Keep Network

As many of you know, we’ve been developing a number of upcoming projects in public. For the benefit of those not able to engage with community calls and hang out with us regularly in Discord, we’ve put together a new blog post outlining what is coming in the remainder of 2021.


Coverage Pools ☔️
V2 tBTC token and bridge 🌉
The KEANU merge with NuCypher and the launch of Threshold Network 🤝🔐

Not only that, but we are working to deliver on all of these projects while maintaining our commitment to security, censorship resistance, decentralization, and Open-Source development. The launch of the new DAO structure, the Threshold Network, and the v2 of tBTC will undoubtedly showcase our commitment to decentralization.

Want the full story? Check out the new blog post and share with your friends: https://blog.keep.network/keep-network-2021-roadmap-7e653de3fbb3

Get involved with the community on Discord at chat.keep.network

Join us on the next joint community call with Keep and NuCypher this Thursday!

We will be talking about the branding direction of the new network, and work on aligning on the DAO proposal details. If you haven’t yet checked out the initial DAO proposal, make sure to drop by the new governance forum and share your thoughts. We can share the reasoning behind many of the design choices, and work toward alignment on the parameters that are up for community decision. 🙋‍♂️🤔🙋‍♀️

Want to have your say in the DAO formation? Don’t show up in two weeks confused about token supply and wrapping - get involved now! Join us at 10AM EST on Zoom.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82951287537?pwd=aUJsWjdVTnhHQmR5TW9seVlGWnNoZz09

Add it to your calendar here: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWZnZTVvbzVsNGtsaGJtMWh2bHMyM2l1NnIgY19qbWU5cGVuMmgzNDgxbGhsc25wMnVuMTV0a0Bn&tmsrc=c_jme9pen2h3481lhlsnp2un15tk%40group.calendar.google.com

Lots of exciting news today - we have opened up a new forum to host the combined Keep and NuCypher community. This is our first step toward consolidating our community discussion spaces to move forward together. The first post in the new forum is the DAO proposal for Threshold Network which is now open for discussion. Let us know what you think!

Highlights of this proposal include
- Bicameral design to integrate both token holders and stakers in the DAO 💰🥩
- Council created from both the Keep & NuCypher communities 🤜🤛
- Proposed proposal flow from idea to execution 📜
- No minimum token requirement to make a proposal - everyone can participate 🙌

There is a lot of detail in the DAO proposal, explore it and comment here:
https://forum.threshold.network/t/threshold-network-dao-proposal-v1/26

Then join us in our #⚖️governance-discussions channel at chat.keep.network and let us know how you really feel 😀

The Keep website update has been public for a few days, but did you know that the community played a big part in the changes? Our latest blog post looks at the website update, the input from the community that made it possible, and takes a peek into the behind the scenes design process.

Thanks to all the community members that contributed to the user experience feedback process!

Check out the blog post here: https://blog.keep.network/announcing-keeps-refreshed-website-7eef22437944

Greater access to the KEEP work token pushes forward the goal of ecosystem-wide decentralized private computation. KEEP stakers run the Keep network - a decentralized threshold cryptography platform.

How has the KEEP token recently become more accessible? Check out our blog post: https://blog.keep.network/keep-is-now-available-to-trade-on-coinbase-and-binance-d92584393548

We are encouraged to see more community members joining us - we look forward to building with you. If you have questions about the token, tBTC, or the KEANU merge, drop into our Discord server at chat.keep.network.

Wondering what the team has been working on? This Wednesday at 11 AM EST we’ll have Liz and Chris from the team to demo the coverage pool UI/UX. If you have questions about coverage pools, the merge with NuCypher, or just want to see the proposed UI, drop by! We'll be hosting the call in the Community Voice Channel on our Discord server.

Not in our Discord? What are you waiting for? Join at chat.keep.network

On June 28th 11am EST, Figment’s Staking Hub will host Doug from Keep and MacLane from NuCypher to chat about the KEANU merger, and what that will mean moving forward.

Have questions that you want asked? You can add them to the list of questions for the AMA here: https://buff.ly/3gSQzjw

You can also add the event to your calendar (https://buff.ly/3iZnMwl) and join the AMA on the 28th (https://buff.ly/2zMrpRw)

Another massive win for the Keep Community! 💪

We know many in our community had been appealing directly to @binance to list KEEP for trade, and they have now answered that call and listed KEEP with BTC, BNB, BUSD, and USDT pairs.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/ed88b0ac99554ad7a5c7cae58fb0f492

It's an exciting time to join the community as we are working with NuCypher on the KEANU network upgrade, and discussion on the KEANU DAO is about to get underway! For those of you who are just joining us, catch up on the Keep x NuCypher network upgrade here 👇
https://medium.com/@keep_project

Feel free to get involved in the discussions on Discord. If you haven’t yet joined us on Discord, what are you waiting for? We’re at chat.keep.network

Our great friends at Boar Network have created some powerful tools for Active Stakers. 🥩

The new tools help monitor connected peers as well as the ETH an operator has available to handle transaction fees. As many of you know, both are key factors in reducing faults and slashing. ⚔️

The monitoring tools feature client and system level alerts pushed to Ops Genie, and the ability to set up logzio aggregator. Check out the full list of features and consider adding to your staking setup today!

https://github.com/boar-network/keep-monitoring

That’s not all! The documentation for both the Keep ECDSA and Random Beacon have also been updated - if you had issues following the documentation all the way through in the past, check back and see the new and improved docs!
📜

https://github.com/keep-network/keep-ecdsa/blob/master/docs/run-keep-ecdsa.adoc

https://github.com/keep-network/keep-core/blob/master/docs/run-random-beacon.adoc

If you are working on setting up an ECDSA node and have issues, make sure to check in with our community on Discord at chat.keep.network

We are excited to see the KEEP token supported by the fine folks at Coinbase! We know our community has been looking forward to this for some time, your day has finally arrived! We hope the increased accessibility of KEEP will grow our community as well as our ecosystem. If you are just joining us from the announcement, find out how to put your KEEP to work at https://staking.keep.network/ and feel free to get active in our community on Discord at https://chat.keep.network.

The results are in! The KEANU rc0 proposal has been approved in both the Keep and NuCypher communities! We are very excited to move forward with implementation.

A major thank you to both communities for all of the work put in creating proposals, engaging through debate and community calls, and for sticking with us through the whole process - you are the drivers of this network upgrade.

We’ve shared more of our thoughts on the upgrade in our new blog post - https://blog.keep.network/the-keanu-vote-passes-596fdfa11f00

You can also check the results of both snapshots here:

Keep Snapshot: https://snapshot.org/#/keepstakers.eth/proposal/QmV9o1AiZSVZ5fdKJXYmGTcnYQodP8h1gWt9EEMaNFXsDs

NuCypher Snapshot: https://snapshot.org/#/nudao.eth/proposal/QmdH23qw5A1Afr3gT6qokn18UskpunM1cnzZpABsJtxEAv

What are you most excited for on the new network? Drop into our Discord server, and let's get to building it together! https://chat.keep.network

We’re having another community Lunch and Learn chat in our Discord server this Wednesday June 9th at 1pm EST!

🥪 + 📚

This week, drop by & chat with Team members Liz and Chris about UX/UI for the Keep Dashboard and the planned integration of coverage pools. If you aren’t already in the Discord, join us at chat.keep.network

Don’t forget that the KEANU snapshot is currently live, and open until Friday. If you are an active staker, make sure to head to the snapshot page and vote: https://snapshot.org/#/keepstakers.eth/proposal/QmV9o1AiZSVZ5fdKJXYmGTcnYQodP8h1gWt9EEMaNFXsDs

We've hashed out several versions of proposals, received advice from third-parties, engaged extensively with the Keep and NuCypher communities - it's now time we take the KEANU rc0 proposal to a snapshot vote.

🗳 The vote opens today in both Keep and NuCypher communities, and will remain open for 7 days. Make sure your vote is in before the deadline!

Your options are:
- rc0 T proposal
- I prefer a different proposal
- No option / back to the drawing board

Make your choice and let us know through the snapshot:
https://snapshot.org/#/keepstakers.eth/proposal/QmV9o1AiZSVZ5fdKJXYmGTcnYQodP8h1gWt9EEMaNFXsDs

If you still need more information on what is included in the rc0 proposal, you can dig into it on the forum:
https://forum.keep.network/t/t-token-proposal-rc0/264/3

And if you’d like to engage with the team and community in real-time, join us on Discord at chat.keep.network

KEANU keeps moving forward! In case you hadn’t seen it, the rc0 proposal is now live for comment on the Keep forum. Check it out, as it is the most fully developed proposal that we hope to move forward with after community engagement.

https://forum.keep.network/t/t-token-proposal-rc0/264

Want to get involved in the live discussion around the most recent proposal? Get into our Discord at chat.keep.network and join our community call with NuCypher on Thursday 12PM EST. You can add the call to your calendar right here⤵️

🗓 https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzRmNzhzOGkxbnAxY2YxdDJxZm9icDJ0cGcgY19zZDNldTRuanJuZGxvb3M0NDFrbmZjMzQ5Y0Bn&tmsrc=c_sd3eu4njrndloos441knfc349c%40group.calendar.google.com

There’s now a second community written blog post exploring the importance of coverage pools to tBTC v1.5. The post goes into much further detail along with the importance of a decentralized wrapped BTC on Ethereum. Main points:

⚠️Reduce liquidation risk
⚖️Reduce Collateral req's
💰Earn KEEP rewards

https://estebank.medium.com/coverage-pools-ffd243afb2f8

Have questions? Jump into Discord and ask the authors who have done the deep dive - Estebank and Nahuus

https://chat.keep.network

There’s a new proposal to integrate KEEP into Rari Fuse pool 3 supported by Corollari. We could use your voice on the forum - drop a comment on the proposal to show your support for integrating KEEP! This would make Rari the first lending protocol integrating KEEP, giving all holders more options to use and earn on their tokens.

Get involved in the proposal at: https://forums.rari.capital/d/78-add-keep-to-pool3

We are all super excited for tBTC v1.5 and the time has come to share more detail with our group here. Let’s goo. Quick facts:

🔓We are building in public! Coverage pools are open source. Check it all out here - https://github.com/keep-network/coverage-pools

📝Community members Nahuus and Estebank have written this blog post describing Coverage Pools in more detail - https://blog.keep.network/introducing-coverage-pools-f47632bb472a

👷‍♂️There is a new community dev grant opportunity to build Coverage Pool auction bots. Check out the Development channel on our Discord for more info on this

Join us at the next Keep Lunch and Learn on Wednesday at 1pm EST in the Community Voice section of Discord to discuss v1.5 in more detail. Our main man Chris will be there to talk all things coverage pools and answer any questions you have.

Reminder that the next Keep Community Lunch and Learn starts in one hour in the Community Voice Channel of our Discord server ⚔️

Stop by to discuss the most recent T6 hard merge proposal authored by Ben and Viktor 🙏

https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1392509947015991312

The T6 Token Proposal — which builds on previous proposals and integrated community feedback — is now live for community discussion on the Keep forum. This process only moves forward with community engagement, so thank you to everyone who has contributed so far! 💪

If you would like to contribute to the current proposal, head over to the Keep forum and add your thoughts: https://forum.keep.network/t/t6-token-proposal/238

There is also an open invitation to join us May 12 from 1-2 PM EST for our community lunch and learn in our Discord server. We’ll be chatting with Viktor Bunin and other T6 proposal contributors - don’t miss your chance to contribute to the discussion! Join us at https://chat.keep.network