The deadline to submit proposals for the KEANU hard-merge is Friday April 30th. There will be a community call to discuss proposal details and determine the future of the hard-merge. More details:
https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1387468090783395841

Don’t forget that we have a Keep and NuCypher community call on Friday 12PM EST to discuss the three KEANU proposals and start moving toward a final version.

We also have a special edition NFT drop in collaboration with CryptoKickers that we will be giving away to several community members who join the call. To qualify for the pairs we are giving away, there are two things you need to do:
- Participate in the discussion of the proposals at https://forum.keep.network
- Join the community call tomorrow

See you there!

https://twitter.com/keep_project/status/1387884964365012995

We are proud to present two community grants that are now shipping 🚢

ChronoLogic created the automatic liquidation-avoidance tool to help stakers avoid the costs of liquidations. https://keeper.chronologic.network

Ben Longstaff has taken on the Governance Coordinator Fellowship, and is helping to energize and steward the governance process. If you have been a part of the KEANU proposal process, you’re already seeing Ben’s work. Check out the blog for more details:
https://blog.keep.network/keeper-is-live-the-keep-community-grants-program-in-action-69cca5feb27b

Hey Keep Community, we are looking for user interview participants👩‍💻

The interviews will take no longer than 60 minutes and will be recorded. All input will be completely anonymised. We value your time so we’re paying our interview participants 60 USDC.

If you’re interested, answer this survey here 👉https://bit.ly/3utwVQE and enroll in our user study.

🙏 Excited to talk to you!

Our second informal community Lunch and Learn chat is this Wednesday May 12th at 1pm EST in the Community Voice Channel section of our Discord. Drop by and chat about where you’re using tBTC and KEEP, or if you've got other fresh farming tips to share 👨‍🌾 👩‍🌾

If you’re looking for new places to put your crypto to work, have questions about our project, or just want to drop in and say hello to others in the community - you’re welcome in the call!

https://discord.gg/sWRBjwzc

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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)

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

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.