Announcements

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A Mathematical Theory of Payment Channel Networks

https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/a-mathematical-theory-of-payment-channel-networks/2204

Argo: a garbled-circuits scheme with more efficient off-chain computation

https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/argo-a-garbled-circuits-scheme-for-1000x-more-efficient-off-chain-computation/2210

Gloria Zhao dropped as maintainer and seddited added as maintainer

Gloria’s PR https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/34517

Sedited/TheCharlatan’s PR https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/34236

libsecp256k1 0.7.1 released

A minor release of the libsecp256k1 library has been released. This includes minor security improvements, a new test framework, and some build system changes. https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/3mk8kdx-hjc

Hornet UTXO(1): A custom, constant-time, highly parallel UTXO database

https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/hornet-utxo-1-a-custom-constant-time-highly-parallel-utxo-database/2201

Redwallet: Drivechain enabled wallet

https://github.com/LayerTwo-Labs/BlueWallet/tree/2025-12-03-redwallet

Chain Code Delegation

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0089.mediawiki

Bip 110

BIP 110 reaches 5.9% of nodes signaling according to the following link https://thebitcoinportal.com/nodes/bip110

https://github.com/dathonohm/bips/blob/reduced-data/bip-0110.mediawiki