Continuing my weekly newsletter of everything noteworthy I saw across Bitcoin L1, Lightning, Rootstock, Stacks, Ordinals and Liquid.
Here's 4 of the 15 noteworthy news items I found across Bitcoin.
- Mutiny Wallet is now in open Beta available to the public. Mutiny lets you create a self-custodial Lightning wallet using nothing but a web browser. No more downloading apps with Apple handcuffs or extensions for Chrome. A step change is onboarding UX if it works well
- Rootstock completed a network upgrade, titled Fingerroot 5.0.0. The consensus changes include a transaction gas price cap, improvements to peg-out events, adjustment of block confirmations for a PowPeg migration period, and enhancements to the handling of pegout transactions, among others.
- ORC-Cash has entered the chat! This is a new token standard with some potential big benefits over the BRC20 design.
- Hermetica Finance opened its Beta up to the public! This is a way to earn yield on your STX (and soon sBTC) through locking collateral in a vault that is then used to trade options strategies.
Links to everything mentioned above and other goodies in the newsletter below.
https://builtonbitcoin.beehiiv.com/p/week-bitcoin-july-20th-2023