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Reference prices for Bitcoin markets
Bitcoin financial products can now settle against DIA's BTC/USD attestations, delivered as signatures Bitcoin contracts verify. DIA is one of the first price providers on Arkade.
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Ark Labs Raises $5.2M Backed by Tether to Build Programmable Finance on Bitcoin
Bitcoin is reshaping global markets and deserves the programmable infrastructure that modern financial applications require. Today, we're announcing a $5.2M seed round to build...
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The Case Against Payment Blockchains
Payments don't just need faster rails, they need programmable money. Consider what happens every time you pull out a credit card. @Slashapp , a fintech company doing $4 billion...
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Native Assets on Bitcoin: Introducing Arkade Assets
Today, we're excited to share Arkade Assets, our framework for bringing stablecoins and other digital assets to Bitcoin. We’ve designed the protocol to be native to Arkade meani...
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Press Start: Arkade Goes Live
Today, we're opening Arkade to the world, the first step in Bitcoin's evolution from static money to a global, open financial platform.
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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 Ligh...
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Adios, Expiry: Rethinking Liveness and Liquidity in Arkade
Introducing trust-minimized delegation and the Intent coordination framework Arkade 's batch expiry mechanism serves an important role in liquidity management. Periodic renewal...
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Exploring Taproot Assets in Arkade
As Bitcoin infrastructure matures, so do the ways developers explore asset representation onchain. Taproot Assets offer a compact and Bitcoin-native format for token issuance,...
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Introducing the Arkade Wallet SDK
The Arkade Wallet SDK, a TypeScript-powered toolkit for building Bitcoin wallets with both onchain and offchain transaction support.
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Bitcoin Virtual Channels: Bringing Instant Settlement To Arkade
Virtual Channels use Arkade VTXOs to create efficient, low-cost Bitcoin payment channels by lifting smart contracts offchain.
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Introducing Arkade Notes
Arkade Notes are proposed virtual vouchers signed by an Arkade Operator and redeemable in future rounds to help users recover expired funds.
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Unlocking Liquidity Before Shared Output Expiration
A VTXO Tree signing scheme that lets an Arkade Operator recover liquidity before a shared output expires.
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Ark Labs at Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024: Lightning Without the Storms & The Future of Bitcoin Scaling
Earlier this month at Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024, Ark Labs CEO Marco Argentieri took the stage for an eagerly awaited panel, as well as to…
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Ark Labs Secures $2.5 Million Pre-Seed to Power the Future of Bitcoin-Driven Global Commerce
Some big news from the Lab , we’ve just closed a $2.5 million pre-seed fundraise, led by visionary investor Tim Draper
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Introducing Ark Labs: A new venture to bring seamless and scalable payments to bitcoin
Today, we’re proud to unveil Ark Labs, a new company dedicated to building bitcoin layer-two solutions based on the new Arkade protocol.
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