New DeFi partners, Pectra upgrade progress, and what’s coming next for Hemi.

This week’s Midweek with Max was packed with updates — here’s everything you need to know.

First, a big welcome to Satori. DeFiLipe from Satori joined the call to share what they’re building: a decentralized perpetuals platform where you can trade BTC, ETH, SOL, and more across multiple chains without needing to bridge. Satori chose Hemi because they believe in Bitcoin’s future and love how Hemi ties BTC and EVM together. Even better, Satori is now running Season 2 of their points program, and they teased a Hemi-specific trading challenge coming soon.

On the Hemi side, the Pectra upgrade is moving forward. Testing has been successful on internal networks, and the public Testnet upgrade is next. If all goes smoothly, Mainnet will follow shortly after. Pectra will add support for account abstraction and better cryptographic operations, keeping Hemi aligned with Ethereum’s upcoming May 7th network upgrade.

The team is also fine-tuning final pieces of the token launch. Tokenomics are still being finalized, with focus on balancing liquidity incentives and ensuring long-term rewards are sustainable. Expect more news soon — the market timing is looking better than it was just a few weeks ago.

Long term, Hemi’s goal remains the same: to build the most secure, capital-efficient way to use Bitcoin in DeFi, without relying on custodians. Real Bitcoin, real decentralization.

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