It is now possible to ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ป๐๐น๐ on the Bitcoin blockchain thanks to @kontornetwork
Our scalable perpetual file storage system is now live on Signet. Register, login, upload - three steps to permanent storage.
Developers can test the Kontor-Portal-Client library today.
The Kontor block explorer is live on Signet. Search transactions, explore blocks, and monitor network activity. Everything running end-to-end on Bitcoin. Try it: https://t.co/aSPsq7ic0K
Kontor file storage is live on Signet.
Users: experience perpetual storage on Bitcoin firsthand.
Developers: test the new Kontor-Portal-Client library.
Sigil quietly closes off patterns LLMs misuse most: typed end-to-end contract interfaces, structured storage instead of hand-built string keys, no delegatecall equivalent. An entire family of proxy-storage exploits simply cannot be expressed in Sigil.
No Bitcoin node. No indexer. Hundreds of tests per second on a laptop.
Sigil contracts test as ordinary Rust against an in-memory backend - the feedback loop AI agents need.
๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ฟ'๐ ๐๐ผ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ป๐ผ๐บ๐ถ๐ฐ๐: When the network is young, fees are literally zero to help onboarding.
As usage grows, fees appear and balance emissions through burns. No mining. No validators. Fees adapt to network maturity.
A growing share of new smart contracts are being written with the help of large language models.
๐ฆ๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐น ๐ถ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐น๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ: Rust is the language AI codes best in, and writing a Sigil contract feels like writing ordinary Rust.
The compiler catches mistakes before they ever reach deployment.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฆ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ
"I think the Kontor storage system is better for permanent data storage than any I've seen."
Why? It's on Bitcoin. You're using Bitcoin security to enforce data availability. No network switching required. Store Ordinals art, Counterparty assets, encryption data - all without leaving Bitcoin. That's the key distinction.
Sigil contracts catch errors at compile time, not runtime. An Integer stays an Integer throughout your contract - no raw bytes, no manual parsing.
Type safety from storage to function calls means entire classes of bugs simply cannot exist. Correct by construction.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐น๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ๐บ
"IPFS is an addressing and retrieval system. People use it as a data storage system and it shouldn't be used that way. It's not reliable."
Kontor solves this: Bitcoin-level reliability for data storage. As permanent as Bitcoin transactions, but scalable and affordable.
๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ฟ'๐ ๐๐๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น: ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐๐ต ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ๐
Kontor's hybrid model lets assets live in smart contracts for fast execution or attach to UTXOs for atomic swaps. Chain them together in one transaction.
NEW POD: Are we giving away the store with Bitcoin L2s?
Jacob sat down with Adam Krellenstein (@agkrellenstein) - Creator of @CounterpartyXCP & @kontornetwork.
We discuss:
โข Why L2s are a mistake
โข Hal Finney Inventing Metaprotocols
โข DeFi on Bitcoin in 2014
โข Bitcoin-secured storage
โข Scaling up vs scaling out
โข How Kontor Network works
๐บ Watch the full 38-minute conversation now
Sigil contracts catch errors at compile time, not runtime. An Integer stays an Integer throughout your contract - no raw bytes, no manual parsing.
Type safety from storage to function calls means entire classes of bugs simply cannot exist. Correct by construction.
Swaps alone aren't enough to build a functional financial ecosystem.
Want to use an Ordinal as collateral for a loan? Provide Runes as AMM liquidity?
๐๐๐ฆ๐ง ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ by wrapping any Bitcoin UTXO into ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ฟ-๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ tokens that can be traded, pooled, or collateralized at optimistic-consensus speed.