Citrea has acquired Crest, a self-custodial private Bitcoin wallet, which will become its flagship product. The company says the move extends work begun years ago with its Proof of Innocence protocol, whose concepts now underpin privacy protocols like Railgun and Privacy Pools. Crest, a privacy-first Bitcoin mobile wallet built on Citrea, gathered over 1,000 waitlist signups as an ecosystem project. Its upcoming launch will feature auto-shielding, private BTC transfers, cross-chain onboarding, and private cross-chain swaps, with privacy partners to be revealed later.

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  1. First reportCitrea acquires Crest to make private Bitcoin a flagship product6 acc.
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  3. UpdateCitrea develops Crest as a self-custodial private Bitcoin wallet2 acc.
  4. UpdateCitrea teases an upcoming consumer-facing Bitcoin privacy launch2 acc.

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  • @citrea_xyz Citrea | Private BTC for allFirst reportOn X ↗

    Citrea acquires Crest to bring Zcash-style privacy to Bitcoin@crest_btc, a self-custodial private Bitcoin wallet, becomes Citrea’s flagship product. Uniting our teams to make privacy the standard for holding and moving a $1.6T store of value. 🧵 1/6

  • @0x_orkun orkun 🛡️🍊On X ↗

    https://t.co/sOo9I3fhB5

  • @_Jamisky ©️JamiskyOn X ↗

    privacy is a right and @citrea_xyz is extending that right to bitcoin with the acquisition of @crest_btc kinda bullish on this one here as I am a big advocate of chains owning their own apps especially when the app is solving an important problem like privacy automatic btc… https://t.co/hvf6NB805h

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  • @0xM0RA Mora 🦥On X ↗

    ⊢ private btc you can spend today @citrea_xyz made crest wallet its flagship product. congrats to the both team. crest is a bitcoin privacy product for everyday use. how i picture using it: btc comes in & gets shielded keys stay with me i pay someone usdc on an evm… https://t.co/51trancV8i

  • @thatwagmigirl 7 (Barbra)On X ↗

    Add @citrea_xyz to the privacy conversation. They’ve just acquired @crest_btc so they can bring Zcash-style privacy to Bitcoin It means you can decide to send bitcoin privately with this. 🫡 Thoughts? https://t.co/Do53GqirJ0

  • @ekrembal Ekrem BALOn X ↗

    Acquiring Crest is a full-circle moment for us, where we get to bring the privacy work we started to Bitcoin. https://t.co/kMUNoq20ms

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