Protocol Bonds

Protocol bonds pair a Bitcoin commitment with locked STX. Guides for running and ending a bond position.

A protocol bond pairs a Bitcoin commitment with an STX lock for a 12-cycle term. The Bitcoin side is either a timelocked UTXO you hold on Bitcoin L1, or sBTC held by the contract.

This section is being built out. One guide is available now:

• Bond pool operator guide: running a whitelisted community sBTC pool.

For the conceptual overview, see Bitcoin Staking.