Chaincode supports Bitcoin through open-source engineering, research, and education.
Engineers and researchers at Chaincode are free to pursue the Bitcoin open-source projects they believe are most important. Members of our team have contributed to Bitcoin Core, the Lightning Network protocol, and novel cryptography that is relevant to Bitcoin.
We also design and run educational programs that help current and future contributors build the knowledge and skills needed to participate in Bitcoin's development. Our goal is to support both the work being done today and the people who will shape Bitcoin's future.
The following projects represent some of our team's work:
BITCOIN CORE
Chaincode engineers develop, review, test and maintain the reference Bitcoin implementation.
BIPS
Chaincode has contributed research and design to many proposals to improve the Bitcoin Protocol, such as Cluster Mempool, TRUC transactions and the Consensus Cleanup.
LEARNING
We run programming challenges for aspiring protocol developers to get their start in Bitcoin open source contribution. We have also produced several learning resources, including a provable cryptography workshop, Bitcoin development philosophy book and self-paced protocol development seminars.
EVENTS
Chaincode stewards the original BitDevs meetup, hosting monthly technical discussions open to the Bitcoin community.
Some of our past projects include:
OPTECH
Bitcoin Optech helps Bitcoin users and businesses keep up to date with developments through its weekly newsletter.
PODCAST
The Chaincode Podcast has interviews with the most influential Bitcoin engineers about Bitcoin protocol development.