JAN3 has introduced a set of development bounties aimed at bringing Silent Payments support to the Liquid Network through the Liquid Wallet Kit (LWK) library.

The company announced that developers can earn up to 0.06 Bitcoin by contributing to the initiative, which is focused on adding Silent Payments sending and receiving capabilities to applications built on Liquid.

According to JAN3’s bounty page, the first task involves drafting a specification for how Silent Payments can operate alongside Liquid’s Confidential Transactions model within LWK. 

The proposal is expected to follow the “Tweak Server” approach defined in the BIP352 index server specification and eventually be merged as an Elements Improvement Proposal (ELIP).

Additional bounties cover implementing Silent Payments receiving functionality and adding transaction sending support through LWK APIs. 

Once completed, wallets and other software using the library would be able to send and receive payments through Silent Payment addresses on Liquid.

Developer FortyTwoPupusas later stated that an initial proof of concept for the integration was already functioning on LWK and confirmed that an ELIP pull request had been opened for the proposal.

The developer also highlighted the privacy advantages of combining Silent Payments with Liquid’s Confidential Transactions system, stating:

“I had not considered how powerful Silent Payments are when paired with Confidential Transactions!

Lots of cool usecases for this if you care about privacy!”

The proposed implementation is being developed through the ElementsProject ELIP process and references Blockstream’s LWK repository alongside the BIP352 Silent Payments specification.