With COTI Earn now live, now’s the perfect time to walk you through what’s coming!

What is COTI Earn?

COTI Earn is a new seasonal rewards platform and the loyalty platform of COTI, where every interaction becomes a reward.

By holding, trading, referring, and engaging, you earn Token Points (TPs) - minted daily and sent directly to your wallet.

At the end of each season, TPs can be claimed and converted into $COTI.
Season 001 (Genesis) runs for 6 weeks, with 12.5M $COTI allocated for rewards!

Highlights:

• Earn while you hold - Hold selected assets on the COTI Network to earn daily rewards. The more you hold, the more you earn
• All rewards are liquid - TPs are on-chain, daily, and yours to keep
• Badges - Unlock badges for selected activities
• Built for everyone - From traders to referrers to day-one believers
• Seasonal drops - New missions bring new rewards and fresh reasons to connect
• Every action = TPs = $COTI - Simple as that

It’s easy to join COTI Earn

Follow our steps below to join COTI Earn

In the top-right corner, click the Connect Wallet button.

A pop-up will appear with several wallet options.
Select the wallet you prefer, in this guide we use MetaMask as an example.

MetaMask will open and show your available accounts.
Choose the account you want and click Connect.

*If you haven’t added COTI Network to MetaMask yet, follow the guide here.

Verify Your Wallet

Back on the COTI Earn site, you’ll be asked to verify your account.
Click Sign message to continue.

MetaMask will display a sign-in request from earn.coti.io.
Review the details and click Confirm to complete the connection.

Awesome, your wallet is connected!

Earn Page

The Earn page is packed with missions. Here you’ll find:

• Deposit & Hold Missions: Earn TPs by holding USDC, BTC, ETH on COTI Network. If you don’t hold these assets, use the Hyperlane Nexus bridge to convert to USDC-e, wETH and wBTC for use on COTI Network.
  For native COTI, use MetaMask and the COTI Bridge.
• Featured Opportunities: A highlighted mission carrying higher rewards
• Daily Activities: Repeatable tasks to gain extra TPs.
• Connect to Earn: Social missions (follow on X, join Telegram/Discord, subscribe on YouTube).
  Note: Social missions are verified through Snag, COTI’s partner, to make sure your actions are tracked correctly and TPs are awarded.

Create Page

The Create page focuses on community-driven content and special activities. Here you’ll find:

• Featured Opportunity: Timed missions like posting an X thread to celebrate COTI Earn.
• Quizzes: Learn and earn by completing quizzes.
• Social Tasks: Simple actions such as signing up for the newsletter or sharing on X.

Dashboard Overview

The Dashboard is the central place where you can see your progress, rewards, badges, and ranking. Here you’ll find:

• Your TP balance: Token Points (TPs) are minted daily and sent directly to your wallet. See your balance updating every day.
• Claiming $COTI: At the end of each season, you can use the Claim button to convert your TPs into $COTI. The claim window is open for 21 days. Any badges you’ve earned will also be delivered as NFTs during this period.
• TPs Contract: The TPs smart contract can be viewed here. To see TPs in your wallet you may need to need to add the contract address manually (0x64ec0E875b00DD50A4661462040E7C35084BcB58).
• My Rewards: Token Points (TPs) earned this season and all-time, with a countdown to season end and option to claim.
• My Badges: Achievements unlocked by completing missions and milestones. Badges are issued as NFTs at the end of each season (e.g. Privacy Pioneer, COTI Champion, Elite Earner).
• Leaderboard: Your personal rank plus the global top earners.

Referrals

• Generate your referral code to invite friends and earn rewards. You’ll earn the equivalent of 5% of their TPs daily, while they receive a 50 TPs welcome bonus.

COTI Earn makes it easy to turn your activity in the COTI ecosystem into rewards. By connecting your wallet, exploring the Dashboard, completing missions in the Earn and Create tabs, and engaging with the community, you collect Token Points (TPs) that can be claimed for $COTI at the end of each season.

Start small with simple social tasks or deposits, climb the leaderboard, unlock badges, and maximize your rewards.

Scenarios and opportunities

Below are a few illustrative scenarios that highlight how different types of users might experience COTI Earn.

*The numerical data in this article, such as the APY figures, are for explanatory purposes only and do not represent guaranteed outcomes. Actual figures will vary according to market and network conditions throughout the season.

Scenario 1: The Passive Holder

Even without complex strategies, users can benefit just by holding. For example, USDC.e stored throughout all of the season in a non-custodial wallet could yield, under reasonable assumptions of TP distribution, an estimated APY boost of nearly 70%. This makes COTI Earn accessible to users who simply want to keep their assets safe while still participating in network rewards.

Scenario 2: The Engaged Participant

For users who choose to connect their assets to integrated dApps such as PriveX or Carbon DeFi, the estimated potential returns may rise under the same assumptions to nearly 90% APY. This path demonstrates how active interaction with the ecosystem can unlock higher opportunities compared to passive holding.

Scenario 3: The Committed COTI Holder

COTI token holders who stake their $COTI in the Treasury can further enhance their position with an additional estimated 15% APY boost in addition to their treasury rewards. This layer of rewards reinforces the long-term value of holding and supporting the native token.

Scenario 4: The Explorer of Missions

Beyond holding and staking, COTI Earn introduces on-chain and social missions that give participants the chance to unlock even greater boosts. By engaging in these missions, users can combine financial incentives with community interaction and growth, further boosting their TPs share.

Rewards are distributed every 24 hours as Token Points (TPs), minted and sent directly to user wallets. Over the course of each season, all APY boosts accumulate in TPs, which can then be redeemed at the season’s conclusion through the COTI Earn Dashboard for a share of the total $COTI rewards pool.

New missions and dApps will be added during the season with more opportunities to earn rewards! We hope you will join us for this journey into COTI Earn, and don’t forget to invite your friends!

FAQs

• Can I transfer my TPs?
  Yes. TPs are ERC-based tokens minted daily to your wallet. You can transfer them between EVM wallets after they’re minted. You can redeem your TPs for $COTI at the end of the season. The claim window will be open for 21 days. Check out the COTI Earn Dashboard for more details.
• What data does COTI collect?
  COTI Earn only uses wallet addresses, IP, and activity related to the platform (missions, holdings, referrals, etc.). No KYC or personal information is required or collected.
• When can I see the TPs in my wallet?
  TPs are minted daily starting at 9:00 AM UTC. They should appear in your wallet shortly after minting.
• What happens if I change wallets mid-season?
  Rewards are tied to your connected wallet. If you switch wallets, TPs won’t carry over, so it’s best to stick with one wallet for the season.
• Can I carry my TPs over to the next season?
  Normally TPs are season-specific. Their redemption applies to that season’s claim window only (21 days). When the claim window closes, it is no longer possible to claim that seasons TPs for $COTI rewards.
  *However, as an exception to the rule, COTI is currently running a promotion for Season 1 participants who hold TP001 in their wallet. Anyone holding TP001 throughout Season 2, until the next claim window (opening January 13th 2026), will be eligible for a 15% bonus on their Season 1 rewards.
• What if I lost access to my wallet?
  Since TPs are on-chain and tied to your wallet address, they can’t be recovered if you lose access to your wallet. Make sure you keep your wallet safe.
• Who can participate? Do I need to KYC to participate?
  No. Anyone with a supported wallet can join.
• How do I connect my wallet? What wallets are supported?
  We recommend MetaMask but other wallets are supported. Read our guide for full details.
• How do I redeem TPs for $COTI?
  At the end of each season, go to your Dashboard and click they Claim button to redeem your TPs for $COTI. $COTI rewards are sent directly to your connected wallet.
• Is there a cap on how much $COTI I can earn?
  Your $COTI rewards depend on the share of TPs you earned in relation to other users on COTI Earn each season. Check out the Leaderboard in the Dashboard to track your progress against others.
• What happens when a season ends?
  Any Badges earned during the season are issued as NFTs to qualifying users. $COTI is divided proportionally amongst TPs holders and the Claim button will become active within the Dashboard for users to be able to redeem for $COTI.
  There will be a short setup phase of a few days before a new season begins with new missions and rewards.
• How can I report a problem?
  Simply click the ‘?’ icon in the bottom-right corner of the page to open a ticket and get in touch with our support team.

New missions and dApps will be added during the season with more opportunities to earn rewards! We hope you will join us for this journey into COTI Earn, and don’t forget to invite your friends!

As always, Stay COTI!

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

COTI Earn - Here’s What You Need to Know was originally published in COTI on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We’re excited to share that for the very first time you can now connect, view, send, receive, and manage private tokens directly through MetaMask.

Private tokens give individuals and businesses the privacy they need to operate securely in Web3, unlocking a huge range of real-world applications. We’re not talking about anonymity, we’re talking about selective disclosure, permissioned privacy, to facilitate confidential payments and private stablecoins, private DeFi strategies, DAO governance voting, supply chain settlements, and identity credentials. Across the board, privacy can be used to protect sensitive data, prevent front-running, and enable selective disclosure for compliance.

Today’s announcement marks a major step for COTI in bringing privacy and private tokens into the mainstream, making them directly accessible to users and developers through Metamask, the most widely used wallet in Web3.

Adding the Privacy Extension to MetaMask

Integration is through a MetaMask Snap, a secure MetaMask extension that adds new capabilities directly into your wallet. In this case, the COTI Snap gives MetaMask the ability to handle private transactions and token balances.

Connecting to the COTI Snap is easy:

1. Go to the COTI Snap Integration Page at metamask.coti.io and click “Connect to MetaMask”
2. Approve the Snap installation when prompted, and add your preferred wallet address to send/receive private tokens. Follow this step-by-step guide: How to Connect the COTI MetaMask Snap
3. Congratulations, your wallet is one of the first to send and receive private tokens!

Why Does this Matter?

Today’s launch lays the foundation for an on-chain privacy ecosystem that is both production-ready and user-accessible. You can now enjoy:

• Seamless interaction with privacy tokens
• Better wallet UX for developers building privacy-centric dApps
• A more secure and private experience in Web3, without sacrificing usability

This integration brings privacy tokens out of the infrastructure layer and into the hands of users and developers, marking the start of a busy season for COTI.

See It in Action

Watch the demo:

Stay COTI!

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Send and Receive Private Tokens on MetaMask Using COTI! was originally published in COTI on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We’re excited to announce our newest partners, Houdini Swap, one of the simplest, most secure ways to swap from assets like native BTC, Zcash, SOL, and more directly into COTI on the COTI Network.

The partnership brings Houdini’s confidential, non-custodial exchange technology to COTI, enabling users to move assets without exposing their wallet history or critical financial data. No wallet linking, no address exposure, no compromise.

How Does Houdini Swap Work?

Houdini’s platform delivers private swaps through carefully curated non-custodial centralized exchange (CEX) partners. These exchanges conduct risk-based Know Your Transaction (KYT) checks via Anti-Money Laundering (AML) systems on every swap. As an aggregator, Houdini is not part of the transaction flow and charges no user fees, instead earning affiliate commissions from exchange partners.

Users can move assets without exposing critical financial data such as wallet history or balances, while preserving auditability. This makes Houdini Swap suitable for institutional use in the US, Europe, and other regulated markets.

How Can Private Swaps Be Both Confidential and Compliant?

Using selective disclosure, Houdini swap can ensure that while receivers of private swaps cannot trace the origination wallet, access can be granted for auditability when required. This architecture makes Houdini an ideal solution for legitimate users seeking financial privacy.

The platform ensures that:

• Recipients of private swaps cannot trace the originating wallet
• Authorities can view the entire transaction flow if legally required

A Collaboration: Privacy Rails Meet Compliant Cross-Chain Swaps

The integration of Houdini Swap with COTI brings multiple layers of value to both ecosystems. COTI token holders will be able to access Houdini’s compliant private swap functionality directly from the COTI network.

This partnership unlocks several key benefits for COTI users and builders:

For Users:

• Access to compliant private swaps directly from COTI Mainnet
• Cross-chain swap functionality with strong confidentiality
• Protection of wallet history and financial privacy
• Access to Houdini’s curated network of top-tier CEX partners

For Builders:

• Houdini’s API availability to COTI ecosystem developers
• Integration opportunities for dApps requiring private swap functionality
• Access to compliant privacy infrastructure for DeFi applications
• Participation in Houdini’s upcoming incentives and affiliate program

Looking ahead, Houdini’s roadmap includes expansion into PayFi (Payment Finance), route and chain expansion, enhanced affiliate and incentives programs, and hackathons, all of which will benefit COTI ecosystem.

The partnership also includes token listing, private bridging and now featuring HoudiniPay. HoudiniPay is the simplest, most secure way to request and send confidential crypto payments using COTI. Share one Houdini Pay link, let anyone pay in any token or chain and receive your chosen token privately.

COTI users can start using Houdini Swap and HoudiniPay today for compliant, confidential cross-chain trading. Visit houdiniswap.com to get started or follow Houdini on X, or join the community on Telegram.

About COTI

COTI is the programmable privacy layer for Web3.
Powered by high-performance Garbled Circuits, COTI brings fast, low cost, flexible, and compliant privacy to any blockchain. With privacy that’s programmable by design, COTI enables the next generation of DeFi, payments, identity, governance, and AI.

Stay COTI!

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

COTI Earn: https://earn.coti.io/earn

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

COTI Partners with Houdini Swap for Compliant Private Swaps was originally published in COTI on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We’re pleased to share that tomorrow, September 17, 2025, COTI V2 will undergo a planned mainnet upgrade. The upgrade introduces meaningful improvements to the protocol. It is a key step in strengthening the network and preparing for a hard fork coming in October. This upgrade has already been successfully deployed on testnet, where it has been running smoothly with no issues.

During the upgrade window, the network will briefly pause for a few minutes. Once the process is complete, operations will automatically resume, and the network will continue as normal. There is no action required from you! Your funds and tokens will remain completely safe throughout the process.

For node runners, however, this is an important milestone. All nodes will need to be upgraded to the latest software release. We’ll be sharing detailed upgrade instructions in the coming days to make the transition smooth and straightforward.

Why It Matters

This upgrade is about much more than technical fixes. It reinforces the strength and security of COTI V2, ensuring the network can scale with confidence while maintaining its privacy-preserving foundation. By preparing for the upcoming hard fork in advance, node operators help guarantee stability across the ecosystem, while users benefit from a safer, more reliable infrastructure.

Upgrade Details: v1.1.4

Version 1.1.4 introduces a series of refinements across both MPC and gcEVM. These changes address key findings from the Hacken audit and improve stability, security, and maintainability. Updates include:
- Stronger input validation
- Safer arithmetic operations
- Improved randomness for cryptographic functions
- More resilient connection handling
- Enhanced protection for in-memory secrets.

Next Steps

For the community, the main takeaway is simple: users don’t need to take any action other than being aware of the short pause to the network on September 17.

This upgrade represents another important step in the development of COTI V2. It not only strengthens the protocol at its core but also reinforces the foundations on which the future of our privacy-preserving ecosystem will be built.

Stay COTI

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Upcoming COTI V2 Mainnet Upgrade! was originally published in COTI on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

COTI has partnered with trustless oracle provider DIA, which delivers real-time price data about the $COTI asset on the Ethereum network.

DIA’s integration offers a new price feed oracle, enabling $COTI to be used across DeFi protocols that require third-party data, including lending platforms, expanding the utility of the token.

Check out the live $COTI price feed on the DIA app here.

DIA delivers integrations for over 100 data sources across more than 60 blockchains. It currently powers 200+ dApps with its trustless price feed. COTI is thrilled to be the latest addition to the DIA ecosystem.

DIA: Verifiable Data, Direct From The Source

Blockchains rely on a network of validators that keep an agreed set of rules. While this ensures the security of the shared ledger, it also isolates them from external sources of information. This is a problem for decentralized applications (dApps) that rely on third-party data, which could be anything from asset prices on various exchanges to weather conditions.

DIA is a trustless oracle provider that delivers secure, reliable data feeds for digital assets, liquid staking tokens (LSTs), real-world assets (RWAs), randomness, and more to any blockchain. Such services dramatically increase the utility that dApps can offer by enabling them to access external information, ideally without introducing sources of trust and single points of failure.

While conventional oracles often rely on opaque third-party data, DIA takes a different and novel approach. Data is sourced directly from its origin, primary sources such as CEXs and DEXs, and leverages zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) to verify its validity. The system is secured by a decentralized network of nodes and stakers.

Data is stored fully on-chain, on the DIA Lasernet rollup, and can be passed to any other supported platform using cross-chain messaging. When new data feeds are created, they are published via API endpoints, or on-chain, via an oracle smart contract. This system ensures a combination of full transparency, a high degree of flexibility and customization and support for any data type across a wide range of different applications.

Dillon Hanson, Head of Business Development at DIA, comments, “DIA’s ability to source data directly from primary markets allows us to rapidly support any asset with transparent price feeds. By deploying the COTI oracle on Ethereum, we enable new DeFi applications, expanding the utility of COTI across the ecosystem.”

Find Out More

Today’s partnership opens the way for DeFi and other Web3 dApps to integrate $COTI price feeds, providing new collateral options and broadening the use case for the $COTI token.

To learn more about building with DIA, check out the documentation, or follow the project on X and Telegram.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

DIA Partnership Sees COTI Integrated in Ethereum Mainnet Oracle was originally published in COTI on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

DeFi lending protocols like Aave and Compound let users deposit collateral to borrow other assets. If the collateral’s value falls below a certain threshold, the position becomes undercollateralized and eligible for liquidation to avoid the protocol accruing bad debt.

Anyone can repay the debt and receive the collateral at a discount, earning a liquidation reward in the process — typically 5–10% of the collateral amount. Think regular users get a shot at picking up those lucrative rewards? Not a chance.

In the event that a user does spot a vault that’s eligible for liquidation, their transaction will almost certainly be front-run by a bot. The bot spots the user’s transaction in the mempool, copies it with their own details, and adds a high enough gas fee to ensure it will be executed ahead of the original one. Even if the bot account does not hold enough assets to repay the fee, it doesn’t matter, since they can use a flash loan to borrow the required tokens, liquidate the vault, and pay back the loan in the same block.

Meanwhile, the user’s transaction either fails or executes after the vault has already been emptied.

Vault liquidations are particularly attractive to bot runners due to their high profitability, since DeFi vaults may hold millions of dollars worth of tokens. The scale of the problem is hard to gauge, because by definition, the affected user transactions are never confirmed on the blockchain. However, the issue likely affects users to the tune of millions of dollars per year.

COTI Fixes This

COTI uses garbled circuits to prevent attackers from exploiting transactions before they are confirmed on the blockchain. Garbled circuits are a fast, lightweight solution that process transactions in encrypted form, preserving end-to-end privacy. They offer a combination of speed and scalability that is unique for decentralized confidential computing (DeCC).

Our solution enables confidential on-chain operations, including encrypted transfers and MEV-proof DeFi transactions, secure data storage, private multi-party interactions, and verifiable computations on encrypted data — all with optional disclosure for compliance! They’re ideal for everything from private DEX trading, and RWAs, to AI and ML operations with encrypted data sets.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

COTI Fixes This #4: Vault Liquidation Fee “Thefts” was originally published in COTI on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

COTI V2 is designed with gradual decentralization in mind, with a clear focus on expanding the community’s role in decision-making.

With COTI V2 now live, we’re taking the next step in our journey — reaffirming our commitment to openness, transparency, community involvement, and long-term sustainability. This commitment is already reflected in initiatives like Stay COTI, a platform built to empower builders and creators while giving the community a meaningful voice in shaping the COTI ecosystem.

Next, we’ll continue empowering the community through governance, starting with how network fees are used.

To add more clarity around the tokenomics mechanism, we’re also publishing more detailed information, including addresses, allocations, and a detailed 10-year inflation schedule.

Why the COTI V2 Token Upgrade Was Needed

COTI V2 marks a major leap forward — not just in technology, but in what’s now possible for the network and its community. By moving to a more scalable and open infrastructure, COTI has unlocked new opportunities that simply weren’t feasible before: from powering CBDC pilots with the European Central Bank and Bank of Israel, to enabling real-world asset (RWA) tokenization with major institutions, to building cross-chain applications that will span over 70 blockchains. This transition lays the foundation for COTI to play a central role in the next wave of Web3 innovation, one that prioritizes security, flexibility, and real-world impact.

To power this new network, we needed a new native gas token for the new infrastructure. A token that is used to pay fees, support staking, node rewards, and to boost the new ecosystem growth. Instead of launching a new token and fragmenting the community, we expanded the existing COTI token model and offered all holders a 1:1 migration path. An initial version of this tokenomics model was introduced over 18 months ago, which allowed ample time for discussion, and was refined through community feedback, until the final version was presented in the whitepaper we published. We were thankful for the amazing support we received through the process and amazed by the market acceptance as evident with COTI’s participation in national projects and the amount of new partners that have started developing on COTI V2.

A Predictable and Community-Aligned Token Model

COTI V2’s inflation model is algorithmic and follows a predefined, gradually diminishing schedule. It starts with a projected emission of ~35% in the first year and tapers to less than 1% annually by year 10 onwards. This emission formula continues beyond the 10-year mark, eventually reaching a capped total supply of 4.85 billion tokens within the first decade and 4.91 billion tokens over a longer horizon of 100 years.

Since Mainnet launched on March 26th, all transaction fees collected in $COTI are directed to a community-governed pool address. While the Total Supply (TS) reflects all newly minted tokens, excluding those burned through gas fees (per EIP-1559), the transaction fees collected in the pool are excluded from Circulating Supply (CS) unless redistributed by community vote. Both TS and CS are continuously updated on CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko.

This fee mechanism introduces the potential for a deflationary effect, depending on community decisions and network activity, reinforcing the protocol’s long-term adaptability. As presented in Chapter 4.3 of our whitepaper, the following chart outlines various potential paths for token supply changes, influenced by network activity and the associated fees:

New $COTI tokens are not pre-minted but continuously generated by the protocol and sent to the public genesis address. This is in addition to the initial 2 billion V2 tokens minted to mirror the existing COTI V1 supply. All newly minted tokens are allocated across three predefined categories: 58% for community rewards (staking, nodes and liquidity programs.), 24% for ecosystem growth (grants, partnerships, exchanges) and 18% for development (technical and product work). You can review a detailed 10-year emission breakdown in our tokenomics spreadsheet. We’ve also compiled a list of key wallets and protocol addresses for full visibility across COTI the new chain.

Clarifying Distribution Procedures

To simplify tracking and reinforce our commitment to open protocol operations, we’ll begin transferring newly minted tokens every 5 epochs from the genesis address to the following designated addresses; We will complete the implementation of this process within the next couple of weeks:

• Rewards Address: supports staking, nodes, liquidity campaigns, and community incentives.
• Ecosystem Address: managed by the COTI Foundation to fund grants, investments, events, and ecosystem growth.
• Development Address: funds used for network infrastructure development and maintenance.

Community Governance: What’s Next

While COTI V2 doesn’t yet operate under full on-chain governance, we’ve laid the foundation for it. The next step is to empower the community to make key decisions about how the protocol evolves. One good example for that is the Gas Fee Pool usage indicated in the whitepaper, in which community members will vote on how to utilize the gas fees accumulated in the network’s fee pool.

This represents a significant shift toward participatory governance and reflects the values we’ve built into COTI V2: openness, accountability, and user-driven decision-making. As outlined in Chapter 3.5 of our whitepaper, this will be followed by infrastructure upgrades and inclusive node-level participation, leading to a fully community-governed network.

We’re excited for the journey ahead and look forward to shaping the future of COTI together with you.

For COTI updates and to join the conversation, be sure to check out our channels:

Website: https://coti.io/

X: https://twitter.com/COTInetwork

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-2YzhaPnouvBtotKuM4DA

Telegram: https://t.me/COTInetwork

Discord: https://discord.gg/9tq6CP6XrT

GitHub: https://github.com/coti-io

Building COTI V2 Together: Transparency, Community Participation and What’s Ahead was originally published in COTI on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

As just announced by the European Central Bank, COTI will take part in the European Central Bank (ECB) project to develop technology in support of the Digital Euro, a euro-wide CBDC. COTI is one of a number of selected Pioneer Partners comprising well-known organizations in the payments and technology space, including Accenture, KPMG, and TATA. This development follows COTI’s involvement in the Bank of Israel’s Digital Shekel trials, confirming continuing interest in COTI’s privacy technology by institutions as a solution for CBDCs.

CBDCs: A Major Use Case For Private Transactions

The ECB is targeting the beginning of 2026 for the Digital Euro launch. Between now and then, it will seek to select infrastructure providers. The ECB project provides the opportunity for participants to gain familiarity with the proposed Digital Euro interfaces. Pioneers will then work to demonstrate how a conditional payments system could be implemented on a technical level.

“Conditional payments” refers to the need for the provenance of assets to be verified before exchange. COTI’s signature technology, a privacy solution based on an on-chain implementation of Soda Labs’ Garbled Circuits, offers an ideal solution for ensuring the authenticity of real-world assets without revealing sensitive information at any point in the user journey. COTI will begin using simulated technical infrastructure for the Digital Euro, provided by the ECB, to test how its solution to conditional payments will work.

“Being invited to work with the ECB on such a consequential project is humbling, and a testament to the expertise and hard work of the COTI team. Privacy is a vital component for the future of Web3, ensuring users’ security and organizations’ compliance, and the same benefits apply to CBDCs. It’s critical that confidentiality is built into the core of these new systems, not merely added as an afterthought.” — Shahaf Bar-Geffen, COTI co-founder and CEO.

The ECB project will be COTI’s second CBDC project, after tackling the Digital Shekel Challenge for the Bank of Israel last year, where COTI developed a proof-of-concept for trustless transactions across borders and between different currencies via a decentralized marketplace. The system is designed to be powered by CBDCs and uses garbled circuits — a fast, lightweight approach to decentralized confidential computing (DeCC) — to maintain on-chain confidentiality between the different users involved.

The ECB is creating an innovation platform to collaborate with stakeholders, who will include large and small merchants, banks and other payment service providers, fintech companies, financial institutions, research institutes, technical experts, and universities.

At present, activities will focus on use cases in retail payments, particularly conditional payments, as the Bank prepares for the deployment of a Digital Euro. This would be a digital form of cash, complementing the use of coins and notes, and would be available to everyone within the euro area. As well as being secure and private, one of the benefits would be the ability to make payments across the $15 trillion euro-wide economy; at present, there is no digital payment option that covers the entire euro area.

We will provide updates as the initiative progresses, offering insights into the collaborative effort to shape the future of digital currency in the euro area.

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March was a big month for COTI, but we’re pleased to say April was no less eventful. We’ve seen a string of new partners going live on Mainnet, transactions growing steadily in number, some great events, and plenty of publicity. Let’s dive in and see what the last few weeks have brought!

Network Activity Soars

We have seen strong growth since we last reported COTI’s on-chain activity two weeks ago.

• Total transactions have more than tripled to 22 million!
• 200+ new contracts have been deployed
• Five major new partnerships are in the works

These are all very positive signs, and it’s great to see the ecosystem gaining traction so quickly.

COTI Advances RWA Strategy with Global Partnerships

April saw a number of important events that helped to put COTI firmly on the map as an institutional partner for RWAs. These included founder-membership of the Africa Tokenization Council, with COTI CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen and CEPO Joshua Maddox joining eminent leaders Dr Mansour Almalik and Alaa Bishara.

This was followed by the first RWA Summit roundtable in Dubai, an invite-only event, which saw top leaders from across the spheres of government, policymaking, investment, and technology, come together to tackle the challenges of tokenizing assets and infrastructure at scale.

The event boasted a prestigious guest list, including:

• Clare Francis, Board Member, Senior Advisor Bank of America (MLI), Baillie Gifford, CMC Markets, PBF
• His Highness Sheikh Awad Mohamed Bin Sheikh Mujren: United Arab Emirates Royal Family
• Johnny Reinsch, Executive Director, Tokenized Asset Coalition
  among many others.
  See our LinkedIn post for the full guest list.

During the RWA Summit, COTI announced its role as a founding member of the Saudi Arabia AI and Blockchain Centre (SAAIBC). The center aims to further the mission to accelerate AI and blockchain adoption across MENA and broader Africa.

Further roundtables are planned to take place throughout 2025, to continue the discussion, with the next one in Cannes during EthCC.

Partners Go Live on Mainnet

Many of our ecosystem partners have integrated the COTI Mainnet over the past few weeks, contributing to network growth, including:

• Bancor’s Carbon DeFi platform — a revolutionary DEX and pioneer of “asymmetric liquidity”
• ZNS, The domain name provider for COTI — get your .coti domain here!
• Subquery, a decentralized infrastructure network that provides data indexers, RPCs, and AI agents
• CodeX, the no-code platform for builders, which offers AI Agents, dApps, tokens, NFTs, and other Web3 tools
• Band Protocol, among the leading decentralized oracle providers
• Crafter, a no-code smart contract platform
• COTI Agents, an advanced platform for launching, training, and trading AI Agents, launched by MomentumX and with backing from the Google for Startups Cloud Program
• Poolz, the leading Web3 crowdfunding platform that offers privacy-first IDOs on COTI.
• Big Money, a fast-paced Telegram game that rewards players in $COTI tokens

In addition we welcomed in brand new partners Chains Atlas, the cross-chain AI agent platform, and Radardrop for automated airdrop farming. We look forward to these two new partners ‘going live’ on COTI Mainnet in the near future.

USDC.e Kicks off DeFi Growth on COTI

Stablecoins are critical to the Web3 ecosystem, providing price-stable assets for on-chain operations of all kinds. April saw COTI’s first stablecoin integration go live: USDC.e kickstarts COTI’s presence as a DeFi ecosystem. Shortly after the announcement, Bancor added USDC.e as an option for token swaps and liquidity provision on its cutting-edge trading platform, Carbon DeFi. Check out Bancor’s walkthrough to see how it all works.

COTI’s presence in DeFi is powering up!

Stay.COTI Movement Launches with Vibe Coding for No-Code Builders

As April got underway, so did Stay.COTI, a major builders initiative. Stay COTI leans into “Vibe Coding”: creating blockchain applications led by AI-driven low and no-code solutions.

AI tools are revolutionizing the way new dApps and services are being built and Stay COTI is the hub where creators, builders and entrepreneurs can engage with this no-code movement, whatever their technical skill level.

The first Vibe Code event took place in Bangkok, and despite the tragic earthquakes the previous week our team were pleased to bring together COTI ecosystem partners and ambassadors for two days of building. Check out the livestream here.

Our community is always open to new builders. Visit Stay.coti.io to join our regular no-code build sessions or to submit your app ideas for the community to vote on. Past live coding sessions can be found on our YouTube channel, and include walkthroughs on how to use different no-code and low-code tools.

COTI In The Spotlight

COTI core team members attended the Paris Blockchain Week (8–10 April) to shine a light on COTI’s new Mainnet — built for fast, accessible Web3 Privacy-on-Demand!

While there, COTI’s CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen met with top industry leaders and sat down with journalists from BTCTN, CryptoPotato, Genzio Media, and Mariblock.

In an interview with CryptoPotato, Shahaf discussed how Web3 must move beyond the standard trope of Privacy vs Transparency, arguing that we now have the technology to design systems that can balance both — offering flexibility and compliance depending on the use case and context.

Shahaf also spoke to BitcoinMagNL to discuss the importance of privacy on public blockchains, highlighting significant developments for mass adoption. Watch the full interview.

Also in April, we held the 8th COTI Connect Spaces, “AI x Web3: The No-code Revolution”, hosted by the inimitable Tracer. The session focuses on the Stay COTI movement. You can catch the recording here.

COTI’s CEPO, Joshua Maddox, joined the first @MomentumX Spaces. MomentumX is a key COTI ecosystem partner and an accelerator for projects building on COTI. Joshua appeared alongside inaugural MomentumX companies CodeX, Arbus, and Big Money, and together they dove into the startup journey of building privacy-preserving dApps.

Finally, Shahaf gave a community update, recapping a number of significant events — including Poolz offering privacy-first IDOs on COTI, Vitalik Buterin highlighting the potential of Garbled Circuits, and the Africa Tokenization Council co-hosting global leaders for a discussion on RWA at TOKEN2049. Watch his community address here.

News And Media

Given the pace of activity in April, COTI has unsurprisingly garnered a lot of media attention. The launch of the Africa Tokenization Council attracted articles in Blockster,and Binance among others. Meanwhile, the announcement of the formation of SAAIBC, with COTI as founding member, attracted press hits in U.Today, and Blockster, as well as Ishan Pandey’s article in Hackernoon. Pandey notes: “COTI’s entry into this ecosystem is not just symbolic. It shows that privacy-preserving infrastructure is becoming a strategic asset.”

Additional organic press mentions included an article in Bitcoin.com News, where Shahaf shared his thoughts on stablecoins and privacy, noting that “We’re not sleeping on this opportunity”. Finally, CoinPaper’s evergreen content gives an overview of COTI and its role as a confidentiality layer.

Last But Not Least…

We are pleased to share that Binance Custody, aka “CEFFU”, has listed and now supports COTI V2 Network and Tokens! Check it out!

Next up: We are kicking off May with a very big announcement next week that you won’t want to miss — so stay tuned to COTI channels!

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COTI Roundup — April Highlights was originally published in COTI on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

TL;DR

• USDC has arrived on COTI
• Bancor (CarbonDeFi) and PriveX to integrate USDC.e
• Liquidity campaign coming soon
• Tutorial: Bridging USDC to COTI on Nexus

DeFi is gaining momentum on COTI! COTI’s infrastructure continues to expand with the integration of USDC, marking an important milestone for COTI’s ecosystem, bringing increased liquidity and broadening utility.

USDC is Liquidity

Through Hyperlane’s Nexus Bridge, users can now bring USDC over from Ethereum to COTI. Once bridged, these tokens known as ‘USDC.e’, can be deposited into various platforms and dApps, unlocking new ways to engage with the ecosystem. It’s an important piece of the puzzle that makes DeFi on COTI smoother, more accessible, and ready for what comes next.

USDC is a widely-used token that places a high priority on regulatory compliance with US financial laws. However, it’s only the first of many, and we expect to see other stablecoin projects go live on the network in the coming weeks and months (not least Djed), as well as new ways to use them!

Into the Future

In the coming days, expect ecosystem partners to begin integrating USDC.e. This includes Bancor’s sophisticated trading platform Carbon DeFi, as well as PriveX, the intent-based perp-DEX that is blazing a trail for a new era of AI-powered DeFi–or DeFAI.

We’ll soon be announcing a new campaign for liquidity providers with generous rewards in $COTI tokens designed to supercharge the growth of COTI’s DeFi ecosystem. Watch our channels for more details dropping soon.

In the meantime, you can explore the Nexus Bridge, whilst preparing for the next wave of decentralized finance on COTI!

Tutorial: Nexus Bridge, a Hyperlane-Powered Gateway to COTI

Users can transfer USDC quickly and seamlessly from Ethereum mainnet to the COTI L2 using the Nexus Bridge: an independent app that leverages Hyperlane for fast and secure cross-chain messaging.

Bridging tokens is straightforward. Here’s how it works:

1. Go to the Nexus Bridge and connect your wallet (select MetaMask from the list).
2. Make sure Ethereum and COTI are selected as source and destination networks — or vice versa if you want to transfer tokens back to COTI Mainnet.
3. Enter the amount of tokens you want to bridge, and the recipient address. If this is the same address as the one you have connected, then click “Self”.
4. Click “Continue” to validate the transaction. After a few seconds, you should see some further details for the bridging transactions.

5. Click “Send to COTI”. MetaMask will pop up to confirm the transaction. If this is the first time you’re using USDC on the Nexus Bridge, you will need to give permission for the app to spend your tokens. These transactions will cost some ETH in gas fees.

6. That’s it! Your tokens should arrive relatively quickly, though the process may take a little longer at times of high network congestion.

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COTI’s DeFi Ecosystem Gains Momentum as USDC Goes Live was originally published in COTI on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.