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The post The Channel Factories We’ve Been Waiting For appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Visions of future technology are often prescient about the broad strokes while flubbing the details. The tablets in “2001: A Space Odyssey” do indeed look like iPads, but you never see the astronauts paying for subscriptions or wasting hours on Candy Crush.  Channel factories are one vision that arose early in the history of the Lightning Network to address some challenges that Lightning has faced from the beginning. Despite having grown to become Bitcoin’s most successful layer-2 scaling solution, with instant and low-fee payments, Lightning’s scale is limited by its reliance on payment channels. Although Lightning shifts most transactions off-chain, each payment channel still requires an on-chain transaction to open and (usually) another to close. As adoption grows, pressure on the blockchain grows with it. The need for a more scalable approach to managing channels is clear. Channel factories were supposed to meet this need, but where are they? In 2025, subnetworks are emerging that revive the impetus of channel factories with some new details that vastly increase their potential. They are natively interoperable with Lightning and achieve greater scale by allowing a group of participants to open a shared multisig UTXO and create multiple bilateral channels, which reduces the number of on-chain transactions and improves capital efficiency. Achieving greater scale by reducing complexity, Ark and Spark perform the same function as traditional channel factories with new designs and additional capabilities based on shared UTXOs.  Channel Factories 101 Channel factories have been around since the inception of Lightning. A factory is a multiparty contract where multiple users (not just two, as in a Dryja-Poon channel) cooperatively lock funds in a single multisig UTXO. They can open, close and update channels off-chain without updating the blockchain for each operation. Only when participants leave or the factory dissolves is an on-chain transaction…

The post Watch Out for the Next Week! CME Group Announces New XRP and Solana (SOL) appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. CME Group, the world’s largest derivatives exchange, launched futures trading for XRP and Solana (SOL) after Bitcoin and Ethereum in recent months. While XRP and Solana futures are breaking records in a short time, CME Group announced that it will offer options for Solana and XRP. With increasing demand for Solana and XRP from institutions and individual investors, the latest move marks the latest addition to CME’s crypto derivatives portfolio. In a post from the CME X account, it was announced that the countdown has begun for the launch of Spot-Quoted XRP and Solana futures. “Just 7 days left until the launch of Spot-Quoted XRP and SOL futures.” At this point, Spot-Coint XRP and SOL futures are expected to launch on the CME Group platform on December 15, subject to regulatory review. CME Group stated that this new product, offered to investors at spot prices, features lower-margin, smaller, longer-term contracts. “Access spot prices on a highly regulated exchange and combine the flexibility of contracts for difference (CFDs) with the transparency of futures. Trade smaller, longer-term contracts with lower margins, designed specifically for active traders. Low margin for capital efficiency, simple pricing directly linked to spot price and regulated clarity….” As you may recall, in October, CME Group expanded its XRP support, adding options to its futures package, allowing investors to trade options on XRP and Micro XRP futures with daily, monthly, and quarterly maturity options. *This is not investment advice. Follow our Telegram and Twitter account now for exclusive news, analytics and on-chain data! Source: https://en.bitcoinsistemi.com/watch-out-for-the-next-week-cme-group-announces-new-xrp-and-solana-sol/

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