Tether leads $8M funding for Lightning startup focused on stablecoins

Speed, which leverages the Bitcoin Lightning Network to facilitate USDT transfers, has secured $8 million from Tether and Ego Death Capital.

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Solana vs. Ethereum - How the transaction speed battle is going in 2025

Key Takeaways Why does Solana lead Ethereum in transaction speed? Solana's design and fixed low-fee model allow it to process millions of on-chain transactions at lightning speed, outperforming EtheThe post Solana vs.

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Solana (SOL) vs. Little Pepe (LILPEPE): Which Crypto Offers a Better Investment Case in 2025?

In the last bull run, Solana flipped the narrative. It wasn’t just a cheaper Ethereum—it became the high-performance chain that dominated NFTs, meme coins, and DeFi at lightning speed. It turned sub-$1 entries into six-figure exits.

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Best summer DeFi pick, Toncoin holds, while a hidden gem eyes 20X growth

While Toncoin (TON) remains stagnant, attention is rapidly shifting toward a high-performing underdog in the DeFi sector—Mutuum Finance (MUTM). With over $11. 70 million already raised and more than 60% of Phase 5 sold out, this project is gaining ground at lightning speed.

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New Crypto Presale Going Viral: Can Punisher Coin Beat Dogecoin’s All-Time High?

The world of new crypto is moving at lightning speed, and 2025 is shaping up to be a defining year for meme coins and early-stage projects. With household names like Dogecoin and Pepe delivering huge returns in past cycles, investors are now turning their attention to a new crypto presale that’s quickly gaining momentum: Punisher […] The post New Crypto Presale Going Viral: Can Punisher Coin Beat Dogecoin’s All-Time High? appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.

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Ripple (XRP) Plunges 17% While BinoFi (BINO) Expects 1200% Surge by Summer 2025

The cryptocurrency market continues to evolve at lightning speed, with new innovations challenging even the most established players. Among the projects with the potential to dominate in 2025, BinoFi stands out as a game-changing token set to deliver extraordinary returns.

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New Altcoin Predicted to Replicate Solana’s 16000% Rise – Top Pre-Launch Crypto?

Solana ($SOL) built its reputation by handling high-volume transactions at lightning speed and minimal fees—processing up to 4,000 transactions per second, far outpacing Ethereum.  Now, Solaxy ($SOLX) is set to The post New Altcoin Predicted to Replicate Solana’s 16000% Rise – Top Pre-Launch Crypto? appeared first on CryptoNinjas.

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The End of the PvP Era in Crypto: Is Capital Preservation the New Priority?

The world of cryptocurrency moves at lightning speed. For the past few years, the crypto community has been dominated by a Player vs. Player mentality—driven by speculation, hype, and the quest for quick profits.

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DOGE Faces Growing Sell Pressure While WallitIQ’s (WLTQ) AI-Powered Crypto Wallet Gains Momentum With 1,000 New Daily Users

Market trends often shift at lightning speed, and staying ahead requires a keen eye on where capital is flowing. Dogecoin (DOGE), once a favorite for traders seeking explosive moves, is now seeing mounting sell pressure as market dynamics evolve.

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4 Best New Meme Coins with 100x Potential

There is lots happening in the meme coin landscape right now, with new projects emerging at lightning speed, all vying for attention in an ever-evolving crypto landscape. As traditional cryptocurrencies face volatility and uncertainty, investors are turning to meme coins for a refreshing change.

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Bitcoin Lightning Startup TMRW Raises $1.3 Million Funding

Bitcoin Lightning startup TMRW raised $1.3M to build a social, cross-border payment app leveraging Lightning's speed and low fees for remittances

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Coinbase embraces Bitcoin Lightning network to speed up transactions

US-based crypto exchange Coinbase is finally integrating Bitcoin Lightning network after several promises by the exchange CEO Brian Armstrong. In an April 3 statement, Lightspark, a lightning network-based payment infrastructure provider, revealed that it was selected by the crypto exchange to facilitate the integration of Bitcoin Lightning Network.

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Coinbase Readies to Integrate the Bitcoin Lightning Network

Coinbase is set to revolutionize its transaction capabilities by integrating the Bitcoin Lightning Network with Lightspark's help. This strategic move aims to boost transaction speed and reduce costs, marking a significant leap towards improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction.

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Crypto Trillion-Dollar Potential: Insights From A Macro Visionary

In the fast-paced world of cryptocurrencies, the momentum is undeniable and appears to be accelerating, according to macro guru Dan Tapiero.  In a recent interview, Tapiero emphasized the lightning speed at which both institutional and retail adoption is taking place, underlining the phenomenal growth the crypto space has witnessed in the past four years. “When […]

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NFTs and super brands: A deep dive into web3

In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, it’s no surprise that the business landscape is constantly shifting. One of the latest and most talked-about developments is the rise of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) and their integration into the strategies of “super brands.

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Lightning network capacity decreases while number of channels grows

The Lightning Network is a Layer-2 solution designed to address Bitcoin transactions’ scalability and speed issues. It creates off-chain payment channels that allow users to conduct transactions almost instantly and at a fraction of the cost compared to traditional on-chain methods.

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Binance Implements Lightning Network Support For Bitcoin Transactions

Binance has finally integrated Lightning, bringing transaction speed and efficiency to their millions of global users.

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Binance completes integration of Bitcoin (BTC) on Lightning Network

The leading crypto firm Binance has made an astounding move, integrating Bitcoin (BTC) on the Lightning Network. The exchange becomes the first to support this user-friendly functionality. The update will reduce costs and enhance transaction speed.

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Omnibolt and Lightning Network: unlocking the future of cryptocurrency transactions

Summary The Lightning Network has been one of the most promising ways to solve problems with scaling and the speed of transactions in the cryptocurrency world. It is a second-tier solution built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, designed to solve the issues of scalability and transaction speed on the mainstream blockchain.

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Crowdfunding gets leg up from Lightning Addresses on Bitcoin

Lightning Addresses allow individuals to crowdfund on Bitcoin at the speed of the Lightning Network and without a node.

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Lightning Speed: Taro Is Here! Lightning Labs Releases The Code’s Alpha Version

The controversial Taro protocol is ready for testing. The initial version of the code is available on GitHub, and it enables “developers to mint, send, and receive assets on the bitcoin blockchain.

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Lightning Speed: Taro Wants To Abolish Cross-Border Payments, Disrupt The Market

Have you heard about Taro? It’s an improvement proposal for the Lightning Network that Lightning Labs introduced in April. “Taro makes Bitcoin and Lightning multi-asset networks,” the company claims in the latest edition of their newsletter.

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Lightning Speed: How To Take BTC From Reserve Asset To World Reserve Currency

Is the Lightning Network bitcoin’s killer app? It might be, but it still has a long road ahead. One of the stops on that road is the possible inclusion of stablecoins. Does bitcoin need them? Aren’t there inherent counterparty risks with those? The debate over those questions rages on.

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Health Blocks aims to disrupt the global healthcare system with healthy living DApp

Technology is advancing at lightning speed.

The post Health Blocks aims to disrupt the global healthcare system with healthy living DApp appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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The state of the cryptocurrency market – 2022 predictions

Events in the crypto world are moving at lightning speed, with hundreds of new tokens being launched every month and volatile movements of the more established assets. This solid pace will not decrease next year, experts predict.

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Lightning Speed: Eight Mind-blowing Facts About The Lightning Network

Welcome to “Lightning Speed,” a new section in which NewsBTC will explore the possibilities that Bitcoin’s Lightning Network opens. In this first edition, we will focus on Peter St Onge’s “The Lightning Network is About to Change the World” article.

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Tether launches Synonym to boost Bitcoin adoption through Lightning Network

The new venture is pursuing hyperbitcoinization by combining the Lightning Network’s speed with the architecture of an open peer-to-peer platform.

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The future of DeFi is spread across multiple blockchains

As the decentralized space is growing at lightning speed, projects need to adapt to the multichain future or risk becoming irrelevant.

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How to find an Altcoin Investment Potential

With the cryptocurrency world growing at lightning speed, everyone is looking to put investment in altcoin market. But, it’s no easy business. Analysing and evaluating a crypto’s value can prove to be quite tiresome especially with the absolutely new terminologies that the ecosystem brings with itself.

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Bitfinex adopts Lightning Network’s ‘Wumbo Channels’ 

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex integrated Lightning Network’s Wumbo Channels, which helps speed up payment transaction time, on its platform, which will now allow the exchange to provide users witThe post Bitfinex adopts Lightning Network’s ‘Wumbo Channels’  appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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1 Million USDT Nearly Lost to Simple User Error

While DeFi continues to develop at lightning speed, there is a steady stream of reminders of just how dangerous it can be—particularly for less experienced hands. According to a tweet posted on Sept 8, a user mistakenly sent one million dollars worth of Tether (USDT) to the wrong address.

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Lightning Solves Bitcoin’s Speed Problem, but Watch Out for Fraudsters

Lightning-based fiat-bitcoin systems could popularize crypto payments, as long as fraud and bitcoin's non-reversibility don't get in the way.

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How to find an Altcoin’s Investment Potential

With the cryptocurrency world growing at lightning speed, everyone is looking for altcoins to invest in. But, it’s no easy business. Analysing and evaluating a crypto’s value can prove to be quite tiresome especially with the absolutely new terminologies that the ecosystem brings with itself.

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Tone Vays Says Bitcoin (BTC) Is Already 'Faster and Cheaper' Than Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Here's Why

The transaction speed displayed by Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is meaningless when the Lightning Network comes into play, according to Tone Vays

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Metaverse to Accelerate Blockchain Adoption with Lightning Networks for Merchants

Coinspeaker Metaverse to Accelerate Blockchain Adoption with Lightning Networks for MerchantsBy bringing Lightning Network’s speed and costs to payment channels on blockchain protocols, Metaverse will help merchants to accept transactions in digital currencies.

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Bitcoin's SegWit and Lightning: Need of the hour or not needed at all?

Mankind is a dedicated race and our insatiable thirst for innovation has been evident through history. Humans are obsessed with speed. For us, anything faster is better. Major innovations like telephoThe post Bitcoin's SegWit and Lightning: Need of the hour or not needed at all? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bitfinex Integrates Lightning Network for Instant Deposits and Withdrawals

The Lightning Network has established itself as the industry standard for near-instant Bitcoin transfers that cost next to nothing to make. However, while its speed and scalability features remain unparalleled, it hasn’t been widely adopted by cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Wall Street Trader: Bitcoin’s Lightning Network ‘Pulled Me in’

Bond market veteran Nik Bhatia says that with Lightning, Bitcoin has become an unprecedented asset, combining a store of value with medium-of-exchange scale and speed

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SmartX Technology: Decentralized Social Entertainment Blockchain

One of the developmental challenges for industrialization and blockchain technology is the issue of transaction speed. Even though some blockchain networks expand purely based on block size increase, the method is not desirable.

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A Look Inside The Frustrating But Growing World Of Microtipping

Browser extensions are helping to make tipping with cryptocurrency much easier, but the ease of access also sheds light on the frustrating user interface and speed of the Lightning Network.

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Liquid Network Expands With New Memberships and Integrations

Blockstream's Liquid Network has expanded to include 14 new members. With these additions, Liquid’s client base now boasts 35 institutions. The company also announced that Liquid is now available on Bitfinex and RenrenBit, a crypto finance app.

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Cosmos (ATOM) Tothemoon!

Token ATOM of the Cosmos project came out on the 15th place by capitalization in one day. Attentive observers noticed it long ago, still at the ICO. Modest Cosmos Workers ICO took place on April 6, 2017 and was held with lightning speed, with a cap of $ 17.3 M. ATOM was sold for bitcoins […]

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Bitcoin [BTC] Lightning network is doing spectacularly well, claims Andreas Antonopoulos

Bitcoin [BTC] and its varied applications have grabbed headlines in the crypto-verse for quite some time now with scalability and speed of transactions being the key focus points. In his latest video, Andreas Antonopoulos, the author of Mastering Bitcoin and a famous BTC proponent, spoke about the running parameters and the testing on one such […] The post Bitcoin [BTC] Lightning network is doing spectacularly well, claims Andreas Antonopoulos appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Lightning Network For Zcash? BOLT Labs To Create Private Scaling Solution

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network may be a remarkable feat of technology, but it lacks one major aspect: privacy. Now a new project has received funding to create a high speed, scalable payments system, with privacy protections through Zcash’s anonymizing technology.

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Who Will Win in the Race for Processing Speed: Command Chain Protocol vs The Lightning Network

There was one issue with Bitcoin when it was first proposed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto:  it couldn’t scale. Ten years later and Bitcoin has the same scalability problem. Throughout its existence, it hasn’t managed to go beyond processing more than seven transactions per second; which was enough in the beginning.

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Bitrefill Adds Thor Turbo to Speed Lightning Connections

The crypto payment platform Bitrefill has announced an upgrade to its Thor service. The upgrade is dubbed “Thor Turbo,” and its expected to speed up the process of connecting to Bitrefill's Lightning node, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.

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Bitcoin Dev Demos the First Lightning-Enabled Bitcoin ATM

At the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong’s Lightning Hack Day on March 31, 2019, Bitcoin developer Felix Weis presented a successful demonstration of his Lightning-enabled plugin for a Bitcoin ATM.

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Lightning Network Proves To Be Highly Active, With More Nodes Than XRP, LTC And EOS Combined

Lightning Network Proves To Be Highly Active, With More Nodes Than XRP, Litecoin, And EOS Combined The purpose of the Lightning Network is to improve the scalability of Bitcoin, reducing the fees for transactions and increasing their speed.

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One Teen Bitcoin Millionaire Believes Use of Lightning Network Is the Demise of BTC

One of the most notable scaling solutions to come to Bitcoin has been the Lightning Network. The solution originally came as a second-layer protocol payment system that was meant to cover Bitcoin complications in fees and transaction speed.

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