In this week update form , we feature the most interesting things happened during Bitcoin++ Consensus Edition in Toronto (), where devs met to discuss new consensus proposals and what are the best way forward for Bitcoin. We also cover some other interesting news from the Bitcoin ecosystem. Notably, a PR was opened in Bitcoin Core to bring BIP54 (Consensus Cleanup) into the protocol, Lightning Labs launched a third Ark implementation, and silent payments being integrated in libsecp256k1.

In this week update by we feature the ongoing effort to migrate LDK from GitHub to a self-hosted instance, after the company banned the Lightning implementation from running CI. We also cover a new BIP being published, BIP95, which defines a new testnet to replace testnet4, and six new BIPs being assigned a number. In particular, BIP453, provides common terminology for transaction components, BIPs 455, 456, and 457 compose the specifications for the SwiftSync protocol for faster IBD, and BIPs 458 and 459 describe half and full signatureaggregation, an important building block towards CISA. Finally, we cover some interesting news from the Bitcoin ecosystem. In particular, we present some interviews from Nairobi, mempool(.)space () joining the SV2 working group, and some useful information about how to protect yourself during the upcoming forks.