Liquid

Second, the Bitcoin development lab founded by ex-Blockstream executives including CEO Steven Roose and CTO Erik De Smedt, has unveiled Bark — its custom Ark protocol implementation promising self-custodial payments that are faster and cheaper than Lightning channels.

Kilian of Boltz reveals exclusive details on bridging Bitcoin's onchain, Lightning, Liquid, and Rootstock layers without trust, amid high-fee environments driving adoption.

The Boltz BTCPay Plugin enables merchants using BTCPay Server to accept Lightning payments non-custodially and transfer these funds to the Liquid sidechain.

The club is also aiming to educate fans on Bitcoin, teach them how to use it for team purchases and more.

The debate around the next change to Bitcoin is focused almost entirely on covenants. Having already implemented numerous covenants, Liquid presents a great learning opportunity in that discussion.

Blockstream teams up with STOKR to create an investment offering via the Liquid network that aims to purchase low-priced ASICs to resell during the bull market.

Along with other bitcoin companies, Blockstream is spearheading a developer community to further Lightning and layer-2 development.

The automated protocol will launch with new features allowing bitcoiners to create their own liquidity pools, fees, and perform trustless swaps.

Federated sidechains utilize key management to provide security and allow functionality beyond the Bitcoin mainchain.

The team at Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream reflects on its exceptional growth in 2021, which mirrored Bitcoin’s own.