Introducing the Supernormal Foundation: Accelerating Bitcoin for Everyday Finance

Building the future of Bitcoin finance is a monumental opportunity. While Bitcoin is widely recognized as the ultimate store of value, its capacity as a productive asset remains significantly underutilized within the greater financial landscape. Most Bitcoin holders have limited options to leverage their holdings without needing to liquidate their BTC, leaving substantial liquidity dormant and untapped.

Mezo addresses this gap by introducing MUSD, a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin that allows BTC holders to access dollar liquidity without selling their Bitcoin. Users can borrow, spend, and save, all while maintaining exposure to Bitcoin and reducing reliance on traditional fiat systems.

This capability creates a powerful new primitive for Bitcoin finance and represents a massive opportunity for builders and founders. Mezo provides the platform to capture that opportunity.

Why Mezo is the Ideal Platform for Developers

Mezo offers a unique combination of a superior economic model and a developer-friendly technical stack, creating the ideal environment to build the next generation of Bitcoin applications.

• Seamless Onboarding with Mezo Passport: To attract Bitcoin users, you need to meet them where they are. Mezo Passport, a React library built on RainbowKit, allows you to easily integrate Bitcoin wallet support alongside traditional EVM wallets. This provides a versatile connection experience, streamlining wallet management across both ecosystems using familiar wagmi and viem libraries.
• Build on a More Trustworthy Economic Primitive: At the core of Mezo is MUSD, a stablecoin 100% backed by publicly verifiable Bitcoin reserves. This provides a foundation of transparency different from opaque fiat-backed stables or complex altcoin-collateralized CDPs. MUSD’s efficient, supply-sided model allows your dApp to offer users low, fixed borrowing rates (as low as 1%) and high LTVs (up to 90%). This direct competitive advantage enables you to build more capital-efficient and attractive financial products.
• Deliver a Supernormal Bitcoin-Native Experience: Mezo is EVM-compatible, so your team can build with familiar tools. But for your users, the experience is pure Bitcoin. With BTC as the native gas token, users never have to leave the ecosystem they know and trust. This is all secured by tBTC, the largest decentralized Bitcoin bridge, ensuring the entire platform rests on a proven and verifiable foundation.

The Supernormal Foundation: Empowering Bitcoin Builders

Powerful infrastructure and a clear market opportunity are the starting points, but building a new, Bitcoin-powered, bank-free economy requires a movement. It requires a community of bold thinkers and builders working together. As the proverb says,

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

This is why the Supernormal Foundation was established.

While Mezo is the protocol bringing utility to Bitcoin, the Supernormal Foundation is the community-driven, non-profit steward established to support this mission. The Foundation’s purpose is to cultivate ecosystem growth and guide the progressive decentralization of the Mezo protocol, ensuring its long-term success. To ensure this mission is guided by premier industry expertise, the Foundation is launching with a distinguished Bitcoin Advisory Group. This council, including Maelstrom CIO Arthur Hayes, Asymmetric GP Dan Held, Primitive Ventures founder Dovey Wan, and Fold co-founder Will Reeves, will guide our ecosystem strategy.

Here is how the Foundation will actively support you:

• For Builders & Founders: The Foundation offers a full lifecycle of support. Our Alpha Builder and future grant programs will provide milestone-based funding, co-marketing support, and hands-on technical resources. The Foundation is partnering with the BitcoinFi Accelerator to offer grants and support for scaling projects. The accelerator's 15 teams have already raised a combined $2.25 million from co-lead partners Draper Associates and Boost VC.
• For the Community & Ecosystem: The Supernormal Foundation is fundamentally community-driven, focusing on empowering our builders. We believe the most impactful innovation comes from those closest to the code. That’s why we’re developing a phased decentralization roadmap that will give our community a significant voice in shaping the future of the ecosystem. Over the next two years, we will progressively integrate the Mezo community into key decision-making processes. Initially, this involvement will center on ecosystem growth, allowing builders to guide which dApps, financial services, and partners we support. Programs like our upcoming hackathons will ensure relevant dApps and innovative contributors receive robust support. Additionally, through community initiatives, we're equipping a global network of passionate leaders with the resources to educate developers and users worldwide
• For Strategic & Institutional Partners: As a central hub for collaboration, the Foundation provides partners with unparalleled access to the BitcoinFi ecosystem. This is enabled by the strategic guidance of the Foundation's advisory group and by leveraging an industry-leading network cultivated over the last decade by early and significant supporters like the team at Thesis.

Build the Future

Mezo provides the tools to bring utility to Bitcoin. The Supernormal Foundation provides the community, capital, and support to turn a vision into a successful reality.

Please visit the Supernormal Foundation page to learn more or to apply for any of our programs.