Boltz - Non-Custodial Bitcoin Bridge
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Boltz is a non-custodial Bitcoin bridge built to swap between different Bitcoin layers while staying in full control. API Docs: https://t.co/TmPffFSueT
Joined December 2018
Today we are launching Boltz Pro, a non-custodial way to earn sats with swaps on Boltz ๐ซฐ. Tl;dr: users earn sats for swapping in a specific direction based on the current liquidity situation of our wallets. Get started here:๐ ๐
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Today we are drastically reducing network fees for @Liquid_BTC swaps - finally making โกmicropayments via wallets like @AquaBitcoin @MarinaWallet @BullBitcoin_ or Helm economically viable ๐ซฐ. Network fees drop from previously ~400 sats total to ~40 sats total๐คฏ
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We have been cooking!๐ Today, we are launching the *Boltz BTCPay Plugin*, enabling merchants to accept Lightning payments without the need to run a node. Powered by @Liquid_BTC Swaps ๐. "The most impactful plugin ever released on BTCPay!".- @_strainly.
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Today we are officially launching Liquid Swaps - Your tool for unfairly cheap rebalancing of your Lightning node! โก๏ธ๐. Try it out ๐๐. Explainer and step-by-step guide here:
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We are stoked to finally release Chain Swaps today๐. Chain Swaps let you swap directly between @Liquid_BTC and the #Bitcoin mainchain and lay the foundation for more chain-to-chain pairs in future. Learn all about it in our blog post ๐.
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We just increased max swap amounts to 0.25 BTC across all pairs, including mainchain. Looking at you, big swappers ๐ซก. We also reduced @Liquid_BTC min swap amount to 1k sats. Using cold storage for #Bitcoin micropayments is a reality ๐คฏ
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We are excited to announce the alpha release of Boltz, a trust minimized, account-free exchange built on top of the lightning network. Check out our blog for more info ( or try a swap on PS: already loops in and out @lightning.
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We just shipped a little something: Bolt12 Swaps ๐ซก
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Today we are introducing our all-new web app:. ๐ ๐. ๐ Uniting Liquid & mainchain swaps in one web app.๐ฅ Swap to Taproot addresses.๐ง
Liquid swaps now available via onion domain.โฌ๏ธ Increasing Liquid Swap Limits to 0.1 BTC. More:
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That hurts: Sorry guys, we had to take Boltz offline for the time beingโ ๏ธ. Our on-chain working capital is all locked up in the mempool and swaps started failing. A disabled swap service is better than a failing swap service. Bear with us, we'll be back when we figured this out.
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In the past days we are seeing the majority of @Liquid_BTC swaps in the 1k-10k sats range and practically no mainchain swap below 1 million sats. Market doing its thing. Beautiful to watch ๐ค
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On this beautiful day of justice, we are extremely proud to launch **Boltz Client** ๐. If you run @Core_LN or LND and want automatic & reliably cheap rebalancing of your channels using @Liquid_BTC, you'll love Boltz Client!. Learn all about it ๐.
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Time to update Aqua folks, Taproot Swaps are finally available ๐. Shout out to @BullBitcoin_ for enabling this!. Main benefits:.- dramatically improved โก payment success rate.- if a payment fails, refunds are immediate. Learn more:
Here are the full release notes for this @AquaBitcoin update:. - @Liquid_BTC transaction fees are now ~40 sats (3 cents)! The cost will depend on the size of the transaction and how many inputs there are, but overall it is now ~10x cheaper than before. - AQUA now supports native.
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Today we are excited to release "Autoswap", which fully automates liquidity management for your Lightning node using @Liquid_BTC ๐. Dive into our guide, walking you through how it works and how to set it up ๐.
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Our August in review: .โก๏ธ- set up production CLN (geo rep db cluster!) ๐ช - taught boltz-backend CLN, handling many of our mainnet swaps now โฌ๏ธ- m-o-m total volume another ATH, up 17%.๐- liquid volume stable at 23 % of total volume.
Our new @Core_LN just handled its first mainnet swaps ๐ Simply beautiful to watch a postgres cluster in action. PS: still looking for some inbound ๐.
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@BTCsessions @Liquid_BTC @AquaBitcoin @MarinaWallet @BullBitcoin_ It's a liquid protocol upgrade that we are beta testing that allows us sending transactions with 0.01 instead of 0.1 sats/vbyte. If all goes well, it will be generally available later this year.
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Say hello to @Rootstock_io Swaps!๐. Rootstock Swaps allow anyone to explore Rootstock with ease and enable exciting new use cases on Lightning โก. Learn all about it ๐.
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>6 years โก๏ธ and not stopping ๐ซก
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Oh boy, 2024 has been a ride! ๐
. As the year comes to a close, let's look back at the most significant events and launches of the year ๐. January:.- On Jan3 @AquaBitcoin launched, setting a new standard for Boltz-powered โก๏ธwallets: - We also launched.
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Network fees for Rootstock -> Lightning swaps just dropped by 50%. Before: 162 sats, Now: 81 sats ๐ซฐ. Spontaneous #Lightning payments with your RBTC balance just got even more accessible ๐งก. Wen integration to allow your users to spend #Bitcoin on the go? @beexowallet @Rabby_io
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Took us a moment, but looks like we finally delivered:.- Taproot Swaps: - CLI Tool for CLN: - Liquid Swaps: Your trust and support have been integral to our journey, we are forever grateful๐ @HRF @gladstein.
7/ 25M sats to @Boltzhq to continue to bootstrap the Lightning economy. Funding will support a Taproot upgrade to use less chain space + make swaps indistinguishable from normal spends; implementation w/ c-lightning via an end-user CLI tool; and enabling Liquid>Lightning swaps โก.
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GM. We increased liquid swap limits from max 0.1 BTC -> 0.2 BTC โ๏ธ
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@fischin4sats @wtogami @Strike @mrfelton @Liquid_BTC @BlockstreamJade Going to ship L-BTC to BTC chain swaps soonTM.
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Exchanging sats for great meat at @btcplusplus @LaCryptaOk in Buenos Aires using @AquaBitcoin . #Bitcoin
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Today, we are launching Rootstock Chain Swaps, completing the fundamentals of our @rootstock_io integration ๐ซก. In addition to #Lightning, users can now swap the following pairs in an easy, non-custodial manner:.RBTC <> BTC.RBTC <> L-BTC. This dramatically lowers the entry.
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Today we are releasing Zap Swaps - pay Lightning invoices as low as 21 satsโก๏ธ. Now available via @Breez_Tech's Misty Breez and via (e.g., with @BlksGreenWallet)!. Powered by @Liquid_BTC ๐
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๐๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐ ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐. Excited to announce the release of our new website. Weโve made it easier to trade crypto in self-custodial manner. Checkout how easy is it to trade LN BTC to LTC using new Boltz website on mobile! Try a swap โ
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A self-custodial way to get balanced lightning channel on the fly, Channel creation swaps is our flagship offering. We wrote about why this is such an important milestone for us. Geek out and let us know what you think! .
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It's not the last time we are seeing 2k sats/vbyte. If you depend on your payments to work no matter what, give @Liquid_BTC a proper look. @AquaBitcoin as personal spending wallet ๐. Boltz Client to rebalance your node using Liquid Swaps โก
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We just released Boltz Backend v3.3.0 "Core Compatibility" ๐ค.* Integrate @Core_LN & hold invoice plugin.* Smooth balancing and failover between LND & CLN.* Many improvement for lightning payment reliability to various wallets @PhoenixWallet .* Prepare for @rootstock_io. Moar ๐
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2025 is the year of Ark ๐ฅ.
Been trying out what might be among the world's first ARK transactions on Bitcoin mainnet. Here I send some sats from the @ArkLabsHQ wallet to my Phoenix wallet (using a LN swap).
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โก๏ธ Channel house cleaning in progress ๐งน. Over the course of the next days, we are:.- closing pre-anchor channels.- closing stale channels (weeks without activity).- increasing min channel size of our LND to 5 million sats. Expect # of public channels to drop significantly.
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We just adjusted @rootstock_io swap limits:.- โฌ๏ธ max swap amount from 5 million to 10 million sats.- โฌ๏ธ min swap amount from 10k sats to 2.5k sats. @rootstock_io swaps are going strong this month ๐.
Network fees for Rootstock -> Lightning swaps just dropped by 50%. Before: 162 sats, Now: 81 sats ๐ซฐ. Spontaneous #Lightning payments with your RBTC balance just got even more accessible ๐งก. Wen integration to allow your users to spend #Bitcoin on the go? @beexowallet @Rabby_io
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This is how easy it is to install Boltz as App (PWA) on your mobile, here an example of the steps for Android:. 1. Open in your mobile browser, open the browser menu and tap "Install App"
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Stay tuned for the release of a new swap product in the next days that eliminates miner fee issues. Sth we've been cooking up for quite some time now and now is the time to get it shipped. You'll be able to rebalance your โก-node fee-cheap, unaffected by the bitcoin mempool ๐คฏ๐.
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Boltz is offline right now, be back in 2-3h. We were essentially offline already for the past hours without noticing it because LND *deadlocked* itself once more in the weirdest way - invoice creation just stopped working reliably. We are annoyed as you are ๐pl sbear with us!.
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Today we released Boltz Backend v3.5.0 "In Bloom" ๐ธ. * APIv2 finalized.* Batched swap claims for better chain efficiency.* Magic routing hints for wallets like @AquaBitcoin .* @Liquid_BTC claim covenant. For the full run down check the release notes:
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To expand on some things:. Why would we pay anyone for doing swaps on Boltz? ๐ธ. Balances of our wallets and Lightning channels are constantly in motion and, as directional money velocity increases, so do liquidity requirements for us to be able to reliably have enough capital on.
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Aaand we are back online. Incident postmortem below ๐. Spoiler: problem is on our side, it has nothing to do with the lightning network which continues to do incredibly well, especially in times like these. We couldn't be more bullish! โก.
That hurts: Sorry guys, we had to take Boltz offline for the time beingโ ๏ธ. Our on-chain working capital is all locked up in the mempool and swaps started failing. A disabled swap service is better than a failing swap service. Bear with us, we'll be back when we figured this out.
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#Bitcoin mainchain swaps are practically ded on Boltz. Very few big ones. Meanwhile @Liquid_BTC Swaps be like hold my beer ๐
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We are thrilled to partner up with @get10101 on this exciting journey and announce our most significant rebrand yet ๐
It's happening! We're going cross-chain! ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ. We've been building relentlessly to bring you the best self-custodial trading experience on #SOLANA ๐. Trade #Bitcoin derivatives with $BTC or $SOL as collateral. And still with NO COUNTERPART RISK #SAFU . Are you READY?
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Huuuge update with huge UX improvements! ๐. Shout-out to @BullBitcoin_ @francispouliot_ for enabling this with boltz-rust! Thanks to boltz-rust, @AquaBitcoin will feature Taproot Swaps and Immediate Cooperative Refunds soon too โ.
Here are the detailed release notes. New Features:. - iOS users can now see the Swap button on the home screen. - Reduced Liquid Network fees for inbound Lightning transactions. - Improved flow for sending assets. - Added sending to LNURL Pay and Lightning addresses. LNURL.
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We just released a new landing page @ Intention is to add some info about what we do (more to come) and whom we are working with for first time users, while keeping the swap box only a tap away. Let us know what you think!
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Today, we are proudly taking our BTCPay Plugin out of beta ๐. 21 million thanks to @JoinStrainly @decentralized_b @sethforprivacy & all our beta users that tirelessly worked with us in the past 2.5 months to iron out bugs, master the transition to @BtcpayServer v2 and more๐งก.
We have been cooking!๐ Today, we are launching the *Boltz BTCPay Plugin*, enabling merchants to accept Lightning payments without the need to run a node. Powered by @Liquid_BTC Swaps ๐. "The most impactful plugin ever released on BTCPay!".- @_strainly.
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We just released Boltz Client v2.6.0 "Tiny" ๐ค. Highlights:.* support Liquid swaps for Lightning invoices as small as 21 sats. For the full rundown check the release notes:
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We honestly didn't think about the DCA mainchain fee issue @Liquid_BTC swaps solve. Nice one!. DCA Lightning via e.g. @bullbitcoin_ @Strike @CashApp @CoinCorner and swap to L-BTC saved in @MarinaWallet #BlockstreamGreen or #BlockstreamJade and when time is right back to #bitcoin.
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@francispouliot_ @Liquid_BTC We are member already and can do pegouts. Problem is pegouts can't be designed in a way that they are trustless for our users which is a no-go for us. Sooo we are going to build actual L-BTC/BTC chain-to-chain swaps. Trustless and much faster too.
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Wondering about our potential interactions with government agencies?. We got something for you ๐.
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Exactly, and they do!.
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This week we pushed out releases with some cool new features: Here is the tl;dr ๐. * 0-amount chain swaps: you can now create chain-to-chain swaps completely without specifying an amount OR when you accidentally sent a different amount from what you specified before, you can now.
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We finally enabled pull payments in our BTCPay plugin for @BtcpayServer v2 ๐. โ ๏ธRequires min BTCPay Server v2.0.1โ ๏ธ. Shout-out to @pavlenex @MrKukks @NicolasDorier and our @jackstar0512 for making this possible!. Release Notes:
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Announcement: Today we are making Boltz user support safer! ๐ก๏ธ. Due to the dramatic increase of scammers, trying to extract mnemonics from our users via DM, we are discontinuing support via DM on all platforms. While we are keeping channels like Discord and Telegram for public.
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Our users are awesome ๐ฅ. In the past couple of days, a user went out of his way to help us debug a swap transaction not showing in his @AquaBitcoin . Result: bug fixed in GDK by @LeoComandini - Boltz, @AquaBitcoin @BlksGreenWallet all benefiting ๐.
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60 sats/vbyte to >400 sats/vbyte in less than 3h is the new normal. Prepare accordingly.
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Aaaand fees are back to normal! All wallets refilled ๐ซก. This "market test" was wildly successful! Honestly way beyond expectations ๐ฅ. Earn opportunity on Boltz Pro will be back and until we built out tooling, we'll inform on our socials about availability ๐.
Today we are launching Boltz Pro, a non-custodial way to earn sats with swaps on Boltz ๐ซฐ. Tl;dr: users earn sats for swapping in a specific direction based on the current liquidity situation of our wallets. Get started here:๐ ๐
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It's that time of the week again: switch your channel rebalancing over to @Liquid_BTC swaps ๐. Swap back to mainchain using e.g. @side_swap when we are back to 2-3 sat/vbyte. It really is that easy.
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Say adiรณs to per-swap refund files ๐. Say hola to the Boltz Rescue Key ๐. At weโre dramatically simplifying swap UX: instead of downloading a new refund file for every submarine or chain swap, youโll now only need one Boltz Rescue Keyโdownloaded.
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We reflected a bit on that and . dropped the base fee across all our channels ๐ฅ. Life is hard, it shouldn't have to be NP-hard. Cheers for the work @renepickhardt & @stefanwouldgo , thanks for pointing us at it @thedavidcoen ๐. Happy #zeroBaseFee routing!.
A question to my Lightning Network peers that still don't use #zeroBaseFee: why?. Are you having a good amount of routing events with your current settings?.Can you consider to drop the Base Fee?. @Pinotio_DeFi @Boltzhq @mutatrum @ShockBTC (Lightning Video) @TheRockTrading.
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Today we released Boltz Web App v1.4.1 ๐ซก . Highlights:.* Add "Confidential" warning to refund files.* Improve swap box switch behavior.* Add @BlakeKaufman17 's @BlitzWallet1 and @bordalix 's Helm wallet as integrations. For the full rundown check:
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Our October in review:.๐ป-several web app releases with improved UX & fixes.๐ค-new backend release: โฌ๏ธ-increased liquid swap limits: ๐คฏ-monthly total volume another ATH, up 55%.๐-liquid volume grew on par: making up 60% of volume.
GM. We increased liquid swap limits from max 0.1 BTC -> 0.2 BTC โ๏ธ
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The end of an era. Shout-out to @michael1011at for writing mpay and getting our @Core_LN (and many others) through the past 1.5 years ๐. ๐งก to @rusty_twit for shipping xpay ๐.
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Our September in review:.๐ป-released new web app with improved UX & fixes: ๐-released completely revamped docs: โฌ๏ธ-m-o-m total volume another ATH, up 20% .๐-liquid volume skyrocketed to 65% of total volume, overtaking mainchain ๐คฏ.
Today we shipped a major update of our docs:. ๐ ๐. * combining previously fragemented docs of boltz-backend, boltz-lnd & more.* prioritize flow of API integration.* outdated -> updated. Found an issue? Want to see something improved? Comment below ๐.
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Today we shipped Boltz Web App v1.2.0 ๐ข. - Automatically detect & switch language.- Add Chinese.- Improved refund file download.- Clickable min/max amounts.- Error messages in swap button. For the full run down check the release notes:
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We just released Boltz Web App v1.4.2 ๐ซก . Highlights:.* enhanced embed parameters.* improved swap history list.* allow single refund file to be uploaded as history backup. For the full rundown check the release notes:
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That's how it's done! ๐.
Using the new @Boltzhq Liquid swaps to top up my @walletofsatoshi for #Nostr Zaps!. @Liquid_BTC to #Lightning FAST through a non-custodial #Bitcoin exchange ๐ฑ๐โก๏ธ.
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We just released Boltz Web App v1.3.4 (๐ค๐ชฒ๐ ๏ธ). Highlights:.* Set QR code icon depending on asset.* Open swaps in new tab from history.* Fixing a bug in how we represent small numbers. For the full run down check the release notes:
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Apart from Bolt12, one more feature of this week's release deserves to be highlighted: . ๐ "Any amount chain swaps" ๐. What this means is: you can now send any amount into a chain swap and as long as it's within our min/max range, Boltz will process the swap.
Powered by our new backend release v3.8.0 "An offer you can't refuse":. Highlights:.- Swap-to-Bolt12 powered by CLN's "pay".- New CLN hold plugin (rewrite in Rust).- Chain swaps with any amount (within our min/max). For the full rundown check:.
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We just released Boltz Client v2.1.6 "Ball still low, pain still high" ๐
. Highlights:.* listswaps pagination.* allow specifying all tenant.* track unspent tx outputs in GDK to fix another low-ball related bug. For the full rundown check the release notes:
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And we are back online! Took longer than expected but thanks to the latest LND 0.15.1-beta.rc1 release the database of our lightning node shrunk from 189 GB to only 9 GB. No more monthly maintenance from now on!.
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GM node runners!. If you are in it for the routing, now (1 sat/vbyte baby!!!) is a good time to switch your channel over to our CLN node ๐
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We are back to 1 sat/vbyte they said. Point is you can't rely on it. Your lightning channels can't. Rebalancing with @Liquid_BTC solves this. Learn how it works and how much you can save here:
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๐ Protocol Upgrade: Boltz Adopts ELIP 200. In the coming days we are migrating @Liquid_BTC swaps to ELIP 200 - Liquid's upgraded fee protocol:.โ
Sunsetting legacy discount protocol.โ
Marginally adjusted fees: ~5-7 sat increase.โ
Still unfairly cheap๐. More about ELIP 200 ๐.
As the technical providers for Liquid, we are excited to announce the deployment of ELIP 200: Discounted Fees for Confidential Transactions on Liquid mainnet. The new fee policy offers up to 90% reduction in fees when sending assets like USDT. ๐๐งต.
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We just released Boltz Web App v1.6.1 ๐งก. Highlights:.* Redesigned Refund Page.* Fix browser language detection.* Several improvements for Boltz Pro. For the full rundown check the release notes:
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We just released Boltz Client v2.1.8 "Consolidator" ๐๏ธ. Highlights:.* auto consolidate UTXOs.* update to latest GDK. For the full rundown check the release notes:
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This week we released Boltz Client 2.1.1 "Nothing Special" ๐. Highlights:.* Liquid Readonly Wallets.* Use lowball fee for all Liquid transactions.* Allow custom server names/certificates for CLN. For the full rundown check the release notes:
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We recently released Boltz Backend v3.9.1 "Still swarming" ๐. Highlights:.* Rootstock swaps improvements.* Improve handling of CLN's new xpay.* Custom fees and limits based on referral key. For the full rundown check the release notes:
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We just released Boltz Client v2.1.7 "Readonly"๐. Highlights:.* allow readonly wallets for receiving and chain swap destinations.* custom reverse swap invoice expiry.* lnd: allow macaroon to be encoded in hex. For the full rundown check the release notes:
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Always wanted to install Boltz as app? . You can now on Android, iOS and even Desktop ๐คฏ.๐ ๐.
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Nice thread if you are wondering what you can do with Boltz walking you through why's and hows. Reliably cheap โก๏ธ channel rebalancing? Covered. DCAing from โก๏ธ into cold storage? Covered. Increase your coin privacy? Covered. We appreciate you @teemupleb.
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It's stressful at times, but we are encouraging all technical #Bitcoin startups out there to dare to self-host. Especially when keys are on the line. As a plus you might as well beat the big guys in uptime.
Canโt hit โsellโ if you canโt access your brokerage account.
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We just released Boltz Web App v1.7.2 ๐. Highlights:.* Fetch refundable UTXOs from block explorer.* Refund multiple UTXOs in one transaction.* Add Terms & Privacy Policy. For the full rundown check the release notes:
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Nosotros tambiรฉn hablamos espaรฑol. Bueno, al menos lo intentamos ๐
. Gracias a @lunaticoin @Multicripto @Ko01Zero ๐.
Logramos el objetivo!๐ช. El D156 estรก desbloqueado. Muchas gracias a los 16 Bitcoiners ๐งก que nos apoyaron esta semana ๐. Desbloquea el siguiente Directo ingresando aquรญ: Hasta el prox halving๐ .@lunaticoin @Multicripto @Ko01Zero.
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Negative fee rates are back on Boltz Pro ๐.
Today we are launching Boltz Pro, a non-custodial way to earn sats with swaps on Boltz ๐ซฐ. Tl;dr: users earn sats for swapping in a specific direction based on the current liquidity situation of our wallets. Get started here:๐ ๐
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Today we moved the default of our BTCPay plugin to @BtcpayServer v2 ๐ฅ. We will continue supporting @BtcpayServer v1 for now and just published a release that adds update notifications:. Learn more about our BTCPay Plugin๐.
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๐ Big update: Miners just slashed @rootstock_io's minimumGasPrice โ cutting network fees by ~60% to boost accessibility!. โ๏ธ 80%+ of Bitcoinโs hashrate now protects Rootstock, giving miners an additional revenue stream, making their income more resilient and less dependent on.
Rootstock just got 60% cheaper to use, and weโre giving back to the community!. Join the Gas Slash Campaign for a chance to win $6,000 in rBTC and, for a limited time benefit from additional gas paybacks in a community prize pool.
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We just released Boltz Web App v1.6.2 ๐ซก. Highlights:.* additional transaction broadcasts via public APIs (external contribution ๐).* add tropykus and speed as integrations .* harden concurrent @rootstock_io claims. For the full rundown check:
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Browser Menu -> Install App. Progressive Web Apps are pretty resistant against AppStore censorship!
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