Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Layer 2: Statechains Statechains are an original second layer protocol originally developed by Ruben Somsen in 2018, depending on the eltoo (or LN Symmetry) proposal. In 2021…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Layer 2: Ark Ark is a novel off-chain transaction batching mechanism originally proposed by Burak, a young Turkish developer. There are currently two implementations being built, one…

Bitcoin Magazine Botanix Launches Federated Sidechain with 16 Members On Testnet Botanix Labs has launched Botanix on testnet as a federated sidechain built on Bitcoin with a 16-node founding federation that…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Layer 2: The Key To Scaling Bitcoin Bitcoin, and for that matter all blockchains, do not scale. It is a fundamental limitation of blockchain based systems that…

Bitcoin Magazine What to expect from the BTCfi & L2s companies at the Bitcoin Conference in Vegas The annual Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas is a pivotal event for the…

The introduction of BitVM smart contracts has marked a significant milestone in the path for scalability and programmability of Bitcoin. Rooted in the original BitVM protocol, Bitlayer’s Finality Bridge introduces…

Company Name: Ark Labs Founders: Marco Argentieri and Simone Giacomelli Date Founded: June 2024 Location of Headquarters: Europe Number of Employees: Six full time Website: https://arklabs.to/ Public or Private? Private…

David Marcus is taking his experience as the former head of PayPal and Meta Messenger and applying it to building on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. At Lightspark’s first partner summit, Lightspark…

At Lightspark Sync, Lightspark’s first partner summit on Thursday, the company announced new products and features that will allow users to make global payments with both bitcoin and fiat. The…

Stacks, the Bitcoin Layer-2 protocol, has achieved a new high in smart contract deployments, with a 30% month-over-month increase. This growth reflects the ongoing efforts of developers to enhance the…