Wallets & Tools Who Needs A Lightning Wallet When You Have A Browser? Remember the Mutiny Web Wallet we discovered in Lastest Stikes #10? The team behind the project made some significant progress and the perfect video announcement. The web wallet now provides all the features you’d expect from a Lightning wallet: send and receive Bitcoin on-chain, open Lightning channels and transact on Lightning. For example, Ben Carman recorded a demo of him using Munity Web to buy an OP_RETURN transaction on OP_RETURN bot....

Ecosystem Grant BitMEX renewed Rene Pickhardt’s grant, extending it for 6 additional months. Rene’s work has been quite influential on how we envision liquidity on the Lightning Network, from a novel routing algorithm (Pickhardt Payment) to better models for liquidity management (why would the optimal state for all channels be a 50/50 repartition of funds?) and their consequences (for example, flow control). Adopting Bitcoin That was quick! The Adopting Bitcoin team already published lots of replays (all of them?...

Ecosystem Automatic Withdrawals in LN Markets LN Markets released a new feature called “Automatic Withdrawal”. It leverages Lightning Addresses to automatically send the proceeds of a trade to the user’s own wallet when some trading events (takeprofit, stoploss or option exercise) are triggered. On top of instant deposits and withdrawals, this helps users make sure not to leave their funds on the platform any longer than the trade itself. Zero Fee Post Mortem lightningnetwork+ interviewed now retired Zero Fee Routing regarding his experience as one of the biggest node in the network....

Wallets & Tools Blixt Wallet v0.6.0 Hampus Sjöberg released the version 0.6.0 of the Blixt Lightning Wallet! This new version ports the wallet to MacOS, which makes it one of the few Lightning wallets available on desktop. The release also features a number of improvements, such as the “sats” unit being the default, the ability to connect to nodes running behind onion v3 addresses, support for receiving to Taproot addresses or a welcomed change in connection flow: users can now change the Bitcoin node Blixt connects to before creating or restoring their wallet....

Ecosystem Grants The OpenSats initiative has announced two new grant attributions: William Casarin received the “Tip Jar” grant for his work on LNLink, an iOS app to manage one’s Core Lightning node ; while Calle was awarded the “E-Cash” bounty for his work on Cashu, a Lightning-enabled Chaumian ecash implementation. The non profit OpenSats initiative created 3 special Lighting grants back in December 2021, funded by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) and Strike, awarding bounties to open source projects building wallets and tools providing useful features for dissidents worldwide....