What can you do with your bitcoin? If you’re looking across the proliferation of Bitcoin adjacent platforms, roll-ups, and Layer 2 networks, the answer is clear—not much.
These offerings aspire to capture the inherent value of Bitcoin or build security models dependent upon it. But as they differentiate themselves through technological architecture, they’ve ended up as networks with one-way incentive flows that barely show real alignment with Bitcoin.
Bitcoin scaling is something we’ve had our eyes on for a long time, and it’s a lot more nuanced than a network simply rising to meet the transactional demands of mass adoption.
Bitcoin is built along the lines of incentives—if a scaling network is misaligned with those, any vitality it brings to the ecosystem will remain walled off within that network. Bitcoin needs to benefit from the scaling networks that are built on top of it.
When we started building Mezo, we knew we needed to take an approach attuned to the values of Bitcoin itself. To align with Bitcoin, it’s not a matter of reinventing the wheel—the pieces are already there, it merely takes the vision to align them properly to see the big picture.
Bitcoin’s system sees a balance struck between the needs of miners securing the network via Proof of Work, holders weathering the ups and downs of market activity, and those transacting on-chain. In this system, there are also codified mechanisms, such as the halving of block rewards, which impact the incentive structure of the network’s security budget.
It’s not enough to try to create one-way valves and incentive structures that aim to deliver scalability yet move and encapsulate the flow of value outside the Bitcoin network.
Mezo connects with the core of Bitcoin, standing apart as an Economic Layer with incentives and mechanisms, like Proof of HODL, that reinforce Bitcoin. It’s a network where your bitcoin is set free. It’s free to earn you passive rewards for depositing and holding as you would anyway, or where you can transact and settle payments because it no longer costs too much to transact.
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BTC is the world’s hardest currency, and Mezo lets you use it like one. We understand that for many people, this simply means holding fast and keeping that bitcoin safe. We are already confident in Bitcoin, the market has shown us that.
Mezo puts that bitcoin you’d be holding anyway to work, to earn you passive, honest yield through Proof of HODL. The key here is that by locking up BTC to validate Mezo transactions via CometBFT consensus, you’re also supporting Bitcoin because every moving piece of the network is built with Bitcoin in mind.
Mezo is the first network to account for diminishing block rewards, and the next halving event, just days away, displays Mezo’s timely solution to reinforce Bitcoin’s security budget. For every transaction on Mezo, we allocate a portion of network fees to remove some BTC from circulation. As the network expands and scales to millions of transactions on a global scale, this activity is designed to effectively reduce its supply, making bitcoin a more scarce asset.
Miners need incentives to keep bitcoin secure, and Mezo emerges as the first network to address this in tandem with meeting the needs of long-term hodlers. It rewards miners by stimulating scarcity in bitcoin to doubly reward long-term holders and the miners who provide security to Bitcoin.
With this mechanism in place, by committing your bitcoin on Mezo you’re also committing to the long-term security of Bitcoin as a network and your asset’s value. A more secure future for Bitcoin is a bright future.
So the next time someone asks what you can do with your Bitcoin, tell them that on Mezo, the answer is simple—anything you want.
