Hello Breadfam! If you're new here, welcome! If you're a returning subscriber, things look a little different and it's no coincidence! The Breadchain you know and love is still here, just with a bit of a glow-up. We've got all the details for you right here!
Let's give you the big news right away. We had some in-depth chats within our community and felt that a few changes would benefit everyone. The entirety of our new name, look and feel is to achieve a single outcome - ensuring that we reach the people who will benefit from our work the most.
So we've simplified a whole lot, and detailed each of the changes in the blog post embedded below.
Breadchain evolves to Bread Cooperative based on community feedback. Open solidarity economic tools for working people everywhere. Join the community today
And our drive to to connect with like-minded crypto enthusiasts + leftists everywhere has led us to TikTok and Bluesky. And of course, we're deep in the cryptoverse and we HAD to be on Farcaster too. Here's a link to our profile, as well as to our mini-app that enables you to bake $BREAD using the rewards in your Warplet (or whatever they're calling the Farcaster Wallet these days).
The first distribution of the new era has set the bar really high.
That's over 2,000 in $BREAD for our member organisations, and YOU played a vital role.
Here's a list of all the member organisations, and (spoiler alert) there could be a changes coming up in future distribution cycles. Exciting times ahead, make sure you're subscribed to know the moment things go live.
Here's how the distribution looked. As always, 50% of the yield gets shared equally among all participants. The half that remains is distributed as per the wishes our $BREAD Holders, with voting done right in the "Governance" section of our application.
And the final numbers. Amazing stuff team!
We acknowledge that getting your hands on xDAI to bake $BREAD isn't a well-trodden path. So, to continue the spirit of simplifying, we've added a bridging feature right in the app. No more need to (solely) hold xDAI to support post-capitalist Web3. Good ol' US dollars (or tokens) in whichever EVM flavour you hold will work just fine.
The Bread Cooperative team lives for overlap between solidarity and technology. But we are also massive, MASSIVE crypto fans who spend all day thinking about how this space can be better. One of these developments from the minds of Ron Turetzky and the Bread Co-op Tech Team is called Gas Killer.
First developed at ETH Denver earlier this year, we see Gas Killer is one of those eureka moments that can make the lives of crypto operators a whole lot easier. The TL;DR: cost savings on transactions that you can deploy right away, with a single line of code.
Here's our first blog post, getting into the details that we hope will pique your interest for what's to come. Subscribe to stay in the loop, we're deep in development and will be sharing regular updates.
Today, we're excited to announce Gas Killer, a breakthrough approach to scaling computation on Ethereum that makes gas expensive smart contract operations dramatically cheaper with only one line of code. Gas Killer was originally developed by Ron Turetzky and the Bread Cooperative team at the ETH Denver hackathon in February 2025.
As part of the fresh vibes around here, our fabled Crowdstaking Application also got an update. More branding flourishes are just around the corner, but today we can share that we've updated the name. Bye bye "crowdstaking," hello Bread Solidarity Fund!
It's the same desire to bring about a more equitable world, and the same team doing the work. We've just made things simpler, to speak to the people who can benefit from what we build. And more orange.
Priority channels:
Bluesky - Twitter/X alternative with a larger leftist presence
TikTok - Short form content, behind the scenes, and breaking down cooperative economics
X/Twitter - Real-time updates and discussions
LinkedIn - Professional network and cooperative economy insights
Also find us on:
Discord - Community hub and weekly hangouts
Farcaster - Decentralized social network full of experimentation and public building
Can't find us on your preferred platform? Let us know where you'd like to see us!
So that's all for this edition of Bread Updates! If you've not subscribed already we'd love to have you aboard! Do share this with fellow crypto leftists, we've got plenty of room for like-minded people!
Bread Cooperative is a worker-owned collective building practical financial tools for working people.
We exist to show what cooperative economics looks like in practice: transparent governance, democratic control, and tools designed to serve community needs rather than extract profit. Our work is guided by solidarity, designed for resilience, and controlled by the people who use it.
Solidarity Forever 🍞
The Bread Cooperative Team
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