Releases

Cashu developer Calle announced the launch of the OpenCash Association at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2024. This non-profit organization aims to support the open-source development of projects built on the Cashu protocol.

SimpleX Chat is a free and open-source messaging platform that has no user identifiers and is private by design. Available on Android, iOS, Linux, Windows and macOS.

Ark Labs will oversee the upkeep of an open-source Ark protocol, which is now accessible for anyone to use in developing an Ark Service Providers (ASP) or Ark-compatible wallets.

Labelbase is a label management service for Bitcoin transactions and addresses. It supports BIP-329, a format for unifying label data. The goal of the project is to offer a convenient solution for managing labels associated with Bitcoin transactions and addresses across wallets and other tools.

Amethyst is a free and open source Nostr client for Android.

GrapheneOS is an open-source, privacy and security-focused mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

zkSNACKs, the default coordinator in Wasabi Wallet's coinjoin implementation, shut down the service today. However, the wallet now allows users to connect to different coordinators to continue using the coinjoin feature.

Corny Chat is an open source audio space built on Jam that integrates Nostr and Lightning. A publicly running instance of Corny Chat is accessible at cornychat.com.

"Goals are a great way to motivate and inspire others to donate by showing what happens when a certain threshold is reached."

Bitcoin Keeper is an open source, mobile multisig bitcoin wallet with inheritance features. Available on iOS and Android.

This issue covers a proposed light client protocol for silent payments, summarizes two new proposed descriptors for taproot, and links to a discussion about whether opcodes with overlapping features should be added in a soft fork.

Harbor is an open-source ecash desktop wallet for better bitcoin privacy.