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Users wanted privacy. Banks wanted confidentiality. Technologists thought it was cool. @adam3us explains how Confidential transactions on Liquid satisfied all three.

Curious how these Simplicity apps actually work? Bring your questions to the @Blockstream team at Office Hours, every Tuesday 08:00 PT. docs.simplicity-lang.org/office-hours/

ICYMI: Simplicity, Liquid’s high-assurance smart contracting language, has a newly redesigned documentation site. It includes a testable lending contract that lets users borrow against assets such as LBTC and USDT. simplicity-lang.org/simplicity-apps

🌊 @Liquid_BTC is locked in! KaleidoSwap Extension now supports the Liquid Network, including assets like USDT. One mnemonic. Multiple routes. Directly in your browser. Open-source release coming soon. 🚀

@kaleidoswap Welcome aboard!

#AgenticAQUA just got its biggest update yet! 🚀 AI Agents can now pay invoices by scanning a QR code, get their own aqua.net Lightning Addresses, create a @JAN3com account without a captcha, and pay in Argentine pesos with USDt on @Liquid_BTC via @wapupay. 🦾💸

Announcing the first-ever Simplicity CTF challenge! I've locked 0.01 LBTC in a contract. Your task is to find how to unlock it and claim the reward! I've also sent this challenge to our internal Blockstream chat. Here is the description. Good luck! github.com/Arvolear/simpl…

You can see the UTXOs moving on the Liquid block explorer. You can't see the amounts, and you can't see which asset moved. A zero knowledge proof lets every full node verify the transaction is valid, without seeing a single number. @adam3us on how Confidential Transactions actually work.

You can now develop custom Simplicity libraries via Simplex framework. Just shipped dependency management and installation there. Working on covenants fuzz testing next.

Simplicity's site just got a full redesign. Simplicity lets you prove exactly how a contract behaves before it goes live. No surprise fees, no transactions failing mid-execution. The security guarantees are part of the language, not bolted on after. Live on @Liquid_BTC mainnet, running real financial contracts, and built for the developers and institutions building high-assurance Bitcoin applications. blog.blockstream.com/welcome-to-the…

Powered by Liquid, DePix has become a go-to Bitcoin onboarding path in Brazil. @adam3us explains.

Writing Simplicity contracts gets more like writing normal code with every new SimplicityHL release. v0.6.0 adds imports, modules, and dependencies. @Arvolear shares what's new from @blksresearch.

As the Simplicity ecosystem grows, builders need to ship once and have any wallet pick it up. tx-manifest is an early experiment in making that easier, on Bitcoin and Liquid. From @Blockstream Programming Language Developer Mike Berry. 🔗stringhandler.github.io/tx_manifest_bo…

No Simplicity office hours this week. Instead, see how builders @blksresearch are thinking about growing the Simplicity ecosystem, clear signing, wallet standards, and a simple principle: you should understand exactly what you're paying for before you sign docs.simplicity-lang.org/documentation/…

Limited seats left for this one. Build formally verifiable lending contracts on @Liquid_BTC with Blockstream and two of Switzerland's banking teams, hands on, July 2 in Zürich

USDT & USDC payments are here! Buy now and earn 2.1% rewards on all Visa and Mastercards 💳 Our web app now supports new payment methods via @Boltzhq swap: USDT, USDC, Liquid BTC (@Liquid_BTC), R-BTC (@rootstock_io), W-BTC, and T-BTC. Just select "Other" as your payment method during checkout. Earning sats back on your shopping just got easier! app.thebitcoincompany.com

Anatomy of a Simplicity UTXO. A high-level overview of how such UTXOs get created and spent. In a nutshell, it's just a fancy Taproot.

Simplicity contracts on Liquid are built on Bitcoin's own script model, not a parallel system. @Arvolear maps the full lifecycle. 💪 A dev to follow for insights on building high-assurance Bitcoin contracts.

Real-world assets want Bitcoin's security model without the tradeoffs. That's Liquid. @adam3us on the ~$5 billion already settling there: stocks, bonds, stablecoins and bitcoin treasuries, on a codebase built to inherit Bitcoin's security track record.

Build lending contracts you can formally verify with Simplicity, alongside the banking teams at Swisscom and Luzerner Kantonalbank. We cover where core banking is heading and how Liquid fits, then write them together on @Liquid_BTC. Zürich, July 2 🇨🇭 lu.ma/h94asyi8