Breez

Breez has revealed the Time2Build 2025 winners, with $3,500 Bitcoin prizes awarded to integrations enabling self-custodial Lightning payments in BTCPay Server, Primal's Nostr web client, Evento social platform, and Portal identity protocol.

Breez, in collaboration with Lightspark, Tether, Plan B Network, and Fulgur Ventures, unveils Time2Build—a $25,000 Bitcoin prize hackathon running October 7 to November 15, 2025—aiming to integrate self-custodial Lightning Network payments into active open-source projects serving millions worldwide.

The new SDK implementation, built on top of Spark, offers tools for adding self-custodial Bitcoin payments to apps.

We need to stop thinking in terms of getting people to use Bitcoin software, we need to embed Bitcoin into existing software.

Breez announces their newest application, Misty Breez, built using their Nodeless Breez SDK on top of the Liquid sidechain.

Take a look at Breez and 1A1z's latest report deep diving into the current state of Bitcoin's use as a transactional payment mechanism.

Francisco Chavarria, Yopaki’s co-founder and CEO, believes that by educating Yopaki’s users about Bitcoin and incorporating a favorite Mexican pastime into the app, he and his team are poised to make Mexico a nation of Bitcoin enthusiasts.

In its latest partnership, Breez teams up with Mexican neobank Yopaki to offer Mexican Bitcoin users a non-custodial Lightning solution.

Breez co-founder and CEO Roy Sheinfeld envisions a world in which the Bitcoin Lightning Network is incorporated into mainstream applications like Uber and Spotify.

Relai has partnered with Blockstream and Breez to allow its users to use the Lightning Network in a self-custodial manner.