Manifesto
Nearly 16 years after the Bitcoin whitepaper was published.
Its full vision of seamless peer-to-peer “electronic cash” remains a distant reality.
The means of transaction are either slow, custodial, or abstracted to other chains.
Ironically, it is stablecoins—not Bitcoin—that have taken center stage as digital money.
Centralized, yes. But they fulfill the demand for a stable, accessible means of exchange. For many, they’ve become the de facto digital ‘bank accounts.’
Yet, network fragmentation and an ever-growing number of stablecoins make scaling payments impossible at legacy scale.
Bitcoin is the only network that will be around on every timeline.
It’s the natural bedrock for a global payment system.
But as it exists today, it cannot scale to meet global demand
The Lightning Network enabled ultra-fast, ultra-cheap BTC transactions.
Yet, for onboarding millions with self-custody wallets and enabling stablecoins, Lightning’s design is too burdensome—if not impossible—to work with.
Other protocols have tried. None have had the necessary
components to push Bitcoin to escape velocity.
It’s Time for a Shift.
Bitcoin is ready for the next phase.
A system that works at scale.
A system built for how people transact today.
*Spark is a Bitcoin-native protocol that scales self-custody wallets and enables stablecoins on Bitcoin. It removes the friction that makes onboarding difficult and allows seamless, non-custodial transactions.
Spark makes stablecoins natively interoperable with Bitcoin. Stablecoins can move instantly, with near-zero fees, without relying on custodians or centralized issuers.
For the first time, users can send and receive stable value directly on Bitcoin, as easily as Lightning payments.
Spark makes self-custody scalable.
Users hold their own keys while benefiting from a fast, seamless payment experience—without the complexity and trade-offs of existing Layer 2 solutions.
With Spark, Bitcoin can finally become the SMTP for money—a universal payments protocol that moves any asset at the speed of the internet.