A testing ground for new Bitcoin features! Like a sandbox where developers can try new ideas safely.
Experimental sidechains secured by miners (BIP 300/301). Enables innovation without changing Bitcoin's base layer.
Miner-secured sidechains (BIP 300/301) enabling experimental features via blind merged mining and hashrate escrows.
Like a local credit union for Bitcoin! Your community holds funds together, making Bitcoin easier to use.
Community custody with eCash privacy. Federation-based trust model for local communities and organizations.
Federated Chaumian eCash mints providing private, scalable transactions within trusted community federations.
Fast, private Bitcoin for businesses! Transactions happen in 1 minute instead of 10, and amounts stay hidden.
Federated sidechain with confidential transactions and 1-minute blocks. Optimized for exchanges and institutions.
Federated peg sidechain (15 functionaries) with Confidential Transactions (CT) obscuring amounts via Pedersen commitments.
Instant Bitcoin payments! Like opening a tab at your favorite coffee shop—pay instantly, settle on Bitcoin later.
Bidirectional payment channels enabling instant, low-cost transactions via multi-hop routing with HTLCs.
Layer 2 payment channel network using Hash Time-Locked Contracts (HTLCs) for trustless multi-hop routing with onion privacy.
Network Capacity
~5,000 BTC
The rock-solid foundation! Every Bitcoin layer builds on this secure base that nobody can change.
The main Bitcoin blockchain. Maximum security, global verification, but slower (10-minute blocks).
Proof-of-Work secured blockchain with ~10-minute block times. Global consensus via longest chain rule. Final settlement layer.