General Protocols are UTXO experts, building peer-to-peer, open-source financial tools and services on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain.

Joined October 2019
Are crypto oracles rewarding the wrong thing? Many oracle systems incentivize producing data. But what if the better approach is to reward data when it's actually consumed? @EmergentReasons explains why getting the incentives right matters.
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General Protocols Sponsorship for Q4 2026 General Protocols is supporting several ongoing projects within the Bitcoin Cash community in Q4 2026, through our sponsorship program: Electron Cash: A Bitcoin Cash SPV wallet electroncash.org/ BCHN: A professional, miner-friendly node that solves practical problems for Bitcoin Cash. bitcoincashnode.org/ CashScript: CashScript is a high-level programming language for smart contracts on Bitcoin Cash. cashscript.org/ cculianu/Fulcrum: A fast & nimble SPV server for Bitcoin Cash & Bitcoin BTC. github.com/cculianu/Fulcrum The Bitcoin Cash Podcast @TheBCHPodcast: A podcast dedicated to Bitcoin Cash, aimed at accelerating BCH adoption, by providing news, updates and entertaining media all related to Bitcoin Cash.
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What could XO unlock for Bitcoin Cash? Recurring payments. Conditional payments. Liquidity pools. New oracle systems. By reducing the cost and complexity of building on BCH, XO could make a whole new range of applications practical. @monsterbitar explains the possibilities馃憞
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Ethereum helped pioneer DeFi, but its success also came with architectural baggage. Building exciting applications is one thing. Scaling them to millions or billions of users is another. @EmergentReasons explains why scaling matters for Bitcoin Cash 馃憞
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Why aren't more applications being built on Bitcoin Cash? Custom integrations are expensive, and limited wallet support creates a vicious cycle. XO Templates aim to break that cycle by making protocols reusable across compatible wallets. @EmergentReasons explains below馃憞
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Why does crypto need XO? To reach millions or billions of people, building useful applications needs to become easier and cheaper. XO is now reaching the proof-of-concept stage. Once the hard problems are solved, things can start to accelerate. @EmergentReasons explains 馃憞
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Privacy matters. But is privacy enough on its own? Users also want payments, contracts, DeFi and applications they can actually use. @monsterbitar explains why privacy is valuable, but can't be the only feature 馃憞
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How does XO fit together? Engine. Templates. Invitations. @monsterbitar breaks down the core pieces behind the XO templating system and how they work together 馃憞
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When AnyHedge was created in 2018, the box you could build inside on BCH was much smaller. Today, that design space is dramatically more powerful. AnyHedge was one protocol. General Protocols was never meant to stop there. @EmergentReasons on what comes next 馃憞
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Who actually needs the XO Engine? Wallets, merchants and third-party apps can all run their own copy when interacting with XO. @monsterbitar explains how it works 馃憞
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