.","To effectively interact with Bitcoin data, hBK provides structured representations of common Bitcoin data elements:","UTXO: Represents an unspent transaction output with details like transaction ID, value, and the public key script.","Transaction: Contains information about a Bitcoin transaction, including inputs, outputs, and the block that contains the transaction.","Input/Output: Represent individual inputs and outputs of a transaction, with details such as the value and script signatures.","BitcoinHeader: Contains metadata about a Bitcoin block, such as its height, hash, and Merkle root.","These structures are essential for working with Bitcoin data, enabling developers to handle transactions and UTXOs efficiently within their dApps.","The hBK makes it easy to query Bitcoin data using smart contracts. Here's how some of the key functions work:","Get Bitcoin Address Balance:function getBitcoinAddressBalance(string calldata btcAddress) public view returns (uint256 balance)Use this to fetch the balance of any Bitcoin address in satoshis. This call accesses the Bitcoin state stored in the hVM and returns the balance directly.","Retrieve UTXOs:function getUTXOsForBitcoinAddress(string calldata btcAddress, uint256 pageNumber, uint256 pageSize) public view returns (UTXO[] memory)This function retrieves UTXOs for a Bitcoin address, allowing developers to work with unspent outputs in their applications.","Get Transaction by ID:function getTransactionByTxId(bytes32 txId) external view returns (Transaction memory)Fetches detailed information about a specific Bitcoin transaction, including inputs and outputs.","Get Block Header:function getLastHeader() public view returns (BitcoinHeader memory)Retrieves the latest Bitcoin block header, providing the most recent snapshot of the Bitcoin blockchain.","These functions are vital for building dApps that interact with Bitcoin's state, whether for tracking balances, building wallets, or managing UTXO-based systems.","The Hemi Bitcoin Kit offers several advantages over existing Bitcoin-Ethereum interoperability solutions:","Ease of Development: With hBK, accessing Bitcoin data is as simple as making a smart contract call. There’s no need to design complex contracts that handle relayed data.","Rich Data Access: hBK provides access to Bitcoin’s UTXOs, balances, and transaction details, data that would be impractical or impossible to retrieve using other methods.","Security and Reliability: Since hBK operates natively within the Hemi blockchain, dApps can access real-time Bitcoin data without relying on third-party relayers or trusted oracles.","Composability: Developers can design new layers of Bitcoin-Ethereum DeFi infrastructure, enabling others to build on top of their work seamlessly.","Cost-Effectiveness: hBK’s approach eliminates the need for costly gas-intensive proofs or third-party services, making it more efficient to develop and run Bitcoin-aware dApps.","The possibilities for using hBK are vast. Some of the most promising use cases include:","Custom Bitcoin Tunnels: Developers can create bespoke solutions for moving assets and data between Bitcoin and Ethereum in a trustless manner.","Trustless BTC Staking: By integrating Bitcoin into DeFi applications, developers can unlock new opportunities for BTC holders to earn yield.","Cross-Chain DAOs: Hemi DAOs can operate across both Bitcoin and Ethereum, allowing stakeholders from both communities to participate in governance.","Bitcoin MEV Marketplaces: Create new markets for Bitcoin transaction ordering, leveraging hVM's direct access to Bitcoin’s transaction data.","To begin building with hBK, developers can use the smart contract interfaces provided, or they can interact with the hVM precompiles directly for more advanced control. The Hemi Bitcoin Kit abstracts much of the complexity, making it easier for developers to focus on the features of their dApps rather than dealing with the intricacies of Bitcoin’s blockchain.","As future protocol upgrades are rolled out, including support for Bitcoin metaprotocols like Ordinals, BRC-20s, and Runes, the range of dApps that can be built on Hemi will expand further. This positions hBK as the go-to toolkit for developing sophisticated cross-chain applications.","By simplifying access to Bitcoin data, hBK enables developers to create innovative applications that leverage the strengths of both blockchains. Whether you’re building custom Bitcoin tunnels, DeFi platforms, or multichain DAOs, hBK offers the tools to bring your ideas to life.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-to-use-the-hemi-bitcoin-kit-hbk"},"/blog/single-slot-finality-reducing-ethereums-time-to-finality":{"version":1,"title":"Single-Slot Finality: Reducing Ethereum's Time to Finality - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Single-Slot Finality: Reducing Ethereum's Time to Finality"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":["Trade-offs Between Decentralization, Processing Power, and Time to Finality","How SSF Could Work","Challenges to Implementing SSF"],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 22, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Pop","Pos","Pow","What is single-slot finality? A new, faster way to finalize on the Ethereum network.","Finalizing an Ethereum block currently takes around 15 minutes. However, there are ways to improve the consensus mechanism so that blocks can be finalized much faster. One potential improvement is called single-slot finality (SSF), where a block is both proposed and finalized in the same slot, reducing the time to finality significantly.","In Ethereum’s proof-of-stake system, finality means that once a block is confirmed, it cannot be altered or removed from the blockchain unless at least 33% of the total staked ETH is lost. This concept ensures strong economic security, as the cost of changing the blockchain becomes prohibitively expensive for any rational actor to attempt.","The current 15-minute time frame for finality is considered too long by many users. Waiting for this period is inconvenient for decentralized applications and exchanges that require high transaction throughput. Furthermore, this delay creates a window for attacks, such as short reorgs, which could enable malicious actors to censor blocks or extract Miner Extractable Value (MEV). Moreover, the complexity of the finalization process increases the risk of security vulnerabilities. By reducing the time to finality to a single slot, many of these issues can be addressed.","Finality in Ethereum isn’t instantaneous because it requires at least 2/3 of validators to vote for a block, a process called \"attestation.\" Validators must process these votes before confirming a block. Speeding up this process demands more computing resources from each node. The more validators on the network, the more attestations need to be processed, further increasing the computational burden.","Thus, there is a balance to be struck between computational power, the number of validators (decentralization), and the time required to finalize a block. Ethereum’s current design balances these factors by setting a stake minimum of 32 ETH, which limits the number of validators and ensures that blocks can finalize in approximately 15 minutes. To speed up finality, either the number of validators must decrease, or each node must use more powerful hardware. However, new methods of processing attestations more efficiently are being explored, which could allow for finality within a single slot.","Recent advancements, such as improvements in BLS signature aggregation, have shown that processing a large number of validators in a single slot is more feasible than originally thought. For example, nodes may soon be able to handle millions of validators without overwhelming computational resources. In a system with one million validators, and each validator attesting twice per slot, the hardware could handle 125,000 signature verifications per second. This capability could make single-slot finality a reality.","Additionally, the concept of supercommittees—smaller groups of randomly selected validators—could allow only a subset of validators to vote on a block in each slot, making it easier to finalize blocks faster. While this raises questions about potential attacks on these smaller groups, the community is exploring ways to set the cost of an attack high enough to deter such behavior.","In the current consensus model, the fork-choice rule determines which chain to follow in case of multiple chain options. In an SSF system, blocks would finalize in the same slot they are proposed, leaving no space for the fork-choice rule to operate. In cases where finality is not achieved (due to an insufficient number of attestations), the fork-choice rule would still be needed to resolve disputes. Maintaining some flexibility here could help protect the network against validator downtime or other issues.","Achieving single-slot finality is not without its challenges. One major issue is scaling signature aggregation without overloading the peer-to-peer network. Additional layers of aggregation could help, but they also add complexity and latency. Another challenge is determining how to handle cases where the number of active validators exceeds the capacity for efficient processing in a single slot.","One possible solution is to consolidate stakes, allowing operators managing multiple validators to merge their resources, reducing the overall number of messages. Alternatively, placing a cap on the number of validators or the amount of staked ETH might be necessary, though this would introduce its own challenges in terms of fairness and participation.","Single-slot finality represents an exciting possibility for Ethereum’s future, promising much faster transaction finalization. While there are trade-offs to consider, such as computing power and network complexity, recent advancements suggest that achieving SSF is becoming more realistic. By finding a balance between decentralization, computational efficiency, and speed, Ethereum could significantly enhance its performance, creating a more user-friendly and secure network.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/single-slot-finality-reducing-ethereums-time-to-finality"},"/blog/lorenzo-protocol-will-collaborate-with-hemi-to-expand-cross-chain-opportunities":{"version":1,"title":"Lorenzo Protocol Will Collaborate With Hemi To Expand Cross-Chain Opportunities - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Lorenzo Protocol Will Collaborate With Hemi To Expand Cross-Chain Opportunities"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Deploying Lorenzo’s stBTC Bridge on Hemi","Boosting Liquidity and Providing Incentives","Minting stBTC Using hBTC on Hemi","Expanding Cross-Chain DeFi","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 23, 2024","Lorenzo’s stBTC integration with Hemi enhances liquidity, offers new incentives, and enables seamless Bitcoin-backed asset transfers across chains.","TL;DR: Lorenzo Protocol is collaborating with the Hemi Network to expand cross-chain opportunities and boost liquidity in Hemi’s DeFi ecosystem. This collaboration will integrate Lorenzo’s stBTC into Hemi’s infrastructure, providing incentives, liquidity, and, eventually, seamless minting of stBTC via hBTC.","Hemi is collaborating with Lorenzo Protocol — the first Bitcoin liquidity finance layer on Bitcoin. This collaboration represents a significant leap forward in integrating secure Bitcoin-backed assets across multiple chains and scaling decentralized finance within Hemi's growing ecosystem.","At the heart of our collaboration is the deployment of Lorenzo’s stBTC bridge on Hemi, which means that users will be able to seamlessly move stBTC across Hemi’s Layer 2 ecosystem. This integration will ensure that the growing community of stBTC users can take full advantage of secure, Bitcoin-backed assets across Hemi, unlocking new yield opportunities and providing deeper liquidity to both networks.","By supporting stBTC within Hemi, Lorenzo is enabling secure, trustless transfers between Bitcoin and Ethereum-compatible assets, driving cross-chain interoperability and accelerating DeFi growth across both ecosystems.","Lorenzo Protocol will further support Hemi’s DeFi ecosystem by injecting liquidity into Hemi, offering generous incentives to users who engage with stBTC and other assets on the network. This liquidity infusion will be a critical step in bootstrapping Hemi’s growing user base and offering enhanced yield opportunities for participants.","With incentives for both stakers and liquidity providers, Lorenzo and Hemi are set to drive a parallel increase in Total Value Locked (TVL), making both platforms more attractive to users and developers alike.","In 2025, Hemi and Lorenzo plan to allow users to mint stBTC directly on Hemi using hBTC. This integration will create more flexibility and opportunity within the Hemi ecosystem by offering a seamless process to convert Bitcoin-backed assets like hBTC into stBTC, thereby increasing asset availability and liquidity within the network.","This process will open the door for more advanced financial products and services within the Hemi ecosystem, giving users the ability to participate in secure and decentralized Bitcoin-backed financial products without leaving the Hemi network.","Hemi’s collaboration with Lorenzo Protocol marks a major pointstone in the company’s mission to scale decentralized finance by integrating trusted Bitcoin-backed assets. By combining Lorenzo’s stBTC infrastructure with Hemi’s secure and decentralized architecture, we’re creating new opportunities for cross-chain asset transfers and deeper liquidity pools that will benefit both ecosystems.","As we continue to work together, this collaboration will play a pivotal role in enhancing decentralized finance’s security, scalability, and user experience across Hemi’s ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/lorenzo-protocol-will-collaborate-with-hemi-to-expand-cross-chain-opportunities"},"/blog/a-sneak-peek-at-hemis-new-portal-ui":{"version":1,"title":"A Sneak Peek At Hemi’s New Portal UI - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["A Sneak Peek At Hemi’s New Portal UI"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 24, 2024","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Sneak Peek","Ui","You spoke, we listened.","We’re excited to share that the new Portal UI for Hemi is going live tomorrow but we want to give you a sneak peek today. The update reflects our commitment to improving the user experience for supporters, developers, and contributors who have joined us on the Hemi journey. With this upgrade, we’ve streamlined key features and provided a more intuitive interface.","What’s Changed?","The most noticeable changes in the portal focus on improving navigation and making transaction management more intuitive. We’ve introduced a new drawer for deposits and withdrawals, allowing users to easily view past transactions and interact with pending ones. The transaction history now features alerts and notifications to prompt users when a transaction requires action. These enhancements simplify the user experience, whether you’re tracking transaction status or handling withdrawals. Hemi’s aim is to make information clearer and more accessible for all types of users.","Key Improvements:","Enhanced Wallet Connect Service: Streamlined connection process for faster, more reliable wallet connection.","Cleaner, Intuitive Tunnel UI: Simplified navigation for managing cross-chain transfers.","IImproved Transaction History and Drawer: Easier tracking of past and pending transactions, with actionable alerts.","Revamped Onboarding: Smoother network connection, quick asset acquisition, and comprehensive tutorials to guide new users through the Hemi ecosystem.","We’re Listening","Your feedback is key to this process. As you explore the new portal, we encourage you to share your thoughts and experiences. Our goal is to continue refining and improving based on your input.","Thanks for your continued support. We look forward to hearing from you as we keep building together. Join us on Discord and tell us what you think of our new direction.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/a-sneak-peek-at-hemis-new-portal-ui"},"/blog/oku-and-hemi-to-collaborate-on-defi-trading":{"version":1,"title":"Oku and Hemi to Collaborate on DeFi Trading - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Oku and Hemi to Collaborate on DeFi Trading"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Bringing Oku’s DEX Trading to Hemi","Uniswap v3 on Hemi","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 24, 2024","Collaboration","Defi","Hemi","Oku","Hemi is collaborating with Oku to enhance DeFi trading on the platform.","TL;DR: Hemi Network collaborates with Oku to enhance DeFi trading and boost liquidity within the Hemi ecosystem with the deployment of Uniswap v3. This connection will integrate Oku's advanced trading platform and insights, empowering Hemi users with an improved trading experience, liquidity positions, and analytics across multiple blockchains.","Hemi Network is excited to announce its collaboration with Oku, a non-custodial DEX trading platform and bridge aggregator offering the best rates and analytics across 21 EVM chains. This collaboration represents a significant step in providing Hemi users with an improved DEX trading experience, enhancing liquidity provision, and expanding cross-chain opportunities within Hemi’s decentralized finance ecosystem.","At the core of this collaboration is the integration of Oku’s comprehensive trading platform into Hemi’s infrastructure. This will give Hemi users access to a seamless trading experience, liquidity provision tools, and advanced analytics for the major assets on Hemi. By offering real-time insights into liquidity dynamics and market trends, Oku will enhance the decision-making process for traders and liquidity providers within Hemi’s ecosystem.","Supporting the Oku frontend is the deployment of Uniswap v3 contracts on Hemi. Uniswap v3 is the leading DEX protocol, processing trillions of dollars and value and currently sitting with $5.18 billion in TVL across chains. The contracts will enable traders to gain exposure to the many tokens on Hemi and liquidity providers the ability to deploy concentrated liquidity positions, earning yield on their capital. The deployment of the storied protocol on Hemi signals an exciting future for the chain’s DeFi ecosystem.","With this collaboration, Hemi Network and Oku are committed to enhancing the security, scalability, and user experience of decentralized finance within the Hemi ecosystem. By integrating Oku’s robust analytical tools, users will have a clearer view of liquidity flows and trading opportunities, driving greater engagement and deeper liquidity across both networks.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/oku-and-hemi-to-collaborate-on-defi-trading"},"/blog/satoshi-stories-how-did-bitcoin-mining-evolve":{"version":1,"title":"Satoshi Stories: How Did Bitcoin Mining Evolve? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Satoshi Stories: How Did Bitcoin Mining Evolve?"],"h2":["Key Topics Covered:","About the Series","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 28, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Pow","Satoshi Stories","How early bitcoin adopters mined, bought, and sold bitcoin.","In this video, Jeff Garzik shares his experiences from the early days of Bitcoin, including his role in promoting Bitcoin by giving away over 15,000 Bitcoin to developers. Back in 2010, Jeff was using part of his salary as a Red Hat software engineer to purchase Bitcoin and distribute it to encourage development and integration efforts. This was essential for building the Bitcoin ecosystem, as there were no easy ways to buy, sell, or use Bitcoin like there are today.","Jeff discusses the concept of \"dogfooding,\" where developers use the technology they are building, which was key in getting Bitcoin adopted. Developers not only received Bitcoin as compensation but also had to figure out how to use it since there were no platforms like Coinbase or Kraken. This helped incrementally spread Bitcoin usage.","He also reflects on the early days of Bitcoin mining, when it was possible to mine Bitcoin using just a laptop. In 2010, Bitcoin's value was still uncertain, but pointstones like the famous Bitcoin pizza transaction and the creation of the first Bitcoin exchange began to establish its economic value. Jeff describes the challenges of building out the infrastructure needed for Bitcoin mining and trading, highlighting the \"chicken and egg\" dilemma where exchanges, miners, and users all had to develop simultaneously.","One particularly memorable story is about Jeff’s first Bitcoin mining operation. He and a group of early Bitcoiners set up mining machines in an office in Minnesota, taking advantage of free electricity and using the cold Minnesota winter to keep the machines cool. This marked the beginning of his involvement in Bitcoin mining on a larger scale.","Jeff Garzik's role in distributing Bitcoin to developers in 2010","The importance of \"dogfooding\" Bitcoin to grow its ecosystem","Early Bitcoin mining with laptops and the eventual rise of mining operations","The famous Bitcoin pizza transaction and its role in giving Bitcoin economic value","The development of Bitcoin exchanges and infrastructure","Jeff’s first Bitcoin mining operation in Minnesota with a group of early adopters","Satoshi Stories is a fascinating deep dive into the history of Bitcoin told by Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik. Jeff was there at the beginning of Bitcoin’s rise and eventual domination of the cryptocurrency world and his experience working with Satoshi in those early years offers important and fascinating insights into the technology.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/satoshi-stories-how-did-bitcoin-mining-evolve"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-october-22-2024":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: October 22, 2024 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: October 22, 2024"],"h2":["Key Takeaways","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 29, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Pop","Pos","In this webinar we talk about the march to Mainnet","In the recent Hemi AMA, co-founder Max Sanchez and the team provided updates on Hemi's progress, technical infrastructure, and plans for the network’s mainnet launch. Major topics included infrastructure upgrades, the integration of a new backend service, ongoing testing of the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM), and preparations for deploying Bitcoin Tunnel Smart Contracts on the mainnet. The Hemi team highlighted plans to enhance mining reliability, offer incentivized testnet opportunities for users to test Bitcoin tunneling, and continue the development of Hemi’s flexible custodianship system, which supports both over-collateralized and BitVM-based mechanisms.","Questions from the community centered on the specifics of the Hemi Testnet points program, keystone mining, and how Hemi’s structure supports both Bitcoin and Ethereum interoperability. Max clarified the nature of Hemi's ERC-20 token representation for tunneled Bitcoin and explained how Hemi’s custodianship mechanisms will allow secure asset migrations without disrupting liquidity. He also responded to concerns over technical issues, including delayed token claims, network selection issues in Capsule, and difficulties in swap transactions due to liquidity constraints. Additionally, the team outlined Hemi's competitive approach to Bitcoin interoperability, its EVM compatibility, and its unique architecture, which aims to integrate security mechanisms across both Bitcoin and Ethereum protocols.","Hemi's Competitive Edge: Unique in merging Bitcoin and Ethereum, Hemi’s architecture allows for decentralized asset transfer and programmable Bitcoin applications within an EVM framework.","Infrastructure Upgrades: Hemi transitioned to Electors in its backend, improving performance and reliability.","Bitcoin Tunnel Contracts: Ongoing testing is preparing these contracts for mainnet launch, enabling tunneled Bitcoin to operate as ERC-20 tokens.","Points Program: Users earn points for Testnet activities (swaps, mining, etc.), with incentives managed on the Absinthe platform.","Technical Issues Addressed: Solutions are underway for common issues, including transaction failures, faucet delays, and network selection problems.","Keystone Mining: Participants mine keystones through Hemi's pop miner, with rewards credited based on timely confirmations and relative performance.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-october-22-2024"},"/blog/jeff-garzik-talks-btc-and-hemi-at-binance-blockchain-week":{"version":1,"title":"Jeff Garzik Talks BTC and Hemi At Binance Blockchain Week - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Jeff Garzik Talks BTC and Hemi At Binance Blockchain Week"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 30, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Video","A BTC OG talks about the King and Queen of crypto.","During his panel at Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai, Jeff Garzik reflects on Bitcoin's current technological state and stability, highlighting its security and conservative pace of protocol-level changes. This gradual evolution has enabled innovative projects like ordinals, runes, and rollups to develop atop Bitcoin. He also discusses Hemi's development of Hemi's L2 tech.","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/jeff-garzik-talks-btc-and-hemi-at-binance-blockchain-week"},"/blog/avalon-and-hemi-announce-collaboration-to-introduce-usda-stablecoin-and-cedefi-integration":{"version":1,"title":"Avalon and Hemi Announce Collaboration To Introduce USDa Stablecoin and CeDeFi Integration - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Avalon and Hemi Announce Collaboration To Introduce USDa Stablecoin and CeDeFi Integration"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Strengthening Access to Decentralized Finance","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 1, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Avalon and Hemi will work together to bring USDa to the platform.","TL;DR:Avalon and Hemi will collaborate to bring Avalon's USDa stablecoin and CeDeFi lending bridge to the Hemi network. Users can mint USDa and access high liquidity by lending in DeFi and borrowing from CeDeFi, benefiting from stable rates and broader financial flexibility across platforms.","Avalon, a pioneer in DeFi lending, and Hemi, a modular blockchain network unifying assets and liquidity across Bitcoin and Ethereum, are proud to announce a collaboration that introduces Avalon's USDa stablecoin and multi-chain lending capabilities to the Hemi ecosystem. This collaboration brings together Avalon's centralized and decentralized finance advantages, delivering high liquidity, capital efficiency, and stable borrowing options to DeFi users.","USDa, Avalon's omnichain stablecoin, will be accessible on the Hemi network. It maintains a 1:1 peg with USDT, backed by Avalon's CeDeFi infrastructure to maintain stability and deep liquidity.","The collaboration enables a unique CeFi-DeFi lending bridge, allowing Hemi users to lend in DeFi while borrowing from Avalon's larger liquidity reserves in CeFi. This integration provides:","High Liquidity and Stable Rates: Access to deep CeFi liquidity pools with stable borrowing rates of 8-10%.","Cross-Platform Flexibility: Hemi users can leverage CeFi liquidity to extend their borrowing potential beyond typical DeFi limitations.","The collaboration brings Avalon's lending solutions within an isolated DeFi pool on Hemi, promoting risk management and capital efficiency. This collaboration paves the way for enhanced liquidity, seamless CeFi-DeFi transitions, and scalable financial access within decentralized markets.","Both Avalon and Hemi aim to continue innovating at the intersection of CeFi and DeFi, empowering users with advanced financial tools that offer the stability and depth of centralized finance within decentralized frameworks.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/avalon-and-hemi-announce-collaboration-to-introduce-usda-stablecoin-and-cedefi-integration"},"/blog/hemi-to-collaborate-with-bitperp-to-enhance-btc-l2-ecosystem":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi To Collaborate with BitPerp to Enhance BTC L2 Ecosystem - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi To Collaborate with BitPerp to Enhance BTC L2 Ecosystem"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 1, 2024","Bitcoin","Bitperp","Ethereum","The collaboration will bring a capital-efficient trading platform to Hemi.","TL;DR: Hemi collaborating with BitPerp, a decentralized exchange for trading Bitcoin-inscribed assets on Layer 2 solutions. This collaboration combines Hemi’s secure, modular architecture with BitPerp’s capital-efficient trading platform, featuring leveraged perpetual products.","Hemi has announced a new collaboration with BitPerp, an on-chain perpetual decentralized exchange (DEX) built for trading Runes, BRC20, and meme coins on Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions. This collaboration marks a key step toward expanding the BTC L2 ecosystem, bringing together Hemi’s secure modular architecture and BitPerp’s capital-efficient trading platform.","BitPerp, known for its advanced leveraged trading, offers a sophisticated, user-friendly DEX that allows users to engage with Bitcoin-inscribed assets through perpetual products with leverage options reaching up to 1000x for select pairs. With a unique synthetic model, BitPerp provides capital efficiency, reduced trading fees, and enhanced accessibility.","In this collaboration, Hemi will support BitPerp in building a more scalable and interoperable foundation. Through Hemi’s modular protocol, BitPerp gains enhanced security and seamless integration with various chains, allowing users to experience a robust trading environment on BTC L2s.","The collaboration also highlights the role of BitPerp’s ERC20 token, $BTP, which empowers users not only as a utility token but as a tool for community engagement and platform growth.","This collaboration is a strategic effort to advance BTC Layer 2 infrastructure, enhance user experiences, and expand the ecosystem’s potential. Together, Hemi and BitPerp aim to redefine how users trade and interact within the Bitcoin Layer 2 space.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-to-collaborate-with-bitperp-to-enhance-btc-l2-ecosystem"},"/blog/satoshi-stories-the-secret-behind-satoshis-real-identity":{"version":1,"title":"Satoshi Stories: The Secret Behind Satoshi's Real Identity - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Satoshi Stories: The Secret Behind Satoshi's Real Identity"],"h2":["Key Topics Covered:","About the Series","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 4, 2024","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Satoshi Stories","Video","Who as Satoshi? We explore some theories regarding the Bitcoin creator's identity.","In this video, Jeff Garzik dismisses the conspiracy theory that Bitcoin was created by the NSA, CIA, or any government agency. He describes such ideas as fun stories people tell after a few drinks but emphasizes that there's no real basis for them. Instead, Jeff believes in Satoshi Nakamoto's version of Bitcoin's origin—a lone genius who had the idea and then built Bitcoin to prove to himself that it would work.","Jeff explains that Satoshi wasn’t fully confident in his design until Bitcoin was tested on the internet, the ultimate proving ground. Drawing from his own experience as a software engineer, Jeff gives an honest assessment of Bitcoin’s first version (0.1). He describes it as a “hairball of source code”—poorly organized, lacking proper testing frameworks like unit or stress tests, and only runnable on Windows.","It was clear to him that the code wasn’t written by professional engineers, but by someone learning and figuring things out as they went, much like how Jeff himself learned computing. He credits early developers like Gavin Andresen for porting Bitcoin to Linux, improving its modularity, and making the code more maintainable. The early Bitcoin codebase did not resemble something from a team of experts but rather from a single person trying to bring an idea to life.","Jeff Garzik debunks the idea that the NSA or CIA created Bitcoin","Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision as a lone genius developing Bitcoin","The rough, unprofessional state of Bitcoin 0.1’s source code","Contributions by early developers like Gavin Andresen to improve Bitcoin’s codebase","Jeff’s comparison of Satoshi’s coding process to his own self-taught computing experience","Satoshi Stories is a fascinating deep dive into the history of Bitcoin told by Bitcoin Core Developer Jeff Garzik. Jeff was there at the beginning of Bitcoin’s rise and eventual domination of the cryptocurrency world and his experience working with Satoshi in those early years offers important and fascinating insights into the technology.","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/satoshi-stories-the-secret-behind-satoshis-real-identity"},"/blog/how-bitcoin-defi-can-fuel-the-next-market-boom":{"version":1,"title":"How Bitcoin DeFi Can Fuel the Next Market Boom - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How Bitcoin DeFi Can Fuel the Next Market Boom"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 28, 2025","Bitcoin","Defi","Ethereum","Bitcoin has long been left out of the DeFi equation. No longer.","In early January 2025, Solana’s stablecoin supply surged by 112%, a record high of $11.1 billion, driven by the frenzy of buyers clamoring to get a piece of President Donald Trump’s newly launched $TRUMP memecoin, attracting significant inflows. Questionable political coins aside, the token’s launch saw unprecedented success, surging at one point to $70 billion in market capitalization.","https://twitter.com/solana/status/1882187507703644671?s=46&t=JVhOelSRnwq-6nuHv3VROg","However, despite that impressive growth, the most liquid cryptocurrency of all, Bitcoin, was notably underrepresented on Solana’s network and remains so across a majority of DeFi applications.","Part of this has to do with the obstacles of freely moving Bitcoin across networks. Some $12 billion in bitcoin lies locked in wrapped versions of the asset like wBTC, which relies on custodial intermediaries. With such counterparties, operational bottlenecks and financial risk are introduced, which limits the broader integration of Bitcoin into DeFi.","Hemi can address the challenges of counterparty risk and operational constraints by eliminating intermediaries and enabling Bitcoin to flow freely into DeFi applications. By hosting a wide range of partners from its mainnet launch, Hemi prioritizes immediate utility for Bitcoin and ETH holders. Whether it be purchasing new assets on DEXs, including the native DEX Izumi, SushiSwap, or DODO, lending and borrowing with partners like LayerBank, LendOS, and ZenoLend, or taking part in a wide range of yield-earning, liquid-staking, and restaking services, Hemi is ready to serve.","Since launch, Hemi has seen over half a billion dollars in total value locked (TVL), much of it in Bitcoin-backed assets that reflect growing demand for native BTC liquidity in DeFi. As of late March, Hemi had accumulated 1,411.375 iBTC via ExSat, 675 brBTC and 210.802 uniBTC via Bedrock, 400.1 suBTC via Sumer, and 1,000.316 mBTC via Magpie. Matrixport contributed 1,000 NBTC, and Eigenpie added 25.909 egETH, expanding the reach to ETH staking. This mix of assets shows that developers are not only building for Bitcoin but also integrating restaking and ETH-based strategies.","The recent surge in stablecoin activity on Solana demonstrates a growing appreciation for DeFi across a broadening market with new participants. It shows that there is an opportunity for a Bitcoin-integrated DeFi platform on Hemi to capture and put this demand to work, offering a deep base of liquidity ready to feed the next big market cycle.","With a rising number of supported assets and integration with multiple issuers and protocols, Hemi now represents both an appetite and a growing opportunity for Bitcoin-based assets in DeFi.","DeFi is continuing to evolve and gain traction, and the integration of Bitcoin free of any intermediary control or custody is crucial for it to live up to the purpose for which these networks stand. Hemi promises to achieve this, tunneling through centralized custody models for a truly sovereign path in and out of the network to and from origin and destination chains.","When the next big market wave hits, Hemi will be ready to accommodate this growing demand, tapping into Bitcoin’s vast liquidity.","Learn more about Hemi by joining us on Discord and X.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-bitcoin-defi-can-fuel-the-next-market-boom"},"/blog/hemi-unlocks-the-bitcoin-aware-evm":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Unlocks the Bitcoin-Aware EVM - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Unlocks the Bitcoin-Aware EVM","Hemi EVM dApps Do More With Bitcoin Awareness","Hemi Brings Bitcoin To DeFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi connects Bitcoin to Ethereum’s smart contract ecosystem by letting dApps read and react to Bitcoin data directly, enabling cross-chain logic, decentralized finance, and trustless BTC integration.","Bitcoin has long existed just beyond Ethereum’s programmable ecosystem, but Hemi is changing that. The Hemi Virtual Machine™ (hVM), which is wrapped around a fully indexed Bitcoin node, was built to take decentralized applications and make them Bitcoin aware.","What does that mean?","This means smart contracts on Hemi can directly read Bitcoin block data, verify transactions took place, and even trigger logic based on BTC activity without relying on an oracle or relay to provide that information. With the ability to read Bitcoin state baked into the hVM, dApps on Hemi can react to Ethereum and Bitcoin in real time.","Hemi’s unique architecture unlocks a new design space for dApps, making possible the integration of features, including:","Native Reaction to Bitcoin Transactions:","Smart contracts on Hemi can execute logic based on confirmed BTC deposits, spends, or address activity, providing an added layer of responsiveness based on cross-chain activity.","On-chain Verification Bitcoin State and Proofs:","See and validate Bitcoin block headers, simplified payment verification proofs, and Merkle paths directly, without using oracles.","Cross-Chain Logic Settlement with Bitcoin Finality:","Anchor DeFi outcomes to Block confirmations, using native BTC as a settlement or source of trust for unlocking or closing positions.","Bitcoin Timelocks and Block Height Tracking:","Time-sensitive logic can interface with Bitcoin directly, using a particular block height to gate access, unlock funds, or expire contracts.","Cross-Chain DAOs:","DAOs can trigger votes, execute treasury functions, or grant membership rights based on the activity on Bitcoin, or the EVM side, for a truly interoperable level of governance.","Beyond giving dApps native access to Bitcoin’s data, Hemi is building tunnels that will ultimately operate without any single entity in charge of assets, instead favoring on-chain trustless logic from end to end. Currently, Hemi Tunnels are taking a phased approach to full decentralization, initially operating via an optimistic fault window on the Ethereum side and an over-collateralized multisig protocol on the Bitcoin side. Future updates will see features including ZK-proof-based settlements and expanded support for Hemi native assets.","Tunneled to the network as hemiBTC, Bitcoin can now be used to lend, borrow, earn yield, trade, stake, and more across an ecosystem of dozens of integrated protocols, with more coming. Hemi also supports other forms of wrapped Bitcoin.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-unlocks-the-bitcoin-aware-evm"},"/blog/hemi-on-stage-from-resistance-to-leadership-americas-role-in-cryptos-future-at-token2049":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi On Stage: From Resistance To Leadership? America's Role In Crypto's Future at TOKEN2049 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi On Stage: From Resistance To Leadership? America's Role In Crypto's Future at TOKEN2049"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 1, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Events","Hemi","Token2049","Hemi's own Matthew Roszak appeared on the TOKEN2049 stage to talk about the future of crypto in the U.S.","At TOKEN2049, one panel stood out for cutting through the noise: “From Resistance to Leadership? America’s Role in Crypto’s Future.” Moderated by CNBC’s Dan Murphy, the session featured three longtime builders—David Marcus (Lightspark), Zooko Wilcox (Zcash), and Hemi's own Matthew Roszak —breaking down the state of U.S. crypto policy and how it’s shaping the global landscape.","The panel opened with a blunt question: What is Washington’s crypto strategy, if any? David Marcus didn’t hold back. “I probably had the highest-profile crypto project shut down by the U.S. government,” he said, referencing his time at Meta. But he described a “180” shift under the current administration, which he sees as actively pushing for crypto infrastructure. Marcus called this moment “a rewiring of the financial system” and said the U.S. is finally stepping into a leadership role—fueled not just by regulation, but by competition with other nations.","Zooko Wilcox, founder of Zcash, took a different tack. His optimism isn’t about any administration, but about the American principle that “you can do things without asking permission.” Even when Zcash faced regulatory pressure and was placed on Binance’s monitoring list alongside obvious scams, Wilcox held firm: privacy is a utility, not a crime. “Privacy is normal,” he said. “It’s like buying an ice cream—nobody else needs to know.”","Matthew Roszak framed the last few years as a kind of Darwinian stress test for the industry. “This was a crucible,” he said. “Now we’re like a coiled spring.” He sees momentum not only in U.S. regulatory progress, like the stablecoin and market structure bills, but also in geopolitical alignment. Sovereign wealth funds, especially in the Gulf, are doubling down on crypto and AI infrastructure. That regional capital shift, he argued, will push the U.S. to compete harder—and move faster.","One key takeaway was the growing alignment between AI and crypto. Roszak put it bluntly: “Crypto is made for AI. It’s AI money.” Smart agents managing digital cash, automated governance, and on-chain infrastructure are no longer far-off speculation—they’re on the whiteboards now. The real winners will be the ones building at that intersection.","The panel wrapped with a series of predictions. Marcus thinks stablecoin and market structure legislation will be the inflection point. Wilcox called for an end to prosecutions of open-source developers like those behind Tornado Cash. Roszak offered the boldest vision: a U.S. strategic Bitcoin reserve.","\"That alone could change how governments view Bitcoin—and kick off a chain reaction,\" he said.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-on-stage-from-resistance-to-leadership-americas-role-in-cryptos-future-at-token2049"},"/blog/why-hemibtc-is-different-from-wbtc":{"version":1,"title":"Why hemiBTC Is Different From WBTC - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Why hemiBTC Is Different From WBTC","How hemiBTC Works","How WBTC works","The Similarities Between WBTC and hemiBTC","The Differences Between WBTC and hemiBTC","Earn Points With hemiBTC Now"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Both bring Bitcoin into DeFi. Hemi's solution works.","Everyone sees the potential for Bitcoin in DeFi, but few have tried to use it. Protocols like Wrapped BTC (WBTC) attempt to bring Bitcoin into Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem, with mixed results. Hemi takes a different approach with hemiBTC and brings Bitcoin into Ethereum in a very real way for the very first time.","So what’s the difference? WBTC relies on a centralized model. Bitcoin is locked with a custodian, and a matching amount of WBTC is minted on Ethereum. This process depends on off-chain coordination and trusted third parties to manage and verify the transfer. While it brings Bitcoin into Ethereum's ecosystem, it comes with risks tied to custody, regulation, and counterparty trust.","hemiBTC takes a fundamentally different approach. It doesn’t rely on custodians or centralized bridges. Instead, it uses decentralized tunnels that allow Bitcoin to move between chains or compromising trust assumptions. The result is a system that keeps Bitcoin native, maintains on-chain transparency, and minimizes trust requirements—making it a more secure and scalable foundation for Bitcoin in DeFi.","On Hemi, Bitcoin gains access to expressive programmability as hemiBTC without compromising its integrity by turning custody over to a central party. hemiBTC is minted trustlessly and on-chain through the Hemi Tunnel. Simply connect Bitcoin to Hemi, choose an amount of BTC, and the tunnel mints hemiBTC into an EVM-compatible Hemi wallet address.","WBTC is an Ethereum-based token that mirrors the value of Bitcoin, allowing users to interact with Ethereum's decentralized applications using Bitcoin-backed assets. The process begins when a user deposits Bitcoin with a centralized custodian—most commonly BitGo. This custodian is responsible for securely holding the original BTC and minting a corresponding amount of WBTC on the Ethereum blockchain. Each WBTC token is fully backed 1:1 by Bitcoin held in reserve.","While WBTC and hemiBTC take different technical approaches, they both aim to solve the same core problem: Bitcoin is valuable but not directly usable in DeFi. Both WBTC and hemiBTC enable users to bring Bitcoin into smart contract ecosystems—in this case, Hemi’s network—and access decentralized financial tools that aren’t available on the Bitcoin base layer.","They both let users lend and borrow, earn yield, trade, and stake on Hemi. Both tokens are designed to maintain a 1:1 redemption ratio with BTC, meaning holders can convert back to native Bitcoin. In WBTC’s case, this redemption relies on custodians who manually manage the process. hemiBTC, by contrast, uses a decentralized mechanism to maintain trust minimization and on-chain verification, offering an alternative that stays closer to Bitcoin’s original trust model","The core difference between WBTC and hemiBTC lies in how trust is managed. WBTC depends on centralized custodians to hold the original Bitcoin. This model introduces a critical point of failure: if the custodian is compromised, hacked, goes bankrupt, or faces regulatory action, user access to the underlying BTC can be blocked or permanently lost. Users must place full trust in the custodian to store their funds securely, remain operational, and handle redemptions accurately and without delay. While this system can function well under normal conditions, it exposes users to risks outside their control.","hemiBTC takes a different approach. It avoids reliance on any single third party by using Hemi Tunnels—trust-minimized bridges that allow Bitcoin to move into the Hemi network using on-chain logic. The launch of Hemi Tunnels is phased, eventually achieving broad trust-minimized operations. In the current development phase, Tunnels operate via an optimistic fault window on the Ethereum side and an over-collateralized multisig protocol on the Bitcoin side. As development progresses, Tunnels will integrate additional features, including ZK-proof based settlements, and expanded support for Hemi native assets. Ultimately, Hemi’s Tunnels will reach a mature level of decentralization, further minimizing risk.","Importantly, the Hemi network doesn’t require users to choose between models. It supports both WBTC and hemiBTC, giving users the flexibility to pick the version of Bitcoin-backed assets that aligns with their preferences—whether that’s the familiarity of custodial systems or the resilience of decentralized infrastructure.","During the Mainnet Season of the Hemi Points program, providing liquidity with hemiBTC remains one of the most effective points-earning strategies. Tunnel to Hemi and start earning immediately, with a 3x, 5x, or even 8x boost when you provide liquidity with hemiBTC in select pools with partners including Sushi, Oku, Izumi, and DODO.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/why-hemibtc-is-different-from-wbtc"},"/blog/blockchain-defi-as-the-ecosystem-grows-so-do-centralization-risks":{"version":1,"title":"Blockchain DeFi: As the Ecosystem Grows, So Do Centralization Risks - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Blockchain DeFi: As the Ecosystem Grows, So Do Centralization Risks"],"h2":["Over A Billion In Assets Lost","Hemi’s Answer To Secure DeFi","A Safer Future For DeFi","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 11, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Centralization is the antithesis of DeFi.","DeFi has grown from its COVID-era heyday into a multi-network ecosystem spanning beyond Ethereum to encompass the likes of Solana and Avalanche. It has even started connecting to the liquidity of Bitcoin through various means.","As the DeFi world grows, however, the stakes rise, and it becomes more and more important to focus on a secure ecosystem, with provisions against central points of failure and exploits.","Over the years, many of these high-profile hacks and exploits highlight the fact that centralization remains the Achilles heel of DeFi. With more value accruing on platforms that span across networks, it is imperative that the industry adopt, secure, and decentralized practices that minimize vulnerabilities and maximize utility.","Confined to Ethereum, DeFi platforms shared the network’s security model, and the fear of exploits centered around the secure implementation of bug-free smart contracts to manage assets. As the seeds of DeFi spread to other networks, however, the desire of traders to bridge assets to potentially greener, less fee-ladened pastures, began to see the emergence of cross-chain protocols.","But with these protocols came new risks. Bridging gives trades access to cross-network asset compatibility, but also introduces vulnerabilities absent of single-chain ecosystems. A reliance on centralized custody, sparsely populated validator pools, or poorly designed smart contracts creates a fertile ground for exploits.","Over the last 5 years as DeFi supremacy emerged onchain, the rise of cross-chain protocols saw both opportunities and significant vulnerabilities. High-profile hacks have repeatedly occurred, giving an ever present reminder of the systemic risks that come with solutions that emphasize control over decentralization:","Polynetwork Exploit—In August 2021, attackers exploited the Poly Network’s smart contracts for $610 million in various cryptocurrencies by manipulating a function that allowed them to forge messages and drain funds. The vulnerability allowed hackers to transfer assets across numerous chains, including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Polygon to their own wallets.","Wormhole Exploit—In February 2022, the Wormhole bridge to Ethereum and Solana experienced an attack where the actor was able to make off with $326 million in ETH. To do so, they bypassed signature verification and minted 120,000 wrapped ETH (wETH) on Solana without locking an equivalent amount on Ethereum. Since the smart contract failed to verify the signature the hacker essentially minted the new wETH out of thin air, which drained the bridge of liquidity.","Ronin Bridge Hack—The Ronin Bridge of the Axie Infinity ecosystem was compromised to the tune of $552 million when a hacker accessed private keys for five of the nine validator nodes that managed the bridge. The attack was achieved via social engineering and phishing. With a majority of validators under their command, the hackers forged withdrawals without challenge.","Harmony’s Horizon Bridge Hack—In June 2022 Harmony’s Horizon Bridge was hacked for $100 million. Insecure private key storage of network validators allowed an attacker to access them, and sign unauthorized transactions draining numerous assets including ETH, WBTC, and USDC from multiple chains.","Nomad Bridge Exploit—In August 2022, a misconfiguration of Nomad’s smart contract gave anyone the ability to withdraw funds by spoofing transactions. A bug in the contract’s initialization logic mistakenly marked all transactions as valid. As one of the most chaotic DeFi breaches, numerous individuals were able to take advantage of this exploit, simultaneously draining the bridge of liquidity by simply copying and pasting the exploited contract data to replicate the error.","With hundreds and millions of dollars lost to centralization-related failures, Hemi takes a drastically different approach to how assets live and move, within a DeFi ecosystem. Hemi leverages sovereign tunnels, that use heavily audited smart contracts and eliminates reliance on centralized custodians, validator-driven protocols, or other insecure bridging mechanisms. Hemi provides this within a decentralized framework, built to accommodate secure, accessible cross-chain asset transfer.","Hemi’s native features support the future of DeFi:","Protocol-Level Awareness—The Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) integrates a full Bitcoin node within an EVM-based environment. The facilitates a direct, protocol-level awareness between Bitcoin and Ethereum on the network, removing the need for intermediaries or external validators. Assets remain securely anchored to their native chain, with trust-minimized interactions within DeFi ecosystems.","Proof-of-Proof Consensus—Hemi employs a novel hybrid consensus mechanism that combines Proof-of-Stake (PoS) and Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work (PoW) for maximum efficiency and security. Initially, transactions are validated on Hemi via PoS, for fast, energy efficient processing. The validated transactions are then grouped and hashed into bundles and committed to Bitcoin by Proof-of-Proof (PoP) miners. Once PoP miners confirm these bundles on Bitcoin, the Hemi network achieves a state of superfinality.","No Central Points of Failure—Hemi’s architecture decentralizes each step of the process, from asset transfer to computational logic. This helps Hemi mitigate exploits, without a central component that can be compromised to put user funds at risk.","By addressing the fundamental flaws in centralized bridged asset management, Hemi provides a solution that prioritizes user access and network integrity. DeFi participants gain the benefit of a multi-network ecosystem plugged directly into Bitcoin, with the computational flexibility of an EVM-based chain. While DeFi grows, and with billions in assets riding on the networks supporting the ecosystem, Hemi is creating a safer, secure, and trust-minimized home for Web3 to remain resilient.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/blockchain-defi-as-the-ecosystem-grows-so-do-centralization-risks"},"/blog/hemi-keeps-defi-transactions-secure-across-bitcoin-and-ethereum":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Keeps DeFi Transactions Secure Across Bitcoin and Ethereum - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Keeps DeFi Transactions Secure Across Bitcoin and Ethereum"],"h2":["Hemi DeFi Is an Alternative to Unsafe CEXs","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 4, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi offers an alternative to centralized exchanges.","Hemi offers a solid alternative to potentially insecure, CEX-managed assets by providing a vibrant, secure, and accessible DeFi ecosystem.","In February 2025, Bybit—one of the world’s largest centralized exchanges (CEXs)—suffered a catastrophic exploit due to a single point of failure. The Lazarus Group claimed responsibility for the attack, which saw over $1.5 billion in assets quickly drained and laundered.","Not all threats to users come from external actors. Sometimes it’s the response to a breach that reveals how centralized a supposedly distributed network really is. When Cetus Protocol was exploited earlier this year for $223 million on the Sui network, the foundation intervened. What seemed like decisive action—pausing wallet activity through a coordinated validator response—exposed a quieter truth: control was concentrated, and the principles of censorship resistance were compromised. The ability for validators to collude and override on-chain behavior introduces a new kind of risk. In some cases, the cure is worse than the illness.","While platform hacks are nothing new, they point to a widespread issue in crypto: reliance on concentrated control to govern sensitive systems. Bybit customers were assured their assets remained backed 1:1, but they had no choice but to trust that emergency liquidity would be found. For users on the Sui network, the exploit raised a different concern—the possibility that coordinated validator action could override the chain’s supposed finality.","Whether it’s through compromised hot wallets, internal key mismanagement, bypassed MFA due to centralized access, or systemic censorship via collusion, attackers continue to exploit central choke points in crypto infrastructure.","Hemi gives you a reason to take your Bitcoin off a CEX, self-custody it, and put it to work—earning yield, lending, staking, trading, and more—without compromising security. Hemi’s DeFi ecosystem enables all of this without exposing you to the risks of centralized systems. You hold the keys.","Through decentralized infrastructure across Ethereum and Bitcoin, Hemi enables true programmability for Bitcoin. Its trust-minimized tunnels link Bitcoin and Ethereum without central points of custody. Wrapping and issuance are managed via smart contracts and multisig vaults—an architecture that removes third-party control and single points of failure.","Finality on Hemi cannot be rolled back. More critically, Hemi introduces superfinality, powered by its Proof-of-Proof (PoP) protocol. PoP miners submit Hemi transaction data into Bitcoin blocks. Once those blocks are sufficiently confirmed, reversing a transaction would require enough brute force to attack both Bitcoin and Hemi simultaneously—an economically impossible task.","Earn Securely with Hemi DeFi","Keep your BTC secure—and productive—with Hemi. During the Mainnet Season of the Hemi Points program, providing liquidity with hemiBTC is one of the most effective ways to earn points. Tunnel into Hemi and start earning immediately, with 3x, 5x, or even 8x boosts when you provide hemiBTC liquidity in select pools with partners including Sushi, Oku, Izumi, and DODO.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-keeps-defi-transactions-secure-across-bitcoin-and-ethereum"},"/blog/hemi-and-1delta-offer-bonus-points-with-swaps-and-margin-trades":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi And 1delta Offer Bonus Points With Swaps And Margin Trades - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi And 1delta Offer Bonus Points With Swaps And Margin Trades","Swapping On 1delta","Margin Positions On 1delta"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 12, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Earn more 1delta Points with a 3x bonus on swaps and a 5x bonus on margin positions via the Hemi network for the next four weeks.","Hemi is teaming up with 1delta to offer additional rewards for using 1delta’s swap and margin tools, which aggregate across DEXs for best pricing and efficient routing.","For the next four weeks, connect your Hemi wallet and swap on 1delta to earn a 3x 1delta Points multiplier for each trade. Earn a 5x multiplier on every margin or yield position opened on supported Hemi lending protocols, ZeroLend or LendOS, through 1delta. Point earnings are automatically tracked per wallet and will appear on your user dashboard.","Share screenshots of your lending and swaps to boost earnings, with up to 1,000 bonus points available per user who promotes their positions and trades on social media.","To swap on 1delta, open the Swap tab on the application’s left sidebar and click on the Connect Wallet button on the top right to connect your Hemi wallet. Beneath your wallet, select the Hemi network from the dropdown menu.","In the sell field, click the dropdown to choose a token to swap with, or paste the token’s contract address manually. Next, select the token you wish to swap into. When an amount is entered into the sell field, the buy field autopopulates.","Use the slippage slide bar to adjust the maximum allowable price deviation before the swap reverts. In high-volatility conditions, slippage may need to be set higher.","After reviewing, click the green swap button and confirm the transaction in your wallet.","To open a margin position on 1delta, either long or short, navigate to the Margin tab on the application’s left sidebar. If you haven’t already done so, follow the steps above to connect your Hemi wallet. Click the See All tab on the top navigation bar to reveal Hemi lending protocols, where LendOS or ZeroLend may be selected.","1delta’s interface shows your wallet’s active positions and lets you deposit assets directly to lending protocols via the green Deposit button.","You can also build structured margin positions:","The short asset is borrowed (debt).","The long asset is supplied as collateral.","To create a position, select long and short tokens and an amount, which will be automatically balanced between those tokens. Execute the trade by clicking the Build Position button below and confirming the transaction in your wallet.","To adjust a position, use the Close tab to reduce either side.","You can also swap between debt and collateral assets in the Manage tab.","Start earning bonus 1delta Points on Hemi today: swap, lend, and share to maximize your rewards before the campaign ends in four weeks.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-1delta-offer-bonus-points-with-swaps-and-margin-trades"},"/blog/you-can-now-register-a-hemi-domain-with-getheminames":{"version":1,"title":"You Can Now Register a .Hemi Domain with GetHemiNames - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["You Can Now Register a .Hemi Domain with GetHemiNames","Simplify Your Hemi Experience","Claim Your Name Today"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 13, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Getheminames","Hemi","Register your .hemi name to secure your unique identity on Hemi and reduce friction when sending and receiving assets.","In their raw form wallet addresses were meant to be totally unique, but they aren’t exactly memorable. Now, you can make it easier to keep track of less-than-memorable strings of characters with getHemiNames, the platform that lets you mint your Hemi identity and simplify network interactions.","The process is straightforward: connect your Hemi wallet at GetHemiNames, choose your desired domain and how long you want to register it. Sign the registration transaction and once it goes through, you can navigate to manage your domains in the My Account section of the site.","With getHemiNames complexity becomes abstracted when it comes to Hemi and usability. Each registration unlocks:","Readable addresses that replace complex hexadecimal strings.","Seamless wallet integration, with MetaMask Snap support so that .Hemi names resolve natively with the standard send flow.","Fewer errors, as typos are more immediately identifiable.","Establish a verifiable, censorship-resistant public-facing identity that remains portable across Hemi dApps. Create and assign subdomains for your projects, services, or collaborators. Use your .hemi name to support fundraising campaigns directly or to receive tips. Connect your wallets, content, or links in a unified, accessible interface tied to your .hemi name.","Whether you’re launching a product, establishing a presence, or simply making your experience on Hemi more user-friendly, getHemiNames helps reduce friction and strengthen your onchain footprint.","Visit getheminames.me to mint your .hemi domain. Define your identity. Simplify your transactions. Claim your namespace in the next era of Web3.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/you-can-now-register-a-hemi-domain-with-getheminames"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-engineering-milestones-points-progress-and-whats-next-for-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Engineering Milestones, Points Progress, and What’s Next for Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Engineering Milestones, Points Progress, and What’s Next for Hemi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Engineering and Infrastructure","Incentives and Points","On the Horizon","Hemi VM and Bitcoin Sync","PoP Security, Cross-Layer MEV, and L3 Incentives","MEV, Governance, and Community","NFT Marketplace and Alliance Tiers","Closing Notes","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 17, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","What's next for Hemi? Find out here.","This week’s Midweek with Max session covered major updates across the board—engineering, incentives, governance, and developer infrastructure. As the team moves closer to the upcoming TGE, the pieces are rapidly falling into place.","The engineering team is finalizing key refactors to the FG and the PoP miner, enabling cleaner modular execution across the stack. These improvements are expected to land within days. Max also confirmed the team is putting the finishing edits on a new whitepaper outlining Hemi’s custom approach to BitVM. A draft will likely be shared before the end of the week.","Additional infrastructure work is underway to replace ProxyD with a more efficient RPC routing layer. This change will improve both transaction propagation and RPC reliability.","On incentives, the team is still determining the exact TGE date, but confirmed that mainnet incentive season one will continue for at least two more weeks. The testnet points checker will return soon as well. Final debugging is ongoing, particularly around PoP participation data. A more accurate and standalone point breakdown tool is in progress.","Testnet and mainnet points are calculated differently. Testnet points reflect participation and time spent; mainnet points reflect economic impact. There’s no fixed ratio between them, but both will contribute to the final points-based reward structure.","Points are awarded based on capital deployed per day, even if a Uniswap V3-style pool goes out of range. Safeguards prevent gaming the system with zero-liquidity ranges, but normal market movement is fully supported.","Hatchlings on mainnet: Expect this to happen very soon. Smart contract deployment took priority but is nearly complete.","PoP payout algorithm: A new version is coming before the end of the month, with 72 hours’ notice before rollout.","Node licenses: The resale market remains inactive. Those who purchased will receive their license or an equivalent outcome.","A lengthy section of the session focused on how the hVM handles Bitcoin state. Hemi maintains two views: a lightweight consensus tracker and a full node running two blocks behind the Bitcoin tip. This setup avoids reorg-induced instability on the Hemi chain while allowing smart contracts to query Bitcoin state through precompiles.","If Bitcoin reorgs, the hVM reverts state for affected contracts, but the Hemi chain itself moves forward unaffected. Dapps must build around this behavior by waiting for adequate Bitcoin confirmations.","Gas griefing attacks via deep UTXO queries aren’t a concern—queries are bounded to the hVM’s current state and are indexed efficiently. Future upgrades will expand query capabilities (e.g., for BitVMv2 compatibility) without introducing reorg-related vulnerabilities.","PoP miners choose which H-chains they secure. Each H-chain maintains its own cadence for proofs, and high-frequency publishing on one chain won’t impact others, aside from fee market pressure. L3s pay Hemi directly; some of those fees are routed to PoP miners who publish to Bitcoin. This builds a cascading incentive structure: L4s → L3s → Hemi → Bitcoin.","Cross-layer MEV opportunities are minimized by Hemi’s architecture. The two-block delay and explicit confirmation waiting mean that users can’t front-run trades triggered by Bitcoin transactions. Dapps like ordinal marketplaces or native Bitcoin DEXs must build in waiting logic and user safeguards. Hemi won’t support mempool inclusion proofs due to their subjective nature across nodes.","A native MEV auction or PBS module isn’t on the roadmap for core protocol development. That’s likely to be handled by third-party services, similar to how MEV marketplaces work on Ethereum. Sequencers would choose which marketplace to interact with, and incentives would flow through those external systems.","For governance, the team will initially use off-chain voting (via Snapshot or a similar tool), with plans to migrate to an on-chain system that supports aggregated and enforceable governance actions—like adjusting fees in the Bitcoin tunnel.","An NFT marketplace is in the pipeline on the BD side, supporting Hatchlings and any other NFTs launched on Hemi. Tier 2 of the Hemi Alliance will begin early next week, with Tier 1 remaining open and visible. New tooling will also allow users to report points discrepancies directly from the dashboard.","A reminder: Jeff Garzik will be speaking at Permissionless IV on June 24th at 2:30 PM in New York. If you're in the area, don’t miss “Where to Build on Bitcoin.”","More updates are coming over the next two weeks. Follow the announcements on Discord and Twitter—and if you’re still working on demos or points tasks, finish them now.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-engineering-milestones-points-progress-and-whats-next-for-hemi"},"/blog/how-hemi-empowers-collaboration-between-bitcoin-and-ethereum":{"version":1,"title":"How Hemi Empowers Collaboration Between Bitcoin and Ethereum - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How Hemi Empowers Collaboration Between Bitcoin and Ethereum"],"h2":["Cross-Chain Challenges","Hemi Connects Bitcoin and Ethereum","Interoperability, Secured","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 17, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Pop","How Hemi connects the King and Queen of crypto.","Ethereum and Bitcoin. Before Hemi, the two leading blockchain networks by volume and developer adoption operated like oil and water—they didn’t mix. Ethereum supports complex operations on a Turing-complete virtual machine and features a robust ecosystem. Bitcoin is more stripped down, built for payments and not much else.","Hemi brings the two together. It enables collaboration between Bitcoin and Ethereum with a decentralized architecture that addresses core incompatibilities.","Differences in consensus mechanisms and operational models make native asset transfers between Bitcoin and Ethereum difficult.","Ethereum’s virtual machine supports complex smart contracts. Bitcoin limits programmability by design, prioritizing security. That choice makes Bitcoin incompatible with Ethereum-style contracts and complicates integration of advanced features like zero-knowledge proofs.","The networks also use different accounting systems. Bitcoin relies on the UTXO model, tracking spendable outputs from past transactions. Ethereum uses an account-based model, continuously updating contract states and balances.","When it comes to interoperability, Ethereum is more open, with several Layer 2 scaling solutions widely adopted. Bitcoin’s progress has been slower, with many early solutions relying on custodial bridges that introduce security risks.","Hemi addresses these technical and architectural divides while preserving decentralization. It removes the need for custodians or third parties.","The Hemi Virtual Machine™ (hVM™) combines an Ethereum Virtual Machine with a fully indexed Bitcoin node. eIt works alongside the Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK), a set of smart contracts that make it possible to build Bitcoin-aware EVM dApps without dealing with low-level Bitcoin logic.","Most Bitcoin Layer 2 networks use bridges controlled by third-party custodians. Hemi replaces these with decentralized tunnels—smart contract-based, multi-signature systems that allow asset transfers without a single point of control. These tunnels preserve decentralization and reduce attack surfaces.","Hemi also inherits Bitcoin’s security model. Its Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus anchors transactions to Bitcoin’s PoW network. After a PoS-based preliminary check, hashed Hemi blocks are published to Bitcoin and validated by PoP miners. This creates a dual-verification system, giving Hemi transactions strong finality within hours.","Hemi tackles the core challenges between Bitcoin and Ethereum and provides a decentralized, secure, and scalable framework for cross-chain interaction. Its tunnels, finality model, and built-in Bitcoin node within hVM directly address the tradeoffs that limit most other networks.","Want to know more? Check out our Learn Center articles, our documentation, and visit our Discord.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-hemi-empowers-collaboration-between-bitcoin-and-ethereum"},"/blog/hemi-and-spicenet-are-working-together-to-expand-network-functionality":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Spicenet Are Working Together to Expand Network Functionality - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Spicenet Are Working Together to Expand Network Functionality"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 17, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Spicenet","Spicenet is collaborating with Hemi to expand how developers and asset issuers build on the network.","Starting today, the Spicenet EVM Adapter is live on Hemi. This integration unlocks a new model of cross-chain interoperability, making it possible to scale distribution and liquidity natively across blockchain ecosystems—without needing to deploy to each one individually.","For developers, the Spicenet adapter can be integrated directly into smart contracts on Hemi. This allows applications to be accessed and used by users from any major blockchain. A Solana user, for example, can now interact with a Hemi-based app using only their Solana wallet and SOL balance. To them, it feels like a Solana app. Under the hood, it’s Hemi.","For asset issuers, the adapter simplifies how tokens move and function across chains. Liquidity for an asset issued on Hemi can be composed from—and made available to—other networks automatically. This reduces fragmentation and allows developers from any ecosystem to interact with assets and services as if they were local.","Spicenet’s integration reinforces Hemi’s role as a modular base layer for cross-chain applications and secure liquidity.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-spicenet-are-working-together-to-expand-network-functionality"},"/blog/nomis-brings-ai-powered-wallet-reputation-scoring-to-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Nomis Brings AI-Powered Wallet Reputation Scoring to Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Nomis Brings AI-Powered Wallet Reputation Scoring to Hemi","Increase Your Nomis Score and Earn on Hemi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 18, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Nomis","Nomis brings reputation scoring and Sybil analytics to Hemi to power the next wave of DeFi.","As Hemi continues to support DeFi applications that require scalable, permissionless infrastructure, strong identity signals, and Sybil resistance are becoming essential. That’s why Nomis, a leading multichain reputation protocol, integrates with Hemi to bring advanced wallet scoring and Sybil analytics to developers building on the network.","Nomis assigns real-time scores to crypto wallet addresses by analyzing onchain behavior and applying AI models that learn from transaction history, wallet activity, and behavioral signals. These scores can prevent multi-account farming, tailor onboarding flows, optimize airdrop campaigns, and improve overall protocol integrity without compromising privacy.","With more than 1.5 million transactions analyzed, Nomis is a widely adopted protocol. It fosters a growing ecosystem of developers and builders and is backed by a strong 5.4 million+ user community.","For Hemi, integrating with Nomis adds another layer of programmable logic that enhances identity and trust in a decentralized system. From scoring users for access to exclusive features to filtering bots from incentive programs, Nomis brings practical tools that extend what’s possible for permissionless apps.","As more developers look to launch dynamic user experiences on Hemi, from AI-driven DeFi protocols to real-world asset platforms, Nomis provides a composable foundation for smart reputation systems, risk filtering, and Sybil defense.","Plug your Hemi wallet into Nomis to get your score and earn with BTC on Hemi. During the Mainnet Season of the Hemi Points program, providing liquidity with hemiBTC is one of the most effective ways to earn points. Tunnel into Hemi and start earning immediately, with 3x, 5x, or even 8x boosts when you provide hemiBTC liquidity in select pools with partners including Sushi, Oku, Izumi, and DODO.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/nomis-brings-ai-powered-wallet-reputation-scoring-to-hemi"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-live-from-permissionless-powered-by-lawn-mowers":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Live from Permissionless, Powered by Lawn Mowers - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Live from Permissionless, Powered by Lawn Mowers"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 24, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","TGE ultra soon? No, but soon soon.","Welcome back to Midweek with Max — our tenth month of updates, AMA chaos, and unexpected tech comedy. This week, we ran the show from two coasts and multiple bandwidth conditions, including one where Rick’s audio finally wasn’t the worst (a true milestone). With Phil Gomes reporting in live from Permissionless in Brooklyn and Jeff Garzik speaking on a panel with Stacks, StarConnect, and Core, Hemi made its presence known—literally, on every lanyard and every registration table in the venue.","Engineering Updates","Max covered the week’s engineering highlights, including the activation of Pectra features on Mainnet this Thursday at 10 AM ET. If you're running a full node, update your local containers to stay in sync. We're also putting final polish on the BIPVM white paper and advancing internal work on the daemon refactor for BFG and PoPminer. Some big things are brewing behind the scenes—more on that soon.","Hemi Hatchlings Go Mainnet","The snapshot for Hemi Hatchlings hits Wednesday at 10 AM ET. Any testnet NFTs in EOAs at the time of the snapshot will be reissued on mainnet. If your hatchling is in a smart contract, pull it out and move it to an EOA before the snapshot. After the migration, the testnet NFTs won’t disappear, but they’ll effectively be deprecated.","TGE Questions (Again)","Yes, TGE is still “very soon,” but not yet “ultra soon.” We’re closing in on a final date and expect to share more by the end of the month or early July. And no, World War III will not affect the timeline—thanks, Miracle, for keeping it light.","Points, LPs, and Absence","Questions about LP and staking points not showing up? The TL;DR: on-chain is king. Absent may occasionally drop or lag in reflecting points, especially with newly created Sushi V3 pools, but everything is still being tracked. You will be credited. As for pop point economics—yes, you could try dividing total BTC spent by points earned, but it’s not very useful. Too many variables, too much speculation.","Tokenomics & Engineering AMA","Tokenomics and the updated pop point payout algorithm are both in the pipeline, with updates expected by early July. The next engineering AMA will likely be scheduled after the BIPVM white paper drops, pending vacation schedules.","Discord Roles, Kaito, and Creator Campaigns","New Hemi Discord tags are live, along with creative roles like “Content Creator.” These won’t impact airdrops but come with perks. On the Kaito front, another campaign is coming next week, and we’re working on a more inclusive program with Cookie3 to ensure smaller creators aren’t left behind.","BitVM ZK Teaser","Max dropped a teaser for the upcoming white paper on Hemi’s approach to BitVM and ZK proofs. One of the key innovations: self-contained ZK proofs of Bitcoin state, without relying on external superblock validation games. Ethereum helps us reflect Bitcoin state in a verifiable way, giving us clean introspection where Bitcoin alone falls short. More to come when the paper lands.","Technical Difficulties and Ceremonial Delays","Right as we queued up the Hemi Alliance promotion ceremony, Rick’s power went out—possibly lawnmower related, definitely comedic. We’ll reschedule that for later this week.","Thanks to everyone who joined. See you next Tuesday—barring any additional power outages or spontaneous harmonica solos.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-live-from-permissionless-powered-by-lawn-mowers"},"/blog/btc-programmability-the-hemi-superpower":{"version":1,"title":"BTC Programmability: The Hemi Superpower - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["BTC Programmability: The Hemi Superpower","Harnessing Hemi’s Superpower","Join the Hemi BTCFi Renaissance"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 24, 2025","Hemi unifies Bitcoin and Ethereum into a programmable supernetwork built to host the coming BTCFi renaissance.","Every breakthrough platform serves a distinct purpose. For Hemi, that purpose is bringing advanced programmability to Bitcoin. This capability makes Hemi a purpose-built network for the next stage of BTCFi.","DeFi has captured global market attention, with adoption signals now visible among lawmakers and the commercial sector. The approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the U.S., the integration of crypto into payment systems, and the rise of digital asset primitives all support this trend.","According to DeFiLlama, Bitcoin’s total value locked (TVL) in DeFi is approximately $8.65 billion. But with Bitcoin’s market capitalization exceeding $2.07 trillion, that figure barely scratches the surface. More than 99.5% of BTC remains idle—untapped by the decentralized financial infrastructure.","Hemi is changing that. It’s taking idle bitcoin and putting it to work in a secure, decentralized environment designed for performance. With modular architecture and Ethereum compatibility through the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM), Hemi enables native programmability for BTC assets—without sacrificing decentralization or security.","The next phase of DeFi will be driven by the mass activation of Bitcoin in systems that previously excluded it. Increasingly, participants are using Hemi to put their Bitcoin to work across a growing network of DeFi services.","Hemi now leads all Bitcoin Layer 2s, with more than $1.05 billion in TVL distributed across on-chain protocols. Developers and liquidity providers are choosing Hemi for its ability to combine Ethereum’s programmability with Bitcoin’s security.","Protocols for lending, trading, staking, and derivatives have already launched on Hemi, attracted by its accessible, trust-minimized infrastructure. Unlike wrapped solutions, Hemi Tunnels enable BTC to move into EVM-compatible applications without compromising decentralization.","Use cases that were once impractical for Bitcoin are now possible on Hemi:","Trustless lending markets using BTC as collateral or as a borrowed asset","BTC staking and yield generation","Perpetual futures and options markets backed by BTC collateral","Hemi is the foundation for a new class of decentralized applications that are natively aware of both Bitcoin and Ethereum states. These apps treat BTC as a composable asset in advanced financial systems, rather than a passive store of value.","Activate your BTC on Hemi with yield and rewards. During the Mainnet Season of the Hemi Points program, providing liquidity with hemiBTC is one of the most effective ways to earn points. Tunnel into Hemi and start earning immediately, with 3x, 5x, or even 8x boosts when you provide hemiBTC liquidity in select pools with partners including Sushi, Oku, Izumi, and DODO.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/btc-programmability-the-hemi-superpower"},"/blog/hemi-and-satori-wrap-25k-perpetuals-trading-competition":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Satori Wrap $25K Perpetuals Trading Competition - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Satori Wrap $25K Perpetuals Trading Competition","Competition Results"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 25, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Thousands joined the contest to compete for rewards based on PnL and total volume, driving $82M in trading on Satori’s perpetuals DEX.","In May, Hemi partnered with Satori to launch the first perpetuals trading competition on the network, offering $25,000 in USDC rewards to celebrate the arrival of leveraged perps trading. The competition brought new momentum to Hemi’s DeFi landscape, allowing users to trade BTC, ETH, and dozens of other assets at up to 50x leverage, without needing to hold the assets onchain.","Satori’s deployment on Hemi introduced vaults managed by professional market makers. Users also had the opportunity to deposit funds and earn yield from high-frequency trading strategies, in a trustless, secure, onchain environment.","The trading competition ran from May 1 to May 31, rewarding top-performing participants in two categories:","Profit and Loss (PnL) performance","Total trading volume across the competition period","Users needed to trade on Hemi using Satori and maintain TVL on the chain to qualify.","The contest saw wide participation, with thousands of active traders driving millions in volume through Satori’s perp dex.","Results Overview","Total Registered Users: 2,015","Active Traders: 457","Total Trading Volume: $82M","Prize Distribution","Top PnL Traders: Shared $15,000 USDC based on performance","Top Volume Traders: Shared $10,000 USDC based on volume ranking","Prizes are to be distributed to eligible Hemi accounts in USDC","The competition's success underscores growing interest in Hemi’s DeFi ecosystem, particularly for advanced trading tools like perpetuals. With Satori now live and vaults open for deposits, users can continue trading with leverage or earn passively on a performant and secure blockchain designed for real financial activity.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-satori-wrap-25k-perpetuals-trading-competition"},"/blog/how-hemi-advances-collaboration-across-chains":{"version":1,"title":"How Hemi Advances Collaboration Across Chains - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How Hemi Advances Collaboration Across Chains"],"h2":["Hemi’s Developer Suite","Latest articles"],"h3":["Hemi Nodes Provide Participants With Many Ways to Earn","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 27, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","How Hemi connects the blockchain universe.","Hemi prioritizes security, accessibility, and trustless infrastructure for developers of interfacing protocols, with support for the engineering of powerful cross-chain applications. In addition, Hemi offers Ethereum’s flexibility and directly integrates Bitcoin-based assets without censorship or third-party custody. This fosters a truly trust-minimized on-chain ecosystem.","As an extension of the Ethereum network, the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) also contains a fully indexed Bitcoin node. With this, Hemi can natively sync Bitcoin data without relying on third-party oracles, ensuring a trust-minimized and seamless integration between the two ecosystems for decentralized applications.","Hemi offers tools and resources that give developers the edge when designing their apps:","Developer Quickstart Guide—Jumpstart the building journey with an overview of the necessary steps and resources to begin building on Hemi. Perfect for blockchain beginners and experienced Web3 devs alike.","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)—Study the smart contracts designed to bridge Ethereum and Bitcoin networks, empowering Bitcoin-aware decentralized applications in an EVM state, with full access to assets from both ecosystems and cross-chain data calls.","Hemi Tutorials—Explore tutorials for smart contract deployment, contract verification, and Bitcoin balance management tools.","GitHub Resources—Access Hemi’s official GitHub, which hosts several repositories, documentation, and tools to build on the network.","Hemi’s Tech Stack—Review the architecture and components behind Hemi, and see how it facilitates a unified sovereign, secure, and interoperable blockchain ecosystem.","Hemi opens up the floodgates for developers to leverage Bitcoin’s liquidity in a more programmable and secure environment. With a hybrid consensus mechanism Proof-of-Proof, Hemi validates transactions with a BFT PoS-based authentication protocol that inherits robust security from Bitcoin’s PoW work. Once a block of transactions are verified via PoS they are bundled, hashed, and sent to Bitcoin, to be confirmed on Bitcoin blocks by PoP miners, creating a verifiable link between the two networks for Hemi to achieve superfinality.","The multifaceted nature of Hemi’s consensus protocol offers participants numerous opportunities to earn value while securing the ecosystem, with four different specialized nodes that work together to facilitate the network’s hybrid consensus model:","Bitcoin Secure Sequencers (BSS Nodes)—Earn rewards by securely ordering Hemi transactions while leveraging Bitcoin’s security layer.","PoP Mining—Earn rewards for each successful block validation anchoring transaction data to Bitcoin’s blockchain.","Bitcoin Finality Governers (BFGs)—Earn rewards by ensuring transactions sent to Bitcoin achieve finality.","Challengers—Earn rewards by monitoring the state of proofs and correctness of transactions.","Hemi gives participants the power to shape the future of cross chain DeFi, support a robust security protocol, and drive innovation throughout blockchain ecosystems. With comprehensive developer tools, trust-minimized infrastructure, and multifaceted engagement surface, Hemi is ready to offer a powerfully interoperable decentralized ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-hemi-advances-collaboration-across-chains"},"/blog/cycle-network-and-hemi-team-up-to-advance-abstraction-for-settlements":{"version":1,"title":"Cycle Network and Hemi Team Up To Advance Abstraction For Settlements - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Cycle Network and Hemi Team Up To Advance Abstraction For Settlements","Connect To Hemi And Earn Bitcoin Rewards"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 26, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Connect to Hemi’s Bitcoin-powered DeFi liquidity without a bridge in a single click with Cycle Network.","Hemi and Cycle Network are partnering to help expand the role of Bitcoin in DeFi by advancing chain abstraction, for accessible liquidity, and more seamless usability.","Cycle enables users to connect to Hemi’s liquidity and settle on the network with a single click, without the need for custodial bridges.","Cycle Network is building a bridgeless liquidity network and an all-chain settlement layer that will connect blockchain ecosystems without unnecessary intermediaries. Hemi’s architecture unites Bitcoin and Ethereum as parts of a single system. Together, Hemi and Cycle will address Bitcoin’s fragmentation and programmability limitations, making it simpler to use BTC assets directly in DeFi without custodial layers.","By gathering and verifying data across networks, Cycle creates a single environment where transactions can be proven, settled, and trusted regardless of which chain they originate from. Through this partnership, Cycle and Hemi are making it easier for Bitcoin and Ethereum assets to move freely and securely across DeFi, opening the door to new use cases and greater efficiency for users and builders alike.","Now it’s easier than ever to connect to Hemi and earn Bitcoin rewards. During the Mainnet Season of the Hemi Points program, providing liquidity with hemiBTC is one of the most effective ways to earn points. Tunnel into Hemi and start earning immediately, with 3x, 5x, or even 8x boosts when you provide hemiBTC liquidity in select pools with partners including Sushi, Oku, Izumi, and DODO.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/cycle-network-and-hemi-team-up-to-advance-abstraction-for-settlements"},"/blog/what-is-a-smart-contract-2":{"version":1,"title":"What Is a Smart Contract? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is a Smart Contract?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 1, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Smart contracts are integral to modern blockchains.","Smart contracts are one of the most important ideas in blockchain technology. They are not contracts in the legal sense. Instead, they are computer programs that run automatically when certain conditions are met. These programs live on a blockchain, which means they cannot be changed, censored, or shut down once deployed.","A smart contract works by following simple logic. For example, it might say that if a user sends a certain amount of cryptocurrency to an address, the contract will release a different token in return. This logic is encoded into the blockchain itself. Once published, the contract runs exactly as written, without needing permission or oversight from any central party.","The goal of smart contracts is to remove the need for intermediaries. In traditional finance or business deals, you usually need a middleman to enforce agreements. With smart contracts, the code enforces the terms. This makes transactions faster, cheaper, and less prone to fraud or miscommunication.","Smart contracts were made popular by Ethereum, which was the first blockchain to support general-purpose programming for this kind of automation. Ethereum developers can write contracts in a language called Solidity and deploy them to the Ethereum Virtual Machine. These contracts now power a wide range of applications, including decentralized finance platforms, NFT marketplaces, and automated trading tools.","Bitcoin also has a form of smart contract functionality. Its scripting language is more limited, but it still allows users to create rules about how coins can be spent. This includes features like multi-signature wallets, time locks, and other conditional transfers. While Bitcoin's system is not as flexible as Ethereum’s, it is considered more secure and easier to audit.","New tools and platforms are expanding what smart contracts can do on Bitcoin. Layer 2 systems, including Hemi, are helping developers build more advanced applications without changing the core Bitcoin protocol. These systems move most of the computation off-chain while anchoring key data and outcomes back to the Bitcoin network for final settlement and security.","Hemi offers a programmable environment called the hVM, which lets developers write smart contract logic in a controlled and scalable way. These contracts can settle to Bitcoin while interacting with other chains like Ethereum. This opens the door to decentralized finance, asset tokenization, and application development that is rooted in Bitcoin’s security model but not limited by its base-layer scripting.","Smart contracts are more than a technical feature. They are a foundation for building decentralized systems that work without trust. From payments and loans to voting systems and identity tools, they allow anyone to create and use programs that run exactly as designed. There are no gatekeepers and no need for approval from outside institutions.","As the technology matures, smart contracts will continue to become more powerful, more efficient, and more secure. Platforms like Hemi are helping bring these capabilities to Bitcoin users and developers, creating new possibilities for those who want to build in a trustless environment while still benefiting from programmability.","Understanding smart contracts is key to understanding the future of blockchain. They allow code to replace paperwork, systems to run without middlemen, and applications to scale globally with minimal friction. Whether you are a builder, investor, or user, smart contracts are shaping how decentralized systems work, and they are here to stay.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-smart-contract-2"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-a-holiday-interlude":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: A Holiday Interlude - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: A Holiday Interlude"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 1, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","This week’s update brought to you by Jeremy Nation, filling in for Rick.","We’re heading into July with a full plate of updates, events, and technical progress. On this week’s Midweek with Max, Jeremy stepped in to host while much of the team is traveling, and Max joined to provide a detailed look at what’s moving behind the scenes. From Permissionless to the upcoming Engineering AMA, there’s a lot to keep an eye on.","The team is still riding momentum from a successful showing at Permissionless IV, where Hemi had a strong presence both on the ground and in media. Several founder interviews and podcasts are queued for release, and more news stories should be landing soon. Community energy has also been high—especially around memes, mascot experiments, and the ongoing antics of the “Hemi intern” AI persona. All of this points to a creative, engaged user base that’s helping shape Hemi’s public voice.","Next week brings a double-header: our usual Tuesday session of Midweek with Max, followed by a special Engineering AMA on Wednesday, July 9 at 11 a.m. ET. This AMA will dig deeper into tech topics, including questions about infrastructure, protocol updates, and future roadmap elements. If you have questions, now’s the time to submit them.","On the engineering side, Max shared that the Pectra upgrade has been rescheduled to Thursday, July 4 at 11 a.m. ET after a minor coordination hiccup with some node operators. A new #node-updates channel in Discord will now serve as the central location for upgrade instructions, flags, and releases. There may also be a Telegram channel down the line, but for now, all upgrade communication lives in Discord.","For Hatchling NFT holders, a snapshot was taken last Wednesday, and mainnet minting should be complete by end of day tomorrow. Meanwhile, final touches are being applied to the BitVM whitepaper, which will likely be released ahead of the AMA to give the community a chance to review and prepare questions. In parallel, several pull requests are being finalized across the BFG and Popminer daemons as part of a broader refactor effort. Once those settle, documentation will follow.","As always, community questions were front and center. The most common: When is TGE? The answer remains the same—very soon. The team is locking in the last pieces, with a focus on choosing a date we can actually stick to. As Max noted, it’s better to get it right once than to shift timelines multiple times.","On node licenses, there are no new sales planned. The market isn’t active enough to justify re-engaging at this point. However, anyone who purchased a license will be supported. That could mean receiving the license itself or something equivalent with less operational overhead. Refunds are not available right now, but the team is committed to honoring those purchases.","Points and rewards continue to move forward. One final recalculation is underway for testnet pop points, now that a complete export from Absinthe has been received. On mainnet, Season One will officially end just before the TGE, with a snapshot taken at that cutoff. Any on-chain activity after that won’t be included in rewards calculations. There will be a short review period between the snapshot and distribution to resolve discrepancies.","Several liquidity pools—such as ethmax, haremax, and vCredMax—were flagged by the community as unclear in terms of point eligibility. These have been passed to John Greenwood for confirmation, and we’ll share updates as they come. Meanwhile, Absinthe remains our points provider, largely due to the flexibility they offer for tracking unique on-chain behaviors. While slower at times, they’ve started migrating to SubSquid, which should improve data performance and indexing reliability.","The Hatchlings NFT migration is nearly done, and while the timeline for an NFT marketplace on Hemi is still TBD, several candidates are in the pipeline. No deployments have been finalized yet.","One community question focused on Hemi’s ability to support AI-focused blockchain applications. Max explained that Hemi’s architecture—particularly Chain Builder and Proof-of-Proof—offers tools that could support timestamped model inference, zero-knowledge verification of model training, and AI-optimized chain configurations. While many of these ideas are forward-looking, Hemi is well-positioned to support that kind of application-layer innovation over time.","Proof-of-Proof mining is also evolving. A new calculation method for rewards will roll out soon, likely within the next week. Details on the algorithm and dashboard updates will be shared once the new system is live. A new dashboard is on the roadmap too, with better visuals and functionality than the current testnet version, but there’s no firm timeline for release.","A few final points: the team hasn’t yet gathered internal data on Bitcoin spending by PoP miners but expects to have that for next week’s call. The $25K Satori trading competition prize is being managed by the BD team, most of whom are currently at ETHCC in France. Distribution is pending but on the radar.","The wrap-up emphasized one message: the community continues to power Hemi’s growth, from memes to testnet activity. With upgrades landing, BitVM around the corner, and the token event close to announcement, the weeks ahead are going to be important. Keep your questions coming, stay active in Discord, and we’ll see you for both the Tuesday and Wednesday sessions next week.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-a-holiday-interlude"},"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-dzap-to-power-cross-chain-interoperability":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Collaborates with DZap to Power Cross-Chain Interoperability - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Collaborates with DZap to Power Cross-Chain Interoperability"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 1, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","DZap’s infrastructure unlocks new frontiers on Hemi for usability, performance, and composability across chains.","Hemi is collaborating with DZap, a cross-chain aggregator that enables single-click access to unified liquidity in DeFi across over 100 chains and providers. DZap is now live on Hemi and available at app.dzap.io, enhancing ease of use across the Hemi DeFi ecosystem.","Hemi users and protocols can access DZap’s AI-powered zapping engine, enabling single-click access to liquidity across DeFi. In addition, users can bridge, swap, and transfer assets across chains through a simplified transaction system that consistently finds the best price. The integration brings Hemi frictionless liquidity migration, cross-protocol zaps, and optimized execution through DZap’s deep DEX aggregation layer.For Hemi users, this means:","Smarter onboarding and offboarding from any chain or protocol","1-click liquidity actions without juggling bridges, DEXs, and wallets","Always-best outcomes, powered by 135+ liquidity routes and real-time optimization","Native Hemi dApps will soon be integrated with DZap, allowing direct zapping into Hemi-native strategies and protocols, and enabling automated crosschain flows for users and smart DeFi infrastructure for builders. Explore DZap today and embark on a frictionless, interoperable DeFi journey across the Hemi ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-collaborates-with-dzap-to-power-cross-chain-interoperability"},"/blog/a-deep-dive-into-programmable-bitcoin-applications":{"version":1,"title":"A Deep Dive into Programmable Bitcoin Applications - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["A Deep Dive into Programmable Bitcoin Applications"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Bitcoin was created to move value securely without the need for a central authority. It does that well. But today, developers are looking for more. They want to build programmable applications that do more than just send and receive Bitcoin. That means creating tools and systems that can run logic, handle conditions, and interact with other users or protocols. For years, this kind of programmability has been limited on Bitcoin. That is starting to change.","Programmable Bitcoin applications are software systems that use Bitcoin as the settlement layer while running business logic off-chain or in controlled environments. These apps can automate financial activity, manage access to digital assets, or even connect with other blockchains. Unlike traditional applications, programmable Bitcoin apps are trustless by design. They follow rules that are publicly verifiable and enforced through cryptography rather than intermediaries.","Historically, most programmable applications have been built on Ethereum. That is because Ethereum includes a virtual machine that can execute smart contracts. Developers can write complex logic that lives on the Ethereum blockchain and runs automatically. Bitcoin was not designed with the same level of flexibility. Its scripting language is limited and intentionally constrained to reduce risk. While this keeps Bitcoin simple and secure, it also limits what developers can build directly on the base layer.","In response, the Bitcoin ecosystem has started to evolve. Developers have introduced upgrades like Taproot and tools like Miniscript that make scripting more efficient. Others are taking a different path by building Layer 2 platforms that support programmable behavior while using Bitcoin for security and settlement. These platforms allow developers to write code that behaves like a smart contract but runs off-chain or in alternative environments.","Hemi is one of the leading efforts in this area. It introduces a virtual machine called the hVM that runs programmable applications on a separate layer. These apps can handle logic, data, and interaction across different networks while using Bitcoin as the final source of truth. Developers can build lending platforms, trading systems, identity tools, and other applications that settle to Bitcoin without relying on wrapped tokens or custodians. The result is a system that combines programmability with Bitcoin’s trust model.","What makes programmable Bitcoin applications different is their architecture. Most of the logic takes place off the base layer. Instead of recording every action on-chain, these systems batch activity, validate it through consensus or proofs, and then anchor the outcome to the Bitcoin blockchain. This keeps the core network lean and secure while still enabling rich functionality.","These applications are already being used in real-world settings. Developers are creating decentralized exchanges that support Bitcoin, stablecoin vaults that use BTC as collateral, and payment systems that use smart contracts to manage access and fees. Many of these tools are built using modular systems that can interact with other blockchains, making Bitcoin more flexible and integrated than ever before.","The future of programmable Bitcoin is modular, scalable, and secure. It does not try to turn Bitcoin into something it is not. Instead, it builds around Bitcoin’s core strengths. Platforms like Hemi offer the tools developers need to create complex applications without giving up control or introducing new attack surfaces. This creates a development environment that respects Bitcoin’s design while opening the door to new use cases.","Programmable Bitcoin applications are no longer just a theory. They are active, growing, and ready to support the next generation of decentralized tools. With better infrastructure, improved scripting, and trusted Layer 2 systems, Bitcoin is becoming a viable platform for more than just money. It is becoming programmable on its own terms.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/a-deep-dive-into-programmable-bitcoin-applications"},"/blog/proof-of-proof-vs-validity-proofs-security-tradeoffs-explained":{"version":1,"title":"Proof-of-Proof vs. Validity Proofs: Security Tradeoffs Explained - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Proof-of-Proof vs. Validity Proofs: Security Tradeoffs Explained"],"h2":["What is Proof-of-Proof?","What are Validity Proofs?","Security Strengths of Proof-of-Proof","Security Strengths of Validity Proofs","Tradeoffs Between PoP and Validity Proofs","Why Hemi Uses Proof-of-Proof","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 3, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","In blockchain architecture, consensus security often comes down to how proof is established and verified. Two approaches gaining attention — Proof-of-Proof (PoP) and validity proofs — take very different paths to ensuring trust.","Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof model is designed for bridgeless interoperability and multi-chain security anchoring, while validity proofs power many Layer 2 scaling solutions like zk-rollups. Understanding the security tradeoffs between the two is critical for developers, investors, and users deciding where to deploy assets and build applications.","Proof-of-Proof (PoP) is Hemi’s method for embedding verifiable state commitments from one blockchain into another. Instead of relying on a separate validator set or third-party bridge, PoP publishes cryptographic proofs directly to secure base layers like Bitcoin and Ethereum.","This means that if your application or asset is anchored with PoP, its security depends on the consensus strength of the underlying blockchains — not a standalone network of verifiers. For cross-chain applications, PoP effectively turns each connected chain into a mutual auditor.","Validity proofs, often referred to as zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) in scaling contexts, are cryptographic statements that confirm a set of transactions was computed correctly without revealing the underlying data.","They are the backbone of zk-rollups, enabling Layer 2 systems to batch thousands of transactions and post only a small proof to Layer 1. This offers scalability and high throughput while retaining the security of the base chain.","For cross-chain systems, PoP eliminates one of the biggest vulnerabilities in blockchain interoperability — the crypto bridge attack surface. With PoP:","There’s no external validator set to compromise.","State is anchored directly into base layer consensus.","Attackers must defeat Bitcoin or Ethereum security to alter proof history.","This makes PoP highly resilient against the large-scale bridge hacks that have cost users billions in recent years.","Validity proofs excel in transaction integrity for high-throughput systems. In zk-rollups, the base chain only needs to verify a succinct proof, not every individual transaction. This keeps fees low and speeds up confirmation while preserving correctness.","For single-chain scaling, validity proofs are unmatched in efficiency. However, when used for cross-chain communication, they still require a secure bridge or verification mechanism between chains.","Scope of Security — PoP secures cross-chain state without intermediaries, while validity proofs secure transaction correctness within one chain or rollup environment.","Performance — Validity proofs enable massive scalability gains, but do not inherently solve cross-chain trust issues. PoP focuses on interoperability security, not transaction throughput.","Complexity — PoP is relatively straightforward to verify using existing base chain infrastructure. Validity proofs require more complex cryptographic circuits and can be computationally intensive to generate.","In short, PoP is best suited for bridgeless interoperability and multi-chain coordination, while validity proofs are optimized for intra-chain scalability.","Hemi’s mission is to make cross-chain apps secure and practical without relying on centralized bridges. Proof-of-Proof aligns with that mission by embedding trust in the strongest consensus layers available. Developers can use the hVM to build applications that operate across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other ecosystems — all without wrapped assets or third-party validators.","While validity proofs will remain critical for scaling, the future of safe interoperability will depend on models like PoP that keep the security guarantees of the blockchains themselves intact.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/proof-of-proof-vs-validity-proofs-security-tradeoffs-explained"},"/blog/how-to-develop-cross-chain-apps-using-the-hvm":{"version":1,"title":"How to Develop Cross-Chain Apps Using the hVM - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How to Develop Cross-Chain Apps Using the hVM"],"h2":["What Makes the hVM Different","Setting Up Your hVM Development Environment","Designing Cross-Chain Logic","Why Build Cross-Chain Apps on the hVM","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 3, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","The Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) is at the core of Hemi’s approach to secure, scalable, and bridgeless interoperability. For developers building cross-chain applications, the hVM offers a way to deploy logic that interacts with multiple blockchains natively — without relying on risky crypto bridges or wrapped assets.","If you’re looking to tap into liquidity, users, and functionality across ecosystems like Bitcoin and Ethereum, understanding how to develop on the hVM is the first step.","Most blockchain development environments are tied to a single base chain. Smart contracts live on Ethereum, Solana programs run on Solana, and so on. Cross-chain interactions typically require external bridge infrastructure, which adds latency, cost, and security risk.","The hVM takes a different approach. It’s designed to execute code across multiple chains using Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus and crypto tunnels. This allows your application to send and receive verifiable messages between chains without introducing a centralized intermediary.","The result is true cross-chain execution, where your logic can query state, trigger transactions, and coordinate actions on multiple blockchains as if they were part of a single environment.","To start building with the hVM, visit our documentation page to begin working with the virtual machine, PoP proofs, and the crypto tunnel APIs. The setup process is similar to other smart contract frameworks, but with additional tooling for multi-chain deployment.","Developers can write hVM programs in a familiar syntax — often Solidity-like for EVM compatibility — but with extensions for cross-chain calls. These extensions let you define logic that runs partially on one chain and finalizes on another, all verified through Hemi’s PoP anchors.","When designing your application, think about how data and value flow across ecosystems. With the hVM, you can:","Pull real-time state from another chain (e.g., a Bitcoin block header) directly into your contract.","Trigger events on a different chain in response to on-chain logic.","Coordinate asset movements without wrapping tokens or using a separate bridge validator set.","For example, you could build a lending platform that accepts native Bitcoin as collateral while issuing stablecoins on Ethereum, all through hVM-managed tunnels.","By using the hVM, you bypass the weaknesses of traditional crypto bridges while gaining access to multiple liquidity pools and user bases. Security is anchored to the consensus of the chains involved, not a separate bridging layer.","For DeFi, NFTs, gaming, and enterprise use cases, the ability to operate across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other ecosystems without wrapped tokens is a significant advantage — one that could define the next phase of multi-chain application development.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-to-develop-cross-chain-apps-using-the-hvm"},"/blog/bitcoin-in-defi-use-cases-that-dont-require-custody":{"version":1,"title":"Bitcoin in DeFi: Use Cases That Don’t Require Custody - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Bitcoin in DeFi: Use Cases That Don’t Require Custody"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 3, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Bitcoin has long been seen as a store of value, a hedge against inflation, and a decentralized form of money. But in recent years, interest in Bitcoin's role in decentralized finance has grown. DeFi, or decentralized finance, is usually associated with Ethereum, where smart contracts power lending, trading, and staking. That has led many to ask whether Bitcoin can participate in DeFi without giving up self-custody.","Most Bitcoin holders prefer to control their own assets. That is one of the main values of the Bitcoin network. But using Bitcoin in DeFi has traditionally required users to send their coins to custodial platforms or wrap them through Ethereum-based bridges. These approaches rely on third parties to hold the original Bitcoin and issue synthetic versions on other chains. While this opens access to DeFi, it also introduces risks, including smart contract exploits, custodial failures, and loss of direct control over funds.","Now, new tools and protocols are emerging that let Bitcoin participate in DeFi without giving up custody. These solutions allow users to access lending, trading, and yield opportunities while keeping their Bitcoin under their own control or in trust-minimized systems. They focus on preserving Bitcoin’s security model while expanding its functionality.","One of the simplest non-custodial use cases is trust-minimized collateral. Users can lock Bitcoin in a contract or multi-signature wallet and borrow stablecoins or other assets without handing over their private keys. This can be done using time-locked contracts, threshold signatures, or atomic swap logic that ensures both parties follow the rules without needing an intermediary. These models have been tested and refined to allow decentralized collateralization without full asset transfer.","Another important use case is Bitcoin-backed liquidity. In this model, Bitcoin holders can provide liquidity to a decentralized trading platform or automated market maker without wrapping their coins or sending them to another chain. These platforms use Layer 2 settlement, sidechains, or cross-chain tunnels to confirm balances and match trades, while the underlying Bitcoin remains secure in its native environment. This reduces risk and avoids the need to trust custodians.","Yield strategies are also becoming available to native Bitcoin holders. Instead of depositing wrapped Bitcoin into an Ethereum contract, users can deposit real Bitcoin into a non-custodial vault or protocol that generates returns from decentralized activities like market making or secured lending. The returns are calculated and distributed based on cryptographic proofs or consensus checkpoints, so users can verify activity without giving up ownership of their coins.","Hemi is helping to enable these types of non-custodial Bitcoin use cases. Through its Proof-of-Proof system and cross-chain tunnels, Hemi allows Bitcoin to serve as collateral, liquidity, or settlement without needing to leave the Bitcoin network. It connects Bitcoin to Ethereum and other smart contract ecosystems while maintaining control and transparency. This opens the door to DeFi applications that use real Bitcoin, not synthetic versions, and that operate with a higher standard of trust and resilience.","As more developers build on Layer 2 systems like Hemi, the Bitcoin DeFi landscape will continue to grow. Users will be able to interact with decentralized protocols, earn yield, and access credit while maintaining the core principle of self-custody. This makes Bitcoin more useful without compromising what makes it different.","The future of Bitcoin in DeFi does not depend on giving up control. It depends on building tools that respect its design and extend its utility. With the right infrastructure, Bitcoin can become a central part of the decentralized financial system without losing its identity.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/bitcoin-in-defi-use-cases-that-dont-require-custody"},"/blog/hemi-and-hypernative-partner-to-strengthen-network-security":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Hypernative Partner to Strengthen Network Security - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Hypernative Partner to Strengthen Network Security","Hemi Is The Secure Network For Bitcoin Growth"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 8, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Hypernative reinforces Hemi’s network and protocols by establishing secure workflows, helping to minimize risk in DeFi.","Hemi is pleased to announce a collaboration with Hypernative, a company focused on enhancing security across the Hemi network and the protocols deployed on it.","Hypernative will work with Hemi to review the network’s frameworks and response procedures, helping to establish best practices for ongoing security operations and risk management.","As part of this collaboration, Hypernative will provide preventative monitoring across critical infrastructure, including oracle reliability, bridge and tunnel security, and protocol-specific risks. Additional protections will cover operational monitoring, treasury and wallet tracking, custom agent creation for on-chain event review, and more.","Hypernative will also offer hands-on support to configure monitoring systems and prevention workflows. This includes onboarding assistance, risk matrix development, and the establishment of dedicated support channels. The goal is to ensure Hemi continues to operate with resilience and transparency, equipped with rapid response capabilities against evolving threats.","For end-users, this collaboration strengthens confidence in the security of applications and protocols launched on Hemi. By monitoring key infrastructure, protocol activity, and treasury movements, Hypernative helps create a safer environment for trading, staking, lending, and other DeFi use cases on Hemi.","This partnership reflects a shared commitment to building and maintaining a robust security infrastructure as the Hemi ecosystem grows. It reinforces Hemi’s focus on resilient, trust-minimized systems.","Leverage Bitcoin on Hemi’s secure network with confidence and start earning points today. During the Mainnet Season of the Hemi Points program, providing liquidity with hemiBTC is one of the most effective ways to earn points. Tunnel into Hemi and start earning immediately, with 3x, 5x, or even 8x boosts when you provide hemiBTC liquidity in select pools with partners including Sushi, Oku, Izumi, and DODO.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-hypernative-partner-to-strengthen-network-security"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-1delta-joins-us-to-explore-their-tech-stack":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: 1Delta Joins Us to Explore Their Tech Stack - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: 1Delta Joins Us to Explore Their Tech Stack"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 8, 2025","No Karaoke, just solid Hemi news.","This week’s Midweek with Max saw Jeremy Nation stepping in for Rick—who’s off somewhere being very tan and mysterious. But the show didn’t slow down. We had a packed house: Phil fresh from a trans-hemispheric migration to Chicago, Max running on caffeine and protocol dust, and our special guest Aktar from 1Delta, who gave us a deep dive into what they're building on Hemi.","1Delta: The DeFi Front DoorAktar gave a full tour of 1Delta's stack: DEX aggregation, bridge aggregation, and yield-maximizing tools that make using DeFi on Hemi (and beyond) less painful. Whether you're looping LSTs with ZeroLend or trying to bridge in from anywhere, 1Delta offers a single, user-friendly interface with no smart contract middlemen. “You always hold the ownership,” Aktar noted—a nod to the power of EOAs in the Hemi universe.","Why Hemi? Because Bitcoin shouldn’t just sit there. 1Delta sees BTC as a sleeping asset class and Hemi as the architecture that can wake it up without the sketchiness of centralized yield. With native routing support for Izumi, SushiSwap, and others, they're filling in liquidity gaps and prepping to onboard even more tools as the ecosystem grows.","Phil’s Marketing Stack: The Four C’sBack in the attic and back on the mic, Phil broke down his go-to-market strategy using the “Four C’s”: certainty (paid media), control (owned content), credibility (earned media), and community (hi, Discord). He also dropped some solid updates: interviews with The Defiant, coverage from Reflexivity and CoinMarketCap’s newsletters, and growing mindshare post-Permissionless. TL;DR: Hemi’s not just showing up—we’re being noticed.","John Greenwood’s Points and POP UpdateJohn G. gave an overdue but thorough update on the points system. Big news:","POP fixes are in motion. A tracking issue on Absinthe’s end caused gaps, particularly affecting a syndicate out of Ukraine. That’s being addressed via a SubSquid integration (think: an on-chain metrics Swiss army knife).","Epoch 2 is still open. You'll get at least 72 hours' notice before it closes.","Spectra points are going live. Retroactive credit is happening.","No snapshot drama. Points are accrued continuously. You’re rewarded for time staked, not just a lucky timestamp.","Engineering from Max: Pectra, Daemons, HatchlingsMax walked us through the post-PECTRA landscape. Highlights:","The Pectra upgrade went off cleanly.","Refactored Daemons are nearly ready. Expect simpler POP mining and improved modularity.","The HBITVM whitepaper is almost here, with digestible explainer content to follow.","Hemi Hatchlings are minting—cosmetic for now, but future utility is coming.","Also: 1.71 BTC has been spent by 913 unique POP miners on mainnet across 323,770 transactions. One block even held 853 POP TXs—wild.","AI at Hemi: Useful, but CautiousAI is helping with minor tasks and non-critical code, but don’t expect it to run the protocol. As Max explained, the complexity of Bitcoin and EVM interplay is too deep for autocomplete. “When you're building something this big, hallucinations can be fatal.”","Coming Soon: Tokenomics + Engineering AMATokenomics are still being finalized, but more rewards are being added to account for the delay. The goal is to reward early contributors, especially from testnet. A major engineering AMA is happening tomorrow with 5,000 Discord XP on the line for quality questions. Bring the heat.","TL;DR:","1Delta is making DeFi on Hemi smoother and safer.","Points tracking is getting more precise, with SubSquid and Spectra retroactivity.","Tokenomics and TGE timelines are coming into focus.","The team continues to build—carefully, methodically, and fast.","See you next week. Karaoke resumes when Rick returns. Until then: Stay HEMI strong.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-1delta-joins-us-to-explore-their-tech-stack"},"/blog/how-do-crypto-bridges-work":{"version":1,"title":"How Do Crypto Bridges Work? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How Do Crypto Bridges Work?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 10, 2025","Hemi uses a technology called tunnels to manage cross blockchain connectivity. But how did users used to bridge Ethereum and Bitcoin?","Blockchains are usually closed systems. Bitcoin runs on its own chain. Ethereum runs on a different one. Assets and data on one chain cannot move to another on their own. This creates a problem for users and developers who want to interact across multiple networks. That is where crypto bridges come in.","A crypto bridge is a tool that connects two separate blockchains. It lets assets or information pass between them. This allows users to move value from one chain to another, or access features that are only available on a different network. For example, a user might want to use their Bitcoin on an Ethereum-based DeFi platform. A bridge makes that possible by creating a link between the two chains.","Bridges work by using a system of locking and minting. When a user wants to move an asset from one blockchain to another, they send it to a smart contract or address on the original chain. That contract holds the asset securely and then triggers the creation of a mirrored or wrapped version of that asset on the destination chain. The original asset stays locked and cannot be used until the user brings back the wrapped version and unlocks the original.","This process creates a synthetic version of the asset on the new chain. For example, if you send Bitcoin to a bridge that connects to Ethereum, the bridge will hold the Bitcoin and issue a token on Ethereum that represents it. This token can now be used in Ethereum applications. When you are done, you can return the token to the bridge and redeem the original Bitcoin.","Some bridges use a trusted third party to hold the funds and manage the minting process. Others use more decentralized systems that rely on multi-signature wallets or smart contract logic. The more decentralized the bridge, the more secure and censorship-resistant it tends to be. However, decentralized bridges can be more complex to build and operate.","There are also risks with bridges. If the bridge’s code has bugs or the system is not properly secured, assets can be lost or stolen. This has happened in several high-profile cases. Because bridges involve two different chains and often rely on off-chain coordination, they can be a target for attackers. That is why bridge design is one of the most important problems in blockchain infrastructure today.","At Hemi, bridges are treated as a foundational part of how Bitcoin connects to other chains. Hemi uses a system called cross-chain tunnels to enable movement of assets and data between Bitcoin and Ethereum-compatible environments. These tunnels use a combination of cryptographic proofs and economic incentives to ensure that assets are transferred securely and without trust in a single party.","The advantage of Hemi’s approach is that it avoids putting full trust in third parties while still keeping the bridge usable and efficient. Instead of relying on a central custodian, Hemi uses a modular consensus system that verifies activity on both ends and anchors the results to Bitcoin. This gives developers and users confidence that cross-chain activity will remain secure and transparent.","Crypto bridges are one of the most important tools for making blockchains interoperable. They allow assets and applications to move beyond the limits of a single network. As the industry matures, bridges will continue to evolve, with better security models, faster transfers, and deeper integration into the user experience.","If Bitcoin is to remain a key part of the broader crypto ecosystem, it needs secure ways to connect with other chains. Bridges make that possible. Platforms like Hemi are leading the way by building cross-chain tools that are rooted in Bitcoin’s values and designed for long-term scalability.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-do-crypto-bridges-work"},"/blog/what-is-a-smart-contract":{"version":1,"title":"What Is a Smart Contract? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is a Smart Contract?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 11, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Smart contracts are vital to blockchain DeFi. Here's how they work.","Smart contracts are one of the most important ideas in blockchain technology. They are not contracts in the legal sense. Instead, they are computer programs that run automatically when certain conditions are met. These programs live on a blockchain, which means they cannot be changed, censored, or shut down once deployed.","A smart contract works by following simple logic. For example, it might say that if a user sends a certain amount of cryptocurrency to an address, the contract will release a different token in return. This logic is encoded into the blockchain itself. Once published, the contract runs exactly as written, without needing permission or oversight from any central party.","The goal of smart contracts is to remove the need for intermediaries. In traditional finance or business deals, you usually need a middleman to enforce agreements. With smart contracts, the code enforces the terms. This makes transactions faster, cheaper, and less prone to fraud or miscommunication.","Smart contracts were made popular by Ethereum, which was the first blockchain to support general-purpose programming for this kind of automation. Ethereum developers can write contracts in a language called Solidity and deploy them to the Ethereum Virtual Machine. These contracts now power a wide range of applications, including decentralized finance platforms, NFT marketplaces, and automated trading tools.","Bitcoin also has a form of smart contract functionality. Its scripting language is more limited, but it still allows users to create rules about how coins can be spent. This includes features like multi-signature wallets, time locks, and other conditional transfers. While Bitcoin's system is not as flexible as Ethereum’s, it is considered more secure and easier to audit.","New tools and platforms are expanding what smart contracts can do on Bitcoin. Layer 2 systems, including Hemi, are helping developers build more advanced applications without changing the core Bitcoin protocol. These systems move most of the computation off-chain while anchoring key data and outcomes back to the Bitcoin network for final settlement and security.","Hemi offers a programmable environment called the hVM, which lets developers write smart contract logic in a controlled and scalable way. These contracts can settle to Bitcoin while interacting with other chains like Ethereum. This opens the door to decentralized finance, asset tokenization, and application development that is rooted in Bitcoin’s security model but not limited by its base-layer scripting.","Smart contracts are more than a technical feature. They are a foundation for building decentralized systems that work without trust. From payments and loans to voting systems and identity tools, they allow anyone to create and use programs that run exactly as designed. There are no gatekeepers and no need for approval from outside institutions.","As the technology matures, smart contracts will continue to become more powerful, more efficient, and more secure. Platforms like Hemi are helping bring these capabilities to Bitcoin users and developers, creating new possibilities for those who want to build in a trustless environment while still benefiting from programmability.","Understanding smart contracts is key to understanding the future of blockchain. They allow code to replace paperwork, systems to run without middlemen, and applications to scale globally with minimal friction. Whether you are a builder, investor, or user, smart contracts are shaping how decentralized systems work, and they are here to stay.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-smart-contract"},"/blog/hemi-developer-ama-recap-whats-next-for-bitcoin-programmability-and-l3-security":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Developer AMA Recap: What’s Next for Bitcoin Programmability and L3 Security - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Developer AMA Recap: What’s Next for Bitcoin Programmability and L3 Security"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Real-Time Bitcoin Data, with a Two-Block Delay","Why Ethereum Is Used for DA (Data Availability)","TBC: A Purpose-Built Bitcoin Node for the EVM","Smart Contract Interface: Precompiles, Not Opcodes","Handling Bitcoin Reorgs","Using Bitcoin for Randomness","Simplifying Node Operation","UTXO Growth Isn’t a Concern","Light Clients and ZK Proofs Are Coming","Chain Builder and L3 Rollups","Security and Audits","POP and SegWit","What’s Next","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 10, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Video","In this episode of MwM, the engineering team sat down to answer questions with the Hemi community.","This week, the Hemi protocol engineering team hosted a wide-ranging AMA covering everything from Bitcoin state access inside the HVM to future plans for L3 rollups and decentralized security. Co-founder Max Sanchez and developers Marco, JCV, Antonio, and Joshua joined the session to walk through the architectural decisions behind Hemi and what’s coming next.","Here’s a breakdown of the highlights.","One of the core features of Hemi’s hVM (Hemi Virtual Machine) is its ability to query native Bitcoin state from within EVM-compatible smart contracts. To keep this deterministic and secure, hVM intentionally lags two Bitcoin blocks behind the tip. This avoids issues where someone could mine a block and selectively withhold it to confuse the state.","Hemi doesn’t support mempool queries for smart contracts, since Bitcoin mempool views are non-deterministic. However, the team built a custom embedded Bitcoin node—called TBC (Tiny Bitcoin Client)—to support efficient, deterministic state queries from smart contracts.","Hemi uses Ethereum for publishing data availability proofs instead of Bitcoin. This is largely about cost and throughput. Ethereum’s blob-based data system (EIP-4844) is designed for L2 scalability. Bitcoin, with its 4MB per 10-minute block limit and fee spikes, isn’t well suited to serve as a DA layer for high-throughput chains.","This choice also makes Hemi a better network citizen: publishing large amounts of L2 data to Bitcoin would crowd out other Bitcoin users. Instead, Hemi leverages Ethereum’s DA layer while anchoring security via Proof-of-Proof (PoP) to Bitcoin.","TBC is a streamlined Bitcoin full node embedded inside Hemi’s version of op-geth. It runs in two modes: one for tracking Bitcoin consensus headers, and another for full state indexing. This makes it possible for smart contracts to query Bitcoin UTXOs, validate transactions, and more—all from within the EVM.","The engineering team built TBC to be compact (about 14,000 lines of code) and efficient. It also inherits years of experience from prior work on BTCD, a well-known alternative Bitcoin client.","Accessing Bitcoin data from a smart contract is handled through EVM precompiles—lightweight native functions that live outside the EVM opcode space. These precompiles talk directly to TBC and return data like UTXOs, transaction proofs, and block metadata.","While developers can interact with these precompiles directly, most will use higher-level abstractions via BitcoinKit, Hemi’s SDK for building Bitcoin-aware contracts.","hVM's two-block delay protects against short Bitcoin reorgs. For longer reorgs, DApp developers are responsible for setting proper confirmation windows—typically 4–6 blocks—for any operation that relies on finality, like issuing loans or minting assets.","While Hemi is in talks with oracle providers to support verifiable randomness functions (VRF), developers can also use delayed Bitcoin block hashes as a secure entropy source for lottery or game applications. This works well if you design around the two-block delay and avoid letting users \"peek ahead\" at future entropy.","A major refactor is underway—known as PR #396—that splits up the monolithic architecture of Hemi’s early daemons. The new layout will make nodes easier to run, monitor, and extend. Prometheus support is being added across services, and helper scripts are being bundled for local deployments.","Testnet is also moving to Bitcoin Testnet4, which solves issues caused by Testnet3’s erratic block times and massive reorgs.","Compared to Ethereum’s state tree, Bitcoin’s UTXO set is small and grows slowly. TBC uses efficient indexing, and the team is rolling out improvements to UTXO unwinds and storage. In short, Hemi’s architecture isn’t bottlenecked by Bitcoin’s state size.","Eventually, Hemi will support ZK-proven light clients, where full Bitcoin and Ethereum state can be verified by smart contracts using zero-knowledge proofs. This will allow external parties to trustlessly verify the output of the Hemi chain without needing to run a full node.","The team previewed Chain Builder, a modular framework for launching custom L3s that inherit security from Hemi and, by extension, Bitcoin. Builders will be able to choose between enabling HVM, using HemiBTC via the tunnel, and configuring DA and sequencing preferences.","In the future, shared sequencing and shared DA for L3s will enable smoother interoperability and cheaper operation, while still allowing for flexibility in design.","Hemi’s smart contracts are audited before any major upgrade, and the core codebase has undergone reviews by HackerOne. A more formalized release schedule and public changelogs are coming. For reporting issues, Hemi uses a private HackerOne program and a responsible disclosure process.","Currently, POP mining uses legacy Bitcoin address formats for simplicity and compatibility with Ethereum keys. The team plans to support SegWit and Tapscript in the future, but this requires additional cryptographic tooling and a new registration system for linking Bitcoin keys to EVM addresses.","The release of the BitVM+ white paper","Full migration to Testnet4","Launch of ZK proving infrastructure","A formal rollout of Chain Builder for L3 deployments","The AMA showed just how much depth and intentionality has gone into Hemi’s architecture. It’s not just a bridge—it’s a rethinking of how to make Bitcoin programmable, accessible, and secure for the next wave of developers.","Stay tuned for the next Engineering AMA. There’s a lot more to cover.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-developer-ama-recap-whats-next-for-bitcoin-programmability-and-l3-security"},"/blog/what-is-a-layer-2-blockchain":{"version":1,"title":"What Is a Layer 2 Blockchain? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Is a Layer 2 Blockchain?"],"h2":["Layer 1 vs. Layer 2: The Basics","Why Layer 2 Exists","Types of Layer 2 Blockchains","How Layer 2s Anchor to Layer 1","Benefits of Layer 2 Blockchains","Hemi: A Bitcoin Layer 2 With Modular Design","Latest articles"],"h3":["Rollups","State Channels","Validiums","Sidechains","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 11, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Layer 2s solve a lot of problems that Layer 1 blockchains can't.","Layer 2 blockchains are critical to scaling public blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. As demand grows, Layer 1 networks face congestion, high fees, and limited throughput. Layer 2s solve this by offloading computation and bundling transactions before sending them back to the base layer.","This guide explains what Layer 2s are, how they work, and why they matter for the future of decentralized applications.","A Layer 1 blockchain (L1) is the base protocol. Bitcoin and Ethereum are both L1s. They offer security, consensus, and data availability. But they’re limited in how many transactions they can process.","A Layer 2 blockchain (L2) sits on top of an L1. It handles most activity off-chain but inherits final settlement and security from the underlying network. L2s increase speed and reduce cost while preserving decentralization.","L1 blockchains weren’t designed for high transaction volumes. For example:","Bitcoin processes ~7 transactions per second (TPS)","Ethereum handles ~15–30 TPS, depending on network conditions","That’s not enough for mainstream use.","L2s improve performance by:","Bundling hundreds or thousands of transactions","Compressing them into a single data submission","Settling the result back on the L1 chain","The result: faster apps, lower fees, and more users—all while keeping the base chain secure.","There are several Layer 2 models, each with tradeoffs:","Rollups process transactions off-chain and submit compressed proofs or data to the L1. Two main types:","Optimistic Rollups assume transactions are valid unless challenged.","ZK Rollups use zero-knowledge proofs to prove correctness upfront.","Rollups are popular on Ethereum and are being adapted to Bitcoin.","These allow parties to transact off-chain and only settle the final result on-chain. Lightning Network is the best-known Bitcoin example.","Similar to ZK rollups but store data off-chain. Validiums trade data availability for lower fees.","Sidechains run parallel to L1 chains but have separate consensus mechanisms. They don’t inherit L1 security, which makes them less trust-minimized.","L2s stay secure by anchoring to L1 blockchains. This happens through:","Periodic state commitments (e.g., Merkle roots)","Fraud proofs or validity proofs","Bridge logic for asset transfers","For Bitcoin, L2s use tools like:","Taproot commitments","OP_RETURN metadata","Cross-chain signatures or threshold schemes","Ethereum rollups use smart contracts to manage bridging and settlement directly on-chain.","Layer 2s offer several core advantages:","Scalability: More transactions without sacrificing decentralization","Lower fees: Batching reduces gas costs","Speed: Near-instant confirmation times","Composability: Many apps can interoperate off-chain before settling to L1","This makes L2s ideal for gaming, DeFi, NFTs, and enterprise applications.","Hemi is building a Layer 2 blockchain that scales Bitcoin without compromising trust. Unlike Ethereum-style rollups, Hemi uses a modular Proof-of-Proof consensus system, custom execution via the hVM, and secure cross-chain tunnels to enable trust-minimized DeFi and app development on Bitcoin.","Key features:","Bitcoin settlement without bridging assets away from L1","High throughput with low fees","Programmable environment built for developers","Hemi offers a Layer 2 framework tailored to Bitcoin’s design and values.","Layer 2 blockchains are essential for scaling decentralized systems. They unlock new capabilities without overloading the base layer. While Ethereum and Bitcoin take different approaches, both ecosystems depend on L2s to grow.","If you're building or using decentralized apps, understanding Layer 2s is no longer optional. It’s core infrastructure.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-is-a-layer-2-blockchain"},"/blog/what-makes-bitcoin-programmable":{"version":1,"title":"What Makes Bitcoin Programmable? - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Makes Bitcoin Programmable?"],"h2":["Bitcoin Has a Scripting System","Ethereum Was Built for Programmability","New Tools Are Expanding Bitcoin’s Capabilities","How Hemi Makes Bitcoin Programmable","Why Programmable Bitcoin Matters","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 11, 2025","Adding programability to Bitcoin is what Hemi does best.","Most people know Bitcoin as a digital currency. It allows users to send and receive value without using banks or centralized platforms. But Bitcoin is not just a payment network. It also has programmable features that make it more than a simple money transfer system.","This post explains what makes Bitcoin programmable, how it compares to other blockchains like Ethereum, and how tools like Hemi are helping developers build more complex applications on top of Bitcoin.","Every Bitcoin transaction follows a set of instructions. These instructions are written using a built-in scripting language called Bitcoin Script. This system controls how coins can be spent. Although the language is limited, it supports useful features. For example, you can set conditions that require one or more signatures, create time locks that delay when coins can be used, or restrict who can access certain funds.","Bitcoin Script is intentionally simple. It does not support loops or advanced logic. This design keeps the network secure and predictable, but it also means Bitcoin is not as flexible as other programmable blockchains.","Ethereum was created to support complex applications. Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum includes a virtual machine that can run full programs called smart contracts. Developers can write these programs using high-level languages like Solidity. These contracts live on the Ethereum blockchain and execute automatically when conditions are met.","Because Ethereum supports arbitrary logic, developers have used it to create a wide range of decentralized applications. These include lending platforms, token exchanges, and games. As a result, many people now associate programmability with Ethereum. Bitcoin was not designed for this level of complexity, but that is starting to change.","Recent upgrades and tools are helping developers do more with Bitcoin. Taproot, for example, allows for more efficient and private scripts. Other tools like PSBT (Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions) make it easier to build complex applications involving multiple parties. Researchers have also introduced new scripting frameworks like Miniscript and Simplicity to give developers more control.","Even with these improvements, Bitcoin still lacks the flexibility of Ethereum. That is where Layer 2 platforms come in. These systems handle most of the work off the main chain, using Bitcoin only for final settlement. This approach allows for greater programmability without compromising the core principles of Bitcoin.","Hemi is a Layer 2 protocol designed to bring modern programmability to Bitcoin. It includes a virtual machine called the hVM that allows developers to write logic and build applications outside the base layer. This means users can interact with decentralized finance tools, create new assets, and run programmable contracts while still relying on Bitcoin for settlement and security.","Instead of putting contract logic directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, Hemi uses a system called Proof-of-Proof to link the state of its applications back to Bitcoin. This makes it possible to create complex systems without adding risk or load to the base network. It also opens the door to connections between Bitcoin and other chains, including Ethereum.","With Hemi, developers are not forced to choose between flexibility and trust. They can build advanced systems that inherit the security of Bitcoin while using a more developer-friendly environment.","Programmability makes Bitcoin more useful. It allows people to build tools for saving, lending, and trading without relying on third-party services. It also enables cross-chain functionality, so Bitcoin can play a bigger role in the broader blockchain ecosystem. For businesses and users who value the security and simplicity of Bitcoin, this creates new opportunities.","Expanding Bitcoin’s functionality does not mean turning it into something it is not. It means giving developers better tools to build around its strengths. With Layer 2 platforms like Hemi, this is no longer a theoretical goal. It is already underway.","Bitcoin has always had basic programmable features. Today, with the right tools and infrastructure, those features are evolving into something more powerful. By using off-chain execution and anchoring to the Bitcoin base layer, platforms like Hemi are making it possible to build modern applications that rely on the most secure blockchain in the world.","Programmable Bitcoin is no longer just an idea. It is a growing reality that blends reliability with flexibility, giving developers a new foundation to build on.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-makes-bitcoin-programmable"},"/blog/introducing-debt-vaults-on-hemi-code-driven-onchain-credit":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing Debt Vaults on Hemi: Code-Driven Onchain Credit - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Introducing Debt Vaults on Hemi: Code-Driven Onchain Credit","Ready For Beta Testing","How Hemi Debt Vaults Work"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 11, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","A peer-to-peer lending primitive where loans are tokenized, repayments are flexible, and credit is programmable.","Debt Vaults on Hemi introduce a new primitive for peer-to-peer lending, allowing lenders to issue uncollateralized credit lines directly to any address. Built by Hemi co-founder Jeff Garzik, the system removes intermediaries and replaces collateral with programmable trust.","Unlike traditional lending protocols, Hemi Debt Vaults do not enforce loan terms. The protocol is a payment facilitator—economic agreements between lender and borrower are presumed to exist outside the system. There are no built-in enforcement mechanisms, no court analogs, and no automated liquidations. If a borrower defaults, the protocol takes no action. All terms must be agreed upon independently.","For users without access to traditional banking credit services, this opens up a new option: onchain credit without institutional gatekeeping. For others, it’s simply a more direct and transparent way to lend or borrow. Vaults are configurable with a wide range of collateral options, but don’t require collateral to operate. Everything runs on open, auditable code.","This makes Hemi's lending infrastructure flexible, decentralized, and accessible, designed to serve both niche credit relationships and broader lending needs without introducing trust assumptions at the protocol level.","As a product in development, Hemi Debt Vaults are ready for users to explore to help stress test and identify bugs in the deployment. With sufficient review, feedback, and validation, the product will mature into a market-ready phase, where Hemi Debt Vaults are ready to securely handle millions in volume.In the meantime, we invite the Hemi Community to trial the vault's functionality with small amounts of capital, provide feedback, and help refine the protocol as it moves towards production-grade readiness.","The lender uniquely configures each credit line, setting a borrowing limit and APR for a specific address and ERC-20 token. Borrowers can draw down capital up to that limit, with interest accruing linearly over time. Repayments are flexible: partial or interest-only payments are allowed, and there are no maturity dates or liquidation risks.","Every active loan is tokenized as an ERC-721, making it tradable on secondary markets. A dual identity model ensures that while the current holder of the NFT manages repayments, the original borrower remains tied to the credit line’s usage and history.","This separation opens new economic possibilities. A borrower can transfer repayment obligations by selling the NFT. For example, a distressed borrower might sell the credit NFT at a discount to a third party, who repays the debt and captures the spread, similar to buying distressed debt or exercising a call option in traditional finance.","APR is dynamic and adjusts with utilization, interpolating between lender-defined minimum and maximum rates. As usage increases, so does the cost of borrowing, creating a pricing model that reflects both demand and risk.","Debt Vaults also include tools for lenders to forgive principal or interest and manage deposited funds. A global cap on outstanding loans protects against spam and denial-of-service attacks.","There are no protocol fees—just capital, trust, and transparent math, running peer-to-peer on Hemi.","Start testing Hemi Debt Vaults today at: https://hemidebtvault.replit.app/","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-debt-vaults-on-hemi-code-driven-onchain-credit"},"/blog/the-future-of-bridgeless-interoperability-in-crypto":{"version":1,"title":"The Future of Bridgeless Interoperability in Crypto - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["The Future of Bridgeless Interoperability in Crypto"],"h2":["The Problem with Traditional Crypto Bridges","Moving Toward Bridgeless Interoperability","How Hemi’s Crypto Tunnels Work","The Impact on Cross-Chain DeFi","Security and Scalability Advantages","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 12, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","In the blockchain world, crypto bridges have been the traditional method of moving assets and data between chains. They work, but they carry serious risks — from smart contract exploits to custodial vulnerabilities. As cross-chain activity grows, the search for a safer, faster, and more scalable alternative has intensified. Hemi’s “crypto tunnels” are emerging as a contender for the next phase of interoperability.","Crypto bridges connect separate blockchains, letting users transfer tokens or interact with smart contracts on another network. While this enables composability and liquidity flow, the design has major flaws.","Most bridges rely on centralized or semi-centralized validator sets to confirm cross-chain transactions. That creates a choke point. Hacks of these systems have drained hundreds of millions of dollars from users, making crypto bridge security one of the biggest concerns in decentralized finance. Latency and high gas costs are also common complaints, particularly when bridging between chains with very different architectures.","The industry is now exploring bridgeless interoperability — the idea that assets and messages can move between blockchains without relying on a traditional bridge structure. This reduces or removes the reliance on wrapped assets and third-party custodians. The result is a more direct, trust-minimized path between ecosystems.","Hemi’s crypto tunnels are a leading example of this shift. Instead of locking tokens on one chain and minting wrapped versions on another, tunnels allow validated state changes to be recognized natively by both networks. This minimizes the attack surface and aligns security with the underlying consensus of each chain.","Hemi’s protocol uses Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus to anchor state commitments between networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Rather than running a standalone validator set for a bridge, crypto tunnels publish cryptographic proofs directly into the blockchains involved.","This method turns each blockchain into its own verification layer, removing the “middleman” security model of crypto bridges. The tunnels are bi-directional, enabling both asset transfers and cross-chain smart contract calls without introducing wrapped asset risk.","If widely adopted, Hemi’s crypto tunnels could change how decentralized finance applications operate. Instead of fragmenting liquidity across multiple wrapped assets, DeFi platforms could tap into native tokens across ecosystems with minimal overhead. This would reduce user friction, increase transaction security, and improve capital efficiency.","For developers, it means designing applications that are chain-agnostic by default. Instead of building separate deployments for each network and relying on crypto bridges for integration, a single application logic layer could interact with multiple chains seamlessly.","Security is the biggest selling point. The elimination of external bridge validators removes one of the most common failure points in crypto bridge hacks. By using crypto tunnels anchored to highly secure base layers like Bitcoin, Hemi’s model shifts the security guarantees away from a bridge contract and into the consensus of the blockchains themselves.","On scalability, crypto tunnels avoid bottlenecks caused by bridging intermediaries. State commitments can be processed in parallel with block production, making the system responsive even during periods of high activity.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-future-of-bridgeless-interoperability-in-crypto"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-daemons-ducks-and-the-extra-very-era":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: Daemons, Ducks, and the Extra-Very Era - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: Daemons, Ducks, and the Extra-Very Era"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 15, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","When is TGE? Extra soon.","Welcome back to Midweek with Max, where the ducks may look calm above water, but they’re paddling like hell underneath. This week’s update was a mix of hard deadlines, soft promises, and a lot of progress quietly locking into place.","Let’s start with the tech. Max and the engineering team are in the final testing phase of the daemon refactor. This is a major update that improves how the network syncs and how operators run specific pieces of the stack. Once it’s merged, we’ll push a full v2.0.0 release, complete with upgrade instructions and a new set of performance benchmarks. For people running nodes, this will be a meaningful shift.","On the reward side, the new PoP payouts algorithm is nearly finished and should be live by next week. The team is verifying corrected data from Absinthe to finalize testnet mining points. That includes checking edge cases where users might have missed verifications due to bugs. The goal is to make sure everyone who participated fairly is accounted for.","The hVM white paper is also almost out the door. A few last-minute additions around protocol security and capital efficiency are being slotted in. Once the engineering review is complete, we’ll publish and use it as a springboard for the next Engineering AMA. That’s now going to be a monthly thing, by the way. The last one ran 90 minutes and didn’t even cover all the questions. Turns out people are paying close attention.","Hemi Hatchlings are now deployed to mainnet. If you held any on testnet, they should be visible in your wallet. There were a couple test deployments, but we’ll post the final contract address so you can confirm you're looking at the right collection. Pro tip: it’s the one where the images actually show up.","Phil gave a quick marketing update. The short version: Hemi’s credibility is getting noticed. Big conferences are inviting us to speak—without us paying to be there. That’s a shift. It means they’re hearing what we’re saying and want it on their stages. We’ve also got outside researchers preparing reports on Hemi, and we’re doubling down on making sure our ecosystem partners feel fully supported and visible. As Phil put it, we’re bear-hugging them.","The TGE and tokenomics update? You guessed it: very, very soon. Max said they’re in the final phase of collapsing a few pre-launch dependencies. That means we should have tokenomics info within two weeks. The actual TGE date will likely come with it. Again, not announced yet, but that’s the timeline we’re holding.","There were some questions around how we calculate points and rewards. Quick clarification: there’s no single “snapshot” moment. It’s all calculated in real time based on how long you’ve held economic positions. The backend tracks every position’s value, date of deployment, and changes over time. Points accrue per dollar per day, and the system adjusts dynamically if you move or add capital. There are still a few temporary frontend glitches, like zeroed-out points during recalculations, but those are being addressed before the next season.","We also talked about security. All major contract releases go through multiple external audits. Hemi’s codebase was reviewed by HackerOne and others, and we have a standing bug bounty program in place. Infrastructure hardening is ongoing. On the smart contract side, we don’t push anything important—like the Bitcoin tunnel or Hemi staking—without a full audit and test coverage.","We touched on cross-chain scaling too. Hemi plans to scale through Chain Builder, a framework that lets developers launch custom chains inside the Hemi ecosystem. These chains inherit Bitcoin finality and Ethereum programmability while choosing their own speed, cost, and decentralization levels. Add to that the emerging work around ZK proofs, and you’ve got a system that scales through composability rather than pushing everyone into one box.","On the community side, the Alliance is still going strong. Meme energy is high. Hermes and George are leading the charge. If you’re not in the guilds, now’s the time. Weekly tasks keep rolling, and the content coming out of the program is genuinely impressive.","Finally, for anyone who lost access to a testnet wallet: open a ticket. We can’t promise a fix, but if you were verified and participated in good faith, we’ll try to help. At the very least, you won’t be ignored.","That’s it for this week. We’re almost there. The tech is maturing, the momentum is building, and the TGE is moving from “soon” to “extra-very soon.” Thanks to everyone for sticking with us. We’ll see you next week.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-daemons-ducks-and-the-extra-very-era"},"/blog/how-bitcoin-rollups-differ-from-ethereum-rollups":{"version":1,"title":"How Bitcoin Rollups Differ from Ethereum Rollups - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How Bitcoin Rollups Differ from Ethereum Rollups"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 12, 2025","Both types of rollups speed up transactions. But how do they differ?","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-bitcoin-rollups-differ-from-ethereum-rollups"},"/blog/hemi-takes-bitcoin-from-cold-storage-to-hot-yields":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Takes Bitcoin From Cold Storage to Hot Yields - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Takes Bitcoin From Cold Storage to Hot Yields","Exposure To Yield, Not Risk","Hemi Doubles Down on Bitcoin’s Security","Hemi is Bitcoin’s Best Option"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 15, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Programmable Bitcoin on Hemi could reshape our concept of the best self-custody model by unlocking secure, non-custodial DeFi yields.","There was a time when it made sense to advocate for the cold storage of Bitcoin. As a self-custody solution, cold storage is as robust as options come, and serves as an effective alternative to potentially insecure hot wallets.","Before Hemi, there may not have been a reason to activate Bitcoin locked in cold storage. Bitcoin was a payment system, a store of value that offered speculative benefits, but not much beyond that.","Fast forward. Today, Hemi has introduced a rapidly expanding programmable Bitcoin ecosystem that unlocks Bitcoin’s potential in a growing DeFi ecosystem. With Hemi, Bitcoin goes from a speculative asset to one that maintains its store of value while generating additional passive returns. Already, over $1 billion in TVL is active in Hemi’s growing DeFi ecosystem.","Bringing Bitcoin to Hemi from cold storage is simple, secure, and non-custodial. Hemi doesn’t sacrifice security to activate BTC. It features native trust-minimized tunnels, allowing BTC to be transferred to the network without central parties in control or wrappers, maintaining control and security of any assets ported through.","Once on Hemi, BTC becomes more than its held value. It’s possible to use BTC in ways that were never before possible, earning in lending markets, contributing to liquidity pools, and in crosschain dApps able to connect directly to both Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems. The world of DeFi was once cut off from the asset that started it all, the one with the longest unbroken chain of secure transactions, and which holds the greatest store of value. Not anymore.","Take advantage of high APR and collect daily rewards by joining the Hemi Merkl campaign and providing liquidity to BTC-backed trading pairs:","Supply liquidity to SushiSwap V3 (WETH / hemiBTC)","APR: 44.59%","TVL: $54.13K","Daily Reward: $66.13","Supply liquidity to SushiSwap V3 (hemiBTC / USDC.e)","APR: 79.19%","TVL: $22.35K","Daily Reward: $48.50","Supply liquidity to SushiSwap V3 (hemiBTC / satUSD)","APR: 96.47%","TVL: $15.11K","Daily Reward: $39.94","You can also earn additional Hemi Points while racking up yields on BTC-backed assets across the Hemi ecosystem. Provide liquidity for hemiBTC or bfBTC on Spectra to receive retroactive rewards. Boost pools such as hemiBTC/USDC.e, hemiBTC/ETH, bfBTC/msBTC, and hemiBTC/satUSD on protocols including Sushi, oku, iZUMi, and DODO.","Check the Hemi Absinthe and Hemi Merkl dashboards often to see the full list of opportunities to stack Hemi Points, BTC yield, and daily rewards.","Hemi goes further than most networks when it comes to securing consensus, ensuring that no malicious actors can co-opt the system. It uses a hybrid Proof-of-Proof (PoP) protocol that inscribes hashed transaction data roots onto Bitcoin blocks. In the near term, Hemi uses an optimistic Proof-of-Stake mechanism to provide initial finality for transactions. Meanwhile, Hemi’s native awareness of Bitcoin’s state allows the network to monitor for published roots. When a block with those roots reaches sufficient confirmations, Hemi achieves superfinality, where reversing the network’s history would require the attacker to overpower Bitcoin and Hemi simultaneously.","As Hemi enables the conversion of inactive Bitcoin from storage to an earning asset, it also upholds the core tenets of decentralization that make Bitcoin resilient, right down to consensus design. Wherever possible, Hemi reinforces security while expanding possibilities with Bitcoin programmability.","Once, cold storage might have been the best option for Bitcoin. But now that Hemi provides seamless access to a vibrant Bitcoin-enabled DeFi ecosystem, without compromising its integrity.Don’t let Bitcoin sit idle and accrue an opportunity cost in the gains that could be earned through Hemi’s growing BTCFi ecosystem. Now is the time to put Bitcoin to work.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-takes-bitcoin-from-cold-storage-to-hot-yields"},"/blog/hemi-teams-up-with-rubic-best-rate-finder-to-power-cross-chain-routing":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Teams Up With Rubic Best Rate Finder To Power Cross-Chain Routing - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Teams Up With Rubic Best Rate Finder To Power Cross-Chain Routing"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 16, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Rubic — a secure aggregator of DEXs, bridges, and intent protocols for low-cost cross-chain and on-chain swaps — is expanding its routing network to support Hemi-integrated protocols.","Hemi is partnering with Rubic, a leading on-chain and cross-chain tech aggregator trusted by users and dApps for efficient, low-cost swaps across 100+ blockchains and testnets. Rubic’s Best Rate Finder App supports features built for users and dApps seeking efficient crosschain execution.","Rubic empowers users to swap over 15,500 tokens across more than 360 liquidity sources — with zero fees on swaps under $100.","Rubic’s infrastructure is optimized for:","Multi-hop routing across chains in a single transaction","Broad support across EVM, non-EVM, and Layer 2 networks","High-speed, low-cost execution","As part of the integration, Rubic will support Hemi’s ecosystem via routing through bridges like Stargate, Meson, and Relay, as well as DEXs such as Sushi and Oku (Uniswap V3).","Users can leverage Rubic for efficient, cost-effective crosschain swaps. For Hemi dApps, Rubic strengthens infrastructure by abstracting the complexity of transaction routing, bridging, and asset management, allowing teams to focus on smoother onchain experiences.","Together, Hemi and Rubic are simplifying liquidity and infrastructure access through a secure, performant, and chain-agnostic approach.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-teams-up-with-rubic-best-rate-finder-to-power-cross-chain-routing"},"/blog/hemi-teams-up-with-sentio-to-offer-developers-full-stack-analytics-support":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Teams Up With Sentio to Offer Developers Full-Stack Analytics Support - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Teams Up With Sentio to Offer Developers Full-Stack Analytics Support"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 18, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Partnerships","Sentio’s all-inclusive full-stack platform gives Hemi devs the tools to build the next wave of DeFi protocols, games, wallets, and bots.","Hemi is collaborating with Sentio to offer indexing and analytics for the network’s Bitcoin-native applications.","Sentio gives developers a crypto-focused full-stack data platform, with optimized parallel indexing, real-time dashboards, and advanced debugging tools in a managed environment. Hemi developers can now trace transactions, visualize fund flows, simulate execution paths, set alerts, and generate typescript automatically from ABIs without manual configuration and local infrastructure.","For Hemi users, Sentio provides visibility into smart contracts and dApps that tunnel to Bitcoin. Meanwhile, developers can use Sentio to closely monitor onchain activity, identify bottlenecks sooner, and build more reliable, scalable applications. Insights gathered via the platform’s transaction analysis tools can help refine smart contract deployment and improve operational reliability.","With support for both EVM and non-EVM ecosystems, Sentio helps developers to ship faster and scale dApps easily across chains. Explore the dashboard today to track performance, monitor trends, and stay ahead.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-teams-up-with-sentio-to-offer-developers-full-stack-analytics-support"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-testnet-upgrades-tokenomics-timing-and-the-road-to-tge":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Testnet Upgrades, Tokenomics Timing, and the Road to TGE - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Testnet Upgrades, Tokenomics Timing, and the Road to TGE"],"h2":["Testnet 4 Support Is Live","PoP Payout Algorithm Update Incoming","Tokenomics: “Ultra Soon”","TGE Date Still Pending","Hemi + Babylon: LST Support Already Live","NFT Marketplaces: More on the Way","Network Throughput: What’s the Real TPS?","Impact on Bitcoin and Ethereum? Minimal — By Design","HBITVM Whitepaper: Coming Soon","The Bitcoin Tunnel & Vault System","Post-TGE: DeFi Is the Focus","Proof of Proof: Upgrades Ahead","What Kind of Rollup Is Hemi?","Demos Verification: Why It Matters","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 22, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","TGE? Ultra, ultra, ultra soon.","This week’s Midweek with Max dropped a dense stack of updates. From protocol upgrades to tokenomics timelines, Max Sanchez and the Hemi team gave a detailed overview of what’s next for the network. Here’s a summary of what was covered — plus answers to some of the most frequent community questions.","Hemi is upgrading from Bitcoin’s Testnet3 to Testnet4, a change that improves block timing stability and eliminates long reorg issues. This shift helps developers test Bitcoin-related dApps and hVM (Hemi Virtual Machine) calls in an environment that better reflects mainnet conditions.","The team is finalizing work on a new Proof-of-Proof (PoP) payout algorithm. It was delayed slightly due to coordination with ecosystem partners but is expected to land soon. This new version will better reflect network usage and offer more accurate reward distribution.","The long-awaited tokenomics reveal is still on track to go live before the end of the month. It will include details on VBK integration and how the HEMI token fits into the broader ecosystem. When asked if this meant we’ve hit the “Ultra Soon” phase, Max confirmed: “Yes. Ultra Soon.”","The token generation event (TGE) date is not yet finalized. The team is working through scheduling dependencies with partners. Expect the TGE timing to be announced either alongside the tokenomics drop or shortly after.","Yes, Hemi already supports some Babylon liquid staking tokens (LSTs), with existing liquidity pools live on current DEXs. Expect more DeFi integrations to come as apps like Spectra build out support.","A new NFT marketplace on Hemi is in the pipeline. No official name or launch date yet, but it’s expected very soon. The delay is due to coordination with third-party teams.","Max theoretical TPS on Hemi is currently about 119 ETH transfers per second. More complex transactions (like swaps) reduce that number. The gas ceiling will increase by 2–3x in the next upgrade, raising overall throughput.","Hemi is intentionally designed to avoid placing economic pressure on either Bitcoin or Ethereum. By not using Bitcoin for data availability, and by publishing Ethereum attestations to Bitcoin, Hemi avoids the common pitfalls that Layer 2 systems can introduce to L1s. In fact, the team argues that Hemi strengthens both networks by enabling ZK proof interoperability between them.","The HBITVM whitepaper is still undergoing final revisions. It includes upgrades to POP (Proof-of-Proof) and introduces mechanisms for slashing-proof security across both networks. Expected release: within two weeks.","Right now, the vault system relies on a single operator, but that will change. A new commit-reveal deposit flow is being implemented to address wallet compatibility issues. BitVM-based vaults will follow, allowing fully decentralized custody with strong slashing guarantees and clawback functionality.","DeFi is the primary growth target post-TGE. Over 40 dApps are already deployed, including aggregators and yield platforms. Long term, the Hemi team plans to launch a curated interface to surface yield opportunities and integrate with projects like Vesper to automate strategy management.","Hemi's current PoP system builds on the original Veriblock design but will be extended with PoP 2.0. This includes Ethereum consensus attestations published to Bitcoin, reducing the ability for attackers to forge alternate histories or zero-knowledge proofs. The goal: link Bitcoin’s proof-of-work and Ethereum’s proof-of-stake in a way that makes both more secure.","Hemi is currently an optimistic rollup. Once BitVM integration is complete and ZK support is live, Hemi will transition to a ZK rollup. This is part of the network’s roadmap toward scalable, verifiable cross-chain computation.","Demos, Hemi’s anti-Sybil system, remains critical for non-economic incentives like testnet rewards. The team confirmed that users with two verifications are considered high-trust, and attempts to game the system are being actively audited. On mainnet, economic activity is the main signal — but Demos still plays a role in areas like community governance and future airdrops.","Want more details? Join the Engineering AMA or tune in next week for another Midweek with Max. With tokenomics and the whitepaper both dropping “Ultra Soon,” this is the moment to get up to speed.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-testnet-upgrades-tokenomics-timing-and-the-road-to-tge"},"/blog/gearbox-and-hemi-team-up-to-compound-defi-lending-yields":{"version":1,"title":"Gearbox and Hemi Team Up To Compound DeFi Lending Yields - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Gearbox and Hemi Team Up To Compound DeFi Lending Yields"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 22, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Gearbox","Hemi","Gearbox and Hemi offer users looping strategies to maximize BTC-backed lending yields, in addition to daily Merkel rewards.","Gearbox Protocol, the lending provider that offers composable leverage across Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Optimism, is adding support for Hemi.","Starting Monday, users can lend hemiBTC with Gearbox and earn a yield, as well as a share of 150 USDC, paid daily via a new Merkl campaign opportunity. On Wednesday, USDC lending will also go live, offering additional yields and another 200 USDC per day in Merkl incentives.","Gearbox offers advanced users powerful looping strategies. Borrowers can collateralize bfBTC from BitFi at a 7% yield and borrow hemiBTC, which can be used to mint additional bfBTC, thereby looping the cycle for compounding gains.","With Hemi, Gearbox opens up lending options with collateralization via hemiBTC, WBTC, or ETH to borrow USDC, offering greater liquidity to Bitcoin-native assets without necessitating the sale of assets.","This marks Gearbox’s first integration with a DeFi ecosystem built around programmable Bitcoin with native yield and composability. As Bitcoin-backed assets gain utility across DeFi, Hemi and Gearbox provide a seamless entry point for users seeking to automate strategies for efficient yield, leverage, and capital mobility while maintaining alignment with Bitcoin’s core principles.","Explore Gearbox and discover the future of BTCFi on Hemi and start earning today.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/gearbox-and-hemi-team-up-to-compound-defi-lending-yields"},"/blog/engineering-ama-recap-hvm-pop-and-whats-next-for-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Engineering AMA Recap: hVM, PoP, and What’s Next for Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Engineering AMA Recap: hVM, PoP, and What’s Next for Hemi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["hVM and Bitcoin Reorgs","Future Precompiles and Meta Protocol Indexing","Proof of Proof: Scaling and Sybil Resistance","Daemon V2 and Node Modularity","Tunnels, BitVM, and Intent-Based Protocols","Chain Builder and L3s","Privacy and Zero-Knowledge","Debt Vaults and Risk Models","Looking Ahead","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 24, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","This AMA got really nerdy.","The Hemi Engineering team gathered for our second AMA, fielding community questions on everything from proof-of-proof mechanics to the inner workings of hVM and future L3 tooling. These sessions are becoming a regular fixture—expect them monthly—and will be supplemented with breakout AMAs tied to major releases like the upcoming BitVM whitepaper.","Here’s a summary of the main topics covered.","When handling UTXO queries and Bitcoin proofs, hVM operates two blocks behind Bitcoin’s current tip. This isn’t just a performance decision—it’s a safeguard. It ensures DApps aren’t acting on Bitcoin transactions that might get reorged, and it protects the system once sequencer decentralization is live. Applications must set their own confirmation thresholds depending on risk; for high-risk use cases, additional delay is necessary.","Gas costs for UTXO and transaction queries are kept low by allowing developers to request only the specific data they need. Pagination, filtering outputs, or skipping scripts all help reduce unnecessary return data. A future “code golf” competition may push this even further with community-led gas optimizations.","Indexing support for Bitcoin meta protocols—runestones, BRC20s, ordinals—is on the roadmap. This will let developers build DApps around these protocols much like they do today around Bitcoin UTXOs. Think fungible BRC20s used in DeFi protocols or ordinals stored with overcollateralized insurance-style custody.","Once BitVM is live, higher-value meta assets may migrate to BitVM vaults. But smaller holders will still rely on traditional custodianship, with hVM serving as the dispute resolver watching Bitcoin for proof of compliance or failure.","PoP doesn’t require Sybil protection. Anyone can spin up multiple miners—just like in Bitcoin—but with a floating reward system, the protocol self-regulates. If more miners show up, rewards decrease. Less competition? Rewards rise. Economics are the defense mechanism.","Importantly, scaling transaction volume on Hemi or its downstream L3s does not increase the size of PoP commitments on Bitcoin. One transaction or a million, the size of the proof remains constant. This is a key advantage over L2s that rely on Bitcoin for DA.","Daemon V2.0.0 includes performance and reliability upgrades, but the standout improvement is modularity. Operators can now run only the components they need, reducing overhead. For PoP miners, this means faster keystone processing, dynamic fee estimation, and easier integration with alternative Bitcoin data sources. The shift away from BFG to OpGeth as the keystone authority also simplifies setup.","The dual custodianship model—overcollateralized vaults plus BitVM vaults—provides flexibility. Large deposits will migrate to BitVM for security. Smaller or more esoteric assets (like BRC20s) will remain in traditional vaults for ease of use and liquidity.","hVM serves as the judge. If a custodian fails to perform a withdrawal, hVM will detect it, refund the user, and reroute the request. Fraud proofs are based on real-time Bitcoin observation.","Meanwhile, intent-based protocols like Rubik will enable smoother routing of trades and transfers across chains, letting users access Hemi’s liquidity from elsewhere without needing to bridge first.","Chain Builder isn’t live yet, but it will eventually offer templates for launching custom L3s. Developers will be able to configure their environment—consensus type, DA layer, VM choice—and plug into Hemi’s Bitcoin security. The end goal is an ecosystem where developers choose between throughput, decentralization, and cost depending on their use case.","DA will be a key trade-off. Ethereum offers the most secure DA but is expensive. Alternatives like Celestia or Espresso offer cheaper DA with reasonable decentralization. L3s targeting gaming or high-frequency apps may accept centralized sequencers to maximize throughput, while financial apps might mirror Hemi’s own conservative setup.","ZK support is a priority for future L3s. Once Hemi has native ZK provability, L3s will be able to integrate privacy-preserving features directly. This is essential for use cases involving sensitive financial data, compliance tooling, or even basic user anonymity.","Unlike Aave-style lending, Hemi’s debt vaults aren’t enforced by collateral. They’re programmable bookkeeping layers for off-chain agreements—backed by legal contracts, not smart contract rules. There’s no liquidation or slashing mechanism, just on-chain tracking of who owes what. That keeps it lean, flexible, and outside the domain of publisher/challenger enforcement systems.","Expect more frequent AMAs and a deeper technical dive once the BitVM whitepaper drops. That AMA will be especially focused, and attendees are encouraged to read the paper beforehand. Until then, the team continues refining hVM, preparing for sequencer decentralization, and laying the groundwork for the L3 ecosystem.","Thanks to everyone who showed up. If you thought this was nerdy—just wait.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/engineering-ama-recap-hvm-pop-and-whats-next-for-hemi"},"/blog/hemi-and-sqd-team-up-to-scale-onchain-data-access":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and SQD Team Up To Scale Onchain Data Access - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and SQD Team Up To Scale Onchain Data Access"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 25, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi and SQD are laying the foundation to support the next generation of data-rich Bitcoin-enabled DeFi applications.","Hemi is teaming up with SQD to leverage a decentralized data infrastructure for cost-efficient onchain data access. That means faster indexing, cleaner data flows, and fewer bottlenecks for Hemi developers.","SQD is a decentralized data access layer that eliminates the need to rely on RPC nodes for querying blockchain data. It features a decentralized data lake with over 2,800 worker nodes, a robust query engine, and an SDK designed to give developers permissionless access to blockchain data across a growing list of over 200 networks, including EVM chains, Substrate-based ecosystems, as well as networks such as Solana, Tron, and Fuel.","With this integration, as Hemi’s onchain data reflects a range of Bitcoin-aware and Ethereum-aware events, SQD reduces the barriers to accessing it efficiently for Hemi dApps. Developers building on Hemi with SQD can use it to index raw data and build custom pipelines tailored to specific dApp needs. SQD also supports crosschain indexing, allowing builders to freely fetch data from multiple chains via a single indexer, thereby streamlining crosschain development without compromising decentralization or performance.","Together, Hemi and SQD are delivering a composable data architecture to developers, lowering the barrier for robust analytics, user dashboards, wider protocol integrations, and more.","Visit SQD’s documentation to learn more, and start building the future of DeFi with Bitcoin on Hemi today.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-sqd-team-up-to-scale-onchain-data-access"},"/blog/built-on-hemi-spectra-pioneers-permissionless-interest-rate-markets":{"version":1,"title":"Built On Hemi: Spectra Pioneers Permissionless Interest Rate Markets - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Built On Hemi: Spectra Pioneers Permissionless Interest Rate Markets","Spectra And Hemi Bring Yield to BTC","Spectra’s Unique Approach","Build On Hemi With Spectra"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 30, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Spectra and Hemi bring fixed-rate returns and composable yield to BTC through a transparent, permissionless interest rate marketplace.","Spectra is reshaping how BTC can be used to earn. In partnership with Hemi, the protocol brings structured yield and fixed rates to BTC, giving rise to a new class of permissionless interest rate markets.The idea for Spectra was born during the DeFi Summer of 2020, when Spectra Co-Founder Gaspard Peduzzi saw that yield farming was chaotic. Although widely accessible, It was a time when rates fluctuated violently, which negatively impacted successful financial planning and strategies. Spectra set out to change that by giving users the tools to trade yield with structure, clarity, and composability, like any other asset.","To fill the perceived market gap, Spectra pioneered Principal Tokens (PTs) and Yield Tokens (YTs), foundational tools for building fixed-rate strategies, yield speculation, and looping setups. As a multi-chain interest rate market, positions on Spectra generate yield based on the yield produced by DeFi vaults and their respective points programs.","This structure is based on fixed-term pools. At the maturity of the pool that powers its respective YT and PTs, the yield derivatives are settled.","“Spectra lets anyone tokenize and trade onchain interest rates. Our protocol is modular, permissionless, and already live across major chains with approximately $100M in TVL.” –Gaspard Peduzzi.","Spectra integrated Hemi because it’s the first EVM chain with true Bitcoin roots, built by trailblazing architects like Jeff Garzik. Hemi forges together Bitcoin’s ethos with Ethereum’s flexibility, opening up a world of utility and unlocking new tools for BTC holders, including fixed income instruments.","The alignment creates a new frontier for Bitcoin, where capital can do more than sit idle. With Hemi serving as the programmable foundation and Spectra delivering the tools, BTC finds its place within a structured, transparent yield market, free of central providers or off-chain abstractions.","For BTC holders, Spectra and Hemienable fixed-income products, which are inaccessible for standalone holders on the Bitcoin blockchain. Now, it’s all available under the Hemi section of the Spectra App.","Spectra stands apart as crypto’s only end-to-end permissionless yield tokenization protocol. It allows any user or project to spin up a pool, tokenize yield, and open up trading venue for the broader market. All this without approvals or barriers, fully automated from launch to expiry. This composable architecture makes Spectra prime for integration into any DeFi yield or points strategy.","Users can get started by heading to the Fixed Rates tab, where they may find stablecoin prices below a dollar or ETH trading at a discount compared to market value; these are PTs, which trade at a discount until maturity in a streamlined, predictable yield market. From there, users are free to explore Yield Leverage tools to speculate on volatility, pursue points, or grasp a higher upside.","Peduzzi invites beginners to explore structured yield through stablecoin PTs:","“Open Spectra, click into the Fixed Rates tab, and see if there is a stablecoin trading at 95 cents. That is your first fixed-income moment where DeFi yield stops being a black box and becomes an instrument with a predictable outcome. This is the tool where I recommend most people to start.”","Spectra is built for composability, ready for any team, DAO, or protocol building on Hemi to plug in permissionlessly. Whether the goal is designing new yield strategies that integrate exposure to BTC or seeking reliable, fixed returns, Spectra provides the backend to build on.Turn BTC into an earning asset on Hemi with Spectra by visiting Spectra.finance today.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/built-on-hemi-spectra-pioneers-permissionless-interest-rate-markets"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-recap-four-winners-hatchlings-and-the-final-stretch-to-tge":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max Recap: Four Winners, Hatchlings, and the Final Stretch to TGE - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max Recap: Four Winners, Hatchlings, and the Final Stretch to TGE"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Tokenomics and TGE: The Answers Are Almost Here","The HemiBTC Tunnel, Today and Tomorrow","On the Token’s Utility","On Hemi Hatchlings and NFTs","Contest Winners, Meme Theft, and Singing Roles","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 29, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","An in-depth look at what's coming (hint: TGE).","The latest Midweek with Max opened on a familiar note: Rick balancing humor and chaos, broadcasting from a fortress of boxes and Christmas trees as he moves house. Amid the clutter, he shared a surprise—four winners, not two, for the Hemi birthday card contest. A three-way tie made that decision easy. Upvotes ruled.","After a few jokes and reminders that he’s not sick—just on a different mic—John turned the mic over to Hemi co-founder Max Sanchez for the real update: Hemi is in the home stretch. Smart contract audits for the staking system are back and being finalized. The updated Hemi Network V2 tag is almost ready. New Optimism and op-geth images are coming. Testing is underway. Releases are imminent.","Most importantly, the long-awaited hBitVM white paper is just about finished. Formatting is being finalized. The conclusion is nearly done. Expect its release “very, very soon”—possibly before the week is out. Alongside that, an AMA is planned to dig into the paper's contents and implications.","Yes, people asked. A lot. Max answered, again: Tokenomics information is coming. The economics are finalized. The presentation layer is being built. Expect details within days. Same goes for TGE. There’s no date to announce yet, but the gears are turning. Third-party issues are resolving. Timelines are being locked in.","As for LP points on Absinthe: a full audit is underway. There were anomalies—like Tether Gold not syncing right. Absinthe is re-indexing now. Manual snapshots are being compared. Points will shift. Expect quirks in the next 48–72 hours. Don’t panic. And yes, Ukrainian node runners are part of this too. The audit caught their exclusion, and they’re being worked back in.","Someone asked Max to explain the Bitcoin tunnel system. He did—but not for five-year-olds. The current system uses vault operators who collateralize Bitcoin custody and get liquidated if they misbehave. The future system—built around BitVM and covenant emulation—is trustless and secure, relying on multisig setups where even one honest party protects the network.","What makes Hemi’s approach unique is how it bridges Bitcoin and Ethereum consensus. Most BitVM systems suffer from potential miner-based ransom attacks due to superblock manipulation. Hemi avoids this by baking Bitcoin state directly into the ZK proofs using its upgraded Proof-of-Proof system. This eliminates the miner risk and secures the withdrawal flow.","In short: Hemi is solving a major design flaw in the BitVM2 model. Expect the full breakdown in the white paper soon.","The HEMI token isn’t just governance window dressing. It's already being used to incentivize Proof-of-Proof miners. After TGE, it will support decentralized sequencing, data publishing, covenant emulation, Bitcoin tunnel collateral, and L3 infrastructure like shared sequencing and data availability. It's a token with teeth.","For those wondering, the Hemi Hatchlings weren’t meant to be profound. They were an experiment—a blend of art and code that evolved alongside Bitcoin finality. Cute, effective, and a signal to the community: fork it, build your own version, show what else is possible with finality-aware NFTs.","The meme contest had four winners, all decided by raw upvotes. Prizes were limited to Discord roles and XP this time. Bigger rewards will come post-TGE. And yes, there was a call for someone to sing live for the Rap God role. No one did. Maybe next time.","Finally, the Hemi Alliance continues. New missions drop Monday. A few community NFTs are still minting. Some surprise DAOs are emerging from old NFT collections. People are even building a Pac-Man-style Hemi game. Creativity’s flowing.","Stay tuned. The next AMA will include a deep dive into the hBitVM white paper. TGE is close. Tokenomics are around the corner. Hemi keeps shipping.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-recap-four-winners-hatchlings-and-the-final-stretch-to-tge"},"/blog/from-evm-to-hvm-how-developers-can-build-bitcoin-aware-dapps":{"version":1,"title":"From EVM to hVM: How Developers Can Build Bitcoin-Aware dApps - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["From EVM to hVM: How Developers Can Build Bitcoin-Aware dApps"],"h2":["Why Bitcoin-Aware dApps Matter","Moving from EVM to hVM","How hVM Makes Bitcoin Integration Possible","Example Use Cases for Bitcoin-Aware dApps","Why hVM is the Next Step for Cross-Chain Development","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 1, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Ethereum’s EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) has been the dominant smart contract environment for years, powering DeFi, NFTs, and countless decentralized applications. But for all its success, the EVM operates in a largely Ethereum-centric world, with limited native access to Bitcoin’s liquidity and security.","Hemi’s hVM (Hemi Virtual Machine) changes that. It’s designed to let developers build Bitcoin-aware dApps that operate across multiple blockchains without relying on risky crypto bridges or wrapped assets.","Bitcoin is the most secure and liquid digital asset, yet it remains underutilized in most decentralized applications. This is because:","Bitcoin’s base layer lacks native smart contract functionality.","Integrating BTC into EVM dApps often requires centralized custody or wrapped BTC.","Cross-chain solutions have historically introduced latency and security tradeoffs.","Bitcoin-aware dApps solve this by making BTC a first-class citizen in multi-chain application design — something the hVM was built to enable.","For developers already familiar with EVM smart contracts, the hVM offers a familiar foundation with extended capabilities for cross-chain interoperability. You can still write Solidity-like code, but you gain access to APIs and instructions for:","Querying Bitcoin state directly in your dApp logic.","Triggering actions on Ethereum, Bitcoin, and other chains from a single execution environment.","Settling transactions using Bitcoin as the security anchor via Proof-of-Proof (PoP).","The result is a seamless upgrade path: EVM skills translate directly to hVM, but your application gains access to Bitcoin-native data and assets.","The hVM uses crypto tunnels to connect execution environments across chains, verified by PoP commitments embedded into the base layers themselves. This approach:","Removes the need for external bridge validators.","Eliminates the wrapped token dependency that has plagued cross-chain DeFi.","Keeps consensus-level security intact for every chain involved.","In practice, this means your dApp can accept BTC collateral, settle in Bitcoin, or pull Bitcoin block headers for verification — all without leaving the hVM environment.","Cross-Chain Lending — Accept BTC as collateral while issuing loans in Ethereum-based stablecoins.","Multi-Chain DEX — Enable BTC/Ethereum swaps without centralized custody.","Bitcoin-Powered NFT Platforms — Mint NFTs on Ethereum with metadata or provenance anchored in Bitcoin.","The EVM has proven the power of decentralized applications, but it’s bound to Ethereum’s orbit. The hVM expands that horizon, letting developers design Bitcoin-aware dApps that interact natively with the world’s largest crypto asset and the ecosystems around it.","With the hVM, Bitcoin’s liquidity isn’t just bridged — it’s integrated, verified, and usable across multiple chains without compromising security.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/from-evm-to-hvm-how-developers-can-build-bitcoin-aware-dapps"},"/blog/bitcoin-as-collateral-real-world-use-cases":{"version":1,"title":"Bitcoin as Collateral: Real-World Use Cases - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Bitcoin as Collateral: Real-World Use Cases"],"h2":["Why Bitcoin is Ideal Collateral","Hemi’s Approach to Bitcoin Collateralization","Yield Opportunities with Native Bitcoin Collateral","Real-World Use Cases Emerging Now","The Next Phase for Bitcoin in DeFi","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 1, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Bitcoin as collateral is gaining traction across decentralized finance, institutional lending, and cross-chain ecosystems. As the largest and most secure blockchain network, Bitcoin holds unique advantages for collateralization — but until recently, its use in advanced DeFi applications was limited by interoperability challenges. Hemi’s crypto tunnels are changing that, enabling Bitcoin to be deployed as productive collateral across multiple chains without relying on risky wrapped tokens.","Bitcoin’s market depth, high liquidity, and strong security make it one of the safest assets to post as collateral. Its transparent supply and decentralized governance add trust in long-term value. In traditional finance, collateral quality is defined by stability and liquidity, and Bitcoin meets both criteria for the digital asset class.","The challenge has always been integration. Most DeFi protocols run on Ethereum or other smart contract platforms, and moving BTC into these environments has historically required crypto bridges and wrapped BTC tokens — solutions that introduce counterparty risk.","Hemi’s crypto tunnels offer a trust-minimized way to use Bitcoin directly in smart contract environments without wrapping. Using Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus, Hemi anchors transaction data between Bitcoin and other chains, allowing protocols to recognize Bitcoin balances natively.","This means Bitcoin can be locked and recognized as collateral on platforms across Ethereum, Solana, and other ecosystems, all without introducing the security flaws common to traditional crypto bridges.","With Hemi, Bitcoin as collateral can generate yield without leaving the security of its base layer. Users can post BTC in DeFi protocols for lending, liquidity provision, or derivatives trading, and earn yield directly in native assets from those chains.","Because Hemi eliminates wrapped tokens, the yield generated comes with significantly reduced smart contract and custodian risk. For example, a lending market could accept native BTC as collateral for stablecoin loans, or a decentralized exchange could enable BTC-backed liquidity pools spanning multiple chains.","Cross-Chain Lending Markets — BTC holders can borrow stablecoins on Ethereum or Solana while keeping their Bitcoin in secure on-chain custody.","Liquidity Provision — Native BTC can power liquidity pools across DeFi platforms without passing through a bridge.","Institutional-Grade Collateralization — Funds and enterprises can post Bitcoin as security for cross-chain derivatives or settlement networks, backed by Hemi’s crypto tunnels for trust-minimized execution.","As DeFi matures, the ability to use Bitcoin as collateral without sacrificing security or yield potential will be a competitive advantage. Hemi’s crypto tunnels make this possible, connecting Bitcoin to the broader DeFi world while maintaining the trust guarantees of the Bitcoin network itself. This is the kind of infrastructure shift that can move BTC from a passive store of value to an active yield-generating asset in multi-chain finance.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/bitcoin-as-collateral-real-world-use-cases"},"/blog/comparing-hemi-to-optimism-arbitrum-and-other-l2s":{"version":1,"title":"Comparing Hemi to Optimism, Arbitrum, and Other L2s - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Comparing Hemi to Optimism, Arbitrum, and Other L2s"],"h2":["The Rollup Model: Optimism and Arbitrum","Hemi’s Multi-Chain Approach","Performance and Latency","Security Tradeoffs","Developer Experience and Ecosystem Fit","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 1, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","As Ethereum scales, Layer 2 solutions have become essential for reducing fees and increasing throughput. Optimism and Arbitrum are among the most widely used L2s, each offering a rollup-based approach to scaling. Hemi takes a different path, designed for multi-chain execution and bridgeless interoperability. Understanding how Hemi compares to Optimism, Arbitrum, and other L2s is key to grasping where the market is heading.","Optimism and Arbitrum both use optimistic rollups — batching transactions off-chain and posting compressed data back to Ethereum. This lowers fees and speeds up execution while inheriting Ethereum’s security.","Optimism focuses on simplicity and EVM equivalence, making it easy for developers to deploy Ethereum-native apps without rewriting code. Arbitrum offers strong compatibility as well, with a particular emphasis on performance and fraud-proof design.","However, both rely heavily on Ethereum as a settlement layer. While they can connect to other chains via crypto bridges, these integrations add complexity and introduce security concerns.","Hemi is not just an Ethereum scaling solution — it’s built to operate natively across multiple ecosystems, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. Instead of functioning as a rollup tied to a single chain, Hemi uses Proof-of-Proof (PoP) to anchor state to different blockchains.","This design allows applications on Hemi to interact with multiple base layers without passing through a traditional crypto bridge. By using “crypto tunnels,” Hemi minimizes cross-chain risk and enables trust-minimized interoperability between ecosystems that normally can’t communicate directly.","Rollup-based L2s like Optimism and Arbitrum are optimized for Ethereum compatibility, but settlement times are tied to Ethereum’s block finality and challenge periods. This can result in delays when moving assets back to Layer 1 or across other L2s.","Hemi’s architecture bypasses many of these latency issues. Because it’s not dependent on a single base chain, it can execute cross-chain transactions more quickly, while still anchoring to the security of the chains involved.","Security in Optimism and Arbitrum is inherited from Ethereum. This is strong for Ethereum-focused apps, but less relevant when bridging to other networks. Hemi’s crypto tunnels shift the model — instead of securing interoperability through an external validator set, tunnels embed proof commitments into the chains themselves, making it far harder for attackers to exploit the cross-chain layer.","For developers targeting Ethereum-first users, Optimism and Arbitrum remain the most direct choice, offering a large ecosystem and straightforward migration from Layer 1.","Hemi, by contrast, appeals to teams building applications that require native interactions across chains, whether for DeFi liquidity aggregation, multi-chain NFTs, or Bitcoin-Ethereum composability. This positions Hemi less as a competitor to Optimism and Arbitrum in their current lanes, and more as an expansion of what a Layer 2 can be.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/comparing-hemi-to-optimism-arbitrum-and-other-l2s"},"/blog/how-hemi-handles-finality-across-bitcoin-and-ethereum":{"version":1,"title":"How Hemi Handles Finality Across Bitcoin and Ethereum - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How Hemi Handles Finality Across Bitcoin and Ethereum"],"h2":["Understanding Finality in Bitcoin and Ethereum","The Cross-Chain Finality Challenge","How Hemi Aligns Bitcoin and Ethereum Finality","The Role of Crypto Tunnels","Why This Matters for Developers and Users","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","In blockchain systems, finality — the point at which a transaction is considered irreversible — is critical for trust and security. Bitcoin and Ethereum both achieve finality in different ways, and aligning them for cross-chain interoperability is one of the most complex challenges in decentralized infrastructure.","Hemi’s architecture solves this problem through Proof-of-Proof (PoP) and crypto tunnels, creating a secure and verifiable pathway for applications that need to operate across both networks.","Bitcoin Finality — Bitcoin uses probabilistic finality. Transactions are considered increasingly secure as more blocks are mined on top of them. A typical standard is 6 confirmations, though high-value transactions may wait for more.","Ethereum Finality — With Proof-of-Stake and its Casper FFG mechanism, Ethereum offers economic finality, achieved once validators finalize a checkpoint. This happens every few minutes, with a high cost to revert.","For cross-chain applications, these different models create a synchronization problem: how to verify that an event on one chain is truly final before acting on it in another.","When moving value or executing logic across Bitcoin and Ethereum, premature assumptions about finality can create major risks:","Double-spends if a Bitcoin transaction is reversed before full confirmation.","Conflicting state if an Ethereum transaction is reverted due to a chain reorganization.","Loss of funds or incorrect contract execution when timing assumptions are wrong.","Traditional crypto bridges often handle this with centralized or semi-centralized validators, but this introduces a single point of failure.","Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof process embeds verifiable state commitments from one chain into the other. This means that:","Bitcoin transactions are only acted upon in Ethereum once PoP confirms they are deeply anchored in the Bitcoin chain.","Ethereum transactions are committed into Bitcoin via PoP, ensuring that Bitcoin-side logic only executes after Ethereum’s finality checkpoint is reached.","Because the proofs are stored directly in the base layers, no external validator set is needed to attest to finality.","Hemi’s crypto tunnels are the secure message pathways that move these proofs and state updates between chains. Unlike traditional bridges, they do not custody assets or depend on off-chain consensus. Instead, they rely on the finality guarantees of the underlying blockchains themselves.","This design ensures that cross-chain operations only execute when both Bitcoin and Ethereum have reached their own, independent definitions of finality.","By aligning Bitcoin and Ethereum finality natively, Hemi enables:","Safer Cross-Chain DeFi — No premature execution or settlement.","Bitcoin-Aware Smart Contracts — Ethereum contracts can trust Bitcoin events without custodial intermediaries.","Lower Security Risk — Eliminates a major attack surface in cross-chain bridge design.","For developers, this means building on Hemi is not just about interoperability — it’s about inheriting the strongest possible guarantees from both Bitcoin and Ethereum.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-hemi-handles-finality-across-bitcoin-and-ethereum"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-v2-beta-tokenomics-incoming-and-the-road-to-decentralization":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: V2 Beta, Tokenomics Incoming, and the Road to Decentralization - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: V2 Beta, Tokenomics Incoming, and the Road to Decentralization"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["v2.0.0-beta Is Live","Tokenomics and TGE Update","Staking System Launching with TGE","Whitepaper Incoming","Interop: From Competition to Collaboration","Governance, Aragon, and Delegation","SubSquid Integration: Data That Moves","Uniswap Support via Oku","Why Launch on Ethereum?","Scaling Through L3s, Not Just L2 Tweaks","Final Thoughts","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 5, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Another deep dive with Max and Company.","Another week, another packed update from the Hemi protocol engineering team. As always, the team is heads down, building out infrastructure that we expect to carry the network through its next phase—and ultimately define what interoperability between Bitcoin and Ethereum should look like.","First, the big one: version 2.0.0-beta of the Hemi Network stack is live. If you're running a PoP miner or node, this is a major refactor. It simplifies the daemon structure, makes the BFG stateless, and improves miner efficiency. No hard forks or breaking changes here, so you don’t need to update immediately, but when you do, your node setup will be a little lighter, a little faster, and a lot cleaner. The release will move out of beta as soon as final testing wraps and we’re confident in production readiness. New node instructions will follow.","Let’s address the elephant in the room. Tokenomics has taken longer than expected. Last week we said it would be ready by the end of that week. It wasn’t. Some third-party dependencies caught us off guard, and we’re being cautious. Hemi is building infrastructure for a billion-dollar-plus ecosystem. We’re not going to push half-baked numbers out the door just to hit an internal deadline.","That said, we do expect the tokenomics to be released by the end of this week, and TGE (token generation event) updates will follow. Both are tied together, and both are being finalized with outside parties. The moment we’re confident everything is in place, you’ll get a full, final view of how tokens work, how staking operates, and how we’ve architected long-term value and responsibility into the Hemi network.","Alongside TGE, we’ll be launching a staking system. This will form the basis for decentralized roles across the network—sequencers, publishers, batchers, and more. You’ll stake HEMI to participate, and misbehavior will be slashed. Some slashed tokens will be burned, some will be used to compensate harmed users. That’s how we intend to enforce discipline at the protocol level.","The new whitepaper is in final edits. Conclusion is being written now. Grammar passes are underway. This paper outlines how we use ZK proofs of state for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hemi to create objective, slashable verification. Expect this to land publicly within the week.","We got a question about whether Hemi sees other Bitcoin L2s as competitors. The answer is nuanced: yes and no. Everyone’s competing for attention, sure. But we’re building in different directions. Hemi is infrastructure. Our work—especially hBitVM—acts as a public good. Other Bitcoin L2s will be able to plug into Hemi’s proofs, ZK systems, and interoperability rails. That’s how we see the future: cooperation through shared standards and battle-tested code.","Already, Bitcoin LSTs from other L2s are live and usable on Hemi. They can be staked, traded, and farmed. And Hemi’s proofs will be available to help other chains validate Ethereum and Bitcoin state in zero knowledge—without exposing themselves to slashing vulnerabilities or subjectivity.","Governance tooling is coming together. Snapshot-style voting, delegation, and other familiar mechanisms are in motion. Aragon is on the radar, but no decision yet. The goal is a governance model that works, not one that just looks good. More details to come in the weeks before TGE.","SubSquid joined the call this week and gave a detailed look into how their indexing and data layer tech will be used across the Hemi ecosystem. In short, they make it faster and easier for devs to pull on-chain data, compare activity across DApps, and create real-time dashboards. Absinthe is using them to validate points programs and rework its indexing approach, saving time and cutting friction.","Bonus: SubSquid is considering Bitcoin indexing support, which would open up even more use cases for builders working with HBID VM.","We’ve onboarded the Oku team for canonical Uniswap contracts. This gives us a shortcut to full Uniswap support, without burning time and capital on complex integrations. It’s not V4 yet, but it’s fast, reliable, and lets us offer a clean AMM interface on Hemi while we work toward more.","The HEMI token will launch natively on Ethereum. That’s deliberate. It’s the most widely supported base layer, and it makes integration with exchanges and third parties far simpler. The tunneled version will be what’s actually used on Hemi, but having Ethereum as the source of truth gives us more flexibility.","Instead of trying to shove more throughput into the base L2, Hemi will scale via L3s built with Chain Builder. You want ultra-low latency? Custom opcodes for AI? Plasma-like speed channels? You’ll launch a targeted L3, dialed in to the needs of your DApp or user base. The L2 stays small, decentralized, and secure. The ecosystem grows by layering, not bloating.","There's a lot coming. Hemi v2 is almost stable. Tokenomics are nearly final. TGE is getting close. Indexing is getting easier. Governance is taking shape. And the supernetwork vision is becoming real—layer by layer, feature by feature.","We’ll be back next week. In the meantime, get your node updated, watch for the tokenomics drop, and go mint that anniversary NFT before the window closes.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-v2-beta-tokenomics-incoming-and-the-road-to-decentralization"},"/blog/hemi-taps-din-to-bring-bitcoin-into-the-infura-ecosystem":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Taps DIN to Bring Bitcoin into the Infura Ecosystem - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Taps DIN to Bring Bitcoin into the Infura Ecosystem","DIN and Hemi Deliver Access And Enterprise Reliability","Better RPC Options For Hemi Developers","Hemi and DIN Fuse Networks For a Broader Horizon"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 5, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Fusing Bitcoin and Ethereum infrastructure, DIN brings Hemi’s Bitcoin-native apps into the Infura ecosystem for the first time.","Hemi is collaborating with DIN, the decentralized infrastructure network launched by Consensys, and the cornerstone of the Infura ecosystem, to bring Bitcoin-enabled programmability into one of the most trusted developer spaces in Web3.","The collaboration is a natural fit: Infura is the leader for EVM-based chains, while Hemi is the established network to achieve a natural fusion between Bitcoin and Ethereum. With Infura’s first strategic move into the Bitcoin ecosystem by partnering with Hemi, both platforms are working to make Bitcoin more accessible to developers worldwide.","The integration marks new opportunities for builders and users alike, and is a significant moment for both ecosystems. As Infura serves as a core part of the Consensys suite, it powers countless applications across Ethereum and other top blockchains with streamlined access to RPC infrastructure. Through this partnership, Bitcoin-native applications built on Hemi gain direct access to Infura-grade performance, DDOS protection, and developer-facing tools via DIN’s decentralized distribution layer.","DIN is a progressively decentralizing marketplace of Web3 infrastructure services. In production for over 16 months, it processes more than 100 million daily RPC requests across 14 supported networks. Backed by a diverse network of over 50 node providers, DIN makes infrastructure more accessible and performant while reducing the operational lift for dApps, developers, and networks.","Through DIN, Hemi developers gain access to SLA-backed public and private RPC endpoints managed by top-tier node providers, selected and monitored for uptime, latency, and throughput. Additionally, these services are further reinforced by EigenLayer’s Actively Validated Services, which enable fault-tolerant service guarantees. DIN dynamically routes traffic across its provider set to deliver the highest availability and best user experience.","The integration also expands access through gateways like Infura and InfStones, the first node operator to onboard via DIN. As a leading Platform-as-a-Service infrastructure provider that simplifies API access across over 80 blockchain protocols. InfStones brings proven scale and operational strength to the partnership, underscoring the production-readiness of the integration, and setting the stage for additional top-tier node operators to join.For developers, the partnership creates new touchpoints with Hemi while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of scaling infrastructure.","For Hemi builders, this partnership simplifies a traditionally complex part of deploying and scaling Bitcoin-native applications. Rather than managing RPC infrastructure independently, developers can access high-quality endpoints directly through the Infura dashboard. It allows them to build with Infura-grade performance guarantees and built-in support for metrics, rate-limiting, and DDOS protection.","Through this integration, developers benefit from:","Public RPC endpoints with SLA-backed reliability","Access to DIN’s decentralized provider network","Seamless onboarding via Infura’s developer tools","Eligibility for growth incentives, including grant credits and hackathon support","Future tokenized adoption incentives","These resources remove key friction points, making it easier for teams to experiment, build, and scale production-grade Bitcoin apps with composable yield, lending, and liquidity strategies.","This partnership reflects a foundational alignment between ecosystems. By bringing Bitcoin into Infura’s orbit through Hemi, developers across ecosystems now have a direct, trust-minimized link between Ethereum and Bitcoin-native liquidity.","The result is a more efficient and interconnected Web3 stack.Explore how Hemi and DIN can power your next build, and join the growing movement bringing BTC to the center of DeFi.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-taps-din-to-bring-bitcoin-into-the-infura-ecosystem"},"/blog/what-makes-a-trustless-bridge-debunking-wrapped-token-risks":{"version":1,"title":"What Makes a Trustless Bridge? Debunking Wrapped Token Risks - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["What Makes a Trustless Bridge? Debunking Wrapped Token Risks"],"h2":["How a Crypto Bridge Works","The Myth of the Trustless Bridge","Wrapped Token Risks Explained","Hemi’s Trust-Minimized Approach with Crypto Tunnels","Why This Matters for DeFi","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 5, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Crypto bridges play a crucial role in moving assets between blockchains. But not all bridges are created equal. The term “trustless bridge” gets used often, yet many so-called trustless designs still rely on centralized custodians or opaque validator sets. At the same time, the use of wrapped tokens introduces its own set of risks that users rarely understand. In this article, we break down what makes a bridge truly trustless and why wrapped assets are often the weakest link.","A typical crypto bridge locks tokens on the origin chain and issues a wrapped version on the destination chain. This process is fast and familiar, but it introduces a dependency on the entity or contract holding the locked tokens. If that custodian is compromised — as we’ve seen in several high-profile bridge hacks — all wrapped assets tied to it can instantly lose value.","Many bridges claim to be trustless because they use smart contracts to manage funds. But even these contracts often rely on a limited set of off-chain actors to validate cross-chain messages. If that validator set colludes or gets hacked, the bridge can be drained. True trustless bridges eliminate single points of failure by making each blockchain independently verify the other’s state without relying on a separate authority.","Wrapped tokens are only as secure as the system backing them. They are IOUs — promises that an asset exists somewhere else. If the bridge holding those assets fails, the wrapped token becomes worthless. This fragility makes wrapped tokens one of the most persistent risks in cross-chain DeFi. The more chains you bridge across, the greater the surface area for attacks.","Hemi avoids many of these issues with its crypto tunnels. Instead of locking tokens and minting wrapped versions, Hemi’s design lets blockchains validate each other’s transactions directly using Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus. This means no centralized custodian, no wrapped token dependency, and no need to trust an external validator set.","By eliminating the wrapping process entirely, Hemi’s model aligns with the original vision of a trustless bridge — one where the bridge logic lives inside the security guarantees of the chains themselves.","The next wave of decentralized finance will demand safer, more efficient cross-chain movement of assets. The industry is learning that crypto bridges relying on wrapped tokens are a short-term fix, not a permanent solution. Models like Hemi’s crypto tunnels point toward a future where bridging is native, trust-minimized, and resistant to the failures that have plagued wrapped assets.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/what-makes-a-trustless-bridge-debunking-wrapped-token-risks"},"/blog/hemi-is-home-for-btc-yield":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Is Home For BTC Yield - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Is Home For BTC Yield","Hemi BTC-Backed Lending, Borrowing, and Pools","Fixed-Rate Yields and Yield Derivatives","Multiply Rewards With Hemi Absinthe and Merkl Campaigns"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 6, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Hemi turns idle BTC into productive capital with competitive yields across lending, liquidity pools, fixed-rate products, and derivatives.","Hemi gives BTC holders competitive DeFi yields that other EVM networks struggle to match. Here’s how you can maximize the value of your BTC and start earning a return instead of holding it idle on an exchange or in cold storage.More than replicating Ethereum’s yield categories, Hemi extends them to BTC. That’s why the network is rapidly making a name for BTC in DeFi, with earning options across liquidity pools. AMMs, lending and borrowing, fixed-rate products, yield trading, and perps markets.","Hemi’s growing list of partners offers ways to explore directional or passive strategies for earning with programmable bitcoin in DeFi.","You can leverage BTC-backed assets like bfBTC to earn on BitFi or get a return by supplying BTC to lending markets like LayerZero or mint Yield Tokens (YT) on Spectra to gain exposure to rate movements. Deploy BTC to earn rewards directly into stablecoin liquidity pools on SushiSwapV3.","Product","Earning Type","Est. APR/APY","Platform","bfBTC","Lending","~8.1%","BitFi","hemiBTC","Yield Derivatives","~22.13%","Spectra","bfBTC ➡️YT-bfBTC","Leveraged Bonded Yield","~55.78%","hemiBTC—USDC.e","Pool Yield","~53.55%","Sushi","hemiBTC—satUSD","~82%","Hemi’s partner offerings, like Spectra’s Principle Tokens (PT) and Izumi’s LP vaults, also provide opportunities to earn. Spectra’s PTs introduce fixed-rate returns. Meanwhile, Izumi’s vault-based architecture expands access to liquidity strategies for various forms of BTC from across the rollup spectrum.","bfBTC ➡️PT-bfBTC","Fixed Rate","~8.56%—18.92%","Ranged Vaults","LP Vaults","Variable","Izumi","Every move on Hemi, whether lending, staking, providing liquidity, or trading yield, is rewarded through our ongoing Absinthe campaign, ahead of the HEMI TGE. Points accumulate for onchain activities across supported protocols, multiplying the upside by stacking them alongside yields. Compound those rewards through Hemi’s Merkl campaign, where daily incentives are distributed to top-performing strategies across the Hemi ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-is-home-for-btc-yield"},"/blog/hemi-and-drpc-team-up-to-make-bitcoin-available-across-the-rpc-layer":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and dRPC Team Up to Make Bitcoin Available Across the RPC Layer - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and dRPC Team Up to Make Bitcoin Available Across the RPC Layer","Hemi Leverages dRPC’s Programmable Engine","dRPC and Hemi Advance Bitcoin Programmability"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 7, 2025","Bitcoin","Drpc","Ethereum","Hemi","Developers will get node-free access to Hemi’s native Bitcoin data layer through NodeCloud, dRPC’s online RPC management platform.","Hemi and dRPC are collaborating to bring blockchain developers a high-performance Bitcoin Remote Procedure Call (RPC) layer. This layer enables developers to call Bitcoin-native data via Hemi without needing to spin up a custom node.","The integration is both a strategic and significant step for dRPC, marking a key expansion of its scope to include Bitcoin programmability, with Hemi as the first Bitcoin-native network supported across its infrastructure stack.","With Hemi live in the dRPC ecosystem, tapping into Bitcoin-based use cases becomes more frictionless and accessible. Programmable Bitcoin is available without the need to manage backend infrastructure for data access.","The NodeHaus integration connects Hemi to dRPC’s programmable RPC engine, providing developers with a direct and reliable pipeline to interact with Hemi via structured off-chain calls within existing workflows.","Hemi will join dRPC’s official chainlist and the RPC.info registry, enhancing discoverability and ensuring compatibility with legacy infrastructure platforms working across multiple networks. dRPC’s NodeCloud will also deliver a customizable blockchain status API and real-time monitoring, so teams will gain greater visibility into the health and responsiveness of the Hemi network as they scale.","In all, developers will gain a seamless means to tap into Hemi’s Bitcoin-native data, using the same tooling already relied on in Ethereum and other EVM environments.","Hemi and dRPC have a shared vision of unlocking Bitcoin programmability for the next wave of Web3 development. Developers building cross-chain apps, DeFi protocols, or consumer experiences can now treat Hemi like any other EVM network in their toolchain.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-drpc-team-up-to-make-bitcoin-available-across-the-rpc-layer"},"/blog/hemi-and-orbiter-finance-unite-for-fast-trustless-crosschain-transfers":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Orbiter Finance Unite For Fast, Trustless, Crosschain Transfers - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Orbiter Finance Unite For Fast, Trustless, Crosschain Transfers"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 11, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Orbiter adds support for Hemi, giving users even more ways to transfer value to the leading network for BTC-integrated DeFi.","Hemi is collaborating with Orbiter Finance, unlocking more ways for users to bring liquidity to the leading network for programmable Bitcoin. Orbiter’s cross-rollup bridge adds Hemi to a wide array of supported networks for trustless, secure asset transfers.","Orbiter facilitates fast, trustless transfers, powered by Zero-Knowledge Simple Payment Verification (ZK-SPV) to boost performance and keep gas costs low. With ZK-SPV, Orbiter accelerates cross-rollup bridging by verifying transactions without necessitating full onchain proofs.","Integrating with Hemi, Orbiter adds support for bridging Hemi-native assets such as hemiBTC, enabling fast, trustless transfers across networks. For users, it means more ways to bring value to Hemi, and for developers, it brings yet another interoperability layer for dApps to tap into.","Together, Hemi and Orbiter are expanding the reach of Bitcoin-native assets, strengthening the foundation of Hemi’s composable BTC-enabled DeFi ecosystem.","Use Orbiter to send assets to Hemi today.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-orbiter-finance-unite-for-fast-trustless-crosschain-transfers"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-tge-progress-tokenomics-and-the-road-ahead":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: TGE Progress, Tokenomics, and the Road Ahead - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: TGE Progress, Tokenomics, and the Road Ahead"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Testnet Points: Final Export Incoming","Node Rewards & Incentives","What Comes After TGE?","HBitVM: Bitcoin Meets Ethereum","Community Participation","Final Thoughts","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 12, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","This week’s Midweek with Max provided a detailed look into where Hemi stands as it approaches its Token Generation Event (TGE), along with major updates to tokenomics, network rollout, and long-term roadmap plans.","The team confirmed that final tokenomics are complete but still under internal review. While the community will need to wait just a bit longer for publication, the finish line is in sight. Expect a public release shortly after final approval.","Mainnet Season 1 will be ending very soon, with an official date to be announced by the end of the week. Afterward, the team will share details on Season 2, including new incentives and the bridge period leading into TGE. A claim page for rewards is already developed and in final testing. This will allow participants to check both testnet and mainnet incentives ahead of token launch.","Most users can already verify their PoP points on the testnet stats page. However, the team is re-running one final export from Absinthe to correct a few edge cases. If you notice discrepancies, you're encouraged to open a support ticket.","The Hemi team is finalizing how node scale participants will be rewarded in relation to mainnet TVL provider incentives. More details are expected shortly.","Post-TGE, the HEMI token will:","Become the preferred gas token across the network","Serve as collateral for sequencers, data publishers, and liquidity providers","Power the reverse staking system","Enable liquidity around the Bitcoin Tunnel system","Facilitate burn-and-reward mechanisms for misbehavior prevention","The team also teased a liquidity wrapper for BitVM, allowing users to interact with Bitcoin more flexibly without full vault withdrawals.","One of the most anticipated features is hBitVM, Hemi’s Bitcoin tunnel system based on BitVM. This mechanism uses a dual-consensus model to validate Bitcoin and Ethereum state, opening up:","Native Bitcoin light clients","ZK-proofs of Ethereum state","High-security ZK rollups","Decentralized bridges","An upcoming whitepaper and engineering AMA will explore this in more depth.","Want to get involved? You can:","Contribute to Hemi’s open-source repos on GitHub","Build new DApps or infrastructure on HVM","Help write tutorials, guides, and educational content","Join future bounties and grant programs","The team emphasized a strong open-source ethos: all development is public, and contributions are welcome. As Rick put it, \"Crypto minus open source is nothing.\"","While some details like TGE date and tokenomics are still pending finalization, the overall message is clear: Hemi is converging on launch readiness. Internal systems are coming together, incentives are being finalized, and the roadmap is stacked with ambitious goals that stretch from Bitcoin tunnels to ZK-proven global settlement layers.","Stay tuned for the hBitVM whitepaper and next week's updates.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-tge-progress-tokenomics-and-the-road-ahead"},"/blog/why-modularity-matters-for-blockchain-scalability":{"version":1,"title":"Why Modularity Matters for Blockchain Scalability - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Why Modularity Matters for Blockchain Scalability"],"h2":["What is Blockchain Modularity?","How Modularity Improves Scalability","Hemi’s Modular Design","Modularity and Bridgeless Interoperability","The Road Ahead for Modular Blockchains","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 15, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Pop","As blockchain networks mature, the pressure to scale without sacrificing security has never been greater. Blockchain modularity — the separation of core functions like execution, consensus, and data availability — is emerging as a key architectural strategy.","Hemi’s modular approach builds on this concept to deliver bridgeless interoperability and multi-chain scalability, allowing developers to create applications that operate across ecosystems without depending on risky crypto bridges.","In a monolithic blockchain, all core functions happen within the same protocol layer. This simplifies design but forces every node to handle execution, consensus, and data storage together, limiting throughput.","A modular blockchain separates these layers. Execution environments can process transactions independently, consensus layers can focus on ordering and security, and data availability layers can store proofs and transaction data at scale. This decoupling enables specialization, efficiency, and faster upgrades.","The main advantage of modularity is parallelism. Instead of one chain handling every function, specialized layers work simultaneously:","Execution Layers run transactions and smart contracts.","Consensus Layers secure the network and finalize blocks.","Data Availability Layers ensure transaction data is verifiable and accessible.","By separating these functions, blockchains can scale throughput without overburdening nodes or compromising decentralization.","Hemi applies modular principles to cross-chain interoperability. Its hVM (Hemi Virtual Machine) acts as a modular execution environment that can interface with multiple consensus layers — including Bitcoin and Ethereum — through Proof-of-Proof (PoP).","This means developers can deploy cross-chain applications without locking into a single network’s constraints. The hVM connects to different chains via crypto tunnels, ensuring that each chain’s consensus is preserved while enabling seamless communication.","Traditional interoperability often relies on monolithic bridges that combine asset custody, consensus verification, and messaging into one point of failure. Hemi’s modular crypto tunnel architecture separates these concerns:","Consensus verification happens directly on each base chain through PoP.","Messaging and execution occur within the hVM.","Asset movement happens without wrapped tokens or third-party custody.","This design eliminates many of the vulnerabilities that have plagued crypto bridges while keeping performance high.","The shift toward modularity is already visible in projects like Celestia and EigenLayer, which focus on data availability and shared security. Hemi extends this logic into the cross-chain space, giving developers the tools to build applications that scale across multiple ecosystems from day one.","As demand for blockchain scalability grows, modular designs will become the standard — and for interoperability, Hemi’s model shows how security and flexibility can go hand in hand.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/why-modularity-matters-for-blockchain-scalability"},"/blog/bitcoin-native-stablecoins-state-of-the-ecosystem":{"version":1,"title":"Bitcoin-Native Stablecoins: State of the Ecosystem - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Bitcoin-Native Stablecoins: State of the Ecosystem"],"h2":["Why Bitcoin-Native Stablecoins Matter","Current Approaches to Bitcoin-Native Stablecoins","Challenges Facing the Ecosystem","How Hemi Can Accelerate Bitcoin-Native Stablecoins","The Outlook for Bitcoin-Native Stablecoins","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 15, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Stablecoins are the most widely used on-chain payment instruments, but most exist on Ethereum or other smart contract platforms. Bitcoin-native stablecoins — stablecoins that settle and operate directly on the Bitcoin network or Bitcoin-adjacent layers — are emerging as the next frontier. They promise the liquidity and stability of dollar-pegged assets without leaving the security of Bitcoin’s base layer.","As the ecosystem matures, new protocols and interoperability solutions like Hemi are making Bitcoin-native stablecoins more accessible to DeFi, payments, and cross-chain applications.","Bitcoin is the most secure and decentralized blockchain, but its base layer has historically lacked the programmability to support complex financial instruments. This pushed stablecoin innovation toward Ethereum and other programmable chains, leaving Bitcoin largely absent from the stablecoin boom.","Bitcoin-native stablecoins aim to change this by:","Keeping settlement and custody aligned with Bitcoin’s security model.","Reducing reliance on wrapped assets and custodial issuers.","Expanding Bitcoin’s role in DeFi, lending, and on-chain commerce.","The Bitcoin-native stablecoin ecosystem is still early, but several design patterns are emerging:","Layer 2-Based Stablecoins — Protocols built on Bitcoin L2s or sidechains (e.g., Liquid, Rootstock) issue stablecoins directly backed by BTC.","Collateralized Protocols — Smart contracts lock BTC as collateral to mint dollar-pegged assets, similar to MakerDAO’s DAI model.","Synthetic Stablecoins — Pegs maintained through trading incentives and algorithmic supply adjustments, though these carry higher risk.","Launching a Bitcoin-native stablecoin comes with unique hurdles:","On-Chain Execution — Bitcoin’s base layer doesn’t natively support the smart contracts required for stablecoin issuance and liquidation.","Liquidity Distribution — Without integration into major DeFi platforms, adoption is slow.","Bridge Risk — Moving Bitcoin into other ecosystems for stablecoin issuance often introduces custody and security risks.","Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof (PoP) and crypto tunnels solve one of the biggest barriers for Bitcoin-native stablecoins: interoperability. By anchoring stablecoin state and collateral proofs directly into Bitcoin and connecting them to programmable chains, Hemi enables:","Trust-minimized movement of BTC collateral into stablecoin protocols.","Cross-chain settlement of Bitcoin-backed stablecoins without wrapped tokens.","Integration of Bitcoin-native stablecoins into Ethereum, Solana, and other DeFi ecosystems.","This opens the door to a truly bridgeless stablecoin economy where Bitcoin’s liquidity flows securely across multiple chains.","The next phase of stablecoin adoption will be about security and decentralization, not just speed and cost. Bitcoin-native designs offer both, and with the right infrastructure, they can compete directly with Ethereum-based stablecoins in utility and scale.","Hemi’s interoperability model gives these assets a route into the broader crypto economy without sacrificing the trust guarantees of Bitcoin itself. As the ecosystem grows, Bitcoin-native stablecoins could become a core building block for multi-chain finance.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/bitcoin-native-stablecoins-state-of-the-ecosystem"},"/blog/hemi-and-houdiniswap-preserve-privacy-with-crosschain-btcfi-access":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi And HoudiniSwap Preserve Privacy With Crosschain BTCFi Access  - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi And HoudiniSwap Preserve Privacy With Crosschain BTCFi Access"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 19, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","HoudiniSwap unlocks effortless and anonymous entry into Hemi’s BTCFi ecosystem.","HoudiniSwap, a privacy protocol that has processed over 620,000 transactions amounting to $1.7 billion in total volume and serving over 150,000 users, is now live on Hemi. With it, users gain a private and seamless way to bridge into Hemi’s BTCFi ecosystem from over 100 different chains.","With HoudiniSwap, anyone can connect assets to Hemi, optimizing the route for privacy, cost, or by using a one-time deposit address. Wallet history, balances, and transactions remain private and unlinkable. Swap without additional fees, only paying standard network and exchange rates, often with lower swap costs than traditional DEX aggregators.","For Hemi users who value privacy and want a simple way to move capital between chains, HoudinSwap unlocks direct and anonymous access to the network’s growing ecosystem of programmable Bitcoin. The Hemi chain and assets will be integrated via SushiSwap, a DeFi route for standard crosschain swaps.","Once launched, the HEMI token will be integrated with HoudiniSwap, which will support private swaps, crosschain swaps with DeFi routing, and swaps without a wallet connection.","Developers can also use HoudiniSwap to direct users into their apps with less friction, improving onboarding and removing the need for wallet connections.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-houdiniswap-preserve-privacy-with-crosschain-btcfi-access"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-updates-on-tokenomics-incentives-and-whats-next-for-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Updates on Tokenomics, Incentives, and What’s Next for Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Updates on Tokenomics, Incentives, and What’s Next for Hemi"],"h2":["Tokenomics and TGE","Governance and Future Tools","Long-Term Vision","Community Highlights","Closing","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 20, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","This week’s Midweek with Max was packed with updates from the engineering front, questions from the community, and a preview of what’s to come as we close out Season One and head toward TGE.","The team continues pushing toward the HEMI Network V2 release. Node testing is nearly complete, with infrastructure upgrades underway to improve performance. One highlight is a new RPC load balancing system designed to make RPC calls faster and more reliable.","Work on ZK proofability is advancing in parallel. This includes integration with ZK-SNARK settlement to Ethereum and future support for hBitVM. The white paper for hBitVM is almost complete, with final refinements aimed at making it clearer and easier to understand. Supporting explainer content will follow.","The most-asked question came early: When Tokenomics? When TGE?","The answer: Tokenomics will be published no later than next Wednesday. A major announcement is also scheduled before then. Timing depends partly on a third-party partner, but the commitment stands—everything drops in the near term.","As Max put it, “Tokenomics and a major announcement will both happen before next Wednesday.”","Post-TGE, Hemi will roll out governance tools, including a voting system for protocol decisions. While not active yet, this system will allow both official Hemi governance and potential third-party use.","NFTs were another topic. While commemorative NFTs like “I Broke Sepolia” and “The Garzik Experience” are currently cosmetic, the team is considering ways to integrate them into the broader incentive program. No promises yet, but future perks may emerge.","Beyond TGE, Hemi’s roadmap includes:","hBitVM – enabling Bitcoin settlement with Ethereum through ZK proofs, reducing settlement times and expanding Bitcoin’s role in Ethereum DeFi.","Sequencer decentralization – staking HEMI tokens to produce blocks and earn sequencer revenue.","Chain Builder – a system for launching configurable L3s on Hemi, optimized for speed, security, or custom execution environments.","Demo HVM applications – sample protocols like non-custodial Bitcoin DEXs and lending markets to inspire the community.","These are ambitious steps, but each moves Hemi closer to making Bitcoin a central player in DeFi.","The session closed with lighter moments. Questions ranged from hacked wallet recovery (yes, tickets are being worked through) to meme contests (currently live, with “when” memes dominating). Even hypothetical battles between mascots—goat, astronaut, or koala—got debated.","As always, community energy drives these calls. Roles like “The Patient Ones” were introduced for those waiting out Tokenomics, a reminder that while delays can be frustrating, the core updates are around the corner.","Season One ends tomorrow. Tokenomics and a major announcement arrive before next Wednesday. HBitVM and sequencer decentralization are on the horizon. The Hemi experiment continues to evolve with the same mix of serious engineering and community-powered fun.","Stay tuned. The next week promises to be a turning point.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-updates-on-tokenomics-incentives-and-whats-next-for-hemi"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-a-spicy-week-for-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: A Spicy Week for Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: A Spicy Week for Hemi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 27, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","This week’s Midweek with Max carried a different weight. The call opened with a guest appearance from Akhtar of One Delta, who walked the community through their live trading competition. Beyond the prizes, the bigger story was fresh integrations. One Delta has added bridges like Gassip and Stargate, giving users new ways to move funds into Hemi efficiently, from the smallest retail swaps to whale-sized transfers. Combined with updated margin and lending options, the event is a reminder that liquidity is both growing and getting smarter on Hemi.","But the spotlight quickly shifted back to Hemi itself. Max Sanchez delivered an update that underlined how packed this week is for the project. The team is finalizing the claim checker, due within about 30 hours, and preparing the mechanics around TGE. Testnet clean-up, point finalization, and claim page logistics are almost done. On top of that, a fresh $15 million funding round was announced, with backing from Republic, YZ Labs, Hyperchain and others. The raise puts momentum behind what is shaping up to be the most significant moment in Hemi’s short history.","Max also dug into the roadmap after TGE. Two near-term milestones stand out. First is HBitVM, Hemi’s hybrid extension of BitVM that merges Bitcoin and Ethereum security to make vaults safer and proofs faster. Second is sequencer decentralization, which will combine Ethereum’s proof-of-stake liveness with Bitcoin finality through PoP, broadening participation and strengthening resilience. Downstream of that comes Chain Builder, the planned L3 ecosystem that will inherit Hemi’s security and liquidity while offering customization to developers.","Questions flowed fast. Circulating supply at TGE will be about a billion tokens, with half of rewards liquid and half subject to lockups, with incentives for longer commitments. The community asked about passport node refunds, Deimos verification, Binance campaigns, and vault security. Max was clear: Hemi’s tokenomics, rewards structure, and campaign design aim to balance fairness with growth.","The session closed on a reminder of scale. Hemi has already hit $1.2 billion in peak TVL, onboarded hundreds of thousands of community members, and verified over 100,000 unique users. TVL currently sits closer to $850 million and is growing again.","This week will see the claim checker, more announcements, and—finally—clarity on TGE. As Mo put it during his first Midweek with Max, this is one of the most exciting weeks in Hemi’s history. Prepare for fireworks.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-a-spicy-week-for-hemi"},"/blog/hemi-announces-15m-round-to-accelerate-bitcoin-programmability":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Announces $15M Round To Accelerate Bitcoin Programmability - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Announces $15M Round To Accelerate Bitcoin Programmability","Hemi Unlocks Bitcoin’s Untapped Potential","Backed by Leading Investors","Get Ready for the $HEMI Token"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 27, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Industry-leading backers signal confidence in Hemi to deliver a robust foundation that unlocks the potential of Bitcoin-integrated DeFi.","Hemi is celebrating the close of our latest growth round, a $15 million raise led by YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), Republic Digital, and HyperChain Capital. This brings Hemi’s total project funding to $30 million.","The fundraising milestone cements Hemi as the foundational layer for Bitcoin’s integration into an EVM-compatible decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. With industry-leading backers, the raise underscores growing conviction that Bitcoin’s future extends beyond value transfer.","Despite Bitcoin’s $2.3 trillion market cap, its role in DeFi has remained limited. Developers have long faced a trade-off between Bitcoin’s unmatched security and the programmability of other networks. Hemi eliminates that compromise.","Through the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM), which features a full Bitcoin node embedded inside an Ethereum Virtual Machine, Hemi fuses Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum’s flexibility. The result? A supernetwork where developers can deploy applications that enable earning, borrowing, trading, and building on Bitcoin while retaining decentralization and security.","Alongside the lead participants, the round attracted support from Breyer Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Crypto.com, DNA Fund, Selini Capital, Protein Capital, Quantstamp, Web3.com, and others. Their participation highlights confidence in Hemi’s role as a critical infrastructure for Bitcoin programmability and cross-chain interoperability.","Hemi already supports more than $1.2 billion in TVL, with over 70 integrated ecosystem partners such as Sushi, LayerZero, MetaMask, and Redstone. Hemi also features 100,000 verified users, and an active community of 400,000 members, demonstrating early traction ahead of the token launch.","The platform’s progress is built on a team with decades of experience in blockchain innovation. Among Hemi’s founding team members are Jeff Garzik, one of Bitcoin’s earliest core developers, Maxwell Sanchez, inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol, and Matthew Roszak, crypto pioneer and investor.","With funding secured and ecosystem adoption accelerating, Hemi is focused on the next milestone, the $HEMI token generation event. Tokenomics are live now. Combining Bitcoin’s trust with Ethereum programmability, Hemi is paving the way for Bitcoin-native DeFi, with $HEMI as a cornerstone. Full launch details will be shared soon.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-announces-15m-round-to-accelerate-bitcoin-programmability"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-post-tge":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: Post-TGE - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: Post-TGE"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Engineering Updates","Funding and Foundation","Roadmap","Closing Thoughts","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 2, 2025","Blockchain","Hemi","Midweek With Max","Video","This week’s Midweek with Max felt like one of those hinge moments where you realize how much has been built, and how close the next phase really is. Max sat down with the usual crew, plus a few guests, to talk through where Hemi stands after TGE.","The engineering team is grinding out final tests, end-to-end deployments, and the last rounds of edge case fixes. ZK provability is still a top priority, as is tightening the Proof-of-Proof layer so that settlement remains secure and verifiable. Nothing glamorous, but the kind of deep work that holds a network together when it launches.","The funding round has closed, oversubscribed several times over. A foundation is already in place, playing the expected role of stewarding the protocol and supporting the wider ecosystem. Early contributors, from testnet users to TVL providers, continue to shape the project’s trajectory.","Max outlined where things go next:","hVM variations that bring Ethereum programmability into direct contact with Bitcoin security.","ZK proofs that scale at Bitcoin levels.","A chain builder framework to make it possible to launch L3s atop the Hemi stack, secured by PoP.","It’s heady stuff, but the through-line is clear: capital efficiency, security aggregation, and a composable system where Bitcoin and Ethereum finally pull in the same direction.","What came across most in this session was urgency. Deadlines are collapsing into days, not months. For the community, the message was simple: you’ve carried this far, and soon you’ll see the network stand on its own.","View all","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-post-tge"},"/blog/hemi-and-owlto-collaborate-to-broaden-crosschain-asset-transfers":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi And Owlto Collaborate To Broaden Crosschain Asset Transfers   - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi And Owlto Collaborate To Broaden Crosschain Asset Transfers"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 2, 2025","Hemi is now supported by Owlto’s bridge, opening up a new means for users to bring liquidity to the network.","Hemi is now supported by Owlto’s bridge, creating a new pathway for users to bring liquidity into the network. The integration enables direct connections between Hemi and dozens of other supported networks through Owlto’s interface, streamlining the process for cross-chain transfers.","Owlto Finance is a cross-chain bridge platform supporting a wide range of chains, with routing that prioritizes low fees and fast settlement. By adding Hemi, Owlto extends its reach to include Bitcoin-integrated DeFi applications, offering its users new destinations for asset deployment.","For Hemi participants, the collaboration increases interoperability and adds redundancy to the available bridging options, helping diversify liquidity sources. For Owlto’s user base, it unlocks direct access to Hemi’s growing ecosystem without the need to navigate multiple separate bridge platforms.","The integration is live and available through Owlto’s bridge interface. Users can initiate transfers in either direction, selecting Hemi as an origin or destination network alongside existing EVM-compatible ecosystems.","Visit Owlto, transfer assets to Hemi, and participate in the new era of Bitcoin-integrated DeFi.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-owlto-collaborate-to-broaden-crosschain-asset-transfers"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-the-rise-of-hbitvm":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: The Rise of hBitVM - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: The Rise of hBitVM"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 10, 2025","This week’s Midweek with Max came with a lot to unpack. With Rick out sick, Jeremy stepped in to host alongside Max and members of the engineering team. The conversation touched everything from Spectra recalculations to Hemi’s next big milestone: hBitVM.","Spectra points are being finalized, with recalculations for October pools included. Addresses that missed out in the first round will see their claims added by the end of the day. For those who already claimed but are due additional tokens, a second claim group is being created to work around UI limitations. Dodo points and creative contributions are also being corrected manually.","On PoP points, a new smart contract will allow users to swap locked Hemi positions for liquid tokens, giving flexibility to either keep locked rewards or trade for immediate liquidity. Expect a simple contract rather than a polished interface, but it will do the job. With the token generation event behind us, the team is focusing on stability and laying the groundwork for the next phase. A temporary code freeze is in place, but once lifted, the updated PoP points payout algorithm will go live.","Work is also progressing on governance for VE-HEMI holders, staking incentives, and the move toward hBitVM, which ties Bitcoin and Ethereum security together through adaptive BitVM. Community questions around staking weight were addressed. A two-year lockup carries four times the weight of a six-month position, while four years gives eight times the weight.","Rewards are calculated in six-day epochs, with multipliers decaying gradually over time. Details on the first year of incentives will be published soon. OG roles and rewards are also on the horizon. The team expects distribution in about three weeks, with edge cases resolved before final claims. Rewards will include a liquid portion, though vesting details remain TBD.","All major contracts—including tunnels, settlement contracts, and staking—have been audited. Updates to the Bitcoin tunnel and Ethereum settlement layers will trigger fresh audits. On the infrastructure side, industry best practices are in place to guard against supply-chain attacks, from pinned dependencies to automated vulnerability scanning. The team is also cautious about over-reliance on external packages, keeping the codebase as lean as possible.","The message was clear: the TGE may be behind us, but the real building starts now.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-the-rise-of-hbitvm"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-mainnet-season-2":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: Mainnet Season 2 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: Mainnet Season 2"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 17, 2025","Bitcoin","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","We’re back with another Midweek with Max. This week focused on claims, token emissions, engineering priorities, and how the community can get more involved.","If you participated in Spectra or Dodo and your points looked off, you should check the claim site again. There is now a new tab for Spectra and Dodo. The team corrected September YT position counts, added the October Spectra pool after confusion about which pool was incentivized, and fixed missing Dodo LP credits. One node sale address that was missed in the original export has also been included. If you claimed once already, you can submit again in the new group. If you only qualified after the recalculation, you can claim there directly.","Pre-TGE PoP points came with a 50 percent locked vHEMI position. A new contract will soon allow you to swap that locked half for liquid HEMI, one to one. We will post instructions for doing this in the explorer when it is ready. On the VeriBlock side, the team is still working through key conversions to Ethereum addresses. Once that piece is finished, the claim process will go live.","Engineering is centered on three main tracks. The first is ZK provability for Hemi and the Bitcoin indexer that supports it. The second is safer upgrades, which means full end-to-end testing for L1 contract changes before they go live. The third is the new PoP Payouts algorithm. The design is already public in Discord, and the team is back-testing parameters against Bitcoin fee data. Hemi Network v2 has reached release-candidate stage, and final testing continues. Sequencer decentralization is next, with VE HEMI restaking tied into it. Contract work is also under way for longer lockups, stronger multipliers, and the eventual restaking path. Security remains a priority, with extra attention paid to supply chain risks in upstream code.","Circulating supply details will move from the PDF into full documentation with exact numbers. Expect the first version soon. Details on VE HEMI staking yield should follow within the next two to three weeks. Emissions will evolve under governance. The base HEMI token lives on Ethereum, and emissions will mint there each month before auto-tunneling to HEMI L2. Minting is currently off. When it turns on, anyone can call the monthly mint. Target emissions run between three and seven percent per year. Most of this pays PoP miners, including a second track for Ethereum attestations on Bitcoin. Two percent goes to sequencers once decentralization is active. The rest can be burned or routed to ecosystem needs such as ZK costs or community programs.","Mainnet Season 2 is coming soon. The aim is clear rules, simpler rewards, and a focus on protocols that drive liquidity. A grants and bounties program is also in development. Build guides will outline projects like a non-custodial Bitcoin DEX and Bitcoin lending. There will also be an open lane for new ideas and EVM app ports. In the meantime, the call is simple: build, write, and teach. If you make a valid contribution to a HEMI Labs repo or the docs and it is merged, you can request the open-source contributor role in Discord.","For PoP miners, two near-term items matter most. The first is the contract that lets you trade your locked pre-TGE position for liquid tokens. The second is the new PoP Payouts algorithm, which will pay liquid tokens at each keystone once it is live. Earlier fee dynamics were known but often rough. The new flow shortens the loop and delivers liquid tokens on chain.","That is the update. Claims are fixed, liquidity for early miners is on the way, ZK work continues, and emissions will fund the roles that secure the network. The foundation is in place, Mainnet Season 2 is ahead, and grants will support builders. Keep building, keep asking questions, and expect more to ship soon.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-mainnet-season-2"},"/blog/memebridge-and-hemi-team-up-to-expand-network-routing-options":{"version":1,"title":"MemeBridge and Hemi Team Up To Expand Network Routing Options - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["MemeBridge and Hemi Team Up To Expand Network Routing Options"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 22, 2025","Partnerships","Support for Hemi has been added to the MemeBridge aggregator, expanding the network's liquidity inflow routes.","Hemi and MemeBridge, a crosschain bridge aggregator, are teaming up. Hemi is now supported on MemeBridge, joining dozens of other EVM-compatible networks.","MemeBridge’s platform sources routes via multiple bridge providers, so users may compare costs and select options based on value, speed, and reliability. The addition of Hemi brings an additional path for users to initiate low-cost, secure asset transfers.","Hemi users can use MemeBridge to initiate transfers through an intuitive web interface. MemeBridge employs routing logic that consolidates multiple bridge options into a single point of access. This reduces the need to manage multiple individual bridge interfaces and streamlines crosschain asset transferability.","Start using MemeBridge today, transfer assets to Hemi, and access a growing Bitcoin-integrated DeFi ecosystem.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/memebridge-and-hemi-team-up-to-expand-network-routing-options"},"/blog/hemi-and-micro3-expand-onchain-engagement-for-growth-campaigns":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Micro3 Expand Onchain Engagement For Growth Campaigns - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Micro3 Expand Onchain Engagement For Growth Campaigns"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 19, 2025","Hemi","Partnership","Micro3 integrates with Hemi with task-based campaigns that advance discoverability in the network’s ecosystem to grow user bases.","Hemi is integrating with Micro3, a crypto-quest platform designed to launch airdrops, grow brands, and onboard users through interactive and onchain engagement.","Micro3 elevates brand discovery with quests and challenges designed to onboard new users while keeping communities engaged. Its points platform is built for user growth via interactive onchain activities. Micro3 can be leveraged to launch airdrops, run campaigns, and design gamified experiences that reward participation with NFTs, streaks, and achievements.","With this collaboration, Hemi and Micro3 will deliver quest-driven campaigns that make it easier for new users to discover opportunities in the Hemi ecosystem while helping projects drive measurable growth.","Soon, Micro3 will introduce Hemi Genesis, an exclusive NFT collection that users can mint directly on Hemi, to commemorate the launch. Together, Hemi and Micro3 are building more accessible pathways for users and brands to participate in the next era of Bitcoin-Ethereum innovation.","Stay tuned for upcoming quests and the release of Hemi Genesis on Micro3.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-micro3-expand-onchain-engagement-for-growth-campaigns"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-spot-listings":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: Spot Listings! - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: Spot Listings!"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 23, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","Good news, everyone! HEMI listed on Binance Spot at 8 a.m. Eastern. Crypto.com added a listing the same morning. This means HEMI liquidity improved and discovery widened. This is the start of a longer road, not the finish line.","Engineering spent the week on zero-knowledge provability. The team is building a TBC indexer that lets us prove facts about Bitcoin state inside the hVM state transition. That work moves Hemi toward a ZK rollup on Ethereum and sets up hBiVM. It is careful work, tested step by step. Alongside that, the team is finishing an end-to-end test environment for L1 smart contract upgrades. There are updates coming to the Bitcoin tunnel. Routine security checks continue. None of this makes noise, yet it keeps the chain steady.","The hBiVM white paper is nearly done. The goal is to publish before the team heads to Singapore for Token 2049. One new section shows how most of the design could support native Bitcoin staking without one-time signature limits. Expect testnet trials by the end of the year. Mainnet could follow late this year or early next year.","Testnet gets housekeeping next. We plan to move from Bitcoin testnet3 to testnet4. Testnet4 still reorgs, yet it is more stable than testnet3. Mainnet remains the thing that matters. We will break testnet if we must, so that we avoid breaking mainnet.","Governance arrives in two phases. First comes a simple, snapshot-style vote in roughly two months. Then we move to on-chain governance. The aim is precise. We will update zero-knowledge verifiers for Ethereum state and hVM through a secure process, so upgrades do not outrun safety. VE-HEMI positions are transferable. The team is not planning a marketplace for them, though anyone can build one.","Community roles are moving. The OG role claim is tracking for early October. You will be able to link multiple addresses, then pick one as your primary for rewards. The claim window will run for fourteen to thirty days. Rewards go out after the window closes, based on final headcount. If you minted a Demos MeID on testnet and did not verify on mainnet, you can verify before claims start. VBK claims are targeted for next week, with travel as the only risk to timing.","Proof-of-Proof payouts are getting a new algorithm. Testing ran long due to other priorities. Expect deployment late this week or early next. Earlier PoP rewards will unlock on a similar timeline.","NFT questions came up, as they do. Hemi Hatchlings remain open source. If you want new features, you can build them today. More marketplaces may appear, though nothing large is locked. The focus is on curation and clean paths for creators.","Costs drew a direct question. Is Hemi cheap enough for tiny payments like per-API calls or per-inference billing. Not on the base layer. The L2 is tuned for security and stability. High-throughput and very low fee cases fit better on L3s built with Chain Builder. Those L3s can trade some decentralization and data costs for speed, then settle back to Hemi. That is a trade worth making when you care about scale and still want finality you can trust.","One builder asked about a ZK-checked model market for AI. The advice was straight. Keep full model data off chain. Commit a Merkle root on chain. Verify proofs against that root. You keep weights private and still let buyers prove what they pay for. If you want open weights for compute markets, low-cost data layers can work. Pick your trade-offs with care.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-spot-listings"},"/blog/hemi-lets-institutions-transform-idle-bitcoin-treasuries-into-yield-instruments":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Lets Institutions Transform Idle Bitcoin Treasuries Into Yield Instruments - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Lets Institutions Transform Idle Bitcoin Treasuries Into Yield Instruments","Hemi Is Where Bitcoin Continues To Grow","Built By Veterans For the Future of Finance"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 24, 2025","Bitcoin","Bitcoin L2","Ethereum","Hemi unleashes BTC, allowing institutional players and everyone else to deploy productive strategies that extend far beyond passive storage.","Bitcoin is the world’s hottest asset, and now institutional treasuries are moving to secure their share. Public companies, ETFs, and corporate balance sheets are rapidly accumulating BTC, positioning it as digital gold, a truly hardened form of currency backed by cryptographic proof and the world’s more robust decentralized network.","Popular market aggregators, like Coingecko, show that over $166 billion in BTC is already locked away in institutional reserves across at least 115 organizations. As such, a fresh wave of Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs) is reshaping supply dynamics and creating the conditions for a crunch that is fueling renewed market momentum.","But once DATs get Bitcoin, what comes next?","When holders want their BTC to grow, Hemi is the place they turn. After all, taking custody of BTC is only half the battle; when BTC is put to work, its value as a productive asset class comes full circle.","This includes yield-bearing instruments, structured products, lending markets, liquidity provisioning, and the kind of composable financial activity that unlocks real capital efficiency.","Institutions looking at Bitcoin need more than the upside of mere exposure; they need yield-earning instruments that earn without diluting the underlying base. Hemi delivers this with a growing ecosystem that has already attracted over $1.2 billion in TVL (must be confirmed as we’ve seen fluctuations etc, DeFiLlama noise blahblah). Leverage BTC-backed strategies on Spectra with its permissionless interest rate marketplace with fixed-rate returns and leveraged yield strategies. Satori offers a perpetual DEX with vault-based returns and long or short positions on BTC and ETH. Relay provides a cross-chain settlement layer that connects Bitcoin and Ethereum with fast, low-cost execution. LendOS delivers flexible decentralized lending solutions designed for both retail and DeFi-native users.","Together, these integrations and many others transform Bitcoin from a reserve asset into an engine for institutional-grade yield.","Hemi excels on three fronts. The protocol was architected by founders with deep roots in both institutional finance and crypto, possessed of the credibility and know-how to link the blockchain ecosystems of Ethereum and Bitcoin successfully. Hemi’s technology delivers enterprise-grade infrastructure, with security rooted in Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work, and developer-friendly tools that make the network resilient and scalable. Finally, Hemi’s momentum is undeniable. Following a $15 million pre-TGE raise and the successful launch of $HEMI, the network continues to rapidly expand its ecosystem of partners as it champions Bitcoin-integrated DeFi.Learn more about why Hemi is built for institutions, and everyone else: Hemi.xyz.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-lets-institutions-transform-idle-bitcoin-treasuries-into-yield-instruments"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-security-zk-breakthroughs-and-the-road-to-v2":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Security, ZK Breakthroughs, and the Road to V2 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Security, ZK Breakthroughs, and the Road to V2"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 2, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Midweek With Max","This week’s session went deep on protocol engineering. The focus was clear: security, zero-knowledge, and the path to V2.","Security came first. The team is cleaning, tightening, and pushing beyond the usual standards. V2 is ready but not yet fully rolled out. When it lands, node running will be simpler, lighter, and more efficient, with pop miner payout changes built in.","On the ZK front, the engineers have indexed the full Bitcoin chain for sub-second queries. Rust code is now being built to tie that data into RISC Zero proofs, a first of its kind for Bitcoin. They called it “spectacularly complex” but said the payoff will be transformative.","The h-bitVM white paper is nearly finished, just final proofreading left. It’s the piece that shifts tunnels from today’s over-collateralized multisigs to a more elegant and capital-efficient model.","Other updates: wallet-to-Discord linking is halfway done, governance tools are being explored with Snapshot and others, and community contests are on the way. NFT marketplace talks are in motion. Liquidity rewards continue.","Max is back next week.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-security-zk-breakthroughs-and-the-road-to-v2"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-decentralized-rpc-for-real-traffic-real-builders":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: Decentralized RPC for Real Traffic, Real Builders - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: Decentralized RPC for Real Traffic, Real Builders"],"h2":["Hemi Protocol Updates","Incentives, Next Phase","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 8, 2025","Blockchain","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek With Max","We brought DIN to Midweek with Max. E. G., a co-founder of Infura, laid out why DIN exists and why it matters for Hemi. Traffic spikes. Single vendors buckle. Users leave, and you cannot refund trust. DIN makes RPC a registry and a marketplace on chain. You find providers, you pay in crypto, you route across multiple operators. No card farms. No email chains.","Hemi is moving real volume. Max said we pushed close to 100 TB of RPC this month. Shifting load to a wider set of providers raises our ceiling. It also shrinks the blast radius when something fails. Diversity is resilience. With DIN you can pick two providers, or ten, and route based on need.","DIN is an on-chain registry of services, L1s, L2s, and other APIs. Providers list. Builders discover. Payments clear on crypto rails. You get programmatic discovery that plays well with agents that stitch services together.","DIN grew up in EVM land. Hemi sits where Bitcoin and Ethereum meet. Builders need Bitcoin data next to HVM calls. You can already reach Bitcoin views through HVM precompiles, some calls add delay. The next step is serving Bitcoin reads in parallel, so your app can show a Bitcoin event the moment it lands, even before HVM observes it. DIN and Hemi will explore this together.","Bitcoin Core RPC is sturdy, but not a full index for common dApp needs. Address lookups and rich queries need extra indexing. EVM stacks solved this years ago with layers on top. DIN pushes shared standards and open code so every operator clears a higher bar.","Hemi is now in the MetaMask fee API. Gas estimates in MetaMask should be more accurate on Hemi. That helps builders and users.","DIN offered a perk. Use code BDCFI for 50 percent off your first bill. We will share details in Discord and on socials.","ZK provability. We are close to full ZK settlement to Ethereum. We will begin with a 24 hour window, then move toward two to three hours as we harden the path. This also feeds hbitVM, our approach to secure Bitcoin tunneling with challengeable flows and wide participation. It is public good work.","Safer upgrade testing. End-to-end tests for L1 contract upgrades are wrapping. We will simulate in a safe setup, then ship to testnet and mainnet.","OG role claims. Backend linking for EVM addresses is in flight, frontend follows. If you did Deimos on testnet but missed mainnet verification, a final window opens before claims.","VeriBlock claims and PoP payouts. Work resumed after Singapore. The updated payout algorithm heads to testnet first, then mainnet if checks pass. The design aims to handle Bitcoin fee spikes.","Season 2 moves from long seasons with slow accounting to faster, more liquid rewards. Some point-style sprints may remain, but the bias is clear. Quick feedback. Clear yield. Expect a mix of liquid and staked rewards, plus occasional non-HEMI incentives with partners.","Near term. ZK provability to Ethereum, then hbitVM on top, then decentralize sequencer and publisher roles. HVM improvements land along the way.","Farther out. Chain Builder for L3s on Hemi. Custom execution when needed, with access to HVM and assets from Bitcoin and Ethereum through the tunnel.","Builders, What To Do Now","If you ship on Hemi, test DIN. Split traffic. Measure error budgets. Run failover drills. Check MetaMask fee behavior. If you need Bitcoin data, plan for parallel reads next to HVM calls. Talk to us if you want to push indexing. We can help line up the right people.","Decentralization should show up when it counts. At block zero. At peak traffic. In the middle of the night. DIN makes that practical. Hemi makes it useful across chains.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-decentralized-rpc-for-real-traffic-real-builders"},"/blog/how-hemi-expands-minerfi-part-one-proof-of-proof-mining-rewards":{"version":1,"title":"How Hemi Expands MinerFi Part One: Proof-of-Proof Mining Rewards - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How Hemi Expands MinerFi Part One: Proof-of-Proof Mining Rewards","Rewards With PoP Mining","Start Mining On Hemi Today"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 15, 2025","Bitcoin","Hemi","Minerfi","Pop Mining","Rewards","Proof-of-Proof mining on Hemi brings the network to a state of superfinality, and rewards participants with $HEMI tokens.","Hemi empowers bitcoin holders by opening them up to a world of yield. It also introduces ways for miners and network participants to earn new rewards through an emerging intersection of DeFi: MinerFi, a system where participants earn rewards by securing, validating, or publishing data across blockchains.","In Hemi’s two-layer security model, both Proof-of-Proof (PoP) miners and staking validators have roles to play, and both are incentivized with Hemi’s native token $HEMI.","In Hemi’s consensus, anyone can become a PoP miner by running a lightweight client that listens for new Hemi blocks and then creates a Bitcoin transaction embedding the proof of that block. When that transaction gets confirmed on Bitcoin, it finalizes the Hemi block and the network rewards the PoP miner with $HEMI tokens. This action essentially bridges Hemi’s data onto Bitcoin, and PoP miners get paid for it.PoP mining doesn’t require heavy hashing power the same way Proof-of-Work mining does, since publishing information is a far less computationally intensive task. The miner application is also super lightweight and designed for continuous operation on modest hardware. To operate, PoP miners must ensure they have allocated a sufficient amount of BTC to pay the transaction, or gas, fees, and publish the Hemi proofs to Bitcoin blocks. An efficiently managed miner collecting rewards is expected to outweigh fee-related costs, and Hemi offers bonus rewards when a proof is included within the next 2–3 Bitcoin blocks.","The incentive structure for PoP mining nurtures fair competition across a decentralized mining collective. PoP mining isn’t parasitic either; Bitcoin miners aren’t required to redirect mining efforts to another chain for it to work as with merged mining, and PoP miners pay BTC fees to publish data on Bitcoin blocks, so Bitcoin miners actually benefit from PoP mining. Those who run PoP miner nodes are meanwhile converting a little BTC paid in fees into HEMI token rewards.","Learn more about earning $HEMI by running a PoP miner and help secure the network anchored to Bitcoin.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-hemi-expands-minerfi-part-one-proof-of-proof-mining-rewards"},"/blog/hemi-taps-din-to-bring-bitcoin-into-the-infura-ecosystem-2":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Taps DIN to Bring Bitcoin into the Infura Ecosystem - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Taps DIN to Bring Bitcoin into the Infura Ecosystem","DIN and Hemi Deliver Access And Enterprise Reliability","Better RPC Options For Hemi Developers","Hemi and DIN Fuse Networks For a Broader Horizon"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 9, 2025","Bitcoin","Din","Hemi","Infrastructure","Infura","Rpc","A landmark fusion of Bitcoin and Ethereum infrastructure, bringing Hemi’s Bitcoin-native apps into the Infura ecosystem for the first time.","Hemi is partnering with DIN, the decentralized infrastructure network launched by Consensys, and the cornerstone of the Infura ecosystem, to bring Bitcoin-enabled programmability into one of the most trusted developer spaces in Web3.","The collaboration is a natural fit: Infura is the leader for EVM-based chains, while Hemi is the established network that facilitates a seamless fusion between Bitcoin and Ethereum. With Infura’s first strategic move into the Bitcoin ecosystem by partnering with Hemi, both platforms are working to make Bitcoin more accessible to developers worldwide.","The integration marks new opportunities for builders and users alike, and is a significant moment for both ecosystems. As Infura serves as a core part of the Consensys suite, it powers countless applications across Ethereum and other top blockchains with streamlined access to RPC infrastructure. Through this partnership, Bitcoin-native applications built on Hemi gain direct access to Infura-grade performance, DDOS protection, and developer-facing tools via DIN’s decentralized distribution layer.","DIN is a progressively decentralizing marketplace of Web3 infrastructure services. In production for over 16 months, it processes more than 100 million daily RPC requests across 14 supported networks. Backed by a diverse network of over 50 node providers, DIN makes infrastructure more accessible and performant while reducing the operational lift for dApps, developers, and networks.","Through DIN, Hemi developers gain access to SLA-backed public and private RPC endpoints managed by top-tier node providers, selected and monitored for uptime, latency, and throughput. Additionally, these services are further reinforced by EigenLayer’s Actively Validated Services, which enable fault-tolerant service guarantees. DIN dynamically routes traffic across its provider set to deliver the highest availability and best user experience.","The integration also expands access through gateways like Infura and InfStones, the first node operator to onboard via DIN. As a leading Platform-as-a-Service infrastructure provider that simplifies API access across over 80 blockchain protocols. InfStones brings proven scale and operational strength to the partnership, underscoring the production-readiness of the integration, and setting the stage for additional top-tier node operators to join.For developers, the partnership creates new touchpoints with Hemi while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of scaling infrastructure.","For Hemi builders, this partnership simplifies a traditionally complex part of deploying and scaling Bitcoin-native applications. Rather than managing RPC infrastructure independently, developers can access high-quality endpoints directly through the Infura dashboard. It allows them to build with Infura-grade performance guarantees and built-in support for metrics, rate-limiting, and DDoS protection.","Through this integration, developers benefit from:","Public RPC endpoints with SLA-backed reliability","Access to DIN’s decentralized provider network","Seamless onboarding via Infura’s developer tools","Eligibility for growth incentives, including grant credits and hackathon support","Future tokenized adoption incentives","These resources remove key friction points, making it easier for teams to experiment, build, and scale production-grade Bitcoin apps with composable yield, lending, and liquidity strategies.","This partnership reflects a foundational alignment between ecosystems. By bringing Bitcoin into Infura’s orbit through Hemi, developers across ecosystems now have a direct, trust-minimized link between Ethereum and Bitcoin-native liquidity.","The result is a more efficient and interconnected Web3 stack.","Explore how Hemi and DIN can power your next build, and join the growing movement bringing BTC to the center of DeFi.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-taps-din-to-bring-bitcoin-into-the-infura-ecosystem-2"},"/blog/coinomi-wallets-hemi-integration-expands-access-to-bitcoin-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Coinomi Wallet’s Hemi Integration Expands Access to Bitcoin DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Coinomi Wallet’s Hemi Integration Expands Access to Bitcoin DeFi"],"h2":["A Secure Gateway to 100+ Chains","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 17, 2025","Hemi access grows through one of the most established multi-chain wallets in the cryptocurrency industry.","Coinomi, one of the longest-standing multi-chain digital asset wallets, now supports Hemi. The integration makes Hemi’s Bitcoin-powered DeFi ecosystem more accessible to millions of worldwide Coinomi users who can now store, send, and receive $HEMI and compatible tokens directly through a familiar non-custodial interface.","Coinomi’s privacy-focused, self-custody wallet supports over 10,000 assets and NFTs across more than 100 blockchains. It features full support for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. By integrating Hemi, Coinomi users gain immediate access to a world of programmable Bitcoin-powered DeFi across an expanding network without needing to change wallets or migrate assets.","Hemi’s growing catalog of EVM-compatible tokens, MinerFi assets, and stablecoins can all be managed safely from within Coinomi’s encrypted environment.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/coinomi-wallets-hemi-integration-expands-access-to-bitcoin-defi"},"/blog/how-hemi-expands-minerfi-part-two-staking-and-block-validation-rewards":{"version":1,"title":"How Hemi Expands MinerFi Part Two: Staking and Block Validation Rewards - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["How Hemi Expands MinerFi Part Two: Staking and Block Validation Rewards"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 21, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Minerfi","Staking","Validation","Hemi rewards staked validators who provide an initial security layer, reinforced by Proof-of-Proof mining.","Before Proof-of-Proof (PoP) miners commit Hemi data to Bitcoin, the network employs validators, or sequencers, charged with proposing and validating transaction blocks. These validators achieve high throughput and quick block times via optimistic finality, then rely on PoP for anchoring to Bitcoin.Participation as a validator in support of the network’s security requires users to stake HEMI tokens. After staking HEMI, users are issued a governance token called veHEMI that entitles them to a share of the network’s ongoing rewards. These collective block rewards stem from Hemi network transaction fees and are distributed in proportion to a staker’s veHEMI holdings.Staking and validating on the initial layer is a low-maintenance way to help secure Hemi and directly supports the PoP consensus layer. This creates a circular incentive: as network activity and transaction fees grow, stakers earn more rewards, strengthening participation and overall security.","Staking is also fast and easy. Visit the Hemi Staking dashboard in the Portal, connect your wallet, and stake $HEMI for any number of six-day increments, up to a maximum of four years.Hemi's validation layer also supports additional asset staking. Boost staking rewards potential by joining any eligible pool.","Join Hemi’s growing MinerFi ecosystem by staking assets to the validation layer today.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/how-hemi-expands-minerfi-part-two-staking-and-block-validation-rewards"},"/blog/ploutos-deploys-on-hemi-to-expand-defi-lending-liquidity-and-yield-opportunities":{"version":1,"title":"Ploutos Deploys on Hemi to Expand DeFi Lending Liquidity and Yield Opportunities - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Ploutos Deploys on Hemi to Expand DeFi Lending Liquidity and Yield Opportunities"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 22, 2025","Bitcoin","Hemi","Lending","Onchain","Rewards","Earn USDC rewards and points through onchain lending and leveraged farming with Plutous, now integrated with Hemi.","Ploutos, a new non-custodial lending protocol, has deployed on Hemi, accompanied by an upcoming incentivization campaign and a killer UI/UX, further strengthening Hemi’s rapidly expanding DeFi ecosystem.","Ploutos is a decentralized lending and leveraged farming platform built for seamless yield generation. Users can supply supported assets to earn rewards, or borrow against their collateral through real-time, algorithmic interest rates that adjust dynamically to market demand. With a clean and intuitive user experience,","Early participants can earn USDC rewards, distributed via Merkl, for lending stablecoins into Ploutos, along with Ploutos Points, which will convert into liquid rewards following the upcoming Ploutos TGE. The USDC rewards distributed through Merkl will be claimable in real time, with a variable APY, meaning early depositors will earn the highest yields.","Hemi is the largest Bitcoin programmability layer, boasting over $800 million in TVL and a network of 90+ ecosystem partners. The ability to collateralize assets in a decentralized manner and access liquidity against these holdings is essential to unlocking new yield opportunities for institutions and users of all sizes.","At launch, Ploutos will list several blue-chip assets on Hemi, including hemiBTC, WBTC, HEMI, ETH, VUSD, and USDC. In addition, Ploutos will leverage oracle infrastructure from Redstone and eOracle, two of the industry’s leading data and oracle providers, to ensure accurate and secure price feeds across markets.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/ploutos-deploys-on-hemi-to-expand-defi-lending-liquidity-and-yield-opportunities"},"/blog/hemi-and-aster-expand-bitcoins-reach-in-defi-with-hemi-trading-contest":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Aster Expand Bitcoin’s Reach in DeFi With $HEMI Trading Contest - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Aster Expand Bitcoin’s Reach in DeFi With $HEMI Trading Contest","Trade $Hemi on Aster’s Cutting Edge DEX","Trade $HEMI and Earn"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 28, 2025","Announcements","Partnerships","Rewards","Earn your share of a $400,000 reward pool to kick off $HEMI’s listing on Aster.","Hemi and Aster are teaming up to embed the programmable Bitcoin layer deeper within DeFi, with $HEMI now tradable on Aster.","To celebrate, traders can earn their share of a $400,000 prize pool simply by trading eligible $HEMI pairs on Aster’s spot trading and perpetual markets. See full contest terms and conditions.","Aster is a next-generation DEX that offers spot and perpetual trading with crosschain liquidity, deep order books, and institutional-grade performance. By enabling efficient access to assets across multiple networks, Aster simplifies the way users trade and earn in DeFi. It connects liquidity from BNB Chain, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Solana into a single user experience.","$HEMI acts as the backbone of Hemi’s programmable Bitcoin ecosystem. Built as a Bitcoin-anchored supernetwork with an EVM-compatible environment, Hemi allows Bitcoin holders to participate in DeFi without sacrificing Bitcoin’s network security. Its trust-minimized tunnels offer a seamless non-custodial, two-way path for onchain asset transfers. On Hemi, users can put their BTC to work like never before, by lending, staking, or earning yield while maintaining trust-minimized settlement back to Bitcoin.","Through this campaign with Aster, the growing DEX’s user base gains direct incentivized access to $HEMI liquidity and trading pairs, connecting a vital facet of Hemi’s yield-powered Bitcoin economy to a wider DeFi audience.","This partnership strengthens crosschain connectivity and expands the reach of $HEMI across the DeFi landscape.","Experience how Hemi and Aster are building the next chapter of Bitcoin in DeFi by trading $HEMI on Aster’s spot trading and perpetual markets today and earn your share of the $400,000 reward pool.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-aster-expand-bitcoins-reach-in-defi-with-hemi-trading-contest"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-claims-upgrades-and-zk-work":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Claims, Upgrades, and ZK Work - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Claims, Upgrades, and ZK Work"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 7, 2025","Hemi","AMA","This week centered on the economic model rollout and the systems that support it. Stage 1 of the Hemi Economic Model is live, and eligible veHEMI holders with positions now claim rewards. Rewards travel with the veHEMI NFT, so unclaimed balances move if a position is transferred. Timing for Stage 2 will follow once the short-term pool and protocol-owned liquidity treasury finalize their specifications. Stages 3 and 4 which encompass vote-directed incentives, and dual staking of HEMI and hBTC, remain in scope as part of the broader push toward progressive decentralization.","ZK work continued at pace. The team reached consensus on updated data structures for state-transition encoding and has a minimal end-to-end proving system running with RISC-0 for Bitcoin-side proofs. Indexer and TVC updates are in progress to support ZK queries. The HBIT VM white paper is nearly complete, with additions tied to efficient proof generation and the architecture for verifiable state queries across hVM.","Network upgrades advanced in parallel. The Testnet L1 contract upgrade is staged and undergoing Tenderly simulations. V2, including the updated PoP pad algorithm, is targeted for Testnet by week’s end. If stable, mainnet deployment will follow shortly after. On the VeriBlock side, a test claim tool is expected shortly. Users with nonstandard VBK setups, such as multisigs or legacy wrapped VBK, are being handled case by case.","NFT discussions continued. No updates to Hemi Hatchlings; art remains art. The team does not plan a native marketplace, as NFT platforms require substantial ongoing maintenance. Instead, integration focus is on NFTFi and GameFi partners, including projects exploring randomness, onchain games, and Hemi-specific mints. Community-driven activity remains the most reliable catalyst for additional marketplace support.","Points Season 2 will not follow the previous format; the focus has shifted to liquid rewards, which are immediately claimable incentives across LPs and protocols. Points may return for specific integrations or sprint-style events, but the current priority is predictable, liquid incentives delivered directly through onchain mechanisms.","Community notes: Merch contest winners were announced, and the community collection goes live once the team returns from travel. A weekly meme contest is being prepared with exclusive merch drops for winners. Aster’s trading campaign closes tonight. The ODD NFT collection is open for public mint on Mintpark. The OG role flow is still underway. As always, avoid third-party scripts for PoP miners unless you can fully audit them.","A new educational series is in production, walking through core crypto concepts from first principles and expanding into Hemi-specific mechanisms such as Proof-of-Proof and BTC-secured DeFi. Early episodes are recorded, with more team members joining as the series progresses.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-claims-upgrades-and-zk-work"},"/blog/introducing-the-hemi-economic-model":{"version":1,"title":"Introducing the Hemi Economic Model - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Introducing the Hemi Economic Model"],"h2":["Summary of The Hemi Economic Model","Economic Model Stage 1: Fee Distribution & Burn","Economic Model Stage 2: Automated Short-TermPool and Protocol-Owned Liquidity Treasury","Economic Model Stage 3: DecentralizedIncentive Voting / Vote Market","Economic Model Stage 4: Dual-Staking","Participate By Staking $HEMI","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Oct 31, 2025","Announcements","Rewards","Security","Tying Value Creation of the Hemi Protocol to $HEMI Staking, Decentralized Economic Security, and Sustainable Bitcoin Yield.","Today, Hemi announces the initial Hemi Economic Model, which powers the future decentralization, economic security, and incentives for the Hemi ecosystem, defined in the Hemi Improvement ProPOsal: HIPPO-2.","In its first phase, the model will allocate a pool of 0.2445 hemiBTC and 100,320.69 $HEMI, derived and converted from transaction fees, to veHEMI stakers who staked $HEMI between August 30 and October 30, 2025. Visit the Hemi Portal to claim these staking incentives. Additionally, another 98,216.75 $HEMI purchased with transaction fees has been burned.","The launch of these rewards sets the stage for veHEMI to serve as the cornerstone of Hemi’s governance system, and more broadly, to enable secure network decentralization and sustainable liquidity incentivization for Hemi’s Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem.","At a high level, the Hemi Economic Model is designed to:","Connect $HEMI to the economic value created by the Hemi ecosystem","Incentivize veHEMI to ensure adequate economic security for decentralized protocol components","Stimulate BTC-based economic activity, focusing on sustainable yield","Increase liquidity across Hemi’s DeFi protocols","Build long-term protocol-owned liquidity","Promote incentive alignment between Hemi and users seeking BTC yield","The implementation of the economic model will occur over several stages:","Stage 1 (Today): Protocol fees and yield are converted into $HEMI and hemiBTC and distributed as yield to veHEMI holders, alongside a fees-to-$HEMI-burn mechanic","Stage 2: Automated Short-Term-Pool (STP), which smooths out protocol asset distribution flow, and Protocol-Owned-Liquidity (POL) treasury, which allocates assets to increase liquidity across the Hemi ecosystem and generate additional yield","Stage 3: Decentralized voting system for incentive distribution, including a vote market","Stage 4: Dual staking (veHEMI + staked hemiBTC)","As Hemi continues to evolve, this economic system will become more powerful:","Increasing protocol value generation:","New features (hBitVM, veHEMI economic security system, PoP security inheritance, Chainbuilder DA / Shared Sequencing, cross-chain liquidity systems, etc.), which generate their own fees","Increased adoption of Hemi, leading to greater fee inflows","Increasing STP and POL yield:","New dApps providing additional yield sources","Increasing DeFi activity on Hemi generates additional yield on provisioned liquidity","New asset management strategies unlock additional opportunities","This design provides a sustainable flywheel: value created by Hemi is directed back into powering economic security/decentralization and increasing liquidity while incentivizing ecosystem participants, which in turn enables even more value creation.","What is veHEMI?","Vote-escrow $HEMI (veHEMI) is the protocol-native $HEMI staking system, used for governance, economic security for decentralized components of the protocol, as well as directing allocated pooled protocol assets to act as incentives in the Hemi DeFi ecosystem.","Users stake $HEMI for a period of 12 days to 4 years, and receive an NFT representing their staked position. Longer lockups receive higher weight in the system, representing the increased incentive alignment with the long-term success of Hemi.","The weight of a position is calculated based on its remaining lockup time; for example, a position with 4 years remaining has twice the weight of a position with 2 years remaining, etc. Users can extend the lockups on existing positions to increase their weight and incentives.","As Hemi evolves, owners of veHEMI positions will earn additional incentives for:","Participating in governance votes (or delegating)","Operating decentralized infrastructure:","Block sequencing","Data publication to Ethereum (DA & state roots)","hBitVM covenant emulation and vault operation","Providing shared sequencing and DA services to Chainbuilder chains","Providing cross-chain liquidity","Providing economic security to third-party protocols","Receiving yield from the vote market for directing incentives","When veHemi positions are used for economic security (decentralized infrastructure, cross-chain liquidity, and securing third-party protocols), they are subject to being slashed for misbehavior. Depending on the specific security needs of each protocol, the underlying $HEMI in the slashed position may be burnt, sent to either the STP or POL, and/or distributed to other protocol participants.","veHemi positions are transferable, meaning they can also be used as collateral in other DeFi protocols.","Starting today, with the conversion of ~8.26 ETH in excess protocol fees to ~0.2445 hemiBTC and ~100,320.69 $HEMI in incentives distributed to veHEMI stakers and an additional ~1.51 ETH converted to ~98,216.75 $HEMI, which was burnt on Ethereum mainnet, the first stage of Hemi’s economic model is officially live.","Transaction details can be found here:","Conversion of 7 ETH to 0.2445 hemiBTC:","https://explorer.hemi.xyz/tx/0x205482fccd22cb2996699d0784174c2384452c197cb348116a82b4b9fbd81d78","https://explorer.hemi.xyz/tx/0xbf973ecfcc9d44987adff604d97c4642e8f10e9f92ae7c2c7f08243e111d2fc5","https://explorer.hemi.xyz/tx/0xec4fe936a5f6f737cb32584f96274abe96f13137ce67a56c00daa028c9d96644","Conversion of 2.77 ETH to 198,537.44 HEMI:","https://explorer.hemi.xyz/tx/0xf8e13b27f9085f48d66bde0ba68827c0382e9bade37aabef29ed01bb5ca81e39","https://explorer.hemi.xyz/tx/0xdb2d914bc31b8c52109180550a53115dcb752bb16a7d8c2b5acd9be9fa383861","Burning of 98,216.75 HEMI:","https://etherscan.io/tx/0x7aa573ea8dbf20ace5477d2631609cce53990aba7f5dfbe9b336b9c22a7c751c","And the $HEMI and hemiBTC reward configurations can be seen here:","~100,320.69 $HEMI in total rewards for Aug 30 – Oct 30:","https://explorer.hemi.xyz/tx/0x02129f0265f532927d9bd4f0ae9df28f6cf298ed13eebeed2c8388c20a3cb5c1","~0.2445 hemiBTC in total rewards for Aug 30 – Oct 30:","https://explorer.hemi.xyz/tx/0xa4de6838e9971020e857505945bbb06b93d79c2900ea41f31a1cdcb4b9a72094","Moving forward, a portion of protocol fees will be periodically collected and converted to $HEMI and hemiBTC, with a portion of the $HEMI burnt and the remainder, along with the hemiBTC, distributed as veHEMI incentives.","Stage 2 of the Hemi Economic Model introduces two economic components:","Short-Term Pool (STP)","Smooths out the balance of protocol economic throughput inflows versus outflows to provide more consistent incentive distribution","Earns yield on its transient pool of assets with short-term strategies","Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) Treasury","Controls assets in perpetuity that are used to provision liquidity across the ecosystem","Earns yield for the protocol with a permanent pool of assets, which can be deployed into long-term strategies","Every two weeks, the remaining net protocol fee surplus (gross fees minus non-inflation PoP incentives and ETH DA + state root publication costs) is deposited into the STP, and 1/13th of the STP’s total assets are distributed to:","veHEMI stakers","Governance voting participants","Liquidity incentives (BTC vaults, USD vaults, LP pairs)","POL Treasury","Meanwhile, the POL treasury collects yield on its positions, allocating a portion of the yield back into its treasury and sending the remainder to the STP pool to be distributed as incentives.","Collectively, this system:","Buffers asset inflows versus incentive outflows, providing stability","Continually builds a POL treasury, which provides liquidity to the ecosystem and becomes an evergreen source of yield","Distributes incentives that:","Increase the economic security of the protocol (veHEMI)","Ensure a robust governance system","Increase liquidity in key protocols","Stage 3 of the Hemi Economic Model introduces a decentralized voting system based on veHEMI stake weight for directing the allocation of the POL Treasury’s asset allocation and liquidity incentives. It also introduces a vote marketplace which allows anyone to incentivize veHEMI stakers with $HEMI or other tokens to vote for specific allocations of liquidity incentives and POL Treasury assets.","Initially, the POL Treasury will be limited to a set of whitelisted vaults/strategies. Over time, control of these whitelists will be handed over to governance, with a veto committee to protect against malicious strategies.","This system extracts additional value out of liquidity incentives and treasury asset allocation for veHEMI stakers while enabling Hemi’s economic model to become more decentralized and community-guided.","To stimulate BTC-based economic activity, stage 4 of the Hemi Economic Model introduces staked hemiBTC; a system that incentivizes hemiBTC deposits to be used to create BTC liquidity and encourage economic activity across the Hemi ecosystem. Alongside hemiBTC staking, stage 4 introduces a dual-staking model where participants can increase their BTC yield by also staking $HEMI.","This dual-staking model aligns the incentives of Bitcoin holders with the long-term success of the Hemi protocol, and encourages veHEMI holders to bring more liquidity to Hemi’s Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem.","All active veHEMI staking positions active between August 30 and October 30, 2025 are eligible for this reward distribution. Stakers can claim rewards directly through the Hemi Portal, which will soon feature UI components displaying estimated APY and streamlined claim functionality. Stake $HEMI now to claim future veHEMI rewards distributions.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/introducing-the-hemi-economic-model"},"/blog/hemi-and-blazpay-bring-ai-driven-swap-routing-to-the-network":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Blazpay Bring AI-Driven Swap Routing to the Network - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Blazpay Bring AI-Driven Swap Routing to the Network"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 10, 2025","Announcements","Bitcoin","The partnership will help reduce the complexity of DeFi with natural language prompt driven trading execution.","Hemi and Blazpay are collaborating to introduce AI-powered swap aggregation to the Hemi ecosystem. Blazpay uses natural-language prompts to identify the best execution routes across supported liquidity sources, allowing users to request quotes by describing what they want to trade in simple text rather than navigating multiple interfaces.Blazpay’s model evaluates routes, costs, and liquidity conditions and returns a set of actionable options for the user. Traders can select their preferred path based on price, slippage, or cost efficiency. It simplifies the path to execution for users, taking a once complex process and replacing it with a language-driven interface for swaps, bridges, and liquidity venues. Since the experience is designed around prompt-based input, it makes discovery and routing more intuitive.","For Hemi users, this partnership extends accessibility for non-native and veteran crypto users while creating an additional onramp into the network’s BTC-compatible DeFi layer. Instead of manually searching for optimal routes, users can request quotes through Blazpay’s interface and receive aggregated results that highlight the most efficient pathways.","For builders, Blazpay’s integration provides a new class of routing tools, with access to an AI-powered aggregator that surfaces optimal execution paths that require only a single liquidity connection. Prompt-based routing can be embedded as part of a dApp’s UX, helping developers offer efficient trade execution with minimal overhead.","Once live, Hemi users will be able to access Blazpay’s interface to request quotes, compare routes, and execute trades.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-blazpay-bring-ai-driven-swap-routing-to-the-network"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-v2-release-nears-zk-work-advances-and-shift-to-bugcrowd-copy":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Expanding the role of hemiBTC and MinerFi taking Shape  - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Expanding the role of hemiBTC and MinerFi taking Shape"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 21, 2025","Announcements","Bitcoin","Ethereum","This week’s Midweek with Max opened with a reminder that the HIPPO logo contest runs through Friday. Max’s latest platform updates: The Pop Points conversion is nearly ready, delayed slightly by a busy week of V2 Testnet deployments, database upgrades, and a larger-than-usual Bitcoin Testnet 3 reorg. V2 is now rolling out across Testnet as a non-breaking update, while the upcoming Fusaka mainnet upgrade will be breaking and will require node operators to upgrade once instructions are published.","Max continued with a brief update on ongoing work around ZK provability. The team is progressing toward a more modular proof system that can later support different layers of the protocol and unify verification across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hemi. This work is foundational for several long-term features and ZK infrastructure continues to mature behind the scenes.","The core focus of the session was hemiBTC, framed at a high level rather than through implementation details. hemiBTC is now live as an OFT across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, and BNB Chain. Advanced users can already bridge through contract interactions, while Stargate support will soon make crosschain movement accessible through standard UIs. An upcoming analytics dashboard will give the community a clearer picture of hemiBTC’s supply, backing, and crosschain usage.","Liqudity expansion is another major initiative underway. The team is working to deepen BTC-based liquidity across a variety of Bitcoin representations, enabling easier movement between assets like wBTC, tBTC, cbBTC, and Bitcoin LSTs. This supports crosschain routing through Hemi, generating protocol fees and broadening the visibility of hemiBTC across the wider DeFi ecosystem.","Max also previewed early details of MinerFi, an onboarding flow designed to simplify bringing Bitcoin onto Hemi. The idea is to allow mining pools or individual users to route mined BTC or wallet withdrawals directly into hemiBTC and optionally into yield strategies without requiring hands-on management. The integration is designed to make Bitcoin more productive for users who prefer an automated, streamlined experience.","All of this ultimately feeds into the long-term role of veHEMI. As hemiBTC activity increases, the fees generated through these flows will provide additional utility and rewards for veHEMI participants. Future protocol components will rely on veHEMI to secure different operational roles, and users will be able to opt into those roles as they go live. Max noted that more detail on these economic connections will arrive as pieces of the system decentralize.","The call closed with ecosystem items: updates to VBK tooling, ongoing preparation for the expanded bug bounty program, and the upcoming RPC rate-limit changes that will encourage heavier users to move to dedicated providers. Community events, merch updates, and upcoming contests rounded out the session. Next week will feature a deeper dive into hemiBTC, alongside expected publication of the long-awaited hBitVM whitepaper and a dedicated technical AMA to follow.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-v2-release-nears-zk-work-advances-and-shift-to-bugcrowd-copy"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-v2-release-nears-zk-work-advances-and-shift-to-bugcrowd":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: V2 Release Nears, ZK Work Advances, and Shift to Bugcrowd - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: V2 Release Nears, ZK Work Advances, and Shift to Bugcrowd"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 13, 2025","AMA","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","This week’s Midweek with Max opened with an unexpected cameo from the Sacred Waste community. Once the smoke cleared, the engineering team delivered a focused update on core protocol progress. The headline: Hemi Network V2 is merged, socket-compatible, and nearly ready for testnet deployment. The release simplifies node architecture and supports the new PoP miner, which will now connect to TBC instead of BFG. Instructions for node operators will be published soon, and the upgrade is non-breaking for those already running testnet nodes. Following V2 on testnet, the updated PoP payout algorithm will also go live.","Max noted continued progress on ZK provability, emphasizing work toward modular proofs that cover the full Hemi pipeline. This includes ZK proving Bitcoin state transitions, Ethereum consensus state, DA derivations, the EVM state transition function, and HBM precompile calls. The goal is to enable secure, remixable ZK components that other applications can use independently. For example, validating lightweight Ethereum consensus or building more secure Bitcoin light clients. The team also previewed a future upgrade to the PoP system that will publish Ethereum consensus data to Bitcoin to prevent forged ZK-based attacks, strengthening crosschain security assumptions.","Operationally, Hemi is transitioning its bug bounty program from HackerOne to Bugcrowd, with the new program expected to appear imminently. VBK claim tooling is also nearing release. On incentives, the team reiterated that incentive “season” structures are being phased out in favor of direct liquidity incentives through Merkle campaigns, with more robust reward systems in development.","The OG role remains in progress as the Discord wallet-linking system is finalized, with deployment expected soon. Work continues on multi-claim improvements and future merging mechanics for veHEMI NFT positions, though merging remains complex due to differing lock schedules. Upcoming APY visibility will reflect existing protocol fees but will change dynamically as new decentralized components launch.","Engineering closed with clarifications on RPC rate limits. Starting December 1, limits will increase meaningfully per-IP to encourage protocols to use third-party RPC providers rather than Hemi’s public endpoints. January will bring further reductions as part of a phased shift toward more appropriate infrastructure.","The team reiterated the purpose of testnet: instability is intentional, inherited from Bitcoin Testnet 3 and its difficulty bomb. Plans exist to migrate to Bitcoin Testnet 4 for a more stable environment, especially for HBK experimentation. Security procedures across the stack remain an active priority, including dependency scanning, container hardening, secure CI/CD, comprehensive testing, and a responsive bug bounty program.","Community updates included the launch of new items in the Hemi Merch store, upcoming contests, Discord game sessions, and a planned Hippo mascot design contest. And a reminder, as always, official Hemi support is only on Discord, not Telegram.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-v2-release-nears-zk-work-advances-and-shift-to-bugcrowd"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-expanding-the-role-of-hemibtc-and-minerfi-taking-shape":{"version":1,"title":"hemiBTC Adopts LayerZero’s OFT Standard To Expand Bitcoin in DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["hemiBTC Adopts LayerZero’s OFT Standard To Expand Bitcoin in DeFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 24, 2025","Announcements","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Partnerships","hemiBTC is now an Omnichain asset, able to move everywhere as a fully productive BTC asset in DeFi while Hemi preserves its base layer security.","hemiBTC is also live on Stargate, providing anyone with onchain access to BTC-based liquidity within Hemi’s productive DeFi ecosystem. Stake hemiBTC on Hemi for boosts and access to productive BTC-powered yield.","Stargate is a widely used bridge that enables seamless movement of assets across 90+ chains. Built on LayerZero, any OFT – such as hemiBTC – can move at a perfect 1:1 rate across all connected networks, with zero slippage. Stargate enables hemiBTC to move with maximum efficiency.","On Hemi, hemiBTC is BTC unleashed with programmability, turning it into a core DeFi asset and unlocking yield and liquidity flows. BTC travels to the network through trust-minimized tunnels, where, as hemiBTC staked on Hemi, it becomes fully integrated as a yield-productive asset in DeFi. Importantly, Hemi’s security model extends the same protocol that secures the Bitcoin network to all Hemi transactions, meaning hemiBTC is secured by both Hemi and Bitcoin simultaneously.Stargate’s integration gives users across chains a simple and widely acknowledged means to access BTC liquidity through hemiBTC. Support for hemiBTC opens the door for protocols across the LayerZero ecosystem to access BTC-based DeFi mechanics powered by Hemi.","Use Stargate and begin exploring MinerFi, StableFi, and DATFi opportunities inside the hVM.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-expanding-the-role-of-hemibtc-and-minerfi-taking-shape"},"/blog/the-anatomy-of-bitcoin-yield":{"version":1,"title":"The Anatomy of Bitcoin Yield - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["The Anatomy of Bitcoin Yield"],"h2":["What Does Productive BTC Yield Actually Mean?","Changing BTC To An Active Trillion-Dollar Asset","The Future Of Bitcoin Yield","Hemi and the Productive Era of Bitcoin","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 26, 2025","Announcements","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","How the world’s hardest asset actually generates yield across the cryptocurrency industry.","Applied to BTC, the concept of yield presents a conundrum. The language around BTC-derived yield implies earnings from productive activity, yet most mechanisms that have historically produced returns are not grounded in real economic output.It becomes evident when reviewing the history of centralized lenders, structured ETFs, and custodial desk operations. For such, returns are consistently enmeshed with leverage, maturity mismatches, or rehypothecation, rather than value created directly onchain. These firms turned Bitcoin into collateral for speculative trades or OTC lending, and when liquidity tightens, the entire structure collapses because nothing supports those yields except rolling leverage. The past lessons of Celsius, Voyager, and BlockFi made this clear: constant inflows, high leverage recycling, or opaque off-balance sheet positions create structural fragility rather than sustainable yield.","Even as the industry shifts toward integrating Bitcoin within DeFi, yield remains largely synthetic. Many yield products operate on alternative Bitcoin layers that rely on wrapped representations or bridged derivatives. Users are often told they are earning from Bitcoin activity, but what they actually hold is a tokenized claim that depends on custodial validation, not onchain mechanics. These systems import liquidity and create leverage, but they do not create real yield. They recycle demand from traders and mint new derivative markets around a facsimile of an asset, while underlying Bitcoin remains siloed.","Newer products sometimes attempt to disguise this with complex language. Collecting yield is reframed as market making or structured vault activity, yet the mechanics still rely on counterparty risk, synthetic instruments, or exposure to wrapped assets. Very little of this is tied to the productive capacity of Bitcoin itself, and the net effect is a market full of instruments that reference Bitcoin but rarely generate yield directly from it.","Real yield originates from observable, measurable, onchain activity. It does not depend on external balance sheets, offchain leverage, or custodial fulfillment; instead, it arises from economic activity that Bitcoin users participate in. This activity includes providing liquidity to markets, engaging in automated lending, enabling settlement infrastructure, or supporting structured products that derive value from transparent mechanics rather than hidden leverage.","The premise of productive yield is grounded in operations that return value to the user because their assets contributed to protocol-level function, not because a custodian executes proprietary trades. This distinction becomes important when mapping speculative yield against productive yield.","Speculative yield is produced when Bitcoin is loaned to a counterparty who uses it to generate returns through market exposure or leverage. Productive yield is produced when Bitcoin is placed into onchain systems that use fully transparent logic to produce returns without altering the custody relationship.","Unlike speculative yield models, users participating in productive yield maintain control of their asset; the protocol operates, and value flows back to the participants for services provided. Over time, this creates a structure where yield reflects the demand for actual services rather than the ability of a custodian to execute profitable trades. This shift reinforces protocol sustainability and real-time auditability.","Why does almost all of the capital behind Bitcoin remain idle? In part, this stems from risk aversion and a lack of supportive infrastructure for BTC-enabled yield with self-custody. For instance, institutional holders generally avoid moving their positions because yield products have historically required relinquishing custody or relying on wrapped tokens, which introduce centralization risks.","Retail users face the same problem. Most Bitcoin holders want to keep control over their keys and avoid synthetic assets. In a market where the mantra “Not your keys, not your crypto” reigns, retail users want Bitcoin, not a derivative or representation created by someone else. The demand for yield is high, but the yield market hasn’t historically aligned incentives with core Bitcoin values. That misalignment forces most holders to choose between security and productivity, often resulting in long-term holders opting for security and forgoing opportunities to grow their position.","Asset managers and allocators want yield that fits within compliance frameworks, provides transparency, and falls within custody standards. Retail holders want yield without opaque intermediaries. The absence of a model that satisfies both groups has left Bitcoin an enormous yet untapped reservoir of productive capital. Solving this problem requires a shift from custodial yield models to onchain mechanisms that preserve the integrity of Bitcoin while enabling observable economic activity.","The industry is transitioning away from models that rely entirely on trust or intermediaries. The failures of centralized lenders accelerated this shift, demonstrating transparency as a basic requirement as opposed to an aspirational feature, particularly amid highly volatile market conditions. The next phase of Bitcoin yield will be characterized by systems that produce returns through transparent logic, automated settlement, and onchain, verifiable asset flows.","The shift toward verifiable yield will also redefine institutional expectations. Funds need systems that satisfy compliance, allow for independent auditing, and maintain strong custody assurances. Onchain infrastructure satisfies all three. Eventually, these requirements will create a unified market structure where users at every level may participate in transparent, secure yield models aligned with Bitcoin’s ethos.","Hemi is a pioneer of productive Bitcoin, providing the infrastructure needed to unlock real BTC-enabled yield grounded entirely in transparency and onchain mechanics. It connects Bitcoin directly to an EVM environment with a protocol that can support lending, liquidity systems, structured markets, automated vaults, and more. Hemi’s trust-minimized tunnels support liquidity inflows from Bitcoin and EVM chains, eliminating the need for custodians or wrapped tokens. Settlement occurs through verifiable logic, and users retain control of their Bitcoin throughout the entire process.","Hemi is the key to unlocking trillions of native BTC liquidity, unleashing the floodgates for it to become activated across the entire EVM-based DeFi ecosystem. It enables BTC to participate in productive economic activity across a wide array of existing applications. Developers can build DeFi applications in the familiar EVM space they’ve grown accustomed to, with native access to Bitcoin’s state data and deep liquidity. Institutions gain a platform that satisfies security, custody, and audit requirements. For retail users, BTC yield becomes attainable without accepting custodial risk. These features create a convergence layer where every participant can interact with BTC in never-before-possible ways.","As the market moves into a new phase defined by provable yield, Hemi becomes a foundation for the productive layer of the Bitcoin economy. With Hemi, Bitcoin no longer sits idle; it earns through real, onchain mechanisms that align directly with retail and institutional demand.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-anatomy-of-bitcoin-yield"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-staked-hemibtc-preview-v2-first-looks-and-year-end-releases":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Staked hemiBTC Preview, V2 First Looks, and Year-End Releases - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Staked hemiBTC Preview, V2 First Looks, and Year-End Releases"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 26, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","This week’s Midweek with Max centered on near-term launches, long term security, and a holiday-adjusted roadmap. With Thanksgiving in view, the team confirmed that the staked hemiBTC launch is moving from this week to next so it can land when users are more active. The agenda focused on core engineering progress, a first look at staked hemiBTC, and an extended Q&A that ranged from incentives and OG roles to Polkadot and quantum computing.","On engineering, Max confirmed that V2 is effectively live on testnet, staying in sync, with one remaining task to shut down the old infrastructure it replaces. Support for the Ethereum Fusaka upgrade is implemented and is now going through testnet and mainnet testing. Mainnet node operators will receive instructions they must follow before the December 3 Fusaka change, including handling a major TVC database upgrade, likely with prebuilt data directories to simplify the process. Work on ZK provability continues, the hBitVM whitepaper is in final edit and may appear as a draft in Discord ahead of publication, and a dedicated hBitVM AMA is planned. Herblock distribution and PoP point conversions into liquid HEMI tokens remain active priorities, delayed slightly by V2 and Fusaka.","The featured product segment introduced staked hemiBTC, which goes live next week. Users will deposit hemiBTC and receive an equal amount of staked hemiBTC as an ERC20 that they can trade, use as collateral, or hold as a yield-bearing position. Under the hood, the strategy will initially route into a Morpho-based vault and evolve over time as new Bitcoin yield sources are added. Allocations will be rebalanced dynamically, so users can treat staked hemiBTC as a simple, fungible “set it and check in later” position while the protocol manages strategy changes. A second phase will expose individual strategies directly to advanced users who want fine-grained control over their risk and yield profile.","Max and John also addressed incentives. The team is moving away from long, monolithic “seasons” toward continuous liquid rewards that feel more intuitive and provide faster feedback. For now, the Merkl campaign page is the source of truth for liquidity mining incentives, including Sushi pairs, lending markets, Spectra, and the hemiBTC Clearstar reactor that powers staked hemiBTC at launch. The next veHEMI reward claim is expected around the first week of December. VBK and Herblock items are still in progress, and the OG role work is mainly blocked on the remaining UI pieces.","The episode closed with reminders to watch for the staked hemiBTC launch next week, the hBitVM whitepaper and AMA, the upcoming hemiBTC dashboard, and, for those who celebrate, wishes for a good Thanksgiving before the next round of releases.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-staked-hemibtc-preview-v2-first-looks-and-year-end-releases"},"/blog/hemi-and-jumper-offer-streamlined-defi-routing-interface":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Jumper Offer Streamlined DeFi Routing Interface - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Jumper Offer Streamlined DeFi Routing Interface"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 28, 2025","Announcements","Partnerships","Jumper reduces friction for DeFi swap executions, reducing multi-step manual operations into a single transaction.","Jumper, powered by LI.FI, serves as the user-facing frontend for efficient DeFi routing. It provides a streamlined interface for executing swaps and bridging between chains in one flow. Use Jumper to initiate a transaction on any supported network and route the output directly to Hemi without manual switching or multiple transactions.","For Hemi users, this provides a direct path for bringing liquidity from other networks into Hemi’s BTC-compatible DeFi layer. It standardizes execution paths for users who often swap across multiple networks, abstracting gas prompts and route selection. By unifying these actions into a single confirmation flow, crosschain movement requires fewer steps and signatures, lowering operational risk and user error.Strategies that depend on reallocating liquidity across environments become simpler, and protocols building on Hemi gain cleaner access to external liquidity without writing or maintaining their own network routes.","Use Jumper today and move assets directly to Hemi from any supported chain.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-jumper-offer-streamlined-defi-routing-interface"},"/blog/hemi-and-li-fi-extend-crosschain-evm-swaps-via-jumper":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and LI.FI Extend Crosschain EVM Swaps via Jumper - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and LI.FI Extend Crosschain EVM Swaps via Jumper"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Nov 28, 2025","Announcements","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Partnerships","The integration with LI.FI further expands access to Hemi across multiple EVM networks and non-EVM, like Solana.","Hemi and LI.FI are joining forces to execute seamless swaps and bring crosschain functionality from numerous EVM networks into the Hemi ecosystem. LI.FI is one of the most widely integrated bridge and swap API providers in Web3, connecting liquidity sources, DEXs, and bridging providers in one place.","With LI.FI, anyone can move from USDC on Base to USDC on Hemi in a single flow. The same applies across dozens of ecosystems, with routing enabled through the tools people already trust across Web3, including Sushi and Rabby. This marks Hemi’s step into a new world of on-chain connectivity, bringing every crosschain pathway directly into reach and making it easier for users, traders, and builders to access the Hemi network without friction.This integration also strengthens the workflow for Hemi dApp developers. Any team integrating Hemi can rely on Li.FI’s unified API and routing engine to enable deposits, exits, and liquidity movements without writing custom bridge logic. As Hemi’s ecosystem of DeFi protocols, yield markets, and dApps expands, standardized routing helps the network scale.","Try swapping on Hemi with LI.FI now for efficient, low-cost transfers across EVM chains, Solana, Bitcoin, and alt-VMs.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-li-fi-extend-crosschain-evm-swaps-via-jumper"},"/blog/hemi-and-wert-unite-to-enable-fiat-onramps-for-programmable-bitcoin":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi And Wert Unite to Enable Fiat Onramps for Programmable Bitcoin - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi And Wert Unite to Enable Fiat Onramps for Programmable Bitcoin"],"h2":["Global Payments For Hemi Users","Coming Soon to Hemi, Powered By Wert","A Step Toward Mainstream Access","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 1, 2025","Partnerships","Announcements","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Users will soon be able to use debit and credit cards to get ETH, USDT, USDC, ecosystem tokens, and NFTs.","Hemi and Wert are teaming to bring more fiat access to Hemi’s programmable Bitcoin layer of DeFi. Through this integration, users will soon be able to use debit or credit cards to purchase $HEMI and other native tokens, as well as access express NFT checkouts, without the need for a centralized exchange.","Wert is a Web3-specialized global payments provider enabling secure fiat on-ramp solutions, token listings, and NFT checkout services. With regulatory licenses in the US and EU, Wert supports card payments across over 180+ countries through a simple widget or API integration. The platform’s infrastructure lets projects seamlessly onboard new users while maintaining compliance and transparency.","Thanks to Wert, users will soon gain access to a seamless bridge between traditional finance and Bitcoin-native DeFi:","Here’s what to expect:","An instant fiat onramp for buying ETH, USDT, USDC, and ecosystem tokens directly within supported applications.","Express NFT checkouts, allowing non-crypto users to purchase digital assets with standard payment methods.","Off-ramp functionality planned for future rollout, enabling seamless conversion from crypto back to fiat.","A more accessible gateway into Bitcoin-native DeFi, bridging traditional finance and onchain participation.","With this partnership, Wert and Hemi lower the entry barrier for new users, expanding liquidity opportunities across its ecosystem. Access Wert via the streamlined native interface, or via Hemi's dedicated front-end and unlock programmable Bitcoin on Hemi today.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-wert-unite-to-enable-fiat-onramps-for-programmable-bitcoin"},"/blog/hemi-and-gluex-integrate-aggregated-low-fee-swaps-across-the-network":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and GlueX Integrate Aggregated Low-Fee Swaps Across the Network - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and GlueX Integrate Aggregated Low-Fee Swaps Across the Network"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 3, 2025","Announcements","Partnerships","Hemi","Bitcoin","Ethereum","GlueX offers Hemi users unified, low-fee swap asset routing via an embedded widget or directly through the GlueX dApp web interface.","Hemi and GlueX are integrating to deliver instant, low-fee swaps, typically around 0.15% for volatile pairs and 0.03% for stable pairs, across any token route supported by GlueX’s aggregation engine. GlueX sources the best executable quote across multiple liquidity venues and exposes it through a single API, providing efficient routing without manual market comparisons. With this integration, Hemi becomes available directly through the GlueX widget and the GlueX swap interface.","GlueX is designed as a lightweight, embeddable DEX aggregator that can plug into any frontend. The GlueX widget supports direct swaps and features best-price aggregation, as well as simplified routing without requiring custom execution logic. Hemi now integrates within that workflow, allowing users and builders to interact with the network from GlueX’s hosted UI or from any application that embeds the widget.","For Hemi users, this provides another simplified path to bring capital into the network. Efficient routing lowers friction for traders who want to position quickly, rebalance, or move between assets without navigating multiple DEX interfaces. With Hemi’s growing DeFi layer, aggregated execution becomes increasingly important by helping to maintain reliable pricing and reducing slippage across assets that bridge in from external networks.","Teams building on Hemi can embed the GlueX widget on their applications and rely on the aggregation engine to handle quotes, routing, and execution. It lets developers deliver complete swap functionality through a minimal code path, keeping Hemi dApps simple and efficient.","Access Hemi swaps directly through the GlueX website or embed the GlueX widget in your own application to route cost-efficient trades into Hemi.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-gluex-integrate-aggregated-low-fee-swaps-across-the-network"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-fusaka-minerfi-and-the-road-to-hbvm":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Fusaka, MinerFi, and the Road to hBitVM - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Fusaka, MinerFi, and the Road to hBitVM"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 4, 2025","Hemi","Ethereum","Bitcoin","AMA","This week’s Midweek with Max opened with a packed engineering agenda and the backdrop of Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade, which activates tomorrow afternoon. Max confirmed that the team has been racing to finalize node-side preparations. Updated instructions are now live in the Node Operators channel, with a temporary V1-based client available for anyone who cannot complete the full V2 database migration in time. Both V1 (Fusaka-compatible) and V2 remain interoperable, giving operators flexibility on timing.","Beyond Fusaka, the engineering team has been deep in backend development for a new system, codenamed Bitcoin MinerFi, that will serve as a major onboarding and routing layer for BTC and hemiBTC. MinerFi will let users register a permanent BTC deposit address; any BTC sent to it will be automatically detected and swapped into hemiBTC, then routed into a user-configured strategy. veHEMI holders will also be able to run MinerFi daemons, participating in decentralized threshold signing and earning revenue for liquidity and operational support. More detail expected toward year-end.","The hBitVM whitepaper is now in final internal review, with publication expected before the end of the week alongside a more accessible explanatory blog. A dedicated AMA will follow. Meanwhile, the new Hemi site is live, reflecting a shift toward institutional messaging, clearer Bitcoin-centric branding, and a stronger focus on the Bitcoin-native yield layer Hemi is building.","Staked hemiBTC has cleared a major milestone: contracts are deployed on mainnet, and only UI components remain before launch, expected later this week or early next. On the “when” front, Max offered new timing guidance: BitVM-powered Tunnel Phase 2 is targeting Q1; VBK updates remain a priority but were delayed by V2 and Fusaka; the next veHEMI claim is expected mid-December; and the long-awaited OG role is on track for late December or early January.","A large portion of this week’s discussion centered on security: smart contract safety, safe browsing practices, avoiding malicious UIs, proper use of hardware wallets, oracle risks, fuzzing and integration testing, supply-chain hardening, and Hemi’s ongoing work with Hypernative, BugCrowd, and internal CI policies. The team reiterated that as Hemi decentralizes its infrastructure, systemic risk decreases even further.","Finally, the community was reminded to watch tomorrow’s Fusaka activation and to expect HBVM whitepaper news and a dedicated AMA next week.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-fusaka-minerfi-and-the-road-to-hbvm"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-v2-rollout-and-hbvm-on-deck":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: V2 Rollout and hBitVM on Deck - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: V2 Rollout and hBitVM on Deck"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 11, 2025","AMA","Ethereum","Bitcoin","Hemi","This week’s session opened with confirmation that the V2 rollout on Mainnet is effectively complete. One final peer-to-peer node remains on V1 for legacy operators, but the network is transitioning toward a clean release process with clearer tags and a standalone Local Node repo.","On MinerFi updates, development is moving forward, with a recent focus on the coordination daemon responsible for Bitcoin transaction construction and key resharing. Smart contracts enter their next build phase this week. The Fusaka update completed successfully after resolving an RPC provider issue. With V2 shipped internally, Testnet deployment of the V2 PoP payout algorithm is scheduled next, enabling the community to begin experimenting with the updated model.","A formal beta program is also being assembled. This initiative will give experienced community members early access to features, including staked hemiBTC, while providing engineers with useful usability and bug-related feedback. The program will function similarly to the Builder role, with a private Discord channel and light criteria focused on DeFi familiarity rather than seniority. Max noted that previews of staked hemiBTC will begin through this beta, with contracts deployed and UI ready pending final tests.","The team also announced that the hBitVM whitepaper is now complete, with internal review underway. Publication is expected by week’s end, followed by a technical AMA next week. hBitVM remains the most significant engineering milestone to secure cross-chain state and enable advanced Bitcoin-backed primitives.","On the topic of security, audits are updated, bug bounty submissions are identifying platform issues, and the ecosystem and Hemi engineers continue preparing for the unpredictability of quantum-era cryptography. Most bounty findings have involved Web-layer issues rather than core issues, and each fix reduces the risk of vulnerability-chaining attacks. The conversation also touched on privacy tech, inscription indexing, ASIC-resistance debates, and future infrastructure decentralization.","The session closed with community updates: a holiday meme contest, Smash Karts tournament, upcoming karaoke session, the ambassador program arriving in early 2026, and reminders to watch for the V2 upgrade docs, beta program details, and the hBVM whitepaper later this week.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch next week’s episode live.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-v2-rollout-and-hbvm-on-deck"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-v2-wrap-up-hemi-alliance-and-a-deep-dive-on-hbitvm":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: V2 Wrap-Up, Hemi Alliance, and a Deep Dive on hBitVM - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: V2 Wrap-Up, Hemi Alliance, and a Deep Dive on hBitVM"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 17, 2025","AMA","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Video","Midweek with Max opened with a preview of the hBitVM white paper, which was shared in Discord as an early draft ahead of a broader public release later this week. Max explained that additional supporting content is forthcoming, including a blog post and an X thread, designed to make the ideas more accessible. With a dedicated engineering AMA focused entirely on the material in planning for later this week, the community has a chance to read and digest everything before a deeper discussion.","On the post-V2 front, Max said the team is wrapping up the final cleanup from the upgrade and Ethereum’s Fusaka update, noting that the network has stabilized. A formal V2 release is upcoming and will remain optional until the team schedules the Jovian activation in late December or early January, with advance notice for node operators.","Max introduced a new experiment called HBUSD, described as a one-way HEMI burn into a USD-denominated stablecoin. The protocol is expected to launch by month-end and will be paired with a community art and NFT design competition, offering prizes including HBUSD, HEMI, merch, and a free mint for the winning design.","Rick confirmed that the Hemi Alliance has concluded, but said a new, more structured Hemi Ambassador program is being developed for early 2026 by a small working group, with an external partner involved. Max also confirmed that the next veHEMI rewards cycle is expected before year-end, likely landing outside the main holiday window.","Several timing questions were addressed during Q&A. Max confirmed that VBK updates will be shared before the end of the year. The long-awaited OG role is now targeted for February, with the team setting a firm date to avoid continued delays. Max also clarified that while moving assets between Ethereum and Hemi will always involve Ethereum transaction fees, fees at the Hemi network level remain very low.","One of the more memorable moments came when Max was asked to explain hBitVM “like I’m five,” resulting in a very deep explanation that may have escaped the attention span of the intended five-year-old audience.","The episode closed with a look ahead to the final Midweek with Max of 2025, scheduled for next Tuesday with a holiday-themed format and broader team participation. Rick also announced an opt-in beta testing program launching soon, giving community members early access to upcoming features. The first product slated for beta is the hemiBTC staking vault, with clear warnings that it remains experimental despite being on mainnet.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch next week’s live unscripted holiday episode, complete with special guests.","View all","Midweek With Max","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-v2-wrap-up-hemi-alliance-and-a-deep-dive-on-hbitvm"},"/blog/less-than-1-of-bitcoin-earns":{"version":1,"title":"Less than 1% of Bitcoin Earns - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Less than 1% of Bitcoin Earns"],"h2":["How Hemi Brings Bitcoin To DeFi","Hemi's Impact In 2025","Hemi's Vision for 2026","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 23, 2025","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Productive Bitcoin infrastructure for institutional participation.","Bitcoin represents the most important asset in digital finance. Yet less than 1% participates in productive, yield-generating ecosystems. The remaining 99% sits dormant, not because holders don't want yield, but because the infrastructure hasn't existed to deliver it without custody compromises.","This represents the largest underutilized capital base in crypto. Hemi exists to activate it.","Hemi connects Bitcoin and Ethereum, enabling BTC to access yield-generating DeFi strategies without custodial handoff. Before Hemi, institutions faced an impossible choice: maintain Bitcoin-aligned security or participate in DeFi. Not both.","Hemi eliminates this tradeoff. Institutions can now deploy BTC in programmable DeFi environments while retaining custody. No wrapped tokens. No custodial intermediaries.","On Hemi, BTC participates in yield-generating activity alongside other digital assets, without compromising the security properties that define it.","Entering 2025, Hemi had already demonstrated readiness through sustained testnet activity, surpassing 80,000 verified participants through DEMOS.","By March, Hemi launched native staking, followed by Hemi Mainnet. The numbers tell the story:","$1.2 billion TVL securing active Bitcoin DeFi activity","90+ integrated protocols and partners","100,000+ verified users deploying BTC productively","In Q4, Hemi launched the $HEMI token, providing the economic layer to support long-term participation and ecosystem alignment.","Today, Hemi supports an active BTC-integrated DeFi ecosystem without security compromises:","Bitcoin-native yield opportunities without custodial handoff","Programmable DeFi primitives with Ethereum-compatible smart contracts","Non-custodial participation where institutions retain BTC custody","Trust-minimized infrastructure for secure asset deployment","Integrated trading venues with spot, derivatives, and structured markets","Institutionally aligned architecture with enterprise controls","Ecosystem composability across multiple protocols","Hemi has built the infrastructure to transform BTC from a passive asset to productive capital. In a world where just 1% of BTC earns, Hemi makes productive BTC the default, not the exception.","BTC no longer needs to sit idle.","Make your BTC earn.","HEMIhemi.xyz","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/less-than-1-of-bitcoin-earns"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-a-holiday-celebration-and-looking-ahead-to-2026":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: A Holiday Celebration and Looking Ahead to 2026 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: A Holiday Celebration and Looking Ahead to 2026"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 24, 2025","AMA","Bitcoin","Ethereum","This week’s Midweek with Max marked a special moment for the Hemi community, serving as both a holiday celebration and the final episode of 2025. With a relaxed format, festive giveaways, and appearances from multiple team members, the conversation focused less on technical deep dives and more on reflecting on the year, celebrating the community, and setting the tone for what’s ahead in 2026.","Holiday-themed giveaways kicked off the festivities, including a limited-run Hemi holiday mug, meme contest winners, and a reminder that the hbUSD NFT design contest remains open. Several team members took a moment to speak directly to the community:","Jeremy thanked participants for being the lifeblood of the ecosystem and reflected on how far Hemi has come in a single year.","Jon Greenwood highlighted how rare it is to see a community reach real engagement and cohesion so early.","JCV expressed appreciation for a community that not only sticks around but actively leans into technical discussions, curiosity, and experimentation. The message across the board was consistent: Hemi is not just being built for the community, but with it.","After some holiday ice-breaking, Max joined the call, sharing looks ahead and high-level updates on what’s coming next for Hemi. The team confirmed the OG role is now firmly targeted for February 2026, alongside the launch of a formal Hemi ambassador program designed to reward community members for helping spread the word and support ecosystem growth.","Additional initiatives, such as new contests, expanded beta testing, and moderator-led activities, were also teased as part of a broader effort to make participation more meaningful and enjoyable in the coming year.","The next phase of Hemi will be focused on unlocking Bitcoin-native functionality, improving economic primitives, and continuing to harden the protocol. BitVM will serve as a major pillar of that future, alongside broader efforts around Bitcoin-backed DeFi, governance, and decentralization.","The session closed with a collective look forward. The team expressed excitement for what 2026 holds, not just in terms of technology, but in continuing to grow a community that shows up week after week, asks smart questions, and makes great memes. With that, the team extended their warmest winter wishes to all and looks forward to seeing everyone again next year.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-a-holiday-celebration-and-looking-ahead-to-2026"},"/blog/hemi-2025-year-in-review":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi 2025 Year In Review - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi 2025 Year In Review"],"h2":["Ready for Launch","Community in Motion","Mainnet Launch and Network Growth","Building with Partners","$HEMI Token Launch and Market Expansion","Infrastructure Partnerships and Institutional Signals","Launch of Hemi Economic Model","Aster Trading Contest","hBitVM Whitepaper","Fusaka Compatibility Update","What's Next","Latest articles"],"h3":["Breaking Sepolia: A Technical Milestone","Growth Investment Announcement","Token Listing on Binance","Points Program and Token Distribution","Infura Integration","Dominari Securities Partnership","Brand Evolution: Positioning for Scale","Infrastructure for Institutional Conversion","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Dec 30, 2025","Ethereum","Bitcoin","Features","A recap of Hemi's 2025 milestones.","2025 was a defining year for Hemi. We launched mainnet, listed $HEMI, and watched as the community transformed an idea into infrastructure securing over $1.2 billion in value.","This recap revisits the milestones that shaped our first year, from community-driven experiments to institutional partnerships. Each step brought us closer to our vision: making Bitcoin productive, transparent, and accessible to everyone.","Hemi entered 2025 prepared. By early January, the network had already built a foundation with a committed community of verified users through DEMOS, our privacy-first anti-sybil system. The network had already accumulated a community of more than 375,000 users, including social media following, with over 80,000 distinct onchain users individually verified through DEMOS, a privacy-first anti-sybil infrastructure integration.","Community engagement remained strong throughout the pre-mainnet period. The official Hemi Discord became the hub for updates, with the weekly show \"Midweek with Max\" covering network developments and connecting directly with users. In January, the show received its first official logo through a community-led design contest, a small but meaningful signal of the grassroots energy building around Hemi.","February brought more momentum. Max joined an AMA with Impossible Finance, discussing how Hemi bridges Bitcoin's security with Ethereum's developer tools. We introduced new Discord role systems to recognize early contributors and reward sustained engagement as the network matured.","The pre-mainnet period became a testing ground for creativity and technical exploration.","By early March, Hemi announced Open Season alongside the \"I Broke Sepolia\" NFTs on testnet, commemorating the previous year’s testnet “Open Season” wrap-up campaign. What started as playful competition became a stress test that revealed the network's capabilities.","In October 2024, Hemi marked the close of its testnet tunneling phase with Open Season, a final community-driven activation. The campaign saw unprecedented participation, and at its peak, a majority of network activity comprised Hemi-related transactions.","The \"Open Season\" campaign pushed Ethereum's Sepolia testnet to its limits and became one of Hemi's most memorable technical moments:","8,250 unique addresses participated in the campaign","175,000 sepETH spent in transaction fees","88% of all gas on Sepolia consumed by Hemi-based transactions at peak","Gas fees exceeded 11,000 Gwei, setting a testnet record","The campaign proved that under real demand, Hemi’s infrastructure can endure extreme conditions, and demonstrated that users would actively participate in an incentive-driven network validation layer before the mainnet launch.","Hemi initiated native staking on March 5, 2025, one week before the mainnet launched. This allowed partners and community members to migrate assets and prepare for Hemi rewards, creating a smooth transition from testnet to production.","On March 12, 2025, Hemi Mainnet officially went live with over 50 partner protocols already integrated.","What followed was rapid, organic growth. Liquidity flowed in. dApps deployed. Users participated. Over the following months, Hemi reached $1.2 billion in total value locked (TVL), establishing itself as one of the most active Bitcoin L2s in the ecosystem.","After the spring launch, Hemi activated several meaningful ecosystem partnerships throughout the summer:","Redstone: A modular blockchain oracle providing customizable, secure data feeds across 70+ chains for DeFi applications. It separates data collection from delivery, enabling specialized feeds for LRTs, BTCfi, and RWAs while maintaining zero mispricing incidents. By using RedStone’s oracle services, Hemi can make sure that all projects get the right price feeds for LSTs and LRTs. This makes DeFi applications safer and more efficient within the network.","The Graph: Enabling efficient querying and indexing of blockchain information, simplifying the development process for decentralized applications. Using The Graph’s capabilities, developers can efficiently build scalable, data-driven hApps on Hemi’s modular Layer 2 architecture.","Spectra: Support for several ways to earn Bitcoin-backed yield. Fixed rates allow users to mint Principal Tokens (PTs), which lock in a fixed return on a given asset. Users can stake HemiBTC on BitFi to receive bfBTC and start earning with Spectra. Hemi pools support swaps between PTs and YTs. Liquidity providers earn from swap fees, fixed-rate returns from PTs, and the native yield of the underlying asset.","Gearbox: Powerful looping strategies for advanced users. Borrowers can collateralize bfBTC from BitFi and borrow hemiBTC, which can be used to mint additional bfBTC, thereby looping the cycle for compounding gains. With Hemi, Gearbox opens up lending options with collateralization via hemiBTC, WBTC, or ETH to borrow USDC, offering greater liquidity to Bitcoin-native assets without necessitating the sale of assets.","Satori Protocol: A perps DEX that lets users trade the price of assets without directly holding them on-chain. Traders may take long or short positions at 50x leverage for BTC and ETH, or 25x leverage for dozens of other supported assets. With Satori’s vaults, Hemi users can earn from their deposits, managed by market makers, who execute trading strategies that generate yields.","River Protocol: The force behind satUSD, the first universal stablecoin backed by Bitcoin. Users can mint satUSD by collateralizing BTC across blockchain ecosystems, with a minimum collateral ratio of 110% to maintain stability. Integrating with Hemi’s modular architecture allows River Protocol to streamline minting and management processes for satUSD. This collaboration facilitates faster, more cost-effective cross-chain transactions while ensuring that users can maintain minimum collateral ratios with ease.","Safe: Multisig architecture that enables multiple parties to co-own a wallet and allows for customizable permission thresholds. Hemi is natively supported on Safe to bring secure, programmable, multi-signature wallets to Bitcoin DeFi. The integration brings Hemi users one of the most widely used digital asset wallets with built-in multisig, modular extensions, and seamless governance.","Zerolend: A BTC LRT market that offers supply and borrowing options, with transparent data on supply APYs, borrow APYs, and total liquidity. By bringing ZeroLend’s lending and borrowing protocol to Hemi, BTC holders gain access to a seamless and secure platform for optimizing their assets.","BitFi: A CeDeFi platform that generates organic yield on BTC through the funding rate arbitrage trade. BTC assets are deposited into their vault, and used BTC to execute the delta-neutral trade. BitFi’s secure staking infrastructure and diverse synthetic assets align seamlessly with Hemi’s modular architecture and unique, Bitcoin-powered “Proof-of-Proof” consensus mechanism.","Ichi: A non-custodial liquidity solution that allows users to deposit single tokens and earn swap fees. By enabling single-token deposits into liquidity pools, ICHI simplifies and automates the process of providing liquidity, making it as easy as staking an asset. With ICHI, users can simply deposit a single token on Hemi.","Morpho: A permissionless lending protocol that optimizes capital efficiency by matching lenders and borrowers peer-to-peer while retaining the security of underlying money markets. By integrating Morpho on Hemi, users gain access to more efficient interest rates for Bitcoin-backed lending and borrowing, improving capital utilization across BTC-native DeFi strategies.","LI.Fi: A crosschain liquidity and routing protocol that aggregates bridges and DEXs into a single integration layer. LI.FI enables seamless asset movement into and out of Hemi, reducing friction for users entering Bitcoin DeFi and allowing applications to offer smooth, abstracted crosschain experiences without managing bridge logic directly.","Jumper: A user-facing crosschain execution interface built on LI.FI that simplifies asset transfers across ecosystems. With Jumper, users can move assets into Hemi through a unified interface that automatically selects optimal routes, fees, and execution paths, lowering barriers to participation in Bitcoin-native DeFi.","Aster: A derivatives protocol focused on capital-efficient trading and structured products. Aster’s integration expands advanced trading and yield opportunities on Hemi, enabling Bitcoin-backed assets to participate in more sophisticated financial instruments while remaining within a Bitcoin-aligned execution environment.","DIN: A decentralized infrastructure network aligned with Infura’s enterprise RPC platform, designed to enhance resilience, scalability, and fault tolerance across blockchain networks. Through its integration with Infura, DIN extends production-grade access to Hemi by distributing RPC workloads across a decentralized provider set, strengthening reliability for developers and institutions building Bitcoin-native applications.","These integrations expanded Hemi's capabilities and signaled growing institutional interest in Bitcoin-native infrastructure.","On August 26-27, 2025, just before the token generation event, Hemi disclosed a $15 million growth investment round led by Binance Labs. That funding brought Hemi’s total venture backing to approximately $30 million, encompassing prior rounds and this latest raise, validating the technical approach, and accelerating ongoing network development.","On August 29, 2025, $HEMI, the network's native token, was listed on Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. This provided immediate global access and liquidity for the token.","On September 23rd, Binance expanded access further by listing Hemi on its spot marketplace, increasing liquidity across global markets.","To support long-term ecosystem growth, Hemi launched a phased Points Program in September. As part of this program a portion of the total $HEMI supply was distributed to Binance users and Points Program participants.","On October 9, 2025, Hemi integrated with Infura, bringing Bitcoin-secured programmable infrastructure into the Infura ecosystem. This integration gave developers familiar with Ethereum-native tooling direct access to Hemi's Bitcoin L2 capabilities.","On October 10, 2025, Hemi announced a partnership with Dominari Securities, focused on developing digital asset infrastructure aligned with regulatory and institutional requirements. The collaboration signaled growing interest from traditional financial participants in Hemi's programmable Bitcoin infrastructure.","On October 30th, 2025, Hemi announced the launch of the first phase of its four-phase economic model, which converts protocol fees into staking rewards in $HEMI and $hemiBTC for veHEMI stakers, along with a burn mechanic. This step sets the stage for the upcoming protocol-owned-liquidity treasury, decentralized vote market, and dual-staking (hemiBTC + Hemi) system. Additionally, these phase-1 rewards incentivize veHEMI economic security growth in preparation for decentralizing components of the protocol, ranging from block sequencing and Ethereum publishing to cross-chain liquidity systems and the upcoming hBitVM tunnel upgrade.","On October 28, 2025, Hemi and Aster launched a trading contest celebrating the listing of $HEMI on Aster DEX. The contest offered participants a share of a $400,000 prize pool, driving early liquidity and engagement on the platform.","On December 22, 2025, the team published the hBitVM Tunnel Whitepaper, which details a new multi-chain proof system that leverages PoP and hVM to generate zero-knowledge proofs of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hemi state secured by Bitcoin PoW + Ethereum PoS, and a new Tunnel protocol which uses this proof system to improve the security and efficiency of BitVM2/BitVM3s-based designs while preserving the original 1-of-N trust model and permissionless challenging.","On December 5, 2025, Hemi was updated to maintain compatibility with Ethereum's Fusaka update, ensuring the network remains aligned with EVM operational standards as Ethereum continues to evolve.","As Hemi's infrastructure matured in 2025, the way we communicated needed to evolve alongside it.","With $1.2 billion in TVL, serious institutional evaluation, and partners integrating at scale, clarity became non-negotiable. Hemi refined its market positioning from generic Bitcoin L2 messaging toward a more precise identity: the transparent infrastructure layer for productive Bitcoin.","This evolution focused on three essentials:","Clarity – What Hemi is, who it serves, and why it's different became immediately legible.","Credibility – Every claim backed by verifiable proof. TVL metrics, partnership announcements, and technical specifications replaced aspirational language with demonstrable results.","Institutional Readiness – Tone of voice, visual identity, and narrative hierarchy aligned to support board-level conversations, compliance reviews, and treasury deployment decisions.","The result: a scalable brand system that supports institutional diligence, developer evaluation, and partnership discussions without constant reinvention. Hemi can now operate credibly alongside established infrastructure players as institutional capital enters the Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem.","Alongside brand evolution, Hemi rebuilt its digital presence to function as conversion infrastructure for institutional decision-makers.","The new website was architected around how institutions actually evaluate Bitcoin infrastructure: audience-specific entry points, evidence-driven content hierarchy, and clear conversion paths from understanding to deployment.","Fund managers can now understand Hemi’s security model, custody approach, and competitive positioning in minutes. Compliance teams can access audit reports, regulatory documentation, and technical specifications without navigating community forums.","By late 2025, the updated website delivered institutional-grade positioning, defined conversion paths for funds and asset managers, and launch infrastructure ready to support new products at scale. The site now functions as active business development infrastructure, supporting capital conversations, partnership evaluations, and institutional onboarding at the scale Hemi’s growth demands.","As 2025 closes, Hemi enters its next phase from a position of strength. The foundation is built. The infrastructure is proven. The community is active.","We're focused on what matters most:","Bitcoin-native programmable infrastructure that institutions can trust","Developer accessibility and tooling that make building on Bitcoin straightforward","Sustainable liquidity and incentive design that rewards long-term participation","Ecosystem resilience that can withstand market cycles and technical challenges","These priorities will guide Hemi into 2026 as we continue working toward a future where Bitcoin is productive, not idle.","The work continues. The infrastructure scales. Bitcoin activates.","Your Bitcoin. Your yield.","https://hemi.xyz/","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-2025-year-in-review"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-kicking-off-2026-with-community-momentum-and-what’s-next":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Kicking Off 2026 with Community, Momentum, and What’s Next - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Kicking Off 2026 with Community, Momentum, and What’s Next"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 7, 2026","AMA","Ethereum","Bitcoin","The first Midweek with Max of 2026 opened on a celebratory note, welcoming the community back after the holidays and setting the tone for what promises to be a busy year ahead. With a lighter, festive atmosphere, the conversation blended reflections on recent progress with a forward look at near-term milestones across the Hemi ecosystem.","Max shared that several upgrades are moving through final testing, including updates tied to MinerFi infrastructure, node operations, and upcoming network changes. While timelines remain intentionally flexible, the focus remains on improving usability, performance, and long-term resilience as the network evolves.","A key highlight of the episode was confirmation that VBK claim registration is opening imminently, with distributions planned to roll out in batches shortly thereafter. Eligible participants are encouraged to register early to be included in the first round. Additional updates touched on staking rewards, contest payouts, and timing expectations for several community-facing programs slated for early January.","Moving ahead, Hemi is leaning into liquid, onchain incentives that provide immediate and transparent feedback for participation. This approach, paired with Merkle-based distributions, is designed to reward activity more directly while maintaining flexibility for future experiments such as ambassador programs and targeted initiatives.","Community questions covered a wide range of topics, including contributor opportunities, audits, and security practices. The team reaffirmed its commitment to layered security reviews, external audits where appropriate, and expanding bug bounty participation. Builders were encouraged to reach out directly, with plans underway to formalize grants and bounties around specific ecosystem needs in the coming weeks.","Max also outlined the broader goals for 2026, highlighting hBitVM as a major technical milestone later in the year, alongside continued decentralization efforts and improvements to Bitcoin onboarding and usability. While details will continue to be shared incrementally, the overarching message was clear: 2026 is about turning foundational work into tangible user and ecosystem wins.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch next week's Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-kicking-off-2026-with-community-momentum-and-what’s-next"},"/blog/hemi-and-the-foundations-of-the-btc-backed-stablecoin-era":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and the Foundations of the BTC-Backed Stablecoin Era - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and the Foundations of the BTC-Backed Stablecoin Era"],"h2":["Hemi is the Layer For BTC-Backed Stablecoins","A More Stable Bitcoin","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 9, 2026","Hemi allows BTC to serve as stablecoin collateral, to activate trillions in dormant crypto-native capital flow, and expand DeFi markets.","Before the adoption of stablecoins, periods of market volatility often drove capital offchain entirely. By providing an onchain harbor for capital to seek shelter during times of volatility, stablecoins ushered in a structural shift in market behavior, allowing participants to more rapidly cover gaps or dips without needing to redeploy capital from external rails.","The widespread use of stablecoins fundamentally transformed the DeFi ecosystem. They heralded the growth of primitives such as leverage, derivatives, lending, perpetuals, and more, which require the robust financial onchain infrastructure that stablecoins provide. Simply put, stablecoins made onchain capital a bit more predictable.","Today, stablecoins account for a significant share of total value locked across DeFi protocols and an even larger share of onchain transaction volume. Trillions of dollars in stablecoin transfers flow through blockchains annually, reflecting real economic throughput across lending, liquidity provision, and settlement.","However, while stablecoins have delivered meaningful growth to the DeFi ecosystem, they have remained largely disconnected from crypto’s largest canonical chain and primary store of value: Bitcoin.","The disconnect between stables and BTC is increasingly difficult to justify at scale. Bitcoin represents more than half of the total crypto market capitalization and remains the most widely held and most liquid digital asset globally, yet it has historically played only a marginal role in stablecoin collateralization and onchain financial activity.","Hemi emerges as the connective substrate that resolves this mismatch. Hemi Tunnels bring BTC into a programmable environment where it can function as productive collateral within the broader stablecoin ecosystem. This is achieved without third-party intermediaries, custodial lockups, or deviation from Bitcoin’s inherent structure. Hemi’s architecture operates in concert with the Bitcoin network, preserving Bitcoin’s security assumptions while enabling BTC to participate directly in productive onchain financial activity.","As BTC on Hemi becomes collateral for stablecoins, the potential for a feedback loop begins to form: Stablecoin issuance backed by BTC increases onchain liquidity, which in turn fuels lending markets, decentralized exchanges, and derivatives activity. All that generates demand for stable settlement assets, which reinforces the role of stablecoins and further anchors Bitcoin within DeFi’s monetary infrastructure.","The result is an expansion of the onchain economy driven by crypto-native capital activated through Hemi, rather than by external inflows or offchain mechanisms attempting to stimulate growth.","Learn more about how Hemi is building the future of productive Bitcoin finance.","Make your BTC earn.","HEMI","hemi.xyz","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-the-foundations-of-the-btc-backed-stablecoin-era"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-incentives-infrastructure-and-community-momentum":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Incentives, Infrastructure, and Community Momentum - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Incentives, Infrastructure, and Community Momentum"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 15, 2026","AMA","AI","Ethereum","Bitcoin","This week’s Midweek with Max covered the usual protocol updates and transitioned into a thoughtful discussion on AI, as well as several new community initiatives.","During the high-level engineering overview, Max revealed that progress continues toward zero-knowledge provability with steady work moving ahead on MinerFi as well. This work on foundational infrastructure will support more advanced Bitcoin-centric functionality over time. Marked improvements have been noted with internal testing and validation processes, reinforcing the team’s focus on long-term reliability rather than rushing features out the door.","Max also confirmed that the next veHEMI staking rewards distribution is expected by the end of the week, pending final accounting. VBK registration is still open, and users are encouraged to register early to be included in the first distribution batch. Still, there is no immediate deadline or penalty for participating in later batches, so the community has time to onboard at their own pace.","Updates on the OG Role for Discord are still confirmed for a target timeline of late February. Early work around “HEMI Station” is also ongoing, as the team is currently positioning it as a developing concept that may intersect with the forthcoming ambassador program. Expect more concrete updates on community programs as early as next week","During one of the most engaging segments of the episode, the team broached the topic of AI. Responding to questions about the AI bubble, Max, JCV, and Jon Greenwood compared the current moment to past hype cycles, including the dot-com era and early crypto. While all agreed that a correction is likely, they emphasized that meaningful AI applications will survive and mature.","Finally, Alix announced the launch of a new “Amigo of the Week” initiative. The program will spotlight standout contributors across building, memes, and social engagement, with winners receiving an exclusive t-shirt that cannot be purchased. Alix also introduced a new Hemi Heads game contest, encouraging friendly competition, participation, and rewards in tokens and merch.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-incentives-infrastructure-and-community-momentum"},"/blog/why-the-future-of-btcfi-requires-hemi-tunnels":{"version":1,"title":"Why the Future of BTCFi Requires Hemi Tunnels - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Why the Future of BTCFi Requires Hemi Tunnels"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 15, 2026","Ethereum","Bitcoin","Hemi is where native BTC activates without sacrificing on decentralization or security.","Institutions want to get the most from BTC in DeFi, but not by sacrificing security assumptions around custody. As institutional Bitcoin adoption accelerates, and with the lessons of past fallen central providers, it poses a critical question: how can institutions activate their idle BTC capital without compromising on Bitcoin’s foundational security? For years, the answer seemed to lie in wrapped assets and bridges. But these solutions only offered programmability at the cost of trust-minimized integrity.","Today, the emergence of Hemi Network offers a fundamentally new path: Bitcoin-native programmability without wrapped tokens, custodial friction, or consensus compromises.","The Institutional Bitcoin Paradox","Institutions today hold over 2.6 million BTC ($260B+), yet less than 0.8% of this capital participates in DeFi. Why? Because legacy activation methods, like Wrapped BTC (WBTC, tBTC, cbBTC), introduce:","Custodial risk from centralized or federated minting schemes","Redemption delays and friction during volatility","No enforcement of Bitcoin consensus, leaving security dependent on third parties","Even worse, institutional custody fees (10-50 bps annually) turn BTC from a store of value into a cost center, leading to billions in net opportunity cost.","Enter the Convergence Layer: Hemi’s Supernetwork","Hemi doesn’t just bridge Bitcoin and Ethereum, but rather, it converges them.","Instead of creating synthetic assets or relying on external bridge protocols, Hemi introduces a new category of blockchain architecture:","Core Innovations","Proof-of-Proof (PoP): Anchors network state directly to Bitcoin’s blockchain","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM): EVM-compatible execution layer with native Bitcoin awareness","This creates what Hemi calls a supernetwork: programmable Bitcoin infrastructure with full EVM compatibility and native BTC security.","Hemi Tunnels: Why They Matter","Typical crosschain bridges fracture consensus and multiply trust assumptions. Hemi Tunnels remove these risks:","No synthetic BTC: Real BTC is used, verified through the hVM’s embedded Bitcoin node","No custodians: Tunnels provide trust-minimized asset movement, including support for BitVM and atomic swaps","No wrapped assets: Apps can natively access Bitcoin data, including UTXOs, balances, and block headers","This architecture enables BTCFi without compromise:","Staking BTC without slashing or lockups","Lending BTC with onchain collateral verification","Participating in DeFi without leaving Bitcoin’s security guarantees","The Superfinality Advantage","Hemi goes beyond Bitcoin's 6-block finality by introducing superfinality:","PoP miners publish state proofs to Bitcoin","Hemi finalizes blocks only after Bitcoin and Ethereum confirmations","To reverse a finalized state, an attacker would need to compromise:","Bitcoin’s PoW consensus","Hemi’s PoP system","Ethereum’s data availability","This multi-layer security model exceeds Bitcoin’s native finality and makes Hemi one of the most secure programmable platforms available.","BTCFi That Sets The New Institutional Standards","Hemi is already powering a live ecosystem:","$800M+ TVL within 3 weeks of mainnet","100+ protocols integrated across lending, staking, and stablecoin strategies","Compliance infrastructure for KYC/AML, audit trails, and accounting clarity","Yield strategies include:","BTC-collateralized lending (3-7% APY)","Stablecoin minting with BTC (0-4% fees)","Liquidity provisioning on Sushi, LayerBank, and others","Institutions can now deploy BTC into DeFi without wrapping, without bridges, and without compromise.","The End of the Bridge Era","Bitcoin doesn’t need to be wrapped. It doesn’t need to be bridged. It needs to be unlocked.","Hemi shows that the future of BTCFi lies in convergence, not compromise. By merging Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum’s programmability through PoP and hVM, Hemi enables a new era of capital efficiency for institutions ready to turn their Bitcoin into more than just a store of value.","Make your BTC earn.","HEMI","hemi.xyz","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/why-the-future-of-btcfi-requires-hemi-tunnels"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-advancing-minerfi-and-protocol-reinforcement":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Advancing MinerFi and Protocol Reinforcement - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Advancing MinerFi and Protocol Reinforcement"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 21, 2026","AMA","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Video","This week’s call covered an overview of recent work on zero-knowledge (ZK) provability across the stack, resolving upstream inconsistencies, and building a more resilient protocol foundation.","Among headline developments, continued progress on MinerFi, for which backend components are now taking shape.  A smart contract layer that will support early prototypes is now under development, and first public-facing testnet iteration is currently targeted for February. This should offer developers and early users an opportunity to explore how MinerFi integrates with the broader Hemi ecosystem.","The team is also building new tooling to improve protocol reliability, which Max highlighted includes an experimental fuzzing framework designed to stress test EVM behavior across rebases, forks, and upstream changes. The system is intended to surface edge cases before they reach production and may eventually be open sourced once it stabilizes.","Several infrastructure updates were also discussed. Preparations are underway for upcoming network upgrades, including parameter tuning and upstream rebases that will be deployed first on testnet before reaching mainnet. While no final builds have been published yet it was emphasized that these changes are incremental by design and focused on long-term performance and maintainability rather than user-facing features.","On the mining side, the updated PoP payouts system is nearing deployment. Contract changes designed to improve data accessibility and analytics support have been sent for audit, with testnet activation expected shortly and mainnet deployment targeted for later this month, pending audit results and testnet stability.","Looking ahead, the team is working towards producing more digestible content explaining BitVM and related ZK systems, alongside a planned engineering AMA in early February that will revisit architecture and protocol design. A deeper architectural walkthrough is also scheduled for a future episode, where the team will map how Hemi’s growing set of components fit together.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Midweek With Max","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-advancing-minerfi-and-protocol-reinforcement"},"/blog/superfinality-hemi’s-new-gold-standard-for-institutional-capital":{"version":1,"title":"Superfinality: Hemi’s New Gold Standard for Institutional Capital - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Superfinality: Hemi’s New Gold Standard for Institutional Capital"],"h2":["Legacy Finality Limitations","Finality, Rebuilt from First Principles","Superfinality in Practice","Security That Powers Productivity","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 22, 2026","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Features","Superfinality enables institutional BTC to move faster and safer for yields that were previously inaccessible without compromise.","Institutions are deploying billions into BTC. However, deploying securely into blockchain markets is no longer just about cold storage, but about capital finality.","The deep store of value in BTC can be attributed to its ironclad security. As traditional custody models hit scalability and profitability ceilings, institutional allocators are asking a new question: How do we make BTC productive without compromising its security model?","Enter Superfinality: Hemi’s next-generation finality model that is reinforced by and surpasses Bitcoin’s own security guarantees.","Whether executing lending, issuing stablecoins, or moving collateral at scale, institutions need verifiable certainty that doesn’t introduce unacceptable risk factors to leverage DeFi strategies with BTC.","What about wrapped BTC? Not an option for institutions. Wrapping introduces custodial dependencies, redemption delays, and off-chain failure points. Wrapping offers no enforcement of Bitcoin consensus, no assurance of neutrality, and no direct access to Bitcoin’s state.","Bridges? Perhaps worse. In a world where frail bridging architectures have already accounted for billions in losses, these solutions multiply trust assumptions and thus amplify risk. For institutions, this materially undermines the viability of capital deployment.","Hemi’s Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus introduces a breakthrough: Superfinality. It’s a two-stage finality model that unifies Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hemi into one security framework:","PoP miners anchor Hemi state to Bitcoin’s blockchain via cryptographic proofs","Dual-chain verification confirms finality only after both Bitcoin and Ethereum validate the state","To reverse a superfinal transaction, an attacker would need to:","Execute a 51% attack on Bitcoin to reorganize the PoP anchor","Compromise Hemi’s internal consensus","Overcome Ethereum’s data availability guarantees","With this stacked consensus model, the cost to attack Hemi exceeds that of Bitcoin itself.","For institutions, Superfinality means moving from theoretical immutability to verifiable, measurable finality. Within 90 minutes, capital is anchored across three layers:","Bitcoin: Immutable anchoring of state","Ethereum: Composability and data availability","Hemi: Execution environment with native Bitcoin awareness","This makes it so institutions can readily:","Deploy BTC into lending markets with real-time security verification","Mint stablecoins with onchain, finality-confirmed collateral","Move BTC into DeFi without wrapper risk or exit friction","Since its mainnet launch, Hemi has demonstrated what Superfinality unlocks in practice. Within just three weeks, over $800 million in value flowed into the ecosystem as active capital, deployed across lending markets, liquidity protocols, and staking strategies. Institutions and builders alike are engaging with over 120 integrated protocols, drawn by the promise of Bitcoin-native yield without compromise.","Hemi’s momentum is made possible by deep integrations with 100+ partners, protocols, and integrations, ensuring that capital enters the system with the same safeguards it would have in traditional finance. Combined with Hemi’s audit-friendly design and GAAP/IFRS-aligned accounting frameworks, the infrastructure is at last in place to let institutional BTC move and earn at scale.","Make your BTC earn.","HEMI","hemi.xyz","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/superfinality-hemi’s-new-gold-standard-for-institutional-capital"},"/blog/hemi-integrates-dia-oracles-for-hemibtc-price-feeds":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Integrates DIA Oracles for hemiBTC Price Feeds - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Integrates DIA Oracles for hemiBTC Price Feeds"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 26, 2026","Partnership","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Cryptocurrency","DIA Oracles will power hemiBTC price feeds, enabling BTC-backed DeFi applications on Hemi.","Hemi has partnered with DIA, a leading provider of transparent, verifiable price oracles, to power initial price feeds for hemiBTC, with broader oracle coverage planned across the Hemi ecosystem.","The partnership establishes a foundation for BTCFi on Hemi, with accurate, decentralized price data acting as an essential component for lending markets, stablecoin issuance, derivatives, and capital-efficient strategies. By integrating DIA, hemiBTC-integrated applications and protocols can rely on tamper-resistant, independently verifiable market data.","DIA provides fully transparent price feeds by sourcing data directly from 100+ exchanges and publishing computation logic onchain. It enables developers and users to verify the derivation of pricing independently. In the realm of BTCFi, where security assumptions must remain minimal and auditable, such transparency remains critical infrastructure.","As a primary deployment, DIA Oracles will offer hemiBTC pricing, enabling core BTCFi use cases including collateralized lending, stablecoin minting, and onchain yield strategies. Over time, DIA will expand coverage to additional assets and markets on Hemi, supporting a growing range of decentralized financial applications.","Oracles form a silent but foundational layer of DeFi infrastructure. Integrating DIA ensures that as capital flows into BTC-backed markets on Hemi, pricing integrity scales alongside usage.","For developers, this integration provides reliable, composable price feeds aligned with Hemi’s modular architecture. For users, it delivers confidence that BTC-denominated positions are governed by robust, transparent data.","Learn more about DIA at diadata.org and explore BTCFi on Hemi at hemi.xyz.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-integrates-dia-oracles-for-hemibtc-price-feeds"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-minerfi-progress-zk-momentum-vehemi-rewards-ahead":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: MinerFi Progress, ZK Momentum, veHEMI Rewards Ahead - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: MinerFi Progress, ZK Momentum, veHEMI Rewards Ahead"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 28, 2026","Midweek With Max","Zk Proofs","Minerfi","Bitcoin","Ethereum","This week’s Midweek with Max honed in on protocol engineering, developer tooling, and near-term ecosystem updates. As usual, Max Sanchez shared progress across MinerFi, Zero Knowledge (ZK) research, and reliability initiatives, while Rick and the team highlighted community-facing developments and upcoming releases.","On the engineering side, work continues on MinerFi, with smart contracts now being integrated into the backend daemon and further progress made on threshold signature systems and key resharing. ZK development remains a major area of momentum, and the team has achieved full end-to-end ZK proofs of Hemi’s Bitcoin indexing and state transitions.On the ZK front, Hemi is pursuing a multi-prover strategy rather than relying on a single ZK virtual machine. So, while initial deployments will focus on a primary production-ready prover, parallel work is underway to port core proving logic across additional systems. This approach reduces dependency on any one proving stack and reflects lessons learned across the broader ZK ecosystem regarding defense and system integrity.","Beyond core protocol work, the team is also building new tooling to improve reliability and long-term maintainability. This includes an experimental fuzzing framework designed to stress test EVM behavior across rebases, forks, and upstream changes. The goal is to proactively surface edge cases before they reach production environments, strengthening guarantees for developers building on Hemi.","On the community side, a vulnerability disclosure program and bug bounty structure were discussed, with clarity provided on how reports are handled. The Hemi Ambassador Program is nearing debut, as backend Guild integrations are finalized. Meanwhile, as ecosystem activity continues to expand, with new games and experiments launching on Hemi, the community is encouraged to actively test and provide their feedback.","Capping things off, the team flagged several upcoming milestones, including a dedicated ZK-focused breakout session and the forthcoming veHEMI rewards distribution.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-minerfi-progress-zk-momentum-vehemi-rewards-ahead"},"/blog/the-260-billion-opportunity-taking-btc-beyond-digital-gold":{"version":1,"title":"The $260 Billion Opportunity: Taking BTC Beyond Digital Gold - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["The $260 Billion Opportunity: Taking BTC Beyond Digital Gold"],"h2":["A Dam Waiting To Burst","The Difference With Hemi","An Institutional Thesis For BTC Yield","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 29, 2026","Blockchain","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Bitcoin L2","While the idea of digital gold may have helped institutional adoption, BTC’s potential within DeFi is more dynamic than that of legacy commodities.","As DeFi evolves into a yield-generating financial layer, Bitcoin’s role as purely ‘digital gold’ is no longer a sufficient description. Still, for the more than $260 billion in institutional exposure now parked in BTC, the metaphor remains apt. Like gold, most of that capital is inert, non-yielding, and mediated through ETFs and derivative structures rather than directly deployed into productive financial activity.","In 2025, institutions collectively held 2.6 million BTC in ETFs, corporate treasuries, and mining reserves. But here’s the paradox: despite Bitcoin’s reputation as a revolutionary asset, less than 1% of this capital is actually generating yield.","That means hundreds of billions of dollars are sitting idle. Worse, custody fees, ranging from 10 to 50 basis points, turn BTC from a neutral reserve to a financial drain unless price appreciation offsets those costs.","The rise of BTC ETFs and favorable accounting updates (ASU 2023-08) signaled institutional readiness. But the infrastructure to make institutional BTC productive, without compromising security or compliance, was missing.","Hemi changes that by unlocking yield without compromising the fundamental security principles that make Bitcoin a historic store of value.","Hemi introduces a fundamentally unique architecture that unifies Bitcoin’s unmatched security with Ethereum’s programmability.","Through innovations like:","Proof-of-Proof (PoP): Hemi anchors its network state to Bitcoin without requiring custodial bridges.","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM): Hemi smart contract can read Bitcoin’s state directly without needing wrappers or oracles.","Trust-Minimized Tunnels: The network facilitates the free movement of assets across BTC, Hemi, and ETH without giving up custody or settlement guarantees.","Even conservative BTCFi strategies like BTC-collateralized lending or overcollateralized stablecoin minting can return 3–7% APY on Hemi. On a $260B base, that’s a $13B annual yield opportunity that remains up for grabs.","Hemi’s growing BTCFi ecosystem offers both native and partner-integrated ways to put BTC to work, earning yield in ways it has never been able to before across a wide range of strategies with varying risk profiles. Beyond a native economic model built around actual network activity, Hemi’s ongoing incentive campaigns provide users participating in the pioneering phase of BTCFi an extra rewards layer. Institutions no longer need to choose between yield and security.","With Hemi, they get both.","Make your BTC earn.","HEMI","hemi.xyz","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-260-billion-opportunity-taking-btc-beyond-digital-gold"},"/blog/the-convergence-thesis-institutional-bitcoin-without-compromise":{"version":1,"title":"The Convergence Thesis: Institutional Bitcoin Without Compromise - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["The Convergence Thesis: Institutional Bitcoin Without Compromise"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jan 30, 2026","An economic framework for deploying institutional BTC productively while preserving Bitcoin-level security.","This report introduces Hemi's convergence-layer model that unifies Bitcoin’s settlement security with Ethereum-grade programmability, without wrapped assets, custodial bridges, or weakened trust assumptions. Through Proof-of-Proof consensus and a Bitcoin-aware execution environment, it outlines how native BTC on Hemi can become productive capital while preserving the properties that made Bitcoin institutionally viable in the first place.","Designed for allocators, infrastructure teams, and risk committees, it provides a technical and economic framework for activating institutional BTC in a compliant, scalable manner, marking a shift from BTC as a passive store of value to that of programmable capital.","Click here to read The Convergence Thesis report.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-convergence-thesis-institutional-bitcoin-without-compromise"},"/blog/maia-dao-and-hemi-team-up-to-strengthen-omnichain-oft-bridging-with-hermes-protocol":{"version":1,"title":"Maia DAO And Hemi Team Up to Strengthen Omnichain OFT Bridging with Hermes Protocol - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Maia DAO And Hemi Team Up to Strengthen Omnichain OFT Bridging with Hermes Protocol"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 3, 2026","Partnerships","Cryptocurrency","Hemi","With Hermes Protocol, swap an array of supported assets to Hemi, including HEMI, hemiBTC, ETH, and more.","Maia DOA has integrated support for Hemi on Hermes Protocol, enabling users to seamlessly swap and bridge assets to and from the network using its Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) swap flow. The OFT standard simplifies crosschain capital moves, reducing complexity and fragmentation.","The protocol facilitates a crosschain architecture to bridge and swap supported assets, including ETH, HEMI, and hemiBTC, directly into the Hemi ecosystem. By leveraging LayerZero’s OFT standard, Hermes enables the seamless transfer of assets across chains, eliminating the need for wrapped representations or liquidity silos.","The integration lowers the barrier to entry for participants in Hemi’s growing BTC-enabled DeFi ecosystem. Hemi users can leverage Hermes to more efficiently deploy BTC as a productive asset into numerous integrated protocols that facilitate lending, staking, liquidity provision, trading, perpetuals markets, and more.","For developers and protocols building on Hemi, Hermes provides an additional path for onboarding liquidity and users from across the broader omnichain landscape. By supporting OFT-based assets, Hermes aligns with Hemi’s approach to crosschain connectivity.","The protocol is live; swap assets to Hemi with Hermes today.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/maia-dao-and-hemi-team-up-to-strengthen-omnichain-oft-bridging-with-hermes-protocol"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-zk-systems-incentive-design-and-upcoming-releases":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: ZK Systems, Incentive Design, and Upcoming Releases - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: ZK Systems, Incentive Design, and Upcoming Releases"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 5, 2026","AMA","Ethereum","Bitcoin","Hemi","Zk Proofs","On the technical front, for this week’s Midweek with Max, the team divulged that recent work has focused heavily on Zero-Knowledge (ZK) provability. Refinements have been made to the ZK tree structure, and small but practical extensions are designed to support future precompiles. In parallel, the team is preparing the Jovian hard fork, bundling it with a targeted set of feature upgrades and fixes, effectively positioning this release as an incremental HVM 1.1 rather than a sweeping overhaul.","Progress on MinerFi was another major theme of discussion, with backend development and smart contract work advancing in tandem. Internal testing is expected soon, and a potential public Testnet beta may be released early next month..","Several incentive-related updates followed; veHEMI staking rewards have been finalized and are expected to be distributed imminently, with a breakdown that includes token buybacks, distributions, and a burn component.","AMA questions touched on grants and ecosystem expansion. A structured grants program is in development, with two tracks planned: predefined initiatives the team wants to see built, and open proposals from builders with new ideas. Although NFT marketplaces were discussed, eligibility will depend on demand and scope, and more formal details are expected in the coming weeks.","The session closed with updates on PoP Payouts V2, which has now completed auditing and is nearing mainnet deployment, and reminders about upcoming ZK-focused engineering AMAs and future community sessions.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-zk-systems-incentive-design-and-upcoming-releases"},"/blog/vehemi-staking-rewards-distribution":{"version":1,"title":"veHEMI Staking Rewards Distribution - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["veHEMI Staking Rewards Distribution"],"h2":["Upcoming veHEMI Rewards","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 9, 2026","Staking","Rewards","Hemi","Long-term stakers receive protocol-fee-backed rewards.","Turn long-term commitment into powerful, protocol-fee-backed rewards with veHEMI staking. Protocol activity on Hemi transforms real network usage into onchain value, delivering sustainable yield for stakers who lock and align with the network’s growth.","As a core component of Hemi’s Economic Model, ​veHEMI plays a vital role in the network’s validation and participant-incentive layer. Participants who stake HEMI tokens receive veHEMI in return. Meanwhile, the veHEMI staking protocol continues to evolve, with planned rewards campaigns aligned with numerous onchain activities such as:","Governance Activities","Decentralized Operations:","Block Sequencing","Data Publication to Ethereum","hBitVM Covenant Emulation and Vault Operation","Providing Shared Sequencing and DA Services","Providing Crosschain Liquidity","Vote Market Incentives","For the latest reward period (Oct 31 - Feb 5), veHEMI stakers captured strong annualized APYs across all lockup tiers, showcasing how deeper commitment unlocks outsized upside:","Annualized APY by Lockup Duration","6-month lockup: ~3.93%","12-month lockup: ~9.41%","24-month lockup: ~20.34%","48-month lockup: ~42.22%","This session’s rewards are fueled directly by protocol fees and distributed through veHEMI’s lockup-weighted design, ensuring that the most committed participants share most in the network’s long-term success. As the protocol matures, additional incentive infrastructure aligned with the above-described ecosystem elements will be distributed.","Stake and start earning rewards now at the Hemi Portal.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/vehemi-staking-rewards-distribution"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-proving-the-stack-and-expanding-bitcoins-design-space":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Proving the Stack and Expanding Bitcoin’s Design Space - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Proving the Stack and Expanding Bitcoin’s Design Space"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 11, 2026","AMA","Bitcoin","Ethereum","This week’s episode focused heavily on core protocol progress, with major advances across MinerFi, zero-knowledge (ZK) systems, and hBitVM infrastructure.","On the MinerFi side, the team is moving forward with ZK-verifiable threshold signature ceremonies, enabling participants to prove correct key generation and resharing directly onchain cryptographically. Meanwhile, ongoing work continues for peer-to-peer improvements and smart contract development, upgrades that collectively strengthen protocol decentralization and reliability.","In another example of significant progress on ZK provability for Bitcoin and the hBitVM state, the system now supports full end-to-end ZK proofs of hBitVM state transitions. New data structures enable richer Bitcoin analytics, including fee-rate trends and coin-days spent. These capabilities open the door for more advanced Bitcoin-native DeFi applications.","On the protocol upgrade front, planning is still underway for the upcoming Jovian hard fork. This release will introduce housekeeping improvements and additional hBitVM precompiles, including migrating certain precompile addresses higher to avoid future collisions with upstream EVM changes. Support will persist for existing addresses, but development using the updated address range is encouraged for the sake of future-proofing alongside Ethereum’s ongoing evolution.","Max also spoke on a skunkworks initiative that will become Hemi’s first L3. Much of the foundational work is already complete, including the derivation pipeline, a dedicated execution environment tailored to the L3’s purpose, and an end-to-end Rust implementation designed for straightforward ZK provability. More details are expected in the coming weeks as the project matures.","In parallel, final testing is ongoing for the updated PoP payout algorithm, which dynamically targets optimal publication behavior. With audits complete and results positive, deployment to mainnet is expected shortly, pending final validation.","Wrapping the show, several ecosystem and token updates were covered. A new veHEMI rewards distribution has gone live, spanning from October 31, 2025, to February 5, 2026. Eligible users can now claim rewards via the portal.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-proving-the-stack-and-expanding-bitcoins-design-space"},"/blog/routescan-expands-to-hemi-with-core-network-infrastructure-support":{"version":1,"title":"Routescan Expands to Hemi with Core Network Infrastructure Support - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Routescan Expands to Hemi with Core Network Infrastructure Support"],"h2":["Routescan Makes Hemi Resilient","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 17, 2026","Partnership","Infrastructure","Blockchain","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Routescan’s Hemi deployment delivers a complementary block explorer experience for ecosystem partners, developers, and users.","Hemi is expanding its explorer stack with the deployment of Routescan, a multichain block explorer platform now integrating support for Hemi.","This deployment introduces a complementary explorer option for ecosystem partners and builders, strengthening transparency, redundancy, and developer tooling across the network.","By offering granular auditability into every transaction, contract deployment, event log, and state transition, block explorers serve a vital function in how users interface with a transparent network. As Hemi continues bringing Bitcoin security together with EVM programmability, robust explorer coverage ensures that Hemi applications can leverage performant data access.","Routescan’s mature explorer architecture supports advanced transaction search, address and token analytics, contract verification workflows, and API endpoints designed for integration into external applications and dashboards.","The integration delivers several practical benefits to the ecosystem:","A complementary explorer interface alongside existing tools","Enhanced analytics capabilities for onchain activity","API access for wallets, dashboards, and application integrations","Additional reliability for production-grade deployments","Multiple explorer providers improve operational redundancy. They ensure that ecosystem partners are not dependent on a single data source and that developers have choice in how they access and present network data.","As Hemi grows its role in unlocking productive BTC capital and supporting crosschain applications, the Routescan deployment represents another step toward a fully fledged, builder-equipped ecosystem.","Learn more at https://routescan.io.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/routescan-expands-to-hemi-with-core-network-infrastructure-support"},"/blog/the-99-percent-productivity-gap-in-institutional-bitcoin":{"version":1,"title":"The 99% Productivity Gap In Institutional Bitcoin - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["The 99% Productivity Gap In Institutional Bitcoin"],"h2":["The Custody Cost Dilemma","Enter Hemi","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 12, 2026","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Most institutional BTC is walled off from DeFi in cold storage, exchanges, or vaults, not used, not earning, and not productive.","Institutions have sunk their teeth into BTC, but most of that capital is still undigested. As of Q4 2025, less than 0.8% of the BTC supply is engaged in any form of DeFi. In contrast, Ethereum has 48% of its supply circulating through lending markets, liquidity pools, and staking mechanisms.","The reason? Trust, or more critically, not having to rely on trust. For Ethereum users, a trust-minimized decentralized DeFi ecosystem makes it easier for almost half of the chain’s supply to become active, productive capital.","On the other hand, wrapped BTC solutions and bridges force users to rely on trust. They introduce custodial risk, redemption friction, and regulatory headaches. Institutions holding BTC won’t deploy capital unless the infrastructure matches the security profile that got them into BTC in the first place.","Institutions pay $260M–$1.3B per year in custody fees, and accounting for opportunity cost, the drag is even greater:","Hemi’s design avoids the usual traps:","No synthetic BTC","No federated bridges","No new consensus assumptions","Instead, Hemi combines Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work with Ethereum’s programmability in a single supernetwork. The result is a secure, programmable capital layer where BTC can actually participate in DeFi.","Applications built on Hemi can:","Verify BTC collateral onchain (via hVM)","Launch BTC-native lending markets","Mint stablecoins backed by actual BTC","Institutions Need a New Standard","A central security model isn’t enough. Institutions need:","Yield strategies with measurable risk-return profiles","Custody models compatible with internal controls","Audit-friendly transparency across GAAP and IFRS","Hemi delivers all three, along with over 100 protocol partnerships and integrations across DeFi platforms, including lending, trading, liquidity provision, perpetuals, and more, to bridge the operational gap.","Visit the Hemi Portal now and participate in Bitcoin's productive layer.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/the-99-percent-productivity-gap-in-institutional-bitcoin"},"/blog/addressing-the-ploutos-protocol-exploit":{"version":1,"title":"Addressing the Ploutos Protocol Exploit - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Addressing the Ploutos Protocol Exploit"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 26, 2026","Security","Announcements","On February 26, 2026, at approximately 05:00 UTC, a security incident occurred on the DeFi protocol Ploutos Money affecting all major deployments of the Ploutos protocol on Hemi, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Hyperliquid, and Avalanche.","As a result of the exploit, all funds on Ploutos were drained. Assets were quickly exfiltrated to the Ethereum mainnet through crosschain bridges Stargate (Hemi) and Li.Fi (Arbitrum, Hyperliquid, and Avalanche).","The attack took various forms across the affected chains, including updating oracles to malicious contracts, as reported by onchain security monitors such as @Certik and @BlockSecTeam, and minting unbacked collateral tokens used to take out invalid loans.","Following the exploit, Ploutos Money’s website, Github, and social feeds were taken offline without an announcement or explanation from the team. A subsequently shared message in the official Ploutos Telegram channel has not yet been confirmed as verified team communication, and users should exercise caution before following any recovery steps until the validity of these communications can be confirmed by independent security firms and blockchain project teams.","Ploutos Money is one of many protocols integrated on the Hemi chain that provide lending and were previously incentivized through Merkl campaigns.The exploited vulnerability was confined solely to the Ploutos deployments and does not affect the Hemi core protocol or other connected protocols. An internal investigation is ongoing to understand the scope and full impact of this exploit and advise affected users on next steps.","For now, all users should take extra precautions when interacting with Ploutos and related contracts. Users who interacted with Ploutos across Hemi, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Hyperliquid, Avalanche, or any chain should revoke permissions for the relevant contracts. To revoke any token approvals to Ploutos contracts, use wallets such as Rabby or web-based tools, including https://pure.finance/token-revokes/ (Hemi-only) or other third-party revoke tools.","On Hemi, permissions should be revoked for all of the following addresses:","0xDdc98fF53945e334Ecca339b4DD8847b3769e8f0","0x5E660Deb9F5122bc185681b194a442590BcFcb640x87c6f09FA2DFd99717bDEeDf19496970Ca84264d","0x3FaA464dE86ca69863FF0ae029A7A0F0466B8fD9","0xB75a86dEedb9b4c95543D2dD0cc41CB641a28C24","0xA8F2DcaEE054809017FDF6EFbacdD5387a065Bc9","0x9DF7B63fD5295944038E061cb2e4637618227f85","0x682f12e6DD63495E31c24572F9997B3Bc7A99442","0x01d65Ded4C3c4F76Acd5EAE730320eBb4aF0E156","0xa9b9cCE44fe4150e87965bb31FB2b55D009812B1","0x9D7a3590cA6621893bC6B908B8Bce925d9407bB9","0xD6203b39b1e57301fd10CB946436Dda71D933F4D","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/addressing-the-ploutos-protocol-exploit"},"/blog/enso-and-hemi-enable-one-click-access-to-stakedao-vaults":{"version":1,"title":"Enso and Hemi Enable One-Click Access to StakeDAO Vaults - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Enso and Hemi Enable One-Click Access to StakeDAO Vaults"],"h2":["Eliminating Friction In DeFi","Building Capital Flow Infrastructures","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 20, 2026","Partnership","Hemi","Collaborations","The partnership offers users seamless zapping into Gami and StakeDAO vaults, accelerating capital flow into the Hemi ecosystem.","Hemi is reducing barriers to its BTC-aligned DeFi ecosystem through a new integration with Enso, a leading onchain execution and DEX aggregation network.","Through this collaboration, Enso allows users to move capital from any supported token and chain directly into Hemi’s key yield-generating vaults, including StakeDAO, in a single unified transaction.","Instead of manually navigating multiple interfaces and transactions, users can now “zap” directly into Hemi-based vaults, consolidating a formerly complex multistep process into a few frictionless clicks.","Enso aggregates crosschain liquidity and execution pathways on the user’s behalf, optimizing transaction routing and execution. It serves as an abstraction layer that removes the need for manual interactions with smart contracts, token swaps, or crosschain bridging.","In an ecosystem where timing determines the success of execution, Enso reduces latency and removes friction. It gives Hemi users faster access to vaults, lower operational complexity, and a significantly improved onboarding experience into Hemi’s DeFi ecosystem.","For builders and protocols on Hemi, Enso provides an execution environment that enables deeper capital accessibility and smoother integration pathways, allowing applications to focus on delivering yield opportunities rather than managing fragmented crosschain flows.","Efficient capital onboarding is a critical component of a resilient decentralized financial ecosystem. By integrating with Enso, Hemi enhances the accessibility of its BTC yield, allowing capital to enter from a broader range of chains and assets without unnecessary friction.","Learn more at: https://www.enso.build/.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/enso-and-hemi-enable-one-click-access-to-stakedao-vaults"},"/blog/vehemi-security-and-governance-for-hemi-btcfi":{"version":1,"title":"veHEMI: Security and Governance for Hemi BTCFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["veHEMI: Security and Governance for Hemi BTCFi"],"h2":["veHEMI for Economic Security","veHEMI for Governance","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 25, 2026","Security","Staking","veHEMI ensures that those who contribute to Hemi’s long-term success are directly aligned with its growth.","Hemi operates on a sustainable flywheel of economic activity. Rather than relying solely on abstract trust assumptions, the network is secured by real economic value.","Participants create that value in part by staking $HEMI to obtain vote-escrowed $HEMI (veHEMI). This staking system converts $HEMI tokens into economic weight that secures the network’s decentralized infrastructure, governs incentive allocation, and earns rewards sourced directly from protocol activity.","When a user stakes $HEMI, they select a lock duration ranging from 12 days to 4 years. In return, they receive a veHEMI position, represented via NFT. This NFT carries governance weight, determines incentive eligibility, and serves as enforceable economic security within the Hemi protocol. Naturally, it is also transferable, making it possible to leverage it across various integrated DeFi platforms.","A veHEMI position’s weight corresponds directly to its remaining lock duration within Hemi’s governance system. A four-year lock carries twice the weight of a two-year lock, reflecting the protocol’s alignment with participants who demonstrate long-term commitment.","As Hemi evolves, veHEMI positions will serve as economic collateral backing critical infrastructure and services.In addition to distributing protocol fees to veHEMI holders, new incentive structures are currently in the works for activities that contribute to upcoming decentralized protocol operations, including:","Block sequencing","Running the threshold-signature system to facilitate rapid BTC liquidity ramps","Publishing compressed Hemi chain data (for DA) and state roots to Ethereum","Participating in the hBitVM Tunnel as Covenant Emulators and Operators","Computing proof complexity for Hemi’s decentralized ZK Proving protocol","Providing shared sequencing and DA services to Chainbuilder networks","veHEMI can also be used to provide economic security to third-party protocols building in the Hemi ecosystem.","veHEMI restaked in network security roles is subject to slashing conditions in the event of misbehavior, which preserves protocol integrity. This ensures that economic incentives remain aligned with honest participation and correct operation. Depending on the specific context, slashed $HEMI may be burned, redirected into protocol liquidity reserves, or distributed to other participants.","veHEMI will also serve as the backbone for governance on Hemi. When voting is live, veHEMI holders participate directly in protocol governance, voting on:","Protocol-owned-liquidity (POL) and liquidity incentive allocations","Economic parameter changes","Grants and ecosystem funding","Protocol upgrades","This includes directing liquidity incentives and POL treasury allocations across approved vaults, trading pairs, and infrastructure that support Hemi’s BTC-denominated DeFi economy. As such, veHEMI holders determine how pooled protocol assets are distributed, aligning capital deployment with sustainable liquidity formation.","In time, this governance function is built to expand further through the introduction of vote markets. These would allow external protocols to offer additional rewards to veHEMI holders in exchange for directing incentives toward their integrations, creating an open, competitive marketplace for liquidity and economic alignment.","Voting on economic parameter changes allows the protocol’s economic system to evolve, responding to changes in overall market conditions, such as the cost of data publications to Ethereum, PoP publications to Bitcoin, veHEMI economic security backing decentralized protocol components, etc. Thus, voters can allocate incentives to new protocol features that require economic security.","Community-driven grants and ecosystem funding empower the community to direct emissions and protocol fees toward initiatives that add value back to the Hemi ecosystem, from funding dApp development/deployment and integration into 3rd-party interoperability frameworks to incentivizing educational content and community engagement initiatives that power adoption.","Finally, governance-controlled protocol upgrades ensure a robust system for making technical modifications to the Hemi protocol, including adding new protocol features and approving updates to the ZK proof system.","Stake $HEMI for veHEMI and help shape the governance, security, and fidelity of the Hemi network.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/vehemi-security-and-governance-for-hemi-btcfi"},"/blog/hemi-makes-btc-productive-amid-volatile-market-conditions":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Makes BTC Productive Amid Volatile Market Conditions - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Makes BTC Productive Amid Volatile Market Conditions"],"h2":["Traditional BTCFi Tradeoffs","Hemi Advances BTCFi","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Feb 27, 2026","Bitcoin","Hemi","Whether markets are bullish or bearish, Hemi makes BTCFi accessible without compromising on security, custody, or economics.","Bitcoin trades in cycles with volatility emerging as a defining characteristic, rather than an anomaly of the ecosystem.","Given that reality, how do holders of BTC hedge against bearish market conditions? On Hemi, BTC becomes a productive asset rather than a static store of value, earning yield across an integrated DeFi ecosystem. All without sacrificing security or the core traits that give BTC value in the first place.","Historically, moving BTC into DeFi required a blunt tradeoff, as Bitcoin’s base layer was not designed for the programmable logic that DeFi depends on. Bringing BTC to DeFi often meant introducing third-party custody, rehypothecation layers, or exposure to shallow yield built on short-term incentive curves rather than true economic activity.","With growing institutional interest in BTC, asset managers operate under mandates that demand transparency in custody chains, auditability of reserves, and clear delineation of control, which Hemi delivers. Opaque intermediary structures complicate reporting, elevate counterparty exposure, and in some cases conflict with internal compliance standards.","For retail market-goers, the same regulatory constraints may not exist, but the risks associated with third parties remain. Mismanagement, insolvency, malicious actors, or flawed contract design can impair withdrawals or permanently impair capital.","Beyond custody, rehypothecation represents another structural opacity risk. When deposited BTC is reused or pledged into layered leverage structures, it becomes part of a chain of obligations rather than a single, isolated reserve.","In calm markets, those dependencies remain invisible; however, under stress, they unwind quickly, as liquidity tightens and overlapping claims compete for the same collateral. The contagion cycle of 2022 demonstrated how interlinked balance sheets can amplify volatility when leverage sits beneath customer deposits.","Hemi is moving BTCFi beyond the primitive infrastructures that introduce custodial risk, rehypothecation, or insecure yield curves. It bridges the structural gaps between Bitcoin’s security model and the programmable logic on Ethereum that DeFi requires.","Hemi’s crosschain tunneling system brings BTC to DeFi without wrapping or turning over custody to any single entity. It leaves users in control. Meanwhile, the network’s finality and security protocols align directly with Bitcoin.","Rather than forcing BTC into opaque custodial wrappers or layered balance sheets, Hemi activates BTC within an EVM-compatible environment while remaining anchored to its base-layer assumptions.","That means that, on Hemi, BTC remains BTC. It isn’t abstracted through synthetic exposure or dependent on intermediary chains. Instead, it becomes programmable capital within transparent, onchain markets, where yield derives from true economic activity instead of incentive pools that dry out without any long-term horizon for growth.","On Hemi, BTC becomes a relevant participant, deriving value from identifiable onchain markets for lending, liquidity provision, and structured vault strategies.","Visit the Hemi Portal, and discover BTCFi on Hemi today.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-makes-btc-productive-amid-volatile-market-conditions"},"/blog/hemi-built-for-compliance-and-privacy":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi: Built For Compliance and Privacy - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi: Built For Compliance and Privacy"],"h2":["Hemi Is Compliant With  Neutrality at the Core","Hemi Stands for Open DeFi","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 3, 2026","Hemi","Zk Proofs","Hemi’s Zero-Knowledge-integrations will offer validation and coordination without collapsing privacy into surveillance.","Across the U.S. and Europe, regulators seek to apply identity obligations to the frameworks of everything they can, and crypto is no exception. Be it exchanges, wallet providers, or even front ends, privacy is under assault.","At home in the U.S., efforts to expand broker definitions into DeFi front-end services in the United States continue, alongside ongoing European enforcement of travel-rule style obligations for self-hosted address transfers. The subject of privacy is a recurring debate amid heightening global tensions.","On its face, a desire to integrate lawful, traceable, and enforceable standards to crypto shouldn’t be controversial. However, the implementation question matters deeply: where should identity live, and what happens if it migrates too far into the protocol core?","Hemi is built to offer both compliance and privacy thanks to a phased integration of a Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proof system. Platform innovations like zero-knowledge proofs will allow Hemi users to safely identify themselves when required, enshrining secret identifiers while proving the facts of identity. It allows parties to demonstrate compliance without exposing underlying personal data to the network at large; while the proof of identity travels, the private information does not.","There is a place for granular KYC on Hemi as well. Institutions, custodians, and regulated gateways will be able to operate within open, compliant regimes. After all, for systems that aim for broad participation must integrate with that world, designing for compliant endpoints is not optional.","Privacy and compliance with regulation have no one-size-fits-all solution. With ZK systems embedded into the protocol, Hemi makes it possible to satisfy regulatory requirements without turning identity into a permanent attribute of every transaction.","If DeFi ecosystems are designed as open, accessible frameworks for anyone, not just banks, to participate, deploy capital, and put it to work, Hemi brings BTC into that equation with the same openness and accessibility. At their core, DeFi and the blockchain networks that underpin its liquidity markets were built as open financial infrastructure, enabling any participant to deploy capital and participate, and that architecture represents the embodiment of a truly free marketplace.With a clear demand for this free marketplace, and with a renewed global interest in BTC as an asset class and settlement layer, the question becomes: how does BTC participate in programmable markets without forfeiting its ethos? Hemi’s answer is to continue advancing ZK-provability as a core level platform attribute of the hVM.","Explore what that architecture looks like in practice by making BTC productive in the Hemi Portal.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-built-for-compliance-and-privacy"},"/blog/hemi-and-feather-team-up-to-expand-native-btc-lending-infrastructure":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Feather Team Up to Expand Native BTC Lending Infrastructure - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Feather Team Up to Expand Native BTC Lending Infrastructure"],"h2":["Feather Vaults On Hemi Reduce Cascade Failures","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 4, 2026","Partnership","Defi","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Feather provides Hemi users a fast, transparent front end to Morpho’s onchain lending ecosystem.","Feather is now live on Hemi Mainnet, bringing BTC-powered lending and borrowing to Hemi as a new front end to Morpho’s isolated lending infrastructure.","Morpho is an underlying lending infrastructure securing over $7.5 billion in total value across permissionless isolated vaults. Feather offers Hemi users a clean, transparent way to earn yield on BTC or borrow against crypto assets, without the risk of shared pools or unclear protocol mechanics.","This integration combines three layers into a single user experience. Hemi provides a Bitcoin-aligned settlement layer that connects BTC liquidity to programmable smart contracts without fragile bridges. Morpho supplies battle-tested isolated lending markets that separate risk at the vault level. Feather translates this infrastructure into a product built for users who prioritize control, capital efficiency, and oversight of risk factors.","Each Feather vault on Hemi is an isolated lending market with defined collateral types, loan-to-value ratios, interest rate models, and liquidation thresholds. There are no shared pools and no hidden dependencies across markets. If a market fails, it fails alone. The rest of the system continues operating normally.","Instead of aggregating assets into shared pools, Morpho structures each market as its own risk container with independent parameters and liquidation mechanics, preventing contagion from unrelated assets elsewhere in the system.","For Hemi users, this means capital is only underwrites related assets, and isn’t deployed into experimental strategies, or against non-curated assets. Every position remains onchain, auditable, and allows users to opt in at the market level.","Feather markets on Hemi are curated and parameterized by third parties such as Clearstar, which manages over seventy five million dollars in assets. Curators define market-specific collateral types, risk parameters, and interest models, with incentives aligned toward durability rather than unsustainable yield.","Feather on Hemi currently supports hemiBTC, msETH, and USDC.e for lending. Borrowable assets and collateral options include hemiBTC, rsETH, rETH, USDC.e, wETH, wBTC, and vUSD.","Learn more about Feather at https://app.feather.zone/hemi/earn and explore BTCFi on Hemi at hemi.xyz.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-feather-team-up-to-expand-native-btc-lending-infrastructure"},"/blog/hemi-engineering-ama-recap-zk-provability":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Engineering AMA Recap: ZK Provability - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Engineering AMA Recap: ZK Provability"],"h2":["ZK Proofs Strengthen Verifiability on Hemi","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 6, 2026","Zk Proofs","AMA","Hemi","Team","This Hemi Engineering AMA gave the team a chance to answer community questions about how Zero-Knowledge (ZK) tech is being applied across the Hemi stack, including its role in crosschain provability, Bitcoin-secured infrastructure, and the future of decentralized compute systems.","ZK proofs are becoming a key component of modern blockchain infrastructure. They enable rapid, secure authentication of complex computations without revealing the underlying proof data. Once implemented, ZK proofs allow systems to prove correctness and enforce trust while coordinating across networks without relying on centralized intermediaries.Within Hemi, ZK systems are being integrated to better coordinate crosschain communication for Bitcoin and Ethereum. By generating proofs that reference multiple chain states, Hemi can securely coordinate activity across multiple ecosystems without risky trust assumptions. Instead, the proofs enable the security properties of both Bitcoin and Ethereum to verify complex interchain operations.","The possibilities of a ZK ecosystem on Hemi extend beyond internal use of the tool. A distributed proving marketplace would allow networks and applications to request ZK proofs from a decentralized compute layer, expanding access to proviability while enabling new applications that rely on verifiable, trust-minimized computation.","Listen to the entire discussion:","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-engineering-ama-recap-zk-provability"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-zk-infrastructure-progress-and-ecosystem-updates":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: ZK Infrastructure Progress and Ecosystem Updates - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: ZK Infrastructure Progress and Ecosystem Updates"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 5, 2026","AMA","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","This week on Midweek with Max, the episode focused on a series of engineering updates, Hemi’s expanding ZK infrastructure, and upcoming protocol releases. Development continues on the system internally known as MinerFi ecosystem, which is approaching the final stages of engineering and moving toward audit preparation. Hemi’s ZK proving incentive system is being expanded into a general-purpose marketplace for ZK proofs capable of handling systemic needs beyond Hemi. The ZK-proofs-as-a-service marketplace will serve external applications and chains.","A broader incentive infrastructure could eventually support wider ecosystem initiatives, giving life to new chains built within the Hemi environment, with access to a native ZK-proving layer without having to construct one independently. Development of the marketplace will also include tools like a GPU-based ZK miner application. Supporting interfaces will be released for testing once the remaining components are complete.","The team confirmed that the previously scheduled Zero Knowledge (ZK) AMA is pinned down to next week. The session will focus on Hemi’s expanding ZK architecture and provide the community with an opportunity to dive deeper into the technical design and roadmap behind the protocol’s proving systems. Community members are encouraged to stay tuned for an official announcement with the exact time and streaming details, which will be shared shortly ahead of the event.","Questions from the community touched on the broader future of Bitcoin-based DeFi and Hemi’s positioning for institutional participation. A substantial portion of current hemiBTC liquidity already originates from institutional sources. Features such as hBitVM-driven settlement, fully verifiable ZK proof systems, and the development of lower-risk yield opportunities are expected to make participation more attractive to conservative institutional participants over time.  ","On the topic of LLM-assisted coding tools, team members emphasized that these integrations are taking place cautiously, primarily as a productivity tool for limited tasks such as generating test coverage or reviewing code for edge cases. Critical protocol components remain subject to human review, extensive testing, and third-party audits.","The session concluded with several ecosystem updates and lighter discussion topics, including community roles, upcoming governance activity around veHEMI, and the evolving roadmap for token utility and economic security across the network.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-zk-infrastructure-progress-and-ecosystem-updates"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-daylight-savings-zk-beta-testing-and-minerfi-progress":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Daylight Savings, ZK Beta Testing, and MinerFi Progress - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Daylight Savings, ZK Beta Testing, and MinerFi Progress"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 10, 2026","AMA","Hemi","This week, amid any confusion over daylight savings, the team delivered a focused set of engineering updates across Hemi’s core infrastructure. Max covered progress on MinerFi, veHEMI, Zero-Knowledge (ZK) systems, and several protocol upgrades that are moving toward testing and audit phases.","The episode opened with MinerFi updates. The team is running full end-to-end tests tied to ZK-approved upgrades to the TSS library. Meanwhile, updates to veHEMI are currently undergoing additional testing. They are expected to be sent to auditors soon, including changing smart contracts to introduce restaking functionality, which allows veHEMI positions to act as economic security for protocols building on Hemi.","Work also continues across Hemi’s ZK infrastructure. The team has been improving the Bitcoin indexer to support faster performance. Alongside this effort, Hemi is preparing a limited beta test of its ZK proof marketplace, where early participants will be able to provide feedback and submit proofs while earning minor HEMI incentives.","Several protocol-level updates are also approaching release, including the POP Payouts V2 algorithm, a simplified HIPPO explainer, and updated site documentation. To be implemented, HVM precompile upgrades will fix serialization issues and expand available Bitcoin data, including metrics related to fees, coin flow, and coin days destroyed. These improvements are expected to be included in the upcoming Jovian and HVM Phase 1 update, tentatively targeted for April.","The session closed with a look at upcoming ecosystem initiatives and timelines. Additional veHEMI educational content and infographics are on the way, along with expanded live broadcasts featuring Hemi founders. Community members were also encouraged to watch for the upcoming AI Happy Hour announcement and to join the beta testers channel ahead of the ZK marketplace testing, as several new features move closer to public release.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-daylight-savings-zk-beta-testing-and-minerfi-progress"},"/blog/vehemi-a-phased-approach-to-decentralized-economic-security":{"version":1,"title":"veHEMI: A Phased Approach to Decentralized Economic Security - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["veHEMI: A Phased Approach to Decentralized Economic Security"],"h2":["veHEMI’s Phased Deployment","Hemi's Expanding Economic Security Ecosystem","Latest articles"],"h3":["Current Phase: Fee Participation","Phase 1: Community Governance","Phase 2: Vote Markets","Phase 3: Decentralized Infrastructure","Phase 4: Chainbuilder Infrastructure","Phase 5: Third-Party Economic Security","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 12, 2026","Security","Hemi","veHEMI will support decentralized economic infrastructure for Hemi and external protocols through its phased deployment.","A recent review of veHEMI examined its security and governance attributes. What follows examines veHEMI’s phased approach to a mature, decentralized, and economically aligned participation layer for the Hemi ecosystem.","This phase is active now. veHEMI holders currently receive a portion of protocol transaction fees generated by network activity. These rewards are distributed as a mix of $HEMI and $hemiBTC.","Each veHEMI position is represented by an NFT, enabling flexible management of positions while maintaining the lock-based reward weighting that aligns incentives with long-term network growth.","This phase introduces decentralized governance, where veHEMI holders will be able to vote on protocol proposals either directly or via delegation. Governance decisions shape the future of the network.Governance issues may include:","Allocation of protocol-owned liquidity and liquidity incentives","Adjustments to emission schedules","Ecosystem grants and funding initiatives","Protocol upgrades","Participants who actively vote or delegate to governance representatives will earn additional incentives, encouraging meaningful participation in network decision-making.","Ecosystem proposals may also introduce new value streams. Should a project receiving funding choose to distribute portions of its native tokens to veHEMI participants, a mechanism emerges where successful ecosystem growth directly benefits governance stakeholders.","In systems where liquidity incentives or treasury allocations are governed by token holders, markets often develop that allow protocols to compete for governance support. A voting market on Hemi will allow efficient allocation of incentives while enabling veHEMI holders to capture part of the value generated by governance decisions.Hemi will support a voting market deployment that enables efficient incentive allocation while allowing veHEMI holders to capture part of the value generated by governance decisions, whether developed by the community or implemented and released by the protocol over time.","veHEMI will also function as an economic security layer for decentralized infrastructure via a restaking system. veHEMI holders can restake veHEMI positions to fulfill various ecosystem roles, securing different components of the network.","Such roles will include:","TSS operators that secure Hemi’s Bitcoin fast-bridge crosschain routing infrastructure","hBitVM Bitcoin tunnel covenant emulators and vault operators","decentralized block sequencing","Ethereum state root and DA publication","ZK proving marketplace sentinels and provers","Every network role introduces new revenue sources from various onchain activities, including Bitcoin deposit and withdrawal fees, transaction fees, MEV, and proof generation fees. Enforced slashing for misbehavior, or liveness failure, incentivises infrastructure operators to remain aligned with network performance, reliability, and security.","veHEMI will also support Chainbuilder infrastructure for L3 and application-specific blockchains.","Restaking allows participants to provide shared sequencing and data availability services to Chainbuilder, Hemi's solution for deploying and maintaining customizable and scalable blockchains. These blockchains, which are interoperable with one another and Hemi, benefit from Hemi's secure access to Bitcoin and Ethereum assets and data.On these integrated chains, additional revenue sources are generated from fees, token emissions, and other network activity. These all further expand the reward sources available to veHEMI participants.","This final stage opens veHEMI as a security layer for external protocols. Third-party applications will be able to integrate veHEMI staking as collateral for decentralized services such as oracle networks, automation infrastructure, or crosschain bridges. The economic security of Hemi will become a shared resource supporting multiple decentralized services.","As new projects launch across the Hemi ecosystem, veHEMI participants will benefit directly from ecosystem expansion.","Over time, veHEMI evolves into a coordination layer where staking, governance, infrastructure security, and ecosystem growth align around the long term success of the Hemi network.","Stake HEMI for veHEMI today on the Hemi Portal.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/vehemi-a-phased-approach-to-decentralized-economic-security"},"/blog/hemi-happy-hour-ama-recap-ai":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Happy Hour AMA Recap: AI  - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Happy Hour AMA Recap: AI"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 13, 2026","AI","AMA","Hemi","The special AI Happy Hour discussion on autonomous agents and how advances in LLMs are changing our lives. The crew discussed this ever evolving topic and tackled community questions.","Listen to the entire discussion:","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-happy-hour-ama-recap-ai"},"/blog/hemi-and-btcs-s.a-team-up-to-expand-institutional-btc-yield":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and BTCS S.A. Team Up to Expand Institutional BTC Yield  - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and BTCS S.A. Team Up to Expand Institutional BTC Yield"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 16, 2026","Partnership","Bitcoin","The partnership provides institutional access to native BTC yield, with strategies operating on Hemi.","Hemi is working with BTCS S.A., a digital asset company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, to deploy bitcoin liquidity into strategies operating on Hemi’s network.","Over six months, BTCS S.A. will allocate between 50 and 100 BTC to curated liquidity strategies within the Hemi ecosystem. The program includes a backstopped annualized yield structure of 10 percent for the first two months and 6 percent for the following four months. Rewards will be distributed in BTC and USDC.","As part of BTCS S.A.’s plan to achieve a long-term operational bitcoin reserve, the agreement was disclosed by BTCS S.A. in official regulatory filings, placing the program within the reporting framework required for publicly traded companies in the European Union.","The BTCS S.A. deployment leverages Hemi to access DeFi strategies, including liquidity provision and Bitcoin-native yield programs, with strategies tailored to the company’s requirements. All performance and reward distributions remain transparently verifiable onchain.","Partnerships like this expand the set of institutional participants interacting with Bitcoin-native financial infrastructure. As more companies evaluate active treasury management for BTC reserves, deployments on networks like Hemi offer an early framework for how that capital can begin to move.","Learn more about deploying BTC in the Hemi ecosystem in the Hemi Portal.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-btcs-s.a-team-up-to-expand-institutional-btc-yield"},"/blog/testing-hemi-part-1-localnet":{"version":1,"title":"Testing Hemi Part 1: Localnet - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Testing Hemi Part 1: Localnet"],"h2":["Introducing Localnet: Network-Wide Automated Tests in Isolation","How Is Testing Automated?","How Is Testing Reproducible And Deterministic?","Writing Effective Tests","Automated Tests Within A Repository","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 18, 2026","Security","Hemi","Infrastructure","Bitcoin","This primary installment in the Testing Hemi series examines the use of a Localnet to run automated, isolated, effective tests to surface known bugs.","Network stability and security remain a core facet of Hemi’s architecture. To achieve these, Hemi engineers uphold rigorous standards and practices in terms of protocol development and deployment.","This multi-part series will examine how Hemi developers test the network to ensure its ongoing integrity. As the first installment in this series, this article will introduce and elaborate on how the Hemi Network is tested in isolation, or without external dependencies to run these test cases. Once built, these test cases can be run, and should be run, on an isolated machine connected to no other network or machine.","The goal is to run automated actions, or test cases, against the network, which will reveal bugs in a reproducible, deterministic manner.  Should the test cases pass, then there is a high-degree of confidence that the code subjected to these test conditions is ready for production and will not knowingly break.","It should be further noted:","Tests are automated. In this case, manual testing is tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone.","Tests are reproducible and deterministic.","Tests cannot prove the non-existence of bugs. The goal of testing is to find the presence of bugs, should they exist; a test can confirm a specific bug, but not that no bugs exist.","Given these core ideas, Hemi engineers strive to create a development environment where they can iterate quickly on stable software on an isolated network, “Localnet”.","The Hemi Network is split across many daemons. This presents the challenge of testing all of the daemons when interacting with each other to ensure that they interact correctly, making Hemi run. To do this, we create a local, isolated network called “Localnet” and test against that.","As previously stated, Localnet tests are designed to be automated, deterministic, reproducible, and effective at surfacing bugs.","With the more-exhaustive testing ideally handled within each daemon’s repository, engineers gather critical actions where bugs could reside and test against them to attempt to find bugs. If one of these fails, then it’s very likely that there is a larger issue at hand.","These network-wide tests can be found in this single file, summarized below: https://github.com/hemilabs/heminetwork/blob/13f58dbf44c58658a2a64d3ed53044920ed3b42f/e2e/monitor/main_test.go.","Network-Wide Test Cases","As a PoP miner, are L2 Keystones from the BFG daemon being received, being written to Bitcoin via bitcoind, and then, are the PoP payout rewards being received in turn as expected from Hemi?","As a user of Hemi:","Can $ETH be bridged from Ethereum to Hemi? (i.e. bridge L1 → L2)","Can ERC20 tokens be created and bridged by a user from Ethereum to Hemi?","Can that same ERC20 token be bridged from Hemi to Ethereum? (i.e. bridge L2 → L1)","Can $ETH be bridged from Hemi to Ethereum?","Is the HVM bitcoin tip near the real (regtest) bitcoin tip?","Can a $BTC balance be queried for a BTC address in an HVM smart contract?","Can all of this be done on both a sequencing and a non-sequencing node?","Are the output roots the same between the sequencing and non-sequencing nodes?","The above test cases are summarized greatly; additional detail becomes apparent upon closer examination. For them to work, three things must be accomplished:First, they will have to go through smart contracts (including L1StandardBridge, L2StandardBridge, OptimismMintableERC20) on both Ethereum and Hemi, then the network will have to progress, and finally, the mechanics that allow bridging (for example, state root publishing) will have to work as well.","Engineers capture this network’s definition in a docker-compose.yml file, found here: https://github.com/hemilabs/heminetwork/blob/13f58dbf44c58658a2a64d3ed53044920ed3b42f/e2e/docker-compose.yml","That file declares how to run Localnet. When used with Docker Compose, a tool that spins up the file on a local test network, it can be run on a machine for testing against.","There are a few more steps that can be found in this GitHub workflow file: https://github.com/hemilabs/heminetwork/blob/13f58dbf44c58658a2a64d3ed53044920ed3b42f/.github/workflows/localnet-test.yml","The easiest way to run this is the push-button GitHub action that the workflow file defines. For demonstration purposes, refer to this screenshot of the workflow:","Simply selecting a branch and clicking “Run Workflow” spins up Localnet and runs the tests against the selected branch, all in GitHub Actions CI. There is no manual intervention needed.","Localnet tests need not depend on anything external. As such, this includes  but is not limited to the following constraints:","Do not connect to anything that is outside of the VM.","No live networks. For example, do not connect to Ethereum, Sepolia, Bitcoin, etc.","No external APIs","Generate all data within the test.","Do not pull in data from an external source. For example, do not pull part of a production blockchain into a local data directory.","All data that is needed should be generated by the test case, and our code should adapt.","For most of the daemons, this is straightforward. All of the Hemi daemons, when traced down their dependencies, will eventually depend on two L1 Blockchains to function: Ethereum and Bitcoin. Thus, Ethereum and Bitcoin must be completely local.","This is achieved by configuring bitcoind and geth to run in regtest mode and dev mode, respectively.","Geth has a flag that allows for block production at a given rate, so that rate is configured to be high, currently 3 seconds. https://github.com/hemilabs/heminetwork/blob/13f58dbf44c58658a2a64d3ed53044920ed3b42f/e2e/docker-compose.yml#L157).","For bitcoind, a daemon is restarted that creates 1 bitcoin block, then exits successfully.  That can be found here: https://github.com/hemilabs/heminetwork/blob/13f58dbf44c58658a2a64d3ed53044920ed3b42f/e2e/docker-compose.yml#L51","Note: a consensus client is not used in Localnet testing; this is on the roadmap https://github.com/hemilabs/heminetwork/issues/785","When those are all running, a genesis block is generated by enginners for our Localnet network, and the daemons are run.  This will create an isolated, fast network for testing. The test cases are run against this.","The test cases were chosen for a reason; engineers want to find bugs in those common, critical workflows.  They are not simply (and impossibly) proving that the network works. If a test case passes, it gives a high-degree of confidence that the tested functionality is working.  Everyone must understand this: there will always be bugs, and when they’re found downstream in a higher environment, there must be a strategy to address them.","This is easier said than done, but entirely possible with discipline: when a bug is found, a test case for that bug–in which the test case reproduces the bug itself–must be written in an automated test case. Then the bug must be fixed. Going forward, engineers will have a test case that looks for that bug.","It must be emphasized that test cases need to be effective. If they do not actively search for bugs or meaningfully exercise the code, they are not useful. In an era where vibe coders use AI tools to generate tens of thousands of test cases, ineffective tests do not meaningfully validate the code. Effectiveness matters more than volume or coverage.","As many software projects do, each of Hemi's repositories has its own set of tests that validate the code in semi-isolation from other software projects. The term “semi-isolation” applies as there are cases where developers may want to test interacting with a single dependency that’s not worth mocking out. One example of this would be bitcoind in regtest mode.","To illustrate, here is a link to a test helper function in which bitcoind is run in regtest mode via testcontainers:","https://github.com/hemilabs/heminetwork/blob/13f58dbf44c58658a2a64d3ed53044920ed3b42f/service/tbc/tbc_test.go#L1134.","Some repositories are better tested than others. Regardless, these tests are necessary to find bugs within a codebase itself. This is where the most exhaustive testing occurs.","Engineers at Hemi automate the testing of the network in CI. They use bitcoind and geth in regtest and dev mode, respectively, to ensure that there are no external dependencies during the tests. Given this, all tests are isolated, reproducible, and deterministic. Testing developers chose, and wrote, effective test cases for critical paths to attempt to find bugs within them.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/testing-hemi-part-1-localnet"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-zk-provability-protocol-partners-and-pop-payouts":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Zk Provability, Protocol Partners, and PoP Payouts - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Zk Provability, Protocol Partners, and PoP Payouts"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 17, 2026","AMA","Bitcoin","Ethereum","Hemi","Midweek with Max returned this week with a strong focus on core engineering progress, particularly across Zero-Knowledge (ZK) systems, veHEMI, and infrastructure readiness. With regular host Rick out, Jeremy stepped in with Max, setting the tone for a fast-moving session that centered on what’s actively being built and what’s nearing deployment.","On the engineering side, ZK provability continues to advance, with improvements to the MinerFi system making proof generation faster and more scalable for operators. The focus now shifts to implementation, testing, and audit readiness. Early access to the ZK proving system is expected to begin soon through a private beta, with broader participation to follow.","At the same time, veHEMI is being prepared for onchain voting and delegation. This will allow holders to restake their positions in protocols, beginning with MinerFi, where participants can help operate the threshold signature system that secures Bitcoin deposits. Over time, this model is expected to expand across additional components, including HBitVM, decentralized sequencing, and the ZK proof network.","Progress on HBitVM remains steady, with most remaining work centered on integrating EVM-based proving systems. While some ZK-enabled settlement features may extend slightly into Q2, the broader system remains on track, with open-source components expected in the near term.","On the infrastructure side, the PoP payout algorithm is nearing mainnet deployment following final testing, while the team is also preparing for upcoming changes tied to the deprecation of op-geth. Decentralized sequencing is now tentatively targeted for Q3.","Beyond the protocol, ecosystem momentum continues to build. A recently announced partnership between Hemi and BTCS S.A. will bring between 50 and 100 BTC into Hemi-based strategies, signaling growing institutional interest in native BTC yield. As the network evolves, the focus remains on enabling BTC to move freely across programmable environments while maintaining alignment with its core properties.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-zk-provability-protocol-partners-and-pop-payouts"},"/blog/recap-jeff-garzik-the-future-of-ai":{"version":1,"title":"Recap: Jeff Garzik, The Future of AI - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Recap: Jeff Garzik, The Future of AI"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 20, 2026","AMA","AI","Defi","Bitcoin","Featuring Jeff Garzik, Jeremy Nation, and Ryan Charleston, the discussion frames AI as a force multiplier that shifts advantage to those who can coordinate humans and intelligent systems into productive outcomes.","Listen to the entire discussion:","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/recap-jeff-garzik-the-future-of-ai"},"/blog/hemi-and-novaswap-offer-secure-crosschain-stablecoin-access":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Novaswap Offer Secure Crosschain Stablecoin Access - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Novaswap Offer Secure Crosschain Stablecoin Access"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 25, 2026","Partnership","Hemi","Announcements","Novaswap provides Hemi users a reliable route for stablecoin swaps between Hemi and Ethereum without adding custodial risk.","Hemi and Novaswap are working together to enable trust-minimized, zero-fee movement of stablecoins between Ethereum and Hemi, giving users a direct path to move USDC across networks without bridges, wrapped assets, or custodians.","Novaswap is a crosschain stablecoin protocol built on the Mynth system, an intent-based architecture that coordinates asset movement without pooled liquidity. Each transaction is executed through isolated escrow contracts and verified onchain before funds are released. Assets are locked until proven delivery, removing any shared attack surfaces and custodial risk.","On Hemi the partnership introduces a secure stablecoin liquidity route for users to move USDC from Ethereum onto Hemi and deploy it across BTC-denominated DeFi, or move back to Ethereum without relying on synthetic representations.","When a user selects their preferred swap route and submits the request, independent executors fulfill the transaction. Funds are held in escrow until validators confirm completion on both chains, at which point assets are released to the destination wallet. There are no pooled funds and no intermediary custody at any point in the process.","Reliable stablecoin movement is foundational to any DeFi ecosystem. As activity on Hemi continues to expand, removing friction at this layer makes it easier for users to access opportunities and for builders to design around predictable, secure capital flows.","Explore the integration with Hemi at novaswap.io and follow @Novaswap on X.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-novaswap-offer-secure-crosschain-stablecoin-access"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-minerfi-takes-shape-alongside-zk-proving-progress":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek With Max: MinerFi Takes Shape Alongside ZK Proving Progress - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek With Max: MinerFi Takes Shape Alongside ZK Proving Progress"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 24, 2026","Midweek With Max","AMA","Hemi","Bitcoin","Midweek with Max opened with a heavy focus on engineering progress across Hemi’s ZK and infrastructure stack as work continues with ongoing optimizations, testnet alignment, and expanded proving capabilities. The team is actively preparing a ZK miner and proving marketplace, both expected to enter limited beta soon, enabling contributors to supply compute for proving and earn rewards. Early participation will be accessible even on CPU, though GPU requirements will likely define later phases.","On the MinerFi side, the threshold signature scheme library has been refactored into a cleaner, more modular system, with full testing coverage and improved usability. This system underpins the Fast Bridge, enabling secure, long-lived Bitcoin deposit addresses through validator resharing across epochs.","A key architectural theme emerging from this work is the balance between usability and security. MinerFi functions as a liquidity layer that abstracts Bitcoin bridging into a seamless experience, while still preserving strong cryptographic guarantees. The resharing mechanism allows validator rotation without breaking address continuity, and the system is designed for transient liquidity rather than long-term custody.","On the infrastructure side, the team is preparing for a transition to Rust-based equivalents in alignment with upstream Optimism changes. While no immediate action is required, node operators should expect mandatory upgrades within the next few months, with guides to follow. Other near-term items include deployment of the updated PoP payout algorithm and continued progress on broader network components, though some timelines, including the OG role rollout, may shift due to engineering prioritization.","Community updates highlighted upcoming reward distributions, beta testing incentives, and the expansion of participation pathways through Guild. VEHEMI rewards are expected by mid-April, while beta rewards will scale based on contribution quality and engagement. Closing notes teased a potential partner livestream and ongoing discussions expanding Midweek with Max beyond Discord, pending community feedback.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-minerfi-takes-shape-alongside-zk-proving-progress"},"/blog/hemi-s-role-in-agentic-infrastructure":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi's Role in Agentic Infrastructure - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi's Role in Agentic Infrastructure"],"h2":["The Abstraction Layer Is Shifting","AI Agents on Hemi","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 26, 2026","AI","Hemi","Bitcoin","Autonomous agents won’t replace humans, but they will change how systems are defined, executed, and trusted.","For years, software engineering has been measured in code commits. Output. Velocity. Lines shipped, bugs fixed, features added. This cycle has dominated modern development for decades. Now, agentic AI is beginning to disrupt that system.","Continuing and expanding the conversation from Hemi’s recent AMA stream with Co-Founder and CEO Jeff Garzik on AI, this article explores the roles of people alongside autonomous agents as they become more prevalent in crypto and across other industries.","The dynamic change occurring today is not that machines can autocomplete code more effectively. The real shift is that software systems can now take instructions in natural language, use tools, access environments, and execute meaningful portions of work with limited supervision.","In practicality, software engineers are becoming less manual code producers and acting more as system designers, orchestrators, and verifiers. It’s not the first time programming has abstracted upward. Most developers no longer write assembly language. Instead, they work in higher-level languages that express intent more efficiently, then rely on compilers and runtime systems to handle lower layers. Agentic AI extends that pattern for many tasks. Natural language is beginning to function as a new abstraction layer over software creation itself.","When an engineer can define the shape of a feature, set constraints, ask an agent to build an initial version, inspect the output, refine the architecture, and iterate in compressed cycles, the highest-value activity is no longer keystroke production. Instead, value creation shifts to knowing what to ask for, what to reject, and how to turn a vague idea into a coherent system.","Importantly, these shifts with autonomous agentic integrations do not eliminate the need for engineers. If anything, it raises the premium on engineers who can turn rough prototypes into resilient systems and who can help the rest of the organization use these tools without generating operational chaos.","AI does not flatten the need for expertise. It redistributes where expertise matters most.","For agentic systems operating in financial contexts, Hemi offers exposure to programmable BTC in DeFi. Agents managing wallets can allocate BTC into onchain strategies, rebalance positions across integrated protocols. For developers, Hemi acts as a permissionless proving ground to deploy emerging payment standards such as x402, where machine-driven transactions begin to interface more directly with markets.","Human traders still dominate today, but as autonomous systems begin to participate more actively in markets, the requirements around execution change. As this dynamic shifts, the agents stepping in must be auditable and reliably configured for other participants.","One emerging direction is the ability to anchor agent identity and behavior to cryptographic guarantees. In Hemi’s design, this takes the form of publishing commitments, such as hashes of model weights, onto the network, allowing those commitments to inherit Bitcoin’s timestamping and finality. From there, systems like Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs can be used to validate that a given output was produced by a specific model, without exposing the underlying inputs or proprietary logic. Hemi’s ZK infrastructure is continuing to expand, with a phased deployment that can ultimately serve as a future underlying layer for an evolving agentic marketplace.","Agentic systems can generate strategies, coordinate tools, and act on instructions, but as execution becomes easier, trust becomes harder. If agents are making decisions and acting on them, the system that those actions run on must provide auditable guarantees, without opaque intermediary processes.","As Hemi’s ZK systems mature, they make possible a system where provable agentic execution takes place on Hemi, and where participants can verify not just that an action occurred, but that it was generated by the desired agent or system. Such an auditing layer is necessary for agents to reliably operate with human financial interests at stake.","Visit the Hemi Portal, where you and your agents can deploy and manage BTC across integrated onchain strategies.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-s-role-in-agentic-infrastructure"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-minerfi-zk-updates-and-addressing-quantum-fud":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: MinerFi, ZK Updates, and Addressing Quantum FUD - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: MinerFi, ZK Updates, and Addressing Quantum FUD"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 1, 2026","Midweek With Max","AMA","Hemi","The latest Midweek with Max highlighted Hemi’s steady progress across core infrastructure, with development advancing on MinerFi, the ZK proving marketplace, and updates to veHEMI.","MinerFi is approaching a major milestone, with core components like the Threshold Signature System (TSS) and supporting infrastructure nearing audit and readiness. The ZK proving marketplace also continues to evolve into a central part of Hemi’s architecture. Join a deeper dive scheduled this Friday, 12-1 PM PDT, with Max Sanches and Jeremy Nation streamlining live across all major platforms. Community questions for Max can be submitted in the Official Hemi Discord.","During the session, the team also pushed back on growing quantum-related narratives, emphasizing that while post-quantum considerations are worth monitoring, current threats remain largely theoretical. Practical limitations around hardware, scaling, and implementation mean that existing cryptographic systems are not facing immediate risk.In the meantime, best practices and incremental improvements continue to provide strong security assurances, reinforcing that attention is better placed on building and shipping rather than reacting to speculative timelines.","veHEMI is also expanding beyond governance into a broader mechanism for network security and coordination, supporting emerging decentralized infrastructure as it comes online. The team is preparing new initiatives to drive ecosystem growth, including a formal grants and bounty program, continued partner expansion, and early work around liquidity and stablecoin-related efforts. With a wider community push on the horizon, the emphasis remains on shipping core systems while creating more ways for developers, contributors, and users to actively participate in the network.  ","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-minerfi-zk-updates-and-addressing-quantum-fud"},"/blog/built-on-hemi-livestream-recap-spectra":{"version":1,"title":"Built On Hemi Livestream Recap: Spectra - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Built On Hemi Livestream Recap: Spectra"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Mar 27, 2026","Hemi Partner Ama","Video","Defi","Hemi Marketing Director Jeremy Nation joins Spectra Co-Founder Ulysse to discuss DeFi, PT and YT instruments, and what Spectra is building on Hemi.Listen to the entire discussion:","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/built-on-hemi-livestream-recap-spectra"},"/blog/recap-zk-markets-live-with-max-sanchez":{"version":1,"title":"Recap: ZK Markets Live with Max Sanchez - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Recap: ZK Markets Live with Max Sanchez"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 3, 2026","AMA","Zk Proofs","Video","Listen to the discussion between Hemi Co-Founder and CTO Max Sanchez and Marketing Director Jeremy Nation as the two unravel the complexities of Zero Knowledge (ZK) proofs, answer community questions, and look forward to the long-term vision of a Hemi-native ZK marketplace.","View all","Midweek With Max","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/recap-zk-markets-live-with-max-sanchez"},"/blog/yield-is-moving-from-custody-to-deployment":{"version":1,"title":"Yield Is Moving From Custody To Deployment - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Yield Is Moving From Custody To Deployment"],"h2":["Passive vs Participatory Strategies","Hemi is Built for the Future of Yield","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 9, 2026","Hemi","Bitcoin","stablecoin","The defining shift in stablecoin yield is the divide between passive custody and active, risk-based deployment.","Regulators are handing down rules on stablecoin yields and custody, in an effort to clearly define reserve qualifications and how returns can be generated. These rules, emerging from frameworks like the Genius Act and the Clarity Act, introduce clearer standards around reserves and begin to define the conditions under which yield on stablecoins can exist.","Predictable lines have formed around these efforts. Banking institutions frame them as guardrails around risk and consumer protection, while crypto-native platforms see them as constraints on stablecoin yield.","The GENIUS Act limits passive yield paid for simply holding stablecoins. It leaves open how returns from active deployment and services are evaluated. Models built around passively holding stablecoins and distributing yield resemble traditional savings products, and that puts them directly within the scope of regulatory scrutiny.","Participatory strategies operate differently. These systems deploy capital into services such as liquidity provisioning, transaction authentication, or other infrastructure support. The returns generated are tied to that onchain activity, not abstracted from it. It matters, because it aligns yield with observable economic function rather than passive custody, a model that mirrors how Hemi ties distributions to onchain activity, protocol usage, and fee generation.","Most notably, participatory strategies introduce risk tied to deployment. That risk separates them from passive holdings and anchors returns in activity, not custody.","This is the environment Hemi is being built for. Rather than optimizing for passive yield, the focus is on infrastructure that enables stablecoins, BTC, or any EVM-supported asset to be deployed into real, onchain services. In this system, these deployed assets are actively used, and returns emerge from participation.","That includes liquidity provisioning, transaction execution, and the broader set of services required to support a functioning decentralized financial layer. In this context, yield is not the product, but a byproduct of providing utility.","As regulatory clarity increases, this distinction becomes more important. Systems that rely on passive yield abstraction will face increasing scrutiny. Systems that tie returns to observable activity and services are better aligned with how these frameworks are being shaped.","See how Hemi is building a system where yield is tied to activity, not passive custody, at hemi.xyz.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/yield-is-moving-from-custody-to-deployment"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-building-the-infrastructure-behind-bitcoin-yield":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Building the Infrastructure Behind Bitcoin Yield - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Building the Infrastructure Behind Bitcoin Yield"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 7, 2026","Midweek With Max","AMA","Hemi","Hemi continues to move forward across core infrastructure, with meaningful updates to the threshold signature library, which have been pushed live and open-sourced. Integration work is still underway to bring Zero-Knowledge (ZK) based fault attribution fully onchain.","Development is advancing on veHEMI, with a new shared economic security model taking shape. The initial implementation will allow multiple veHEMI positions to be restaked into unified groups that can secure different parts of the protocol. This system is expected to support veHEMI beyond passive participation, ushering in an active security layer that other protocols can integrate with directly.","Short-term changes to veHEMI yield have been driven by a combination of position decay and reduced fee generation, particularly as Ethereum data availability costs have declined. Longer term, yield is expected to shift toward participation in core protocol services, where economic activity directly drives returns. Some discrepancies in reported revenue metrics remain on DeFiLlama have also been identified as external data issues, rather than reflecting actual network performance.","On the ZK side, the team is continuing to build out a prover marketplace designed to be system-agnostic and permissionless. Rather than relying on centralized coordinators, the marketplace would allow developers to request proofs based on outcomes, making it easier to integrate ZK proofs directly into applications. The approach reduces complexity at the smart contract level and opens the door for more composable DeFi use cases, while also supporting Hemi’s internal needs for proof generation across bridging, settlement, and network validation.","Looking ahead, the PoP payout algorithm is expected to go live shortly, enabling conversion of PoP points into HEMI and unlocking previously restricted rewards. VBK distribution remains in progress without a confirmed date, while additional ecosystem developments, including new stablecoin-related integrations, are expected to be announced in the coming weeks. Community initiatives are also evolving, with new programs and expanded participation opportunities on the horizon.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-building-the-infrastructure-behind-bitcoin-yield"},"/blog/hemi-and-lagoon-partner-to-enable-native-permissionless-vault-deployment":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi and Lagoon Partner to Enable Native Permissionless Vault Deployment - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi and Lagoon Partner to Enable Native Permissionless Vault Deployment"],"h2":["What Lagoon Vaults Mean For BTC Yield on Hemi","Why This Matters On Hemi","What This Unlocks For Hemi Users","What’s Next?","Latest articles"],"h3":["Curated Strategy Exposure","Higher Yield Ceilings","A Robust DeFi Foundation","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 13, 2026","Partnership","Defi","Lagoon is now directly integrated with Hemi, expanding vault infrastructure for hemiBTC in DeFi.","Lagoon is integrating its vaults natively on Hemi. This is a meaningful step forward towards what we’re building around Bitcoin yield, and this is exactly why.","Lagoon is a permissionless vault infrastructure that allows protocols to deploy curated, actively managed yield strategies onchain. Unlike static liquidity pools, where the parameters are fixed at deployment, Lagoon vaults can be curated, so the underlying allocation can be actively optimized across multiple opportunities to pursue better risk-adjusted returns.","In short, Lagoon is infrastructure for yield. It’s the plumbing that makes it possible to take an asset like BTC and put it to work across a set of strategies without having to manage each position manually.","Hemi is built around a core thesis that Bitcoin shouldn’t just sit idle. Through our tunneling infrastructure, any user can take BTC, bring it onchain as HemiBTC, and put it to work earning yield in a decentralized, transparent stack.","Until now, the yield opportunities available on Hemi have been primarily driven by incentive campaigns, such as SushiSwap pools, Merkle distributions, and partner integrations. These have been effective at bootstrapping liquidity, but they have a ceiling: incentive-driven yields fluctuate as campaigns end and new ones begin.","In the long term, Hemi is designed to be driven by sustained onchain activity and transaction volume rather than reliance on incentive-based campaigns. Lagoon’s vault infrastructure follows this philosophy, introducing a more durable yield layer. By deploying its vaults natively on Hemi, Lagoon enables curated strategies that can actively seek the best available yield for BTC-denominated assets without depending on any single campaign to sustain the rate.","That’s the difference between a temporary yield event and a persistent yield engine.","For holders of HemiBTC and other BTC-backed assets on Hemi, Lagoon’s native presence means:","Rather than manually tracking which Merkle campaigns are live and which have wound down, professional curators using Lagoon vaults can do the allocation work, moving across qualified opportunities to maintain competitive returns.","Lagoon’s curation model is specifically designed to access yield sources that individual LPs typically can’t reach efficiently on their own. Our discussions with the team are targeting rates that meaningfully exceed what a passive holder could achieve independently.","Lagoon’s native vault infrastructure on Hemi is a core component of the DeFi stack we’re building. As DeFi on Hemi evolves, Lagoon will be one of the primary yield rails underneath it,  giving a yield engine that users can optimize over time.","Lagoon is live on Hemi.","Hemi is already cooking up yield-bearing strategies — and for anyone holding BTC and thinking about how to put it to work, this is the infrastructure that makes that possible.","No centralized platform. No complexity of managing a dozen positions yourself.","More details on accessible strategies and yield targets coming soon. We’ll share more specifics on live vaults, accessible strategies, and initial yield targets as the integration completes.","For anyone already holding BTC and thinking about how to put it to work, this is the infrastructure that makes that possible. All without giving up custody, without relying on a centralized platform, and without the complexity of personally managing a dozen positions.","Have questions about Hemi’s yield infrastructure? Join the conversation in the community Discord, and visit the Hemi Portal to learn more.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-and-lagoon-partner-to-enable-native-permissionless-vault-deployment"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-the-push-toward-zk-and-a-rust-native-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: The Push Toward ZK and a Rust-Native Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: The Push Toward ZK and a Rust-Native Hemi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 15, 2026","AMA","Midweek With Max","Video","This week’s Midweek with Max focused on steady engineering momentum across several core initiatives, with particular emphasis on ZK provability, infrastructure upgrades, and upcoming releases.","Progress on ZK provability continues to move forward, supported by optimizations to Oxygen and broader system improvements. The op-reth transition has evolved beyond its initial scope as well, with what began as a minimal implementation for ZK compatibility now requiring a fully featured execution client capable of replacing op-geth in production. This expanded scope reflects a broader push toward a more independent and optimized stack, with long-term plans to move away from reliance on the Optimism framework entirely in favor of custom Hemi-native components.","On the MinerFi front, development is advancing alongside improvements to Continuum, the daemon responsible for coordinating threshold signature participants. Final testing is underway, including integration with Hemi’s ZK proving system, positioning MinerFi as a key component of the network’s evolving economic and security model.","Work is also progressing on the ZK Prover Marketplace, with a developer-facing demo expected in the near future. While no release date has been confirmed, early access for beta testers is planned, with incentives for participation and feedback.","From a roadmap perspective, Hemi’s architecture continues to differentiate itself through its approach to Bitcoin programmability. The HVM enables direct interaction with Bitcoin data within smart contracts, removing reliance on external proofs or limited relay systems. Combined with ongoing work in ZK provability and decentralized infrastructure, this positions Hemi as both a competitive EVM environment and a fundamentally new framework for Bitcoin-integrated DeFi.","Looking ahead, an Engineering AMA is scheduled for next week on April 22 at 6 AM PDT (9 AM EDT), streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube. The team will dive deeper into the Rust transition and MinerFi, with additional updates on ZK systems and infrastructure expected as development milestones are reached. Be sure to submit any questions for the team ahead of the show.","Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-the-push-toward-zk-and-a-rust-native-hemi"},"/blog/hemi-happy-hour-ama-recap-ai-revisited":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Happy Hour AMA Recap: AI Revisited - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Happy Hour AMA Recap: AI Revisited"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 13, 2026","Video","AI","Bitcoin","Join the Hemi team for another special AI Happy Hour discussion on the most recent trending topics and advances in autonomous agents and large language models.","Listen to the entire discussion:","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-happy-hour-ama-recap-ai-revisited"},"/blog/vehemi-economic-security-for-a-programmable-bitcoin-l2":{"version":1,"title":"veHEMI: Economic Security for a Programmable Bitcoin L2 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["veHEMI: Economic Security for a Programmable Bitcoin L2"],"h2":["Restaking: What veHEMI Secures","Governance: Participation by Design","Why This Architecture Reflects Industry Lessons","Built-In Accountability","The Right Mechanism for the Right Problem","Latest articles"],"h3":["The Emissions Death Spiral","The Liquid Locker Paradox","The Absence Of A Real Allocation Problem","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 16, 2026","Governance, restaking, and what the industry got wrong about vote-escrow tokenomics.","Hemi is building a programmable Bitcoin Layer 2 secured by a combination of Bitcoin Proof-of-Work and Ethereum Proof-of-Stake. At the center of its decentralization roadmap is veHEMI, a protocol-native staking system designed to align long-term participants with the network’s security, governance, and economic growth.veHEMI is not a liquidity incentive mechanism. It is infrastructure for coordinating economic security across six distinct protocol components, each with real operational requirements, real yield sources, and real slashing conditions. When last examined, veHEMI’s various deployment phases were outlined. This document details what veHEMI does, how its governance works, and why the design reflects hard-won lessons from the broader DeFi industry’s experience with vote-escrow tokenomics.","The core function of veHEMI is to serve as a shared economic security layer for decentralized components of the Hemi network. Stakers lock $HEMI into veHEMI positions and optionally restake those positions to operate and secure specific infrastructure. Each restaking role carries distinct technical requirements, risk profiles, and yield sources tied to actual network usage.","Component","veHEMI Role","Yield Source","hemiBTC Fast Bridge","Operate threshold signature scheme (TSS) managing transient native BTC liquidity","Deposit and withdrawal fees","hBitVM Tunnel","Covenant emulation (signing BTC transaction graphs) and fronting BTC liquidity during withdrawals","Vault creation/deposit and withdrawal fees","Decentralized Sequencing","Produce blocks and establish intermediate consensus on chain state via PoS-style protocol","Transaction fees + protocol emissions","Ethereum State Root + DA Publication","Assemble state root payloads (roots + ZK proofs), batch blocks, and publish to Ethereum","Protocol emissions","ZK Proving Marketplace","Attest to proof complexity for proof settlement and pricing oracle; stake collateral to lock and complete proof jobs","ZK proof job fees","Chainbuilder Shared Sequencing + DA","Produce batch blocks across L3s; host sharded DA infrastructure for block retrieval","L3 transaction fees + DA fees","Every yield source listed above is driven by real protocol activity: users tunneling BTC, applications submitting transactions, protocols requesting ZK proofs, L3s generating and publishing data. veHEMI restakers earn fees because they are performing work the network needs, not because a gauge vote directed inflationary emissions their way.","The system supports flexible participation structures, combining multiple veHEMI positions into a single restaking bundle with blended economics, and a delegation system with granular per-participant risk management. Protocol-configurable slashing conditions ensure that restakers who fail to meet their operational commitments face real consequences, including the loss of collateral, with a portion recoverable by the affected protocol.","This extensibility also means the veHEMI restaking system can be permissionlessly adopted by third-party protocols building on Hemi, creating additional yield opportunities beyond the six core components.","The next major veHEMI upgrade introduces on-chain governance, enabling economically aligned contributors to shape protocol parameters, chain economics, incentive structures, and future development priorities.","Governance power in veHEMI is weighted by two factors: the amount of $HEMI staked and the remaining lockup period, following a linear decay curve based on a 4-year maximum lock. This means a smaller position with a longer commitment carries the same governance weight as a larger position with a shorter horizon. For example:","Position Size","Remaining Lockup","Position Weight","100 $HEMI","4 years","100.00","200 $HEMI","2 years","400 $HEMI","1 year","50.00","25.00","1 month","2.08","The weighting formula is intentional. It ensures that governance influence accrues to participants who have demonstrated sustained economic alignment with Hemi’s long-term trajectory, rather than to those with the largest spot holdings. Positions can be extended at any time up to the 4-year maximum.","Proposals are governed by three parameters that scale with impact: voting period (how long the vote remains open), acceptance threshold (what percentage of total stake weight must approve), and participation threshold (the minimum voting power required for the result to be valid). Higher-impact decisions take longer and require higher thresholds.","To drive participation, governance incentives are distributed to voters based on their stake weight. Participation is not optional overhead; it is economically rewarded. For participants who prefer not to evaluate every proposal directly, veHEMI includes native delegation. Delegators can assign their voting power to trusted community members who review and vote on proposals on their behalf. Both delegators and delegatees receive a share of governance incentives, aligning the interests of active and passive participants.","As the system matures, proposal creation will be open to any participant above a minimum staking threshold, subject to a Veto Committee of trusted community members that serves as a safeguard against malicious proposals.","Over the past year, three major DeFi protocols with a combined TVL of billions have abandoned vote-escrow tokenomics. Pendle replaced vePENDLE with a liquid staking token after discovering that only 20% of the supply was locked and over 60% of emissions-receiving pools were individually unprofitable. PancakeSwap scrapped veCAKE after its gauge system was captured by bribe aggregators directing emissions to pools that contributed almost no value. Balancer is winding down veBAL following a cascade of governance manipulation, a major exploit, and economic insolvency.","These failures share a structural diagnosis. In each case, ve-tokenomics was deployed to answer a narrow question: which trading pools should receive token emissions? That framing created three specific vulnerabilities, and veHEMI’s architecture addresses each of them.","When ve-stakers earn yield primarily from inflationary token emissions, a price decline triggers a reflexive cycle: emissions lose value, LPs leave, volume drops, fees decline, and the token falls further. veHEMI’s yield sources differ structurally. Bridge fees, transaction fees, ZK proof fees, and DA fees are generated by network usage, not by token inflation. Emissions play a supplementary role in some components during early bootstrapping, but they are not the primary or sole yield driver. Although some components, such as sequencing, retain an emissions reliance, the broader system is designed for fee-driven resources to account for an increasing share of total usage as the network scales.","Ve-tokenomics creates a capital-efficiency problem that liquid lockers (Convex, Aura, Magpie) solve by wrapping locked positions into tradable derivatives. But in solving capital efficiency, these wrappers centralize governance power, which is exactly what the lock was supposed to distribute. This paradox was destructive in every case except Curve, where Convex’s incentives happened to align with the protocol’s success.","veHEMI positions are not passive governance tokens. While veHEMI tokens are transferable when idle, once restaked, tokens are bound to positions as operational collateral. Restakers use their positions to operate threshold signature systems, front BTC liquidity, produce blocks, attest to proof complexity, and host DA infrastructure. These are active roles that cannot be meaningfully abstracted into a passive liquid wrapper without undermining the security model. The lock is not just creating scarcity. It is collateralizing real work.veHEMI also removes the structural vacuum that made wrapper capture inevitable elsewhere by building delegation directly into the protocol. Delegators and delegatees both earn governance incentives, reducing the economic rationale for third-party intermediaries to extract governance rent.","The sharpest critique of failed ve-models is that gauge voting became unnecessary overhead. If there is no genuine, recurring decision in which community-directed allocation creates more value than team-directed allocation, the mechanism adds complexity without value.","veHEMI has six infrastructure roles with distinct risk/reward profiles, varying capital requirements, and different technical demands. Stakers face real allocation decisions: which components to participate in, how much collateral to commit, and whether to bundle positions across roles or concentrate in a single role. These decisions carry real consequences via slashing risks for misbehavior in each component. This is a genuine coordination problem that benefits from decentralized participation.","Learning from what went wrong elsewhere is necessary but insufficient. veHEMI is built with specific accountability mechanisms that address the failure patterns directly.","Slashing with real teeth. Failed ve-models lacked an enforcement mechanism beyond the opportunity cost of directing emissions to worthless pools, without penalties applied to voting positions. veHEMI stakers, by contrast, actively participate in Hemi’s decentralized protocol and face enforceable slashing conditions tied to network security. This transforms the lock from a passive commitment device into active, binding collateral.","Per-component fee-to-emissions transparency. Pendle’s post-mortem revealed that aggregate protocol health metrics masked per-pool insolvency. A handful of profitable pools subsidized a majority of unprofitable ones, and the blended numbers hid this reality. veHEMI will publish fee-to-emissions ratios for each restaking role individually. If a component is being subsidized beyond what its usage justifies, that will be visible and addressable through governance.","Native delegation to prevent wrapper capture. Rather than leaving a vacuum for third-party aggregators to fill, veHEMI’s delegation system is built in from the start. The incentive split between delegators and delegatees is protocol-level, removing the primary economic rationale for external wrappers to insert themselves as governance intermediaries.","Participation-weighted governance incentives. Low voter turnout was a leading indicator of failure across all three protocols that abandoned ve-tokenomics. veHEMI makes governance participation economically rewarding in proportion to staked position weight, making non-participation an active opportunity cost rather than the path of least resistance.","Vote-escrow tokenomics is not universally broken. Curve’s veCRV and Aerodrome’s ve(3,3) continue to function because they serve protocols that have genuine, structural, market-driven demand for gauge-directed liquidity. The protocols that walked away from the model lacked that structural demand.","veHEMI’s structural demand differs but is equally concrete. A programmable Bitcoin L2 requires block producers, bridge operators, proof attesters, liquidity operators, DA providers, and governance participants who are economically committed to the network’s long-term health. These roles require locked capital, active participation, and enforceable accountability. That is the problem veHEMI is designed to solve.","The DeFi industry has spent the past year learning where vote-escrow mechanics fail. veHEMI is built for where they belong.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/vehemi-economic-security-for-a-programmable-bitcoin-l2"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-the-switch-to-opereth-and-streamlining-btc-in-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: The Switch to opereth and Streamlining BTC in DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: The Switch to opereth and Streamlining BTC in DeFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 21, 2026","AMA","Midweek With Max","Hemi","Midweek with Max returned this week with updates on Hemi’s core engineering initiatives. The countdown is also on to the show’s official transition to livestreaming on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn, with the final Discord broadcast slated for the end of April.","For Hemi engineering news, the transition from opgeth to opereth marks a major shift underpinning future improvements across the execution layer. Internal testing is expected to begin shortly, followed by phased infrastructure rollout and external node testing via a beta release. This transition is time-sensitive, with opgeth set for deprecation ahead of the next Ethereum mainnet upgrade. Development of the MinerFi system continues, with ongoing work focused on streamlining Bitcoin onboarding into Hemi and enabling composable DeFi participation. Join Hemi’s upcoming Engineering AMA, on April 22 at 9 AM EDT, to learn how these systems bring together secure bridging and yield strategies into a unified flow. The team will also cover Hemi’s Rust transition and broader infrastructure updates.","The Hemi Zero Knowledge (ZK) roadmap is laid out, with progress tied closely to the opereth transition. In addition, the ZK Prover Marketplace is approaching a public beta phase, expected within the coming weeks. This initiative moves toward a more open and permissionless proving environment, with early access and incentives planned for participants in the beta testers channel. On the governance side, updates to the veHEMI system are currently undergoing audit, introducing improved position tracking and compatibility with third-party governance platforms, with further upgrades planned to support restaking as a core security mechanism across protocol components.","A community-led NFT marketplace is in development, with early reviews underway. Builder engagement remains a priority, with expanded support, incentives, and upcoming improvements to developer programs.Join Hemi’s Discord and catch each Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-the-switch-to-opereth-and-streamlining-btc-in-defi"},"/blog/testing-hemi-part-2-hemitrap":{"version":1,"title":"Testing Hemi Part 2: Hemitrap - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Testing Hemi Part 2: Hemitrap"],"h2":["How To Test Smart Contract Updates In A Localnet Environment","Deploying These Changes To Production","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 20, 2026","Security","Hemi","Infrastructure","The Testing Hemi series continues with a dive into Hemitrap, a feature that forks the network for the testing of various smart contracts to ensure any changes result in secure deployments.","The prior article in this series discussed how software changes are tested across a live, isolated network. Whilst an effective strategy for testing changes to the Hemi daemons, other “network-wide” changes also require tests, namely, any changes to the smart contracts that power The Hemi Network.","Hemi consists of smart contracts deployed on both the Hemi L2 and the Ethereum L1 blockchain, as well as Sepolia for testnet purposes. These smart contracts enable the network to progress and facilitate communication between the two layers. There are times when these contracts require updates. Tests are run to verify that the network behaves as expected under known conditions (test cases). Hemi’s smart contracts play a critical role in the network’s progression and functionality. A bug or incorrect deployment in these smart contracts risks causing reliability issues, a network outage, or potentially loss of funds. As such, it is extremely important that all changes are well-tested before deployment.","Localnet is a local network that runs all of the Hemi L2 and required L1 daemons in an isolated environment. This environment allows developers to safely run test cases, which test network-wide functionality without the risk of breaking a production network, and contains additional features that can be leveraged for easier and clearer smart contract testing.","To do this, Localnet creates an isolated “fork” of the Hemi network on the machine using the Localnet orchestration configuration. This fork is created by stopping the live node at a specific block (trapping it at a certain point in time), before starting a separate network that begins at that block. This allows tests to be run on the fork with an expected state, which only affects the local isolated network. Since the state of the network is then “trapped” and a “fork” starts with that state, this feature is named Hemitrap.","These are the steps for Hemitrap setup:","First, it’s necessary to fork a live Ethereum network. Anvil’s forking feature will start an Ethereum L1 fork. This can be found here: https://github.com/hemilabs/hemi-node/blob/ad0c2cc77925a477c32f43cacaeef931d97633b8/testnet/docker-compose.yml#L316","Since there is no sequencer on the fork, a proxy must be established. This involves a few changes. Primarily, an op-node in sequencing mode, an op-batcher, and an op-proposer need to be set up and run. These have a “-forked” suffix added to them in the Docker Compose file.  Here is op-node-forked, for example: https://github.com/hemilabs/hemi-node/blob/ad0c2cc77925a477c32f43cacaeef931d97633b8/testnet/docker-compose.yml#L329.  Inspecting this file reveals “op-proposer-forked” and “op-batcher-forked”.","Running a local sequencer will use a different private key than the one in production. Since this is the case, checks that will error if the sequencer is a different account are skipped. The “--hemitrap.enabled” flag performs these skips:https://github.com/hemilabs/hemi-node/blob/ad0c2cc77925a477c32f43cacaeef931d97633b8/testnet/docker-compose.yml#L367.  Additionally, searching “hemitrap” in the hemilabs/optimism repo shows exactly how this is used.","To speed up sequencing on the fork, modify these values in the rollup.json file:","With these details, a synced, non-sequencing hemi node is required to correctly fork the hemi network. Snap sync a node as documented (in the hemi-node directory):","After this is synced, stop the daemons (via ctrl+c).","Then, run the hemitrap profile, which will fork our synced node into the isolated private network:","Hemi currently uses the L2OutputOracle smart contract, which requires a proposer address in its storage that matches the network’s proposer. Running a fork separate from production requires updating this address so the proposer can propose output roots. Use hardhat_setStorageAt to do:","At this point, unsafe, safe, and finalized blocks should be progressing when checking the L2. If additional smart contracts must be deployed, now is the time to do so. Often, smart contract deployments are specific to the version in use.","For example, these are the steps used to update the SystemConfig smart contract from 1.12.0 to 2.3.0:","Deploy the new implementation via forge using “forge create”","This smart contract version can be found here on this upstream tag https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/optimism/tree/op-contracts/v1.8.0-rc.4","Run the following","Create a transaction that points the SystemConfigProxy to the new implementation","Verify that the proxy’s version matches the newly deployed implementation (i.e. verify that the proxy points at the implementation) via eth_call","Run the test suite","When deploying smart contracts for testing, use one of Anvil’s prefunded private keys (available in the logs) to broadcast the transactions.","Once the smart contracts are updated and deployed, then reuse localnet test cases for the fork.  Note that since there is only a sequencing node, the sequencing node test cases are the only ones that matter.","When passing should return:","Any test failures prompt a notification. Now there is a high degree of confidence that any updates to smart contracts won’t negatively affect the network.","Since testing changes against a forked live network, the same smart contract deployment steps used in testing are usable for live/production deployments. When doing so, generally it is only necessary to repeat the steps and use a production L1 RPC URL (opposed to the forked Anvil L1) and a funded production key for deployments.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/testing-hemi-part-2-hemitrap"},"/blog/hemi-engineering-ama-recap-minerfi-and-rust":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Engineering AMA Recap: MinerFi and Rust - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Engineering AMA Recap: MinerFi and Rust"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 22, 2026","AMA","Infrastructure","Hemi","The Hemi engineering team discusses ongoing network developments and answers community questions.","Hemi’s latest Engineering AMA focused on the continued evolution of core infrastructure, with particular attention on MinerFi, the transition to a Rust-based architecture, and broader system readiness for scaling BTC in DeFi.","The discussion’s central theme revolved around the progression of MinerFi from concept toward operational reality. MinerFi is being shaped into a system that enables BTC holders to participate in yield-generating activity without compromising security.","The transition to a Rust-based stack also remains a major priority. Moving away from legacy execution components is expected to improve network performance, reliability, and long-term upkeep. This shift is a foundational upgrade that enables tighter control over execution, better security guarantees, and more efficient system-level operations.","Ongoing infrastructure improvements across the network were also discussed, including refinements to indexing systems, enhancements to developer tooling, and continued work on zero-knowledge components.","Hemi is building toward a system where Bitcoin can be used productively in DeFi without relying on custodial wrappers or external trust assumptions. Each engineering milestone, from MinerFi to Rust integration, contributes to that objective by tightening the connection between programmability and Bitcoin’s base layer security.","Join the Hemi Discord to stay up to date with the latest engineering progress, join the Hemi development community, or submit your questions for the Hemi Team.","See the full AMA here:","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-engineering-ama-recap-minerfi-and-rust"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-discord-farewell-fiesta":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Discord Farewell Fiesta - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Discord Farewell Fiesta"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 29, 2026","Midweek With Max","AMA","Video","This week's Midweek with Max was the show's final episode on Discord. After nearly two years on the platform, MWM is moving to YouTube, X, and LinkedIn starting next week. Same time, broader audience, and a real soundboard. The final Discord episode covered engineering progress, a community Q&A on institutional Bitcoin DeFi, and Max's take on Paul Sztorc's eCash hard fork.","On the engineering side, the Rust port of MinerFi is in late-stage optimization and headed to audit shortly. The opgeth-to-opreth translation begins internal testing this week, with a public beta to follow in the coming weeks for node operators who want to be on the bleeding edge.","Max also previewed the ZK proving market, with a community testnet release targeted for sometime in May. Marco called out three open MetaMask PRs that would bring native Bitcoin support into the wallet, and community engagement on them. Any and all likes, hearts, and especially comments explaining why the feature would matter helps push them up the priority queue.","On veHEMI housekeeping, the next rewards distribution is targeted for the first week of May, following a contract upgrade scheduled for early next week. The 0% APY display in the portal will be corrected retroactively at that distribution. Hemi isn't planning to operate a veHEMI marketplace as a first-party app, but the team is open to a small infrastructure grant to keep the existing one running. Demand should pick up once governance and restaking features ship.","Looking ahead, Lagoon Finance joins the Built on Hemi AMA on Thursday, with Co-Founder and COO Nadia Thura taking community questions on Lagoon's vault infrastructure and its Hemi integration. Be there for the live cast at 12 PM PDT / 3 PM EDT, on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.","Join Hemi’s Discord and submit questions ahead of next week’s Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-discord-farewell-fiesta"},"/blog/bitcoin-is-ready-to-work":{"version":1,"title":"Bitcoin Is Ready To Work - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Bitcoin Is Ready To Work"],"h2":["The Second Wave Hitting BTC Wants Yield","hemiBTC is the Answer","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 4, 2026","Bitcoin","Institutions have allocated, and now BTC is poised for yield.","In Q1 2026, institutional investors poured $18.7 billion into spot BTC ETFs. BlackRock's IBIT absorbed $8.4 billion of that in three months, bringing its AUM to $54 billion. Public companies hold more than 1.16 million BTC on their balance sheets, which accounts for over 5.5% of all BTC that will ever exist.","Today, institutions are buying at 2.8 times the rate new Bitcoin is being mined. So, the allocation decision is made, but the issue of yield remains unresolved.","Bitcoin ETFs generate no yield. Direct custody generates no yield. Corporate treasury Bitcoin generates no yield. Hundreds of billions sit in an asset that produces nothing while it holds, no coupon, no dividend, no interest payment. Meanwhile, custody and holding fees clock on regardless. In any other asset class, that would be a design flaw. After all, a bond that paid no coupon would not be a bond. Real estate that generated no rent would be akin to a vacant lot.","In March, Coinbase published research on what they called the second wave of institutional money entering crypto. While the first wave came for price appreciation, this second wave is hunting yield. The kind of income that can be modeled, reported, and explained to a risk committee. Institutions have now shifted from asking whether to hold BTC and started asking what holding it should produce.","Also in March, the SEC and CFTC issued joint guidance clarifying how federal securities law applies to crypto assets. The legal uncertainty that kept institutional compliance teams sidelined for years has substantially lifted. Around 73% of institutional investors now plan to increase digital asset allocations in 2026, but what remains to be built is the infrastructure to support it.","The yield products that exist weren't built for institutional capital. Lending platforms that promised yield in 2022 collapsed because their structures were overleveraged and opaque. DeFi protocols generate real returns, but they expose capital to smart contract risk, governance votes made by anonymous token holders, and counterparty relationships that cannot be legally enforced. These documented failures are the specific reasons institutional compliance departments reject Bitcoin yield proposals.","What institutional BTC holders are asking for is yield on what they already hold, through a structure that maintains custody, and fits inside existing compliance frameworks.","hemiBTC does this. Institutions activate yield on native BTC on Hemi with various DeFi protocols, without transferring custody, without wrapped tokens that introduce centralization risk, and without the added risk of leveraged or rehypothecated structures. The yield is generated through onchain activity on Hemi's infrastructure, not from lending into opaque networks, or from selling covered calls on price exposure.","The 2022 collapses were predictable, but not exceptional. They were the result of yield built on rolling leverage rather than genuine economic activity. Institutional capital knows this, and it likely won't return to that model regardless of the return on offer. What institutions are more prepared to engage with are yield mechanisms that can be explained to a compliance team, a risk desk, and a client without any of those conversations ending badly.","The $18.7 billion in Q1 is a starting point. The institutions that got into BTC for price exposure are now asking what else it should do. Hemi is where that happens.","See more about what BTC can do for you on the Hemi Portal.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/bitcoin-is-ready-to-work"},"/blog/built-on-hemi-livestream-recap-lagoon-finance":{"version":1,"title":"Built On Hemi Livestream Recap: Lagoon Finance - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Built On Hemi Livestream Recap: Lagoon Finance"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Apr 30, 2026","Built on Hemi","Video","Bitcoin","Hemi Marketing Director Jeremy Nation joins Lagoon Finance Co-Founder and COO Nadia Thura to discuss Lagoon's vault infrastructure, the DeFi space, and what the future holds for digital asset infrastructures.Watch the entire discussion:","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/built-on-hemi-livestream-recap-lagoon-finance"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-protocol-progress-restaking-plans-and-hvm-expansion":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Protocol Progress, Restaking Plans, and hVM Expansion - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Protocol Progress, Restaking Plans, and hVM Expansion"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 5, 2026","Midweek With Max","AMA","Video","Catch up on Hemi protocol updates, and answers to community questions.","This week's Midweek with Max made its debut outside of Discord, going live for the first time on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn, with Max and the team covering engineering progress across several fronts and fielding the community questions that followed.","On the engineering side, PoP miner v5 is in late-stage optimization and headed to audit shortly. Translation of Hemi-specific changes from opgeth to opreth continues, with the largest piece of the work being a rebuild of how Bitcoin indexing happens inside the execution engine. Oxygen, originally developed for ZK provability, is being expanded to serve as the full Bitcoin data indexer that lives natively inside opreth.","A minor veHEMI contract update completed its third round of internal review and is going out this week, unblocking the next veHEMI rewards distribution, targeted for the second week of May. Max framed the veHEMI system as the economic security center of the Hemi protocol. The next phase will use staked positions as collateral across decentralized sequencing, hBitVM participation (as covenant emulators or liquidity operators), the ZK Prover Marketplace (as compute complexity attesters), and the MinerFi threshold signature scheme.","On governance, the smart contract side ships with this week's veHEMI update, and a well-known third-party voting platform is integrating the Hemi chain. Initial votes will cover lower-stakes items like community funding and protocol parameters, with bigger economic decisions added once participation patterns stabilize and the team can confirm meaningful engagement.","Max walked through the hVM architecture's advantages over Bitcoin header relay and reviewed candidate use cases the embedded Bitcoin node enables, including Bitcoin MEV marketplaces, non-custodial Bitcoin DEXs, atomic swaps across BRC-20s and Runes, Bitcoin-backed loans, and Bitcoin-backed stablecoins.","If you have additional questions for the Hemi crew, the inaugural Hemi Protocol Engineering Office Hours will go live in Discord tomorrow at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT / 3 PM UTC. The hours will then go on an alternating biweekly with a 1 PM PDT / 4 PM EDT / 8 PM UTC slot to cover different time zones. The Hemi Guild beta opens next week as well, with Discord members holding builder, beta tester, or creator roles getting early access. BitFi will be joining Built on Hemi later this month, with dates to follow, and several partner announcements are expected later this week.Join Hemi's Discord to connect with the community and submit questions ahead of next week's Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every Tuesday at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT / 15:00 UTC.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-protocol-progress-restaking-plans-and-hvm-expansion"},"/blog/hemi-community-2.0":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Community 2.0 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Community 2.0","Integrations and New Content Streams","Games and Prizes"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 8, 2026","Community Highlight","Hemi","Announcements","A major update for the Hemi Community Discord server is here.","The Hemi Discord Community is seeing a big change-up, with new programs rolling out across the year. The revamp includes an integration with Guild, an education series for newcomers, a community YouTube channel called Hemigo TV, onchain Hemi games, and new weekly office hours with the Protocol Engineering team.","Here’s the entire rundown:","The Hemi Guild enters beta soon, after a small setback during the alpha testing run. This will open a growing collection of tasks for builders and creatives who want to earn participation-based earn rewards. New tasks drop each month, with limited-time additions reserved for the harder challenges. The top 25 Hemigos on the leaderboard each month will share a prize pool.","Teach Rick Crypto kicks off a more approachable angle on crypto education. The series covers crypto and Hemi from the ground up, in a format built for people who haven't read the whitepaper, with new episodes dropping monthly on the new Hemigo TV channel.","Hemigo TV will be the new home on YouTube for community content, including guides, tutorials, promotional videos, and anything else Hemigo. The channel is built by the community for the community, and creators interested in contributing can pitch a video through Discord. Every submission goes through review by the Community Moderation team and members of the Community team before publication.","Protocol engineering office hours began May 6, giving Builders an hour each Wednesday with at least one member of Hemi's Protocol Engineering team to ask technical questions, talk through ideas, or share whatever they're ready to present. The session is open to anyone, and questions can be submitted live or in advance in Discord. The schedule alternates each week between two times to accommodate different time zones:","Morning: 11:00 AM EDT / 15:00 UTC","Afternoon: 4:00 PM EDT / 20:00 UTC","Midweek with Max, moved off Discord and onto YouTube, X, and LinkedIn. The format remains the same: team updates, community questions, jokes, and Rick. The new platform brings cameras, screen sharing, and a new soundboard for Rick to put to use. The inaugural May 5 episode kicking off the show’s new streaming channels is already live for anyone who missed it.","Discord activities 2.0 start this May, rotating away from open-internet games like Smash Karts and GeoGuessr toward activities built directly on the Hemi Network. The initial launch lineup features two community-built games:","Hemi Heads by Gladiy","HAIR Games by Alix and Alpha","Zorkified arrives in later this year, as a multi-month live course, with a recorded version for anyone who prefers to work at their own pace. The Zork-style text prompt-based adventure built from scratch in Python, will evolve into a modular game engine rather than a one-off demo. The team is building the game itself first, getting the foundation right, before layering Hemi blockchain functionality on top.","Learn more about Hemi protocol development and community initiatives by getting active in the Hemi Discord Community today.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-community-2.0"},"/blog/hemi-adopts-chainlink-to-power-hemibtc-lending-and-yield-across-defi":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Adopts Chainlink To Power hemiBTC Lending and Yield Across DeFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Adopts Chainlink To Power hemiBTC Lending and Yield Across DeFi","Why a hemiBTC Chainlink Feed Matters","What's next?"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 6, 2026","Partnerships","The Chainlink data standard unlocks highly secure hemiBTC markets across DeFi.","Hemi has adopted Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform, to power highly secure hemiBTC markets on Ethereum and Monad. The Chainlink data standard delivers every protocol a reliable, decentralized source of hemiBTC price data to unlock advanced markets.","This puts hemiBTC, Hemi's trust-minimized BTC asset, on equal footing with the most widely supported assets in DeFi, priced by the same market-leading Chainlink oracle infrastructure that secures the majority of DeFi.","Chainlink is the industry standard. The oracle platform operates across 81+ blockchains, delivers 2,000+ price feeds, and has enabled $30+ trillion in transaction value. It controls over 67% of the total oracle market, and secures more than $75 billion in value across DeFi.","Using Chainlink Price Feeds, hemiBTC now has an Ethereum and Monad price feed to securely and reliably put accurate hemiBTC price data on the chain where the majority of DeFi liquidity already lives.","Chainlink’s accurate decentralized price data enables:","Lending protocols on Ethereum and Monad to accept hemiBTC as collateral with real-time pricing that supports proper loan-to-value ratios and liquidation thresholds","BTC yield strategies to use a reliable price reference, making hemiBTC a viable base asset for structured products and onchain funds","Developers to build money markets, liquidity vaults, and more with integrated hemiBTC, without standing up custom oracle infrastructure","Institutional participants deploying hemiBTC into Ethereum and Monad get the same Chainlink data standard they already require everywhere else","Chainlink Price Feeds support for hemiBTC on Ethereum and Monad mainnet is live now.","Have questions about hemiBTC? Join the conversation in the community Discord, and visit the Hemi Portal to learn more.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-adopts-chainlink-to-power-hemibtc-lending-and-yield-across-defi"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-rust-runes-and-the-road-to-zk":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Rust, Runes, and ZK Proofs - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Rust, Runes, and ZK Proofs"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 12, 2026","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","This week's Midweek with Max covered updates on the OpReth transition, MinerFi, ZK provability, and a live veHEMI contract upgrade, plus an ordinals deep-dive from Marco and the usual wide-ranging Q&A with the community.","The OpGeth-to-OpReth switchover is moving along well, with local net testing underway and testnet access for node operators expected in the coming weeks. It sets the stage for a broader push on ZK provability. The first version of OpReth will give operators the option to run Oxygen, Hemi's new Rust-built Bitcoin indexer designed from the ground up for ZK compatibility, alongside the existing TBC indexer. Once that upgrade ships, ZK provability at the network level becomes active and unlocks ZK-based crosschain interoperability.","MinerFi continues to advance as well. The system, which allows users to onboard Bitcoin into DeFi through a static deposit address, is currently in end-to-end testing, with a private onchain testnet run also planned for this week. What started as a straightforward implementation has evolved into a fully ZK-proven threshold signature system with onchain auditability and fault attribution.","On the contract side, a veHEMI upgrade went live this week. It introduces support for new position types, simplifies rewards accounting, and improves the rewards split mechanism. A corresponding upgrade to the rewards distributor contract will activate with the next veHEMI distribution cycle.","Marco shared a look at early ordinal indexing work, with a PR submitted earlier in the day. Rune support is also being explored, though it requires more time given its complexity. The current work is taking place in OpGeth as a discovery phase, with the intent to transpile into Rust as the stack matures. Marco's broader vision is to bring Bitcoin's internals, including ordinals, runes, and eventually more directly into the HVM, using Bitcoin as the data layer and Hemi as the transfer layer. The ZK tunnel upgrade currently underway enables the other direction as well: taking EVM assets and tokenizing them onto Bitcoin as bearer instruments, be they ordinal NFTs or BRC-20s, that can be brought back to Hemi and redeemed for the underlying assets.","For those interested in early access to upcoming releases, including an NFT marketplace from community member Alpha and early OpReth builds, make sure you have the Beta Tester role in the Hemi Discord. Also keep an eye out for announcements on the next Built on Hemi stream featuring BitFi, with details to follow soon. Engineering Office Hours are tomorrow at 4 PM EDT in Discord.","Join Hemi's Discord to connect with the community and submit questions ahead of next week's Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every Tuesday at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT / 15:00 UTC.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-rust-runes-and-the-road-to-zk"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-opreth-minerfi-and-building-cool-stuff-on-bitcoin":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: opReth, MinerFi, and Building Cool Stuff on Bitcoin - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: opReth, MinerFi, and Building Cool Stuff on Bitcoin","Midweek with Max: opReth, MinerFi, and Building on Bitcoin"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 19, 2026","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","This week's Midweek with Max crossed a small milestone of its own, surpassing the combined episode counts of both Mad Men and Prison Break. The session leaned heavy on engineering progress and a wide-ranging set of community questions.","On the engineering side, the team is making strong progress on the opGeth to opReth translation. The move is partly driven by upstream Optimism's deprecation of opGeth, but it also opens the door to the broader ZK-provability work underway and integrates natively with existing ZK-proving infrastructure for EVM state transitions.","MinerFi continues to move forward as well. The protocol acts as a streamlined way to onboard and offboard Bitcoin into Hemi DeFi, using a single registered Bitcoin deposit address that automatically routes incoming BTC into yield strategies on the user's behalf. Final internal testing of the underlying threshold signature cryptography is underway, with auditing and a public testnet demonstration coming soon.","In parallel, a veHEMI upgrade is being pushed out to lay backend groundwork for governance and to enable veHEMI to be reused as a restaking system. Initially this rollout will be used for decentralizing Hemi protocols themselves. Then eventually as a permissionless economic security layer any developer can plug into it. A ZK proving marketplace beta is also on the near horizon.","Community questions ran long, with most of them circling hBitVM and what becomes possible once it lands. Max framed two parallel directions. The first is the familiar one: tunneling Bitcoin onto Hemi as an ERC-20, which hBitVM upgrades to a near-trustless, ZK-secured trust model. The second is the bigger unlock, writing applications that interact with native Bitcoin directly on the Bitcoin network, settled via hBitVM's ZK proof system. That opens the door to Bitcoin-backed stablecoins, native Bitcoin lending and derivatives, Bitcoin MEV marketplaces, smart wallets that hold ordinals or runes, native Bitcoin DEXs. It shows a flipped use case worth flagging: tokenizing EVM assets like USDC or ETH on Bitcoin and bringing them back as needed. As Max pointed out, Tether itself started life as a Bitcoin metaprotocol asset before migrating to Ethereum; there's no reason that flow couldn't run the other direction.","For Hemi event updates, join Built on Hemi returning later this week on Friday, May 22, at 12 PM PDT, 3 PM EDT, 7PM UTC, featuring BitFi Co-Founder Chelsea Zhang. Next week features the hBitVM Engineering AMA on Thursday morning at 6:00 AM PDT, 9:00 AM EDT and 1:00 PM UTC.","Join Hemi's Discord and catch next week's Midweek with Max episode live.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-opreth-minerfi-and-building-cool-stuff-on-bitcoin"},"/blog/hemibtc-reserves-are-now-independently-verified-by-accountable":{"version":1,"title":"hemiBTC Reserves Are Now Independently Verified By Accountable - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["hemiBTC Reserves Are Now Independently Verified By Accountable","Raising Industry Standards in Reserve Verification","Proof of Solvency for hemiBTC"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 20, 2026","Partnerships","Announcements","Accountable's Data Verification Network powers continuous Proof of Solvency for hemiBTC, with a live dashboard showing collateral ratio and reserves in real time.","Hemi is partnering with Accountable to bring continuous, cryptographic proof of solvency to hemiBTC.","When it comes to backing reserves, claims are the easy part. Continuously, cryptographically, and independently proving it is something else. Hemi is partnering with Accountable to make the latter the standard for hemiBTC.","Hemi runs a dedicated Accountable node deployed on its own segregated infrastructure. The node directly tracks reserve balances at the source.","From there, the node pulls live data from connected venues, generates cryptographic proofs of the reserves it observes, and reflects them on the Proof of Solvency dashboard, which can be viewed publicly by anyone.","Once captured, data is given integrity and identity guarantees using a range of cryptographic techniques, from API connectors to Trusted Execution Environments and zero-knowledge proofs. Every number in the report can be independently verified.","For hemiBTC, this means reserve and liability data are continuously verified at the source. That's the bar institutions require, and it's the bar hemiBTC now meets.","See the Proof of Solvency dashboard for hemiBTC, live at por.hemi.xyz.","Have questions about hemiBTC? Join the conversation in the Discord and visit the Hemi Portal to learn more.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemibtc-reserves-are-now-independently-verified-by-accountable"},"/blog/built-on-hemi-livestream-recap-bitfi":{"version":1,"title":"Built on Hemi Livestream Recap: BitFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Built on Hemi Livestream Recap: BitFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 22, 2026","Video","Hemi Partner Ama","Built on Hemi","Built on Hemi explores Hemi partner integrations and the wider ecosystem of DeFi.","This episode of Built on Hemi features Hemi Marketing Director Jeremy Nation, joined by BitFi Co-Founder Chelsea Zhang, as the two discuss BitFi’s platform, the greater DeFi ecosystem, and BitFi's deployments on Hemi.See the full recap:","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/built-on-hemi-livestream-recap-bitfi"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-opreth-testing-crosschain-ordinals-and-zk-markets":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: opReth Testing, Crosschain Ordinals, and ZK Markets - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: opReth Testing, Crosschain Ordinals, and ZK Markets"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 26, 2026","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Catch Midweek with Max, streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube, every Tuesday morning.","This week’s episode of Midweek with Max kicked off with the usual engineering updates, with progress on the opGeth-to-opReth transition, which is currently in testing and fuzzing. The ZK proving marketplace is on track for a limited public alpha in the next couple of weeks. On the side, the team is putting together an onchain Bitcoin and Ethereum-flavored capture-the-flag competition with challenges around things like bad randomness in betting contracts and some optional ZK and FHE puzzles for people who want to go deeper. More to come on that!","The Q&A session opened with two veHEMI questions from the post-upgrade dust that illuminated the audience on the fact that, by default, every position is self-delegated. The new adapter contract lets a governance partner do address-to-address delegation by batch-updating all your positions at once even though veHEMI itself still works on a per-position model under the hood. Any UI bugs should be sent to Discord via screenshot.","Questions touched on hemiBTC staking, revealing that the product is being reworked; the original Hemi Earn flow is being replaced with a new version built on a stablecoin primitive the team has been developing that is adapted as a Bitcoin staking protocol. As such, hemiBTC will be moved over to Ethereum and staked into this primitive for better yield.","Marco riffed on ordinals, and he and Max sketched out using Bitcoin as a data layer for moving assets crosschain, wrapping EVM assets into ordinals that can be moved around with Bitcoin's security and redeemed back on Hemi. Marco's hard-stop reminder before signing off: go engage with the open MetaMask PRs that add Bitcoin signing support:","https://github.com/MetaMask/core/pull/8548/","https://github.com/MetaMask/snap-bitcoin-wallet/pull/598","https://github.com/MetaMask/bitcoin-wallet-standard/pull/30","Don't miss the next Protocol Engineering Office Hours, held in the Hemi Discord this Wednesday May 27th, at 8:00 AM PDT, 11 AM EDT, and 15:00 UTC. Also, join the HBitVM AMA on Thursday, May 28th, at 6:00 AM PDT, 9 AM EDT, 13:00 UTC.","Join Hemi's Discord to submit your question and catch Midweek with Max episode streaming live every week on Tuesday, 8:00 AM PDT, 11 AM EDT, and 15:00 UTC, on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-opreth-testing-crosschain-ordinals-and-zk-markets"},"/blog/hemi-engineering-ama-recap-hbitvm":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Engineering AMA Recap: hBitVM - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Engineering AMA Recap: hBitVM"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","May 28, 2026","AMA","Video","hBitVM","The Hemi engineering team discusses ongoing network developments and answers community questions.","In this Hemi Engineering AMA, the team walked through hBitVM, Hemi's upcoming ZK-based Bitcoin tunneling protocol and the mechanism by which native BTC is locked on Bitcoin to mint hemiBTC, an ERC-20 representation usable across the Hemi network. At its core, hBitVM is two things layered together: the hBitVM proof system, and the tunneling protocol that relies on it. The proof system pairs Ethereum's Proof-of-Stake (PoS) with Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work (PoW) so that the two networks keep each other in check. Ethereum acts as a censorship-resistant publication layer for canonical state information, while Bitcoin PoW resolves the weak subjectivity of Ethereum's PoS by anchoring validator attestations into Bitcoin blocks within bounded time windows. The result is a self-contained proof over the combined state of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hemi that does not need to be validated against the context of any specific Bitcoin block.","The tunneling application is the first thing hBitVM unlocks: any ERC-20 use case, DEXs, lending markets, on-chain gaming, agentic payments, and more, translates one-to-one to native Bitcoin with end-to-end ZK-secured backing. But because the proof system was deliberately carved out as a reusable primitive rather than welded into a monolithic bridge, it opens the door to a broader class of Bitcoin-native DApps that clear and settle directly on Bitcoin itself. Listen to the full session:","View all","Midweek With Max","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-engineering-ama-recap-hbitvm"},"/blog/hemi-mainnet-outage-on-june-1-2026":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Mainnet Outage on June 1, 2026 - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Mainnet Outage on June 1, 2026"],"h2":["Node Operators","What Happens Next","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 1, 2026","Hemi","Announcements","Mainnet","All Hemi node operators must update immediately to continue syncing with the network. No funds are at risk.","Update: We have now published our complete post mortem with more details, available here.","On June 1, 2026, at around 15:00 UTC, the Hemi Engineering Team identified a critical Hemi Network issue that requires anyone running a Hemi Node to update in order to restore functionality.","The issue caused nodes to halt at block 4538215. We’ve fixed the issue and instructions are available below for anyone who is running a node. Users who are not running a node do not need to take any action.All nodes operated by Hemi, including the primary public RPC node (https://rpc.hemi.network/rpc), have been updated and the network is continuing to progress as normal.If you are using a third-party RPC node and experiencing issues, you may want to update your RPC endpoint to https://rpc.hemi.network/rpc temporarily while partners deploy the fix.","We have restored the network, and everything is now operating as normal. We are still verifying the root cause and will publish a full post mortem once our investigation is complete.","If you are a node operator, follow the steps below to restore full functionality:","If you are using hemilabs/hemi-node:","Update hemilabs/hemi-node repository to commit f517abbd80fa201ec70131b5403272139b234a77","Restart all containers with Docker compose down, then Docker compose up.","Other setups:","If you are running op-geth in a container, update your Hemi op-geth image to: ghcr.io/hemilabs/op-geth:05d4d8f@sha256:92d14f0b4b89947352d57743ce9e7f2d9c9e495f0bb861a24d21c49d391c7abf","If you are compiling directly from source, fetch commit 05d4d8f from GitHub and rebuild.","No changes to the op-geth configuration files or flags are required.","We are continuing to investigate and verify the root cause. A full technical post mortem will be published once our investigation is complete.","https://hemistatus.com/incident/910134","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-mainnet-outage-on-june-1-2026"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-mainnet-recovery-vehemi-rewards-and-ctf-details":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Mainnet Recovery, veHEMI Rewards, and CTF Details - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Mainnet Recovery, veHEMI Rewards, and CTF Details"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 3, 2026","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","This week's Midweek with Max opened on a note of transparency and resolution. A liveness incident on mainnet the previous day was identified, patched, and fully resolved by the time the session began. The root cause was a bug in an hVM precompile that turned out to have an exploitable L1-to-L2 force inclusion path not accounted for in the original impact model. The patch was rolled out swiftly, the network recovered cleanly, no funds were at risk, and there was no reorg. A full postmortem with technical details and process improvements is available on the Hemi blog.","On engineering updates, the op-reth migration continues with final testing and fuzzing underway. MinerFi is also moving along, with public testing targeted for the coming weeks. Join the Beta Testers channel in Discord to be among the first to participate. The Zero Knowledge (ZK) proving marketplace is similarly targeting a testnet beta for the community in the near future.","The HEMI token's broader utility got a thorough airing this week. Near-term, governance is the focus, and a platform integration is nearly complete to accomplish this, with early signals visible in recent GitHub commits for any scrutinizing eyes. Longer term, veHEMI restaking becomes the economic security engine powering MinerFi, hBitVM, and the ZK proving marketplace. A HEMI Improvement Proposal outlining the four-phase economic model is available for community review.","The next veHEMI rewards distribution is approximately two weeks out following the recent contract upgrade, with a new rewards contract also unlocking retroactive claims for holders who exited positions mid-cycle. Future testnet activity will be more targeted than the original points program, with specific tasks found in the Beta Testers channel, and bounties tied to participation as well as bug discovery.","Also in development: an onchain CTF competition built around smart contract exploits, insecure randomness, and HVM precompile challenges, with ZK proof submissions handling flag verification entirely onchain.","Built on Hemi returns this Friday, at 12:00 PM PDT, 3:00 PM EDT, 19:00 UTC, with DIA’s Head of Business Development, Dillon Hanson. And don't miss the next Protocol Engineering Office Hours, held in the Hemi Discord next Wednesday June 10, at 4:00 PM PDT, 7:00 PM EDT, and 23:00 UTC.","Join Hemi's Discord to submit your question and catch Midweek with Max episode streaming live every week on Tuesday, 8:00 AM PDT, 11 AM EDT, and 15:00 UTC, on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-mainnet-recovery-vehemi-rewards-and-ctf-details"},"/blog/built-on-hemi-livestream-recap-dia":{"version":1,"title":"Built on Hemi Livestream Recap: DIA - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Built on Hemi Livestream Recap: DIA"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 5, 2026","Built on Hemi","Video","Partnerships","Built on Hemi explores Hemi partner integrations and the wider ecosystem of DeFi.","This episode of Built on Hemi features Hemi Marketing Director, Jeremy Nation, joined by  Head of Business Development at DIA, Dillon Hanson, as the two discuss how the decentralized oracle protocol interfaces with Hemi and what that means for the data infrastructure powering the ecosystem.","See the full recap:","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/built-on-hemi-livestream-recap-dia"},"/blog/hemi-mainnet-outage-on-june-1-2026-post-mortem":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Mainnet Outage on June 1, 2026: Post Mortem - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Mainnet Outage on June 1, 2026: Post Mortem","Background","What happened","Timeline","Remediation and follow-up steps","Acknowledgements"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 2, 2026","Post Mortem","Mainnet","Outage","Updated 2026-06-24: Added an acknowledgement crediting the security researcher who reported this vulnerability.","On June 1, 2026, a hVM precompile call in a force-included transaction triggered a runtime error in the Hemi mainnet sequencer during block production, causing the sequencer to crash and halt the creation of blocks on Hemi mainnet.","Between 14:48 UTC and 16:50 UTC, Hemi Mainnet was unable to create new blocks or process transactions. This impacted anyone attempting to use the Hemi blockchain.","We’re very sorry for this incident. In this post, we explain what failed, why it occurred, and what we’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again.","The Hemi blockchain is based on Optimism, and contains a Bitcoin node embedded in the EVM which smart contracts can query via new precompiles introduced as part of Hemi’s “hVM” system.","These precompiles provide smart contracts with direct access to indexed Bitcoin state including consensus and transaction details, address/script balances, and output spend status.","Being based on Optimism, Hemi also inherits Optimism’s Ethereum-based anti-censorship mechanism allowing the force-inclusion of L2 transactions by sending the intended transaction to the Portal Proxy contract on Ethereum. This force-inclusion process bypasses the normal RPC transaction submission and P2P transaction propagation paths.","At 14:46:47 UTC on June 1, 2026, a transaction on Ethereum with hash 0xa5ff29629f9e4ba7bfbe4d58897c6eea2da4a4b5038487192413747363f09fc3 triggered the creation of a force-inclusion transaction on Hemi Mainnet, which called a hVM precompile call with malformed input that caused an runtime error panic, halting block production and chain progression.","This transaction called the hVM btcTxConfirmations precompile (address 0x43) with a 4-byte argument a82f7c66.","This precompile is meant to be called with a 32-byte TxID as the argument. The precompile execution implementation performs input validation and checks the input length, but was missing a crucial return/error path. As a result, execution fell through where the malformed input is parsed, resulting in the following runtime error crashing the Sequencer at 14:48 UTC:","This missing error return in the btcTxConfirmations precompile was a known bug found by internal review and independently reported through our bug bounty program, and was scheduled to be fixed in an upcoming network upgrade, as changing precompile behavior requires a coordinated deployment with all node operators to prevent chain state divergences.","The bug was incorrectly deemed a low-severity vulnerability on initial review because a regular L2 transaction that performed this malformed precompile call would only result in a runtime error in the goroutine handling the transaction on RPC submission or P2P broadcast, which would simply prevent the transaction from being accepted into the mempool and sequenced into a block.","However, the bug could also be triggered by an L1->L2 force-inclusion transaction which bypasses RPC submission and P2P transaction propagation, causing the runtime error to be triggered during the Sequencer’s block creation, resulting in the Sequencer entering a crash loop and being unable to progress the chain.","The force-inclusion protocol rule prevented us from implementing a simple fix in the sequencer, as all other Hemi nodes on the network would reject blocks produced by the Sequencer which did not include the force-included transaction within the permitted maximum inclusion time drift. This meant fixing the issue required a hard-fork and coordinating updating all external Hemi nodes with a patched version where the force-included invalid call to the btcTxConfirmations precompile would be handled gracefully.","After deploying the patched op-geth release (commit 05d4d8f), the Sequencer successfully processed the force-included transaction in block 4538216 and all updated nodes on the network accepted the block and continued synchronizing the chain properly.","Time","Description","2026-06-01 14:47 UTC","Transaction 0xa5ff...09fc3 is created on Ethereum L1.","2026-06-01 14:48 UTC","Hemi sequencer starts creating block 4538216 with the force-inclusion transaction from Ethereum L1, and crashes with a runtime error, halting the chain at block 4538215.IMPACT START","2026-06-01 14:51 UTC","DevOps and Protocol Engineering teams are alerted to the last Hemi mainnet block being created more than 3 minutes ago.","2026-06-01 14:57 UTC","DevOps and Protocol Engineering teams begin investigating the cause of the issue.","2026-06-01 15:12 UTC","Root cause is determined to be a missing return in input validation of the hVM btcTxConfirmations (0x43) precompile.","2026-06-01 15:36 UTC","Protocol Engineering team starts investigating whether a sequencer-only fix would be sufficient or if other nodes would continue to crash.","2026-06-01 15:40 UTC","Crash is determined to have been triggered by the creation of a force-inclusion transaction on Ethereum L1, which executed the btcTxConfirmations hVM precompile with invalid input, and could not be excluded by the sequencer.","2026-06-01 15:44 UTC","Decision is made to hard-fork and force an upgrade of all Hemi nodes to properly patch the bug.","2026-06-01 15:59 UTC","Patch is implemented in op-geth, and a new version of the hemilabs/op-geth image is published.","2026-06-01 16:15 UTC","Patched version of op-geth is deployed to a limited set of nodes for testing.","2026-06-01 16:48 UTC","Patch is confirmed to be working as expected and is rolled out to remaining op-geth nodes operated by Hemi.","2026-06-01 16:50 UTC","Sequencer creates block 4538216 with force-included problematic transaction.IMPACT END","2026-06-01 16:58 UTC","Coordination with partners to update nodes to the patched version begins.","2026-06-01 17:12 UTC","hemilabs/hemi-node is updated with the patched version of hemilabs/op-geth.","2026-06-01 22:42 UTC","All Hemi Mainnet P2P nodes are updated with the patched version of hemilabs/op-geth.","An updated release of op-geth with the appropriate fix and additional hVM precompile hardening has been released (hemilabs/op-geth:05d4d8f), and the hemilabs/hemi-node repository has been updated to use the new build.The fix for properly handling input sanitization for the btcTxConfirmations precompile was as follows:","If you operate Mainnet and/or Testnet Hemi nodes, please see the upgrade instructions here in order to keep your node synchronized with the network. Users of the network do not need to take any action.","This outage has highlighted the need for more robust layered defenses in critical paths in transaction processing / block building, a need for more rigorous internal review of the full impact surface of known/reported bugs, and further expansion of our automated testing procedures.","To prevent a recurrence of similar issues in the future, we are:","Adding a panic-recovery boundary to all hVM precompile call execution such that an unexpected fault in a precompile (either in the precompile processing code in the execution client, or the underlying Bitcoin indexer) will always be gracefully handled regardless of the underlying cause","Reviewing the rest of our execution and consensus client codebases for general robustness improvements and defense-in-depth layering beyond the hVM precompile surface","Expanding our automated testing, including robust test cases for hVM precompile calls including L1 force-inclusion paths, and adding our in-development hVM-aware fuzzing system to our automated tests","Reviewing our internal bug review procedures and allocating more team resources to our review process to ensure any bugs that are found internally or reported have a full impact investigation performed","We understand and apologize for the disruption this incident caused. Our team has learned a lot from this outage, and are actively making these improvements to ensure improved stability moving forward and to prevent similar future issues.","We want to thank Brahim Nah, who independently identified and reported this vulnerability through our Bugcrowd Bug Bounty Program ahead of this incident. Their report correctly identified the btcTxConfirmations input handling bug. As described above, we did not assess its full impact at the time, and that is on us, not the researcher. We are grateful for their responsible disclosure, and the review-process changes in our remediation steps are a direct result of it.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-mainnet-outage-on-june-1-2026-post-mortem"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-op-geth-hardening-and-the-ongoing-rust-transition":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: op-geth Hardening and the Ongoing Rust Transition - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: op-geth Hardening and the Ongoing Rust Transition"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 11, 2026","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","This week's Midweek with Max was a full house, and the session delivered across engineering, community, and marketing. Max revealed that a hardened release of op-geth is on its way, addressing several denial-of-service-type issues the team wants to fix proactively following last week's network incident. The update will be optional but recommended for node operators, and the team is working to get it out quickly.","The bigger technical story continues to be the op-reth transition. Testing and fuzzing are ramping up across both the legacy Bitcoin indexer mode, now running with a Rust RPC wrapper, and the new ZK-focused Oxygen indexer built for ZK-provability. Max confirmed a public alpha is targeted for within the next few weeks.","The most community-facing announcement was a capture-the-flag competition currently in development. The CTF will be fully onchain, scoring, flag validation, and leaderboard. It’s designed to accommodate a wide skill range, from developers who've written their first Solidity contract to ZK practitioners. Challenges will cover general cryptography, implementation mistakes in crypto libraries, onchain contract exploits ranging from basic reentrancy to multi-step crosschain attacks, and ZK and FHE categories as well. HVM-exclusive challenges are also planned to give builders hands-on practice writing Bitcoin-aware DeFi infrastructure. A tentative window of July or August is on the schedule for now.","A standout Q&A exchange covered Hemi's design philosophy around the liveness vs. safety tradeoff. Max's position was direct: safety wins. The hBitVM proof system enforces minimum thresholds of consensus power on both Bitcoin and Ethereum before a ZK proof can be computed. If those thresholds aren't met, the proof can't be constructed. His reasoning: a halted network is a manageable problem everyone can coordinate around; a fork or reorg gives attackers far more to work with. There's no such thing as absolute security, only relative hardness.","On the marketing side, Hemi's governance integration with Aragon has been announced. This week's Protocol Engineering Office Hours were held in Discord Wednesday evening at 4 PM EDT, so next week get ready for early AM office hours.","Join Hemi’s Discord and submit questions ahead of next week’s Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-op-geth-hardening-and-the-ongoing-rust-transition"},"/blog/dia-pricing-powers-hemibtc-collateral-on-morpho-via-clearstar’s-reactor-vault":{"version":1,"title":"DIA Pricing Powers hemiBTC Collateral on Morpho via Clearstar’s Reactor Vault - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["DIA Pricing Powers hemiBTC Collateral on Morpho via Clearstar’s Reactor Vault"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 11, 2026","Partnerships","The Clearstar Reactor vault prices hemiBTC using DIA Value, a reserve-backed oracle infrastructure integrated with Hemi.","hemiBTC just found a new home for onchain lending. The Clearstar Reactor hemiBTC vault is now live on Hemi through Solera's Morpho deployment, with $2.26M in available liquidity at launch.","Vault pricing is powered by Hemi's integration with DIA, to build fair value price feeds for hemiBTC. The oracle infrastructure is designed from the start to make hemiBTC work as lending collateral. DIA Value computes hemiBTC's price from verified BTC holdings across its underlying custody structures. The Clearstar vault is the first deployment to actually use it.","The vault is curated by Clearstar Labs, a risk curation team with Morpho vaults. Their setup here is consistent with what they've shipped elsewhere: deliberate collateral selection, defined risk parameters, and onchain monitoring.","Vault details:","Address: 0xA7dB73F80a173c31A1241Bf97F4452A07e443c6c","Network: Hemi (chain ID 43111)","Liquidity at launch: $2.26M","Curator: Clearstar Labs","Oracle: DIA (reserve-backed)","The vault is live, the liquidity is there, and the pricing is sound. Check it out.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/dia-pricing-powers-hemibtc-collateral-on-morpho-via-clearstar’s-reactor-vault"},"/blog/aragon-is-now-live-on-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Aragon Is Now Live On Hemi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Aragon Is Now Live On Hemi"],"h2":["The Industry Standard For Onchain Governance","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 9, 2026","Partnerships","Announcements","The integration brings secure onchain governance flows with granular permissions, staged approvals, timelocks, and vetoes to Hemi.","Hemi is integrating Aragon, the industry’s leading onchain governance platform, to bring structured, transparent decision-making to the Hemi network.","The integration deploys Aragon’s full smart contract framework on Hemi, giving projects access to a battle-tested toolkit built for serious protocol governance.","Aragon has become the go-to framework for onchain governance across the broader ecosystem, with a modular architecture that lets protocols configure permissions, voting windows, and approval thresholds. Aragon meets protocols where they are in their decentralization journey, and adapts those parameters as they grow. With this Hemi deployment, Aragon’s full smart contract suite is now available to any team building in the Hemi ecosystem. Hemi is also being indexed within Aragon’s infrastructure, meaning DAOs deployed on Hemi will surface natively in the Aragon UI. Users can access the complete governance experience, including proposal creation, voting, and execution without ever leaving the platform.","Explore the Aragon app and set up end-to-end protocol governance: https://www.aragon.org/get-started","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/aragon-is-now-live-on-hemi"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-ordinals-indexing-an-optional-update-and-mintora-s-launch":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Ordinals Indexing, an optional update, and Mintora's Launch - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Ordinals Indexing, an optional update, and Mintora's Launch"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 16, 2026","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","This Midweek with Max opened with the usual engineering updates. Max said that a hardened software release will ship to node operators as a recommended upgrade with no hard deadline, likely by the end of the week. Operators should plan to update once it lands.","Work on the op-geth to op-reth transition is also moving. The current build supports both the Tiny Bitcoin (TBC) daemon and Oxygen Bitcoin indexers, letting operators choose which to run for a given node setup rather than translating databases between them. TBC will be the officially supported indexer when op-reth ships. Oxygen will be available as an experimental beta, graduate to an equal peer over time, and eventually become the required indexer to enable the ZK features in development.","A community question on the anchoring of data to Bitcoin produced the deepest segment of the call. For small payloads, an OP_RETURN holds up to 80 bytes. Hemi uses the same mechanism to publish abbreviated keystone data to Bitcoin, and it suits hashes or IPFS references. Larger payloads can go directly onchain through Taproot commit-reveals, the approach Ordinals use, though Bitcoin block space makes that costly. The alternative is to write to Hemi like any EVM chain and let Proof-of-Proof timestamp it to Bitcoin, which adds programmability and contract storage while staying Bitcoin-anchored.","The headline community item: Mintora, a community-built NFT marketplace designed by Alpha, is now live at mintora.app. It supports buying and selling, customizable profiles and usernames, search, and both light and dark modes, and already surfaces legacy Hemi NFTs. A launchpad for users to mint their own tokens and NFTs is coming soon, along with planned Runes support and HAIRgames integration. Disclaimer: Although Mintora is built on Hemi's ecosystem, it is a community app, not an official product of Hemi. Hemi does not control Mintora, and is not responsible for what occurs when interacting with Mintora. As with any crypto ecosystem platform, it is advisable to conduct your own research before using it or confirming a transaction.","Otherwise on the community front, the Discord server’s HAIRgames Session 3 has closed, with prizes landing in roughly ten days and Season 4 starting imminently. Meanwhile, the Guild beta's public launch has moved past the 18th to resolve bugs surfaced in community feedback.","This week's Protocol Engineering Office Hours will be held in Discord on Wednesday morning at 8 AM EDT.","Join Hemi’s Discord and submit questions ahead of next week’s Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-ordinals-indexing-an-optional-update-and-mintora-s-launch"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-institutions-and-retail-one-click-yield-and-zk-to-btc":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Institutions and Retail, One-Click Yield, and ZK to BTC - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Institutions and Retail, One-Click Yield, and ZK to BTC"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 23, 2026","Midweek With Max","AMA","Video","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","This week's Midweek with Max leaned heavily into engineering updates. The op-reth fork is in final internal testing and bug fixing ahead of an initial alpha for the community to try. Get access in the Beta Testers channel on Discord. Hemi Earn ZK circuits are in internal audit now as well and headed to third-party review slated for July. Meanwhile, a ZK proving marketplace demo is coming to testnet, with a date yet to be confirmed. On other fronts, veHEMI is being extended into an economic collateral system that feeds Hemi Earn, and a minor hBitVM whitepaper update lands later this week.","In ZK developments, the Ethereum-side tunnel is approaching the internal testing phase. To exercise the full proof-of-proof flow, where Ethereum attestation data gets published to Bitcoin so that Bitcoin's proof-of-work helps defend the ZK verifier against nothing-at-stake attacks, the team needs a network with real, active validators. That likely means spinning up a short-lived \"zkNet\" rather than upgrading the current testnet, and it's something the community will be invited to stress-test once it's ready. In the same spirit, Oxygen is slated to be open-sourced soon, so anyone curious about how Hemi approaches ZK-proving Bitcoin will be able to dig into it directly.","Looking ahead, the onchain Capture the Flag is still in the works full of challenges relating to ZK proofs, Bitcoin, general cryptography, and smart-contracts across team and individual tracks. Expect it to run over a weekend on Hemi, Bitcoin, and Ethereum testnets, and to be deliberately approachable for newcomers who want to learn by breaking things.","Tomorrow at 8:00 AM PDT, 11:00 AM EDT, 15:00 UTC, Protocol Engineering Office Hours hold their final Discord session before moving to a wider streaming format across X, LinkedIn, and YouTube. In addition, given the community’s demonstrated preference, Protocol Engineering Office Hours will no longer be held during evening hours.","Join Hemi’s Discord and submit questions ahead of next week’s Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-institutions-and-retail-one-click-yield-and-zk-to-btc"},"/blog/hemi-protocol-engineering-ama-recap-op-reth":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Protocol Engineering AMA Recap: op-reth - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Hemi Protocol Engineering AMA Recap: op-reth"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 26, 2026","AMA","Zk Proofs","Hemi","The Hemi team's AMA answered questions around op-reth, a Rust-based execution client Hemi is migrating to from op-geth","This AMA’s core topic was the op-geth to op-reth migration, driven by two things: Optimism's deprecation of op-geth, and the need for Rust-based guest Virtual Machines (VMs) for Zero Knowledge (ZK) provability. As of now, op-reth runs as a live peer and will become the primary implementation.","The discussion covered how op-reth interacts with the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM), and what remains on the road to ZK provability. On architecture: REVM is the Rust EVM that op-reth uses as its execution engine. The Hemi-specific pieces, which include the hVM Bitcoin precompiles backed by the TBC indexer, the block-progression component, and the two custom transaction types, are being translated from op-geth over to op-reth and REVM.","The heart of the talk was ZK provability. TBC's flat database can't be proven in a ZKVM, so Oxygen, a Rust reimplementation of TBC, folds most of the indexer's records into a Merkle Patricia tree, allowing authenticated queries and efficient proving of state transitions. The roadmap involves four, or potentially five, ZKVM guest programs covering Oxygen indexing, the HVM precompiles, the EVM state transition, and the block-derivation pipeline. It also encompasses additional proving layers for the hemiBTC tunnel and a PoP update that publishes Ethereum attestation data to Bitcoin. Oxygen is essentially done pending review and audit.","Shorter threads touched on why Rust dominates ZKVMs, and careful use of AI tooling for catching translation edge cases.","Listen to the entire AMA:","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/hemi-protocol-engineering-ama-recap-op-reth"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-the-zk-stack-comes-together-and-a-bitcoin-wishlist":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: The ZK Stack Comes Together and a Bitcoin Wishlist - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: The ZK Stack Comes Together and a Bitcoin Wishlist"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 30, 2026","Midweek With Max","AMA","Video","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","This week, Max opened the show with a status report on the ZK work, the central theme of which was convergence. Several workstreams that have been running in parallel are now being glued together and tested end to end.","The op-reth conversion and its downstream crates are mostly finished and running inside the zkVM proving setup. To support end-to-end testing, the team is standing up a Hoodi-based internal Ethereum proof-of-stake testnet, which the Ethereum tunnel does not strictly need for ZK testing but which hBitVM will need later for its Ethereum attestations.","The bigger technical update was a rework of how Hemi proves its precompiles. For a leaner end-to-end proof, the team is folding precompile execution into the HVM state transition function itself, feeding in only the slice of the Oxygen tree each call needs, while keeping the heavier Oxygen state transition proof separate for anyone who wants to specialize in it","Vetro is now live, and the launch comes with incentive campaigns through partners StakeDAO and Beefy, to name a few, enabling solid APY/APR on stablecoin and hemiBTC yield opportunities. The opportunities include options that pair with hemiBTC as well as several pools already running directly, with more expected in the coming weeks.","Two pending distributions came up in the Q&A. PoP payouts, including unlocks for previously converted PoP points, are close. The delay comes from merging a set of op-geth stability improvements first, then layering the payout work on top, since the two have been living on separate branches. veHEMI staking rewards are in a similar spot: the recent veHEMI contract upgrade means a new rewards contract has to be deployed before distributions can go out, with the goal of getting those done by the end of the week. A minor UI fix for the APY display is also on the list.","On which Bitcoin protocol changes would matter most for Hemi over the next few years, Max mentioned with OP_CAT. Reactivating it would ultimately lower the minimums for creating hBitVM ZK vaults, allow more prover diversity, and reduce how often users have to route through the liquidity-wrapper path instead of the vaults directly. Covenants, depending on the version, could shrink or remove the covenant-emulation overhead baked into each vault's Bitcoin transaction graph.","On the community side, HAIR Games Season 5 is live, now with leaderboard bonuses for holders of the Fire Hatchling and Hemi first-anniversary NFTs, plus HEMI rewards. Engineering office hours are moving to StreamYard on a biweekly cadence, streaming to YouTube, X, and LinkedIn, and Midweek with Max continues every Tuesday at 8:00 AM PDT,  11:00 AM EDT, 15:00 UTC.","Join Hemi’s Discord and submit questions ahead of next week’s Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-the-zk-stack-comes-together-and-a-bitcoin-wishlist"},"/blog/built-on-hemi-recap-accountable":{"version":1,"title":"Built On Hemi Recap: Accountable - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Built On Hemi Recap: Accountable"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jun 26, 2026","Video","AMA","Built on Hemi","On the latest Built on Hemi, Johnny Bieniek, Head of Business Development at Accountable, joined the show to talk through the work behind hemiBTC's live proof-of-solvency dashboard at por.hemi.xyz. Accountable's job is to prove that the value behind a token is actually there, and to do so continuously, not through the occasional static attestation. Bieniek explained why that matters: crypto markets never sleep, so Accountable's verification software doesn't either, refreshing hemiBTC's reserves and liabilities as often as every 15 minutes so anyone can confirm that every hemiBTC onchain is over-collateralized by the native BTC held in custody.","The conversation also zoomed out. Bieniek laid out verifiability as a spectrum, from unprovable claims, up through reading data directly from the source, trusted execution environments, and zero-knowledge proofs. A line was drawn between proof of reserves and proof of solvency, the latter tracking liabilities as well as assets for a fuller read on financial health.","Accountable lets protocols prove they're healthy without exposing their entire book, and that, much like smart contract audits went from optional to table stakes, real-time verification is on track to become a baseline expectation across the space.","See the whole episode:","View all","Midweek With Max","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/built-on-hemi-recap-accountable"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-tunnel-timelines-vetro-s-roadmap-and-governance-lessons":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Tunnel Timelines, A View Into Vetro, and Governance Lessons - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Tunnel Timelines, A View Into Vetro, and Governance Lessons"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 7, 2026","Midweek With Max","AMA","Video","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","The weekly session began with the usual engineering updates, leading with progress on the ZK proving side of op-reth. The team is closing out a set of edge-case fixes in the Oxygen zkVM guest so that unusually expensive Bitcoin blocks cannot be used to slow down proof verification, and running worst-case performance tests to make sure the ZK-proving marketplace prices jobs fairly.","Community questions turned quickly to the tunnel timeline. Two phases remain: the ZK side of the Ethereum tunnel, which the team expects to land toward the end of Q3, and the ZK side of the Bitcoin tunnel, the hBitVM design, targeted for Q4. Staking rewards for veHEMI are close too, waiting on one more contract deployment, and the pending PoP points distribution isn't far behind.","Vetro, now live, got a deeper explanation for anyone who missed the launch. Deposit a blue-chip stablecoin like USDC or USDT and receive VUSD, which can be staked into sVUSD to earn a share of the yield Vetro generates across its stablecoin strategies.","The call also touched on a recent governance exploit at Bonk DAO. In this case a single party or entity spent a small fraction of a treasury's value buying enough voting power to push through a proposal handing that treasury to themselves. It's close to exactly the scenario veHEMI is designed to make expensive: voting weight depends on how long tokens are locked, not just how many are held, so buying enough power to attack the protocol also means holding a large stake in the thing that attack would devalue.","The team also talked through why decentralized systems tend to hand over control gradually, often through a security council that can step in while participation and lockups mature, and confirmed Hemi runs an active SecOps team and a bug bounty program through BugCrowd alongside all of it.","Protocol Engineering Office Hours will resume their twice-monthly meeting, with a livestream on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn broadcasting next Wednesday at 8AM PDT / 11 AM EDT, where anyone is invited to join and ask their Hemi-related development questions.","Don’t forget to join Hemi’s Discord and submit questions ahead of next week’s Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-tunnel-timelines-vetro-s-roadmap-and-governance-lessons"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-phased-governance-deployment-and-open-source-oxygen":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Phased Governance Deployment and Open-Source Oxygen - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Phased Governance Deployment and Open-Source Oxygen"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 21, 2026","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","This week Max and the team covered how much of Hemi's ZK future is moving from design into testing. The wiring behind ZK proving is coming together and an internal ZK dev net is about to spin up. Elsewhere on engineering, the Fast Track components are in internal review ahead of a formal third-party audit. Meanwhile, Marco landed another round of performance gains on the Ordinals indexer while stress-testing it against denial-of-service and contrived-block scenarios so it holds up beyond happy-path mainnet traffic.","Two open-source milestones also landed: Hemi's internal backup-and-restore system is now open source and useful for anyone running a Hemi (or, with minor adaptation, any EVM) node, and the ZK Proving Marketplace demoed last week is essentially code complete and in final review.","Hemi’s governance was a core focus of the Q&A. Max explained how Aragon is deployed to Hemi and in final testing, and the rollout will be phased: early votes will cover lower-stakes decisions like funding community initiatives, then graduate toward higher-impact controls such as ZK proving verification parameters and chain economics like PoP rewards and revenue allocation. Expect a first vote, essentially a show of hands to confirm everyone can use the system, in the next four to six weeks.","The ZK conversation went deep on Oxygen, Hemi's framework for ZK proving Bitcoin, which will be open sourced soon and migrated into the Hemi network repo in pieces as it clears code review. Oxygen folds Bitcoin's data structure into something that looks much like Ethereum's Merkle Patricia trie, giving a single state root that makes Bitcoin far easier to prove over. That unlocks ZK proofs over essentially anything about Bitcoin, from UTXOs and transaction existence to spend status, fees, and chain geometry, opening a wide design space: natively settled Bitcoin derivatives, Bitcoin-backed loans and stablecoins, ZK proof of reserves, cross-chain Bitcoin DEXs, more secure light clients with uncensorable UTXO queries, and even a stripped-down \"diet hVM\" that lets other chains read proven Bitcoin data. Max has also been evaluating newer ZKVMs like Jolt and Zisk (the latter spun out of Polygon and still pre-alpha), and reiterated the case for multi-ZKVM proving across RISC Zero, SP1, and OpenVM as a defense against under-constraint bugs in any single system.","Governance rewards will be separated from base veHEMI incentives, and while the delegation split is still being finalized, it's likely to land in the 80/20 to 90/10 range: vote directly and you keep the full share, or delegate to someone you trust and they earn 10 to 20 percent for doing the work on your behalf. On veHEMI rewards distribution, it’s tentatively scheduled to go out in the next few weeks. Distributions are always cumulative, so a longer gap simply means a larger distribution covering the full period, and the next one will also unlock previously unclaimable rewards for past positions.","Looking to year-end goals, Max is looking at three sequential unlocks: ZK settlement to Ethereum, then Fast Track, and hBitVM, the full end-to-end ZK-proven Bitcoin tunnel.","Join Hemi's Discord and submit questions ahead of next week's Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-phased-governance-deployment-and-open-source-oxygen"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-a-live-zk-marketplace-ordinals-at-full-speed-and-sepolia-deprecation":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: A Live ZK Marketplace, Ordinals at Full Speed, and Sepolia Sunset - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: A Live ZK Marketplace, Ordinals at Full Speed, and Sepolia Sunset"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 14, 2026","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","This week, Max spun up the ZK Proving Marketplace on Hemi testnet in the middle of the call and walked everyone through it live, with jobs flowing in and a real miner picking them. The ZK Proving Marketplace is set up as a permissionless, multi-prover market for ZK compute, supporting SP1, RISC Zero, and OpenVM natively, with anyone able to add a new proof verifier and a veHEMI governance process blessing the official ones. Jobs are priced by Dutch auction: a request opens low and climbs until a prover stakes HEMI as collateral to lock it, gets paid at the price they locked if they deliver a valid proof in time, and gets slashed if they don't. On the other side is the ZK miner, an app you run on AMD, NVIDIA, or Intel GPUs (16 GB of VRAM or more), which simulates each job before claiming it so it never takes on work it can't finish. Best of all, it's getting close to public testing in the beta testers channel on Discord, so get yourself in there now.","On the Ordinals front, Marco came with a win of his own. Ordinals turned out to be far heavier than in testing, with some blocks taking well over ten and occasionally twenty seconds to index against hVM's twelve-second cadence. The fix came down to minimizing disk I/O, cutting an expensive leftover diagnostic, and taming database compaction during initial block download. The PR is at or near production ready, and Ordinals are ready to start moving toward testnet and mainnet, along with new hVM precompiles built for them.","On ongoing strategies, the team is targeting Q3 for Ethereum ZK settlement and Q4 for hBitVM, the essentially trustless, permissionless, end-to-end ZK-proven Bitcoin tunnel. Its real appeal for builders is everything that can be remixed from the same proof system: using Ethereum proof of stake and Bitcoin proof of work to keep each other honest, producing self-contained proofs that govern BTC locked in ZK vaults. That opens the door to natively settled Bitcoin DeFi, including BTC-cleared options and futures, Bitcoin-backed lending and stablecoins, and new peer-to-peer Bitcoin DEXs.","A few housekeeping notes rounded things out. On testnet, Ethereum is deprecating Sepolia, so the team is leaning on Hoodi for the ZK proving work that needs real Ethereum consensus, and there may be changes around the Hemi testnet depending on how the Glamsterdam upgrade lands.","Join Hemi’s Discord and submit questions ahead of next week’s Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","See this week's show:","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-a-live-zk-marketplace-ordinals-at-full-speed-and-sepolia-deprecation"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-hemi-arcade":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Hemi Arcade Games, Open-Source Oxygen, and Rewards Timelines - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Hemi Arcade Games, Open-Source Oxygen, and Rewards Timelines"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 27, 2026","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","This week's session leaned light on questions and heavy on things you can actually get your hands on, including the imminent announcement of a new community game-building contest.","The headline for builders and creators is a new game-building contest, launching in the Hemi Discord today. The task: build an onchain game that can live on the Hemi network and be featured in future seasons of Hair Games. There are three categories: Most Fun, Most Original, and Best Onchain Game. An announcement with official rules and guidelines is coming later today.","On the engineering side, Oxygen, the ZK prover for Bitcoin state, has wrapped its early alpha and is moving out of the development repo into the Hemi network repo, where it'll be open-sourced in pieces as it clears internal review. The op-geth hardening release that had been blocking other work is now merged and tentatively deployed, pending final testing before it rolls out to all infrastructure and partners, which clears the way to merge the PoP payout work from testnet into the mainnet release.","The veHEMI rewards distribution is coming this week or early next week. It runs on a new contract, covers the entire period since the last distribution regardless of how long you held your position, and unlocks historical rewards for people who withdrew old positions before going through the claim process. Governance is also inching forward: Aragon is now deployed on Hemi and in testing, after which the team plans a few small votes to exercise the process before moving on to more meaningful ones.","Zooming out, Max reaffirmed that Hemi's macro goal hasn't changed: building the programmability layer between Bitcoin and Ethereum. This remains so even as the how has evolved toward ZK provability and a Rust rewrite that both enables that work and eases the eventual transition off the Optimism stack.","Join Hemi's Discord and submit questions ahead of next week's Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-hemi-arcade"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-incentivized-zk-testing-wallet-security-and-the-arcade-contest":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Incentivized ZK Testing, Wallet Security, and the Arcade Contest - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Incentivized ZK Testing, Wallet Security, and the Arcade Contest"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 7, 2026","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","This week's session was a rescheduled Friday edition, moved to work around in-person team strategy meetings and travel. The in-person time paid off: the team used it to firm up rollout plans for the ZK Vaults powering hBitVM and the Bitcoin Tunnel.","On engineering, Max reported steady progress on the op-reth migration, Oxygen integration, and the broader ZK provability work, alongside cleanup on the ZK Market and ZK Miner. John has been reviewing the newer ZK Miner code and landing bug fixes; that codebase isn't open source yet, but the team expects to open it up before long. Elsewhere there were fixes to the Continuum daemon and continued testing, plus a milestone for \"Dave,\" Hemi's open-source backup tool, which the team has now confirmed works as intended.","The biggest outcome of the in-person strategy session was an incentivized testing plan for the ZK Market and ZK Miner system. Expect it to roll out on testnet in roughly three to four weeks, starting small and expanding based on interest and the quality of feedback. The early focus is on people running ZK miners for the market, with incentives for the proof-requester side (submitting jobs for bespoke ZK circuits) to follow. On the near-term release front, the op-geth hardening release is wrapping internal testing and should be available to node operators next week. It's a recommended, but non-urgent upgrade that will be announced on Discord.","Security took up a large part of the discussion, anchored by the recent Bitcoin cold wallet hack. The root cause came down to bad randomness; a dev-mode pseudo-random number generator that produced predictable keys. Max and John walked through practical defenses: layering your own entropy with a BIP39 passphrase, spreading funds across multiple hardware wallets, using a 2-of-3 multisig for resilience, and exploring social or time-based recovery.","The key caution was to never try to invent a \"random\" seed yourself. The team also acknowledged the bug-bounty triage backlog, driven by a flood of low-quality AI-generated submissions that every program in the industry is contending with, and reminded the community that important, high-confidence findings can be sent to security@hemi.xyz when the bounty program is paused.","On the creative side, the Hemi Arcade Game Contest is still running: submissions must be open source (MIT or ISC), published on GitHub or GitLab, and include an on-chain component, with a dedicated category for the most chain-centric designs. See the official contest rules to submit an entry before the deadline.","Join Hemi's Discord and submit questions ahead of next week's Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-incentivized-zk-testing-wallet-security-and-the-arcade-contest"},"/blog/announcing-the-hemi-arcade-game-contest":{"version":1,"title":"Announcing the Hemi Arcade Game Contest - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Announcing the Hemi Arcade Game Contest"],"h2":["Arcade Game Prize Categories and Payouts","Participation","Entry Requirements","Judging","Resources","Official Contest Rules","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Jul 28, 2026","Hemi","Community Highlight","Official Contest Rules and Guidelines","Attention Hemigos! In the spirit of HairGAMES, which is still going strong, we're launching a contest where YOU build the next great onchain video game.","Starting today, July 28, 2026 and running through August 13, 2026, your mission is simple: create a fully playable, onchain game. Submissions will be judged across prize-winning categories and must follow official guidelines and contest rules to be considered eligible.","Submissions will be judged across three prize-winning categories:","Most Fun: This award goes to the game that is genuinely fun, scary, funny, or you can’t put it down.","Best Onchain Game: This award goes to the build that truly embraces the blockchain ethos. We’re looking for decentralization, verifiability, and smart use of Hemi’s features. Think: manipulation-resistant randomness, provable player stats, or ZK proofs for hidden game states. Show us creative onchain primitives like tokenized assets or custom in-game economies that make the most of the tech.","Most Original: This award goes for innovation. We haven’t seen this game before. It doesn’t remind us of Doom, Final Fantasy, Castlevania, or PacMan…or it's unhinged in all the right ways.","For each category winner, prizes include:","Most Fun: 10,000 $HEMI and special edition Hemi Arcade hoodie and mug. Best Onchain Game: 10,000 $HEMI and special edition Hemi Arcade hoodie and mug. Most Original: 10,000 $HEMI and special edition Hemi Arcade hoodie and mug.Community Award: The highest voted game will receive 2,500 $HEMI tokens, a Hemi Arcade T-Shirt, and a spot in a future HAIR Games season.","Teams will split the token prize, but every member gets the merch.","To participate in the competition, create a post in the #game-contest channel in the official Hemi Discord server Submit as early as you like and iterate with feedback from the community. This is a chance for solo devs to shine, but teams of up to three are also welcome. Each person or team may submit up to two entries. Individuals may participate on only one team","Free to play - no entry fees, purchases, paywalls, or in-game payments of any kind. Hemi Network gas fees are permitted, as they are paid to the network rather than to the game.","Onchain, using only the Hemi Mainnet network. Work-in-progress submissions may use Hemi Testnet, but must be updated to use mainnet before judging begins.","Open-source, published on GitHub or GitLab","Permissively licensed (ISC or MIT only)","Hosted on Cloudflare Workers (preferred), Vercel or a similar platform","TypeScript, JavaScript and Solidity are recommended - any other language is accepted (and may score extra points with the team!)","Permission to be included in any future HAIR Games seasons.","Judging will take place on August 13th, 20:00 UTC (13:00 PDT, 16:00 EDT) during a very special Gaming Happy Hour hosted by the Hemi team where the top three winners for each category will be chosen. The top-voted submission will receive the Community Award.","Engineering Office Hours will be held on July 29th, 2026 at 15:00 UTC (9:00 AM PDT, 11:00 AM EDT), and again on August 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC (9:00 AM PDT, 11:00 AM EDT). During office hours, the team will be there live to answer questions about your build. Swap tips and ideas, get help, and show off your progress.","Want direct access to the team and a crew of fellow builders? Apply for the Builder role: run /apply role:Builder in the #bot-commands channel in the https://discord.gg/hemixyz.","All participants are expected to compete honestly and in good faith. As such, the following rules apply to every entry:","Entries must be original games created for this contest. The use of AI tools, libraries, game engines, and open-source components is permitted. However, submitting an existing or previously published project, cloning another game, or presenting work created by others as your own is prohibited. All third-party assets (art, audio, music, fonts, and similar materials) must be properly licensed and credited where required.","As onchain submissions, entries must not contain malicious functionality of any kind. This includes, but is not limited to, wallet-draining code, undisclosed token approvals, malicious smart contracts, and any logic that accesses or affects a player’s funds or data without their informed consent. Contracts must perform only the functions described by the game. Any entry designed to exploit, deceive, phish, or otherwise harm players will be disqualified and reported.","Entries must be fully playable before 15:00 EDT on August 13th. A submission should load and be completable by the judges and the community. Incomplete, non-functional, or non-genuine submissions will not be evaluated.","Each participant or team may submit a maximum of two entries. The use of multiple or alternate accounts to circumvent this limit is prohibited. Individuals may participate on only one team.","Community votes contribute to the results. Any attempt to manipulate voting is prohibited. The Hemi team reserves the right to discard any votes we suspect may be manipulated or even disqualify the associated entry.","All entries must be submitted to #game-contest before the 15:00 EDT on August 13th. Late submissions will not be accepted. At the time of submission, repositories must be public and permissively licensed. We recommend submitting your entry as early as possible, while it is still a work-in-progress to receive feedback from the community and have community members test the game.","Entries and participant conduct must comply with all applicable laws. Content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, or not safe for work is prohibited.","The Hemi team reserves the right to disqualify any entry that violates these rules or the spirit of the contest, and to amend or clarify these rules as needed. Participants with questions are encouraged to ask in the Hemi Discord server prior to submission.","Now go build something crazy! We can’t wait to see it.Updates to this postAugust 12, 2026 - Clarified that gas fees are permitted (games themselves must remain free to play). Increased maximum number of entries per individual or team from one to two. Updated submission deadline to 15:00 EDT on August 13th.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/announcing-the-hemi-arcade-game-contest"},"/blog/built-on-hemi-recap-vetro":{"version":1,"title":"Built on Hemi Recap: Vetro - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Built on Hemi Recap: Vetro"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 10, 2026","Built on Hemi","Video","Hemi Partner Ama","Hemi Marketing Director Jeremy Nation sat down with Vetro CTO and Co-Founder Akash Patel to talk through Vetro's approach to stablecoins, how it turns DeFi yield farming into a simple experience, and why Hemi is the network it's building on.At its core, Vetro is a new kind of stablecoin designed as an institutional treasury layer. Users deposit USDC, USDT, or FRX USD to mint VUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, and can then stake it into sVUSD to earn yield, with a soft target around 10%. The same pattern extends to Bitcoin through VETBTC and sVETBTC, currently yielding in the range of 5-7%. That’s strong returns for a BTC-denominated product.","A big part of the conversation centered on transparency and safety being built into the architecture rather than bolted on. Vetro runs a live analytics dashboard that shows in real time exactly where backend funds are deployed and how they're earning, an approach Akash traces directly back to his Maker days, where you could verify Dai's backing on-chain every block. VUSD stays pegged through atomic redemptions and DEX liquidity, and the protocol currently sits slightly over-collateralized. On the safety side, a 120-second cooldown on redemptions guards against flash-loan attacks, a seven-day cooldown on staked positions keeps backend yield strategies liquid, and a 1% peg circuit breaker built on Chainlink oracles pauses minting and redeeming if a backing asset ever drifts off its peg.","The Hemi connection runs deep. The teams overlap, governance for Vetro is destined to live on the Hemi chain, and Hemi Earn already uses Vetro under the hood to source yield across DeFi. Vetro is also omnichain via LayerZero, so VUSD and sVUSD can move across Ethereum, Hemi, Arbitrum, Base, BNB Chain, and Avalanche with minimal fees and no wrapping or bridging.","To learn more about Vetro, visit app.vetro.org, read the docs at docs.vetro.org, or follow @vetro_org on X.","See the whole episode:","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/built-on-hemi-recap-vetro"},"/blog/brownfi-algebra-finance-and-merkl-partner-to-build-hemi-liquidity-hub":{"version":1,"title":"BrownFi, Algebra Finance, and Merkl Partner to Build Hemi Liquidity Hub - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["BrownFi, Algebra Finance, and Merkl Partner to Build Hemi Liquidity Hub"],"h2":["What it means for Hemi users","What it means for Hemi developers","Get involved","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 11, 2026","Partnerships","Announcements","Defi","BrownFi is building a liquidity hub on Hemi, with support from Algebra Finance and Merkl.","Hemi is the first network where BrownFi deploys both AMM models. The CLAMM layer, powered by Algebra Integral, goes first, with the oracle-based layer to follow once the infrastructure is ready. Each model runs independently, serving different use cases: BrownFi’s oracle-based AMM is permissioned and monitored by professional market makers, minimizes IL and maximizes yield for LPs, while CLAMM layer is permissionless, allowing anyone to create new pools for new listings and low-volume assets. Together on Hemi, they cover the full market under one liquidity hub, with Merkl handling incentive distribution.","No stranger to DeFi, Algebra powers 50+ AMMs clearing over $200B in cumulative trading volume. Its modular design lets pools be enabled, disabled, or upgraded through V4 plugins without LPs ever withdrawing liquidity, so there's no migration. Gas runs anywhere from 7 to 22% cheaper than Uniswap V3.","Since plugins sit on top of the core rather than within, BrownFi can add dynamic fees, IL-mitigation, or custom incentive layers over time without rewriting the core contract or moving anyone's liquidity.","Concentrated liquidity puts capital where trading actually happens, letting pools quote tighter prices on less TVL. Dynamic fees track volatility instead of sitting at a fixed tier, tightening prices in calm markets and paying LPs more when markets move.","Lower gas trims the cost of every swap and position adjustment, and with incentives routed through Merkl, LP rewards are distributed transparently and can target specific pools rather than the whole DEX.","BrownFi’s goal on Hemi is to become a high capital efficiency liquidity hub that other protocols can route through. The permissionless CLAMM layer makes it straightforward to bootstrap liquidity for any new token or pair, lowering the barrier for projects that need a trading venue from day one. The oracle-based AMM, coming later, opens the door to more complex applications: delta-neutral strategies, vault integrations, algo-stable coin design, and liquidity-as-a-service powered by professional market makers. More details on those will be announced later.","BrownFi is live at https://app.brownfi.io/clamm/pool. Deploy your assets into incentivized pools and start stacking rewards.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/brownfi-algebra-finance-and-merkl-partner-to-build-hemi-liquidity-hub"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-hemi-arcade-deadline-closes-in-zk-proving-ramps-up":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Hemi Arcade Deadline Closes In, ZK Proving Ramps Up - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Hemi Arcade Deadline Closes In, ZK Proving Ramps Up"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 12, 2026","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","Midweek with Max returned this Tuesday at its usual cadence following last week’s special Friday edition of the show. Max kicked things off and front-ran the calendar: the final countdown is on for the Hemi Arcade Game Contest submission deadline, so if you're building something and wrestling with a bug, a blockchain question, or just want a second set of eyes, Discord is still open to you to get your questions in front of engineers who can help. This coming Thursday afternoon, around 4 PM Eastern, the Hemi Arcade Game Happy Hour goes live, where the team will actually play the submissions and crown the winners.","On the engineering side, the team is still deep in the ZK-proving work. Oxygen is running inside the Kona framework, with proving currently being tested against Kailua and, soon, the SP1 variant with OP-Succinct. Max also walked through improvements and bug fixes to the FastTrack system which handles faster Bitcoin on-and-off-boarding and feeds directly into the Hemi Earn product the team is building out. Another bit of fine news for node runners everywhere: Dave, our backup-and-restore system, is continuing to improve. The team uses it internally, but it's open source and works for Hemi nodes, general EVM nodes, and other Optimism-style L2s, so if you're running infrastructure, it's yours to use or contribute to.","There's plenty happening on the tokenomics front, too. The veHEMI distribution is going out this week, and a HIPPO is landing tomorrow or Thursday to preview a new set of economic parameters, most notably a 75/25 revenue split between voluntary locked and involuntary locked positions, with the full breakdown to come in the post itself. It ships alongside a new distribution contract that fixes a lingering issue: anyone who had yield on positions they'd already withdrawn or that expired will now be able to claim that back-yield, plus the yield from this week's new distribution. Staking rewards are finally arriving this week as well — the delay came down to balancing incentives across a new class of positions — and while there's still no update on VBK, that distribution is very much still coming. The OG role remains on the way too; as a small team juggling ZK-proofability, hBitVM, and the FastTrack bridge work, it's had to take a backseat, but it hasn't been forgotten.","On the marketing front, a big announcement with our partners at BrownFi is now live, offering a fresh opportunity to put Bitcoin and other assets to work and pick up some incentives along the way. And with Clayton back in the mix, another episode of the Hemi Test blog series is on deck for this week. Details on all of it are coming shortly, so stay tuned to the channels.","Join Hemi's Discord and submit questions ahead of next week's Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-hemi-arcade-deadline-closes-in-zk-proving-ramps-up"},"/blog/testing-hemi-part-3-reproduction-of-production-issues":{"version":1,"title":"Testing Hemi Part 3: Reproduction of Production Issues - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Testing Hemi Part 3: Reproduction of Production Issues"],"h2":["Event Summary","First Steps","Getting the Fix In","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 13, 2026","Testing Hemi explores ongoing operational procedures and protocols related to how our engineers keep Hemi secure and functional.","The most recent Testing Hemi entry looked into Hemitrap, an isolated test-case environment, which is ideal for verifying that the network behaves as expected under known conditions. However, on occasion, network issues take place in the wild, and these unknown conditions can lead to production issues. Case in point, if you’ve been following Hemi, you’ll likely know that there was a production issue that affected our mainnet on June 1, 2026.","This article discusses how Hemi engineers fixed the issue and tested to verify the fix.","From the link, the issue can be summarized as follows:","On June 1, 2026, a hVM precompile call in a force-included transaction triggered a runtime error in the Hemi mainnet sequencer during block production, causing the sequencer to crash and halt the creation of blocks on Hemi mainnet.","This transaction had called the hVM btcTxConfirmations precompile (address 0x43) with a 4-byte argument a82f7c66.","As a result, execution fell through where the malformed input is parsed, resulting in the following runtime error crashing the Sequencer at 14:48 UTC:","panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range [:32] with capacity 4","“Fixing” this issue involves more than just application-code changes (i.e. changes to the node running code itself), but also includes a reproduction of this issue in an automated environment that can be run (and thus, re-tested) with ease.","We can use Localnet to reproduce this issue, then update the versions of its nodes to include the fix for this issue. When the test that reproduced the issues passes, there is a high level of certainty the issue is fixed.","For the purposes of testing and analysis, having determined the issue, how it occurred, and what effect to look for during reproduction, we would first reproduce it in a local environment.","Here you can see how we reproduce the issue in Localnet: https://github.com/hemilabs/heminetwork/pull/1073/changes#diff-5c0b4a0b7ea94796944734990d274feafd2a85343b2a960197c5fc4d85ce700bR2759","If you were to parse the “data” that is sent with the transaction, you can see that it performs the action that caused the issue: it sends a 4-byte argument to the btcTxConfirmations precompile (at 0x43).","This will reproduce this error, if op-geth is on a commit before June 1:","The fix for this issue is bundled into this pull request: https://github.com/hemilabs/op-geth/pull/89","We can use the latest commit that includes those changes in Localnet’s op-geth. For this article, we used the latest commit on the main hemi branch of op-geth at the time of writing: https://github.com/hemilabs/heminetwork/pull/1073/changes#diff-3fe0739cd0d664f6370edbace2a77b45915320c622b234dbc51ebac30a1c7295R7","Then we can re-run the changes that reproduce the production error and… voila! The tests all pass, including the one that reproduces the production issue that we faced. https://github.com/hemilabs/heminetwork/actions/runs/29942619812","Now, we have a high-degree of confidence that we have fixed the issue that had occurred.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/testing-hemi-part-3-reproduction-of-production-issues"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-hemi-arcade-winners-announced-staking-rewards-staged":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Hemi Arcade Winners Announced, Staking Rewards Staged - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Hemi Arcade Winners Announced, Staking Rewards Staged"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 19, 2026","Video","Midweek With Max","AMA","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","Midweek with Max ran a little differently this Tuesday, with Jeremy filling in as host. The show’s main event: the much anticipated Hemi Arcade Game Contest winners announcement. Six contestants stood out among the ten submissions:","Winners receive 10,000 HEMI plus a special-edition Arcade hoodie and mug, and everyone who submitted but didn't win still gets 2,500 HEMI and an Arcade t-shirt.","More seasons are coming with expanded categories, so feedback on the format is welcome in Discord, where moderators will also collect shipping details.","On the engineering side, the ZK-proveability conversion continues, with internal end-to-end testing next. Elsewhere: bug fixes and code review on FastTrack, more improvements to Dave, and some infrastructure right-sizing. The ZK miner picked up fixes for nonce edge cases under latency and RPC limits, and the ZK market UI is moving to a dedicated backend indexer so pages like long-term stats don't have to hit Hemi RPC directly. Public testing is a couple of weeks out, and an internal demo of Hemi's in-house DEX is spinning up too.","The veHEMI reward contract is staged and ready: deploy it, configure the old positions, then the apps team flips the UI to the new address; hopefully today, tomorrow at the latest. Another reminder that rewards accrued the whole time, so this distribution covers the full stretch since the last one. Going forward, expect a cadence somewhere between six weeks and two months, with a timing commitment landing in the upcoming HIPPO on payout methodology.","On the marketing front, the BrownFi pool has crossed $100,000 in TVL, and BrownFi joins Built on Hemi on Friday, August 28th at 8 AM Pacific. Reports on opportunities across Hemi and its adjacent ecosystems will be staged on the website in the near future.","Join Hemi's Discord and submit questions ahead of next week's Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-hemi-arcade-winners-announced-staking-rewards-staged"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-a-first-look-at-the-new-vehemi":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: A First Look at the New veHEMI - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: A First Look at the New veHEMI"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 27, 2026","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","This week's Midweek with Max ran with a smaller group than usual, but the session still packed in engineering updates, some of the deepest community questions in recent memory, and a live preview of the redesigned veHEMI staking dashboard.","On the engineering side, Max shared that he has been running differential testing and fuzzing on op-reth, both the TBC and Oxygen versions, against op-geth as the golden sample, surfacing small edge cases now being fixed. FastTrack saw continued hardening, while the ZK marketplace and ZK miner went through the cleanup needed ahead of a public beta release, with more details expected next week. The updated PoP payout algorithm is also close, and since the last veHEMI distribution, the network has generated roughly eight ETH in fees.","On sequencer decentralization, Max pointed to Q1–Q2 of next year, after hBitVM. The design is essentially a clone of Ethereum's proof of stake, chosen because it scales to an effectively unlimited validator set so smaller holders can participate, and because Proof-of-Proof already bookends consensus with Bitcoin finality, Hemi can prioritize liveness and let the network naturally heal from even a major consensus outage or attack. On the roadmap, the order is FastTrack, then the OpReth conversion and Oxygen, which make the entire network ZK-provable and unlock ZK settlement to Ethereum and then hBitVM, followed by the decentralized sequencer, the decentralized publisher, and the Chain Builder roadmap.","The session closed with a mock-up demo of the new veHEMI dashboard: global and personal staking stats, a time-series view of how your positions blend and decay over time, per-position governance delegation, and rewards moving to a predictable, forward epoch-based model built on the contract's roughly six-day epochs. It's a work in progress, with a community poll planned once the design firms up. Longer term, veHEMI is set to become a full economic security system, letting holders restake into decentralized sequencing, hBitVM covenant emulation, the FastBridge threshold signature scheme, and beyond.","Hemi Arcade merch lands this week.","Join Hemi's Discord and submit questions ahead of next week's Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-a-first-look-at-the-new-vehemi"},"/blog/built-on-hemi-recap-brownfi":{"version":1,"title":"Built on Hemi Recap: BrownFi - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Built on Hemi Recap: BrownFi"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Aug 31, 2026","Built on Hemi","Hemi Partner Ama","Video","On this episode of Built on Hemi, Jeremy sat down with Jason Vue, co-founder and growth lead at BrownFi, an oracle-based automated market maker designed for high capital efficiency and minimal impermanent loss. Jason's DeFi roots run deep, with stints at Kyber Network and Krystal DeFi before joining BrownFi's founding team, drawn in by a model that promised the low impermanent loss of Uniswap v2 with the higher yields of Uniswap v3.","The conversation dug into what makes BrownFi different under the hood. Rather than deriving prices from a constant product curve, BrownFi pulls from external oracle feeds and TWAP data, so pools always quote near the real market price and leave nothing on the table for arbitrageurs. Jason also walked through the three layers BrownFi uses to neutralize toxic flow, and why the same oracle-based design makes sandwich attacks, in his words, almost impossible.","Jason also shared why Hemi resonated with the BrownFi team: trust. Bitcoin holders are conservative on purpose, and Hemi lets them tunnel BTC onchain and put hemiBTC to work in DeFi without handing their keys to a custodian. Rather than trading wrapped derivatives on someone else's chain, builders on Hemi are creating a playground that still feels like the home of Bitcoin, and BrownFi wants to be the venue where that idle liquidity finally goes to work.","The momentum is already showing. BrownFi's incentivized pools on Hemi crossed $200K in TVL within weeks of launch, and the team isn't slowing down, with limit orders, auto-compounding vaults, delta-hedging strategies, and eventually the oracle-based model itself all on the Hemi roadmap, alongside a shared ambition to bring tokenized stocks, commodities, and other real-world assets into the mix. The liquidity incentives campaign, sponsored by Hemi and partners, runs through January, with pools currently returning USDC yields worth a look.","Catch the full conversation:","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/built-on-hemi-recap-brownfi"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-staking-rework-zk-testing-and-turbo-arcade":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Staking Rework, ZK Testing, and Turbo Arcade - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Staking Rework, ZK Testing, and Turbo Arcade"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 1, 2026","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","This week's session opened with engineering progress on several fronts. The op-reth transition is deep in testing, a step that moves the network closer to full ZK proving and, ultimately, hBitVM. New code is being merged for the FastTrack component of Hemi Earn, and the ZK Marketplace is approaching the community testing phase soon.","The biggest news came on staking, as Max confirmed the team is reworking the staking system. Tokens carved out for staking rewards in the original tokenomics remain untouched, and the redesign will finally put them to work. Details are still being finalized internally, but expect announcements in the next week or two, and those who have been staking through the current system will benefit. The current veHEMI distribution has been delayed to accommodate upgrades the team believes will be worth the wait, and the VBK distribution remains in the pipeline.","On veHEMI unstaking updates, there will at minimum be a narrow early exit with a penalty for the economic security and restaking system, so misbehaving participants' positions can be liquidated to make harmed users whole. Opening that up more broadly, which would let veHEMI serve as DeFi collateral, is still being weighed. Elsewhere, updated circulating supply figures, which come in below original projections, are headed to CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko.","Connecting the latest gaming craze on Hemi to yield dynamics, Max laid out how sustainable yield only happens on a network that is alive and used. Games bring in users and developers, generate transaction volume, and let builders gain confidence onchain in a low-risk way before they take on higher-stakes DeFi work.","Max also previewed the upcoming capture the flag, tentatively targeting late October. Challenges will span ZKVM soundness exploits, re-entrancy attacks, and bad randomness, designed with clear goals rather than red herrings, with modest prizes, first-solve rewards, and no anti-AI rules. Community challenge ideas are welcome.","On the community side, Hemi Games Season Eight is live and runs for about a month. Hemi Arcade 2 Turbo Edition should be launching Monday, September 7 and runs through October 29, barring any delays. A longer campaign is in store this time, with a creative contest for builder merch designs coming alongside it. Check out the new Hemi Arcade merch and save 25% off with the special code: MAXHAIR when you check out.","Congratulations go out to Samstar, August's Hemigo of the Month. This Friday's Built on Hemi features Algebra, whose CLAMM infrastructure powers the BrownFi liquidity campaign and its roughly five months of incentivized pools. And next week, Sacred Waste joins both Midweek with Max and Protocol Engineering Office Hours, Tuesday and Wednesday at 11 AM EDT.","Join Hemi's Discord and and submit questions ahead of next week's Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-staking-rework-zk-testing-and-turbo-arcade"},"/blog/built-on-hemi-recap-algebra":{"version":1,"title":"Built on Hemi Recap: Algebra - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Built on Hemi Recap: Algebra"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 4, 2026","Built on Hemi","Hemi Partner Ama","Video","Last episode, Jason from BrownFi walked us through the concentrated liquidity pools trading on Hemi. This week we went a layer down with Vladimir Tikhomirov, co-founder of Algebra, the infrastructure those pools run on and the same infrastructure behind more than a hundred exchanges across dozens of chains.","Vladimir came into crypto in 2017 by way of a computer science PhD, years at Motorola, and his own software company. Algebra itself started as a DEX on Polygon, and the launch taught the team a hard lesson: a working product is only half of it, and without trust, community, and marketing, nobody shows up. When larger exchanges noticed Algebra's algorithms outperformed theirs on less liquidity, a partnership followed, and the business model became clear. Plenty of teams can do marketing, but far fewer can build the technology.","The core of that technology is a split design. Liquidity sits in secured, immutable pools, while upgradeable plugins live on top. A plugin cannot touch the swap math or withdraw liquidity, but it can adjust fees, check external prices, and halt a trade when a spread looks wrong. On BrownFi's pools, only BrownFi decides which plugins attach, which puts vetting responsibility with the operator rather than leaving it open.","The conversation covered the rest of the toolkit too: dynamic fees that rise in volatile markets and fall in flat ones to maximize LP revenue, an automated liquidity manager Vladimir called better than human behavior but no guarantee of profit, anti-snipe protection that blocks adding and removing liquidity in the same block, and a TWAP oracle in every pool that keeps rebalancing logic and lending protocols from being tricked by a single large trade.","On why this matters for Hemi builders, Vladimir was direct. Every major aggregator already recognizes Algebra's contracts, so a new DEX built on them gets routed almost automatically. Ideas from any Algebra deployment work on all of them, and BrownFi inherits every improvement. His invitation to the community was simple: it is easy to start, activity on Hemi is still building, and anyone who ships gets the attention.","Watch the full episode:","View all","Midweek With Max","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/built-on-hemi-recap-algebra"},"/blog/genesis-drop-exploit-september-7-2026-post-mortem":{"version":1,"title":"Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem"],"h2":["Background","What happened","Timeline","What was taken","Actions taken","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition","Built on Hemi Recap: Algebra"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 8, 2026","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","On September 7, 2026, at 03:36:47 UTC, an attacker exploited the legacy MerkleBox contract behind Hemi's Genesis Drop, draining approximately 124.5 million unclaimed HEMI tokens.","The attacker immediately liquidated the stolen HEMI tokens for stablecoins using DEXes on Hemi, exfiltrated the stablecoins to other networks, and swapped them for ETH on the Ethereum network. No stolen HEMI tokens remain under attacker control.","The exploit is isolated to the Genesis Drop claim smart contract. The HEMI and veHEMI tokens, Hemi hVM, and other Hemi smart contracts, services and systems, including the native Tunnels and 3rd party bridging/cross-chain messaging systems, are not affected.","This post covers what occurred, what was taken, and ongoing actions.","Hemi’s Genesis Drop was the initial distribution of HEMI to early users. Claims ran through the Hemi Portal's Genesis Drop page. The claim contract, MerkleBox, lets a funder deposit tokens along with a Merkle root of (address, amount) pairs as a claim group; each recipient then claims by submitting a Merkle proof corresponding to their claimable tokens in the claim group. Any address can create a claim group, and every group draws on one HEMI balance held by the contract, with per-group accounting recording what each group is owed. The Genesis Drop deployment ran a modified version of that contract, and the modification exists only in this deployment. It added the lockup parameters to claim() and, during a claim, called a lockup contract configured per claim group to create the veHEMI position. The same deployment was reused for later reward distributions, including the Spectra and DODO points drop, and allocations that were never claimed stayed in it.","The exploited contract is the Genesis Drop MerkleBox on Hemi.","On September 7, 2026 at 03:35:23 UTC, the attacker deployed three contracts which would be used in the exploit:","An Orchestrator contract serving as the entrypoint for executing the attack and as the deployer of the additional 2 related contracts","A Claim-group creator, responsible for creating new attacker-specified claim groups in the MerkleBox contract","A Fake lockup contract, which the attacker’s claim groups would call as part of token lockup creation during claiming to perform the reentrancy attack.","84 seconds later at 03:36:47 UTC, the attacker called the Orchestrator contract which atomically performed the following steps:","Borrowed 2M HEMI from the Sushiswap HEMI/USDT pool as a flash loan","Created and funded a malicious claim group (#15) with the 2M flash-loaned HEMI, with the fake lockup contract set both as the sole claimant and as the lockup contract to be used during claims","Used the fake lockup contract to call MerkleBox.claim(), which in turn resulted into a call to createLockFor() on the fake lockup contract, which transferred 2M HEMI to the MerkleBox contract that had approved it for and then called claim() again recursively 63 times","Repeated the same attack procedure with a 2nd malicious claim group (#16) for a smaller amount of ~506337.76 HEMI to drain the remaining HEMI tokens present in the MerkleBox contract below a remaining balance of 2M","Repaid the 2M flash loan plus the 0.05% flash loan fee to the Sushiswap HEMI/USDT pool","Sold the net ~124.5M HEMI across various Hemi DEXes through a combination of routing aggregators and direct sales:","~80.15M HEMI through the Sushiswap HEMI/USDT pool for ~$158.2K USDT","~41.4M HEMI through the Sushiswap HEMI/USDC.e pool for ~$84.9K USDC","~2.95M HEMI through the Sushiswap HEMI/hemiBTC pool for ~0.3442 hemiBTC","Performed a number of secondary sales and swaps, resulting in a final amount of 151,524.70 USDT and 103,422.62 USDC which was transferred to the attacker’s EOA.","Following the attack, the attacker’s EOA performed the following transactions to exfiltrate the funds:","Time","Description","2026-09-07 03:43:59 UTC","Bridge 103422.62 USDC to Ethereum via LayerZero","2026-09-07 03:52:35 UTC","Swap 8124.71 USDT to 8118.86 USDC","2026-09-07 03:53:35 UTC","Bridge 8118.86 USDC to Ethereum via LayerZero","2026-09-07 03:55:23 UTC","Bridge 12000 USDT to Ethereum via LayerZero","2026-09-07 03:55:35 UTC","Bridge 59800 USDT to Arbitrum via LayerZero","2026-09-07 03:55:47 UTC","Bridge 53500 USDT to BSC via LayerZero","2026-09-07 03:55:59 UTC","Bridge 8500 USDT to Optimism via LayerZero","2026-09-07 03:56:11 UTC","Bridge 6400 USDT to Avalanche via LayerZero","2026-09-07 03:56:23 UTC","Bridge 3200 USDT to Polygon via LayerZero","A series of subsequent attacker transactions across these chains eventually converted most of the proceeds to ETH, which now sits in the attacker’s exfiltration address on Ethereum.","The root cause of the vulnerability was a combination of two factors:","The MerkleBox contract performed the creation of token lockups before updating the remaining claimable balance","The MerkleBox contract was designed to allow anyone to use it to configure claim groups with custom implementations of the lockup creation contract","The attacker created their own claim group and set a contract they controlled as both the claimant and the lockup contract. When the claim ran, that contract receiving the call to create the lockup position called back into MerkleBox before the accounting for the claim had finished. During this action, the balances still read as unspent.By repeating the call, the attacker could withdraw HEMI in excess of what was configured for the target claim group.","Once again, HEMI and veHEMI are not affected. As the attacker supplied the Genesis Drop MerkleBox contract with a malicious contract that imitates the veHEMI lock interface and used it as the pivot for the reentrancy, veHEMI itself was never involved.","2026-09-07 03:35:23 UTC","Attacker deployed three contracts which would be used in the exploit","2026-09-07 03:36:47 UTC","Attacker called the Orchestrator contract which atomically exploited the Genesis Drop MerkleBox smart contract","Attacker exfiltration of funds begins","Attacker exfiltration of funds from the Hemi blockchain ends","2026-09-07 05:42 UTC","Alert received from the Hypernative team","2026-09-07 05:46 UTC","Investigation of the attack begins","2026-09-07 06:11 UTC","Outreach to partners begins","2026-09-07 06:20 UTC","Root cause was identified","2026-09-07 07:57 UTC","SEAL 911 contacted with details of the exploit and exfiltration paths","The contract held unclaimed HEMI tokens from Hemi’s Genesis Drop. Its balance also included additional tokens from a previously misconfigured reward distribution. Of note, these tokens remained unclaimed since becoming available around the initial launch of HEMI token, and were highly unlikely to be claimed. In total, the attacker stole approximately 124.5 million HEMI tokens from the contract.","The attacker atomically sold the stolen HEMI into Hemi DEX liquidity, which produced roughly $255,000 in stablecoins. Those proceeds were bridged out as stablecoins, and the majority were converted to ETH on Ethereum. The attacker sold into pools too thin to absorb the size of the sale, and the stablecoin dollar figure they realized does not reflect the full valuation of the affected allocations.","Immediately following the sale of HEMI into the on-chain DEXes, arbitrage bots automatically rebalanced the affected DEX pools on Hemi within a period of approximately 35 minutes.","No HEMI tokens remain under the attacker's control.","Alerts from Hypernative triggered the initial response. In line with industry best practices, the next steps began with identifying the exploited vulnerability, tracing the stolen tokens across chains, and filing the incident with SEAL 911. We are in communication with exchanges and other partners regarding the exfiltration transaction trail and the attacker addresses involved for appropriate monitoring and blacklisting. The investigation into the attacker's identity and potential recourse for fund recovery remains ongoing.","Although the exploited vulnerability was identified in the Genesis Drop MerkleBox smart contract, the contract is immutable and cannot be paused or patched in place. Its HEMI balance is now zero, and the contract poses no ongoing risk.","Updates will be published as more details become available.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Read","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","Built on Hemi","Hemi Partner Ama","Sep 4, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/genesis-drop-exploit-september-7-2026-post-mortem"},"/blog/midweek-with-max-special-guest-sacred-waste-joins":{"version":1,"title":"Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins"],"h2":["Latest articles"],"h3":["Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition","Built on Hemi Recap: Algebra"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 8, 2026","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Midweek with Max streams live on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn every Tuesday morning.","On this week’s Midweek with Max, during the show’s opening Max addressed the weekend's exploit of the Merklebox contract used for Genesis claims on Hemi. The incident was contained to that single contract and did not affect the Hemi network, any tunnel infrastructure, third-party bridges, or crosschain messaging, and there was no risk of a chain fork, segmentation, or rollback. The full postmortem is live on the Hemi blog.","On protocol progress, the op-reth upgrade continues in support of Ethereum's Glamsterdam hard fork alongside the ZK provability work being built into the client, with updated node releases coming for testnet operators ahead of the September 21 testnet activation and mainnet releases to follow.","A member of the Sacred Waste team joined to introduce what they call the onchain recycler of dead crypto. Their proof-of-burn protocol runs on Waste Chain, where users deposit dead tokens and NFTs into blocks, validators randomly select one asset every 150 seconds, and whoever submitted it wins the block rewards. After five months of accepting mainnet tokens, they are approaching 950,000 transactions and will announce a firm TGE date at one million. Pits are live on Robinhood Chain, Ethereum, Base, and BNB, with a Hemi pit in development and a Hemi Arcade collaboration under discussion. They are also building a curated marketplace of one-off \"Holy Grail\" items, a resurrection mechanic that returns resale fees to the original depositor, and randomized token packs. Find them at sacredwaste.io and discord.gg/sacredwaste, and at Protocol Engineering Office Hours tomorrow.","On what Hemi envisions as its native cultural IP, Max said culture cannot be created by decree from a foundation. Hemi hatchlings and similar first-party pieces were tied to specific events or to exploring art and Bitcoin finality, but the real cultural artifacts need to come from the community, and the conversation is open for grants and bounties for interesting ideas.","Hemi Arcade 2: Turbo Edition is live, with prizes across five categories and two entries allowed per person or team. Builders can team up and reach out to Hemi's creatives for asset help, and horror-themed games would be especially welcome with October approaching. Submissions run through October 27, with the judging livestream and happy hour on Thursday, October 29.","Protocol Engineering Office Hours is tomorrow at 11 a.m. EDT with Sacred Waste in attendance. Watch for veHEMI redesign details in the next seven to ten days, Glamsterdam node updates for testnet operators, and public testnet testing of the ZK miner and proving market in the coming weeks.Join Hemi's Discord and and submit questions ahead of next week's Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.","View all","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Read","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","Built on Hemi","Hemi Partner Ama","Sep 4, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/midweek-with-max-special-guest-sacred-waste-joins"},"/blog/announcing-the-hemi-arcade-contest-2-turbo-edition":{"version":1,"title":"Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition - Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition"],"h2":["Winning categories and awards","Participation","Judging","Resources","Official Contest Rules","Latest articles"],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Built on Hemi Recap: Algebra"],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back to blog","Sep 7, 2026","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Hemi","Blockchain","Hemigos! After the amazing success of the first Hemi Arcade Contest - and the incredible response from our community - the Hemi team could not wait to do it again!This time we have decided to extend the submission timeline significantly, and improve the winning categories, allowing for far more games and more complex games to be developed.","Starting today, September 7, 2026, and running to 09:00 ET on October 27, 2026, your mission is simple: create a fun, fully playable, onchain game. With even more prize-winning categories than last time, we’re excited to see what everyone creates. Submissions will be judged across prize-winning categories and must follow official guidelines and contest rules to be considered eligible. Have fun!","Submissions will be judged across five categories:","Most Innovative: The best or most unique game mechanics, including onchain activity and integration.","Best Horror: Something that makes a team member genuinely scream in terror or you’d want to play on Halloween.","Most Original: We haven’t seen a game like this before. It doesn’t remind us of any popular games… or it’s unhinged in all the right ways. Go wild!","Best Overall: The game with the best overall mechanics, design, music, etc.","Community Choice: the overall top vote-getter, chosen by the community.","All category winners will receive 10,000 $HEMI and a special edition Hemi Arcade 2: Turbo Edition merch bundle each.","Teams split the token prize, but everyone on the team will receive merch.","To participate in the competition, create a post in the #game-contest-2 channel in the official Hemi Discord server. Submit your game as early as you like and iterate with feedback from the community. Solo developers and teams of up-to 3 people are welcome. At most two entries per person or team. We recommend submitting your game as early as possible to allow more time for feedback and voting. Your game does not need to be complete or fully playable to submit early.","Entry Requirements","Free to play - no entry fees, purchases, paywalls, or in-game payments of any kind. Hemi Network gas fees are permitted, as they are paid to the network rather than to the game.","Onchain, using only the Hemi Mainnet network. Work-in-progress submissions may use Hemi Testnet, but must be updated to use mainnet before judging begins.","Open-source, published on GitHub or GitLab","Permissively licensed (ISC or MIT only)","Hosted on Cloudflare Workers (preferred), Vercel or a similar platform","TypeScript, JavaScript and Solidity are recommended - any other language is accepted (and may score extra points with the team!)","Permission to be included in any future Hemi events or sites, and future HAIRGames seasons.","Judging will take place on October 29th, 2026 during a very special Hemi Arcade Happy Hour hosted by the Hemi team where the team will play and judge submitted games. We will announce the winners during Midweek with Max on November 3rd, 2026.","Engineering Office Hours will be held at 15:00 UTC (8:00 AM PDT, 11:00 AM EDT) on September 9th, 2026, September 23rd, October 7th, and again on October 21st. During office hours, the team will be there live to answer questions about your build. Swap tips and ideas, get help, and show off your progress.","Want direct access to the team and a crew of fellow builders? Apply for the Builder role: run /apply role:Builder in the #bot-commands channel in the https://discord.gg/hemixyz.","All participants are expected to compete honestly and in good faith. As such, the following rules apply to every entry:","Entries must be original games created for this contest. The use of AI tools, libraries, game engines, and open-source components is permitted. However, submitting an existing or previously published project, cloning another game, or presenting work created by others as your own is prohibited. All third-party assets (art, audio, music, fonts, and similar materials) must be properly licensed and credited where required.","As onchain submissions, entries must not contain malicious functionality of any kind. This includes, but is not limited to, wallet-draining code, undisclosed token approvals, malicious smart contracts, and any logic that accesses or affects a player’s funds or data without their informed consent. Contracts must perform only the functions described by the game. Any entry designed to exploit, deceive, phish, or otherwise harm players will be disqualified and reported.","Entries must be fully playable before 09:00 ET on October 27, 2026. A submission should load and be completable by the judges and the community. Incomplete, non-functional, or non-genuine submissions will not be evaluated.","Each participant or team may submit a maximum of two entries. The use of multiple or alternate accounts to circumvent this limit is prohibited. Individuals may participate on only one team.","Community votes contribute to the results. Any attempt to manipulate voting is prohibited. The Hemi team reserves the right to discard any votes we suspect may be manipulated or even disqualify the associated entry.","All entries must be submitted to #game-contest before the 09:00 ET on October 27, 2026. Late submissions will not be accepted. At the time of submission, repositories must be public and permissively licensed. We recommend submitting your entry as early as possible, while it is still a work-in-progress to receive feedback from the community and have community members test the game.","Entries and participant conduct must comply with all applicable laws. Content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, or not safe for work is prohibited.","The Hemi team reserves the right to disqualify any entry that violates these rules or the spirit of the contest, and to amend or clarify these rules as needed. Participants with questions are encouraged to ask in the Hemi Discord server prior to submission.","Now go build something crazy! We can’t wait to see it.","Updates to this post","If we make any modifications to this post, we will list them here for transparency.","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Post Mortem","Security","Built on Hemi","Hemi Partner Ama","Sep 4, 2026","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/blog/announcing-the-hemi-arcade-contest-2-turbo-edition"},"/contact-us/request-institutional-deck/request":{"version":1,"title":"Access the institutional overview deck","description":"Get the official Hemi institutional presentation — including compliance architecture, custody integrations, and verified yield model.","keywords":"","h1":["Access the institutional overview deck"],"h2":[],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back","Get the official Hemi institutional presentation — including compliance architecture, custody integrations, and verified yield model.","Full name*","Organization*","Work email*","Get the deck","By continuing you agree to Hemi Terms and conditions and Privacy policy.","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/contact-us/request-institutional-deck/request"},"/contact-us/technical-onboarding":{"version":1,"title":"Book your technical onboarding session","description":"Connect your existing custody solution to Hemi’s infrastructure. Our integration team will walk you through the setup process, required APIs, and testnet configuration.","keywords":"","h1":["Book your technical onboarding session"],"h2":[],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back","Connect your existing custody solution to Hemi’s infrastructure. Our integration team will walk you through the setup process, required APIs, and testnet configuration.","Full name*","Organization*","Email*","Role / Department*","Message","Request onboarding session","By continuing you agree to Hemi Terms and conditions and Privacy policy.","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/contact-us/technical-onboarding"},"/contact-us/partner-with-hemi":{"version":1,"title":"Build the future of Bitcoin with Hemi","description":"We partner with protocols, institutions, and builders redefining what Bitcoin can do. Share a few details below — our team will reach out to explore collaboration.","keywords":"","h1":["Build the futureof Bitcoin with Hemi"],"h2":[],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back","We partner with protocols, institutions, and builders redefining what Bitcoin can do. Share a few details below — our team will reach out to explore collaboration.","Full name*","Email*","Phone","Telegram","Please describe your request","Start the conversation","By continuing you agree to Hemi Terms and conditions and Privacy policy.","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/contact-us/partner-with-hemi"},"/brand-kit":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":["The Most ProductiveBitcoin Ecosystem","The Most Productive Bitcoin Ecosystem","Work with approved Hemi brand assets"],"h2":["Logo","Collaborative lockup","Colors","Typography","Illustrations & patterns"],"h3":["At Aero Regular","Geist"],"h4":[],"h5":["Primary logo","Primary palette"],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Download full brand assets","ZIP, 9MB","The mark of clarity and trust.","Primary logo","Logomark","Download logo","SVG","PNG","The Hemi logo pairs a bold “H” symbol with a confident lowercase wordmark. Use it as the primary identifier to build recognition and signal institutional-grade trust.","Use this lockup for co-branded materials. Keep all spacing, alignment, and proportions as shown. Do not modify logo sizes or colors, and maintain clear separation between both brand marks.","Download lockup","A disciplined system balancing clarity with Bitcoin-driven energy.","Primary Palette","Secondary palette","Black","#000000","White","#FFFFFF","Orange","#FF4600","Orange Tint 80%","#FF6B33","Orange Tint 50%","#FFA280","Orange Tint 20%","#FFD7C9","Hemi’s palette reinforces recognition: Orange for activation, Teal for security, Blue for innovation, and Black/White for clarity. Use them consistently across all touchpoints.","Built for legibility, discipline, and authoritative clarity.","License required","Our headline typeface, delivering a bold, disciplined look that reinforces clarity and authority.","Free","Our body typeface, chosen for its clean, legible, and versatile readability.","A system that simplifies complexity into a single, confident growth path.","Download Brand Illustrations","Our assets","Use these brand assets to keep Hemi’s logos, type, and graphics aligned across all touchpoints.","ZIP, 9 MB","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/brand-kit"},"/contact-us/book-a-demo":{"version":1,"title":"Book an institutional demo","description":"See how Hemi enables funds, treasuries, and custodians to earn compliant Bitcoin yield without leaving custody. Our team will walk you through the platform and answer your integration questions.","keywords":"","h1":["Book an institutional demo","Book aninstitutional demo"],"h2":[],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back","See how Hemi enables funds, treasuries, and custodians to earn compliant Bitcoin yield without leaving custody. Our team will walk you through the platform and answer your integration questions.","Full name*","Organization*","Work email*","Role / Department*","Message","Request demo","By continuing you agree to Hemi Terms and conditions and Privacy policy.","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/contact-us/book-a-demo"},"/contact-us/compliance-briefing":{"version":1,"title":"Schedule your compliance briefing","description":"Get a 1-on-1 walkthrough with Hemi’s institutional onboarding team. Learn how to earn verified Bitcoin yield while maintaining full compliance and custody transparency.","keywords":"","h1":["Schedule yourcompliance briefing"],"h2":[],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back","Get a 1-on-1 walkthrough with Hemi’s institutional onboarding team. Learn how to earn verified Bitcoin yield while maintaining full compliance and custody transparency.","Full name*","Organization*","Work email*","Role / Department*","Message","Continue to scheduling","By continuing you agree to Hemi Terms and conditions and Privacy policy.","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/contact-us/compliance-briefing"},"/contact-us/talk-to-institutions-team":{"version":1,"title":"Unlock institutional-grade Bitcoin yield","description":"Connect with our institutional team to learn how your fund, exchange, or corporate treasury can earn secure, non-custodial yield on idle Bitcoin through Hemi’s infrastructure. Leave your details and we’ll reach out to arrange an introduction.","keywords":"","h1":["Unlock institutional-grade Bitcoin yield"],"h2":[],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Back","Connect with our institutional team to learn how your fund, exchange, or corporate treasury can earn secure, non-custodial yield on idle Bitcoin through Hemi’s infrastructure. Leave your details and we’ll reach out to arrange an introduction.","Full name*","Organization*","Work email*","Phone","Telegram","How can we help?","Request a call","By continuing you agree to Hemi Terms and conditions and Privacy policy.","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/contact-us/talk-to-institutions-team"},"/about":{"version":1,"title":"Building the foundation for Bitcoin’s programmable future","description":"A unified, secure, and compliant infrastructure layer for institutional-scale Bitcoin innovation.","keywords":"","h1":["Building the foundation for programmable Bitcoin finance","Buildingthe foundationfor programmable Bitcoin finance","Building the foundation forBitcoin’s programmable future","Join the next eraof activated Bitcoin"],"h2":["Meet the team behind Hemi","From testnet to $1.2 billion TVL in less than a year","From testnet to $1.2 billionTVL in less than a year","Community & Participation FAQs"],"h3":["A world where Bitcoin is productive and programmable, powering better financial systems.","Subscribe to 'Your Signal Aggregator'","Subscribe to yoursignal aggregator","Subscribe to'Your Signal Aggregator'"],"h4":[],"h5":["“From Linux to Bitcoin to Hemi, my mission has always been building infrastructure that lasts.”","“Hemi's Proof-of-Proof brings Bitcoin's security to a new generation and era of decentralized finance.”","“Bitcoin represents one of the greatest generational opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors.”","How can I get in contact with the Hemi team?","Where can developers get started?","How can I join the Hemi community?","Who is responsible for Hemi?","What is Hemi?","How does Hemi differ from other Bitcoin Layer-2s?","What is the hVM?","What is the hBK?","How is Hemi secured?","How do I start building?"],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","A unified, secure, and compliant infrastructure layerfor institutional-scale Bitcoin innovation.","A unified, secure, and compliant infrastructure layer for institutional-scale Bitcoin innovation.","Partner with Hemi","Read Docs","Our vision","About us","1","Audited & Verifiable","Independent reviews and Proof-of-Proof checks ensure transparent validation.","2","Custody & Compliance","Integrates with qualified custodians under established regulatory standards.","3","Security by Design","Multi-sig infrastructure and deterministic flows reduce risk and ensure verifiable execution.","4","Institutional Scale","Modular architecture supports institutional throughput with composability and control.","Led by early Bitcoin Core contributor Jeff Garzik, Hemi Labs brings together expertise from cryptography, DeFi, and global capital markets to build the unified Bitcoin economy layer.","Jeff Garzik","Principal Engineering, Hemi Labs","Co‑founder of Bloq. Lead engineer at Hemi. One of the original architects of Bitcoin itself. Jeff spent five years as a core Bitcoin dev and a decade shaping the Linux kernel — code that’s now embedded in every Android device and modern data center on Earth. His fingerprints are on two of the most important protocols of our time. Now he’s building the third.","Show bio","Max Sanchez","Lead Architect, Hemi Labs","Max Sanchez is the Lead Architect at Hemi Labs, specializing in blockchain infrastructure and security protocols. With extensive experience in distributed systems and cryptographic protocols, Max has been instrumental in developing Hemi's innovative Proof-of-Proof consensus mechanism that brings Bitcoin's security to a new generation of decentralized finance applications.","Matthew Roszak","Co-Founder, Hemi Labs","Matthew Roszak is a co-founder of Hemi Labs and a prominent figure in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. As an entrepreneur and investor, Matthew has been involved in numerous successful blockchain projects and has been a vocal advocate for Bitcoin's potential to transform the financial industry. His experience spans both technical development and business strategy in the crypto ecosystem.","Matt Lam","Chief Operating Officer","John Vernaleo, Ph.D","VP of Engineering","Gabriel Montes","Jeremy Nation","Marketing Director","Rick Laprade","Head of Community","Daniel Raphael","DevSecOps Manager","Daniel Hildago","Senior DevOps Engineer","Marco Peereboom","Principal Engineer","Clayton Northey","Senior Software Engineer","Joshua Sing","Software Security Engineer","António Martins","Software Engineer","Artur Dolzan Neto","Gonzalo D'Elia","Nahuel del Valle","UI/UX Designer","Manoj Patidar","Smart Contract Engineer","Rohit Solia","Soumya Ranjan Ram","Business Development","Taylor Click","Show more","2008","Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Whitepaper published, igniting the programmable money revolution.","2010–2013","Wrapping a Bitcoin node inside an EVM to enable a new class of robust, efficient Bitcoin-aware smart contracts.","2013–2017","Easily develop Bitcoin-aware smart contracts in a familiar programming environment.","2017–2021","Secure asset transfer from crypto's most important networks to Hemi.","2021–2023","Jeff, Matt, and Max align and identify the need for a true Bitcoin–Ethereum L2 supernetwork.","2024","Hemi is launched as a culmination of Jeff’s core dev history, Max’s cryptographic and PoP expertise, and Matt’s persistent investment in Bitcoin extensibility.","JUL. 2024","Testnet launch @ Bitcoin 2024","AUG. 2024","Hemi community starts using up to 90% of Bitcoin testnet3.","First 1M Proof-of-Proof transactions in one day.","SEPT. 2024","$15M seed round led by YZi (formerly Binance Labs).","OCT. 2024","Testers broke Sepolia, gas at 10k gwei.","MAR. 2025","$250M raised during pre-mainnet staking.","Mainnet launch","100,000 verified human beings on mainnet.","MAY 2025","$1.2B TVL","Built for impact.Measured in outcomes.","Total value locked","Total valuelocked","Total accounts","Partners earn with Hemi","Partners & products","Raised (Seed & Pre-TGE growth round)","Community members","Institutional-grade products","Partner with us","Hemi provides the secure, compliant foundation to activate Bitcoin at scale across finance, infrastructure, and onchain applications.","Email us directly at team@hemi.xyz for partnership or media inquiries.","Developers ready to start building on Hemi can explore our developer docs and GitHub repositories.","Join our Hemi Discord to connect with contributors, get technical support, and participate in upcoming community calls.","Hemi is built and maintained by Hemi Labs with contributions from independent developers, node operators, and ecosystem partners.","Hemi is a dual-layer protocol that makes Bitcoin programmable. It combines Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work security with Ethereum-level smart contract execution through the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) and Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK).","Hemi anchors every transaction to Bitcoin via Proof-of-Proof (PoP), inheriting Bitcoin’s full security. Other L2s rely on bridges, wrapping, or hybrid validation. Hemi keeps assets and logic verifiable on-chain.","The Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) is a full Bitcoin node wrapped inside an EVM. It lets developers deploy Solidity smart contracts that directly interact with Bitcoin data.","The Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) allows contracts to read and verify Bitcoin state including UTXOs, headers, and balances, inside Solidity. It brings real Bitcoin awareness to smart contracts.","All Hemi blocks are anchored to Bitcoin through Proof-of-Proof. This means Bitcoin miners indirectly secure the network. Every transaction can be traced back to Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work chain.","Follow the Quickstart guide or run the testnet demo: connect your wallet, claim test BTC/ETH, deploy your first contract in Remix, and query Bitcoin data using hBK.","Leading newsletter for institutional insights on BTC programmability, productivity, and yield potential.","Subscribe","Follow us","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/about"},"/institutions":{"version":1,"title":"The institutional layer for Bitcoin capital deployment","description":"Verifiable yield execution secured by Bitcoin,\nintegrated with qualified custody","keywords":"","h1":["The institutional layerfor Bitcoin capitaldeployment","The institutional layer for Bitcoin capital deployment","Connect your custody.Activate onchainBitcoin yield"],"h2":["Built for institutional-scaleBitcoin yield","The foundation of verifiable Bitcoin yield","Turn BTC intoperforming capital","Proven performance","Built for Institutions. Designed for Compliance, Control, and Capital Efficiency.","Built for Institutions.Designed for Compliance, Control, and Capital Efficiency.","Convert your BTCinto performing capital","Test Hemi: Run a controlled pilot allocation and receive a verified Proof-of-Yield report","Transparent. Auditable. Institution-ready.","Adopted by treasury, custody, and fund teams.","Adopted by treasury,custody, and fund teams.","Frequently askedby institutions"],"h3":["\"Liquidity across chains used to stop at Bitcoin. With Hemi, BTC is now a fully programmable, routable asset — and that’s massive for the omnichain future.\"","“Hemi lets us bring Spectra’s EVM logic into Bitcoin without compromising on DeFi fundamentals. That is how we built the highest‑paying fixed income instruments for BTC.”","“At Bedrock, our goal is to unlock Bitcoin’s potential in DeFi while maintaining its core strengths—security and decentralization. Hemi’s modular Layer‑2 architecture and interoperability between Bitcoin and Ethereum align perfectly with this vision.”","“Partnering with Hemi represents a compelling opportunity to bridge traditional finance with the emerging Bitcoin economy. We believe Hemi is uniquely positioned to deliver the infrastructure and access that institutional investors demand.”","“I’m impressed by the comprehensive ecosystem Hemi has built, which goes far beyond traditional Bitcoin infrastructure. I particularly value the quality of the team and their carefully chosen partners, as they’re bringing together top-tier projects while building sustainable infrastructure for crypto holders.”","\"At ClearStar, we’re committed to composable, scalable systems. Hemi is the first network that makes Bitcoin interoperable with DeFi in a way that’s actually trustless.\"","\"Hemi’s infrastructure enhances our ability to deliver stable, high-yield strategies, shaping the future of Bitcoin-based decentralized finance.\""],"h4":["Compliance& Control","Transparency& Verification","Integration& Scalability","Performance& Reliability","Independent Security Reviews & Verifiable Infrastructure","Custody-Aligned,\nCompliance-Ready Design"],"h5":["Spectra","%","River","Merkl","vFAT","Can we test Hemi before committing?","How can our compliance team validate the framework?","What are the risks compared to wrapped Bitcoin?","Is Hemi regulated or audited?","Which custodians are supported?","How does Hemi generate yield without leaving custody?"],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Verifiable yield execution secured by Bitcoin,integrated with qualified custody","Request institutional deck","Schedule compliance briefing","Trusted by leadinginstitutions","Trusted by leading institutions","Institutional-grade by design.\nValidated in the field.","Total value locked","Total accounts","Yield & DeFi products","Access","Access lending, liquidity,and rate strategies onBitcoin rails.","Earn","Deploy native BTC while maintain full custody and control.","Earn without givingup control of yourBitcoin","Verify","Receive transparent reports backed by cryptographic proofs.","Tunnel","Route BTC through a safer path with no synthetic assets required.","Scale","Designed for oversight, risk frameworks, and treasury operations.","Jeff Garzik on yield","Jeff Garzik on Yield","Programmable execution secured by Bitcoin consensus through Proof of Proof, with built in compliance and custody.","Dual Network Layer","Combines BTC security and ETH programmability within a compliant environment.","Native BTC Connection","BTC stays in qualified custody—Hemi connects it via a dual-custody tunnel.","Proof-of-Proof Consensus","Every yield event is validated and anchored to Bitcoin for immutable transparency.","Programmable Yield Layer","Smart contracts automate yield with full auditability and institutional-grade controls.","Institution-Ready Design","Built for custody integration, compliance, and regulatory-grade reporting.","Real-time transparency metrics validated by independentauditors and public PoP proofs.","Comparison across leading BitcoinLayer-2 networks (Q4 2025)","Onchain Proofs","Native Custody Support","Regulatory Audits","1","Keep assets in qualified custody while activating onchain yield with no wrappers and no workarounds.","2","Every yield event is independently verified and anchored to Bitcoin using PoP consensus.","3","Connect through your existing custodian, MPC wallet, or multisig environment.","4","Deploy risk-mitigated BTC yield strategies with real-time reporting and full audit trails.","Request institutional overview","Explore curated, risk-managed strategies for institutional portfolios, while keeping BTC as BTC.","Permissionless yield protocol offering passive returns through fixed-rate pools, native BTC yield, and leveraged strategies.","~6-10","APY","Turn BTC into a yield-generating asset on this chain-abstraction stablecoin system, unlocking cross-chain collateral, yield, and liquidity.","~5-36","Claim protocol rewards and maximize yield across multiple platforms while keeping your assets in your wallet.","~4-141","Access curated yield opportunities across protocols in your dashboard for tracking, optimizing, and compounding DeFi positions on HEMI.","~16-171","*Yields fluctuate based on strategy design, custody method, and prevailing market conditions. Performance is not guaranteed.","Get started","Angus Lamps","Foundation Lead","•","Stargate","Gaspard Peduzzi","Founder","Spectra","Zhuling Chen","Core Contributor","Bedrock","Kyle Wool","President","Dominari Holdings","Anthony Ng","Co‑Founder","BitFi","CEO","Clearstar Labs","Oliver","YieldFi","Security-reviewed, custody-aligned infrastructure with Proof-of-Yield reporting for your compliance and governance frameworks.","Hemi’s codebase and infrastructure are secured\nand transparently audited.","External audits by independent security firms","Publicly verifiable Proof-of-Proof consensus and nodes","Security summaries and audit reports published regularly","View audit report","Built to meet institutional compliance\nand risk requirements.","Dual-custody execution workflows","KYB / KYT controls and policy support","AML screening compatibility","Sanctions compliance and incident reporting","Request compliance briefing","Partner with us","Tailored integration for your infrastructure and governance. Personalized deployment, custody coordination, and compliance-ready onboarding.","Yes - connect a custody vault to the Hemi sandbox and run a pilot with a small BTC tranche.","You can request our full audit package or schedule a compliance review with our institutional relations team.","No bridge or counterparty exposure. Assets remain custodied under institutional control with transparent proof of yield.","Yes - Hemi undergoes independent security and compliance audits and provides verifiable Proof-of-Proof yield records on-chain.","Hemi integrates directly with BitGo, Coinbase Custody, Fireblocks, Anchorage, and other institutional providers.","Yield is created through programmable Bitcoin operations linked to qualified custody accounts via the Hemi Tunnel - not through synthetic or wrapped assets.","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/institutions"},"/terms":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":[],"h2":["Hemi Terms of Use"],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Last Updated:","July 10, 2025","1. Acceptance of the Terms of Use","These terms of use are entered into by and between You and Hemispheres Service & Support Ltd., a British Virgin Islands foundation (“Community”, “we”, or “us”). The following terms and conditions, together with any documents expressly incorporated by reference (collectively, “Terms of Use”), govern your access to and use of the Hemi Network, including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through it (the “Network”).By using the Network, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must not access or use the Network.","2. Changes to the Terms of Use","We may revise and update these Terms of Use from time to time. All changes are effective immediately when posted and apply to all access to and use of the Network thereafter. Continued use constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.","3. Accessing the Network and Account Security","We reserve the right to withdraw or amend this Network at any time. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for your access to the Network and ensuring that anyone accessing it through your connection complies with these Terms.You agree that all registration information you provide is correct, current, and complete.","4. Intellectual Property Rights","The Network and its content are owned by Hemispheres Service & Support Ltd. and its licensors and protected by intellectual property laws.You must not reproduce, distribute, modify, or use any materials except as permitted under these Terms.","5. Trademarks","The Hemi name, logo, and related brand assets are trademarks of Hemi or its affiliates. You may not use them without prior written permission.","6. Prohibited Uses","You may use the Network only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to use the Network in any way that violates law, exploits minors, sends spam, impersonates others, restricts others’ use, or is otherwise harmful.","7. User Contributions","The Network may include interactive features allowing users to post content (“User Contributions”).You represent that you own your contributions and that they comply with these Terms.We are not responsible for content posted by you or others.","8. Monitoring and Enforcement; Termination","We may:","Remove or refuse to post User Contributions","Take any action regarding content that violates these Terms","Disclose user information to rights holders","Take legal action for illegal use","Terminate or suspend access for any reason","We may cooperate fully with law enforcement investigations.","9. Content Standards","User Contributions must comply with applicable laws and must not be defamatory, obscene, discriminatory, deceptive, violent, infringing on rights, promoting illegal activity, or otherwise objectionable.","10. Reliance on Information Posted","The content on the Network is provided for general information only. We do not warrant its accuracy or completeness and disclaim liability for reliance on such information.","11. Disclaimer of Warranties","Your use of the Network is at your own risk. The Network is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind.","12. Limitation on Liability","To the fullest extent permitted by law, Hemi and its affiliates shall not be liable for damages of any kind arising from your use or inability to use the Network.","13. Indemnification","You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Hemi and its affiliates from claims, liabilities, and expenses arising out of your violation of these Terms or use of the Network.","14. Release of Claims","You acknowledge the risks associated with blockchain networks and smart contracts.You assume all risks related to your use of the Network and release Hemi from all related liability or claims.","15. Governing Law and Jurisdiction","All matters relating to the Network and these Terms shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware.Legal proceedings must be brought exclusively in Delaware courts.","16. Arbitration","At Hemi’s discretion, disputes may be required to be resolved by final and binding arbitration under the Rules of Arbitration of the American Arbitration Association applying Delaware law.","17. Limitation on Time to File Claims","Any claim relating to these Terms or the Network must be filed within one (1) year of accrual, or it is permanently barred.","18. Waiver and Severability","No waiver by Hemi of any provision shall be deemed a continuing waiver.If any provision is invalid, the remaining provisions continue in full force.","19. Entire Agreement","These Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and Hemi regarding the Network.","20. Your Comments and Concerns","All feedback, comments, and support requests should be sent to:support@hemi.xyz","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/terms"},"/privacy-policy":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi","description":"Hemi bridges Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability, enabling real yield on native BTC under full custody control.","keywords":"","h1":[],"h2":["Privacy Policy"],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":[],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Effective date:","June, 2024","Last Updated:","July 10, 2025","Hemispheres Service & Support Ltd. (“Hemi”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) cares about your privacy. Thank you for taking the time to read our privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). This Privacy Policy covers all personal data processed by Hemi’s website (https://hemi.xyz), portal site (https://app.hemi.xyz) and our services (“Services”) provided through any of our sites or apps. If our privacy practices for certain services differ from those explained in this Privacy Policy, we will let you know at the time we ask for or collect your information.","It is our policy to comply with all applicable privacy and data protection laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), the General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) No. 2016/279 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (“GDPR”). This commitment reflects the value we place on earning and keeping the trust of our customers, business partners, and others who share their data with us.","Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. We may make changes to the Privacy Policy from time to time. We, therefore, encourage you to check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates.","We cover a lot of ground in this Privacy Policy. Please use the links below to navigate to later sections of the Privacy Policy of interest to you.","Data Controller","What Data We Collect About you","Reason for Processing Your Personal Data","How We Collect Your Personal Data","How We Use Your Personal Data","Disclosure of Your Personal Data","Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies","Third-Party Links","Retention","Children","Your Rights and Choices","Data security","International Transfers","Changes to This Privacy Policy","Contact us","Hemi is the data controller responsible for your personal data. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us from the Contact Us section.","What Data We Collect About You","Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified, directly or indirectly. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymized data), which we can use for any purpose. Some jurisdictions may consider your Internet Protocol (IP) address to be personal data. We may collect different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:","Information You Provide Us:","Personal Identification Data includes your first name and last name, email address, your billing address, your home country, identity access management (IAM) key, digital wallet address, Internet Protocol (IP) address or similar identifiers.","Communication Data includes your feedback that you communicate to us via email or social media and additional information you share regarding your use of the Services.","Marketing Data includes names, mailing addresses, and email addresses.","Information Automatically Collected by Technology:","In addition, to the information you provide us, we may automatically collect certain information about your equipment, software, and browser to provide you with an efficient and personalized experience. This information includes:","Device Data include the device’s hardware information, operating system, platform information, browser type, language information, and browser plugin types.","Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and our Services.","Transaction Data includes transaction information associated with your account or public wallet address.","Log Information: information about your use of the Services, including the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, session IDs, your IP address, and the page you visited before navigating to our Services.","Location Information: information about the location of your equipment, computers, devices, and/or hardware (collected in accordance with your device permissions).","Engagement Metrics: Pages visited, session duration, and actions taken on the site to understand user interests and improve site layout.","Acquisition Channels: How users find our site (social media, search engines, referrals) to optimize marketing channels.","Conversion Rates: From visiting to signing up or performing a specific action, to gauge the effectiveness of call-to-action elements.","Information Collected from Third Parties:","We may collect personal or anonymized information about you from third-party companies that provide products and services that are used in together with our website or our Services. For example, we may collect publicly available blockchain data linked to your wallet.","Aggregated Data:","We may also collect, use and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose (“Aggregated Data”). Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing our websites and Services. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.","We do not collect any special categories of sensitive personal data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, genetic and biometric data, and precise geolocation data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.","We may process the personal data you provide for the following reasons and legal bases:","Why we process your data","Legal basis for processing","To set up your Hemi account.","To perform a contract with you or to enter into a contract with you.","To receive your feedback that you provide us on our Contact Us page.","Legitimate interest in managing our website.","To respond to your requests and inquiries for technical support and general questions.","To engage in marketing with our customers.","Our legitimate interest based upon balancing your rights and freedoms against our interest in engaging in marketing.","To communicate with you about your comments regarding our website and Services you provide on third-party social media platforms.","To receive your comments on our social media accounts.","To allow you to exercise your data privacy rights.","Necessary to comply with our legal obligation.","In addition, we may process your personal data for the following reasons:","To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights.","In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.","For any other purpose with your consent.","We may use information that is not personal data for any purpose. For example, we may aggregate usage data from many people in a way that does not identify any individuals to calculate the percentage of users accessing a feature on our website.","How we collect your personal data","We use different methods to collect information from and about you including through:","Direct interactions. You may give us information about you by interacting with our website, by communicating with us via email, third-party collaboration platforms, or contact us page. This includes information you provide by emailing us about our website or Services or leaving feedback on our contact us form.","Third-party or publicly available sources. We may receive information about you from third parties. The information we receive includes analytics information for improvement of our website and Services.","Technical and Communication Data from the following parties: We may collect information from third-parties providers such as Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, Google Analytics, and LinkedIn Insights. The information we may collect includes your feedback about our Services on our Twitter account, GitHub page, Slack account, Telegram, and LinkedIn.","The Company may use your personal data to:","Communicate with you. This may include: (i) informing you of our new services and promotional activities that may be of interest to you; (ii) providing information about our Services; (iii) responding to your feedback about our website and Services, including, for example, technical support and service improvements to our website and Services; (iii) responding to your questions or inquiries, including technical questions and troubleshooting using our Services; (iv) responding to your general inquiries; (v) responding to your inquiries for a demo request; (vi) responding to your privacy inquiries; and (vii) inviting you to participate in market research surveys.","Develop and manage our relationships with you and our business partners. This may include: (i) delivering services or carrying out transactions you or our business partners have requested; (ii) providing information about our Services and advertisements, that may be of interest to you; (iii) providing you with a more consistent experience in interacting with us, including by learning more about you and how you use and interact with our website and Services; and (iv) planning, managing, and performing our contractual relationships with our business partners.","Improve our website and Services. This may include: (i) customizing our website to your preferences or interests, (ii) making them more compatible with your devices and browsers, or otherwise making our website and Services easier to use; (iii) maintaining the security of our website and Services and otherwise protecting them; and (iv) improving our website and Services; (v) developing new services and platforms; (vi) analyzing and understanding our audience; and (vii) compiling aggregated data and analysis for internal business purposes.","Address legal issues. This may include: (i) complying with our obligations to retain certain business records for minimum retention periods; (ii) establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims; (iii) complying with laws, regulations, court orders, or other legal processes; (iv) detecting, preventing, fraud or intellectual property infringement claims, violations of our contracts or agreements, violations of law, or other misuse of our website or Services; and (v) protecting our rights or property, or yours or other health, safety, welfare, rights, or property.","We may also use your personal data for other uses consistent with the context in which the data was collected or with your consent or lawful purposes. If we believe the purpose for which we use your personal data for other purposes goes beyond the scope of your consent you provide during the personal data collection, we will communicate with you to obtain your consent.","We may anonymize or aggregate any of the data we collect and use it for any purpose, including research and product development. Such anonymized or aggregated data will not identify you individually.","We may share your personal data with other Hemi’s corporate group entities, which include our subsidiaries and affiliates. When we do so, our corporate group entities will use your data in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy and all applicable privacy and data protection laws.","We may also disclose your personal data with third-party processors to perform support Services and to assist us in processing your personal data as described above. These processors are required to treat your personal data in compliance with all applicable privacy and data protection laws.","We may share your personal data to third parties who partner with us to provide our Services. Under such circumstances, we will require our business partners to use that data in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy and all applicable privacy and data protection laws.","We may share your personal data to third parties when we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary:","(i) to comply with a law, regulation, court order, or other legal processes;","(ii) to detect, prevent, and respond to fraud or intellectual property infringement claims, violations of our contracts or agreements, violations of law, or other misuse of our website or Services;","(iii) to protect our rights or property or yours or others’ health, safety, welfare, rights, or property; or","(iv) under similar circumstances. If such an event occurs, we will take appropriate steps to protect your personal data.","We may disclose your personal data with third parties in connection with the sale, purchase, merger, reorganization, liquidation, or dissolution of Hemi, or under similar circumstances. If such an event occurs, we will take appropriate steps to protect your personal data.","We may share your data with your consent or at your request.","We may share anonymized or Aggregated Data internally and with third parties for any purpose. Such information will not identify you individually.","Our website may use automatic data collection technologies to distinguish you from other website users. This helps us deliver a better and more personalized experience when you browse our website. It also allows us to improve our website by enabling us to:","Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.","Store your preferences, so we may customize our website according to your individual interests.","Recognize you when you return to our website.","The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:","Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. For information about managing browser settings to refuse cookies, see Your Rights and Choices.","Web Beacons, Pixel Tags, Clear Gifs. Our website pages and emails may contain small transparent embedded images or objects known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count website page visitors or email readers, or to compile other similar statistics such as recording website content popularity or verifying system and server integrity. For information about managing web beacons, see Your Rights and Choices.","Most web browsers include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) signal or similar mechanisms for your privacy preference. At this time, there is no technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. Given the state of technology, we do not respond to DNT signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your preference not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.","Some content or applications on our website may be served by third parties, content providers and application providers including the following:","Plugins. Our website may make available the option for you to use “plugins” that are operated by social media/networking companies or electronic wallet providers. If you choose to use one of these plugins, then it may collect information about you and send it back to the social media company that owns it. This may happen even if you do not click on the plugin, or if you are logged into the social media/networking website that owns the plugin when you visit our website. Data collected by a plugin is subject to the privacy policy and terms of the social media company that makes it. If you do not want the social media company that owns a plugin to collect information about you when you visit our website, sign out of the social media network before visiting. By interacting with a plugin when you are on our website (for example, clicking the Facebook “Like” button), you are intentionally transferring information to that social media/networking company. Further, if you are logged into a social media website when you visit our website, then you are directing us to share your data with the social media company that owns the plugin.","Third-party links. Our website may contain links to other sites, which we do not control. Those websites have their own privacy policies and terms, and we encourage you to read those terms before interacting with third-party sites.","RetentionWe will take reasonable steps to avoid collecting personal data that is not necessary. We will only retain your personal data for the period necessary to achieve the purposes described in this privacy policy. Your express agreement may permit us to retain your personal data for a longer period. Furthermore, legal requirements may require us to retain portions or all of the personal data we hold for a longer period of time. For example, we may be required to retain your information for tax, financial reporting, and other regulatory compliance reasons. When we are no longer required to retain your personal data, we will delete, erase, or anonymize your personal data as required by applicable law and regulations.For the categories of data that we collect the following table shows the maximum retention period for the information.","Data Category","Maximum Retention Period","Personal Identification Data","Your personal identification data will be retained for five (5) years after terminating your account.","Transaction Data","Your Transaction data provided through our website will be retained for five (5) years after terminating your account.","Communication Data","Your communication data via our contact us form will be retained for no longer than two (2) years. Any social media posts to third-party platforms will be retained according to the third party platform’s privacy policy.","Marketing Data","Marketing data that you provide will be retained for no longer than two (2) years.","Device and Usage Data","Your device and usage data will be retained for no longer than two (2) years.","Our website and Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. We will not knowingly solicit or collect personal data from children under 18, or the relevant minimum age under applicable local legal requirements, except as permitted under applicable law. If we learn that we have received information directly from a child under 18 without his or her parent’s or legal guardian’s consent, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information.","Your rights may vary depending on where you are located. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information.","Accessing, Updating, and Deleting Your Information. You can contact us as set forth in the Contact Us section below to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal data that you have provided to us. We may also ask you to verify your identity before we respond to your request. Depending on your request, we may not accommodate your request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or negatively affect the information’s accuracy.","Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. However, if you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of these websites may become inaccessible or not function properly.","California Residents. 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This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.","Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us to continue to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.","Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.","Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:","If you want us to establish the data’s accuracy.","Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.","You have objected to our use of your data, but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.","Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.","Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain Services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.","We may make automated decisions about you based on your personal data that may affect your access or Services provided to you. You have the right not to be subject the automated decision making so long as the decision is not necessary for the performance of the contract with you or required by legal obligation. If the decision making is necessary, you may contest the decision and request human intervention in the decision-making process.","You also have a right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority where you live.","We are an international company, and we maintain the information collected and generated in the United States that may have privacy laws that offer different levels of protection from the privacy laws of where you live. If you visit our website or use our Services, you consent to our collection, transfer, processing and use of your personal data in the United States. We will ensure that your personal data is adequately protected by this Privacy Policy and the relevant legal and regulatory requirements, for example, by using model contractual clauses ensuring appropriate data protection safeguards can be used as a ground for data transfers from the EU to third countries.","If you are located in the EEA, we have put in place appropriate measures to comply with the laws and regulations to ensure that the transfer of personal data to countries outside of the EEA provides an adequate level of data protection.","Data Security","The security of your personal data is very important to us. We use physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards designed to protect your personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purpose of collecting it.","We also require our service providers and business partners to whom we disclose the information to do the same. When you use certain types of information, for example, when you provide us with your credit card or debit card information on our website, we will encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We will continue to improve our physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards. However, the Internet environment is not 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee that information we collect will never be accessed in an unauthorized way.","Changes To This Privacy Policy","Changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this site, along with information on any material changes. The Company reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notice. If the changes made to our Privacy Policy are substantial, we will contact you or post notice to our website before the changes take place.","Contact Us","If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our use of your personal data, please contact us at the contact information below:","Email: privacy@hemi.xyz.","Address: Floor 4, Banco Popular Building","Road Town, Tortola VG1110","British Virgin Islands","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/privacy-policy"},"/token":{"version":1,"title":"$HEMI: The Power Behind Bitcoin Programmability","description":"The native token powering liquidity, governance, and yield on Hemi, uniting Bitcoin security with Ethereum programmability.","keywords":"","h1":["$HEMI: The PowerBehind BitcoinProgrammability","Build on Bitcoin"],"h2":["Available on global platforms","Available on trustedglobal platforms","Powering our ecosystem","Fueling a new programmable Bitcoin economy","Designed for transparency.Built for institutions.","Designed for transparency. 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Used for network fees.","02","Powers DeFi integrations and staking pools that unlock programmable Bitcoin yield without bridges or wrapped assets.","03","Enables staking in the veHEMI system to vote on emissions, upgrades, and protocol parameters.","04","Incentivizes developers, institutions, and liquidity providers to bootstrap protocols and ecosystem adoption.","05","Powers participation-based security and seamless interoperability between Bitcoin and EVM networks.","Over 95 protocols and platforms already use $HEMI to power yield, liquidity, and innovation - from institutional vaults to retail dApps.","Permissionless yield protocol offering passive returns through fixed-rate pools, native BTC yield, and leveraged strategies.","~6-10","APY","Turn BTC into a yield-generating asset on this chain-abstraction stablecoin system, unlocking cross-chain collateral, yield, and liquidity.","~5-36","Claim protocol rewards and maximize yield across multiple platforms while keeping your assets in your wallet.","~4-141","Access curated yield opportunities across protocols in your dashboard for tracking, optimizing, and compounding DeFi positions on HEMI.","~16-171","Dune is the on-chain data platform powering critical business decisions for institutions and enterprises across 100+ blockchains.","DIA provides trustless blockchain oracles that price any asset, from real-time market feeds for liquid tokens to fundamental valuation for illiquid institutional assets. All data computation happens onchain, making every feed verifiable from source to chain.","coPass is a Proof of Human, sybil-resistant identity verification protocol.","Conft is a Multi-Chain Web3 Utility Hub offering comprehensive services such as Web3 Name Service, NFT Aggregator, and Launchpad.","ZNS Connect is a decentralized naming system designed to simplify Web3 by offering user-friendly and memorable domain names.","A liquid restaking protocol that provides streamlined access to high-yield, risk-adjusted DeFi strategies.","A decentralized crypto asset management platform offering high yields.","WheelX is an AI-powered bridge & swap aggregator that enables cross-chain swapping of any token between multi-chains.","A Hemi native NFT marketplace and launchpad.","Hemi's native gaming platform.","Vesper is a platform of DeFi products designed for ease-of-use, longevity, and scale. It is a comprehensive ecosystem governed by the VSP token.","VaultCraft is a permissionless DeFi infrastructure for deploying custom yield strategies on any EVM chain within a few clicks.","UniSat is an open-source browser extension and mobile Bitcoin wallet, providing a platform for trading, inscribing, and managing Bitcoin assets.","A decentralized protocol for indexing and querying data from blockchains.","Symbiotic is a shared security protocol that allows network builders to control and adapt their (re)staking implementation in a permissionless manner.","Swell is a non-custodial staking protocol offering liquid staking and restaking for Ethereum and Bitcoin.","The most multi-chain DEX that lets you swap anything.","Sumer is a blockchain liquidity infrastructure with capital efficiency and security as its top priorities.","An oracle protocol that enables ultra low latency connections between data providers and both on- and off-chain applications.","Modular infrastructure enabling composable one-click apps on-top any web3 protocol.","Stargate is a fully composable liquidity transport protocol that lives at the heart of Omnichain DeFi.","A cutting-edge omnichain liquidity infrastructure, powered by a dynamic staking network.","Stable Jack is a yield, volatility, and points market for any asset.","Spicenet enables omni-composable applications, and access to users and liquidity from any blockchain network.","Satoshi Protocol is the 1st universal stablecoin protocol backed by Bitcoin, using BTC as collateral to mint the native stablecoin satUSD.","Satori Finance is an innovative decentralized platform dedicated to financial derivatives.","SatLayer leverages BTC, the ultimate economic collateral, to secure dApps and protocols as a Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS), enhancing crypto security.","Safe brings digital ownership of accounts to everyone by building universal and open contract standards for the custody of digital assets, data, and identity.","Rubic is the Best Rate Finder, which aggregates 360+ DEXs, bridges & intent-based protocols across 100+ blockchains & testnets — for users and dApps.","Relend Network solves stablecoin liquidity shortages across L2s by supplying rUSDC to their DeFi ecosystems.","Redstone is the fastest-growing oracle for DeFi and institutions.","RainbowKit is a customizable React library that simplifies the integration of wallet connections into web3 applications.","Raga Finance envisions to become the single yield-bearing ETH/BTC/stable asset used in DeFi across all chains and ecosystems.","The game-changing wallet for Ethereum and all EVM chains.","Quantstamp is a global leader in blockchain security. Since 2017, they've secured billions in digital assets and worked with some of the most recognized names in web3.","Pyth secures smart contracts with reliable, low-latency market data from institutional sources.","Pure Finance is a set of EVM tools and smart contracts offering solutions for developers, DeFi applications, and individuals alike.","PumpBTC serves as a Liquid Staking Solution for Babylon. PumpBTC aims to help BTC holders maximize yields through Babylon's staking.","Portal To Bitcoin's bitscaler-based infrastructure is ushering in the era of custody-less cross chain transactions that are fast, seamless, and secure.","A public blockchain optimized for the rapid adoption and demand-driven integration of real world assets (RWAs).","Pell Network\tThe First & Omnichain BTC Restaking Network, extending BTCFi into the cryptoeconomic security domain and fully unlocking Bitcoin's potential.","Owlto Finance is an intent-centric interoperability protocol, “Bridge the World with AI Agent”.","Optimism is an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution designed to enhance scalability and reduce transaction fees while maintaining Ethereum’s security and decentralization.","OOOO is the first modular omnichain interoperability protocol supporting the Bitcoin ecosystem.","OmniHub launchpad for creating blockchain collectibles. Create, buy and sell as your most creative ideas come to life on OmniHub.","Noves transforms how you work with smart contract blockchains.","Nomis is on-chain Identity Protocol that enables users to leverage their on-chain Reputation and get personalized Web3 experiences as well as access special rates, powers, and eligibility for rewards.","NFTs2Me is a user-friendly comprehensive platform to create, deploy and manage your NFT collection on Hemi, 100% free with advanced functionalities.","Mint Park is a NFT marketplace built for Bitcoin Layer 2 networks.","Metronome is a DeFi ecosystem powered by the Synth protocol, METDAO, and the MET Token.","A flexible liquidity mining platform designed to help DEXes and projects efficiently launch and manage multiple incentivization campaigns.","MetaMask is a browser extension and mobile wallet that enables users to interact with the Ethereum blockchain and other compatible networks.","Mission: To be the premier Bitcoin platform for yield-bearing token issuance, trading, and settlement.","LendOS is a decentralized lending Operation System deployed across multiple blockchain networks.","A universal permissionless on-chain bank.","LayerZero is a technology that enables applications to move data across blockchains.","A decentralized staking protocol that aggregates multiple chains. Users manage their assets through their own private keys, and asset security is free from platform risks.","Kelp DAO is an Ethereum staking and EigenLayer native restaking solution.","iZUMi Finance is a multi-chain DeFi protocol providing One-Stop Liquidity as a Service (LaaS).","Interport Finance stands out as a comprehensive cross-chain hub, designed to meet all your cross-chain needs in one place.","ICHI is a non-custodial DeFi protocol that simplifies and optimizes liquidity management for token projects, DAOs, asset managers, and blockchain ecosystems.","Hyperlane is the open interoperability framework to connect anywhere on-chain.","Cryptobiometric Sybil-resistant L1 for the web.","A protocol that facilitates liquidity for time-bound and semi-fungible tokens.","A non-custodial, automated, active concentrated liquidity manager.","Eisen is the leading DEX aggregator, bringing users the best swap return for decentralized crypto trading.","Eigenpie is an innovative SubDAO created by Magpie, focusing on liquid restaking of native ETH and LSTs via EigenLayer.","Echo is a multifaceted protocol specializing in bridging, liquid staking & restaking and yield solutions, seamlessly interoperating within the Move ecosystem.","Enhanced Web3 security with intuitive and robust sybil resistance solutions.","BTCD is a stable, Go-based, full node Bitcoin implementation that follows Bitcoin Core’s consensus rules, providing robust block validation and transaction relaying.","B² Network is a Layer-2 solution that bolsters transaction speed and broadens application diversity without sacrificing security.","Babypie is a liquid staking platform that allows BTC to be staked on Babylon and utilized across DeFi.","Instantly liquify your staked assets and unlock extra yield potential.","exSat network serves as the docking layer designed to tackle Bitcoin's inherent limitations in scalability and interoperability.","eOracle is an open infrastructure platform that empowers developers to build secure blockchain oracles backed by Ethereum’s battle-tested security model.","DZap is your DeFi autopilot — a one-click execution layer that transforms complex, multi-step DeFi actions into a seamless one-click experience.","dRPC is an AI-Powered Infrastructure for dApps and Chains; a modular RPC solution to launch, scale, and monitor your Web3 infra.","DODO stands at the forefront of decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, revolutionizing the way you interact with liquidity.","DeSyn is a decentralized liquidity infrastructure on Web3, empowering investors, projects and security companies to invest, build and manage all together.","Cygnus Finance aims to build the first modular real-yield layer. As the end game of real yield, it combines non-EVM systems such as TON with EVM ecosystem.","Bridgeless aggregate liquidity network for all blockchains, based on aggregate sequencer and chain abstraction.","Concrete is a network custom built to meet the needs of traders and lenders of today.","BlockWallet lets you easily manage token allowances to reduce the risk of losing funds to DApp hacks and exploits.","Generate organic yield on BTC through the funding rate arbitrage trade.","A decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that enables users to stake assets like BTC and Liquid Staked Tokens (LST) to borrow USBD, a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar.","Avalon Labs is a Bitcoin-focused decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that bridges traditional and decentralized finance by offering lending and borrowing services.","Atlas is a native DEX purpose-built for Hemi. Automated liquidity, better swaps.","Artura is an on-chain perp DEX for trading ordinals, runes, and atomicals built on BTC L2s.","Allora is an open-source, decentralized marketplace for intelligence.","Providing access to $20B+ of liquidity for spot & margin trading, and yield farming.","$HEMI aligns validators, developers, and institutions to build the convergence layer for the Bitcoin economy.","Total supply","Circulating supply","Emission model","10 Billion $HEMI","Tokens in circulations","Protocol Emissions","Team & Core Contributors","Investors & Strategic Partners","Hemispheres Foundation","Community & Ecosystem","Hemi’s economic model (HIPPO-002) defines how network fees, rewards, and liquidity move across the ecosystem — keeping incentives balanced and value deflationary over time.","1","Fee Distribution & Burn","Network fees are split between validators, liquidity pools, and treasury; a portion is burned to maintain deflationary pressure.","2","Automated Treasury","Smart contracts autonomously 

manage rewards and liquidity to 

stabilize network yield.","3","Incentive Voting","Token holders direct incentives toward specific protocols and dApps, creating a decentralized market for rewards.","4","Dual-Staking","Users can stake both HEMI and stBTC, aligning validator and user incentives into a single yield loop.","Learn more","Partner with us","Stake, build, and govern with $HEMI to power institutional-grade programmable Bitcoin.","Join community","$HEMI is the native token of the Hemi Network. It powers network security, liquidity incentives, governance, and ecosystem rewards.","$HEMI is used for validator staking, governance voting, liquidity provision, and powering DeFi protocols built on the Hemi Network.","$HEMI is available on major decentralized exchanges like Uniswap and Curve, and through selected institutional partners.","Yes. Staking $HEMI secures the network and allows you to earn validator or delegation rewards.","$HEMI operates under a regulated, auditable framework with on-chain transparency and third-party smart contract audits.","Governance documentation is available on Hemi Docs.","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/token"},"/ecosystem":{"version":1,"title":"The Most Productive Bitcoin Ecosystem","description":"Explore the Hemi Ecosystem — partners, tools, and integrations that enable secure, institutional-grade Bitcoin yield.","keywords":"","h1":["The Most ProductiveBitcoin Ecosystem","The Most Productive Bitcoin Ecosystem"],"h2":["Unlock institutional-grade Bitcoin yield","Build on Bitcoin’s most productive capital layer"],"h3":[],"h4":[],"h5":["Spectra","%","River","Merkl","vFAT","Dune","DIA","coPass","Conft","ZNS Connect","YieldNest","YieldFi","WheelX","Mintora","HairGAMES","Vesper","VaultCraft","UniSat","The Graph","Symbiotic","Swell","Sushi","Sumer","Stork","Steer Protocol","Stargate","StakeStone","Stable Jack","Spicenet","Satoshi Protocol","Satori","Satlayer","Safe","Rubic","Relend Network","RedStone","RainbowKit","Raga","Rabby Wallet","Quantstamp","Pyth","Pure Finance","PumpBTC","Portal To Bitcoin","Plume","Pell Network","Owlto","Optimism","OOOO","OmniHub","Noves","Nomis","NFTs2Me","Mint Park","Metronome","Metrom","Metamask","Lorenzo","LendOS","LayerBank","LayerZero","KiKi Finance","Kelp DAO","iZUMi Finance","Interport","ICHI","Hyperlane","Humanode","Hourglass","Gamma","Eisen","Eigenpie","Echo Protocol","Demos","BTCD","B² Network","Babypie","Free Protocol","exSat Network","eOracle","DZap","dRPC","DODO","DeSyn","Cygnus Finance","Cycle Network","Concrete","BlockWallet","BitFi","Bima","Avalon Labs","Atlas","Artura","Allora","1Delta"],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","Permissionless yield protocol offering passive returns through fixed-rate pools, native BTC yield, and leveraged strategies.","~6-10","APY","Turn BTC into a yield-generating asset on this chain-abstraction stablecoin system, unlocking cross-chain collateral, yield, and liquidity.","~5-36","Claim protocol rewards and maximize yield across multiple platforms while keeping your assets in your wallet.","~4-141","Access curated yield opportunities across protocols in your dashboard for tracking, optimizing, and compounding DeFi positions on HEMI.","~16-171","Dune is the on-chain data platform powering critical business decisions for institutions and enterprises across 100+ blockchains.","DIA provides trustless blockchain oracles that price any asset, from real-time market feeds for liquid tokens to fundamental valuation for illiquid institutional assets. All data computation happens onchain, making every feed verifiable from source to chain.","coPass is a Proof of Human, sybil-resistant identity verification protocol.","Conft is a Multi-Chain Web3 Utility Hub offering comprehensive services such as Web3 Name Service, NFT Aggregator, and Launchpad.","ZNS Connect is a decentralized naming system designed to simplify Web3 by offering user-friendly and memorable domain names.","A liquid restaking protocol that provides streamlined access to high-yield, risk-adjusted DeFi strategies.","A decentralized crypto asset management platform offering high yields.","WheelX is an AI-powered bridge & swap aggregator that enables cross-chain swapping of any token between multi-chains.","A Hemi native NFT marketplace and launchpad.","Hemi's native gaming platform.","Vesper is a platform of DeFi products designed for ease-of-use, longevity, and scale. It is a comprehensive ecosystem governed by the VSP token.","VaultCraft is a permissionless DeFi infrastructure for deploying custom yield strategies on any EVM chain within a few clicks.","UniSat is an open-source browser extension and mobile Bitcoin wallet, providing a platform for trading, inscribing, and managing Bitcoin assets.","A decentralized protocol for indexing and querying data from blockchains.","Symbiotic is a shared security protocol that allows network builders to control and adapt their (re)staking implementation in a permissionless manner.","Swell is a non-custodial staking protocol offering liquid staking and restaking for Ethereum and Bitcoin.","The most multi-chain DEX that lets you swap anything.","Sumer is a blockchain liquidity infrastructure with capital efficiency and security as its top priorities.","An oracle protocol that enables ultra low latency connections between data providers and both on- and off-chain applications.","Modular infrastructure enabling composable one-click apps on-top any web3 protocol.","Stargate is a fully composable liquidity transport protocol that lives at the heart of Omnichain DeFi.","A cutting-edge omnichain liquidity infrastructure, powered by a dynamic staking network.","Stable Jack is a yield, volatility, and points market for any asset.","Spicenet enables omni-composable applications, and access to users and liquidity from any blockchain network.","Satoshi Protocol is the 1st universal stablecoin protocol backed by Bitcoin, using BTC as collateral to mint the native stablecoin satUSD.","Satori Finance is an innovative decentralized platform dedicated to financial derivatives.","SatLayer leverages BTC, the ultimate economic collateral, to secure dApps and protocols as a Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS), enhancing crypto security.","Safe brings digital ownership of accounts to everyone by building universal and open contract standards for the custody of digital assets, data, and identity.","Rubic is the Best Rate Finder, which aggregates 360+ DEXs, bridges & intent-based protocols across 100+ blockchains & testnets — for users and dApps.","Relend Network solves stablecoin liquidity shortages across L2s by supplying rUSDC to their DeFi ecosystems.","Redstone is the fastest-growing oracle for DeFi and institutions.","RainbowKit is a customizable React library that simplifies the integration of wallet connections into web3 applications.","Raga Finance envisions to become the single yield-bearing ETH/BTC/stable asset used in DeFi across all chains and ecosystems.","The game-changing wallet for Ethereum and all EVM chains.","Quantstamp is a global leader in blockchain security. Since 2017, they've secured billions in digital assets and worked with some of the most recognized names in web3.","Pyth secures smart contracts with reliable, low-latency market data from institutional sources.","Pure Finance is a set of EVM tools and smart contracts offering solutions for developers, DeFi applications, and individuals alike.","PumpBTC serves as a Liquid Staking Solution for Babylon. PumpBTC aims to help BTC holders maximize yields through Babylon's staking.","Portal To Bitcoin's bitscaler-based infrastructure is ushering in the era of custody-less cross chain transactions that are fast, seamless, and secure.","A public blockchain optimized for the rapid adoption and demand-driven integration of real world assets (RWAs).","Pell Network\tThe First & Omnichain BTC Restaking Network, extending BTCFi into the cryptoeconomic security domain and fully unlocking Bitcoin's potential.","Owlto Finance is an intent-centric interoperability protocol, “Bridge the World with AI Agent”.","Optimism is an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution designed to enhance scalability and reduce transaction fees while maintaining Ethereum’s security and decentralization.","OOOO is the first modular omnichain interoperability protocol supporting the Bitcoin ecosystem.","OmniHub launchpad for creating blockchain collectibles. Create, buy and sell as your most creative ideas come to life on OmniHub.","Noves transforms how you work with smart contract blockchains.","Nomis is on-chain Identity Protocol that enables users to leverage their on-chain Reputation and get personalized Web3 experiences as well as access special rates, powers, and eligibility for rewards.","NFTs2Me is a user-friendly comprehensive platform to create, deploy and manage your NFT collection on Hemi, 100% free with advanced functionalities.","Mint Park is a NFT marketplace built for Bitcoin Layer 2 networks.","Metronome is a DeFi ecosystem powered by the Synth protocol, METDAO, and the MET Token.","A flexible liquidity mining platform designed to help DEXes and projects efficiently launch and manage multiple incentivization campaigns.","MetaMask is a browser extension and mobile wallet that enables users to interact with the Ethereum blockchain and other compatible networks.","Mission: To be the premier Bitcoin platform for yield-bearing token issuance, trading, and settlement.","LendOS is a decentralized lending Operation System deployed across multiple blockchain networks.","A universal permissionless on-chain bank.","LayerZero is a technology that enables applications to move data across blockchains.","A decentralized staking protocol that aggregates multiple chains. Users manage their assets through their own private keys, and asset security is free from platform risks.","Kelp DAO is an Ethereum staking and EigenLayer native restaking solution.","iZUMi Finance is a multi-chain DeFi protocol providing One-Stop Liquidity as a Service (LaaS).","Interport Finance stands out as a comprehensive cross-chain hub, designed to meet all your cross-chain needs in one place.","ICHI is a non-custodial DeFi protocol that simplifies and optimizes liquidity management for token projects, DAOs, asset managers, and blockchain ecosystems.","Hyperlane is the open interoperability framework to connect anywhere on-chain.","Cryptobiometric Sybil-resistant L1 for the web.","A protocol that facilitates liquidity for time-bound and semi-fungible tokens.","A non-custodial, automated, active concentrated liquidity manager.","Eisen is the leading DEX aggregator, bringing users the best swap return for decentralized crypto trading.","Eigenpie is an innovative SubDAO created by Magpie, focusing on liquid restaking of native ETH and LSTs via EigenLayer.","Echo is a multifaceted protocol specializing in bridging, liquid staking & restaking and yield solutions, seamlessly interoperating within the Move ecosystem.","Enhanced Web3 security with intuitive and robust sybil resistance solutions.","BTCD is a stable, Go-based, full node Bitcoin implementation that follows Bitcoin Core’s consensus rules, providing robust block validation and transaction relaying.","B² Network is a Layer-2 solution that bolsters transaction speed and broadens application diversity without sacrificing security.","Babypie is a liquid staking platform that allows BTC to be staked on Babylon and utilized across DeFi.","Instantly liquify your staked assets and unlock extra yield potential.","exSat network serves as the docking layer designed to tackle Bitcoin's inherent limitations in scalability and interoperability.","eOracle is an open infrastructure platform that empowers developers to build secure blockchain oracles backed by Ethereum’s battle-tested security model.","DZap is your DeFi autopilot — a one-click execution layer that transforms complex, multi-step DeFi actions into a seamless one-click experience.","dRPC is an AI-Powered Infrastructure for dApps and Chains; a modular RPC solution to launch, scale, and monitor your Web3 infra.","DODO stands at the forefront of decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, revolutionizing the way you interact with liquidity.","DeSyn is a decentralized liquidity infrastructure on Web3, empowering investors, projects and security companies to invest, build and manage all together.","Cygnus Finance aims to build the first modular real-yield layer. As the end game of real yield, it combines non-EVM systems such as TON with EVM ecosystem.","Bridgeless aggregate liquidity network for all blockchains, based on aggregate sequencer and chain abstraction.","Concrete is a network custom built to meet the needs of traders and lenders of today.","BlockWallet lets you easily manage token allowances to reduce the risk of losing funds to DApp hacks and exploits.","Generate organic yield on BTC through the funding rate arbitrage trade.","A decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that enables users to stake assets like BTC and Liquid Staked Tokens (LST) to borrow USBD, a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar.","Avalon Labs is a Bitcoin-focused decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that bridges traditional and decentralized finance by offering lending and borrowing services.","Atlas is a native DEX purpose-built for Hemi. Automated liquidity, better swaps.","Artura is an on-chain perp DEX for trading ordinals, runes, and atomicals built on BTC L2s.","Allora is an open-source, decentralized marketplace for intelligence.","Providing access to $20B+ of liquidity for spot & margin trading, and yield farming.","Put BTC to work through Hemi’s auditable yield infrastructure, designed for compliance, transparency, and custody alignment.","Use Hemi's SDKs and APIs to launch yield strategies across DeFi, liquidity, and tokenized assets with Bitcoin-native security","Start building","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/ecosystem"},"/developers":{"version":1,"title":"Solidity on Bitcoin. No wrappers. No bridges.","description":"Hemi makes Bitcoin programmable. Deploy Solidity contracts and dApps on a programmable layer secured by Proof-of-Proof and anchored to Bitcoin.","keywords":"","h1":["Solidity on Bitcoin.No wrappers.No bridges.","Start buildingon Bitcoin. 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That’s why coNFT is excited to collaborate — we share the same spirit of openness and experimentation.\"","\"Deploying Satori on Hemi lets us build with Bitcoin-level finality inside an EVM environment, backed by a community that’s building real infrastructure, not just hype.\"","\"Hemi’s unified approach sets a new standard for scalable, secure, and interoperable blockchain ecosystems. It’s the first time we’ve seen a project this far along on that mission.\"","\"Hemi brings speed, scalability, and a smooth developer experience — without compromising Bitcoin-grade security.\"","\"Our Hemi collaboration has been transformative. Their modular L2 architecture… delivers the scalability and security our project needs to thrive. 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Hemi’s innovative approach… combined with Quantstamp’s expertise… creates a strong foundation for building trust in the DeFi ecosystem.\"","\"What sets Hemi apart is its unique integration of a full Bitcoin node with Ethereum compatibility - a standout in the DeFi space. by bridging BTC & ETH ecosytems, Hemi is unlike anything we've ever seen","\"Hemi is transforming how Bitcoin and Ethereum interact, and not merely providing a bridge between the two largest networks in the blockchain ecosystem, but a supernetwork that most elegantly marries the capabilities of both.\"","“Hemi’s approach to bridging Bitcoin and Ethereum unlocks powerful cross-chain potential. Their expertise and focus on scalability and security make it one of the most exciting projects today.”","“We value Hemi’s modular protocol and its focus on cross-chain interoperability. Collaborating with Hemi has strengthened our efforts in advancing interoperability and security.”","\"Sushi deployed on Hemi based on its unique combination of Bitcoin’s security and Ethereum’s programmability — ideal for building the next wave of Bitcoin DeFi applications.\"","\"The Hemi team has a clear and compelling vision for unlocking the programmability, portability, and potential of Web3. 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Deploy Solidity contracts and dApps on a programmable layer secured by Proof-of-Proof and anchored to Bitcoin.","Start building","View docs","Ecosystem partners","Purpose-built.\nPerformance-verified.","Bitcoin-secured transactions","Protocol partners building on Hemi","Community members","Write, deploy, and verify Solidity contracts directly on Bitcoin. No wrappers, bridges, or new tooling.","1","Connect your wallet","Use MetaMask or any EVM-compatible wallet.","2","Fund your deployment","Claim test BTC and ETH from the faucet.","3","Deploy your contract","Use Remix or Foundry, select the Hemi network, and deploy with hVM.","4","Query Bitcoin state","Access headers, balances, and UTXOs through the hBK module.","Open Quickstart guide","Developer tutorials","Hemi runs Solidity contracts while exposing native Bitcoin state inside the EVM. Its dual-layer architecture pairs hVM for contract execution with hBK for trustless Bitcoin state access.","The hVM wraps a Bitcoin node in an EVM-compatible runtime, combining Bitcoin’s security with Ethereum-grade programmability in a unified execution layer.","hVM enables","Low-fee Bitcoin DeFi","Non-custodial Bitcoin services","Multi-chain DAOs","Bitcoin-secured AI applications","Cross-chain exchanges","Bitcoin-backed financial instruments","The hBK lets Solidity contracts read and verify Bitcoin state natively within Hemi, enabling secure, trustless cross-protocol logic and data access.","hBK enables","Native Bitcoin data access","BTC balance tracking","UTXO and header verification","Node-to-node interoperability","Onchain Bitcoin data proofs","Transactions and yield events are independently verified and anchored to Bitcoin.","Solidity contracts automate strategy execution with full onchain auditability and deterministic outcomes.","Modular SDKs for wallet integration, oracle access, and cross-chain messaging, built for rapid deployment.","Architecture overview","Programmable Bitcoin","No wrapping. No pretending.","Super-Network Infrastructure","First truly connect BTC + ETH at the core.","Bitcoin-Powered Finality","Global-grade security without the brittleness.","Next-Gen BTCFi","Programmable, portable, powerful.","Launch-Ready Ecosystem","Ten fastest ways to launch your own Bitcoin-secured network.","Trustless Re-Staking with Native BTC","A new frontier in Bitcoin yield.","Other Bitcoin L2s rely on wrapped assets or bridges. Hemi keeps contracts verifiable and BTC native to Layer 1. No new languages or tooling.","Swipe","Explore docs","Comparison across leading BitcoinLayer-2 networks (Q4 2025)","Programming Language","Security Anchor","Consensus Type","Bridge Risk","Developer UX","​​Hemi provides the primitives to build financial and yield applications across DeFi and real-world assets, secured by Bitcoin and powered by Solidity.","Permissionless yield protocol offering passive returns through fixed-rate pools, native BTC yield, and leveraged strategies.","Turn BTC into a yield-generating asset on this chain-abstraction stablecoin system, unlocking cross-chain collateral, yield, and liquidity.","Claim protocol rewards and maximize yield across multiple platforms while keeping your assets in your wallet.","Access curated yield opportunities across protocols in your dashboard for tracking, optimizing, and compounding DeFi positions on HEMI.","Dune is the on-chain data platform powering critical business decisions for institutions and enterprises across 100+ blockchains.","DIA provides trustless blockchain oracles that price any asset, from real-time market feeds for liquid tokens to fundamental valuation for illiquid institutional assets. All data computation happens onchain, making every feed verifiable from source to chain.","coPass is a Proof of Human, sybil-resistant identity verification protocol.","Conft is a Multi-Chain Web3 Utility Hub offering comprehensive services such as Web3 Name Service, NFT Aggregator, and Launchpad.","ZNS Connect is a decentralized naming system designed to simplify Web3 by offering user-friendly and memorable domain names.","A liquid restaking protocol that provides streamlined access to high-yield, risk-adjusted DeFi strategies.","A decentralized crypto asset management platform offering high yields.","WheelX is an AI-powered bridge & swap aggregator that enables cross-chain swapping of any token between multi-chains.","A Hemi native NFT marketplace and launchpad.","Hemi's native gaming platform.","Vesper is a platform of DeFi products designed for ease-of-use, longevity, and scale. It is a comprehensive ecosystem governed by the VSP token.","VaultCraft is a permissionless DeFi infrastructure for deploying custom yield strategies on any EVM chain within a few clicks.","UniSat is an open-source browser extension and mobile Bitcoin wallet, providing a platform for trading, inscribing, and managing Bitcoin assets.","A decentralized protocol for indexing and querying data from blockchains.","Symbiotic is a shared security protocol that allows network builders to control and adapt their (re)staking implementation in a permissionless manner.","Swell is a non-custodial staking protocol offering liquid staking and restaking for Ethereum and Bitcoin.","The most multi-chain DEX that lets you swap anything.","Sumer is a blockchain liquidity infrastructure with capital efficiency and security as its top priorities.","An oracle protocol that enables ultra low latency connections between data providers and both on- and off-chain applications.","Modular infrastructure enabling composable one-click apps on-top any web3 protocol.","Stargate is a fully composable liquidity transport protocol that lives at the heart of Omnichain DeFi.","A cutting-edge omnichain liquidity infrastructure, powered by a dynamic staking network.","Stable Jack is a yield, volatility, and points market for any asset.","Spicenet enables omni-composable applications, and access to users and liquidity from any blockchain network.","Satoshi Protocol is the 1st universal stablecoin protocol backed by Bitcoin, using BTC as collateral to mint the native stablecoin satUSD.","Satori Finance is an innovative decentralized platform dedicated to financial derivatives.","SatLayer leverages BTC, the ultimate economic collateral, to secure dApps and protocols as a Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS), enhancing crypto security.","Safe brings digital ownership of accounts to everyone by building universal and open contract standards for the custody of digital assets, data, and identity.","Rubic is the Best Rate Finder, which aggregates 360+ DEXs, bridges & intent-based protocols across 100+ blockchains & testnets — for users and dApps.","Relend Network solves stablecoin liquidity shortages across L2s by supplying rUSDC to their DeFi ecosystems.","Redstone is the fastest-growing oracle for DeFi and institutions.","RainbowKit is a customizable React library that simplifies the integration of wallet connections into web3 applications.","Raga Finance envisions to become the single yield-bearing ETH/BTC/stable asset used in DeFi across all chains and ecosystems.","The game-changing wallet for Ethereum and all EVM chains.","Quantstamp is a global leader in blockchain security. Since 2017, they've secured billions in digital assets and worked with some of the most recognized names in web3.","Pyth secures smart contracts with reliable, low-latency market data from institutional sources.","Pure Finance is a set of EVM tools and smart contracts offering solutions for developers, DeFi applications, and individuals alike.","PumpBTC serves as a Liquid Staking Solution for Babylon. PumpBTC aims to help BTC holders maximize yields through Babylon's staking.","Portal To Bitcoin's bitscaler-based infrastructure is ushering in the era of custody-less cross chain transactions that are fast, seamless, and secure.","A public blockchain optimized for the rapid adoption and demand-driven integration of real world assets (RWAs).","Pell Network\tThe First & Omnichain BTC Restaking Network, extending BTCFi into the cryptoeconomic security domain and fully unlocking Bitcoin's potential.","Owlto Finance is an intent-centric interoperability protocol, “Bridge the World with AI Agent”.","Optimism is an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution designed to enhance scalability and reduce transaction fees while maintaining Ethereum’s security and decentralization.","OOOO is the first modular omnichain interoperability protocol supporting the Bitcoin ecosystem.","OmniHub launchpad for creating blockchain collectibles. Create, buy and sell as your most creative ideas come to life on OmniHub.","Noves transforms how you work with smart contract blockchains.","Nomis is on-chain Identity Protocol that enables users to leverage their on-chain Reputation and get personalized Web3 experiences as well as access special rates, powers, and eligibility for rewards.","NFTs2Me is a user-friendly comprehensive platform to create, deploy and manage your NFT collection on Hemi, 100% free with advanced functionalities.","Mint Park is a NFT marketplace built for Bitcoin Layer 2 networks.","Metronome is a DeFi ecosystem powered by the Synth protocol, METDAO, and the MET Token.","A flexible liquidity mining platform designed to help DEXes and projects efficiently launch and manage multiple incentivization campaigns.","MetaMask is a browser extension and mobile wallet that enables users to interact with the Ethereum blockchain and other compatible networks.","Mission: To be the premier Bitcoin platform for yield-bearing token issuance, trading, and settlement.","LendOS is a decentralized lending Operation System deployed across multiple blockchain networks.","A universal permissionless on-chain bank.","LayerZero is a technology that enables applications to move data across blockchains.","A decentralized staking protocol that aggregates multiple chains. Users manage their assets through their own private keys, and asset security is free from platform risks.","Kelp DAO is an Ethereum staking and EigenLayer native restaking solution.","iZUMi Finance is a multi-chain DeFi protocol providing One-Stop Liquidity as a Service (LaaS).","Interport Finance stands out as a comprehensive cross-chain hub, designed to meet all your cross-chain needs in one place.","ICHI is a non-custodial DeFi protocol that simplifies and optimizes liquidity management for token projects, DAOs, asset managers, and blockchain ecosystems.","Hyperlane is the open interoperability framework to connect anywhere on-chain.","Cryptobiometric Sybil-resistant L1 for the web.","A protocol that facilitates liquidity for time-bound and semi-fungible tokens.","A non-custodial, automated, active concentrated liquidity manager.","Eisen is the leading DEX aggregator, bringing users the best swap return for decentralized crypto trading.","Eigenpie is an innovative SubDAO created by Magpie, focusing on liquid restaking of native ETH and LSTs via EigenLayer.","Echo is a multifaceted protocol specializing in bridging, liquid staking & restaking and yield solutions, seamlessly interoperating within the Move ecosystem.","Enhanced Web3 security with intuitive and robust sybil resistance solutions.","BTCD is a stable, Go-based, full node Bitcoin implementation that follows Bitcoin Core’s consensus rules, providing robust block validation and transaction relaying.","B² Network is a Layer-2 solution that bolsters transaction speed and broadens application diversity without sacrificing security.","Babypie is a liquid staking platform that allows BTC to be staked on Babylon and utilized across DeFi.","Instantly liquify your staked assets and unlock extra yield potential.","exSat network serves as the docking layer designed to tackle Bitcoin's inherent limitations in scalability and interoperability.","eOracle is an open infrastructure platform that empowers developers to build secure blockchain oracles backed by Ethereum’s battle-tested security model.","DZap is your DeFi autopilot — a one-click execution layer that transforms complex, multi-step DeFi actions into a seamless one-click experience.","dRPC is an AI-Powered Infrastructure for dApps and Chains; a modular RPC solution to launch, scale, and monitor your Web3 infra.","DODO stands at the forefront of decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, revolutionizing the way you interact with liquidity.","DeSyn is a decentralized liquidity infrastructure on Web3, empowering investors, projects and security companies to invest, build and manage all together.","Cygnus Finance aims to build the first modular real-yield layer. As the end game of real yield, it combines non-EVM systems such as TON with EVM ecosystem.","Bridgeless aggregate liquidity network for all blockchains, based on aggregate sequencer and chain abstraction.","Concrete is a network custom built to meet the needs of traders and lenders of today.","BlockWallet lets you easily manage token allowances to reduce the risk of losing funds to DApp hacks and exploits.","Generate organic yield on BTC through the funding rate arbitrage trade.","A decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that enables users to stake assets like BTC and Liquid Staked Tokens (LST) to borrow USBD, a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar.","Avalon Labs is a Bitcoin-focused decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that bridges traditional and decentralized finance by offering lending and borrowing services.","Atlas is a native DEX purpose-built for Hemi. Automated liquidity, better swaps.","Artura is an on-chain perp DEX for trading ordinals, runes, and atomicals built on BTC L2s.","Allora is an open-source, decentralized marketplace for intelligence.","Providing access to $20B+ of liquidity for spot & margin trading, and yield farming.","Explore ecosystem","Over 95+ products","Delivering the foundation for a unified Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystem.","Proof-of-Proof (PoP) Consensus","Bringing Bitcoin security to Hemi in a fully decentralized and permissionless manner.","hVM (Hemi Virtual Machine)","Wrapping a Bitcoin node inside an EVM to enable a new class of robust, efficient Bitcoin-aware smart contracts.","hBK (Hemi Bitcoin Kit)","Easily develop Bitcoin-aware smart contracts in a familiar programming environment.","Bitcoin & Ethereum Tunnels","Secure asset transfer from crypto's most important networks to Hemi.","Scaling and decentralizing Bitcoin and Ethereum interoperability.","5","Bidirectional Tunnels","Securely move assets between Bitcoin and Ethereum via Hemi.","6","Bitcoin Tunnel on BitVM","A permissionless, capital-efficient system for enhanced BTC asset security with a 1-of-n trust model.","7","Decentralized Sequencer","Decentralized block production to improve censorship resistance and network reliability.","8","Chainbuilder","Build app-specific, layer-3 chains atop Hemi that inherit Hemi's Bitcoin security and multi-chain interoperability.","A complete ecosystem combining and scaling Bitcoin and Ethereum","9","Launch layer-3 Hemi ecosystem chains with DA, execution environment, and sequencing optimized for secure, AI apps.","10","11","hVM/hBK Metaprotocol Support","Build smart contracts with full awareness of popular Bitcoin-based metaprotocols like BRC-20s, Runes, and Ordinals.","12","Bitcoin Tunnel (BRC-20s / Ordinals)","Full support for tunneling all major BTC assets, both fungible (BRC-20s, Runes) and non-fungible (Ordinals).","Hemi provides the primitives to build financial and yield applications across DeFi and real-world assets, secured by Bitcoin and powered by Solidity.","Developers across DeFi, infrastructure, and Web3 are choosing Hemi to unlock Bitcoin programmability with Ethereum-level speed and flexibility.","Oliver","CEO","•","YieldFi","Getty Hill","OKU","Venus Li","Co-founder","Avalon Labs","Mayank Raj","Raga Finance","Dimitri Zolot","coLabs","Rahim Noorani","Satori","Lionel","Co-Founder","DeSyn","Brian Park","Project Lead","Gamma Strategies","Eric Cheung","Co-Founder/CEO","Cygnus Finance","Peter Watts","Relay","Kieran Smith","CMO, Swell","Swell","Mark Wang","CEO, DODO","DODO","Richard Ma","CEO/Founder","Quantstamp","Marc Tillement","Director","Pyth Data Association","Sam Kim","Managing Partner","Big Brain","Bobby Bao","Cofounder","Crypto.com","Angus Lamps","Foundation Lead","Stargate","Jared Grey","Managing Director","Sushi","Ted Breyer","Partner","Breyer Capital","Build, test, and scale Bitcoin-settled applications with standard EVM tools and open-source modules. No wrappers, no custom stack.","SDKs & APIs","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants & Hackathons","Developer Discord","Get started","Join open-source contributors, explore new use cases, and connect with teams building programmable Bitcoin apps.","Grants for early-stage projects","Hackathons and bounties for emerging primitives","Discord hub for code, support, and collaboration","Apply for grants","Join Discord","501K+ community members","Partner with us","Deploy, test, and scale Solidity-based apps with native BTC access using open tooling and verifiable infrastructure.","Book technical onboarding","Hemi is a dual-layer protocol that makes Bitcoin programmable. It combines Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work security with Ethereum-level smart contract execution through the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) and Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK).","Hemi anchors every transaction to Bitcoin via Proof-of-Proof (PoP), inheriting Bitcoin’s full security. Other L2s rely on bridges, wrapping, or hybrid validation. Hemi keeps assets and logic verifiable on-chain.","The Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) is a full Bitcoin node wrapped inside an EVM. It lets developers deploy Solidity smart contracts that directly interact with Bitcoin data.","The Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) allows contracts to read and verify Bitcoin state including UTXOs, headers, and balances, inside Solidity. It brings real Bitcoin awareness to smart contracts.","All Hemi blocks are anchored to Bitcoin through Proof-of-Proof. This means Bitcoin miners indirectly secure the network. Every transaction can be traced back to Bitcoin’s Proof-of-Work chain.","Follow the Quickstart guide or run the testnet demo: connect your wallet, claim test BTC/ETH, deploy your first contract in Remix, and query Bitcoin data using hBK.","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Build on Hemi","Developers quickstart","SDK","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/developers"},"/":{"version":1,"title":"Activate compliant Bitcoin yield without leaving custody","description":"The unified DeFi layer for Bitcoin that turns idle BTC into compliant yield with full ownership and secure in-custody execution.","keywords":"","h1":["Activate compliantBitcoin yield withoutleaving custody","Unlock institutional Bitcoin yield. With full compliance.","Unlock institutional Bitcoinyield. With full compliance.","Unlock institutionalBitcoin yield. With full compliance."],"h2":["Where Bitcoin-native yield meets institutional fidelity","Convert your BTCinto performing capital","Earn compliant Bitcoin yield in four steps","Trusted byleading institutions","Our partner network","Build on Bitcoin infrastructure with EVM flexibility and PoP security","Articles","Press mentions"],"h3":["\"Liquidity across chains used to stop at Bitcoin. With Hemi, BTC is now a fully programmable, routable asset — and that’s massive for the omnichain future.\"","“Hemi lets us bring Spectra’s EVM logic into Bitcoin without compromising on DeFi fundamentals. That is how we built the highest‑paying fixed income instruments for BTC.”","“At Bedrock, our goal is to unlock Bitcoin’s potential in DeFi while maintaining its core strengths—security and decentralization. Hemi’s modular Layer‑2 architecture and interoperability between Bitcoin and Ethereum align perfectly with this vision.”","“Partnering with Hemi represents a compelling opportunity to bridge traditional finance with the emerging Bitcoin economy. We believe Hemi is uniquely positioned to deliver the infrastructure and access that institutional investors demand.”","“I’m impressed by the comprehensive ecosystem Hemi has built, which goes far beyond traditional Bitcoin infrastructure. I particularly value the quality of the team and their carefully chosen partners, as they’re bringing together top-tier projects while building sustainable infrastructure for crypto holders.”","\"At ClearStar, we’re committed to composable, scalable systems. Hemi is the first network that makes Bitcoin interoperable with DeFi in a way that’s actually trustless.\"","\"Hemi’s infrastructure enhances our ability to deliver stable, high-yield strategies, shaping the future of Bitcoin-based decentralized finance.\"","Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition","Subscribe to 'Your Signal Aggregator'","Subscribe to'Your Signal Aggregator'","Subscribe to yoursignal aggregator"],"h4":["Full EVM compatibility","Ready SDKs & APIs","Secured by Proof-of-Proof","Access to allocated capital"],"h5":["What is Hemi?","Why it matters?","Spectra","%","River","Merkl","vFAT","Connect custody","Activate account","Allocate BTC","Monitor yield"],"h6":[],"p":["Institutions","Developers","Ecosystem","About","Launch portal","Book a demo","The unified DeFi layer for Bitcoin that turns idle BTC into compliant yield with full ownership and secure in-custody execution.","Earn with Hemi","Build on Hemi","Partnered with leadinginstitutions","Trusted by leading institutions","Architecture you can trust.\nResults you can verify.","Total value locked","Total accounts","Yield & DeFi products","Bitcoin-secured transactions","About Hemi","Hemi unifies Bitcoin security with Ethereum-grade programmability, allowing institutions to deploy native BTC into yield strategies while preserving full control and compliance.","Institutions can earn on-chain yield with native BTC without wrappers or middlemen. Hemi provides transparent, institutional-grade infrastructure for security, compliance, and clarity.","Explore how it works","Explore curated, risk-managed strategies for institutional portfolios, while keeping BTC as BTC.","Permissionless yield protocol offering passive returns through fixed-rate pools, native BTC yield, and leveraged strategies.","~6-10","APY","Turn BTC into a yield-generating asset on this chain-abstraction stablecoin system, unlocking cross-chain collateral, yield, and liquidity.","~5-36","Claim protocol rewards and maximize yield across multiple platforms while keeping your assets in your wallet.","~4-141","Access curated yield opportunities across protocols in your dashboard for tracking, optimizing, and compounding DeFi positions on HEMI.","~16-171","*Yields fluctuate based on strategy design, custody method, and prevailing market conditions. Performance is not guaranteed.","1","Link your custodian, MPC wallet, or multisig setup to enable secure access to your BTC.","2","Access Hemi dashboard for verification, compliance, and reporting setup.","3","Select approved yield products aligned with risk profile and return objectives.","4","Track real-time positions, performance metrics, and full audit trails.","Learn more","Angus Lamps","Foundation Lead","•","Stargate","Gaspard Peduzzi","Founder","Spectra","Zhuling Chen","Core Contributor","Bedrock","Kyle Wool","President","Dominari Holdings","Anthony Ng","Co‑Founder","BitFi","CEO","Clearstar Labs","Oliver","YieldFi","Hemi powers compliant Bitcoin yield across funds, custodians, and DeFi platforms.","Hemi powers compliant Bitcoin yield across funds,custodians, and DeFi platforms.","01","Deploy Ethereum-grade smart contracts using real Bitcoin data.","03","Institution-ready tools for custody integrations, accounting, and reporting.","02","Every transaction inherits Bitcoin consensus security with verifiable execution.","04","Connect to institutional liquidity and distribution networks with full custody compliance.","Start building","View developer docs","View all","Midweek With Max","Video","AMA","Sep 8, 2026","Read","Hemi","Post Mortem","Security","Hemi Arcade","Community Highlight","Sep 7, 2026","Hemi Network: How Logic-Driven Finality Works on Bitcoin's Newest $1B L2","Jun 8, 2026","What Is Hemi (HEMI) and Why This Bitcoin Layer-2 Just Surged 97%","Apr 28, 2026","Hemi: Bitcoin Security Meets Ethereum Programmability","Jan 7, 2026","Trump-Linked Firm Looks to Bitcoin Programmability to Build BTC Treasury, ETF Platform","Oct 10, 2025","Dominari targets crypto treasuries and ETFs in Hemi tie-up","Hemi and Dominari Securities to Develop Digital Asset Treasury and ETF Platforms","Here's why HEMI price rallied over 100%","Sep 24, 2025","HEMI featured as HODLer Airdrops project number 43, spot listing 23 Sep 2025, followed by a 20 million HEMI promotions pool on Binance Square.","Sep 23, 2025","Hemi's 64.9% Surge: Why are Binance's incubators and top VCs betting on this 'orthodox' successor to Bitcoin?","Sep 21, 2025","Jeff Garzik-Backed Hemi Labs Raises $15M to Expand Bitcoin Programmability","Aug 27, 2025","Hemi: Bringing Programmability to Bitcoin","Hemi secures $15m to advance Bitcoin programmability ahead of TGE","Aug 26, 2025","Hemi Raises $15 Million to Accelerate Bitcoin Programmability Ahead of Token Launch","Bitcoin Pioneer Jeff Garzik Launches Layer-2 Hemi Network—And It's Interoperable With Ethereum","Jul 24, 2025","Bitcoin Boosters Tout ‘Programmability’ as Next Rally Catalyst","Jul 1, 2025","Hemi Q1 2025 Overview","Apr 1, 2025","Binance Labs-Backed Network Hemi Debuts $440M Mainnet to 'Unify' Bitcoin, Ethereum","Mar 12, 2025","Hemi Mainnet Launches with Over $440M TVL, 50+ Ecosystem Partners, and a Surge of Incoming Liquidity Commitments","Linking 'the King and Queen of Crypto': Here's how Hemi's layer 2 connects Bitcoin and Ethereum","Dec 27, 2024","Jeff Garzik two-part exclusive on Bitcoin’s future, bridging with Ethereum and Proof-of-Proof.","Nov 6, 2024","Hemi Labs Raises $15M to Launch Modular Blockchain in Round Led by Binance Labs","Sep 23, 2024","Hemi Labs focused on ‘marrying the king and queen of crypto’","Sep 18, 2024","Hemi Labs raises $15 million from Binance to launch Advanced Modular Blockchain Network for Bitcoin and Ethereum","Jeff Garzik’s Hemi Network Brings EVM Execution To Bitcoin","Jul 24, 2024","Partner with us","Join the institutions earning verifiable onchain yield with Hemi.","Join the institutions earning verifiableonchain yield with Hemi.","Talk to our institutional team","Leading newsletter for institutional insights on BTC programmability, productivity, and yield potential.","Subscribe","Follow us","The unified Bitcoin economy layer","Digital assets involve risk. Yields are variable and not guaranteed. Incentives, when present, are disclosed separately and time-stamped. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Users should select security and finality settings appropriate to their risk tolerance.","Institutions quickstart","Institutional deck","Audit reports","Developers quickstart","SDK","Tutorials","GitHub","Grants","Users","Users quickstart","Set up a wallet","Tunnel BTC/ETH","Discover hBK demo app","Join Discord","dApps","Hemi Token","Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)","Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","Company","Vision","Blog","Contact","Whitepaper","Brand kit","Community","Discord","X (Twitter)","YouTube","LinkedIn","© 2025 Hemispheres Foundation","Vulnerability Disclosure Program","Privacy Policy","Terms of Service"],"codeblock":[],"url":"/"},"/blog":{"version":1,"title":"Hemi Blog — Insights on Bitcoin Yield, Infrastructure & Institutional Adoption","description":"Read the latest Hemi insights on Bitcoin yield, institutional adoption, security, infrastructure, and product updates. Stay informed with expert analysis from the Hemi team.","keywords":"","h1":[],"h2":[],"h3":["Midweek with Max: Special Guest Sacred Waste Joins","Subscribe to 'Your Signal Aggregator'","Subscribe to'Your Signal Aggregator'","Subscribe to yoursignal aggregator"],"h4":[],"h5":["Genesis Drop Exploit on September 7, 2026: Post Mortem","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Contest 2: Turbo Edition","Built on Hemi Recap: Algebra","Midweek with Max: Staking Rework, ZK Testing, and Turbo Arcade","Built on Hemi Recap: BrownFi","Midweek with Max: A First Look at the New veHEMI","Midweek with Max: Hemi Arcade Winners Announced, Staking Rewards Staged","Testing Hemi Part 3: Reproduction of Production Issues","Midweek with Max: Hemi Arcade Deadline Closes In, ZK Proving Ramps Up","BrownFi, Algebra Finance, and Merkl Partner to Build Hemi Liquidity Hub","Built on Hemi Recap: Vetro","Midweek with Max: Incentivized ZK Testing, Wallet Security, and the Arcade Contest","Announcing the Hemi Arcade Game Contest","Midweek with Max: Hemi Arcade Games, Open-Source Oxygen, and Rewards Timelines","Midweek with Max: Phased Governance Deployment and Open-Source Oxygen","Midweek with Max: A Live ZK Marketplace, Ordinals at Full Speed, and Sepolia Sunset","Midweek with Max: Tunnel Timelines, A View Into Vetro, and Governance Lessons","Midweek with Max: The ZK Stack Comes Together and a Bitcoin Wishlist","Built On Hemi Recap: Accountable","Hemi Protocol Engineering AMA Recap: op-reth","Midweek with Max: Institutions and Retail, One-Click Yield, and ZK to BTC","Midweek with Max: Ordinals Indexing, an optional update, and Mintora's Launch","DIA Pricing Powers hemiBTC Collateral on Morpho via Clearstar’s Reactor Vault","Midweek with Max: op-geth Hardening and the Ongoing Rust Transition","Aragon Is Now Live On Hemi","Built on Hemi Livestream Recap: DIA","Midweek with Max: Mainnet Recovery, veHEMI Rewards, and CTF Details","Hemi Mainnet Outage on June 1, 2026: Post Mortem","Hemi Mainnet Outage on June 1, 2026","Hemi Engineering AMA Recap: hBitVM","Midweek with Max: opReth Testing, Crosschain Ordinals, and ZK Markets","Built on Hemi Livestream Recap: BitFi","hemiBTC Reserves Are Now Independently Verified By Accountable","Midweek with Max: opReth, MinerFi, and Building Cool Stuff on Bitcoin","Midweek with Max: Rust, Runes, and ZK Proofs","Hemi Community 2.0","Hemi Adopts Chainlink To Power hemiBTC Lending and Yield Across DeFi","Midweek with Max: Protocol Progress, Restaking Plans, and hVM Expansion","Bitcoin Is Ready To Work","Built On Hemi Livestream Recap: Lagoon Finance","Midweek with Max: Discord Farewell Fiesta","Hemi Engineering AMA Recap: MinerFi and Rust","Midweek with Max: The Switch to opereth and Streamlining BTC in DeFi","Testing Hemi Part 2: Hemitrap","veHEMI: Economic Security for a Programmable Bitcoin L2","Midweek with Max: The Push Toward ZK and a Rust-Native Hemi","Hemi Happy Hour AMA Recap: AI Revisited","Hemi and Lagoon Partner to Enable Native Permissionless Vault Deployment","Yield Is Moving From Custody To Deployment","Midweek with Max: Building the Infrastructure Behind Bitcoin Yield","Recap: ZK Markets Live with Max Sanchez","Midweek with Max: MinerFi, ZK Updates, and Addressing Quantum FUD","Built On Hemi Livestream Recap: Spectra","Hemi's Role in Agentic Infrastructure","Hemi and Novaswap Offer Secure Crosschain Stablecoin Access","Midweek With Max: MinerFi Takes Shape Alongside ZK Proving Progress","Recap: Jeff Garzik, The Future of AI","Testing Hemi Part 1: Localnet","Midweek with Max: Zk Provability, Protocol Partners, and PoP Payouts","Hemi and BTCS S.A. Team Up to Expand Institutional BTC Yield","Hemi Happy Hour AMA Recap: AI","veHEMI: A Phased Approach to Decentralized Economic Security","Midweek with Max: Daylight Savings, ZK Beta Testing, and MinerFi Progress","Hemi Engineering AMA Recap: ZK Provability","Midweek with Max: ZK Infrastructure Progress and Ecosystem Updates","Hemi and Feather Team Up to Expand Native BTC Lending Infrastructure","Hemi: Built For Compliance and Privacy","Hemi Makes BTC Productive Amid Volatile Market Conditions","Addressing the Ploutos Protocol Exploit","veHEMI: Security and Governance for Hemi BTCFi","Enso and Hemi Enable One-Click Access to StakeDAO Vaults","Routescan Expands to Hemi with Core Network Infrastructure Support","The 99% Productivity Gap In Institutional Bitcoin","Midweek with Max: Proving the Stack and Expanding Bitcoin’s Design Space","veHEMI Staking Rewards Distribution","Midweek with Max: ZK Systems, Incentive Design, and Upcoming Releases","Maia DAO And Hemi Team Up to Strengthen Omnichain OFT Bridging with Hermes Protocol","The Convergence Thesis: Institutional Bitcoin Without Compromise","The $260 Billion Opportunity: Taking BTC Beyond Digital Gold","Midweek with Max: MinerFi Progress, ZK Momentum, veHEMI Rewards Ahead","Hemi Integrates DIA Oracles for hemiBTC Price Feeds","Superfinality: Hemi’s New Gold Standard for Institutional Capital","Midweek with Max: Advancing MinerFi and Protocol Reinforcement","Why the Future of BTCFi Requires Hemi Tunnels","Midweek with Max: Incentives, Infrastructure, and Community Momentum","Hemi and the Foundations of the BTC-Backed Stablecoin Era","Midweek with Max: Kicking Off 2026 with Community, Momentum, and What’s Next","Hemi 2025 Year In Review","Midweek with Max: A Holiday Celebration and Looking Ahead to 2026","Less than 1% of Bitcoin Earns","Midweek with Max: V2 Wrap-Up, Hemi Alliance, and a Deep Dive on hBitVM","Midweek with Max: V2 Rollout and hBitVM on Deck","Midweek with Max: Fusaka, MinerFi, and the Road to hBitVM","Hemi and GlueX Integrate Aggregated Low-Fee Swaps Across the Network","Hemi And Wert Unite to Enable Fiat Onramps for Programmable Bitcoin","Hemi and LI.FI Extend Crosschain EVM Swaps via Jumper","Hemi and Jumper Offer Streamlined DeFi Routing Interface","Midweek with Max: Staked hemiBTC Preview, V2 First Looks, and Year-End Releases","The Anatomy of Bitcoin Yield","hemiBTC Adopts LayerZero’s OFT Standard To Expand Bitcoin in DeFi","Midweek with Max: Expanding the role of hemiBTC and MinerFi taking Shape","Midweek with Max: V2 Release Nears, ZK Work Advances, and Shift to Bugcrowd","Hemi and Blazpay Bring AI-Driven Swap Routing to the Network","Midweek with Max: Claims, Upgrades, and ZK Work","Introducing the Hemi Economic Model","Hemi and Aster Expand Bitcoin’s Reach in DeFi With $HEMI Trading Contest","Midweek with Max: Slow And Steady","Ploutos Deploys on Hemi to Expand DeFi Lending Liquidity and Yield Opportunities","How Hemi Expands MinerFi Part Two: Staking and Block Validation Rewards","Coinomi Wallet’s Hemi Integration Expands Access to Bitcoin DeFi","Midweek with Max: Fusaka Is Live On the Hemi Testnet","How Hemi Expands MinerFi Part One: Proof-of-Proof Mining Rewards","Hemi Taps DIN to Bring Bitcoin into the Infura Ecosystem","Midweek With Max: Decentralized RPC for Real Traffic, Real Builders","Midweek with Max: Security, ZK Breakthroughs, and the Road to V2","Hemi Lets Institutions Transform Idle Bitcoin Treasuries Into Yield Instruments","Midweek With Max: Spot Listings!","MemeBridge and Hemi Team Up To Expand Network Routing Options","Hemi and Micro3 Expand Onchain Engagement For Growth Campaigns","Midweek With Max: Mainnet Season 2","Midweek With Max: The Rise of hBitVM","Hemi And Owlto Collaborate To Broaden Crosschain Asset Transfers","Midweek With Max: Post-TGE","Hemi Announces $15M Round To Accelerate Bitcoin Programmability","Midweek with Max: A Spicy Week for Hemi","Midweek with Max: Updates on Tokenomics, Incentives, and What’s Next for Hemi","Hemi And HoudiniSwap Preserve Privacy With Crosschain BTCFi Access","Bitcoin-Native Stablecoins: State of the Ecosystem","Why Modularity Matters for Blockchain Scalability","Midweek With Max: TGE Progress, Tokenomics, and the Road Ahead","Hemi and Orbiter Finance Unite For Fast, Trustless, Crosschain Transfers","Hemi and dRPC Team Up to Make Bitcoin Available Across the RPC Layer","Hemi Is Home For BTC Yield","What Makes a Trustless Bridge? Debunking Wrapped Token Risks","Midweek with Max: V2 Beta, Tokenomics Incoming, and the Road to Decentralization","How Hemi Handles Finality Across Bitcoin and Ethereum","Bitcoin as Collateral: Real-World Use Cases","Comparing Hemi to Optimism, Arbitrum, and Other L2s","From EVM to hVM: How Developers Can Build Bitcoin-Aware dApps","Built On Hemi: Spectra Pioneers Permissionless Interest Rate Markets","Midweek with Max Recap: Four Winners, Hatchlings, and the Final Stretch to TGE","Hemi and SQD Team Up To Scale Onchain Data Access","Engineering AMA Recap: hVM, PoP, and What’s Next for Hemi","Gearbox and Hemi Team Up To Compound DeFi Lending Yields","Midweek with Max: Testnet Upgrades, Tokenomics Timing, and the Road to TGE","Hemi Teams Up With Sentio to Offer Developers Full-Stack Analytics Support","Hemi Teams Up With Rubic Best Rate Finder To Power Cross-Chain Routing","Hemi Takes Bitcoin From Cold Storage to Hot Yields","Midweek With Max: Daemons, Ducks, and the Extra-Very Era","How Bitcoin Rollups Differ from Ethereum Rollups","The Future of Bridgeless Interoperability in Crypto","What Makes Bitcoin Programmable?","Introducing Debt Vaults on Hemi: Code-Driven Onchain Credit","What Is a Layer 2 Blockchain?","What Is a Smart Contract?","Hemi Developer AMA Recap: What’s Next for Bitcoin Programmability and L3 Security","How Do Crypto Bridges Work?","Hemi and Hypernative Partner to Strengthen Network Security","Midweek With Max: 1Delta Joins Us to Explore Their Tech Stack","Bitcoin in DeFi: Use Cases That Don’t Require Custody","How to Develop Cross-Chain Apps Using the hVM","Proof-of-Proof vs. Validity Proofs: Security Tradeoffs Explained","A Deep Dive into Programmable Bitcoin Applications","Hemi Collaborates with DZap to Power Cross-Chain Interoperability","Midweek with Max: A Holiday Interlude","How Hemi Advances Collaboration Across Chains","Cycle Network and Hemi Team Up To Advance Abstraction For Settlements","Hemi and Satori Wrap $25K Perpetuals Trading Competition","BTC Programmability: The Hemi Superpower","Midweek with Max: Live from Permissionless, Powered by Lawn Mowers","Nomis Brings AI-Powered Wallet Reputation Scoring to Hemi","How Hemi Empowers Collaboration Between Bitcoin and Ethereum","Hemi and Spicenet Are Working Together to Expand Network Functionality","Midweek with Max: Engineering Milestones, Points Progress, and What’s Next for Hemi","You Can Now Register a .Hemi Domain with GetHemiNames","Hemi And 1delta Offer Bonus Points With Swaps And Margin Trades","Blockchain DeFi: As the Ecosystem Grows, So Do Centralization Risks","Hemi and Metrom Team Up To Streamline Incentive Campaigns","Midweek with Max: Hemi Dev Progress, PoP Points, and What Comes Next","Hemi Keeps DeFi Transactions Secure Across Bitcoin and Ethereum","Midweek With Max: Vegas Recap, Pectra Launch, and What’s Next for Hemi","Hemi Community Highlight: Precision PoP Mining","Midweek with Max: iZiSwap Joins Hemi, BitVM Nears, and the Community Grows","Welcome to the Hemi Alliance","Hemi and Safe Team Up To Bring Secure Smart Wallets To Bitcoin DeFi","Hemi Tunnels Explained: A New Way to Move Assets Between Bitcoin and Ethereum","Midweek with Max: Loops, Launches, and Laughs","Why Hemi Matters for the Future of Cross-Chain DeFi","ICHI Integrates With Hemi to Offer Simplified, Single-Sided Liquidity Provision","Hemi Will Interface with Vfat for Streamlined Liquidity, Boosted Yield","Hemi Tunnels Explained: A New Way to Move Assets Between Bitcoin and Ethereum","What Is a DAO?","Noves Brings Live DeFi Pricing to Hemi","Midweek With Max for May 13, 2025: Relend Speaks and Jeff Sings","Gamma Integrates With Hemi for Automated Liquidity Management","Hemi Collaborates With BlockWallet to Simplify Secure Access to New Tokens and Products","Midweek With Max Recap: Meme Coins, Dubai Deployments, and Hair Economics","What Is an Ethereum Block Explorer?","Why hemiBTC Is Different From WBTC","Hemi Unlocks the Bitcoin-Aware EVM","Hemi Collaborates With Interport Finance to Bring Cross-Chain Swaps to Bitcoin","What Are Modular Blockchains?","What Is a Multisig Wallet?","Hemi On Stage: From Resistance To Leadership? America's Role In Crypto's Future at TOKEN2049","What Is a Block Explorer? Understanding Crypto Explorers and How They Work","The Hemi Mainnet Guide","Hemi and Humanode Team Up To Take Down Sybil Threats","Midweek With Max for April 29, 2025: Focus on Tech","Raga Launches on Hemi, Powering Bitcoin-Native Yield Strategies","Satori Vaults Unlock Yield On Hemi","Midweek With Max for April 22, 2025: Absolute Unit Is Back","Spectra Pools Are Now Live On Hemi With Over $18M Seeded Liquidity","Midweek With Max April 15, 2025: Builders, Partners, and a Ton of Momentum","Inside the Engine Room: A Recap of the First Hemi Protocol Engineering AMA","Hemi and ZNS Connect Collaborate to Support .hvm Domains","Hemi’s Consensus Mechanisms Vs. Traditional Layer 2 Solutions","Midweek with Max for April 8, 2024","Hemi and 1delta to Offer Margin Trading Without the Friction","Hemi Working With Relay to Enable Fast, Low-Cost Cross-Chain Transactions","DeFAI and Decentralization on Hemi","What Is Decentralized AI?","What Is an EVM Wallet?","What Is a Decentralized Exchange (DEX)?","What Is the Ethereum Pectra Upgrade?","Hemi Will Work With eOracle to Bring Secure Price Feeds to Bitcoin DeFi","Midweek With Max for April 1, 2025","What Is Wrapped Bitcoin? A Simple Guide to WBTC and Bitcoin on Ethereum","How Bitcoin DeFi Can Fuel the Next Market Boom","Midweek With Max for March 25, 2025","Earn Points By Powering Hemi DeFi","Hemi and Allora Network Team Up to Bring Decentralized AI Price Prediction to DeFi Agents","What Is a Bitcoin DeFi App?","Hemi Collaborates with Relend Network to Bring Stablecoin Liquidity to Bitcoin DeFi","Connecting Bitcoin to DeFi","Midweek With Max for March 18, 2025","How to PoP Mine On the Hemi Mainnet","A Guide to Hemi’s Mainnet","Hemi Launches Mainnet With Over 50 Ecosystem Partners","Hello, World","Midweek With Max for March 11, 2025","Mainnet with Max","Hemi and VaultCraft Collaborate to Expand Bitcoin Yield Strategies in DeFi","Partner Spotlight: Mint Park","Understanding Crypto Rollups: Optimizing Layer 2 Throughput and Security","Getting Ready for the Hemi Mainnet Launch","Midweek With Max for March 4, 2025","Sumer Is Connecting Hemi to Its Cross-Chain Protocol for Synthetic Assets","Start Staking on Hemi Ahead of Mainnet Launch","UPDATE: Change of Seasons: Prepare for Testnet Incentives Transition Now","Eisen Will Bring Its DEX Aggregator to Hemi Users","Where is Bitcoin in DeFi?","Hemi Will Work With Izumi Finance’s iZiSwap to Deploy Liquidity","Hemi Connects With StakeStone's Suite of Blockchain Products","Midweek With Max for February 25, 2025","Hemi to Launch Mainnet on March 12, Bringing the Bitcoin and Ethereum Ecosystems Together into a Single Supernetwork","Midweek With Max for February 18, 2025","Hemi Will Expand Bitcoin Utility with Babypie Collaboration","Hemi Enhances Token Utility Through Eigenpie Integration","Hemi’s Initial TVL Surpasses $265 Million Ahead of Mainnet Launch","Midweek With Max for February 11, 2025","(Late) Midweek With Max for February 7, 2025","The Hemi Incentive Program: Fair, Sustainable, and Growing Fast","Hemi and Mint Park to Bring NFTs to Bitcoin’s Layer 2","AMA: The Reality of Blockchain Security with Max Sanchez","Hemi and Echo Collaborate to Build a Unified Bitcoin Solution","Midweek With Max for February 4, 2025","Hemi Network and ZeroLend Join to Bring BTC Lending to Hemi","Hemi Expands DeFi Accessibility with Kelp's GAIN Vault","What Is a Redeemable Token?","Making Bitcoin and DeFi Compatible","Hemi Collaborates with Stable Jack to Power the Future of DeFi","Midweek With Max for January 28, 2025","Details on the Hemi “Validator Passport” Node License Sale","Hemi and oooo Will Collaborate to Simplify Cross-Chain Interactions","Hemi, exSat Network, and KiKi Finance Join to Expand DeFi Possibilities","When Worlds Collide: The Future of Cross-chain DeFi","Read Reflexivity's Report on Hemi and the State of Layer 2s","Announcing the Hemi “Validator Passport” Node Sale","Hemi and Hyperlane to Expand Cross-Chain Interoperability","Hemi and Hourglass Begin Collaboration on Time-Bound Token Markets","Stork to Deliver Enhanced Oracle Feeds on Hemi","Midweek With Max for January 21, 2025","Hemi and Bima Team Up to Advance BTCFi with Bitcoin-Backed Stablecoin","Hemi and Plume Network Bring Real-World Asset Yields to BTCFi","Hemi and YieldFi Join Forces to Bring Real-Yield Solutions to DeFi","Midweek With Max for January 14, 2025","YieldNest Will Let Hemi Users Access ynBTCk","Midweek With Max: January 7, 2025","The Graph Joins the Hemi Ecosystem to Streamline Blockchain Data Access for Developers","B² Network to Bring uBTC to Hemi","What Are Fractionalized Wrapped Tokens?","What Are Synthetic Wrapped Tokens?","What Are Cross-Chain Representations?","Hemi and SatLayer Work to Expand Bitcoin-Backed Security and Interoperability","What Is a Non-Redeemable Pegged Token?","What Is Inherited Security?","Hemi and Pell Network Announce Collaboration to Enhance Security and DeFi Ecosystem Integration","Hemi and Free Protocol to Enhance Cross-Chain Functionality and Bridging Solutions","Hemi and Steer to Build Liquidity Management on BTCFi","Midweek With Max: December 17, 2024","Hemi to Collaborate with Decentralized Exchange DODO","Hemi and Meson Join to Collaborate On Cross-Chain Swaps","How Hemi Enables Bitcoin DeFi","Midweek With Max December 10, 2024","Hemi and Satoshi Protocol Collaborate to Build Advanced Stablecoin Solutions","Hemi Collaborates with Desyn to Grow DeFi","Midweek With Max: December 3, 2024","Hemi and LendOS Collaborate to Optimize Liquidity for DeFi Users","Video: Jeff Garzik on the Future of Paper Money","What Is Cross-Chain Interoperability?","Hemi and Vesper Collaborate to Bring Accessible DeFi to Bitcoin and Ethereum Users","Midweek With Max: November 26, 2024","LayerZero To Collaborate with Hemi Network to Expand Cross-Chain Interoperability","Video: Will We Ever Find Out Who Satoshi Really Was?","What is a Sybil Attack?","Hemi and Demos Collaborate to Encourage Fair Rewards in Web3","Video: Why Should People Pay Attention to Cryptocurrency?","Hemi To Collaborate with BitFi to Advance the Future of DeFi with Bitcoin Integration","Midweek With Max: November 19, 2024","Inside the Hemi Tech Stack","Hemi and Metronome Collaborate to Expand DeFi Functionality Across Bitcoin","Hemi Collaborates with Cygnus for Enhanced Yield Opportunities and Security","Finality as a Gradient: Exploring Economic and Bitcoin Finality","Midweek With Max: November 12, 2024","Video: Why Should People Be Interested In Hemi?","PumpBTC and Will Bring Its Token to the Hemi Network","Midweek With Max: November 5, 2024","Hemi Announces Collaboration with Concrete to Expand BTCFi Lending Ecosystem","Hemi and Quantstamp Announce Strategic Collaboration to Strengthen Security Across the Blockchain Ecosystem","Satoshi Stories: The Secret Behind Satoshi's Real Identity","Hemi To Collaborate with BitPerp to Enhance BTC L2 Ecosystem","Avalon and Hemi Announce Collaboration To Introduce USDa Stablecoin and CeDeFi Integration","Jeff Garzik Talks BTC and Hemi At Binance Blockchain Week","Midweek With Max: October 22, 2024","Midweek With Max: October 29, 2024","Satoshi Stories: How Did Bitcoin Mining Evolve?","Oku and Hemi to Collaborate on DeFi Trading","A Sneak Peek At Hemi’s New Portal UI","Lorenzo Protocol Will Collaborate With Hemi To Expand Cross-Chain Opportunities","Single-Slot Finality: Reducing Ethereum's Time to Finality","How to Use the Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK)","How the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) Works","Satoshi Stories: Is Change Important In Bitcoin?","Hemi Weekly Featuring Max Sanchez","Hemi Network and Pyth Collaborate to Enhance Cross-Chain Security and Liquidity","Hemi Collaborates with Portal to Bitcoin to Expand Cross-Chain DeFi Capabilities","Exploring Bitcoin Layer 2: Enhancing Scalability and Efficiency","Enhancing Bitcoin Security: What Is Superfinality?","Hemi Sepolia Tunneling and Points: “Open Season” Testing Finale","Sushi Is Expanding to Hemi","Satoshi Stories: What Was Satoshi Like?","​​Hemi and the Future of DeFi: A Source of AI-Powered Innovation","Hemi and LayerBank Collaborate to Deliver Leading Lending Protocol to Hemi’s DeFi Ecosystem","Satoshi Stories: Handling Bitcoin's Legality","What Are Bitcoin L2 Projects?","Satoshi Stories: Was There a \"Satoshi Method\" Of Coding?","HEMI LABS RAISES $15 MILLION TO LAUNCH ADVANCED MODULAR BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK POWERED BY BITCOIN AND ETHEREUM","Hemi and RedStone Collaborate to Deliver Decentralized Oracles","Webinar: Why Bitcoin Is Much More Than Digital Gold","Satoshi Stories: Who Was Satoshi Nakamoto?","Satoshi Stories: What Was Satoshi's Vision?","Merging Bitcoin’s Security with Ethereum’s Flexibility — Is It Possible?","What Are Bitcoin L2s? Definition and Examples of Bitcoin Layer 2s","Introducing Satoshi Stories with Jeff Garzik","Webinar: Building Bitcoin & Ethereum Apps on Hemi with LocalNet","What is a Bitcoin Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)?","Can Hemi's Security Model Be Applied to Other Blockchains?","How Hemi Fixes Ethereum’s Scaling Problems","AI + Hemi: The Network for What’s Next","Meet the Team: Rick","Hemi Announces Collaboration with Swell & Symbiotic","The Lifecycle of a Hemi Transaction","Meet the Hemi Team: JCV","Meet the Hemi Team: Clayton","Hemi Network: A Green Solution for Bitcoin's Energy Problem?","Join the Hemi Incentivized Testnet","Introducing Hemi: A New Vision For Layer-2 on Bitcoin and Ethereum","Handling Assets With Hemi Encapsulation","Bitcoin Interoperability: hVM vs. Existing Solutions","Bitcoin Scaling: How Hemi Compares to Existing Solutions","A Better Way to Bridge: Tunnel Instead","INTRODUCING HEMI: AN ADVANCED MODULAR BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK   POWERED BY BITCOIN AND ETHEREUM","Bitcoin 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