Building the Bitcoin-backed financial infrastructure that scales—on the lightning network and federations.
A more efficient blockchain that enables users to use different spending conditions with new opcodes and scripting languages.
A peer-to-peer payment network and self-sovereign money that relies on cryptography to provide a transparent, secure, and reliable system.
A network that enables users to make faster and nearly free transactions in payment channels, off of the primary bitcoin blockchain.
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Pioneering new technologies that improve the security, efficiency, and scalability of the blockchain.
An upgrade to Bitcoin that batches multiple signatures and transactions together, making it easier and faster to verify transactions on Bitcoin.
A Bitcoin standard that improves the portability of unsigned transactions, and enables multiple parties to easily sign the same transaction.
Software that enables multiple people to compile the same source code into identical binaries for better audibility and security.
New spending conditions that enable greater extensibility in how coins are transferred on the blockchain.
A protocol for aggregating public keys and signatures for the schnorr digital signature algorithm.
Our tools enable developers to build more secure and reliable software. Run your bitcoin node on NixOS with Nix-Bitcoin. Get started writing structured Bitcoin Scripts with Miniscript, or stand up your own federated with Fedimint.
An optimized C library for ECDSA signatures and secret/public key operations on the secp256k1 curve.
A purely functional package manager that builds the entire operating system from source code, minimizes attack surface, and runs your bitcoin node.
A language for writing Bitcoin Scripts in a structured way, making analysis composition, and generic signing simpler.
A work-in-progress programming language with greater flexibility and expressiveness than Bitcoin Script.
A federated chaumian mint that enables users to create a bitcoin-backed mint with deposits and withdrawals.