Thread by @Blockstream

1/ #LAYER2ROUNDUP: Welcome to the latest thread of our monthly series on Lightning and Liquid. What you missed:

⚡️ LN capacity at all-time highs, up 200% yoy
🌇 #LightningHackdayIST
🔖 New research from @vulpemventures
⛏️ BMN on @BFXSecurities

and much more👇🧐

2/ #Bitcoin capacity for both the @Liquid_BTC and #LightningNetwork continues to steadily rise with year-over-year growth LQ ~25% / LN ~200%, respectively. 🌊⚡️

3/ With an estimated limit of 500 TPS per channel, the #LightningNetwork has a throughput of more than 40 million TPS based on the number of channels today (the equivalent of 14.4 TB size blocks), enabling it to become the global payment layer of the #Bitcoin circular economy.

4/ Learn more about the two leading #bitcoinlayer2 solutions and how they are replacing the legacy banking system by building the payment and financial layers of #Bitcoin.

blog.liquid.net/exploring-bitc…

5/ Earlier in the month, @jb55 announced #LNLink for iOS, an open-source app in development that allows node operators to control their #clightning nodes all in one place and with no extra software.

lnlink.app

https://twitter.com/jb55/status/1490129780766765056?s=21

6/ Elsewhere, a new TypeScript client for #clightning was released in beta. The client covers 100% of the API.

c-lightning-client.runcitadel.space

github.com/runcitadel/c-l…

https://twitter.com/AaronDewes/status/1490279349458718721?s=20&t=uf6QV9WKk5TqOGluM6Nm6Q

7/ Follow Lightning development and the spec meetings by subscribing to the @SimpleLightning newsletter from @Seardsalmon and @kiarabickers.

For c-lightning specifically, try joining in on the bi-weekly dev chats announced through @clightning_twit.

https://twitter.com/clightning_twit/status/1490763109216227332?s=20&t=5PtLCr4zQsceuNv1ulD-Hg

8/ Also this month, developer @Sonny_AD shared 'Essential Introduction to Bitcoin for Developers,' where he explains Script, the Bitcoin CLI tool, BIPs, and much more.

Worth sharing with a dev friend who is #Bitcoin (and layer-2) curious.

hackernoon.com/an-essential-i…

9/ In other layer-2 news, @vulpemventures published a new paper on synthetic assets, which would allow for assets like stocks, commodities, or even a combination thereof, to be tokenized and traded on @Liquid_BTC.

vulpem.com/synthetic-asse…

github.com/vulpemventures…

10/ During the last week of Feb, the #Lightning Hackday in Istanbul featured many ⚡ projects, a few to follow:

⚡ ATMs: @bleskomat, @thelightningatm
⚡ powered 🍺 tap: @CandleHater, @pubinno, @lnbits
⚡ infra: @getAlby, @BtcpayServer, @RaspiBlitz

https://twitter.com/arcbtc/status/1497188876288417796?s=20&t=0JA1JczZ39bvrS-kdT1IWA

11/ To conclude last month, the #BlockstreamMiningNote, a @Liquid_BTC security token, had a successful raise and is now available for trading on @BitfinexSecurities in BTC and USD pairs.

capital.bitfinex.com/bmn

12/ For future threads on Lightning ⚡️and Liquid 🌊 and to stay up-to-date on all the latest projects augmenting Bitcoin, be sure to follow the #Layer2Roundup hashtag!