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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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  1. Key Concepts

Decentralized Bridged Bitcoin

Acre has selected a permissionless, decentralized bridged bitcoin (tBTC) as part of the infrastructure behind the Acre protocol.

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Built atop , Acre selected a non-custodial and decentralized bitcoin tokenization service for launch allowing mainnet bitcoin to be securely bridged on Ethereum and beyond. Maintained and operated by the , it relies on a system of decentralized nodes rather than a single centralized custodian. Supported on the largest DeFi, restaking and bitcoin L2 protocols, this choice for a permissionless bridge increases the different vault partners for Acre without sacrificing security.

Security

Fully backed and redeemable for BTC, this bridge requires a threshold majority signature (51 out of 100) before node operators mint or redeem the underlying asset. You can learn more about tBTC minting .

tBTC
Threshold Network DAO
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Acre Dispatcher Service with tBTC