Insider Brief
- The Bitcoin Cash community activated the Layla Upgrade, introducing the Turing-complete CashVM scripting language and expanding Layer 1 decentralized finance capabilities through features including bounded loops, functions, bitwise operations, and pay-to-script functionality.
- The upgrade adds post-quantum security support through Quantumroot technology, with wallets such as OPTN Labs and Paytaca supporting quantum-resistant storage for BCH, CashTokens, and DeFi assets on Android and iOS devices.
- The rollout enables new on-chain applications including decentralized exchanges, perpetual futures trading, prediction markets, stablecoin lending, and AI agent micropayments using the x402 payment protocol on the Bitcoin Cash network.
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PRESS RELEASE — The Bitcoin Cashtoken community and ecosystem builders today announced the successful activation of the Layla Upgrade. This brings CashVM, a Turing-complete scripting language, to the blockchain network. A major expansion of decentralized finance (DeFi) capabilities! Jerry Qian, CEO of OPTN Labs, has recently returned from the annual BCH Bliss developer’s conference to his corporate headquarters in Toronto. OPTN wallet is one of the first Bitcoin Cash wallets to support Quantumroot vaults for post-quantum security of BCH, Cashtokens, and DeFi!
In honor of the successful network update, we are pleased to announce that the next monthly meeting of the Toronto Bitcoin Cashtoken club will feature live DeFi demonstrations and random opportunities for dApp crypto #cashdrops in celebration of the successful Layla network upgrade! The Toronto BCH meetup will also feature Cashstamps to be given randomly for demos and onboarding! The Bitcoin Cash Toronto community meets the third Tuesday of each month at Firkin on 207 Yonge @ 6pm.
Consisting of four major features; the Layla network upgrade introduced; bounded loops, functions, bitwise operations, and pay-to-script! One standout feature; Quantumroot by lead CHIP author Jason Dreyzehner. This brings post-quantum cryptography to wallets for long term storage of BCH, Cashtokens, and DeFi! Powered by CashTokens, developers can now release advanced dApps to the mainnet!
After successful demonstrations during the Consensus Miami EXPO and MIT BTC Hackathon, wallets with Quantumroot support are available for android and iOS!
This rollout also brings sophisticated financial primitives directly to one of the world’s most scalable, low-fee blockchains, while introducing seamless AI agent and API monetization through Paytaca CLI and the x402 payment protocol. The Cashtoken UTXO design allows transaction-level parallelism, natively on the Bitcoin Cash Layer 1 blockchain. This avoids the global-state bottlenecks of EVM-type alternatives. Even with larger PQ-signatures, BCH transactions are often 100-1000x’s cheaper!
CashVM unlocks token/token trading on Cauldron Swap DEX ( at https://app.cauldron.quest/tokens ) allowing RWA and stablecoin trading pairs on decentralized exchanges. On-Chain central limit order books (CLOB’s) will allow perpetual DEX. A native perpetual futures platform allowing the leveraged trading of BCH, stablecoins, and other CashTokens assets with funding rate mechanisms, all settled directly on Bitcoin Cash L1. Users can trade tokenized assets with deep liquidity, low slippage, and on-chain settlement.
Prediction Markets: Fully on-chain, non-custodial prediction markets built with CashTokens enable peer-to-peer betting on real-world events, with dynamic odds, liquidity pools, and oracle-based resolution. Alpha testing live now at https://app.bch.guru/#/events
Over-Collateralized USD Stablecoin Loans: Users can deposit BCH (and other approved collateral) to mint USD-pegged stablecoins through over-collateralized positions, with flexible LTV ratios, borrower-set rates, and stability mechanisms. Increase capital efficiency by utilizing the “Buy, Borrow, Die” strategy, all on layer 1 DeFi!
AI Agent Assistants and API Payments via Paytaca CLI + x402: Paytaca CLI, a powerful command-line interface for the Paytaca non-custodial wallet, now natively supports the x402 HTTP payment protocol. This enables AI agents (such as those using Claude or OpenCode) to autonomously discover, negotiate, and settle micropayments in BCH or CashTokens for API access, data, compute, and digital services. Developers and AI systems can interact programmatically with the BCH ecosystem for seamless, account-free, machine-to-machine commerce—positioning Bitcoin Cash as a leading infrastructure for the agentic economy.
These developments build on live protocols including Cauldron DEX, ParyonUSD, MUSD, BCH Guru, and Paytaca’s wallet ecosystem. All applications emphasize self-custody, censorship resistance, minimal fees, and now native integration for autonomous AI agents.
CashTokens transforms Bitcoin Cash into a powerful L1 DeFi platform, while Paytaca CLI with x402 support opens the door to AI-native payments. AI agents can now autonomously pay for APIs and services using BCH — delivering fast, cheap, and truly decentralized financial tools alongside programmable machine-to-machine commerce. This is DeFi and the agent economy done the Bitcoin way.
These features are rolling out now across supported wallets (including Paytaca), explorers, dApps, and CLI tools on Bitcoin Cash mainnet. Developers are invited to build using CashTokens documentation, Paytaca CLI, and x402-BCH implementations.
For more information, visit https://bitcoincash.org, https://cashtokens.org, or follow ecosystem updates on X.
