This is amazing 👏🏾👏🏾😎⚡️
As Liquid's technical provider, Blockstream is committed to making it easier to build on Bitcoin's second layer.
These development efforts have culminated in the new Liquid Wallet Kit (LWK), a collection of Rust tools to build Liquid wallets. 🧵
https://blog.blockstream.com/lwk-liquid-wallett-kit/
LWK aims to provide all the necessary building blocks for developing Liquid wallet applications and simplifying the lives of developers by addressing common pain points of current tooling.
https://github.com/Blockstream/lwk
LWK leverages two recent innovations in the Liquid ecosystem: Liquid descriptors and PSETs.
We also focused on bindings for popular languages, including Python, Swift, and Kotlin, to ease mobile integration, and WebAssembly (Wasm), which even allows LWK to run in the browser!
Today, LWK allows you to easily enable features such as watch-only, HWW support, complex scripting, and more in your Liquid applications.
For instance, you can use LWK to create a multisig wallet with multiple Jade devices, and issue, reissue and burn assets with that wallet.
We have plans to improve the existing language bindings while adding support for more programming languages and hardware signers. However, some federation members have taken the initiative and already started the work - kudos to the Bull Bitcoin team!
https://github.com/SatoshiPortal/lwk-dart
LWK is a young library with an evolving interface that will be polished, improved, and extended in the coming months. We encourage developers to contribute to LWK, and reach out to us, on GitHub or the official Liquid Developer Telegram.
Finally, we'll host a demo of LWK this Thursday at 5 p.m. CET / 10 a.m. CDT on Build On L2. It's open to the public, and no sign-up is required. Come with questions and see you there!
Discussion
Why? I've been trying to understand why bitcoiners think that liquid is a good thing. Once upon a time, we had gold. But it sucked to transport. So we made banks to store our gold in and they gave us receipts or tokens that we could trade...
Then we had Bitcoin. It was a new dawn. But everyone insisted on small block size which made transactions expensive. Then we created liquid so that we can place our Bitcoin and trade tokens instead...
I just don't get it. We're going right back to the banking model that Bitcoin frees us from aren't we? What am I missing?
