Boltz, a key piece of Bitcoin’s non-custodial swap infrastructure connecting the Lightning Network, Liquid, and Bitcoin mainchain, has suspended all services indefinitely after months of AI-assisted attacks overwhelmed its ability to patch vulnerabilities faster than attackers could find them.
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Bitcoin Ekasi did not start with code or venture capital. It started with eleven years of community trust in a Mossel Bay township, then layered Bitcoin on top to pay surf coaches in sats and get spaza shops accepting them. Herman Vivier on five years of building Africa’s most recognised Bitcoin circular economy.
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BitDevs Cotonou est de retour. Cette fois, la session explore un angle souvent sous-estimé du Lightning Network: au-delà des paiements, Lightning ouvre la
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Strike has launched a new Bitcoin-backed loan product that removes margin calls and price-triggered liquidations entirely. No matter how far Bitcoin falls, a borrower’s collateral stays put. The trade-off is a higher interest rate, a shorter term, and strict payment requirements.
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Radar Chat is a new encrypted messaging app that lets users send Bitcoin over the Lightning Network inside any conversation, without switching apps, without copying wallet addresses, and without giving up custody of their funds.
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Lightning Labs has released Taproot Assets v0.8 alongside the first public release of the Taproot Assets SDK, a client library designed to make building stablecoin applications on Bitcoin significantly easier. USDT is now live on Lightning via Taproot Assets.
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Cashu developers are working on integrating Payjoin into the Cashu Development Kit, a move that would bring on-chain privacy directly into Bitcoin-backed ecash transactions and close a significant gap in how ecash mints handle coin origins.
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For years, we’ve been told that stablecoins would be Africa’s bridge to better money. More recently, governments have started promising
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BTCPay Server has released version 2.4.0, bringing passwordless passkey login, a guided multisig wallet setup flow, Lightspeed and Jumpseller merchant integrations, and a rebuilt translation system that makes the platform more accessible across languages.
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From grassroots circular economies in Kibera to back-to-back Bitcoin conferences in Nairobi, Kenya is no longer debating Bitcoin adoption. It is living it. Here is what two weeks in June 2026 revealed about where Africa’s most advanced Bitcoin economy actually stands.
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