BOB Gateway partners with Socket. Socket is a routing network for trading, payments & ramping. BOB's goal is to build the best swaps engine for native BTC. That's why Gobob partner with the best to bring more chains, more assets, and greater reach to native Bitcoin. Socket is now one of those partners. BOB Gateway offers market leading rates for swapping Bitcoin with stablecoins, wBTC and tokenized gold - with many more routes and assets coming very soon. Better prices on native BTC swaps. Socket is a routing network for trading, payments & ramping. It optimizes money movement on blockchains with smart-routing across fragmented markets or venues like DEXs or bridges. When BOB Gateway computes the optimal route for a native BTC swap, it now also has Socket's aggregation layer in the mix. The routing engine evaluates all available paths. Socket is one of the sources that feeds that calculation, alongside other providers. The user sees one thing: the best available quote, with the best available speed. The engine has more to work with. Users get a better price. And builders who integrate the BOB Gateway API once get access to everything. Read the docs now and start the integration "BTC swaps is hands down the most important trade in crypto and increasingly, finance. We're glad to help BOB achieve this with highest reliability and the best pricing." - said co-founder of Socket Rishabh Khurana. This is how the routing engine gets built. Every integration extends the reach of native BTC. Not through wrappers or synthetics, but through real routes and real liquidity. The best swaps engine for native BTC gets built one integration at a time. Try native BTC swaps on BOB Gateway: app.gobob.xyz BOB is building the Bank of Bitcoin, reimagining banking for the Bitcoin age. One platform for everything - swapping, saving, earning & borrowing - all on Bitcoin rails. The BOB team counts 30+ team members, with backgrounds from Binance, Kraken, BCG, PWC and Amazon.

BOB launches BTC bridge & swaps Referral Program with 20% revenue share. Receive passive wBTC rewards for bringing new users to BOB Gateway - now live with 1-click Bitcoin cross-chain swaps for USDC, USDT, ETH and wBTC. As part of BOB Gateway's latest upgrade, BOB is introducing a referral program to reward anyone who introduces new users to one of the fastest and cheapest native Bitcoin routing products available. Referrers will receive 20% of Gateway protocol fees generated by every user they refer, with rewards being paid in wBTC on BOB, and with no cap on earnings. The referral program launches in beta on December 18th and will run for an initial 6 months, with the potential to extend. 1-click Bitcoin swaps with BOB Gateway. BOB Gateway enables direct swaps between native Bitcoin and the most widely used assets in DeFi. The following assets/routes are currently supported: * BTC | wBTC: Ethereum, Avalanche, Base, BNB, Unichain, Optimism, Soneium, Bera, Sei, Sonic, and BOB * BTC | USDC, USDT, ETH: Ethereum and Base Users maintain full self-custody throughout, without navigating multi-step bridges or centralized exchanges. The more you refer, the more you receive. Unlike one-time bonus campaigns, this revenue-share model has been designed to create a compounding effect. The more active your referrals, the more wBTC you receive - aligning long-term incentives between BOB and its community. Receiving monthly wBTC drops by referring users to BOB Gateway is straightforward. Simply: * Click the button "Join referral program" on the BOB Gateway app and connect your wallet * Generate your unique referral link * Share it with your audience, community, or network * Track your referrals and volume on the dashboard When users transact through BOB Gateway via your referral link, their activity will automatically be attributed to you. Participants must be 18 years or older and not reside in a restricted jurisdiction. Wallet addresses are screened to meet legal requirements, and participation is void where prohibited by law. For full eligibility criteria, see the Referral Program Terms in the referral hub. Payout schedule. * Referral accrual begins: December 18, 2025 (beta) * First payout: January 31, 2026 * Ongoing/passive payouts: Claimable on the last day of each month Rewards are paid in wBTC on BOB. When payouts become available, you can claim them directly from the referral hub via the claim portal. $BOB milestone bonuses. To reward active referrers, BOB will also introduce $BOB token bonuses tied to volume milestones. As you hit certain thresholds of total BTC volume referred, you unlock bonus $BOB rewards on top of your ongoing wBTC fee share. Additional higher tiers will unlock as the program grows, with potential bonus incentives for high-volume referrers. Get started. Rewards start accruing from December 18. Connect your wallet now to generate your referral link and start building your referral base ahead of the first payout. Click the button "Join referral program' on the BOB Gateway app and connect your wallet to generate your unique referral link. There is no KYC. Wallet addresses are screened using industry-standard blockchain analytics tools and IP geofencing to meet legal requirements. Participation is void where prohibited by law. You refer a user once via your referral link, and their wallet is linked to your referral code in the system. All their future transactions are attributed to you for the duration of the program. What if my referral volumes don't show up on the dashboard? As the program launches in beta, aggregated volumes will be fully displayed in January. If something doesn't appear immediately, don't worry - all referral activity is being tracked and will be properly attributed. Share it anywhere - social media, community channels, or directly with friends. Any user who transacts through your link is attributed to you. You earn 20% of the Gateway protocol fees generated by your referrals' transaction volume. Rewards accrue from December 18. The first payout is January 31, 2026, with ongoing payouts on the last day of each month thereafter. Rewards can be claimed via the claim portal on the referral hub, which will open prior to January 31st. No. As long as your referrals keep transacting, you keep earning until the program terminates. Volume-based $BOB token rewards that unlock when you hit certain thresholds of total BTC referred. Higher tiers unlock as the program grows. Details will be provided soon. The initial referral program period is 6 months, with the possibility to extend indefinitely. BOB reserves the right to adjust or terminate the program.

BOB launches a consortium of Hybrid Node operators. Leading institutional and infrastructure providers are joining as the first BOB Hybrid Nodes. BOB is pleased to announce the launch of the first Hybrid Nodes, powered by a world-class group of infrastructure providers, exchanges, asset managers and staking operators: Ankr, ANTPOOL, CoinEx, GlobalStake, Nansen, RigSec, RockX, Satlayer, Sensei Node, Simply Staking, Solv Protocol, StakeFish, Tyr Capital, UTXO Management, ViaBTC. These operators bring deep expertise across Bitcoin infrastructure, enterprise staking, cross-chain security and institutional asset management. Together, they will help secure BOB, enable trust-minimized BTC functionality and power the next generation of Bitcoin-native applications. Hybrid Nodes secure the Gateway to Bitcoin DeFi. Hybrid Nodes will ultimately be responsible for critical operations at the protocol layer of the Gateway for Bitcoin DeFi - enabling secure BTC finality, cross-chain intents-based swaps, and the BitVM-powered logic that makes native Bitcoin interoperability possible. Gobob ensure that only the best providers serve BOB. And who better to decide what is best than the BOB stakers? BOB stakers delegate their BOB tokens to Hybrid Nodes to rank them. This ranking is then used to select the top nodes to run BitVM, finality providers, Bitcoin-intent solvers, and more. Delegations also affect the share of protocol fees earned by each Hybrid Node. Multifunctional network support. Hybrid Nodes will have two main functions with the launch of Bitcoin finality in early 2026. * BitVM Operators - They enable native Bitcoin functionality on BOB: (1) Bitcoin vaults that allow users to borrow stablecoins against native BTC collateral and (2) a BTC bridge with security enforced on Bitcoin by BitVM. The trust model in both is 1-of-n trust model - only one honest operator is required to ensure that users receive their BTC back to Bitcoin. And users can be part of this set: so users only need to keep the data around to generate a zk proof to enforce withdrawals back to Bitcoin. * Finality Providers (FPs) - They attest to Bitcoin finality as part of BOB's hybrid settlement model. Bitcoin finality needs to be both secure and fast. By ensuring that Hybrid Nodes are ranked, BOB ensures alignment between the best providers in the industry. More roles will be added as the ecosystem expands: * Gateway Solvers - executing BTC swap, bridge & DeFi deployment intents * Block Builders - producing MEV-aware, optimized blocks * Additional operator roles tailored for cross-chain and BTC-native innovation This modular approach ensures BOB can scale its infrastructure while preserving security and decentralization. All handled under a single umbrella: Hybrid Nodes. Bitcoin based security. BOB's design merges Bitcoin-level assurance with modern cross-chain guarantees: * BitVM Security: "1-of-n" honesty assumption backed by ZK proofs. * Economic Finality: Staking + slashing ensures aligned incentives * Delegations: Non-custodial staking so operators never control user assets * On-chain Transparency: All operations are publicly auditable This hybrid security model combines Bitcoin-anchored trust, a native BTC bridge secured by BitVM and a native Ethereum bridge secured by zk fraud proofs. All managed and operated by BOB's Hybrid Nodes. Launch rollout. Phase 1 - pre-staking (live). Delegators choose Hybrid Node operators early and help shape the initial ranking. Phase 2 - infrastructure activation. BitVM Operators and Finality Providers come online, enabling core Bitcoin functionality. Phase 3 - role expansion. Gateway Solvers, Block Builders, and additional node types join as BOB's cross-chain and execution capabilities grow. Making Bitcoin usable everywhere. Hybrid Nodes serve as the infrastructure mesh that enables BOB to make Bitcoin usable everywhere - from bridging and DeFi to settlement and cross-chain execution. * Bitcoin-backed security * High-quality cross-chain routing * A decentralized, economically aligned operator network * The foundation for Bitcoin-native intents and applications With a consortium of proven, globally trusted partners running Hybrid Nodes, BOB is entering a new era of Bitcoin-powered interoperability and innovation.