SoSo Weekly | A Glimpse of New Projects & Innovations - BTC Eco Sector (06/06)
1/ New Projects
Lombard: A DeFi protocol on BTC. No further information is available at the moment.
https://x.com/Lombard_Finance
UTXO Stack: A native extension stack for BTC. Unique features of UTXO Stack include: L1, programmability with Turing-complete functionality using the RGB++ protocol; L2, scalability with one-click deployment of UTXO-based application chains.
https://x.com/utxostack
Flashboys: A mempool sniping market for Runes and Ordinals.
https://x.com/flashboys_wtf
2/ New Technology Developments
Lnfi Network (formerly Nostr Assets) has launched Channel Mining, aiming to promote the adoption of the Lightning Network by introducing tokenomics to incentivize users and lower the entry barriers.
https://starkware.co/scaling-bitcoin-for-mass-use/
3/ BTC Projects Updates & News
- StarkNet developer StarkWare (@StarkWareLtd) announced that StarkNet will become the first network to settle on both Bitcoin and Ethereum, scaling Bitcoin to thousands of transactions per second. They also launched a $1 million fund to support new research and advance the development and adoption of OP_CAT.
https://starkware.co/scaling-bitcoin-for-mass-use/
2. BTC staking protocol Babylon (@babylon_chain) announced that Cap 2 of its staking Testnet-4 is now live.
https://x.com/babylon_chain/status/1798301525036675086
3. The Trump campaign team announced that they are now accepting Bitcoin Lightning payments for campaign donations.
https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1797084063980736914
4. Unisat announced that their five-character inscription $PIZZA has been fully inscribed and will be airdropped within two days.
https://x.com/unisat_wallet/status/1798355652869521700
5. Solana wallet Phantom (@phantom) has officially integrated the BTC chain, allowing for Ordinals and BRC-20 transactions, rare sat management, and recursive inscriptions directly within the wallet. It also now supports Ledger.