By Isaac • August 17, 2026 7:28 pm •
A Bitcoin service outage has exposed a problem hiding beneath some of the easiest Lightning payments: several wallets can look independent while relying on the same swap provider behind the scenes.
Boltz paused its swap services on August 3 after months of increasingly aggressive attacks. Now Blockstream says it is accelerating an in-house alternative that was already under development.
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Another company entering the market is only part of the story. Bitcoin’s layer-to-layer payment infrastructure may finally be getting a second route where one provider had become a quiet point of concentration.
In its Blockstream Swaps announcement, the company explained that atomic swaps let users move value between Bitcoin’s base layer, the Lightning Network and Liquid without
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