Zest Protocol is a Bitcoin lending protocol founded by Tycho Onnasch that enables users to borrow against their Bitcoin and earn yield paid in BTC. Zest Protocol's Twitter Score is 47 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #24,759 (top 10%) among 464,282 tracked accounts.
Zest Protocol was founded in 2023 and raised $3.5M in a seed round led by Draper Associates, with additional backing from YZi Labs, Binance Labs, Trust Machines, Flow Traders, Asymmetric, Bitcoin Frontier Fund, Hyperithm, and several other funds. Its lending infrastructure runs on the Stacks mainnet, where it operates what it describes as the first money market for Stacks-based assets.
Zest Protocol experienced a smart-contract attack in April 2024. The protocol reported no impact to user funds, paused operations, and reopened following external audits. Zest Protocol has published 10,110 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 138 accounts a total of 991 times.
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The accounts that follow Zest Protocol include 175 founders, 39 angel investors, 155 influencers and 9 VCs, among them Loomdart, Mario Nawfal, DeFi Dad defidad.eth, Ignas, Notsofast and Erika Lee.