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Announcing Citrea Public Devnet for Developers and Users
Citrea is the first ZK rollup that uses Bitcoin both as a data availability and a settlement layer, via its BitVM-based trust-minimized two-way peg program - Clementine . Citrea is fully EVM compatible, enabling all the EVM developers to easily build on Bitcoin.
Citrea's unique approach to Bitcoin scalability and its Public Devnet signifies:
Citrea's vision is to build scalable infrastructure that advances Bitcoin into its next phase, the foundation for the World's finance. Achieving this vision requires scaling Bitcoin blockspace to increase its transaction capacity and offer more expressivity and features without changing its consensus rules.
Today, Citrea Public Devnet goes live marking the first step in establishing Bitcoin as the base layer for a dynamic financial ecosystem. Developers who want to build on Citrea can now refer to its and contact the team about their application ideas through the .
Users can now engage with decentralized applications deployed on the Devnet by bridging test BTC from the custom Bitcoin signet to Citrea Public Devnet. Claiming funds from Citrea Public Devnet is trustless. This means that users can unilaterally get their funds back after 200 Bitcoin blocks when encountered a problem with their deposit. Although funds have no value in Devnet and Testnet stages, Citrea team has prioritized enabling their users to experience the trustless claiming feature.
Citrea is the first rollup that enhances the capabilities of Bitcoin blockspace with zero-knowledge technology, making it possible to build everything on Bitcoin. For more information, please visit: https://citrea.xyz/
Citrea technical docs: https://docs.citrea.xyz
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