fairgate.io/blog
🔗 Building together: BitVMX makes a new push into the Open - Source

BitVMX was designed from the ground up as a modular and composable system. Since the beginning of this journey, we’ve built internal tools to support key aspects of the architecture we envisioned: from secure key management and a robust storage backend, to smart configuration, blockchain simulators, Bitcoin Core orchestration, and RPC interfaces. These libraries, tools and core components have matured alongside our protocol stack, and now we’re opening them up for public use.

🚨New Bitcoin Whiteboard. We can do better than BitVM.

00:00 Bitcoin Bridges and ZK Verification
08:42 Addressing Critics of Rollups
13:28 Optimistic ZK Verification
16:56 BitVM1 vs 2 vs 3
25:45 Garbled Circuits
34:07 Glock: Future of Bitcoin Bridging pic.twitter.com/PxIdeQvl7p

— David Seroy 🏔️ (@david_seroy) August 7, 2025

fairgate.io/blog
🔗 A Vulnerability on Bitcoin Protocols Using One-Time Signatures

We discovered a vulnerability that can be exploited by a malicious party to steal funds by forcing a timeout, especially in turn-based protocols. The issue arises when the victim is unable to submit their on-chain response due to Bitcoin's transaction size and policy constraints.

globenewswire.com/news-release
🔗 Tyr Capital partners with BOB and bitvm/acc to drive Bitcoin DeFi Adoption

Tyler Wellener, Chief Strategy Officer at Tyr Capital, commented, "BitVM has accelerated and extended the capabilities of Bitcoin to be more than just sound money. Currently, only 0.3% of BTC is used across all of DeFi, but we expect this to grow significantly due to innovations like BitVM. Tyr Capital is happy to be contributing to bitvm/acc, and we're committed to growing the Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem."

starkware.co/blog
🔗 Building STARKs in Simplicity

Simplicity is a new kind of programming language designed specifically for Bitcoin. It’s being developed by Blockstream, and its goal is to be safer and more expressive than the Bitcoin Script we use today.
It’s designed to be minimal but powerful, built from the ground up with math in mind. The core idea? You get a super-small set of building blocks (only 9 core operations!) — but with them, you can construct some pretty complex programs.

goat.network/blog
🔗 What Happened to Bitcoin L2s?

As of today, there are ZERO projects that can legitimately call themselves Bitcoin L2s. For now, they're all ostensibly sidechains (GOAT Network included). The reason for this is that no chain has succeeded in inheriting native Bitcoin security.