Astra was probably our biggest competitive advantage while it wasn’t generally available.
Since we’ve had it our productivity jumped so much that we shifted some of our plans 6 months ahead and will ship them at DevDay instead of mid next year.
Actual innovation happening on Bitcoin Cash right now. First ever zk-SNARK verified on chain in a single standard transaction. While another chain argues about meaningless BIPs...
This is why we spent years improving BCH's scripting tier. Finally seeing the payoff. A lot more to come, this is just the beginning.
Achieved a milestone today:
First ever full zk-SNARK, verified on-chain in a single standard Bitcoin Cash transaction — It attests Satoshi's whitepaper title line.
Here is the transaction: 3xpl.com/bitcoin-cash/transa…
This was inspired by the competition happening at verifier.cash. Check it out and join the fun!
Opal Base v0.4.0 is out.
github.com/58opals/OpalBase
This release brings much better docs for Bitcoin Cash builders using Swift: starter guide, public API guide, and architecture notes for wallet creation, CashAddr receive addresses, Fulcrum sync, and BCH spend prep.
Introducing Opal Crypto.
github.com/58opals/OpalCrypt…
Opal Crypto is a pure-Swift BCH crypto package focused on Swift-native auditability, not C/C++ backend wrapping.
Opal Wallet's campaign is live.
We built a working iPhone/Mac BCH wallet. 350 BCH funds six months of production-readiness work: reliability, recovery checks, App Intents-ready wallet actions, demos, stack updates, and monthly reports.
opalwallet.cash/fundraising/
I prompted a very obscure bug in Codex, then went to shower because I thought it would take a while. But of course I could have pasted way more than just this.
A mature codebase is not a cathedral. It is more like a city.
Some districts are well planned. Some are old.
Some roads are ugly but important. Some buildings should be demolished. Some shortcuts exist because real people use them every day.
My job is not to make the whole city pristine. My job is to keep it liveable, extendable, and safe.
We found and fixed two issues that could explain this degradation of the capability of GPT-5.5 in Codex over the last ~ 48 hours.
We are monitoring over the coming hours to fully confirm and I will reset usage limits this evening.
Apologies and now is the time for /fast maxxing.