CTR is Live - Govern the Bitcoin Economy
Today, CTR trading and staking officially go live, enabling a coordination asset model for the Bitcoin economy.
CTR is designed to redefine network alignment and to put the active participants of the network at the absolute center of the ecosystem. CTR functions as a coordination asset, built specifically so that the active users and developers who create long-term value for Citrea are the ones who control its network emissions, Citrea governance treasury, and overall Citrea network evolution.
By establishing a user-led framework, CTR introduces a Bitcoin ecosystem where those who actively use the network are the ones who govern it.
Two Years of Building a Bitcoin Economy
The launch of CTR builds on more than two years of infrastructure and ecosystem development. During these years, Citrea delivered a series historic milestones for Bitcoin: the first ZK Rollup secured entirely by the Bitcoin Network, and Clementine, the first trust-minimized BTC bridge built on BitVM.
This novel architecture has unlocked a comprehensive financial ecosystem directly on Bitcoin, establishing a network for Bitcoin lending, trading, payments and BTC yield infrastructure. Citrea ecosystem has been growing steadily with institutional capital inflows and ctUSD crossing over $23 million in supply. As these capital markets expand, CTR will serve as the core engine driving, coordinating, and scaling this Bitcoin economy.
CTR: Govern the Bitcoin Economy
With the official CTR launch, both airdrop claims and staking are fully live, with 10 million CTR allocated to early stakers. Users can choose to stake their claimed airdrop, or acquire CTR directly from the market to stake for the 10 million CTR staking distribution. Staking CTR serves as the foundational mechanism for participating in the network's governance and ecosystem incentives. By staking, users receive xCTR, a non-transferable token that directly grants voting power over the Citrea Governance Treasury and the network.
Users can claim their allocation and start staking now using the official portals:
- Airdrop Claim & Stake: citrea.xyz/airdrop
- Citrea Staking Portal: citrea.xyz/stake
CTR is natively issued on the Citrea Network as an ERC-20 token and is also available on the Base Network in bridged form. CTR on-chain pools are available both on Satsuma on the Citrea Network and on Aerodrome on the Base Network.
CTR is also supported across major exchange platforms such as Binance Alpha, Coinbase, Kraken and more. For users holding or acquiring CTR on the Base Network, they can seamlessly use the Citrea Bridge Hub or Stargate to transfer their assets onto the Citrea Network to begin staking.
Important links:
- CTR airdrop claims: https://citrea.xyz/airdrop
- CTR Staking Portal: https://citrea.xyz/stake
- For Citrea governance proposals, visit https://app.aragon.org/dao/citrea-mainnet/0xA941b1C1D9aDC88C9241aA3ACA59E8B8f0386419/dashboard?proposals=all
- For more information about CTR, visit citrea.xyz/ctr-token
- To learn more about unstaking xCTR, visit https://docs.citrea.xyz/ctr-token/staking-and-governance.
What’s Ahead? - Bitcoin Capital Markets at Scale
The launch of CTR is the official activation of a user-led Bitcoin economy. What lies ahead is the true scaling of Bitcoin capital markets. Through xCTR, the active contributors of the network will shape the distribution of ecosystem incentives, anchoring Citrea’s expanding economy around real participation rather than passive capital. As new applications deploy and institutional pipelines deepen, stakers will hold the voting power to direct and optimize network incentives where they matter most.