Battle for Bitcoin: A DoS-Resilient Bridge Protocol
Sergio Lerner and Ariel Futoransky from Fairgate Labs unveiled BATTLE, a DoS-resilient, capital-efficient optimistic bridge protocol built directly on Bitcoin. The design adapts the BATTLE tournament protocol with BitVM-style FLEX components and garbled circuits, enabling large-scale, trust-minimized dispute resolution without introducing new opcodes or external consensus.
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BATTLE for Bitcoin: A DoS-Resilient Bridge Protocol for Bitcoin
Ultimately, BATTLE demonstrates that large, permissionless committees -on the order of a thousand participants- can coordinate optimistic verification directly on Bitcoin without introducing new opcodes or external consensus. This positions BATTLE as a key building block for future Bitcoin rollups, sidechains, and interoperability protocols.