The new fee policy offers up to 90% reduction in Confidential Transaction (CT) fees, significantly lowering the cost of sending Liquid assets like USDT.

The latest release of the open-source Elements sidechain software is now available for node operators and developers! This release brings the Elements codebase up to date with Bitcoin Core 23.2, while

Under 21.1.1, internal benchmarks show upwards of a 50% reduction in memory usage when running Liquid.

In version 22.1, engineers brought Elements up to date with Bitcoin Core 22.1 and added native support for Liquid Testnet and a slew of smaller improvements.

Important — peg-in addresses generated before the January 25 transition will no longer be claimable after February 7, 2023.

The latest release of Elements brings its codebase up to date with Bitcoin Core v22.0 and adds new features.