General Mining Research

BounceBit is building a BTC restaking infrastructure that provides a foundational layer for different restaking products, secured by the regulated custody of Mainnet Digital and Ceffu. The BounceBit chain, designed as a showcase of a restaking product within the BounceBit ecosystem, is a PoS Layer 1 secured by validators staking both BTC and BounceBit’s native token — A dual-token system leveraging native Bitcoin’s security with full EVM compatibility. Critical ecosystem infrastructure like bridges and oracles are secured by restaked BTC. Through an innovative CeFi + DeFi framework, BounceBit empowers BTC holders to earn yield across multiple networks.

Alkimiya is a permissionless, open-source protocol for consensus capital markets that makes the economics of the block space accessible to the broader DeFi universe. Similar to how traditional commodity producers use financial instruments to hedge against uncertainties, consensus producers need a way to lock in the return upfront. Alkimiya enables any consensus producers to create financial contracts backed by the underlying "consensus resources".