Arkade is the single most advanced application of Taproot & Musig2 technology. It is the culmination of a decade of Bitcoin protocol research. You’d think the intelligentsia would be celebrating its arrival. Nop, not a shred of acknowledgement. Innovator dilemma is real.

my latest for the @btcinsider__ @arkade_os' riga experiment was also a massive win for the lightning network crypto twitter has been arguing over liquidity fragmentation due to an influx of new L1s and L2s. in bitcoin, various protocols continue to seamlessly interoperate. all via lightning arkade is a new bitcoin l2 coming to market (presumably) in the coming months. their mainnet experiment last week was further evidence that lightning is well equipped to be the interopability layer between arkade and other protocols like @spark, @fedimint, and more icydk, protcols like fedimint and Arkade can't natively communicate with each other. you can't send an ecash note to an arkade user directly so these protocols' respective lightning gateways execute these transactions on users' behalf. on the backend, gateways communicate with each other and the participants in a payment. for users, everything is abstracted away. it feels like a standard payment the conscious decision for these protocols to integrate with lightning, via gateways, proves that bitcoin is avoiding the fragmentation problem that plagues multichain/network ecosystems arkade sustained a high volume of payments last week and attendees didn't even notice. kudos to their team on execution bullish for bitcoin as a whole

Wonder who was CEO at the time

Last weekend in Riga, we ran a quiet experiment. To honor the event's cypherpunk traditions, we pulled off the conference's biggest hack. We "hijacked" the PoS system! Attendees paid merchants via Lightning as usual, but something different was happening behind the scenes 👇

the whole thesis was that institutions would flock to ethereum, valuing its decentralization and neutrality now the most crypto-forward institutions are building their own L1s, forking the software ethereum funded incredible cope to frame this as anything besides invalidation

looks like alt szn kicked off the moment udi became an insufferable bitcoin bull

not gonna name names but yeah… bridges are stupid

For our next magic trick, we’ll solve privacy. 👾

serious q does this shit even deceive anyone anymore? as a “consumer” absolutely nothing makes me cringe more than b-tier “kols” trying to shill me their bags how about just build the best product

Arkade puts the nail in the coffin of ETH's rollup paradigm. We need to look beyond payments, or Lightning, and focus on this massive opportunity. The era of relying on blockchains with counterparty risk is over. A native, neutral execution layer for Bitcoin.