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Closing the Lightning Loop: Bitcoin's Missing Layer Secretly Goes Live

Ten months ago, we embarked on a mission to tackle one of Bitcoin's longest-standing challenges: building truly accessible payment infrastructure. We set out to "close the Lightning liquidity loop" using a combination of Ark's VTXO system alongside virtual swap providers. Earlier this month at

Exploring Taproot Assets in Ark

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Exploring Taproot Assets in Ark

As Bitcoin infrastructure matures, so do the ways developers explore asset representation on-chain. Taproot Assets offer a compact and Bitcoin-native format for token issuance, built atop Taproot and Merkle-Sum Sparse Merkle Trees (MS-SMT). In this post, we experiment with integrating Taproot Assets into Ark’s offchain batching layer. Specifically, we

Unlocking Liquidity Before Shared Output Expiration

A new VTXO Tree signing scheme that allows the server to unlock liquidity before a round expiration. Building on insights from Brandon Black, we present a generalized method for Ark clients to collaborate with Ark Servers to release liquidity ahead of the expiration of the shared output that commits to