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Wavelength: Lightning Labs brings bitcoin to any app with a single API call
Lightning Labs' new toolkit adds a self-custodial bitcoin wallet to any application with a few API calls: no node to run, no channels to manage, no liquidity to source.
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RGB Protocol on Bitcoin: from a Milan lab in 2015 to mainnet
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin took roughly ten years to move from a research lab in Milan in 2015 to a live asset layer on mainnet in July 2025. This is the Atlas21 summary of the full history...
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Anti-surveillance clothing and glasses designed to fool facial recognition
From adversarial patterns to infrared lights embedded in fabrics, a market for wearable...
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EFF: anti-stealth crawler laws threaten the open web
The New York legislature has passed a bill requiring anonymous crawlers to identify...
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KaleidoSwap demonstrates native RGB on Liquid without a bridge
With 207 lines of backward-compatible code, Blockstream's sidechain becomes a third home for...
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Most smartwatch makers publish no transparency report, EFF finds
Of ten wearable makers reviewed by the EFF, only Apple and Google publish...
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Thirty-nine trillion reasons
American sovereign debt follows a fiscal trajectory that no central bank can correct...
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The Fed’s independence is a legal fiction
The SCOTUS rulings of 29 June 2026 on independent agencies reveal that the...
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The sovereign debt trap: Japan explains everything
JGB yields at forty-year highs reveal the mechanism by which sovereign bonds erode...
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Greenspan and the great illusion: the Fed was never reformable
The death of Alan Greenspan offers an occasion to read the central bank...
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Igor Neumann: “Since the launch of Firefish we haven’t recorded a single liquidation due to price drops”
Atlas21 interviews the COO of Firefish who explains how the marketplace is bringing Bitcoin lending to retail users and traditional institutions through a non-custodial model.
John Carvalho: “Bitcoin doesn’t scale. We need to scale trust, not complexity”
According to the CEO of Synonym, speaking at the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, the solution to scaling Bitcoin is to empower users to apply...
Dan Gould (Payjoin Dev Kit): “We aim to accelerate Payjoin adoption in 2026”
The lead developer of PDK spoke to Atlas21's microphones explaining how Payjoin can raise the privacy level for all Bitcoin network users.
CoinJoin: comparison of tools to improve privacy on Bitcoin
Wasabi Wallet, Whirlpool and JoinMarket: operational models, decentralization, costs, usability and waiting times to increase the privacy of your UTXO.
Spark: the layer 2 launched by Lightspark
Lightspark introduces a layer 2 for instant payments, stablecoins and interoperability with Lightning.
Guide to using the Liquid Network
How to use Bitcoin’s sidechain: peg-in, peg-out, and swaps.
Wavelength: Lightning Labs brings bitcoin to any app with a single API call
Lightning Labs' new toolkit adds a self-custodial bitcoin wallet to any application with a few API calls: no node to...
Privacy: at least China is honest
Chinese prosecutors want to use mixer usage as evidence of money laundering: the logic already written into Western KYC systems.
Anti-surveillance clothing and glasses designed to fool facial recognition
From adversarial patterns to infrared lights embedded in fabrics, a market for wearable products is challenging the biometric identification systems...
EFF: anti-stealth crawler laws threaten the open web
The New York legislature has passed a bill requiring anonymous crawlers to identify themselves, and the EFF warns that the...
The Trojan horse of institutional adoption
When banks build custody infrastructure on Bitcoin, they replicate the fractional-reserve logic on the only asset with a mathematically fixed...
KaleidoSwap demonstrates native RGB on Liquid without a bridge
With 207 lines of backward-compatible code, Blockstream's sidechain becomes a third home for RGB assets after Bitcoin and Lightning, opening...
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Wavelength: Lightning Labs brings bitcoin to any app with a single API call
Lightning Labs' new toolkit adds a self-custodial bitcoin wallet to any application with a few API calls: no node to...
Privacy: at least China is honest
Chinese prosecutors want to use mixer usage as evidence of money laundering: the logic already written into Western KYC systems.
Anti-surveillance clothing and glasses designed to fool facial recognition
From adversarial patterns to infrared lights embedded in fabrics, a market for wearable products is challenging the biometric identification systems...
EFF: anti-stealth crawler laws threaten the open web
The New York legislature has passed a bill requiring anonymous crawlers to identify themselves, and the EFF warns that the...
The Trojan horse of institutional adoption
When banks build custody infrastructure on Bitcoin, they replicate the fractional-reserve logic on the only asset with a mathematically fixed...
KaleidoSwap demonstrates native RGB on Liquid without a bridge
With 207 lines of backward-compatible code, Blockstream's sidechain becomes a third home for RGB assets after Bitcoin and Lightning, opening...
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