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The Liquid Network is a Bitcoin sidechain for faster settlement, confidential transactions, and digital assets issued on top of Bitcoin.
The Liquid Network is a Bitcoin sidechain for faster settlement, confidential transactions, and digital assets issued on top of Bitcoin.
Liquid settles Bitcoin transactions quickly and privately, and lets businesses issue digital assets on top of Bitcoin. A sidechain pegged to Bitcoin, run by a federation, open for anyone to build on.
Bitcoin pegs into Liquid one-for-one as LBTC. On the sidechain, short and predictable block times move funds between exchanges and trading desks, while Confidential Transactions keep the amounts and asset types private. Funds peg back to Bitcoin whenever the holder chooses.
Amounts and asset types are hidden on-chain while staying fully verifiable, so trades settle without exposing balances to the public ledger.
Short, predictable block times move funds between exchanges and desks quickly, so capital is not stranded waiting for confirmations.
Stablecoins, security tokens, and other assets live natively on Liquid. LBTC is Bitcoin pegged into Liquid one-for-one.
The Liquid Federation of exchanges and institutions operates the network and the two-way peg with Bitcoin.
Liquid carries more than bitcoin. Issuers put stablecoins, security tokens, and other assets directly on the sidechain, with the same fast settlement and confidentiality as LBTC.
Issue assets on a Bitcoin sidechain, or read how the open-source Elements platform behind Liquid works. Hold LBTC and Liquid assets in the Blockstream app and on Jade. The wider ecosystem lives at liquid.net.
Liquid is a Bitcoin sidechain. It runs alongside Bitcoin for faster settlement, confidential transactions, and the issuance of digital assets, with funds moving between the two chains through a two-way peg.
LBTC is Bitcoin pegged into Liquid one-for-one. Bitcoin locked through the federated peg is represented as LBTC on the sidechain, and holders can peg it back to Bitcoin at any time.
Confidential Transactions hide the amount and the asset type of a transfer on-chain while letting the network verify that no value was created or destroyed. Balances stay private without trusting a third party.
The Liquid Federation, a group of exchanges, institutions, and businesses, operates the network and secures the peg with Bitcoin. The software it runs is the open-source Elements platform.
The Blockstream app and Blockstream Jade both support Liquid, including LBTC and other issued assets. To issue and manage assets, see Blockstream AMP.