
Tachi
Tachi enables institutions and AI agents to run smart contracts and earn yield on self-custodial Bitcoin - without bridges, wrapped tokens, or custodians.
$500 USDC
Enter BountyDeadline: February 3, 2026
Project: Tachi
Website: https://tachibtc.com/
Tachi is building Bitcoin's agentic infra layer that enables institutions and AI agents to run smart contracts and earn yield on self-custodial Bitcoin, without bridges, wrapped tokens, or custodians.
Narrative
Bitcoin Entering the Agentic Era
Ethereum helped define what modern onchain financial activity feels like. Bitcoin is the most economically secure layer on the planet, and it always had the potential to support institutional and agentic financial activity. What held it back was missing rails: self-custodial rails, native programmability, and UTXO rails for agents.
That is what Tachi is building. It enables Bitcoin to natively support truly complex logic and compete with Ethereum, so the agentic economy can be built on Bitcoin in 2026 and beyond, without bridges, wrapped tokens, or custodians.
The Big Idea
Bitcoin can power the global agentic economy if three specific rails exist:
- Self-custodial Bitcoin security
Keys never leave the owner (be it user or agent). - Native programmability
Complex logic executes directly on Bitcoin, not elsewhere. - UTXO rails for AI agents
Agents can hold and operate Bitcoin natively, without wrappers or custodians.
And Tachi is building these rails.
About Tachi
1. Opportunity
The agentic era is here.
Capital is becoming autonomous, programmable, and always on.
Bitcoin is the most secure and sovereign asset base, which makes it the natural home for agentic finance.
Core idea:
Bitcoin should power Agentic DeFi.
2. Problem
Agentic finance requires more than holding and transferring value.
It requires self-custodial execution, richer
logic, and coordinated liquidity.
The demand already exists.
The bottleneck has been the absence of the right rails.
3. Blockers
Different approaches optimized for different needs and eras.
Some focused on fast payments.
Some explored scalability and richer execution.
Some enabled programmability
outside Bitcoin's native environment.
Each solved important problems.
The agentic era simply raises the bar and introduces new requirements.
4. Solution
Tachi unlocks Agentic DeFi on Bitcoin by combining the missing pieces.
- Self-custodial Bitcoin security
Keys never leave the owner, whether the actor is a human or an agent. - Native programmability
Enabling complex logic on Bitcoin for strategies and applications. - UTXO rails for AI agents
Agent-friendly rails designed for Bitcoin-native ownership and execution.
This is Bitcoin becoming 2026-native on its own terms.
5. Roadmap
Phase 1 - Automated Bitcoin Treasury (Q1 2026)
Automated Bitcoin Treasury Yield Vaults
- Agentic yield aggregation across Bitcoin protocols
- Institutional-grade self-custodial vaults
Phase 2 - Agentic BTCFi Platform (Q2 2026)
Agentic BTCFi Platform
- BTCfi SDK, custom institutional yield strategies
- DeFi primitives on native Bitcoin
Phase 3 - Native Agentic Execution on Satoshis (Q3 2026+)
Native Agentic Execution on Satoshis
- Full programmable Bitcoin runtime
- BTC-native economy: smart contracts on EVM, WASM
- Emergence of a Bitcoin-native agentic economy: DeFi, payments, and autonomous execution without custodians
Content Formats
Creators may submit:
- Short threads or
- Memes and visual posts
Only one submission is allowed.
Content Guidelines
- Forward-looking, optimistic, and thoughtful.
- Well researched, non-generic, non-fluff. Avoid AI Slop.
- Frame Bitcoin's evolution as inevitable and infrastructure-driven.
Design Guidelines
Design Guidelines - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PoW5OUo9vmd-rq8MWKxnUdPYTBc7b38l/view?usp=sharing
Media Kit - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Pm7W5L9PjpBNE0qwmpdtkCtxPSNUIIll
Call to Action
Tag @tachi_btc in your posts.
Timeline
Get your content in by the 3rd of Feb.
Grant Period: 15th to 3rd Feb
Start posting from 19th of Jan
Bonus points for content going out on 19th.
Evaluation
Submissions are evaluated using Scribble's standard weighted engagement scoring.
Reply-only entries, spam tagging, and low-effort posts will be disqualified.