⚡📰 [Breez Announce 10 New Partners To Add Lightning ⚡️](https://stacker.news/items/917788/r/botlab)
Breez have announced ten new partners that have integrated bitcoin payments with the Breez SDK.
We’ve told you thatbitcoin payments are here and expanding rapidly, but did you ever wonder how we knew? It’s one thing to go out and do a bunch of research on an ongoing phenomenon, but it’s another to intuit what’s worth researching in the first place. You need a special perspective to detect a trend when it’s global and decentralized.
We have a special perspective. At Breez, we know that bitcoin payments are a big deal, we build tech to facilitate them, and prospective partners are practically kicking our door down.It’s that momentumwe’ve been talking about. When inquiries about your SDK for bitcoin payments are coming as fast as you can answer them, it’s easy to infer that you are chilling on the tip of a very big iceberg.
This entirely new scale is also why we’re introducing a cohort of new partners at once. If we were to present each individually, we’d need to write a book each quarter. So instead, enjoy these brief profiles of the companies that have implemented the Breez SDK in the last several weeks. Note the breadth of verticals they represent: an AI company, payment apps, a collaboration app, trading apps, and tipping. These are businesses, not hobbies. They’re evidence that the bitcoin economy is self-sustaining and growing.
We’re proud of the SDK and proud of these new partners, and we can’t wait to grow with them.
Bringing bitcoin to P2P lending with Assetify
Crowdfunding is a great idea, but not everyone wants to exchange their money for an autograph or a celebrity dinner. Why not share an idea that needs funding and obtain decentralized loans from a community of users? Why not indeed, askedAssetify, where users can use their crypto as collateral to obtain and make loans to earn a return on their stack.
Assetify is using the Breez SDK to let their users move bitcoin to where it does the most good. This is exactly the kind of interaction where the bitcoin economy, boosted by Lightning and our SDK, excels beyond anything fiat can manage.
Compensating and collaborating with colleagues and communities on Cowbolt
Collaboration is built on communication and compensation. To do things together, teammates, colleagues, family members, and friends need to be able to share plans and results, and then to share costs and rewards.Cowboltbrings these two functions together, combining private chats with peer-to-peer payments.
With the Breez SDK, the complexity of adding bitcoin payments was no longer an issue, so they could focus on perfecting the design and functionality of their iOS and Android apps as well as the browser extension, which just launched. Our collaboration with Cowbolt has been as easy as collaboratinginCowbolt.
A trading app to make AML-compliant swaps across chains
If centralized exchanges are how crypto has reinvented banks, then decentralized, P2P coin exchanges are the bitcoin-friendly alternative.DexTrade P2Pis just that: a decentralized way for users to exchange tokens across chains with trustless atomic swaps.
DexTrade P2P has integrated the Breez SDK to give their 15,000 (and growing) global users quicker, cheaper bitcoin payments. The SDK has improved their UX and led to more transactions.
A bitcoin payment app tailor made to help merchants get paid
Ever more merchants are accepting bitcoin payments for their retail sales. For those holdouts who still fear that accepting bitcoin might be too complex,Flashhas launched a self-custodial bitcoin wallet tailored specifically to merchants’ needs.
The Breez SDK lets Flash users accept bitcoin and, crucially, USDT, so the prices the merchants quote are as stable as the greenback for any customer who prefers a stablecoin. Flash will soon enable offline payments, giving all their users access to the feature that has long been the holy grail of Lightning development.
A wallet to move your bitcoin from the Shire to Mordor
While most bitcoin businesses are inherently global, it can still be nice to have a local presence that understands local needs, opportunities, and constraints.Lightning Payis a global wallet with a local presence in New Zealand, home of great rugby, some of the world’s awesomest birds, hobbits, and passionate bitcoiners.
Using the Breez SDK has helped Lightning Pay grow their user base by 20% each month, and each month those users move a billion sats. When our partners grow, bitcoin adoption grows.
An AI assistant meets a bitcoin wallet, decentralizing the market for AI services
While the AI ventures that dominate the headlines — OpenAI, xAI, Anthropic — are themselves dominated by centralized big-tech funding,OpenAgentsis bitcoinizing AI by addingactualopenness, decentralization, and inclusiveness to the biggest tech innovation since bitcoin itself.Onyx, OpenAgents’ consumer app, is like a “personal JARVIS”: a voice-driven assistant designed to replace Alexa or Siri paired with a built-in self-custodial bitcoin wallet and Nostr integration. It connects to a decentralized marketplace where developers can build AI tools and get paid in bitcoin.
The payment infrastructure underlying OpenAgents’ decentralized marketplace is, of course, based on bitcoin and runs the Breez SDK. Building AI as a permissionless, borderless, trustless technology, like bitcoin, is the best guarantor for a free and decentralized future with AI-driven productivity and bitcoin-powered payments for everyone.
Removing the boundaries between fiat and bitcoin
Most of us still use fiat for some purposes and bitcoin whenever possible, but doing so typically requires different apps with different constraints and different interfaces.Satoshi Appcombines both a custodial bank account for USD and BTC with a self-custodial Lightning wallet. It’s a beautiful instance of finding a problem people experience and solving it.
Since Satoshi App lets users pay over Lightning and Liquid, the Breez SDK was the right choice, as it moves seamlessly between the two.
The bitcoin wallet that does so much more
The termwallethas always been a poor fitfor what these apps do. In the case ofShakesco, it’s woefully inadequate. Far more than just a place to store pocket money, Shakesco lets users buy and sell bitcoin and ethereum, make private payments, manage recurring payments, set up team payouts, and more. Shakesco is as far from a leather wallet as a chuckwagon is from the Millennium Falcon.
Decentralizing P2P financial services, as Shakesco does, is exactly in line with the bitcoin ethos, and it’s exactly the sort of purpose we built the Breez SDK to serve.
Bitcoin payments for businesses of all sizes
What if you want a one-stop shop that can service a diverse range of businesses in different verticals?Tidebinderprovides self-custodied bitcoin wallets for SMBs, banks, and fintechs alike.
Tidebinder uses the Breez SDK, which shows that our Lightning infrastructure can work at any scale, just like Tidebinder’s end-user products. Your scale is their scale is our scale.
A tipping app for rewarding awesome creations (and silly things too)
Tipping is a vital component of the creator economy. It’s the practical reflection of the pay-what-you-think-it’s-worth ethos, and it’sZapZap’s specialty. ZapZap lets users “Tip people who say awesome things” on X, and it’s proudly “the silliest way to tip small amounts!” How silly? When asked about ZapZap’s most meaningful statistics and key performance indicators, they answered that the modal tip amounts are 69 and 420 sats. Never change, ZapZap.
Launched just a couple of months ago, ZapZap has already attracted thousands of users worldwide. They’re also planning on expanding their offering from tips on tweets and memes to a pay-per-media model, and the Breez SDK is as scalable as they are, if slightly less silly.
Are you running a company that could use a dose of bitcoin payments that you can implement in just a few days? Good. You sound like someone we’d like to team up with. You already found the solution. Nowget in touchfor help in implementing it.
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