The most potent suite of infra and tools for building and scaling your dApp effortlessly — Where are the killer apps? Despite Bitcoin’s disruptive potential in in a wide range of use cases such as micropayments, international remittances, and supply chain management, we have yet to see a single killer app that is extremely popular and adopted by the mainstream, 14 years after its launches. By comparison, after iPhone was launched…

Run an sCrypt smart contract on BTC — We are thrilled to announce the first successful smart contract written in a high-level programming language on the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network. The contract involves two transactions, which can be viewed using a block explorer: Deploy txid: f7b0d5c2a1b70a3ce13afe06f867a9f3c60fd73c9756bb4f37a343e9a8f9d4c1 Spend txid: cf48d9d242bd19a70042609d1602f39ca4191830b656e6d1d9660ba9fa529a8e

No Off-chain Communication Needed — Introduction As the blockchain and cryptocurrency space evolves, there has been a growing need for enhanced security measures to protect digital assets. One of the prominent solutions to this challenge is multisig (multi-signature) wallets. These wallets require the signatures of multiple parties before a transaction can be executed, providing an added…

How I stopped worrying about losing my private key — Introduction to Social Recovery A significant obstacle in making Bitcoin applications user-friendly is ensuring security to prevent the loss or theft of users’ keys. …

We are excited to announce the integration of the sCrypt smart contract verification plugin on WhatsOnChain. The plugin allows anyone to submit and verify sCrypt code for a deployed smart contract. Smart Contract Verification Users need assurance that a smart contract does what it claims to do, before interacting with it. In theory…

Ordinals has become a hot topic in BTC circles to create non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It main feature is storing the NFT itself entirely on chain. We show that the original Bitcoin protocol can already support it. No breaking changes, including both SegWit and Taproot, are needed for Ordinals to work…

Account abstraction has for a long time been a dream of Ethereum and has become a hot topic recently. We demonstrate Bitcoin has shipped with account abstraction/unification since its genesis. Thus, all the salient features promised by AA can be and have been developed on Bitcoin, without any protocol changes…

We use the secure enclaves of iOS and Android devices to store Bitcoin private keys. The keys never leave the enclaves, providing same security as hardware wallets. This essentially turns billions of smartphones into secure Bitcoin hardware wallets. Users can authorize Bitcoin transactions using FaceID and TouchID. Secure Enclave The Secure Enclave…

Put your money where your mouth is — We have built a Monty Hall Problem simulation on Bitcoin. If you know the right answer to the probability puzzle, you are compensated with monetary rewards, besides showing off your mathematical skills as you only gain otherwise. It runs entirely on chain trustlessly. The Monty Hall Problem The Monty Hall problem is a probability…