A Look at Bitcoin’s Next Protocol Evolutions
A new article by CapBitcoin reviews the state of Bitcoin protocol evolution, including developments around covenants, Ark, zero-knowledge proofs, and BitVM. It hilights their use cases, their risks, and a hypothetical 2027-2030 calendar.
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Future Bitcoin evolutions : covenants, Ark, BitVM
Five years after Taproot, Bitcoin is in a slow but active evolution phase. No soft-fork has been activated since November 2021, but several structuring proposals are in discussion : covenants OP_CTV, OP_VAULT, ANYPREVOUT ; Ark protocol as Lightning alternative ; BitVM enabling off-chain compute verifiable on-chain ; zero-knowledge proof integration.