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2025 Bitcoin Research Prize Awarded

Lukas Aumayr received the 2025 Bitcoin Research Prize for the paper “BitVM2: Bridging Bitcoin to Second Layers,” awarded during Chaincode Labs’ Bitcoin Research Day in New York.

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🔗 Lukas Aumayr Receives the 2025 Bitcoin Research Prize

The award was presented on 7 November 2025 at Chaincode Labs’ offices in New York City during their Bitcoin Research Day (BRD).
BRD included several technical talks, and Chaincode invited the BitVM2 authors to attend the event in person. Lukas was present, along with some of his coauthors, and Robin Linus gave a talk on the paper.