{"id":709843,"date":"2026-01-29T16:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/citrea-zk-rollup-launch-reignites-bitcoin-block-space-debate\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:40:13","slug":"citrea-zk-rollup-launch-reignites-bitcoin-block-space-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/citrea-zk-rollup-launch-reignites-bitcoin-block-space-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Citrea ZK-rollup launch reignites Bitcoin block space debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YzA5NzUtNDNiNS03YjUyLTk0OTEtNmIwNGE2MGE1MDRmLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Citrea ZK-rollup launch reignites Bitcoin block space debate\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<p>Citrea\u2019s Bitcoin rollup has become a live experiment in whether BTC can support a full DeFi and stablecoin stack, and how much complexity Bitcoin should anchor at the base layer.<\/p>\n<p>Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures-backed Bitcoin zero-knowledge rollup (ZK-rollup) Citrea launched its mainnet on Tuesday with BTC collateral lending, BTC-structured products and a new US dollar stablecoin, ctUSD.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/apac\/news-releases\/citrea-launches-mainnet---enabling-bitcoin-to-be-used-for-lending-trading-and-usd-settlement-302670338.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">launch<\/a> is aimed at turning what Citrea calls \u201ceconomically idle\u201d Bitcoin (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/bitcoin-price\">BTC<\/a>) into base collateral for decentralized finance (DeFi) and payments, while anchoring more of that activity to Bitcoin\u2019s base layer.<\/p>\n<p>The team expects active DeFi liquidity to reach $50 million in the first few weeks, with BTC lending, BTC-structured products, and decentralized trading already live from day one.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures-backed Bitcoin zero-knowledge rollup (ZK-rollup) Citrea launched its mainnet on Tuesday with BTC collateral lending, BTC-structured products and a new US&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/f=auto,onerror=redirect,w=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2026-01\/019c0975-43b5-7b52-9491-6b04a60a504f.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}