Layer1 Development Resources

In-depth analysis and research on Bitcoin providing comprehensive on-chain market intelligence used for understanding market trends and dynamics

Extensive collection of in-depth research articles and analyses on various aspects of Bitcoin featuring best-in-class evidence-based reports.​

Think tank that conducts research and advocacy to enhance understanding of Bitcoin and monetary networks, focusing on issues like national security, financial inclusion, human rights, and the environmental impact of Bitcoin mining

Founded in 2021 as a non-profit foundation to support Bitcoin developers and protect the Bitcoin ecosystem

Research paper that provides an analysis of bitcoin's consensus mechanism, focusing on the roles of various stakeholders, their powers, and the incentives that guide their actions

Privacy-focused, scalable smart contract system for Bitcoin, using a unique Schnorr signature-based protocol that minimizes trust in oracles providing external data

Proposal of using a new 'CHECKSIGFROMSTACK' operation for signature verification of message arguments, enabling the creation of Bitcoin Script programs that restrict fund usage which can help with scaling custody

Provides detailed information relating to BIP 119 including specs, pull requests, workshops, use cases, signaling, scaling custody and much more

Provides detailed overviews of various covenant use cases and consensus change proposals, such as ANYPREVOUT, Template Key, CTV, and others

Novel computing paradigm for expressing Turing-complete Bitcoin contracts without altering the network's consensus rules, leveraging a system where computations are verified rather than executed on Bitcoin

Proof-of-concept implementation of BitVM for bristol circuits

Proof-of-concept turing complete 8-bit VM allowing you to write BitVM programs in assembly

Research paper that proposes a novel method for verifying zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) on Bitcoin's Layer 1 (L1) blockchain without requiring soft forks, by utilizing a Polynomial Inner Product Encryption (PIPE) framework to emulate absent covenants, thus enabling applications like zkRollups and enhancing Bitcoin's programmability despite current limitations in Bitcoin Script

Research paper that introduces ColliderScript, a method to enforce covenants in Bitcoin without protocol changes by leveraging hash collisions in 160-bit hash functions, enabling transaction introspection and arbitrary spending conditions

Efficient, decentralized file hosting protocol incentivized through Bitcoin payments that utilizes off-chain transactions, verifiable encryption, and a bond contract to ensure integrity and fairness in file transfers

Platform offering an open standard for blockchain-based timestamping, enabling users to prove the existence of documents or data prior to a specific point in time

Python script for creating a decentralized and trustless way to calculate Bitcoin price using a novel UTXO-based approach

Tool to launch a simulated bitcoin network for monitoring and analyzing emergent behavior in order to increase security and prevent possible threats on the live bitcoin network

Numbering scheme for satoshis that allows for tracking and transferring individual units by assining numbers to satoshis based on the order they are mined and transferred, without requiring additional tokens or changes to Bitcoin

Protocol enabling large files that can fit into a single QR to be sent as a series of QR codes (an "animated QR").

Privacy-preserving static addresses for Bitcoin

C# Cashu library for the .NET framework

Web based IDE for writing bitcoin scripts written in simfony to be deployed to Liquid

Project aiming to simplify the creation and management of developer environments used to compile and test Bitcoin software, such as Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin Script library for generic Script VM execution in Cairo, enabling the generation of STARK proofs for Bitcoin Script computation and Bitcoin transaction execution

A simple proof of concept by Supertestnet allowing people to crowdfund projects with bitcoin

Simple, open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media