Run Jade fully air-gapped on your phone. Unlock, receive, and send all pass through QR codes between Jade and the Blockstream app. Every address and transaction gets verified on screen before you use it.

2% allocation. If Bitcoin doesn't perform, the portfolio recovers. If it continues toward $200T, the effect is outsized. @Adam Back on why pension funds don't need to form an opinion on how far Bitcoin goes, just stay the course and don't rebalance.

On 15 August 1971 the dollar left gold, and a savings account stopped holding its value. @Julian Figueroa walks through what changed that night and why it still matters. Bitcoin in self-custody with Blockstream Jade is money nobody can dilute or freeze. Full episode:

You can build a Bitcoin wallet with nothing but a coin and a word list. Jade does the one step you cannot do by hand. Flip a coin 121 times, find the words offline, and pick your final word from the options Jade calculates. Here is what rolling your own entropy actually looks like. Every method written up, coins, dice, poker cards, even tarot, with the binary word tables you need to do it offline. help.blockstream.com/generate-recovery-phrase-offline

Jade air-gapped QR support is new in the Blockstream desktop app. Run Jade Plus fully air-gapped and the device never touches your computer. PIN unlock, wallet import, address checks and signing all happen over QR codes, read by the camera on the device.

The official Core Lightning app from Blockstream is a dashboard you host yourself, connected straight to your own node. Its Volume Chart maps routing traffic inbound to outbound, channel by channel, so you can see which channels earn their capital and which sit idle. Run a node, route payments, watch it work. One-click on @Umbrel ☂️ or @Start9 or run it from source:

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GitHub - ElementsProject/cln-application: Official core lightning application by Blockstream

Official core lightning application by Blockstream - ElementsProject/cln-application

"If you can't outperform Bitcoin with a strategy, maybe you should just buy Bitcoin." Over six-year rolling periods for the last 15 years, Bitcoin has been the outlier asset class. @Adam Back on why Bitcoin is the hurdle rate for long-term value preservation. The hurdle rate is set. Build your allocation in self-custody. blockstream.com/app

Jade is unaffected by the recently disclosed RNG vulnerability affecting other hardware wallets. Every BlockstreamJade recovery phrase comes from multiple independent entropy sources. On an affected device? Here's how to migrate calmly, step by step:

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Jade Is Unaffected by the Recent Coldcard Vulnerability

A direct answer for Jade owners on the Coldcard Mk3 advisory, plus a four-step guide to moving bitcoin onto freshly generated keys.

Lose your phone, keep your 2FA. Jade Plus now backs up your two-factor accounts. Scan your Google Authenticator export straight to Jade, then generate your codes on a PIN-protected device you control. https://store.blockstream.com/products/jade-plus @Leo_Usi.blossom.band/d379ed7e359307b465e7f32e5c4f5c2d45f571d50db3b34edc4636988579ae41.jpg" alt="image" loading="lazy">

Post-quantum signatures aren't new, they've existed for about 45 years. @Adam Back on why OP_CHECKSHRINCS proposed by Blockstream Research is designed as a minimal, provable change to Bitcoin, and why starting the migration now means more real-world data before it's actually needed.

Proud to be a founding member of the @BTCconsortium. Bitcoin’s long-term security has always been core to what we do, from open-source research to practical post-quantum work like OP_CHECKSHRINCS. Supporting the independent developer community that keeps the network resilient is a natural extension of that mission.

Hashcash, invented by @Adam Back, is cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper. Yet in 2013, watching bitcoin pass $100, he thought he had missed the boat. Own your bitcoin from day one. Download the Blockstream app:

Blockstream: Bitcoin and digital asset infrastructure

Blockstream App: A multi-platform, feature-rich Bitcoin and Liquid Wallet.

Blockstream app guides you from your first bitcoin purchase to full self-custody, all inside one elegant, security-first Bitcoin experience.

Everyone you've orange-pilled is still leaving their coins on an exchange. The best way to teach self-custody is to hand someone the keys. Jade Core makes it a five-minute conversation, not a lecture. Bring someone in this week https://store.blockstream.com/products/blockstream-jade-core @Leo_Usi.blossom.band/e07ff6681c18ef8338073ef644563ff4b76addb986818d163286387ad912e066.jpg" alt="image" loading="lazy">

Reusing a bitcoin address links your transactions and weakens your privacy. The Blockstream app gives you a fresh receive address every time, and your funds stay in self-custody from the moment you buy. Take back your privacy. Download the Blockstream app:

Blockstream: Bitcoin and digital asset infrastructure

Blockstream App: A multi-platform, feature-rich Bitcoin and Liquid Wallet.

Blockstream app guides you from your first bitcoin purchase to full self-custody, all inside one elegant, security-first Bitcoin experience.

OP_CHECKSHRINCS uses one public key with two ways to spend. The first path keeps signatures small by having the device track how many times it has signed. The second path doesn't track anything and is always available as a safety net. If your device is lost or replaced, you restore with your recovery phrase and fall back to that second path. It's more expensive to spend from, but you are never locked out. This is how SHRINCS works. @Leo_Usi.blossom.band/49740ad2a9d86f9a2cd7912199400cfe94aa91fa1569cedb88f9b1a9050f3995.gif" alt="image" loading="lazy"> Read about the OP_CHECKSHRINCS opcode put forward by Blockstream Research and what it means for Bitcoin's post-quantum security:

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OP_CHECKSHRINCS: A Hash-Based Signature Opcode for Post-Quantum Bitcoin

OP_CHECKSHRINCS is a proposed Bitcoin opcode for post-quantum signatures whose security rests on SHA-256, the hash function Bitcoin already uses.

"Buy the dip and hodl. Don't get shaken out." - @Adam Back

Most people buy bitcoin first and secure it later. With Jade paired to the Blockstream app, every purchase lands straight in offline cold storage, secured by your hardware wallet from the very first transaction.

Self-custody got a reputation for being hard. Jade Core is here to end it. Serious protection for your bitcoin, with a setup simple enough that "I'll do it later" stops being a reason. https://store.blockstream.com/products/blockstream-jade-core

An unconfirmed transaction isn't lost, it's waiting its turn in the mempool, and the fee you paid is its place in line. In a hurry? Bump the fee in the Blockstream app to move up the queue.

Spending on the @Liquid Network is going near-instant. 0-conf brings safe-to-act-on transfers, now in public beta with a full release around the corner. And with the issuance cap removed, issuers can mint stablecoins and other Issued Assets at real-world scale. The full Liquid roadmap is in our Q2 update.

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Blockstream Quarterly Update - Q2 2026

From a proposed post-quantum opcode to a reimagined Jade lineup and a Liquid roadmap with dates, here's what Blockstream shipped in Q2 2026.