Final Steps Before Mainnet: Activating Your mats Rewards
As Mezo mainnet approaches, your pre-launch mats transition from testnet points to real on-chain rewards. This guide covers how to preserve your mats, maximize your rewards, and bridge seamlessly to Mezo mainnet.
Mezo Maynet is fast approaching.
Which means it’s time to close the chapter on matsnet incentives and set the stage for the next chapter of BitcoinFi, with real on-chain incentives.
But before you start earning on mainnet, there are some important details to cover. This post outlines exactly what happens to your mats, how snapshotting works, what you need to do to maximize your earnings, and a sneak peek at mainnet incentives.
Snapshot & mats freezing
All mats earned—from deposits, referrals, community activities, matsnet transactions—stop accruing at mainnet launch.
If you are auto-bridging to Mezo mainnet, you don’t need to do a thing. Your mats balance will be included in the snapshot and you’ll be ready to earn on mainnet.
- 📸 Snapshot date: Mainnet launch (end of May)
- 🔒 After this point, no more mats will accrue from pre-mainnet sources.
- 📊 Your total mats balance will appear under the “overview” page and will include mats from both pre-mainnet deposits and mainnet activity.
This marks the end of the matsnet phase. After this, Mezo will continue to offer a testnet for users to explore new features without affecting mainnet balances. However, testnet activities will not earn mats or other incentives.
Stay tuned for more information on when to redeem your mats (👀) on mainnet.
Bridging and bridge bonus
If you previously deposited (and subsequently withdrew) from Mezo, it’s time to come back! At mainnet launch, a direct one-way bridge to Mezo will be live, supporting BTC, tBTC, cbBTC, USDT, USDC, and many more asset deposits. The more of your original deposit amount you bridge, the better.
You’ll also have a chance to earn a bonus for bringing your assets to Mezo, and all auto-bridgers will be eligible. The bridge deadline for bonus eligibility is June 30th.
After bridging, the bonus will be retroactively added to your total balance on the “overview” page.
Welcome to Mezo mainnet!
Opting Out
For those unsure about joining mainnet, you have until May 20th to opt out of the autobridge process, at which point the autobridge UI will be removed. See this guide on selecting this option for your deposits.
If you opt out, your assets will not be bridged at launch. Instead, they’ll remain in the Mezo Portal contract and become available for withdrawal 30 days after mainnet launch (you’ll continue to earn mats for these 30 days). Once the cooldown ends, you can withdraw your assets from Mezo.
At this point, you can bridge your assets to Mezo by clicking “Add Funds” in Mezo and manually bridge to mainnet.
Note that some assets are not eligible for bridging to Mezo, and you will not be able to opt-in to the auto bridge. This includes stBTC and crv-stBTC LP tokens. All of these unsupported assets on Mezo mainnet can be withdrawn from the portal contract 30 days after mainnet.
Transferring mats from Discord
The deadline to transfer you mats from Discord into the Mezo portal is May 25th.
To transfer, create your Mezo account at https://mezo.org/home. Once you’ve created your account, you will have an associated “Mezo ID”.
In Discord, initiate the transfer by using the /transfer_mats command, selecting your unique Mezo ID (for the image below, the ID would be entered as (m0064.mezo”).
What about your sats and MUSD balances?
On matsnet, users could "burn" mats to get sats and use features like Mezo Borrow (MUSD), Mezo Market, and other apps.
Burning mats reduced your current balance, but your mats balance tracked on the “overview” page is the total mats earned since inception. Burnt mats do not reduce this amount, so you will be appropriately rewarded based on your total earned amount.
Checking your mats balances
The Mezo UI will make a clear distinction between the two types of mats:
TL;DR and key dates
- Mainnet launch = snapshot of mats → frozen forever, final update will be bridging bonuses.
- No more mats rewards → all new mats earned through mainnet activity only (unless opting out of autobridge - deposits will earn for 30 day cooldown period).
- Auto-bridge to Mezo mainnet (default outcome for deposits, no user action needed) and manually bridge by June 30th to qualify for the bonus. Opt-out optionality will be removed from the UI on May 20th.
- “Overview” page will show your total mats amount, from pre-mainnet and mainnet activity.
How to earn on Mezo mainnet
Once your mats are frozen and mainnet has launched, you’ll be ready to earn new mats on mainnet.
Access permissionless Bitcoin loans, trade perpetual futures, spend MUSD (Mezo’s Bitcoin backed stablecoin) on real-world items in the Mezo Market, and more. As mainnet unfolds, these actions will soon be incentivized with mats rewards.
As the rewards are rolled out, some of the biggest opportunities will be:
All incentivized actions are subject to change
For all mainnet activities, liquidity pools and incentivized activities will have fixed mats allocations.
Example: If 1,000,000 mats are allocated to the MUSD/BTC pool on Tigris, and only you LP that pool — you get all the mats.
Why You Should Participate Early
Mainnet mats rewards begin on day one, and with weekly leaderboard updates, early movers have a real chance to climb fast and lock in their spot.
There are no hard caps per user, so your allocation scales based on how much you do. Enjoy the upside of being early.
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