Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade Has Arrived 

Ethereum just activated the Pectra upgrade on mainnet, combining Prague and Electra into a milestone release. It brings major enhancements to staking, wallet usability, and data availability—like smart wallet features via EIP-3074, a raised validator cap, and PeerDAS for scaling.

Read what Pectra means for Ethereum’s future on Hemi’s blog.

Smarter BTC Liquidity

Hemi is now using Gamma to actively manage liquidity across connected DEXs. Gamma’s proven infrastructure automates LP rebalancing in real time—keeping liquidity in-range, fees flowing, and prices sharp. This integration strengthens Hemi’s cross-chain execution layer, ensuring BTC liquidity stays deep, efficient, and always on.

Read more.

Access Hemi Directly from BlockWallet

Hemi is now natively supported in BlockWallet, giving users a secure and intuitive way to access Hemi’s DeFi ecosystem, from staking to LP to lending. This collaboration brings Hemi to more places and supports our shared vision of user-controlled, privacy-first Web3 experiences.

More.

Highlighted Opportunities

Newsletter Exclusive: Gold Meets DeFi.

XAUt, a digital token backed by physical gold, has arrived on Hemi. It combines the stability of gold with the flexibility of crypto. 

As of today, you can stake XAUt on Hemi and earn triple Hemi points. 

Start staking.

Put Your BTC to Work with Spectra

There’s still time to earn rewards for supporting the Bitcoin ecosystem on Spectra!

You can earn more than 7.5% on BTC with Liquid Staking tokens by joining active pools—plus unlock multipliers with Hemi points:

🔟 10x rewards for holding bfBTC YT
🎱 8x rewards for providing hemiBTC / bfBTC liquidity

Onchain activity is climbing as users stack bfBTC Yield Tokens on Hemi. See the latest breakdown from the Spectra team.

👉 Get started.

Satori's $25K Perps Showdown is live

Trade on Hemi, lock TVL, and compete for a share of $25,000 USDC.

🏆 $15K to top PnL traders
🏆 $10K to top volume traders

Competition ends May 31. Rewards drop the first week of June.

Start trading now.

And don’t forget:
8x rewards are also available for adding liquidity to select pools:

• Sushi

• OKU

• IZUMI

• DODO

Midweek with Max In-Review

Midweek with Max delivered from every corner of the Hemi ecosystem: a viral Burj Khalifa image lit up TOKEN2049 chatter, HairToken launched as the first meme coin on Hemi, and the low-key Liquidity Brunch became a crowd favorite. Engineering updates pointed toward a grant program for BTC and ETH dApps, driven by real conversations in Dubai and at brunch. With Pectra upgrades underway, NFTs ready to migrate, and TGE prep moving fast, it’s a good moment to plug in.

Catch everything you missed.

Community Corner

The latest issue of the Hemi Community News is live. Shoutout to @CryptoViktor for keeping us all in the loop. Read his latest.

As we mentioned, this week’s Midweek with Max featured Alix from our community, who shared some big news about the $HAIR token. What started as a joke is now turning into something more.

If the Discord bot messages looked different this week, there is a reason for that.

Our most recent poll hinted at more games coming soon. We can confirm that SmashKarts and other activities will be landing in the Hemi Discord very soon.

We are also preparing to launch a Hemi and Partner content contest in the next week or two. Keep an eye out.

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