rootstock.io/blog
🔗 Rootstock Roadmap 2025

2025 is a transformational year for Rootstock. With major protocol upgrades, powerful new integrations, and a focus on institutional-grade security and composable DeFi infrastructure, Rootstock is becoming not only the most secure but also the most composable Bitcoin Layer 2.
From faster transactions and liquid staking to trust-minimized bridging and DeFi vaults, Rootstock is building the future of BTCFi, one upgrade at a time.

blog.gobob.xyz
🔗 Secure Bitcoin DeFi for Everyone

One of the key challenges we are solving is how to make Bitcoin accessible to everyday users while maintaining the security institutions require. Our approach uses two complementary bridges that work together, combining BitVM's strong security guarantees with Gateway's fast accessibility.
BOB mainnet is live since May 2024, with Gateway serving as the main route to onramp users from Bitcoin to BOB. With BitVM set to go live on mainnet in 2025, we are outlining how BitVM and Gateway will work together on mainnet.‍

Moving the Frontier of Bitcoin DeFi with BitVM innovations, by Bitlayer Labs

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Charlie Hu, Co-Founder of Bitlayer Labs, shares how BitVM innovations are opening the door to real Bitcoin DeFi.
He explains why trustless DeFi on Bitcoin has remained out of reach, and how Bitlayer’s rollup architecture and BitVM tech are solving that. From miner-aligned incentives to recursive proofs, Charlie walks through how Bitlayer brings composability and smart contracts to Bitcoin without compromising on its core security.

Got invited into BitVM Alliance after our experiment.

The community pushes Bitcoin innovation boundaries while fostering passionate collaboration among brilliant minds building the future.

A researcher recently posted BitVM 3 concepts in two Twitter paragraphs.

Some members…

— David Tse (@dntse) July 23, 2025

crypto.news
🔗 zkBTC bridge mainnet goes live, unlocking Bitcoin cross-chain liquidity

The zkBTC Bridge has officially launched on mainnet, marking a major milestone for the Lightec team after more than two years of development. The announcement follows the successful conclusion of the testnet phase, which ended on July 1,. during which users could earn points by participating in testnet interactions. The testnet, in turn, built on earlier community testing efforts, including the Beta V3 “Odyssey” campaign launched in December last year, in which users earned zkBTC points convertible into airdrops.

blog.bitlayer.org
🔗 Introducing Bitlayer Booster Campaign with Binance Wallet

Bitlayer is excited to launch the Bitlayer Booster Campaign in collaboration with Binance Wallet. As part of the Binance Booster program, the campaign is expected to distribute 30,000,000 BTR to participants completing tasks.

iohk.io/en/blog
🔗 Bringing expressive smart contracts and decentralized applications to Bitcoin with a new toolset

By combining a serialized smart contract format (Untyped Plutus Core – UPLC), a clever interpreter architecture (Control, Environment, Continuation (CEK) machine), and a widely supported open-source reduced instruction set architecture (RISC-V), IO is building a connection from the expressive world of Cardano smart contracts to the solid base layer of Bitcoin. At the center of this is BitVMX, an optimistic verification system for Bitcoin that leverages RISC-V to safely execute off-chain logic.