Building STARKs in Simplicity
Discover how combining Simplicity and STARKs can transform Bitcoin scaling and explore their potential for creating rollups, privacy-preserving transfers, and more.
- Michael Zaikin
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Simplicity Launches on Liquid Mainnet
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 Arrives on the Liquid Testnet
Simplicity has officially launched on the Liquid testnet, allowing developers to start experimenting with its expressive smart contract capabilities.
- Blockstream Team
Simplicity: Sharing of Witness and Disconnect
Explores how Simplicity enables efficient smart contracts through reusable witness data and modular design via the disconnect combinator.
- Andrew Poelstra
Building Blocks of Simplicity: Values and Types
Introduces the foundational concepts of values and types in Simplicity, highlighting its formally verified and minimalist design.
- Kiara Bickers
Simplicity: Holes and Side Effects
Examines how Simplicity uses holes and explicit side effects to safely handle incomplete programs and external data like signatures.
- Andrew Poelstra
From Miniscript to Simplicity
Outlines the evolution from Bitcoin Script and Miniscript to Simplicity, emphasizing how each step improves security, expressiveness, and formal verification.
- Christian Lewe
Simplicity, Taproot, and Universal Sighashes
Explores how Simplicity integrates with Taproot and enables universal sighashes, providing greater flexibility and security in transaction validation.
- Andrew Poelstra, Dr. Russell O'Connor
Disconnecting Simplicity Expressions
Details how the disconnect combinator allows developers to modularize Simplicity programs, enabling better abstraction and reuse of smart contract components.
- Dr. Russell O'Connor
Simplicity Jets Release
Announces the release of Simplicity jets, pre-verified code fragments that improve efficiency by reducing the computational cost of frequently used operations.
- Andrew Poelstra, Dr. Russell O'Connor