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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.

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Finance

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.

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Finance

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.

FTX bought the naming rights to the Miami Heat arena in March. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk archives)

Finance

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.

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Tech

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.

Lightning Labs co-founder Olaoluwa Osuntokun at the 2019 Lightning Conference in Berlin.

Tech

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.

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Tech

'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."

Blockstream's Christian Decker at Construct 2019, image via CoinDesk archives

Markets

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.

Elizabeth Stark onstage at Consensus 2018.

Markets

'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.

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Markets

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.

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