The Lightning Network enables fast, low-cost Bitcoin payments using a secure layer-2 protocol. Payment channels allow instant, off-chain transactions, settling on-chain only when channels close.

Steak ‘n Shake has expanded its Bitcoin treasury by investing $10 million, marking a strategic move eight months after ...

Lnfi Network, a DeFi platform on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, has integrated the RGB Protocol, enabling scalable, programmable assets on Bitcoin. Announced alongside RGB’s mainnet launch, this allows ...

I was asked repeatedly throughout this year’s Bitcoin 2024 conference what my highlight of the moment was — what the signal was amongst the noise. As I returned from Nashville, it occurred to me that, ...

The Lightning Network is a routed network of payment channels originally proposed by Thaddeus Dryja and Joseph Poon in 2015, with major implementations having been built by Blockstream (CLN), ...

Bitcoin’s scalability issues mean that smaller transactions can congest the blockchain. The Lightning Network was created to fix that. Since each block on Bitcoin’s blockchain takes an average of 10 ...

Spark, the Bitcoin Layer 2 protocol developed by Lightspark, has recently unveiled an extensive roadmap for the second ...

On Tuesday, Ark Labs announced the public beta launch of the highly anticipated (at least among Bitcoin purists) Arkade, which is a new upper-layer network protocol built on top of the base Bitcoin ...