$87,309.00
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-14.67%Reading
Bitcoin-focused company Lightning Labs has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round led by Valor Equity Partners, with participation from Baillie Gifford, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Goldcrest Capital, and others.
The funding will help enable stablecoinstablecoin transactions on the Lightning Network using Lightning Labs’ new Taro protocol.
The Lightning Network is a layer-two solution for BitcoinBitcoin transactions, enabling instant, low-fee transactions with Bitcoin—but without using Bitcoin’s blockchainblockchain verification for each transaction. Lightning Labs builds features for the Lightning network. It’s already developed a few different products, including Lightning Pool for Bitcoin liquidity. Now it’s adding Taro.
Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade, which went live back in November 2021, is what made the Taro protocol technically possible. Taro—whose name was inspired by the taro root plant—allows developers to move stablecoins from the Bitcoin network to the Lightning Network.
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Lightning Labs CEO and Co-Founder Elizabeth Stark believes Taro will enable further Bitcoin adoption because it will allow those without bank accounts in developing countries to send and receive money in the form of stablecoins, which are designed to hold their value relative to currencies like the Mexican peso or U.S. dollar, through mobile applications.
“There’s this concept of ‘fix money, fix the world,’ and that’s, I think, part of what really attracts me to what we’re doing,” Stark said in an interview with Decrypt on her decision to found Lightning Labs.
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is currently being used by the country of El Salvador, the Bitcoin payments company Strike, Twitter's tipping feature, and the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange, to name a few. Now, anyone looking to transfer stablecoins will be able to do so through the Lightning Network.
El Salvador's government today announced it contracted U.S. software company AlphaPoint to fix its buggy state-sponsored Bitcoin wallet—and implement the Lightning Network. New York-based AlphaPoint started improving the Chivo wallet in December, the company confirmed today to Decrypt. It improved the wallet’s user interface, fixed various bugs, and installed a feature so it can handle the Lightning Network. The Lightning Network is a "second-layer solution" that speeds up Bitcoin transactions...
The news comes as the possibility of stablecoin regulation looms overhead. Last month, President Biden signed an executive order asking the U.S. federal government to investigate cryptocurrencies and “produce a report on the future of money and payment systems.” And last week, two U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill that would require stablecoins to be backed by both U.S. dollars and government securities.
Stark said that potential stablecoin regulations wouldn’t affect the Bitcoin Lightning Network because it isn’t issuing stablecoins, but is merely providing a transaction highway for them to be exchanged. If regulations come, Stark said, “Issuers will be able to be compliant.”
“Stablecoins are not going away. I think they’re only going to increase in adoption,” she said.
DFZ Labs, the creators of the Ethereum NFT project Deadfellaz, will launch a new asset verification tool that allows users to connect online and offline assets without signing blind transactions or smart contract approvals. Coldlink, now in beta, enables blockchain users to connect their blockchain address to any asset in Web2, Web3, or real life without incurring the security risk of blind signing or smart contract approvals, DFZ Labs said. “To ‘Coldlink’ something is to connect any digital ass...
Scammers are using cracked versions of TradingView Premium to drain crypto wallets. The app is disguised as a “cracked” version of the real TradingView Premium app. Downloads of the malware infused versions are being distributed via Reddit and have often been found in cryptocurrency sub Reddits. Victims have reported having their entire crypto wallets emptied. They were then impersonated by the scammers, who used their details to send out phishing attempts encouraging the victims’ contacts to d...
In a London office on Thursday, BitcoinOS developers completed the final code commit that would open-source BitSNARK, a specialized protocol enabling zero-knowledge verification on Bitcoin. The move to open-source BitSNARK “unlocks programmability on Bitcoin” and aims to help developers “build and experiment in ways that were previously impossible,” Edan Yago, CEO and co-founder of BitcoinOS, told Decrypt. The release follows BitcoinOS's July 2024 demo, which verified the first zero-knowledge pr...
