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Payment Channels
5 Ways Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Advanced in 2021
This past year, key developments on the Lightning protocol have been making Bitcoin a better payment system.

Payment Services Giants See Crypto as Opportunity, Not Threat: MoffettNathanson
Visa, Mastercard and PayPal are expanding their crypto capabilities and continuing to invest across the fledgling industry.

FTX Partners With Nuvei to Offer Instant Payments to Users
The deal will help support the higher value transactions that are often required in crypto trading, the companies said.

Payments Firm Nuvei Launches Crypto-Friendly Debit Cards With Visa
The cards can be used by customers to spend funds from their crypto sales anywhere that Visa is accepted.

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Getting a Marketplace for Payment Channel Liquidity
Lightning Labs new service, Pool, provides a marketplace for Lightning Network businesses and users to lease payment channel liquidity.

MIT Develops 'Spider' Tech to Enable More Efficient Off-Chain Crypto Transactions
The researchers say their new routing scheme can help avoid congestion on off-chain cryptocurrency networks.

'Multi-Part' Payments Could Bring Bigger Bitcoin Sums to Lightning Network
With its latest "major release," bitcoin tech startup Blockstream said its c-lightning software team is the first to release a working version of "multi-part payments."

Lightning Labs Releases 'Loop' Feature for Bitcoin Payments Channels
California startup Lightning Labs released today a new feature to improve usability of the bitcoin payment channel network, lightning.

'Microraiden' Payment Channels Go Live on Ethereum Network
A streamlined version of the Raiden payments channel network has been launched on the main ethereum blockchain.

New Ethereum Proposal Aims to Supercharge Smart Contracts
The creator of a new ethereum project says his ambitious off-chain networks, done right, could enable more complex applications of the technology.
