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TL;DR Side Chain, a Bitcoin appchain, has two major products set to receive upgrades in the upcoming Mainnet Beta: • sBTC — our FROST-based Bitcoin bridge • Native BTC lending, powered by DLCs (new) For sBTC, we’re introducing two new features: • Key Refresh: enables

We’re excited to welcome Hinode Technologies, a joint venture between gumi公式’s subsidiary gC Labs and TIS Inc., as a validator for Side Chain. This partnership paves the way for our entry into the Japanese market and supports the growth of our Japanese community!

🧵 Mainnet Beta Upgrade: What’s New in sBTC? (Part 2 — Routing) 1/ Last time, we covered Key Refresh. Now comes Routing — a major upgrade that turns sBTC into a fully interoperable and composable asset, enabling native BTC swaps across the interchain. Blog:

4/ What can this further unlock? By embedding IBC metadata into the OP_RETURN of a BTC transaction and leveraging IBC Hooks, Routing enables powerful cross-chain workflows — most notably: • Native BTC ↔ Interchain asset swaps Through cross-chain swap aggregators like

🧵 Mainnet Beta Upgrade: Side Lending — Native BTC-backed Loans 1/ In the last two posts, we covered Side Bitcoin. Now we’re introducing Side Lending—the first money market that enables borrowing against native BTC in a fully non-custodial way. Blog: medium.com/@SideProtocol/…

We’ve been heads-down building over the past month, and now, together with our leading validators, we’re excited to unveil the public testnet for the upcoming Mainnet Beta upgrade. This release replicates all core features of the upgrade, including our flagship product: a

Recently joined a secret founder camp, been quiet on CT, but fully heads-down on product. Excited to finally launch the public testnet for native Bitcoin lending. Still lots to improve, but we’re on it. Access: testnet.side.one Check the official post from Side Protocol

Side Wallet v1.1.0 is now live. For existing users, go to the top-right corner of Chrome, click “Manage Extensions”, then press the “Update” button to refresh your wallet. To try the lending feature, simply switch to Testnet within the wallet.