Arjun Balaji is serving as judge for our latest round of Playing for Keeps with up to 2 million KEEP once again up for grabs.

“There have been some really strong contributions so far in previous Playing for Keeps rounds and there are many more I’d love to see,” said Arjun, who is an investment partner at Paradigm, a major backer of Keep. “It would be great if more contributors could team up to build and maintain bigger projects. Hackathon-style efforts can certainly be valuable, but long-term, open-source projects and companies are far more impactful.”

Arjun added, “The space is so dynamic right now. I would also love to see more integrations so that tBTC can be used in more DeFi protocols.”

Arjun also offers the following suggestions for the types of projects that he has an eye out for:

• ELI5 guide on how to go from BTC to earning yield.
• Efforts to drive deeper tBTC liquidity safely, eg. isolated Curve pools (TBTC:WBTC)
• More Lightning / tBTC integration projects
• Improved Keeper infrastructure, eg. monitoring tools, more reference bots, etc.

Arjun will announce his prizes, and the KEEP awards in a few weeks.

Building on Playing for Keeps momentum

After Spencer Noon, Victor Bunin, and our very own CEO, Matt Luongo, selected prior months’ winners, James Prestwich pored over submissions from the last few weeks. James rewarded the community for their valuable contributions with about 2 million KEEP distributed, including top prizes for the Prestwitch Posse.

Here are James’s shout-outs and list of winners in all their Discord username glory.

Top Winners — Prestwich’s Posse (~80K KEEP)

pythonmetaclass#4871 for the excellent allthekeeps.com. Many stakers thank you for your service, and constant responsiveness to feedback.

Dat#2689 for raising the bar for design contributions and acting as a defacto design moderator

Timmy#3924 for the fantastic node monitoring!

badabam#7526 for keep.community, a curated collection of community resources for stakers and token holders. Thank you so much for organizing our messy doc experience

bonsfi#5752 for keepnodes.com, helping tons of community members stake, and all the Spanish community support!

Leonardo Saturnino#9661 for months of strong contributions, including Keepor bot and help on Discord!

emerido#6619 for keepscan.com, an excellent dashboard for tBTC deposits!

Chang#8199 for making tBTC on zkSync happen. All holders of the torch thank you

chandru#2037 for keepstats.org, bot work, and Uniswap markets

Node Operation and Other Bonuses (25k-30k KEEP)

alterkahn#1033, Alex Kodiak#9009, DetoxJuice#7642, Dmytro#5586, lronF#1217, lelka.bo#6019, Lord#5932, Lex Prime#9111, LatentHero#5466, EstebanK#8544, ramaruro#7047

Tier One + Bonuses (10k-15k KEEP)

KOTeggg#9999, corollari#2127, kferret#5310, pepip#6464, tony__s_h#5107, Vitaliy Baranocivh#3140, Tabert#9075, Restyle#3072, tian7.eth#5457, SenyZabrodin#4950, ИльяBazilik#0948, witter#2981, Merkletree#5422, swe#6041, Danil Ushakov#5735, ninja5#0547, Mexplo#0049, Evandro Saturnino#9833, T1ckx#4571, meh#9634, conf#6563, rdfbbx#6437, Mayflower1984#5589, nairod#6032, bakarapara#3452

Tier Two + Bonuses (3k-8k KEEP)

azaticus#0777, ssh#4098, rinat#8723, Brikhunets#1017, HelenR#1074, Erica#5887, blackchain#2255, saltynarwhal#6240, Androider#9539, kather#1096, Sarah_#1392, JackRemix#7613, Kumamon#8704, AlexDM#3772, Igor_K#1129, Denis12#8453, Hans_Hauser#6070, Bella N.#1435, and#5239, gabbex#6009, Maxereum#0414, glitchmunki#6247, tossedwarrior#5461, semolim#0572, killgrave#4182, HomeDes#5594, le-designer#2845, solomon#9665, tanya#5153, ildidetka#7198, Karimova#5846, Edward Morra#0891, 7way#1651, AndreyRudi#2065, Dude#0776, zyggy#8101, Zik_sv#6305, Vadim777#1721, Pupsik06#3879, Kikmag#4243, Den455#2457, Xavi_Hernandez#9046, geleoncaan#7290, sultanofff#7990, Nikita#7876, Fomav#9126, eldoramix#2809, steyrcrypto#4788, Rim#4006, Zaykin#6098, djalaev750#0503, Quillor#4097, girardiantheory#8516, VertoMainer#4755, swetha#7762, Consigliere#5314, mariia_ig#1783, sjdthree#8498, butter#4840, Martha#3408, Inga#9506, Semchik#4042, Charles_J#7731, ricardo#6102, NickG#0650, Genr3#4694, ianisnice#6975, ingag#8096, Herobrine#1852, enzy_me#2558, Brain#3572, heywhatsup#1838, alexandr#2117, bekzodishe#7732, Greg#6083, state#5254, Naga#0916, dice#4405, EA#0741, NFT_Boyard#7512, woosungchoi#4942, uniswapgod#1252, Natalia#3647, alt-fire#8483, kudo94#3025, cestlavie#3724, HODL#6558, MoMoMo#1715, Olessia#4701, الشيخ عليم#6680, tohaboy#1669, DenisKrivilev#5773, AsSanty#7199, Tancy#2628, Fareth#4471, ethereal9#9347, toast.eth#3520, hashinja#6236, flakes#9776, Maxyok#3021, Niki Silva#3821, 🔮 gemini#6686, Кирилл#5801, kumosoukai#6453, MaxSmirnov#6956, i8v8i#3955, Ken Berey#1598, Crypto Investor#3523

How do you “Play for Keeps”?

Join our Discord: In order to qualify your submission for Playing for Keeps prizes, you must join our Discord server and give us a quick overview of who you are in the introduction message. We want to get to know everyone and make sure we don’t miss any submissions, so make sure you join the Discord.

Submit a Play for Keeps entry message in #introduce-yourself which includes:

• A name by which to address you in the channel
• Why you’re interested in Keep or tBTC
• What you are submitting for Playing for Keeps prizes — This can be an idea if you aren’t ready with a fully formed idea!
• If you’ve already produced something you want to submit as an entry

More details about entry requirements are available here.

Follow the Keep #tbtc channel on Discord for more updates on Playing for Keeps.