A Launchpad With No Platform
Every launchpad is a company that gets paid on the 98% of launches that fail. Counterparty is about to run the same product as a consensus rule instead.
Writing on software and tokenomics.
I don't know how much I'll write here, I'm mostly filling out this web template.
XCP Pools: A Cold Start
Counterparty's AMM pools won't recreate DeFi's liquidity-mining boom, and don't need to. The play is turning a ten-year backlog of cultural assets, their creators, games, and fairmints into liquid markets, with XCP as the routing layer underneath. The bootstrapping playbook, and why this cold start is different.
Liquidity Pools Are Coming to Counterparty
Uniswap v2-style AMM pools, on Bitcoin, composed with Counterparty's eleven-year-old order book. Similar to what you know, better in some ways, and better than the alternative — which is nothing.
Auditing the 2014 XCP Burn
The XCP burn ledger has been a hardcoded CSV inside counterparty-core for eleven years. I always found that a little weird, so I audited every row against the Bitcoin blockchain.
Introducing XCP Wallet
A browser extension wallet for Counterparty: 12 runtime dependencies, Cure53-audited crypto, Trezor support, UTXO atomic swaps.
The Coming XCP Supply Crunch EXPOSED
XCP's nominal 2.59M supply is a mirage. Lost coins, trapped exchange balances, and deep dormancy compress the tradable float—and the on-chain tape looks like a pre-rally setup.
Token-Gated Telegram Groups
Building a better spam filter for Telegram groups using Counterparty assets. Because sometimes you want an exclusive club, not a public restroom.
The Case for Counterparty's Native Token XCP
Why XCP deserves more attention as a historical artifact, cultural touchstone, and undervalued asset in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Yes, I have bags.
Counterparty Asset Management
How Counterparty offers more control than most Bitcoin metaprotocol assets for asset issuers, and why asset names are the domain names of Bitcoin.
Fairminting with Counterparty
A deep dive into Counterparty’s Fairminting feature, exploring its flexible minting modes and the wide range of crypto use cases enabled by settings such as the soft cap.
Upgrading Counterparty Core
These are the commands I run to upgrade Counterparty Core that has been manually installed on my cloud servers. Your mileage my vary.
Counterparty Development 101
An introduction to Counterparty development, explaining its core concepts, architecture, and resources for getting started. No node required!