This week's Midweek with Max was the show's final episode on Discord. After nearly two years on the platform, MWM is moving to YouTube, X, and LinkedIn starting next week. Same time, broader audience, and a real soundboard. The final Discord episode covered engineering progress, a community Q&A on institutional Bitcoin DeFi, and Max's take on Paul Sztorc's eCash hard fork.
On the engineering side, the Rust port of MinerFi is in late-stage optimization and headed to audit shortly. The opgeth-to-opreth translation begins internal testing this week, with a public beta to follow in the coming weeks for node operators who want to be on the bleeding edge.
Max also previewed the ZK proving market, with a community testnet release targeted for sometime in May. Marco called out three open MetaMask PRs that would bring native Bitcoin support into the wallet, and community engagement on them. Any and all likes, hearts, and especially comments explaining why the feature would matter helps push them up the priority queue.
On veHEMI housekeeping, the next rewards distribution is targeted for the first week of May, following a contract upgrade scheduled for early next week. The 0% APY display in the portal will be corrected retroactively at that distribution. Hemi isn't planning to operate a veHEMI marketplace as a first-party app, but the team is open to a small infrastructure grant to keep the existing one running. Demand should pick up once governance and restaking features ship.
Looking ahead, Lagoon Finance joins the Built on Hemi AMA on Thursday, with Co-Founder and COO Nadia Thura taking community questions on Lagoon's vault infrastructure and its Hemi integration. Be there for the live cast at 12 PM PDT / 3 PM EDT, on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
Join Hemi’s Discord and submit questions ahead of next week’s Midweek with Max, now streaming live on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube every week at 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT.