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2/ First unveiled in April 2025, Bitcoin Thunderbolt has now been live for over a year.
Since then, Thunderbolt has reached:
- Over $1B in transaction value settled
- Over 10M transactions
- Over 100K users
Today, the research behind Bitcoin Thunderbolt is revealed.
Native Bitcoin, 1000x faster with UTXO Bundling and OP_CAT. ⚡️
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4/ For a deeper look at the research behind Bitcoin Thunderbolt, read the thread from the first author & our co-founder, Hongbo Wen (@archidog0).
Thunderbolt from @nubit_org and @UCSB has been accepted by @acm_ccs 2026 🎉
The first Bitcoin protocol that lets you send and receive BTC offline: no pending, no watching, no setup or maintenance on your side.
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5/ Bitcoin Thunderbolt is now open source.
The release has deterministic Ledger state, threshold committee services, encrypted crash recovery, CometBFT finality, and Bitcoin Core reorg/settlement tooling.
Developers can now inspect the protocol, contribute to it, extend it, and build new Bitcoin payment applications on top of Thunderbolt.
GitHub: github.com/RiemaLabs/thunder…
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1/ Introducing the next chapter of Bitcoin Thunderbolt, our fast, secure, asynchronous off-chain payment protocol for Bitcoin.
Today, we are open-sourcing Bitcoin Thunderbolt, and the research behind it has been accepted at ACM CCS 2026 (@acm_ccs), a top-tier academic conference in security and cryptography.
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Thunderbolt makes transfers feel simple and fast, how?
Each update is processed independently, without queues, sequencing, or conflict.
Finality happens the moment a qualified threshold signs.
Your transfer clears on its own timeline: fast, consistent, and resilient.
That’s what makes Thunderbolt consistently performant, even under pressure. ⚡️
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this is what fast and safe looks like
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3/ Achieved 500K+ entries for Boosting Codes, 51K+ verified users on mainnet.
Got $700M+ USD1 transaction volume, averaging 0.1s speed and 1 sat fees per transaction.
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It's more than speed!
Boosting = crypto without waiting. ⚡️
Fast, efficient, UNIVERSAL. ☝️🏻🦅
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