Ordeez Launches First "BNPL" Ordinals with Arch Ordeez is partnering with Arch to bring comprehensive lending, borrowing, and yield generation directly to Bitcoin and Bitcoin-native assets like Ordinals and Runes. Bitcoin assets are rife with untapped potential: premium Ordinals collections worth millions sitting in wallets, earning zero yield. BTC holdings that could generate passive income through lending.
BTC IX: Tips to Avoid Losing Everything In this weekly newsletter, we update you on the latest ways to do and earn more with your Bitcoin. Read more for the latest news from the Bitcoin universe and Arch community. Roadmap 1. This Week's Headlines 2. One Big Thought: Tips for staying safe. 3. Arch Community
Bringing Scalable Performance to Bitcoin Our latest update brings fundamental infrastructure improvements that make building on Bitcoin faster, more reliable, and ready for serious applications. Bitcoin programmability has been a dream for over a decade. The vision of smart contracts running with Bitcoin's security and decentralization has captivated developers and users alike. But
BTC VIII: Arch Insider Scenes from Vegas In this weekly newsletter, we update you on the latest ways to do and earn more with your Bitcoin. Read more for the latest news from the Bitcoin universe and Arch community. Roadmap 1. This Week's Headlines 2. One Big Thought 3. Arch Community Updates 4. Quick Hits:
Arch Appoints Chainsaw as Strategic Marketing Advisors Arch Network Appoints Chainsaw as Strategic Marketing Advisors Following their recent $13 million Series A raise, bringing total funding to $20 million, Arch Network has officially appointed Chainsaw as Strategic Marketing Advisors. Arch is a Bitcoin-native application platform enabling smart contract functionality directly on Bitcoin. It introduces a novel architecture
BTC VII: A Vegas Summit, and Party at Tyson's Tiger Mansion In this weekly Bitcoin Builders newsletter, we update you on the latest ways to do and earn more with your Bitcoin. Read more for the latest news from the Bitcoin universe and Arch community. Roadmap 1. This Week's Headlines 2. One Big Thought 3. Arch Updates 4. Quick
The OP_RETURN Debate, and Why Arch Makes It Unnecessary This post is written by Brian Hoffman, Arch VP of Engineering. It unpacks the ideological fight over Bitcoin’s programmability, why OP_RETURN was both a breakthrough and a battleground, and how Arch Network finally delivers a solution that respects Bitcoin’s values without a soft fork or changing the
BTC VI: Dubai Dreams + Vegas Visions In this weekly Bitcoin Builders newsletter, we update you on the latest ways to do and earn more with your Bitcoin. Read more for the latest news from the Bitcoin universe and Arch community. Roadmap 1. This Week's Headlines 2. One Big Thought 3. Arch Updates 4. Quick
arch network Pantera Leads Arch's $13M Series A to Build Bitcoin's Financial Rails Today, Arch is excited to share that we have closed a $13 million Series A funding round, led by Pantera Capital, with participation from other strategic investors.
How Arch’s Unique Consensus Enables Permissionless Signers Arch introduces a novel TSS model and Proof-of-Stake mechanism layered over Bitcoin — without compromising Bitcoin’s base layer. Bitcoin programmability is limited. Many protocols have tried to solve those limitations by relying on TSS models with a fixed set of multisig signers, or a “guardian network,” to control assets and
BTC Builders V: Investors Go "All In" on Arch Apps In this weekly Bitcoin Builders newsletter, we update you on the latest ways to do and earn more with your Bitcoin. Read more for the latest news from the Bitcoin universe and Arch community. Roadmap 1. This Week's Headlines 2. One Big Thought 3. Arch Updates 4. Quick
arch network How Cross-Program Invocation Unlocks BTC Composability This post introduces Arch's Cross-Program Invocation capabilities on Bitcoin, allowing for greater composability between apps to better unlock DeFi use cases.
BTC Builders IV: Alpha on Getting Your DeFi App Funded In this weekly Bitcoin Builders newsletter, we update you on the latest ways to do and earn more with your Bitcoin. Read more for the latest news from the Bitcoin universe and Arch community. Roadmap 1. This Week's Headlines 2. One Big Thought 3. Arch Updates 4. Quick
bitcoin Using "Rollback & Reapply" To Maintain State Consistency This post introduces our rollback and reapply architecture — an elegant solution to cross-chain inconsistency — enabling developers to build confidently even under volatile network conditions.
BTC Builders III: A Next-Gen Indexer for Bitcoin In this weekly Bitcoin Builders newsletter, we update you on the latest ways to do and earn more with your Bitcoin. Read more for the latest news from the Bitcoin universe and Arch community. Roadmap 1. This Week's Headlines 2. One Big Thought 3. Arch Updates 4. Quick
Introducing Titan: The Next-Generation Bitcoin Indexer Arch Network has transitioned from Electrs to Titan, Saturn’s custom-built Bitcoin indexer designed specifically for high-performance blockchain data access and real-time dApp responses. Titan sets itself apart with its innovative approach to Runes protocol integration, making it one of the most advanced indexers for Bitcoin-native tokens. Critically, it is
BTC Builders II: The Distribution Unlock for BTC Apps In this weekly newsletter, we update you on the latest ways to do and earn more with your Bitcoin. Read more for the latest news from the Bitcoin universe and Arch community. Roadmap 1. This Week's Headlines 2. One Big Thought 3. Arch Updates 4. Quick Hits: Watch,
BTC Builders I: The Bitcoin Innovator's Dilemma In this weekly newsletter, we update you on the latest ways to do and earn more with your Bitcoin. Read more for the latest news from the Bitcoin universe and Arch community. Roadmap 1. This Week's Headlines 2. Arch Community Updates 3. One Big Thought 4. Quick Hits:
The Bitcoin L1 Thesis: A Middle Way to Unlock DeFi By Nick Fouriezos, CMO at Arch What if the world’s most secure store of value could also be its most powerful programmable asset? That is the core thesis of Bitcoin builders, who hope to unlock $2T+ in BTC left under-utilized by Bitcoin’s lack of native programmability. The chance
The Problems Every Bitcoin Developer Faces — And How the ArchVM Tackles Them This piece is by Amine ElQaraoui, Arch Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer I started working in Bitcoin with one goal: make life easier for other frustrated developers like me. I had come from the Solana and Ethereum ecosystems and, like many developers, saw building on Bitcoin as the holy grail.
First Bitcoin Prediction Market Launches With Arch Predictr.market, an innovative prediction market platform, is partnering with Arch to bring decentralized event forecasting directly to the Bitcoin base layer. To date, crypto-backed prediction markets have been limited to Layer 2s or alternative blockchains that represent a fraction of the unmatched $2T in Bitcoin liquidity. Bitcoin prediction markets
Ready to launch memecoins on Bitcoin? The pioneering Bitcoin trading platform funkybit is partnering with Arch to bring the first memecoin launchpad with cross-chain liquidity directly to the Bitcoin base layer. The "MemeJam" represents a radical reimagining of how memecoins can work on Bitcoin. While other chains have seen explosive growth in community-driven tokens
ChaChing Launches the “AAVE for Bitcoin” with Arch ChaChing is partnering with Arch to bring peer-to-pool lending directly to the Bitcoin base layer. To date, decentralized lending on Bitcoin has been limited to multistep peer-to-peer transactions or required users to bridge their assets to other chains, cutting them off from Bitcoin's $2T liquidity pool. Previously on
Introducing Bitcoin-native volatility trading, inspired by TradFi’s “Fear Index” VoltFI, an innovative DeFi protocol specializing in Bitcoin-based yield and volatility instruments, is partnering with Arch to bring programmatic volatility trading directly to the Bitcoin base layer. The protocol’s vlxBTC token allows Bitcoin-native volatility trading modeled after how the VIX or "fear index" works in traditional finance.
Bitcoin-native RunesDex to Launch AMM with Arch RunesDEX, a pioneering decentralized exchange, is partnering with Arch to directly bring automated market making (AMM) to Bitcoin's Runes ecosystem. AMMs solve a fundamental challenge in decentralized trading by replacing traditional order books with liquidity pools. Rather than waiting to match buyers with sellers, users can trade instantly
