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Alpen Labs Releases Glock for Efficient Bitcoin Script Locks

Alpen Labs releases Glock, a new garbled-circuit primitive for Bitcoin script locks. Their Glock25 construction with DV-Pari SNARKs achieves up to 550x onchain efficiency over BitVM2.
๐Ÿ”—Glock paper

alpenlabs.io/blog
๐Ÿ”— Glock is here!

Glocks unlock efficient optimistic verification of arbitrary computation on Bitcoin, providing an elegantly resilient foundation for programmable Bitcoin-based systems that are secure. Glock will eventually secure your BTC deposits to Alpen, allowing you to safely participate in Bitcoin finance.