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Adam Back's Blockstream Unveils Bitcoin-Powered, Liquid Network-Based Smart Contracts

Co-founded by early Bitcoin contributor Adam Back, Blockstream introduced Simplicity to solve the limitations of Bitcoin as a smart contract venue

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus Hong Kong in February (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

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Blockstream Expands in Europe With Acquisition of Swiss Crypto Firm Elysium Labs

Blockstream is building momentum around its European ventures, following the inception of its Lugano Research Center.

Adam Back, CEO Blockstream (second from right) speaks at Consensus Hong Kong 2025 by CoinDesk (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

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Blockstream to Launch 3 Funds After Securing Multi-Billion Dollar Investment

The funds, which will include two focused on crypto lending, will go live in April, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus Hong Kong in February (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

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Blockstream Opens New Office in Tokyo as It Expands in Asia

The company plans to drive Japanese adoption of Bitcoin Layer-2 and self-custody technologies.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus 2019. (CoinDesk archives)

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Nomura-Backed Komainu Receives $75M Bitcoin Investment From Blockstream Capital

Blockstream CEO and co-founder Adam Back is to join Komainu's board of directors.

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Blockstream Raises $210M in Convertible Note Financing Round

The money will be used to advance adoption and development of Blockstream's layer-2 technologies, to grow the company's mining operations, and expand its bitcoin treasury.

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Blockstream Mining Raises Fresh Round of Note That Offers Exposure to Bitcoin Hashrate

The EU-compliant security token gives investors exposure to the hashrate over a four-year period.

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Steward of Bitcoin Software Explains Why She Nixed an Acrimonious Code Debate

"All it was doing was generating noise," the Bitcoin Core maintainer Ava Chow says of Luke Dashjr's pull request, which would have severely curtailed the use of Ordinals inscriptions, sometimes known as "NFTs on Bitcoin."

Modified screenshot of Bitcoin Core maintainer Ava Chow's comment on GitHub, when she closed a controversial proposal from the developer Luke Dashjr. (GitHub, modified by CoinDesk)

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Blockstream Preps New Sale of Notes Designed to Profit From Rebounding BTC Mining-Rig Prices

Blockstream's BASIC note is a bitcoin-denominated investment vehicle to accrue gains from the price of ASIC mining equipment, which Blockstream anticipates will rise post-halving.

ASIC Miners (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

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Blockstream Developer Discusses 'Lightning V2' Outlook

CoinDesk's Most Influential 2023 recognizes 50 people who defined the year in the digital assets space, which includes Lisa Neigut, Blockstream Lightning Protocol Engineer and founder of Base58 School of Engineering. Neigut joins "First Mover" to discuss the problems she wants to solve with "Lightning v2."

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