Stacks, a layer-2 blockchain project atop Bitcoin, confirmed on Tuesday the activation of its Nakamoto toughen, designed to perform transactions sooner.
The project’s official legend on X posted that “Stacks transactions once confirmed on the moment are at least as irreversible as Bitcoin’s,” and that there is a “valuable sever charge in transaction times.”
The toughen moreover will provide a “technical foundation for sBTC launching later this year,” in accordance with the put up.
Stacks, co-founded by Muneeb Ali, a Princeton-educated computer scientist who moreover serves as CEO of the Bitcoin-focused development firm Believe Machines, is considered as one amongst the oldest and most credible efforts constructing layer-2 networks atop the Bitcoin blockchain – no itsy-bitsy claim on condition that extra than 80 such initiatives bear sprung up over the past couple years.
Ali told CoinDesk earlier this year that he observed Bitcoin as the “apex predator” in the blockchain industry – irrespective of the a ways-higher success of so-called shipshape-contract blockchains love Ethereum and Solana that are designed for higher programmability, and bear attracted whole ecosystems of applications dedicated to things love decentralized finance (DeFi) and gaming.
The toughen has been the heart piece of Stack’s roadmap, with initial phases of the implementation started earlier this year, and then a number of delays earlier than full activation.
