[Citrea Acquires Privacy Wallet Crest, Aiming to Create a Bitcoin Privacy Transaction Gateway] Citrea announced the acquisition of the self-custody privacy Bitcoin wallet Crest. Crest will become Citrea's flagship privacy product, and its founder, Meliksah Gurtemel, will join Citrea as the product lead. Citrea stated that Crest will launch a Bitcoin mobile wallet in the coming weeks, supporting automatic privacy protection, private BTC transfers, and cross-chain access from Bitcoin and Ethereum. Additionally, plans are in place to support private cross-chain swaps and exit pathways, enabling users to privately pay USDC or ETH to EVM addresses using privacy BTC.