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Announcements and explorations of Particle Network's suite of Wallet and Chain Abstraction products.

Community

Universal Accounts Are Going Live! Here’s What’s Next and How To Prepare for It

You read it well: Universal Accounts are going live! Throughout the past months, we’ve been positively surprised by the community’s support. Ever since we went live on Testnet, millions of Universal Account Testnet transactions have gone live through Particle Pioneer. We’ve also received increasingly positive feedback on

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The Simplest Web3 Experience: Introducing Passkey Smart Wallet

Ever since Particle Network was created, it’s been our mission to hyper-simplify the Web3 experience. If you’ve been following our latest updates, you know we’ve been advancing at breakneck speed toward our goal of unifying users’ accounts and balances across every chain. Meanwhile, however, we’ve also

Ecosystem

Chain Abstraction Coalition: Our Arbitrum Orbit Co-Testnet Is Live on Particle Pioneer!

Missed us yet? Well, The Chain Abstraction Coalition is back with another announcement! Assembling 60+ industry players (including huge names like Arbitrum, Avalanche, Berachain, Botanix, BNB Chain, Linea, and Polygon), the Coalition is committed to ending Web3’s fragmentation, steadily advancing towards a truly borderless ecosystem. Our latest Co-Testnet—which

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Chain Abstraction Coalition: Our Arbitrum Co-Testnet Is Live on Particle Pioneer!

The Chain Abstraction Coalition has done it again. This alliance, dedicated to ending the ecosystem’s fragmentation and featuring key industry names such as Avalanche, Berachain, Botanix, BNB Chain, Linea, and Polygon, continues to accelerate its mission to create a truly borderless ecosystem. And today, we’re taking another step

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Chain Abstraction Coalition: Our First Co-Testnet Is Now Live on Particle Pioneer!

It’s time for action. Last week, we announced the Chain Abstraction Coalition: a groundbreaking collaboration of Web3's leading ecosystems, united in the mission of tackling our ecosystem’s fragmentation.  This coalition brings together prominent networks like Arbitrum, Berachain, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Linea, and Botanix, all committed to

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One Account, 1000 Chains: Showcasing Universal Accounts

Your Web3 experience might be about to change forever. A few months ago, we announced that we’d embarked on our most ambitious quest yet, aiming to solve Web3’s fragmentation of users and liquidity. Through our cornerstone solution, Universal Accounts (UAs), we’re providing an all-encompassing tool that allows

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We're Joining Forces with Babylon to Secure our L1!

New Proof-of-Stake chains face a critical, yet often overlooked, security risk due to their native tokens’ nature.  These tokens, typically the sole assets securing the network, are often subject to high volatility, which can reduce the security and integrity of the chain alongside its validator set. Meanwhile, as the most

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Universal Accounts: UX, DevX, and Technical Implementation

Web3 is at a turning point in its goal to deliver decentralized solutions to the masses. The scalability problems that bugged our ecosystem for years led to the independent development of a myriad of L1, L2, and even L3 solutions. This has brought along secure, fast, and cheap blockchains, each

Insights

Chain Abstraction on Multiple Levels: Diverse User Experiences Inside Web3’s Evolution

–Special thanks to the Agoric team for their collaboration and input on this piece. The chain abstraction vertical has grown exponentially this year, with teams from across the industry building toward a shared goal: simplifying Web3’s UX in a multi-chain, fragmented ecosystem.  Fragmentation across blockchains is deeply ingrained at

Community

Our Testnet Is Now LIVE! Here's How To Participate & Earn $PARTI Points

The Particle Network modular L1 is closer than ever. As we advance with giant leaps towards our Mainnet –a release we hope will transform the experience of using Web3–, today marks the beginning of a new era for Particle Network with a huge milestone: Testnet Phase 1. This Testnet features

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Bringing Account Abstraction to B² Network (BSquared): BTC Connect

BTC Connect continues its path of adoption among the leading Bitcoin L2s.  Today, we’re happy to announce that Particle Network is bringing account abstraction (AA) to the B² Network Mainnet, supercharging this zk-rollup on Bitcoin. As the first-ever Account Abstraction protocol for the Bitcoin ecosystem, BTC Connect is the

Insights

Navigating the Chain Abstraction Landscape: A Multi-Faceted Analysis

As Web3 scales faster and faster within a rich L2/rollup panorama, the need for a unified user experience across chains grows exponentially. This makes chain abstraction –infrastructure unifying multi-chain asset and account management, solving the current fragmentation across ecosystems– a top priority in today’s landscape. The development of

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Enabling Chain Abstraction for Bitcoin L2s: Bitcoin Account Abstraction (BTC Connect)

A few months ago, we released BTC Connect, the first account abstraction (AA) protocol for the Bitcoin ecosystem. This pivotal moment transformed Bitcoin account abstraction from a theoretical concept into a practical, production-ready technology. This release was motivated by two goals: Furthering the interconnection of the Bitcoin and EVM networks,

Developer Onboarding Featured

The Modular L1 Powering Chain Abstraction: Particle Network

Note: This article was updated on 15/05/2024 to refine the explanation of certain components of Particle Network, as well as reflect conceptual developments that have occurred since its original publication. TL;DR: * L2s and rollups deliver the scalability blockchains need, but resulting in siloed ecosystems. Meanwhile, cross-chain interactions

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Bringing Account Abstraction to SatoshiVM: BTC Connect

Dear community, We recently introduced BTC Connect, the first-ever Account Abstraction protocol for the Bitcoin ecosystem. And, as many of you know, this is the first step toward full chain abstraction encompassing the Bitcoin ecosystem, one of Particle Network’s goals for 2024.  Today, we’re happy to announce that

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Breaking Through Chain Abstraction on Bitcoin: BTC Connect

The Bitcoin ecosystem has entered an accelerated growth and evolution phase.  Many consider that 2023 and 2024 will be remembered as the years of bleeding-edge Web3 innovation arrived at Bitcoin. Amongst this revolution, a growing ecosystem of EVM-compatible L2s, Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens, and new dApps has sparked. However, despite abundant

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The People's Launchpad Is LIVE! Participate To Get Merlin Chain Tokens

BTC holders and $ALLY community,  As announced, this Feb 5th, at 12 PM UTC, our Launchpad is going live. And, to kick things off with a bang, we will debut giving you the exclusive opportunity to participate in Merlin Chain's token launch. Merlin Chain is a Bitcoin Layer2

Developer Onboarding

Upgrading Our Site, Docs & DevEx: Web3 Developer Tools Overview

Particle Network dev community, The last few months have been full of announcements and deep dives on our upcoming ecosystem. If you’ve kept an eye on our channels, you may also have seen that, as a part of our transition to a full-blown token-centric economy, we’ve dedicated considerable

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BTC Connect: Bringing Account Abstraction to Bitcoin (Demo Inside!)

Recently, we announced the development and initial partner ecosystem for BTC Connect –the first EVM-compatible ERC-4337 AA protocol for Bitcoin, supported by leading players in the BTC universe. Today, we are bringing you all the details about BTC Connect’s design and motivations, what it means for the larger Bitcoin

Community

We’re Going Live! Here’s How to Participate in The People’s Alliance Inscription

It’s almost go-time! At 2 PM UTC, The People’s Alliance is going live with its Inscription Campaign, the first and largest community-exclusive Inscription system on any blockchain, ever.  And, while our and the different Alliance Members’ X are overflowing with excitement, we have also received many questions about

Developer Onboarding

The Particle Account Abstraction Bundler Just Crossed 1M UserOps! Fuelling Adoption Across dApps

Dear community,  We are thrilled to announce that the Particle Bundler has surpassed 1 million transactions!  Just over two months away from its open-source release, this milestone underscores the growing adoption of Particle's solutions among Web3 developers across chains. This also establishes Particle Network as a leading player

Developer Onboarding

Particle Network 101: Developer Experience Edition

We’ve remarked on it often, and we’ll say it again: Particle Network sits at a unique spot in the Web3 ecosystem. Serving end-users and developers, our mission is to make the experience of using Web3 as seamless as possible, providing developers with tools to create state-of-the-art dApps. And,

Developer Onboarding

Introducing Particle Network’s Omnichain Paymaster: Cross-Chain Gas Sponsorships

As we progress through the simultaneous development of the many upgrades coming to Particle Network, we have successfully concluded the release of our Omnichain Paymaster. This service, directly integrated into Particle Network's Modular Smart WaaS stack, constitutes a part of our Omnichan Account Abstraction stack for AA interoperability.

Technical/Security

ERC-4337: Predicting the Gas Consumption of UserOperation

ERC-4337 Bundlers serve two core functions: * Predicting the gas costs for a UserOperation, i.e., eth_estimateUserOperationGas. * Packaging and submitting the UserOperation to the chain, i.e., eth_sendUserOperation. Among these, predicting the gas costs for UserOperations is one of the most challenging parts of the Bundler. As we recently

Developer Onboarding

A New Era: Celebrating 15M End-Users & Debuting Our Token-Centric Economy

Today, we celebrate a major milestone with an even greater announcement.  A mere 12 months after launching, Particle has crossed 15 Million wallet activations, an explosive signal demonstrating the strong need for seamless Web3 onboarding. Over 800 decentralized applications are now integrating Particle's Wallet-as-a-Service solutions, propelling us to