Relai, using Greenlight as its Lightning solution is bringing Bitcoin to 100,000+ Europeans!
Join @Relai 🇨🇭 CTO Adem Bilican_ in the UTXO Room on Oct 25, 10:15-11:15 AM, to learn how.
Our layer-2 solutions, the @Liquid Network and Greenlight, bring secure, scalable Bitcoin tools to meet rising enterprise demand for Bitcoin-powered finance. Liquid builds the core infrastructure for asset tokenization on Bitcoin, while Greenlight enables non-custodial Lightning Network payments for developers and businesses.
On the fundraise, Blockstream CEO Dr. @Adam Back said, “This fundraise is pivotal in our journey to bridge Bitcoin with broader finance. We're excited to bring on Michael Minkevich as COO, and to have Fulgur Ventures’ support in advancing Bitcoin finance.”
With over 20 years in product engineering for finance, Michael Minkevich brings the expertise to deepen our fintech impact. At Luxoft, he led product engineering for Fortune 500 clients and drove the company’s US IPO.
The Liquid Network, launched in 2018, operates through a global federation of over 70 members, enabling fast, confidential settlements and secure asset issuance without complex smart contracts. Today, over $1.8B in assets are issued on Liquid, including stablecoins and tokenized securities, with 3,844 BTC locked on-chain.
Liquid is also pushing boundaries in the $300B real-world asset space. Mexico’s Mifiel Firma issued over $1B in promissory notes on Liquid, setting a new standard for non-bank access to global liquidity.
Get all the details on the $210M convertible note raise in the official press release here. ⬇️
Developers can start building today with a new web IDE as a playground for creating Simfony smart contracts. We've provided some example programs to showcase various use cases, some of which are not possible in Bitcoin Script. The IDE also provides tools for managing public keys and generating addresses on the Liquid testnet.
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Learn more about what Greenlight brings to the table for app devlopers in this case study with @Relai 🇨🇭. ⬇️
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Want to see how Lightning can fit into your app? Get your Greenlight developer certificate now and spin up 1,000 Lightning Network nodes for free!
Check out the whitepaper:
https://github.com/ShieldedCSV/ShieldedCSV/releases/latest/download/shieldedcsv.pdf
Protocol Spec in Rust:
Say goodbye to the hassles of bank accounts and invoicing, and welcome instant Bitcoin conversion! Commissions are converted to Bitcoin at the point of sale, and withdrawal is streamlined through the Lightning Network.
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The Omega candle is coming. Now is the perfect time to empower your community with secure open-source hardware and guide them towards using other open-source wallets compatible with Jade, such as Sparrow Wallet, Nunchuk, Blue Wallet, Bitcoin Keeper, and Blockstream Green. An added benefit of onboarding new Bitcoiners with Jade is that it also introduces them to additional layers of Bitcoin, including support for the @Liquid Network .
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In the latest Elements release, we add initial support for discounted Confidential Transactions (CT) fees. This new policy reduces fees by nearly 90%, from around 250 sats to 25 sats, achieving close to what it would be on non-CT transactions.
The 23.2.3 release activates the new fee policy for relay on Liquid testnet. This allows Liquid wallets and platforms to begin integration and testing, with a production release expected in the near future.
The new fee policy will make Liquid’s confidentiality even more economical, particularly when stacking bitcoin in high-fee environments, swapping to Lightning, or sending cross-border stablecoin remittances.
Learn more about the discounted CT fee and read more updates in the blog post. ⬇️
Are traditional Bitcoin mining investments becoming a thing of the past?
Join James Macedonio, Global Head of Mining Sales at Blockstream, as he explains how BMN2 offers streamlined access to Bitcoin mining and serves as a strategic hedge on Bitcoin Capital.
Register for the live premiere at 13:00 UTC on Monday, September 9th. ⬇️
Why settle for traditional securities when you can trade around the clock and with a Bitcoin denominated order book?
Learn how stokr.io is setting new standards in the securities market with tokenized MicroStrategy shares, $CMSTR, and tokenized hashrate, the Blockstream Mining Note with CEO Arnab_Naskar.
Register for the live premiere, 13:00 UTC Monday, September 9th. ⬇️