Atomic swap

Boltz today enabled trustless Bitcoin-to-USDC swaps using Circle’s CCTP, allowing instant movement between Bitcoin layers including Lightning and the regulated stablecoin accepted by Stripe, Coinbase, Visa, and global institutions — without accounts or custody.

Boltz Exchange today introduced atomic, non-custodial swaps enabling direct Lightning Network sats to USDT0 on Arbitrum, powered by LayerZero's OFT standard for seamless, risk-free bridging.

Kilian of Boltz reveals exclusive details on bridging Bitcoin's onchain, Lightning, Liquid, and Rootstock layers without trust, amid high-fee environments driving adoption.

Bitcoin’s first decentralized exchange to make use of the Lightning Network’s Atomic Swaps is now in beta.

Atomic swaps allow for on-chain exchanges, or transactions, between cryptocurrencies on two separate blockchains — in this case, Bitcoin and Qtum — without the need to rely on a third party.

Thanks to researchers at TenX's CoBloX, the world's first solution for ERC-20-to-bitcoin atomic swaps on Lightning has arrived.

Bitcoin’s overlay payment network is projected to improve over the next few years in areas ranging from network architecture to security and usability, and more.

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London-based Quant Network has created cross-blockchain data interoperability technology, dubbed Overledger.