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

Development

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

Development

Mintlayer year in review and Mainnet Launch Recap

Announcements

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

Academy

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

Development

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

Development

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

Development

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

Announcement

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

Academy

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

Development

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

Academy

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

Development

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

Announcement

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

Academy

Understand crypto staking`s contribution to blockchain operations and the benefits and drawbacks.

Academy

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

Academy

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

Development

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

Bitcoin

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

Academy

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

Academy

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

Academy

What are Bitcoin nodes, and what is their function?

Academy

What is Bitcoin mining? How does it work, and why is it necessary?

Development

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

Academy

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

Academy

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

Academy

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

Blockchain

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

Academy

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

Development

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

Mintlayer

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

Development

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

Development

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

Development

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

Partnership

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

Academy

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

Announcement

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

Academy

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

Announcement

Last opportunity to acquire Mintlayer tokens before TGE.

Partnership

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

Academy

Mintlayer isn’t just another blockchain. It is carefully designed to be a capable DeFi platform and interoperable with Bitcoin.

Development

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

Academy

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

Academy

Security tokens are tokens that are linked to a real-world asset such as a share of a stock, a bond, the ownership of a business, or a piece of property.

Academy

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

Academy

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

Development

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

Academy

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.

Academy

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.

Partnership

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

Academy

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

Partnership

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

Academy

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

Development

Year in Review 2022 update from Mintlayer.

Academy

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

Academy

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

Mintlayer token launch

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

Community call

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.

Development

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

Defi

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.

Community call

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

Development

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

Community call

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

Development

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

Community call

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

Development

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.

Community call

Read the latest update from the team at Mintlayer. Partnership updates, development progress, roadmap milestones and more.

Partnership

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

Development

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

Wallet

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.

Mintlayer

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.

Development

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.

Partnership

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.

Development

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 decision in fair detail.

Tokenization

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

Seed round

Decentralized Finance protocol 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.

Development

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 the more attractive choice

Defi

When WallStreetBets pushed the GameStop shares to unimaginable highs by betting against the hedge funds that kept shorting, it had shown once again how decentralized finance is an unquestionable necessity for our times.

Dex

The concept of a Decentralized Exchange (DEX) in the crypto market has been around for at least seven years, originating around the time Bitsquare was founded in 2014.

Partnership

The team of BlockInvest, a FinTech project known as a financial instrument marketplace, is partnering with Bitcoin’s second-layer protocol Mintlayer in pursuance of perfecting financial procedures for real estate owners and investors with the help of blockchain technology.

Mintlayer

The financial system’s future is not the interoperability between dozens of blockchains, but rather an ecosystem of tokenized assets (such as securities and stablecoins) built around a single blockchain.

Stablecoins

Central Bank Digital Currencies: a compromise between Bitcoin and fiat

Ethereum

The Ethereum network is still congested as it was a month ago, and a month before that, starting around the same time when DeFi stole the media headlines.

Mintlayer

DeFi (short for Decentralised Finance) is not a new term, but it became a trending buzzword in the crypto community seemingly overnight.

Security token

The DeFi hype of 2020 is reminiscent of the ICO bubble of 2017-18. Rewind back a couple of years, when projects were popping up left and right, using blockchain technology to solve all that is wrong in the world.