{"id":7345,"date":"2022-08-26T21:59:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02a9bf15700026a3"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:14:34","slug":"nydig-announces-lightning-accelerator-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/nydig-announces-lightning-accelerator-project","title":{"rendered":"New York Digital Investment Group Announces Lightning Accelerator Project Called \u201cIn Wolf\u2019s Clothing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On August 26, 2022, Ross Stevens, CEO of Stone Ridge Holdings Group and executive director of the New York Digital Investments Group (NYDIG) subsidiary, made an impromptu appearance at BitBlockBoom in Austin, Texas, for a special announcement.<\/p>\n

Stevens has long been a proponent of Bitcoin through his Stone Ridge shareholder letter, his co-written article, \u201cOn Impossible Things Before Breakfast,\u201d participation in the MicroStrategy corporate strategy program<\/a> and interview<\/a> with famous bitcoin proponent, Michael Saylor.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI want to live in a world of rules, not governed by rulers.\u201d \u2014 Ross Stevens<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

NYDIG has made numerous investments and loans in the Bitcoin industry and notably had 26,200 miners returned<\/a> to them to pay off some debts. The company also recently made headlines when partnering<\/a> with the New York Yankees to allow their employees to convert their salaries into bitcoin. <\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Stevens shared what many Bitcoiners believe, \u201cThe technology underlying shitcoins is brittle,\u201d and assured the audience that his companies \u201cwill always stay bitcoin.\u201d From his paper with Allen Farrington, he shared his underlying mission. \u201cThe concept of decentralized finance is powerful, noble and worthy of a lifetime of focused effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking from the Bitcoin Commons, Stevens shared that NYDIG will launch a Lightning accelerator project. \u201cThe reality is that this year, the progress in Bitcoin and Lightning is staggering. Month after month after month, the nodes on Lightning are growing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The accelerator is geared toward individual founders and small teams, developers working on Lightning, Taro and covenants, and pre-seed, seed, series A companies. Transportation and lodging will be provided for participants from anywhere in the world. <\/p>\n

The program will be run in eight-week cohorts. There will be 8-12 teams per cohort. World-class mentors with office hours. The cohorts will be exclusively non-remote. There will be significant seed capital for each team with already-recruited investors and full-time, in-house expertise.<\/p>\n

This news isn\u2019t necessarily surprising, but the timing during the bear market created an extraordinary buzz and excitement not felt since the 2021 bull run. It will be interesting to see how this news will impact the bitcoin price and widespread adoption during a time when positive news reports seem few and far between.<\/p>\n

People who are interested can apply at apply@wolfnyc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Steven\u2019s closed his speech with \u201cWe\u2019re coming for you fiat. Let\u2019s work tirelessly to make finance decentralized. Let\u2019s work tirelessly to make money decentralized.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lightning accelerator, Wolf, will be based in Manhattan, New York and is exclusively non-remote. It will include mentorship, funding and work space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2679,"featured_media":7346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1634,455,130,93,1772],"class_list":{"0":"post-7345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-accelerator","9":"tag-bitcoin-companies","10":"tag-lightning","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nydig"},"author_data":{"id":2679,"name":"Craig Deutsch","nicename":"craig-deutsch","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/headshot-1-2-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ross-stevens-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}