season 2 🌾: mid-season review

gm gardeners! 👨‍🌾

Time flies when you are toiling hard in the garden. We are already at the halfway mark! Our volume in this season so far speaks well... volumes. Gardeners have been maxing out daily limits from day 1 and our volumes have been a consistent peak. In fact, we surpassed the volume record of season 1 by day 10 itself.

In just 45 days of going live, we were also able to hit a mind-boggling milestone of 10,000 BTC overall volume. Garden has firmly positioned itself as a premier Bitcoin bridge, gaining recognition on platforms like Etherscan, CoinGecko, and DefiLlama. Notably, we swiftly climbed to top #3 bridges on Arbitrum shortly after being listed where its currently the largest Bitcoin bridge! 💙

Let's see how things look at the midway point. The data was captured at 12:00 AM UTC on 7th February.

Leading the pack

Bonuses Unlocked: Daily Streak, Rebalancing, Referrals, Filler tip

Bonuses Unlocked: Daily Streak, Rebalancing, Filler tip

Rank 2 missed a day in between and had to start over their streak again.

Bonuses Unlocked: Daily Streak, Rebalancing, Referrals, Filler tip

Someone actually shot up to the top place out of nowhere as we write this blog. The top 3 competition is heating up! Let's see who's gonna survive at the top by the end of this season.

Volume

Take a look at how the volume running through the system has increased since the season has started. As of writing this blog, we crossed the $300M mark!

Our daily volume has shown unprecedented results and has stayed consistently high throughout the season!

In Season 1, we hit ~615 BTC in total volume, whereas in Season 2, we hit 500+ BTC in volume in less than 14 days

On that note, our Avg. Daily has grown by over 319% in Season 1, relative to Season 2.

It pays to have frens

A Gardener with quite a network, 0x7cbe...019f, made over 1.7M in points by referring Garden to their frens.

If you've not been making the most of your referral codes, now's the time 😉

We have a new home

We started building the community of gardeners from humble beginnings by having a few users on a Telegram channel.

But before we knew it, Garden started growing at an unimaginable rate so it was time to migrate.

Find us on the new and improved Garden Townhall on Discord!

Staking is almost here!

If you've been an active part of the community over the past few weeks, you've probably been eager to know when, one of our main features – staking, would be coming and more info on the same.

You'll find all about it on our Staking blog where you'll learn all about:

• Staking
• What it means for Fillers and Stakers
• Staking rewards
• and more!

Final words

Our Garden continues to grow, with a host of new updates and initiatives coming up in the near future, including – Staking, Chief Gardener Program, New chains and assets, among many more!

We're grateful for your unwavering trust and support in what we're building and that's only added more drive to our passion for building.

And of course, as a Season end tradition, we want to get newer Gardeners in – so keep an eye on our Twitter for access codes to enter Garden 🌱

About Garden

Garden is the fastest way to swap BTC and WBTC, providing a 10x improvement over existing options. It is decentralized, trustless, audited and not a real garden.

Join our garden townhall to chat with other gardeners about what plants can survive the winter.