diff --git a/apps/arweave/c_src/secp256k1/Makefile b/apps/arweave/c_src/secp256k1/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f5396c3ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/arweave/c_src/secp256k1/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+ERTS_INCLUDE_DIR ?= $(shell erl -noshell -eval 'io:format("~ts/erts-~ts/include/", [code:root_dir(), erlang:system_info(version)]).' -s init stop)
+ERL_INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIR ?= $(shell erl -noshell -eval 'io:format("~ts", [code:lib_dir(erl_interface, include)]).' -s init stop)
+ERL_INTERFACE_LIB_DIR ?= $(shell erl -noshell -eval 'io:format("~ts", [code:lib_dir(erl_interface, lib)]).' -s init stop)
+
+CC = cc
+ifeq ($(MODE), debug)
+	CFLAGS ?= -O0 -g
+else
+	CFLAGS ?= -O3
+endif
+CFLAGS += -fPIC -shared -I $(ERTS_INCLUDE_DIR) -I $(ERL_INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIR) -I /usr/local/include -I ../../lib/secp256k1/src -I ../../lib/secp256k1/include
+LDFLAGS = -L../../lib/secp256k1/build/lib
+LDLIBS = -L $(ERL_INTERFACE_LIB_DIR) -L /usr/local/lib -lsecp256k1
+NIF_SRC = secp256k1_nif.c
+NIF_SO = $(shell pwd)/../../priv/secp256k1_nif.so
+
+all: $(NIF_SO)
+
+$(NIF_SO): $(NIF_SRC)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(NIF_SRC) -o $(NIF_SO) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDLIBS)
+
+clean:
+	rm -f $(NIF_SO)
diff --git a/apps/arweave/c_src/secp256k1/fill_random.h b/apps/arweave/c_src/secp256k1/fill_random.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dfc53addd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/arweave/c_src/secp256k1/fill_random.h
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+/*************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Elichai Turkel                                *
+ * Distributed under the CC0 software license, see the accompanying file *
+ * EXAMPLES_COPYING or https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 *
+ *************************************************************************/
+
+/*
+ * This file is an attempt at collecting best practice methods for obtaining randomness with different operating systems.
+ * It may be out-of-date. Consult the documentation of the operating system before considering to use the methods below.
+ *
+ * Platform randomness sources:
+ * Linux   -> `getrandom(2)`(`sys/random.h`), if not available `/dev/urandom` should be used. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html, https://linux.die.net/man/4/urandom
+ * macOS   -> `getentropy(2)`(`sys/random.h`), if not available `/dev/urandom` should be used. https://www.unix.com/man-page/mojave/2/getentropy, https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-517.12.7/bsd/man/man4/random.4.auto.html
+ * FreeBSD -> `getrandom(2)`(`sys/random.h`), if not available `kern.arandom` should be used. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getrandom, https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=random&sektion=4
+ * OpenBSD -> `getentropy(2)`(`unistd.h`), if not available `/dev/urandom` should be used. https://man.openbsd.org/getentropy, https://man.openbsd.org/urandom
+ * Windows -> `BCryptGenRandom`(`bcrypt.h`). https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/bcrypt/nf-bcrypt-bcryptgenrandom
+ */
+
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+/*
+ * The defined WIN32_NO_STATUS macro disables return code definitions in
+ * windows.h, which avoids "macro redefinition" MSVC warnings in ntstatus.h.
+ */
+#define WIN32_NO_STATUS
+#include <windows.h>
+#undef WIN32_NO_STATUS
+#include <ntstatus.h>
+#include <bcrypt.h>
+#elif defined(__linux__) || defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__FreeBSD__)
+#include <sys/random.h>
+#elif defined(__OpenBSD__)
+#include <unistd.h>
+#else
+#error "Couldn't identify the OS"
+#endif
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <limits.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+/* Returns 1 on success, and 0 on failure. */
+static int fill_random(unsigned char* data, size_t size) {
+#if defined(_WIN32)
+    NTSTATUS res = BCryptGenRandom(NULL, data, size, BCRYPT_USE_SYSTEM_PREFERRED_RNG);
+    if (res != STATUS_SUCCESS || size > ULONG_MAX) {
+        return 0;
+    } else {
+        return 1;
+    }
+#elif defined(__linux__) || defined(__FreeBSD__)
+    /* If `getrandom(2)` is not available you should fallback to /dev/urandom */
+    ssize_t res = getrandom(data, size, 0);
+    if (res < 0 || (size_t)res != size ) {
+        return 0;
+    } else {
+        return 1;
+    }
+#elif defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__OpenBSD__)
+    /* If `getentropy(2)` is not available you should fallback to either
+     * `SecRandomCopyBytes` or /dev/urandom */
+    int res = getentropy(data, size);
+    if (res == 0) {
+        return 1;
+    } else {
+        return 0;
+    }
+#endif
+    return 0;
+}
+
+static void print_hex(unsigned char* data, size_t size) {
+    size_t i;
+    printf("0x");
+    for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
+        printf("%02x", data[i]);
+    }
+    printf("\n");
+}
+
+#if defined(_MSC_VER)
+// For SecureZeroMemory
+#include <Windows.h>
+#endif
+/* Cleanses memory to prevent leaking sensitive info. Won't be optimized out. */
+static void secure_erase(void *ptr, size_t len) {
+#if defined(_MSC_VER)
+    /* SecureZeroMemory is guaranteed not to be optimized out by MSVC. */
+    SecureZeroMemory(ptr, len);
+#elif defined(__GNUC__)
+    /* We use a memory barrier that scares the compiler away from optimizing out the memset.
+     *
+     * Quoting Adam Langley <agl@google.com> in commit ad1907fe73334d6c696c8539646c21b11178f20f
+     * in BoringSSL (ISC License):
+     *    As best as we can tell, this is sufficient to break any optimisations that
+     *    might try to eliminate "superfluous" memsets.
+     * This method used in memzero_explicit() the Linux kernel, too. Its advantage is that it is
+     * pretty efficient, because the compiler can still implement the memset() efficiently,
+     * just not remove it entirely. See "Dead Store Elimination (Still) Considered Harmful" by
+     * Yang et al. (USENIX Security 2017) for more background.
+     */
+    memset(ptr, 0, len);
+    __asm__ __volatile__("" : : "r"(ptr) : "memory");
+#else
+    void *(*volatile const volatile_memset)(void *, int, size_t) = memset;
+    volatile_memset(ptr, 0, len);
+#endif
+}
diff --git a/apps/arweave/c_src/secp256k1/secp256k1_nif.c b/apps/arweave/c_src/secp256k1/secp256k1_nif.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..584f9f5ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/arweave/c_src/secp256k1/secp256k1_nif.c
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#include <secp256k1.h>
+
+#include "../ar_nif.h"
+#include "./fill_random.h"
+
+#define SECP256K1_PUBKEY_UNCOMPRESSED_SIZE 65
+#define SECP256K1_PUBKEY_COMPRESSED_SIZE 33
+#define SECP256K1_PRIVKEY_SIZE 32
+#define SECP256K1_CONTEXT_SEED_SIZE 32
+
+static int secp256k1_load(ErlNifEnv* env, void** priv, ERL_NIF_TERM load_info) {
+    return 0;
+}
+
+static ERL_NIF_TERM generate_key(ErlNifEnv* env, int argc, const ERL_NIF_TERM argv[]) {
+    unsigned char seed[SECP256K1_CONTEXT_SEED_SIZE];
+    if (!fill_random(seed, sizeof(seed))) {
+        return error_tuple(env, "Failed to generate random seed for context.");
+    }
+    secp256k1_context* ctx = secp256k1_context_create(SECP256K1_CONTEXT_NONE);
+    if (!secp256k1_context_randomize(ctx, seed)) {
+        return error_tuple(env, "Failed to randomize context.");
+    }
+
+    unsigned char privbytes[SECP256K1_PRIVKEY_SIZE];
+    if (!fill_random(privbytes, sizeof(privbytes))) {
+        return error_tuple(env, "Failed to generate random key.");
+    }
+    if (!secp256k1_ec_seckey_verify(ctx, privbytes)) {
+        return error_tuple(env, "Generated secret secp256k1 key is invalid.");
+    }
+
+    secp256k1_pubkey pubkey;
+    if(!secp256k1_ec_pubkey_create(ctx, &pubkey, privbytes)) {
+        return error_tuple(env, "Failed to populate public key.");
+    }
+
+    unsigned char pubbytes[SECP256K1_PUBKEY_UNCOMPRESSED_SIZE];
+    size_t l = sizeof(pubbytes);
+    if (!secp256k1_ec_pubkey_serialize(ctx, pubbytes, &l, &pubkey, SECP256K1_EC_UNCOMPRESSED)) {
+        return error_tuple(env, "Failed to serialize public key.");
+    }
+
+    ERL_NIF_TERM privkey_bin = make_output_binary(env, privbytes, SECP256K1_PRIVKEY_SIZE);
+    ERL_NIF_TERM pubkey_bin = make_output_binary(env, pubbytes, SECP256K1_PUBKEY_UNCOMPRESSED_SIZE);
+    return ok_tuple2(env, privkey_bin, pubkey_bin);
+}
diff --git a/apps/arweave/lib/secp256k1 b/apps/arweave/lib/secp256k1
index f79f46c70..0cdc758a5 160000
--- a/apps/arweave/lib/secp256k1
+++ b/apps/arweave/lib/secp256k1
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit f79f46c70386c693ff4e7aef0b9e7923ba284e56
+Subproject commit 0cdc758a56360bf58a851fe91085a327ec97685a
diff --git a/rebar.config b/rebar.config
index b54cbea1a..454c001b0 100644
--- a/rebar.config
+++ b/rebar.config
@@ -397,6 +397,8 @@
 	{"(linux)", compile, "make -C apps/arweave/lib/RandomX/buildsquared"},
 	{"(freebsd|netbsd|openbsd)", compile, "gmake -C apps/arweave/lib/RandomX/buildsquared"},
 	{"(darwin|linux|freebsd|netbsd|openbsd)", compile, "bash -c \"cd apps/arweave/lib/RandomX/buildsquared && mv librandomx.a librandomxsquared.a\""},
+	% Build secp256k1
+	{"(darwin|linux|freebsd|netbsd|openbsd)", compile, "./scripts/build_secp256k1.sh > /dev/null"},
 	% Compile NIFs
 	{"(linux)", compile, "env AR=gcc-ar make all -C apps/arweave/c_src"},
 	{"(darwin)", compile, "make all -C apps/arweave/c_src"},
@@ -412,7 +414,9 @@
 	% Clean randomxsquared
 	{"(linux|darwin)", clean, "bash -c \"if [ -d apps/arweave/lib/RandomX/buildsquared ]; then make -C apps/arweave/lib/RandomX/buildsquared clean; fi\""},
 	{"(freebsd|netbsd|openbsd)", clean, "bash -c \"if [ -d apps/arweave/lib/RandomX/buildsquared ]; then gmake -C apps/arweave/lib/RandomX/buildsquared clean; fi\""},
-	% Clan NIFs
+	% Clean secp256k1
+	{"(linux|darwin|freebsd|netbsd|openbsd)", clean, "bash -c \"if [ -d apps/arweave/lib/secp256k1/build ]; then rm -rf apps/arweave/lib/secp256k1/build; fi\""},
+	% Clean NIFs
 	{"(linux|darwin)", clean, "make -C apps/arweave/c_src clean"},
 	{"(freebsd|netbsd|openbsd)", clean, "gmake -C apps/arweave/c_src clean"}
 ]}.
diff --git a/scripts/build_secp256k1.sh b/scripts/build_secp256k1.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1976c101f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build_secp256k1.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+BUILD_DIR="apps/arweave/lib/secp256k1/build"
+CMAKE_OPTIONS="-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF \
+               -DSECP256K1_BUILD_BENCHMARK=OFF \
+               -DSECP256K1_BUILD_EXHAUSTIVE_TESTS=OFF \
+               -DSECP256K1_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
+               -DSECP256K1_DISABLE_SHARED=ON \
+               -DSECP256K1_ENABLE_MODULE_MUSIG=OFF \
+               -DSECP256K1_ENABLE_MODULE_EXTRAKEYS=OFF \
+               -DSECP256K1_ENABLE_MODULE_ELLSWIFT=OFF \
+               -DSECP256K1_ENABLE_MODULE_SCHNORRSIG=OFF"
+mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR
+cd $BUILD_DIR
+cmake $CMAKE_OPTIONS ..
+cmake --build .