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Bitcoin DeFi is booming in 2025 as yield opportunities and real-world assets attract growing institutional interest.

Ongoing wallet upgrades, SDK enhancements, and Token Factory testing are paving the way for smoother dApps and Bitcoin-native integrations on Mintlayer.

With the Token Factory UI, SDK release, and wallet improvements, Mintlayer is paving the way for broader DeFi adoption.

April’s update highlights progress on the fast bridge, wallet improvements, Explorer enhancements, & the near-completion of the Token Factory.

Mintlayer has successfully closed a dedicated $50 million ecosystem fund, led by Rollman Management Digital.

Explore Mintlayer’s March 2025 update featuring the ZK Thunder Testnet launch, core protocol upgrades, and Mojito Wallet enhancements.

This is a step-by-step guide How to Add ZK Thunder to your Metamask Wallet.

We’re excited to announce the launch of ZK Thunder Network Layer 3 (L3) — ultra-fast, EVM-compatible scaling solution!

Explore Mintlayer's February 2025 updates featuring core enhancements, ZK Thunder testnet launch preparations, and the opening of early registration for our RWA SaaS platform.

Mintlayer partners with Joinn, a next-gen platform that bridges RWAs with DeFi-powered spending solutions.

We break down the risks posed by quantum computing and explore potential solutions to safeguard blockchain security.

Discover the latest Mintlayer updates for January 2025, including Wallet Connect enhancements, Block Explorer upgrades, and core network improvements.

Partnership announcement with Kylix, a cross-chain liquidity protocol that enables native Bitcoin lending and borrowing

Mintlayer 2024 Year-End Development Recap - milestones, progress and more.

We have published our comprehensive white paper on arXiv.org detailing the Pulsar Consensus.

Mintlayer Version 1.0.0 Release Date Scheduled for January 15th. That enables Atomic Swaps and improved trading functions.

Read the post for a huge month of Developments to Mintlayer products.

Read this post for a full update of September’s development progress.

Mintlayer August Development Progress - Atomic Swaps launched on Testnet

Mintlayer July Development Progress - find out what the team has accomplished this month

Mintlayer June Development Progress - find out what the team has accomplished this month

Mintlayer May Development Progress - find out what the team has accomplished this month

Learn how to become a Mintlayer Ambassador

Mintlayer April Development Progress - find out what the team has accomplished this month

Mintlayer March Development Progress - find out what the team has accomplished this month

Mintlayer February Development Progress - find out what the team has accomplished this month

Mintlayer 2023 year in review and Mainnet Launch Recap

Mintlayer is set to launch its mainnet on January 29th, 2024 find out all the details.

Uncover the transformation of art and value in the blockchain era through NFTs and Bitcoin upgrades.

Read this post for a full update of November's development progress.

Read this post for a full update of October's development progress.

Read this post for a full update of September's development progress.

Get the full distribution details on Mintlayer's incentivized testnet program.

Delve into the intricate journey of Mintlayer's consensus development from its inception to its current state.

Read this post for a full update of August's development progress.

Learn about the Mintlayer Incentivized Testnet and how you can be rewarded for participating.

Read this post for a full update of July's development progress.

We are thrilled to annouce that July 31, 2023, is the date for the highly awaited public launch of the Mintlayer testnet.

Understanding crypto staking's contribution to blockchain operations and the benefits and drawbacks.

Learn about the benefits and challenges of using Bitcoin to send money overseas.

Learn about the CBDCs and the possible role Bitcoin could play in monetary policy.

Read this post for a full update of June's development progress.

Bitcoin is the most prominent digital currency. It may surprise you to learn about all the companies that accept Bitcoin as payment.

UTXOs are the building blocks of Mintlayer and Bitcoin. Learn about the advantages and challenges introduced with this accounting system

Learn how other blockchains introduce vulnerabilities to Bitcoin users and how Mintlayer solves DeFi's biggest attack surface.

What are Bitcoin nodes, and what is their function?

Bitcoin Mining Explained? How does it work, and why is it necessary?

Read this post for a full update of May's development progress.

Learn about our staking program and how you can engage with the Mintlayer network.

What is Bitcoin halving? What effect will it have on Mintlayer?

BRC-20 has caused a stir lately, but is the tech really sound for real life use cases?

Exploring Bitcoin's congestion issues and Mintlayer's potential as a solution.

Why does the world need another blockchain? Exactly how does Mintlayer add value to Bitcoin?

Read this post for a full update of April's development progress.

As part of our ongoing efforts to revitalize our messaging and energize our community, we are looking forward.

Mintlayer has approximately $4M available for open-source development grants.

We are changing the way we support the Lightning Network in the Mojito Wallet.

Preparing for the TGE and more work on the core. Read this post for a full update of our development progress.

Mintlayer is proud to announce the ML token listing on Gate.io

Mintlayer users can stake their ML tokens to participate in the consensus mechanism, which will earn block rewards.

The Mintlayer token previously known as MLT is now known as ML.

Mintlayer's supply has a hard cap, and the circulating supply can be accurately estimated at any given time.

Last opportunity to acquire Mintlayer tokens before TGE.

Mintlayer is proud to announce our partnership with Launchpool! Launchpool is a project that connects the varied stakeholders of the crypto community.

Mintlayer istn't just another blockchain. It is carefully designed to be capable DeFi platform and interoperable with Bitcoin.

New browser extension, lots of core development, and work on entropy. Read this post for a full update of our development progress.

The future of Bitcoin is so bright, but exactly what it looks like might surprise you.

Bitcoin has the best chance of being adopted as or replacing national currencies in developing countries.

Mintlayer's unique organizational structure, open source status, and technology stack make it ideal for organizational adoption of NFTs.

New browser extension, lots of core development, and work on the entropy. Read the post for a full update of our development progress.

Mintlayer ushers in the future of DeFi on Bitcoin by removing the need for wrapped tokens and bridges, and building native Bitcoin support directly into the platform.

Mintlayer will bring the full potential of DeFi to the Bitcoin blockchain. Here are some of the projects that could be built on Mintlayer in the near future.

Mintlayer is proud to annouce our partnership with Forint Finance! Forint will integrate swappy, a cross-chain swap and DEX, into the Mintlayer ecosystem.

Mintlayer and Ethereum have several similarities, and also many differences that set them apart.

Mintlayer is proud to annouce our partnership with Metaverse 4 Finance, an incubator event developed by dpixel and Sella.

What are smart contracts, and how will they be used on the Mintlayer blockchain?

Year in Review 2022 update from Mintlayer.

Mintlayer's ML tokens will have many utilities. In this article we will describe the evolution from exchanging for services to facilitating Dapps.

TGE in Crypto means "Token Generation Event". TGEs are when a project's utility tokens become available to the public.

Mintlayer's token generation event (TGE) is scheduled for March 21, 2023. We have decided to issue Mintlayer tokens on Ethereum.

Mintlayer call discusses the current crypto market conditions after the crash caused by FTX and why you need self-custody of your tokens and to use non-custodial wallets instead of centralized exchanges.

November 2022 at Mintlayer: Web wallet testing and forward thinking improvements. Read this post for a full update of our development progress.

Is crypto dead? Mintlayer is a solution to many current problems in crypto. See how users are immune from the same types of losses FTX users face.

Our latest Community Call took place on the 27th of October. Michael Bille jointed Ben Marsh remotely to discuss the latest developments her at Mintlayer.

October 2022 at Mintlayer: Web wallet testing, MLS-03 and forward thinking improvements. Read this post for a full update of our development progress.

Our latest Community Call took place on the 30th of September. Sam Patton joined Ben Marsh and Enrico Rubboli remotely to discuss the latest developments here at Mintlayer.

September 2022 at Mintlayer: Lightning Network, web wallet, and core improvements. Read this post for a full update of our development progress.

Read the latest progress update from the team at Mintlayer. Development progress, Mojito, and more.

This month at Mintlayer: tokenization, Mojito, and more. Read this post for a full development update and learn more about what the team is building.

Read the latest update from the team at Mintlayer.

Announcing our latest partnership: Mintlayer x Seed Venture! Discover the details surrounding our partnership with Seed Venture who will release their platform on Mintlayer.

We have been making significant progress in our development, and have been able to release the Mojito wallet on both Andriod and iOS since our last progress report with great success and positive user feedback.

Learn about the Mojito wallet, a Bitcoin storage solution that lets you manage your own private keys to send and receive Bitcoin in the safest way possible.

While foundations are typically beneficial for blockchain projects, Mintlayer doesn't have a foundation because we want to encourage complete decentralization within the project, something which can become diluted.

Since beginning work on our new codebase in November of last year, Mintlayer has made significant progress towards our next testnet. A substantial amount of time has been devoted to the architecture and design of our node.

Mintlayer team and RBB Lab are pleased to announce a new collaboration with Portal DeFi, which is backed by Coinbase. Portal DeFi and Mintlayer have a shared vision.

In view of irreconcilable incompatibility between substrate and Mintlayer's long term goals, Mintlayer has decided to port its existing feature base off Substrate and on to its own node written from scratch. In this article we explain the rationale behind this and decision in fair detail.

While the centralized system of handling stock issuance has served well so far, now there is a technology to decentralize the process althogether: it is possible to stock issued directly as a token. The aim is to do this with Access-Control List.

DeFi Protcol Mintlayer has secured $5.2 million via seed funding round. On top of this raise, it has formed a strategic partnership with San Marino innovation.

In order to reduce the blocksize and speed up transactions, Mintlayer settled on the use of signature aggregation. The quicker verification and the ability to hide transactions through m-out-of-n multisig aggregation made BLS signatures teh more attractive choice.