About

Citrea is the first ZK Rollup on Bitcoin with EVM compatibility, featuring a BitVM-based trust-minimized bridge called Clementine. Ensuring on-chain verifiability and data availability on Bitcoin, Citrea makes it possible to build everything as a Bitcoin Application - a ₿app. Through its trust-minimized (1-of-N) Bitcoin bridge Clementine and fully EVM-compatible execution environment, Citrea unlocks the trillion-dollar asset base of Bitcoin to be utilized in DeFi and money markets, tapping a massive liquidity, without any change to Bitcoin’s consensus.

Prizes

🍊 DeFi Bapps$6,000
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1st place
$4,500
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2nd place
$1,500
Citrea enables a whole new area of Bitcoin Applications. This also covers new DeFi primitives. In this track we expect you to build new Bitcoin Applications that suits Bitcoin well. Some examples are as follows: - BTC Options & Structured Products: on-chain options, covered calls, yield vaults. - Privacy Trading / Dark Pools: anti-MEV trading, hidden order books with ZK. - Money Markets: non-custodial lending/borrowing for BTC or BTC-correlated assets. - Miners’ Tools: incentive/hedging tools, payout rails, dashboards. Note: if you apply to this track, you can apply to Innovation track at the same time, it's fine.

Qualification Requirements

- Integrate Citrea (contracts deployed to Citrea testnet and/or frontend using Citrea RPC) - Explain how you’re using Citrea in the description - Be open source (public GitHub during judging) - Show a working demo (ideally a deployed live link, or video + alternatively provide instructions to build & run on a local environment) - Include any necessary links, deployed addresses/tx hashes, and etc.

🍋 Open Innovation$4,000
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1st place
$3,000
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2nd place
$1,000
You have some other ideas that fits to the spirit of Bitcoin? Private unstoppable money? Bitcoin x AI x Citrea? RWAs using Bitcoin? Community oriented ₿apps like ROSCA? Super complex infra? Then this track is for you. Anything novel that uses Citrea meaningfully and pushes Bitcoin UX forward.

Qualification Requirements

- Integrate Citrea (contracts deployed to Citrea testnet and/or frontend using Citrea RPC) - Explain how you’re using Citrea in the description - Be open source (public GitHub during judging) - Show a working demo (ideally a deployed live link, or video + alternatively provide instructions to build & run on a local environment) - Include any necessary links, deployed addresses/tx hashes, and etc.

Workshop

🍊 A Guide to Building Bitcoin Applications o...

Citrea is the first ZK Rollup on Bitcoin with EVM compatibility, featuring a trust-minimized bridge called Clementi...

This workshop is happening in-person

02:30 PM IST — Friday, Sep 26, 2025 in Workshop Room 2