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A summary of the current state of the IRS Broker Rule, declaring non-custodial front-ends for smart contracts brokers for reporting requirements.

After Tether’s USDT on Bitcoin made headlines last week, the Lightning ecosystem is blossoming.

Earlier today, Coinbase announced the launch of “Bitcoin-Backed Loans” using Base, its native blockchain. But there’s one problem. (Actually, two.) These loans are not backed by Bitcoin,...

Over the past year, the Bitcoin Renaissance has brought significant attention to BTCfi, or “Bitcoin DeFi” applications. Despite the hype, very few of these...

Two days ago, the atebites X account pointed out that THORChain’s lending service currently has nowhere near enough bitcoin to repay its creditors. As of the time...

Samara Asset Management and Bitcoin Magazine Pro selected Boreal as the winner of the second-ever Bitcoin Alpha competition.

Founded at Harvard, Botanix Labs raises millions to build the first Bitcoin-native Layer 2 primitive with full EVM equivalence — Spiderchain.

The crypto community was split in half when a proposal about Bitcoin sidechains was reintroduced. While the proposal aims to expand the utility of Bitcoin, its limitations cause controversy. A blockchain merge-mined with Bitcoin that also employs gas fee-friendly economics might hold the answer.

Lava utilizes discreet log contracts and other Bitcoin-native mechanisms to provide a full-fledged Bitcoin financial service platform.

Bitcoin-backed credit built with DeFi represents a stronger and more practical vision of "bitcoin free banking" originally described in 2010 by Hal Finney.