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  • Introduction
    • What is Acre
  • Key Concepts
    • Overview
    • Acre Dispatch Service (ADS)
    • Decentralized Bridged Bitcoin
    • Fees
    • Deposit & Withdraw Durations
    • Supported Wallets
    • Lockups
    • stBTC
  • Acre DApp
    • Acre Dashboard
    • How to Sign In
    • How to Deposit
    • How to Withdraw
  • Acre Points Programs
    • Points for Bitcoin Depositors
      • Acre Points
      • Vault Partner Mezo: mats
    • Acre Community Engagement Points
      • FryFi: tots
      • HiveFi: bees
  • FAQ
  • Contracts
    • Addresses
      • Mainnet
      • Testnet
    • API
      • stBTC
      • BitcoinDepositor
      • BitcoinRedeemer
      • MezoAllocator
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What is Acre?

Acre’s mission is simple: Compound bitcoin without compromising its principles of decentralization, transparency, or financial sovereignty.

Compounding Your Bitcoin: the platform where bitcoin earns more bitcoin

  • Acre is a platform that allows bitcoin holders to compound their bitcoin by earning additional BTC on their holdings while retaining control of their assets.

  • When users deposit their BTC, Acre dispatches it to economically secure protocols like lending, insurance, liquidity bootstrapping, and layer 2 networks. These protocols use the BTC to bootstrap and secure these systems, creating a cycle of value: bitcoin strengthens the networks, and these networks pay for that security which Acre compounds into bitcoin.

  • Acre connects bitcoin to these opportunities trustlessly, without centralized custodians or exposure to other tokens or chains.

Why?

Until recently, the idea of bitcoin as an asset that provides economic security was uncommon, given bitcoin is a proof-of-work chain. However, recent technological breakthroughs in decentralized tokenized BTC have opened up new opportunities to integrate bitcoin more deeply in the expansive crypto ecosystem.

Acre is designed to feature a "bitcoin in, bitcoin out" experience, which means you can interact with the Acre protocol directly from your bitcoin wallet, without needing to switch chains, wallets, or deposit with a centralized custodian. Acre offers users the ability to earn rewards on their bitcoin, without the need for deep technical or financial expertise.

Bitcoin should work for bitcoin holders

Acre’s mission is simple: Compound bitcoin without compromising its principles of decentralization, transparency, or financial sovereignty.

Contribute to Bitcoin scaling; put your bitcoin to work.

Vault Partner 1: Mezo Flow of Funds Diagram with XVerse Wallet