Block, a company offering financial services solutions to support an open economy, recently launched Block Open Source. This offering allows the company to provide developers with transparency, security and innovative freedom.
Block’s open-source initiative aims to remove barriers to technology and promoting economic opportunities for all. The initiative emphasizes transparency, collaboration and shared progress, with the goal of empowering both customers and the broader developer community. By leveraging these principles, Block seeks to facilitate the creation of higher-quality software, hardware and protocols.
Key projects under Block’s open-source initiative include OkHttp, Retrofit and the Lightning Development Kit. OkHttp is an HTTP client that works to enable faster load times and reduced bandwidth usage. Retrofit, an HTTP client for Java and Android, works to simplify API integration. The Lightning Development Kit is a modular library designed to help developers integrate Lightning Network functionality into their applications.
