Simplicity and SimplicityHL now have a Simplicity Community web forum, hosted by Discourse. The Simplicity Community will share Blockstream's own Simplicity work, as well as supporting Simplicity users and providing a place for them to share their projects and applications.
- Blockstream Team
Article on the Blockstream blog describes how Blockstream Research team members implemented a verifier for SHRINCS quantum-resistant signatures in Simplicity.
- Blockstream Team
Resolvr shows off an early demo of its tokenized risk investment product Astrolabe, built on Simplicity smart contracts.
- Resolvr Team
"Delving Simplicity" is an ongoing multipart series by Dr. Russell O'Connor, presenting conceptual and architectural aspects of the design of (low-level) Simplicity. This series is written from a programming language theory perspective.
The following articles in this series have appeared so far:
- Dr. Russell O'Connor
Discover how combining Simplicity and STARKs can transform Bitcoin scaling and explore their potential for creating rollups, privacy-preserving transfers, and more.
- Michael Zaikin
Simplicity is now accessible on the Liquid mainnet, providing financial applications free from the complexities and risks that characterized the previous era of EVM-based DeFi.
- Blockstream Team
Simplicity has officially launched on the Liquid testnet, allowing developers to start experimenting with its expressive smart contract capabilities.
- Blockstream Team
A discussion on how Simplicity, as an alternative to Bitcoin Script, could enable covenants and be ported to Bitcoin by first proving itself on Liquid.
- Christian Lewe
An accessible introduction to Bitcoin scripting and cryptography, including how Simplicity enhances Bitcoin by offering a formally verifiable, resource-bounded alternative to Script.
- Andrew Poelstra
Explores how Simplicity enables efficient smart contracts through reusable witness data and modular design via the disconnect combinator.
- Andrew Poelstra