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MrsThreshold (Ashley) 0:00 Let's go ahead and kick off introductions. I'll start. My name is Ashley. I'm a contributor to the Threshold DAO I got involved right as Keep a NuCypher. We're merging, which was a lengthy process, but I came in as the final iteration of the proposal to merge was being discussed and then eventually ratified. It has been a blast watching the two communities come together launch a new network. I am a contributor to the Marketing Guild on the Threshold Council. I just have my hands and all the pots. Kinda like Nico. Nico. Tell us about yourself?
Nico 0:45 Well, thanks, Ash. You know, I just I love being a part of the Threshold community. I'm also part of the PRE merge group I was involved with Keep I was part of one of their early campaigns and 2020 Excited to be a part of the Keep NuCypher merger and I'm also on the Marketing Guild. I'm a contributor. I'm on the Threshold Council. And I really, I love our community. The biggest pillar for me is just being a part of such a great community. I literally learned something about 10 times a day, so. And I'd love to hand the mic over to MacLane because you're one of the people I learned the most from.
MacLane Wilkison 1:34 Thanks, Nico. Hi, everybody. I'm MacLane. I am a contributor to Threshold, one of the original cofounders of NuCypher, which along with Keep, obviously combined to forum Threshold, and super pumped to talk about tBTC and optimism today.
Nico 1:53 Welcome MacLane. And Brian, if you want to go ahead and introduce yourself.
Brian Mahoney 1:57 Thanks, Nico. Hi, everyone. Good to meet you. i My name is Brian. I lead business development for tBTC on Threshold network. Been in the crypto DeFi arena? for over five years. So it's my it's my third bear. But super excited about what we're doing at tBTC and Threshold Network.
Nico 2:17 Welcome, Brian. And after you were home, welcome.
Robinson Burkey 2:24 Hey, everyone. Good morning, evening, wherever you are. In the world. My name is Robinson. I lead the Wormhole Foundation. The Wormhole foundation is one of five contributors to the Wormhole interoperability protocol. Obviously, we've been working closely on this expansion across networks and super excited to chat more about specifically optimism today and tBTC.
Nico 2:54 Really glad to have you guys back. Welcome. And moving right along, I'd love to welcome my optimism as well. Welcome.
Smit - OP Labs 3:03 Yeah, thank you for having me. It's nice to see so many familiar faces on this Twitter space. Definitely excited to chat with everybody here. So I'm Smit. I lead DeFi at Opie labs. We are a layer two scaling solution for Ethereum. And I can go into what that means later, if necessary. And my background traditionally comes from software and Agent agency in the crypto space dating back to 2017. Now, yeah. Thank you.
Nico 3:37 And credit incredible. Yeah, it's so great to have everybody it's really like a family when we get together on these calls. So I'm looking forward to it too. And, of course, around the table, I'd love to welcome velodrome as well.
Alexander - Velodrome 3:51 Hey, thank you. Yeah, you got Alex and Tao here from the Belgium team. Yeah, our history goes goes back a little ways. And, you know, we got our start as kind of a sub DAO of solidly I think we've all been in the space for a bit but we have kind of diverse backgrounds and tech finance and otherwise and yeah, just excited to be here.
Tao - Velodrome 4:21 Hi, oh, happy to be here. Nothing much to add. Glad to be with this group. And yeah, happy to have a conversation of what's what's coming
MrsThreshold (Ashley) 4:37 did we miss anybody? I think that was all.
Nico 4:41 Yeah, I think we max out today too. This is gonna be a really fun call. So yeah, take us away ash and welcome, everybody. Thank you so much for your warm introductions.
MrsThreshold (Ashley) 4:51 Well, MacLane always has the best news. So tBTC is live on optimism as he said earlier. So that is the focus of our call. Well today tBTC coming to optimism is part of an integration with Wormhole that Threshold announced back in April. I'm really excited to take tBTC and Bitcoin everywhere through our partnership, integration, integration with Wormhole. As a part of tBTC launching on optimism, we also have new opportunities to earn with your Bitcoin that we're going to be talking about today. And velodrome has quite a few new tBTC pooled that were just activated, I believe here in the last couple of days. But we're going to talk about everything optimism, velodrome and tBTC. today. With that, let's run around as quickly as we can. And can we give a really brief intro to each of the protocols today? MacLane. Do you have a brief intro on Threshold for us? And then we'll jump to optimism next.
MacLane Wilkison 5:56 Yeah, so Threshold is a Threshold cryptography network. Hence the name and tBTC is one of the applications built on top of that network. tBTC is a decentralized permissionless and censorship resistant Bitcoin bridge to Ethereum. So instead of using something like rapid Bitcoin, we have to send your your data Bitcoin to a custodian. Instead tBTC has basically replaces that centralized custodian with a decentralized network of, of nodes running a distributed key generation and Threshold signature protocol. And those nodes then issue a tBTC token on the Ethereum side, which you can use to participate in DeFi. So you can LP with it, you can lend you can borrow, you can do all the things that we like to do in DeFi. And you can also do things beyond the theory of mind. So that's where this integration with with Wormhole comes in. We don't want tBTC to be just Bitcoin on Ethereum, we want tBTC to be Bitcoin everywhere, where there is a meaningful and growing DeFi ecosystem. So that most recently means optimism. So you can now bridge via Wormhole, your tBTC from Ethereum to optimism and deploy it there, so on protocols like velodrome.
MrsThreshold (Ashley) 7:30 Incredible, thank you so much my claim. Nick, do you mind giving us a brief intro to optimism?