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This is the official announcement channel for Reef, a fast, affordable, and efficient layer 1 blockchain. Our mission is to make Reef the easiest and most accessible blockchain for all Web3 users. Learn more at https://reef.io/ 🐠
🚗💨 Who's racing with us? 🏎🪸 The POAP is 🔥 and time is ticking! ⏳
Over 5,300 new Reef Wallets created and ready to race! 🏁
Season 2 POAP Campaign on Reef Chain is LIVE! 🚀
Here's how to claim your exclusive POAP and unlock awesome rewards:
1️⃣ Connect your wallet: http://reef.motodex.dexstudios.games
2️⃣ Click to POAP
3️⃣ Wait to be selected!
⏰ 1 month only — Don’t miss out! 💥
Lfg! ⏩⏩⏩
🥊 Did you catch the showdown in Switzerland?
On June 28th, we sponsored BOXING DAY in Switzerland. Top fighters Hiseni Ramadan, and Mersim Zeqiri took to the ring with Reef motivation behind them on via big screen 👊
📸 Catch these amazing shots our team took
For those who missed it, catch you at the next one?
Introducing Crawley Town’s 2025/2026 Away Kit 🪸 ⚽️
https://x.com/crawleytown/status/1940481857046630611?s
🔥🚨 $REEF BURN ALERT 🚨🔥
BNB Chain Burn Tx: https://bscscan.com/tx/0xaba8d8f200206a872e6f093274c7147603710f581dd11c63342f83a696fd51d9
Today we burnt 1,000,000,000 $REEF on legacy chains!
In total we have burnt 5,189,612,532.48071325 $REEF on Ethereum and BNB Chain.
42% of all REEF on BNB Chain has been burnt.
Season 2 of the Reef Chain POAP Campaign with MotoDEX is live! 🚀
It’s Season 2 of rewards with our GameFi partner MotoDEX. Ready to race? Claim your exclusive POAP and a shot at rewards:
🏎 Connect your wallet: http://reef.motodex.dexstudios.games
🏎 Click “Claim POAP”
🏎 Winners will be selected soon!
Reef Chain and MotoDex are focused on bringing more users and utility to our growing ecosystem, and Web3 🌐
⏳ You’ve got 1 month to join, don’t miss out!
CMC removed the offending code.
https://x.com/coinmarketcap/status/1936237179732209798?s=46
As we move through 2025, Reef Chain is preparing for one of the most significant infrastructure upgrades in its history! Today, we're excited to share details about our upcoming comprehensive chain upgrade that will modernize Reef's technical foundation and unlock new possibilities for our developer community and users.
📖 Read the full announcement here: https://blog.reef.io/reef-chain-evolution-major-infrastructure-upgrade-deep-current
📺 Watch Derek E. Silva, COO of Reef, explain the upgrade here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XumnMTiyYk
🔥🚨 $REEF BURN ALERT 🚨🔥
BNB Chain Burn Tx: https://bscscan.com/tx/0x22455b59d7c55b22b1e383227608f4dad45d6b8ff0dbe8cfdb9a6dceacb2d3a0
Today we burnt 1,000,000,000 $REEF on legacy chains!
In total we have burnt 4,189,612,532.48071325 $REEF on Ethereum and BNB Chain.
🚨 Last day of the May WhiteBit Trading Competition!
There’s still time to claim your share of the $1,250 USDC + 1,600,000 REEF prize pool! 💰
Boost your trading volumes on the May spot pairs and climb the leaderboard! 📈
Start now 👉 https://whitebit.com/trading-competition/may_trading_competition?referral=REEF
Use the Reef referral link 👉 https://whitebit.com/referral/REEF
Read more: https://blog.whitebit.com/en/may-trading-festival/
🔥🚨 $REEF BURN ALERT 🚨🔥
BNB Chain Burn Tx: https://bscscan.com/tx/0xf639153e2e1e43d4d2ecba00f190418cb81cc835845fa5ab06c4fe2a97a1d380
Today we burnt 1,000,000,000 $REEF on legacy chains!
In total we have burnt 3,189,612,532.48071325 $REEF on Ethereum and BNB Chain.
🪸 LAST WEEK AT REEF 🪸
Friday, June 6, 2025
- Reef app for Ledger devices sent to auditor
- Received new Ledger Flex for testing
- In discussions with graphic designers with intent to hire one part or full-time
- Reef Chain Wallet is once again available for iOS users via TestFlight; testing and bug reporting in progress now
- Ran into issues with the data index, causing problems for verifying transactions
- Engaged in discussions with multiple parties about solving the immediate data indexing issues
- Also engaged in discussions with many parties about bringing redundancy and resiliency into Reef chain to avoid further data indexing or RPC related issues
- Met with the founder for an on-chain fitness app, looking for ways to partner or acquire the business; discussions, moving forward
- Ran into some code related issues with Hotcoin integration; work is ongoing
- Hired an expert developer to research and resolve the current data index issue
- Hosted a call with the business development manager for a decentralized data indexing tech stack about how they could help us
- Agreed to a proposal from a third-party team to add Reef chain into their data indexing, blockchain explorer and API service
- Announced Rosewolf as the next artist featured on Sqwid
- Turned down an opportunity to sponsor a private event in New York City; focussing our efforts on more immediate needs and Europe for the time being
- Kept our partners abreast of any updates related to data indexing throughout the week
🪸 Reef Monthly Recap – May 2025 🪸
Here’s what the team has been building, launching, and pushing forward over the past month 👇
🔧 Infra & Dev
• Backup RPC server now live
• Ledger wallet app dev complete
• New iOS & Android wallet builds
• Progress on Hotcoin market-making bot
• Burned 500M $REEF — twice!
📢 Marketing & Partnerships
• New agency focused on CMC + visibility
• Sponsored WhiteBIT’s Trading Festival
• Launched airdrop with Pigmo
• Finalized football sponsorship
• Announced boxing sponsorship in Switzerland
🤝 Ecosystem Growth
• REEF trading re-opened on a CEX
• Fiat on-ramp onboarding submitted
• Attended Consensus — met with Tatum, Mercado Bitcoin & more
• Ledger app now in internal testing
And that’s just the highlight reel. Reef is gaining serious momentum on all fronts 🚀
Read the full recap: https://blog.reef.io/reef-monthly-recap-may-2025
🎨 A New Sqwid Spotlight in partnership with True Stars Media!
We’re proud to feature Rosewolf, a 13-year-old digital artist who’s blazing trails in Web3.
🏆 Winner of the Spirit Mermaid Contest
🌊 Creator of “Ocean Girls”
🎤 Speaker at NFT Tallinn
This NFT launch, coming this month, is part of our ongoing effort with True Stars Media to spotlight young creators pushing boundaries in the digital art world.
Read her story, get inspired, & stay close to catch this drop👇
https://sqwid-spotlight-artists-collectors-news.ghost.io/sqwid-x-true-stars-emerging-young-artists-series-rosewolf-is-redefining-nft-art-at-just-13/
🪸 LAST WEEK AT REEF 🪸
Friday, May 30, 2025
- Set up new backup RPC server to avoid further issues; currently synchronizing
- Decided to sponsor boxing event in Switzerland
- Committed to sponsoring WhiteBIT’s Trading Festival
- New marketing agency started work, focusing on CoinMarketCap
- Had a meeting with an infrastructure provider that offers RPC and push notification products
- One developer, Maksym, made significant progress on the market making bot for Hotcoin
- Ramesh, the mobile developer, completed new builds of Reef Chain Wallet for iOS and Android
- Submitted onboarding paperwork to a fiat on-ramp provider
- Finished paying the football team sponsorship fee
- Announced sponsorship of boxing event in Switzerland
- Announced airdrop campaign with Pigmo
- Announced participation in WhiteBIT’s Trading Festival
- Ordered a Ledger Flex wallet to test Reef’s Ledger app
- Development of Reef’s app for Ledger hardware wallets is complete; next step is submission to an auditor
🎉 The WhiteBIT Trading Festival is ON!
Reef Chain has teamed up with WhiteBIT, and others, for a two-stage event filled with rewards💰
🏁 Stage 1: Spot Trading Competition
Trade eligible pairs on WhiteBIT until 12 June and compete for your share of: 1,250 USDC and 1,600,000 REEF.
🏆 Stage 2: Deposit Race
Deposit listed assets and enter to win a slice of the additional 750 USDC prize pool.
🎯 Use the Reef referral link
💸 Start trading now
More details about the competition here
🪸 THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 27, 2025 AT REEF 🪸
Friday, June 27, 2025
- Announcement of Reef becoming Crawley Town Football Club’s principal partner, 3 year deal ⚽️🪸
- Met with the founder of an RWA protocol; need to finish blockchain upgrade before we can onboard them
- Onboarding call with fiat on-ramp provider; negotiating contract now
- Appeared on an X Space hosted by Web3 Global discussing whether Web3 infrastructure should all be public goods or profitable
- On-chain campaigns continuing with MotoDEX, leading to over 4000 new Reef wallets generated
- Another 1 billion $REEF burnt on BNB Chain
- Antier made great progress on Reef Chain, upgrading several modules and running internal testing
- VIA Labs continues to make progress on incorporating $USDC on Reef Chain into their products
- Backend development team working on on-chain incentive program built additional logic into the code; progress continues
- Exploring multiple AI agents to help with developer relations, on-chain DeFi discovery, etc.
- KuCoin switched over to supporting $REEF on Reef Chain; deposits and withdrawals now available
- Introduces to a few new teams, setting up meetings
🪸 THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 20, 2025 AT REEF 🪸
Friday, June 20, 2025
- Kickoff call with Antier regarding Project Deep Current, Reef’s first major blockchain upgrade since 2022
- Meeting with hackathon organizer in West Africa
- Sent 1.5 billion mainnet $REEF to Paribu
- Received 1.5 billion REEF-BSC from Paribu
- Sent more than 1.5 billion mainnet $REEF to another CEX
- Announced a major, upcoming upgrade to Reef Chain
- Had a meeting with the developer building what’s needed for the Hotcoin token listing
- Met with the sponsorship team at the football team Reef is sponsoring to prepare for the announcement
- Had a call with the developers helping us launch a new incentive program on Reef Chain
- Discussed next artist spotlight for Sqwid marketplace
- Had a kickoff call with Reef’s new market maker partner, TripleOne
- Follow-up call with a builder met in Amsterdam
- Initial introduction call to a crypto debit card issuer
Calling all Reefians! 🌊 🏄♂️ Reef Subscan is ready to be explored!
Have you checked out Reef Subscan yet? It’s built and managed by the team at Subscan.
What can you do with Reef Subscan?
📊 Check detailed charts & stats
💡 Track circulating supply & usage
🚀 See large transfers instantly
It’s all here, made by the Reef Chain 🪸 team, just for you 🤝
Explore now: https://reef.subscan.io/
🥊 Reef Chain x BOXING DAY 2025 — This Weekend! 🥊
Reef Chain is proud to support BOXING DAY 2025, one of Switzerland's biggest amateur & professional boxing events! 💥
🔥 20 amateur fights
🔥 5 pro bouts
🔥 Fighters repping Zürcher Boxverband vs. 1860 München — including stars like Hiseni Ramadan and Mersim Zeqiri!
📅 This Saturday — June 28, 2025
🕝 13:30
📍 Sportzentrum Hirslen, Bülach, Switzerland
🎟 Get your tickets: fightclub-zhnord.ch
Reef Chain powers champions — in the ring and on-chain 💪🚀
A Game Winning Announcement: Reef Chain x Crawley Town FC Official Partnership is Here!
A new era of football meets blockchain begins! ⚽
We’re proud to announce a 3-year Principal Partnership with Crawley Town, kicking off with the 2025–2026 season.
Why Crawley?
Football unites people — just like Reef Chain.
We’re using the global game to showcase how Web3 tech can drive real-world impact 🌍
What to expect:
🔗 Next-gen matchday experiences
📱 Interactive digital fan engagement
❤️ Community-first initiatives
Let’s bring blockchain to football, together.
Find out more details in the post: https://blog.reef.io/reef-announces-multi-year-principal-partnership-crawley-town-fc
CoinMarketCap’s front end has been compromised. Do not visit CoinMarketCap until further notice.
https://x.com/coinmarketcap/status/1936197663931933117?s=
🪸 LAST WEEK AT REEF 🪸
Friday, June 13, 2025
- Data indexer was repaired, restoring normal data availability to all core Reef apps and others
- Subscan began re-integrating Reef Chain into their platform
- New agency started building front end for incentive campaign
- Hired a firm to make some upgrades; more details coming soon
- Made decision to hire market-making provider; decision by end of next week
- Sent first 10K $REEF to exchange in preparation for larger swap
- $REEF deposits and withdrawals were re-opened at WhiteBIT
- Met with a team building on-chain AI tools about integrating Reef Chain; relationship moving forward
- BD team re-ignited some old discussions and working on starting new relationships
- Received a proposal to sponsor an event in Nigeria; under consideration
- Re-connected with game developers we met in Amsterdam; shared Reef Chain docs for evaluation
- Paid first invoice to new service provider
- Paid Subscan invoice; re-integration work underway
- MotoDEX marketing re-started after data indexing issue was resolved
- Over 2K new wallets created!
🚀 MotoDEX x Reef Chain POAP Campaign is on 🚀
🏁 Are you ready to race?!
Reef Chain and MotoDEX have teamed up for an exclusive POAP campaign you won’t want to miss!
🌊 Here’s how to join the action:
1. Connect your wallet at 👉 reef.motodex.dexstudios.games
2. Click the button to claim your POAP
3. Wait and see if you're selected! 🏆
Don’t miss this chance to own a piece of the Reef x MotoDEX experience — limited spots available!
Need more info? Read the full details in openbisea_studios/how-to-buy-moto-nfts-play-and-bid-in-motodex-on-reef-chain-43d9ee349ee3">How to Buy Moto NFTs, Play, and Bid in MotoDEX on Reef Chain
We’re happy to report that the data indexing issue has been resolved.
Thanks to the talented individuals who assisted, and to the community for your patience.
ReefScan and all core apps are working normally again.
Derek is live on this X Space focused on UX/UI now
https://x.com/web3globalmedia/status/1931752875471802712
We’re very happy to share the news that Reef and Subscan are working together once more!
Subscan is re-integrating Reef Chain into their platform. This will make Reef available on their blockchain explorer, and restore API services as well.
More to come as we approach the re-launch of Reef on Subscan. 🪸🔍
⏰ Only 6 Days Left! Reef x WhiteBIT Trading Festival Ends June 12 🪸
Reef is making waves in WhiteBIT’s May Trading Festival — and there’s still time to get in on the action! Here’s what you need to know:
🔥 Stage 1: Spot Trading Challenge
Trade the selected spot pairs and climb the leaderboard to win your share of 1,250 USDC + 1,600,000 REEF.
⚡️ Stage 2: Deposit Race
Deposit the listed assets and compete for a piece of the 750 USDC prize pool.
💸 Time’s running out — trade, deposit, and win before it all ends on June 12!
Start now 👉 https://whitebit.com/trading-competition/may_trading_competition?referral=REEF
Use the Reef referral link 👉 https://whitebit.com/auth?referral=REEF
✅ Reefians, the Pigmo airdrop is done! Check your wallets for your drop 💸
ICYMI 🎁 Last week, one of our gaming partners, Pigmo, offered a $REEF airdrop up to $50 for players.
Stay close for more airdrops and rewards!
Check out Pigmo now: https://pigmo.com
🌊 Another Big Wave for Reef: Reef Bridge is now live on The dApp List!
Reef Bridge is the best and only way to move your $REEF tokens on Ethereum and BNB Chain to Reef Chain, forever unifying the tokens on Reef Chain.
See the listing on The Dapp List
🗒 Reminder: Time is running out! ⏰ $REEF on Ethereum & BNB Chain is being deprecated.
🙋 Need help bridging to Reef Chain? Watch the step-by-step tutorial
Bridge and stake your REEF now to stay secure and connected, bridge now.
Take me to Reef Bridge
🏁 Ready, Set, Claim! 🏁
Our GameFi partner, MotoDEX, is now live on Reef Chain — and we're kicking it off with an exclusive POAP campaign! 🚀
Here’s how to join:
1️⃣ Connect your wallet 👉 reef.motodex.dexstudios.games
2️⃣ Click to claim your POAP
3️⃣ Sit tight and wait to see if you're one of the lucky ones selected 🎉
🎮 Race into Web3 and don’t miss your shot at rewards 💰