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Bitcoin Cash projects & resources

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A curated list of Bitcoin Cash projects & resources

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a project to scale bitcoin on-chain as an electronic peer-to-peer payment system for the world. πŸš€


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Contents

Getting Started

State of the Project

Whitepaper

β€œBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” by Satoshi Nakamoto.

Bitcoin Cash is one chain of Satoshi Nakamoto’s blockchain invention which was deliberately hard-forked on August 1st, 2017. It shares the whitepaper, first block, and all bitcoin block history prior to the fork. It attempts to implement the central idea outlined in that paper.

Below is a copy of the original nine page whitepaper:

Open-Source Wallets

Below are non-custodial open-source wallets that use features specific to Bitcoin Cash.

Best BCH Wallets is a tool for selecting a wallet based on operating system and features.

Mobile

Desktop

Electron-Cash Plugins

Cli

Browser

Paper/Offline Generator

Podcasts, News, Media

Bitcoin Cash focussed media and content.

Projects Built on Bitcoin Cash

All of these apps are mostly stable and active. Always check the notes of a particular project before risking a large sum of value. Links are checked on a weekly basis, but function is not checked.

Apps (Social)

Crowdfunding

BCH Native Decentralized Finance

Trackers

Bitcoin Cash Dapps [a-z]

Collectables

Entertainment

Exchanges

Bitcoin Cash is supported on hundreds of exchanges, these are a few.

Centralized

More decentralized

Oracles

Faucets

Network

Explorers

Services

Utilities

Web

See Also

These are other projects dedicated to listing projects in the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem:

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Merchants and Services Accepting Bitcoin Cash

A Short List

These vendors have accepted bitcoin for years and are committed (or sympathetic) toward the idea of electronic cash payments.

Although some of these may appear to only accept Bitcoin (BTC), they do, in fact, accept Bitcoin Cash also.

Geographic lists

Projects dedicated to listing or enabling eCommerce.

Some Charities and Foundations

Just some good charities for the world at large.

eCommerce Merchant Resources

Bitcoin Cash Open-Source plugins

Point of Sale Clients

Non-Custodial Payment Processors

BCH-to-Fiat Payment Processors

Payment Processor Status

Documentation

General

Base Protocol

Secondary protocols

Bitcoin Cash Standards is a site dedicated to collecting, some of which are listed below:

Discussion

An archive of past and future ideas for Bitcoin Cash ongoing at Bitcoin Cash Research (BCR). Collaborating participants have recorded their thoughts and concerns about various potential ideas & implemented improvements.

CHIP Process

Protocol changes, software standards and application specifications may be proposed by anyone. The recommended process for consensus building and conflict reduction is known as the Cash Improvement Proposal (CHIP) Process.

Previous consensus changes, May 2023:

Anyone may propose an improvement to Bitcoin Cash, but the responsibility is on the CHIP owner to see the idea through to fruition and build consensus.

Script

Tooling

Bitcoin Script DeFi Projects

Below is a list of projects using CashScript and/or BitcoinScript.

CashScript is a β€œtranspiler” for BitcoinScript. Developers can write CashScript and then use cashc to transform it into the BitcoinScript language Satoshi developed.

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AnyHedge a protocol for protocol for setteling oracle-based swaps against BCH collateral
General Protocols
.cash
AuthGuard A standard for authchain management which makes updating the authchain more secure and convenient.
Mathieu Geukens
πŸ”΅ .cash announcement
BadgersStake A decentralized staking contract for BitcoinCash.
Sayoshi Nakamario
πŸ”΅ .cash
CashNinjas Multi-threaded NFT minting contract
Mathieu Geukens
πŸ”΅ .cash
CashStarter A decentralized crowdfunding system built on BitcoinCash.
Sayoshi Nakamario
πŸ”΅ .cash
CatDex A dex geared toward stable assets.
2qx
πŸ”΅ announcement, .cash
Drip Mine a pure MEV faucet where miners could call the contract to make extra money in each block
Bitcoin Cash Autist
.cash, unspent
Emerald DAO [CLOSED FUND] A fixed-term deposit savings vault using NFTs with crowdfunded rewards.
BCA with help from mainnet-pat
πŸ”΅ .cash, code
Future Bitcoin Cash Timelocked Bitcoin Cash Futures with incentives.
2qx and audited by BCA
πŸ”΅ .cash
HODL Plugin plugin for Electron Cash to timelock the funds.
mainnet-pat
~.cash, BitcoinScript
Moria a protocol for oracle-based borrowing against BCH collateral
RiftenLabs
πŸ”΅ whitepaper, .cash
p-bond a constant product bonding cureve
Bitcoin Cash Autist
.cash, bchpump
Small Index a pay-per-use highly distributed key-store index service.
2qx
πŸ”΅ announcement, .cash
TokenBurner Tool for burning tokens on Bitcoin Cash
DagurVal
πŸ”΅ announcement, .cash code
Unspent Phi Seven simple anyone-can-spend contracts.
2qx
.cash src
Wrapped Bitcoin Cash Bitcoin Cash wrapped as a CashToken
DagurVal
πŸ”΅ src announcement, .cash

See Also

Software

Full Nodes

Developer Resources

Open-Source Teams Building on Bitcoin Cash

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

– An African Proverb.

There are various groups developing software stacks & apps for the broader ecosystem.

Simple Payment Verification (SPV) Indexers

Mining

cculianu/asicseer-pool - ASICseer Pool: Fast, C-based, multithreaded mining pool software for Bitcoin Cash

Libraries & SDKs

Language Agnostic

Typescript

Javascript

Python

Rust

Java

C

C#

PHP

R

Endorsements

Below is a list of endorsements made in the Chip Process in reverse chronological order.

The CHIP-2024-07 BigInt: High-Precision Arithmetic for Bitcoin Cash for the May 2025 BCH Upgrade is AWESOME!

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The CHIP-2021-05 VM Limits: Targeted Virtual Machine Limits for the May 2025 BCH Upgrade is AWESOME!

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The Adaptive Blocksize Limit Algorithm (ebaa) CHIP for the May 2024 BCH Upgrade is AWESOME!

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The CashTokens and P2SH32 CHIP Proposals for the May 2023 BCH Upgrade are AWESOME!

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The Archive

Due to the nature of bitcoin, some stuff is forever…

Bitcoin Script tools

Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP Token)

The Permissionless Software Foundation is actively maintaining an SLP wallet and indexer, denoted with starts (⭐) below.

Protocols

Libraries

SLP Token Projects