Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and the base-layer race.
Bitcoin just repelled the BIP-110 soft fork aimed at reining in Taproot. Five years on, the upgrade powers stablecoins, multisig and privacy,…
Bitcoin is stuck in the mid-$60,000s, about 48% below its October 2025 record, as a weak US jobs report and a hawkish…
Bitcoin Runes pushed network traffic to a two-year high in 2026, two years after the protocol broke fee records at the halving.…
A near-dead soft fork called BIP-110 opens its mandatory signaling window this weekend, aiming to curb the on-chain data that Taproot made…
Bitcoin's Lightning Network shipped BOLT12 offers and splicing in 2026, but LND still lacks both natively. The gap is reshaping wallets, liquidity…
Nostr's relay network is running out of money, and Lightning micropayments were supposed to fix that. Paid relays, zaps, and proof of…
Steak 'n Shake, BTC Inc and Block are proving Lightning payments work at real registers. Here is how the merchant stack, fees…
Bitcoin's Lightning Network moves dollars faster and cheaper than Visa's card rails, but Tron and Solana still carry far more stablecoin volume.…
Lightning payments are fast only if a node already has inbound liquidity. A real industry, from marketplaces to a public company, now…
Lightning Labs launched Wavelength, an Ark-style toolkit for Bitcoin payments built for apps and AI agents. It is the third Ark implementation…