Pillar Labs

Technical research for Bitcoin and freedom technologies.

Pillar Labs conducts independent technical research on the systems powering open, decentralized, and freedom preserving technologies.

Every project begins with a clearly defined research question and ends with publicly available findings that contribute to the global technical community.

Research areas

Technical questions with global relevance.

Bitcoin Protocol

Exploring protocol improvements, implementation challenges, and emerging technical questions.

Lightning Network

Research into routing, liquidity, interoperability, reliability, and infrastructure.

Privacy Technologies

Investigating practical approaches to privacy preserving systems.

Open Source Infrastructure

Studying contributor ecosystems, sustainability, tooling, and project health.

Freedom Technologies

Research into decentralized technologies that strengthen individual freedom and digital resilience.

Publications

Every Pillar Labs project produces openly accessible research.

Our method

Every research project follows the same process.

  1. 01 Research Question
  2. 02 Methodology
  3. 03 Evidence Collection
  4. 04 Peer Review
  5. 05 Open Publication