Im always curious whats happening across all the Bitcoin layers currently being built. Not just mainchain and Lightning, but RSK, Liquid, Stacks and anything else that pops up.

Here's a snippet of what I found:

Bitcoin: -An old Bitcoin proposal gets a fresh influx of cash to bring Bitcoin layers to life. Paul Sztorc (The man behind drivechains and BIP300) has raised $3 million to bring some of these ideas to the market faster and with a better chance of actually being adopted. Starting with clones of Ethereum and Zcash that have no altcoin and run directly by bridging in native BTC. Learn more about this effort at Layer2Labs.com -Fun fact: The Bitcoin network settled over 8 trillion dollars worth of volume in 2022.

Lightning: -Breez raises $4.5 million to bring Lightning-as-a-Service. TBD on what that means. So far they have built a point-of-sale system and podcast player that integrates easy tipping using the Lightning network. -Mash released a WHOLE bunch of new updates for their website monetization tools. Decreasing the amount of code to place on your website, how things get displayed, when they show up and a bunch more. If you want to add Lightning payments to your website, Mash is the way. -Someone has created native Bitcoin NFTs that are attached to individual satoshis. Uhhhh, Mind blown? It's called Inscriptions.

Stacks: -The biggest news on Stacks over the last month BY FAR has been sBTC. The upcoming solution that aims to solve the Bitcoin peg-in/peg-out problem to bridge native BTC into Stacks. Max (Hiro Systems) sat down with Igor from Trust Machines, who is working on the sBTC solution. They go over some of the finer details of how it works and is being implemented. Highly recommend this video for those interested. -Xverse wallet released their desktop chrome extension. More ways for you nerds to use your crypto easily.

RSK: -another stablecoin is in the mix and its on Rootstock. Dollar on Chain launched last month with a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin.

Liquid: -The Liquid network has been updated to match the latest version from Bitcoin Core at V22. -Fuji Money was announced. Bringing Bitcoin-backed stables and swaps of assets in a peer-to-peer fashion with Liquid or Lightning. You can get on the waitlist here

This is a small snippet of what I found. The complete update and links to everything mentioned can be found on the blog. https://builtonbitcoin.beehiiv.com/p/week-bitcoin-january-7th-2023