Computing on Bitcoin Newsletters

News #73

📅 January 23, 2026

A Deep Dive into Bitcoin Scailing with Fairgate's CTO Sergio Lerner

Argo: A 1000× Efficiency Boost for Off-Chain Verification

Boundless Enables Cross-Chain ZK Verification on Bitcoin

BABE: Cheaper Off-Chain SNARK Verification for Bitcoin

Fairgate' Resource Hub Launch

Sergio Lerner on BitVMX Payment Channels

Hemi Tunnels: A Native Approach to BTCFi

News #72

📅 January 16, 2026

Introducing APoW: Auditable Mining Against Block Withholding

Argo MAC: A 1000× Boost for Garbled SNARK Efficiency

Inside BitVM2’s “Unhappy Path”: A Two-Part Analysis

The Bitcoin DeFi Race: BTCFi Layers Compared

BOB Under the Lens: An In-Depth Technical Review

News #71

📅 January 09, 2026

Introducing OHMG: One-Hot Modular Garbling for Efficient Computation

BTCVault Launches: Trustless Bitcoin DeFi Without Bridges

Bithoven: Formal Safety for Expressive Bitcoin Smart Contracts

Bridges Without Forks: BitVM2 Design in Focus

Year in Review: Advancing Bitcoin Verifiability

News #70

📅 December 19, 2025

Accelerating BitVM Challenges with a New GOAT Network Design

Exploring Regulated Finance Integration Through BitVM

UPLC 2025: Advancing Smart Contract Research Toward BitVMX

BitVM3 Mainnet Targeted for 2026, Says Zest Protocol Co-Founder

The BOB Report Signals Rapid Progress in Bitcoin DeFi and BitVM3

News #69

📅 December 12, 2025

Scaling Bitcoin with ZK and BitVM

BitVM2-GC with DV-Snark Shrinks Fraud-Proof Overhead

Cardinal Bridge Introduces Ownership-Preserving Withdrawals

Altius Labs Aims for Universal Execution Layer

David Tse on BitVM’s Cost vs. Storage Trade-offs

BitMEX Explores Bitcoin’s 64-Byte Transaction Quir

News #67

📅 November 28, 2025

New Fairgate Videos Explore Bitcoin L2s and Protocol Design

BOB Launches Hybrid Chain Guide for Bitcoin DeFi Builders

Fairgate Recaps Devconnect Buenos Aires Session on BitVMX

David Seroy on BitVM1 → Glock: The Future of Verification

Fake Pubkeys, Real Lessons: Historical Analysis from Counterparty

Fairgate Joins Arbitrum Stylus Ecosystem at WakeUp Labs Event

News #65

📅 November 14, 2025

Fairgate Unveils OTS-PC: Simpler, Safer Lightning Channels

Citrea Explains Trusted Setup for Clementine’s BitVM Bridge

Fairgate Hosts Second BitVMX Event in Buenos Aires - Nov 16th

Starknet Positions Itself as Bitcoin’s DeFi Yield Layer

Fairgate's CSO Ariel Futoransky (Futo) joins Cardano Summit Panel on Tools & Interoperability

Rootstock Releases Reed 8.1.0 with Parallel Execution on Testnet

Fairgate Recaps BitVMX Week at LABITCONF Buenos Aires

GOAT Network Previews BitVM2 Mainnet, Ziren GPU Prover, BTCFi Fund

Sergio Lerner & Martin Jonas to present BitVMX paper at Rootstock Whitepaper Reading Club in Buenos Aires

Hemi: Running a Bitcoin Node Inside Ethereum Smart Contracts

News #64

📅 November 07, 2025

Sergio Lerner to Present BitVMX at LABITCONF Buenos Aires

Fairgate to Host Two BitVMX Side Events During LABITCONF & DEVCONNECT

Starknet Q3 Recap Highlights Bitcoin Bridge Plans with Alpen Labs

Fairgate Joins BitVM Interoperability Panel at BTC++ Istanbul

LayerEdge Anchors TRON Verification to Bitcoin with Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Citrea Launches Tangelo, Final Testnet Upgrade Before Mainnet

News #63

📅 October 31, 2025

TABConf Panel Highlights BitVM2 → BitVM3 Progress and Trustless Bridges

Fairgate's BitVMX Side Events in Buenos Aires

David Seroy Talks GLOCK and Rollup Verification on Built on Bitcoin

Fairgate’s FLEX presentation: Lightweight Fraud Proofs with Garbled Circuits

Citrea Completes Audit Phase for ZK Rollup and BitVM Bridge

GOAT Network Blueprint Details BitVM2/3 Challenges and ZK Infrastructure

News #62

📅 October 24, 2025

Building Advanced Bitcoin Protocols with BitVMX — A Talk by Martin Jonas

Bitfinity’s State of Bitcoin: From BitVM3 to the Bitcoin Dollar

Messari Unpacks Hemi: A Modular Bitcoin Layer-2

BitDevs Buenos Aires Meetup Announced for October 30

GOAT Network Shares Post-TGE Roadmap

On-Chain Bitcoin Questions Babylon’s Vault Design

News #61

📅 October 17, 2025

Battle for Bitcoin: A DoS-Resilient Bridge Protocol

BitVMX Hackathon Extended Through November 15

Alpen Labs and Starknet Foundation Join Forces on Glock Verifier

Native BTC as Collateral on Ethereum: Babylon’s New Proof of Concept

Fairgate Announces Two BitVMX Side Events in Buenos Aires

Cardano and Fairgate Demo Smart Contracts on Bitcoin

News #60

📅 October 10, 2025

BitVMX Protocol Builder: Modeling Complex Bitcoin Flows in Rust

BitVMX FORCE at BTC++ Berlin

Bitcoin Staking: From Time-Locks to Liquid Tokens and BitVM Bridges

BitVMX Open Source Components Stack Expands: New batch available

Why Bitcoin Needs Native L2s to Scale: Insights from GOAT Network

BitVM and the Real Revolution Happening in Bitcoin’s Code

News #59

📅 October 03, 2025

Fairgate Showcases BitVMX at BTC++ Berlin with Payment Channels and Dev Workshop

New BitVMX Open Source component release: Protocol Builder

GOAT Network Launches Public BitVM2 Beta Rollup on Bitcoin

Rootstock Activates Reed Upgrade, Prepares Union Bridge with BitVMX

Horizen Labs Launches zkVerify to Slash Proof Verification Costs

News #58

📅 September 26, 2025

Fairgate Introduces BATTLE: A New Take on Fraud-Proof Disputes

GOAT Network Launches BitVM2 Beta with Sub-3s ZK Rollups

Fairgate, Input Output & TxPipe: Advancing Bitcoin Computing in Buenos Aires

ZK ZYRA Phase 2: Validating ZK Proofs Natively on Bitcoin

Citrea Celebrates 1 Year of Testnet with BitVM Bridge Milestone

BitVM Moves Into Implementation Stage with Bitlayer Launch

News #57

📅 September 19, 2025

Fairgate Introduces WISCH: Efficient Signing with Correlated Signatures

Bitlayer’s YBTC Redefines Representative BTC with BitVM Smart Contracts

BitVMX Releases New Batch of Open Source Components

Bitcoin 2025 Panel Dissects BitVM’s Architecture and Use Cases

Buenos Aires Workshop to Explore BitVM2, BitVMX, and TOOP

GOAT Explains Why Bitcoin Needs Layer 2s Now

New Research: Bitcoin Bridges for AIoT and Cross-Chain Classifications

Bitlayer Migrates to Chainlink CCIP to Power Multichain YBTC

hBitVM Merges Bitcoin Security with Ethereum Flexibility

Prepare Yourself For The Coming BTCfi Tsunami

News #56

📅 September 12, 2025

BitVM Panel at BTC++ Highlights the Future of Trustless Bitcoin Bridges

BitVMX FORCE Recap: Flex, WISCH, and Protocol Demos at BTC+

Citrea Integrates TOOP to Power Garbled Circuit-Based Transfers

Cardinal Protocol Bridges Bitcoin and Cardano Using BitVMX

News #55

📅 September 05, 2025

Fairgate introduces WISCH: A correlated signature scheme for cost efficient data signing on Bitcoin

Rootstock Unveils Reed 8.0.0 and Foundation for Union Bridge

BOB Announces Fraud Proofs and TOOP in BitVM Bridge Testnet

Bitcoin Magazine Panel Explores Global Adoption and Scaling

Fiamma’s Yovela Luo on Trustless Bitcoin Bridges with BitVM

Robin Linus on Bitcoin's true purpose

News #54

📅 August 29, 2025

BitVMX FORCE @BTC++ Istanbul: Fairgate and Rootstock to showcase BitVMX latest updates

Fiamma Executes First BitVM2 Challenge Simulation

Rootstock Prepares Reed Upgrade and Launch of Union Bridge

Waterdrip Compares BTC L2s: Lightning, RGB, BitVM & More

BOB Maps the Road to Bitcoin DeFi via Hybrid Rollups and BitVM

News #53

📅 August 22, 2025

Alpen Labs Releases Glock for Efficient Bitcoin Script Locks

Bitlayer Brings Native BTC to Solana via BitVM Bridge

GOAT Releases BitVM2-GC Draft Combining Arithmetic Garbled Circuits

BitVM Reshapes Mining Incentives accoirding to GetsMine News

GOAT Network Joins BitVM Alliance to Advance Adoption

News #52

📅 August 15, 2025

BitVMX Pushes Forward with Second Wave of Open Source Releases

David Seroy Breaks Down Zero-Knowledge Bridges for Bitcoin

A Vulnerability in Bitcoin Protocols Leveraging One-Time Signatures

Tyr Capital Joins BitVM Effort to Accelerate Bitcoin DeFi

StarkWare Explores STARK Verifiers Built in Simplicity

GOAT Network Questions “Bitcoin L2s” and Offers a Path Forward

News #51

📅 August 08, 2025

Fairgate Introduces FLEX: Capital-Efficient Fraud Proofs for Bitcoin

Exploring Emergency Multisigs in BitVM-Based Bridges

Ariel Futoransky Talks Garbled Circuits on new Computing on Bitcoin Podcast episode

GOAT Network Hits Real-Time Proving with BitVM2 Beta Testnet

Alpen Labs Launches EVM-Compatible BitVM Testnet

News #50

📅 August 01, 2025

BitVMX Expands with New Open-Source Components

Robin Linus Shares BitVM Research Update at Cannes

Bitfinex Explains How BitVMX Watchtowers Secure Lightning

Bitcoin Magazine on BitVM, OP_CAT, and OP_CTV for Stronger Consensus

BOB Becomes the First Hybrid ZK Rollup

GOAT Network’s Ziren zkVM Powers Bitcoin-Native zkRollups

News #49

📅 July 25, 2025

Rootstock Prepares to Launch Union Bridge by Year’s End

BOB’s Dual-Bridge Model Unites UX and Bitcoin Security

Bitlayer Shares Vision for Turing-Complete Bitcoin Smart Contract

Babylon’s David Tse on BitVM Alliance and Collaborative Research

zkBTC Bridge Goes Live for Trustless BTC-to-Ethereum Transfers

Bitlayer and Binance Wallet Launch BitVM Booster Campaign

IOHK Enables Smart Contracts on Bitcoin via BitVMX

News #48

📅 July 18, 2025

Compact Payment Channels with BitVMX

Bitlayer Launches BitVM Bridge Mainnet Beta and V2 Whitepaper

BOB Launches Testnet for Native BTC Deposits via BitVM

Alpen Labs Introduces Glock: Fast, Low-Cost Verification for Bitcoin

Bitlayer Co-Founder Highlights BitVM-Powered DeFi at Istanbul Blockchain Week

zk-STARKs on Bitcoin: Exploring Zero-Knowledge Applications with BitVM

Panga Capital’s Vishwa Protocol Unlocks BTC Yield via BitVM2

BOB: the Multichain Gateway for Bitcoin DeFi

BitVM3 Promises Cheaper Bitcoin Bridges—But Challenges Remain

News #47

📅 July 11, 2025

Fairgate Labs Shares Findings on BitVM3 RSA-based Garbling Security

Citrea Discusses Building Bitcoin’s First Mainnet Rollup

Babylon Reveals Roadmap to Unlock BTCFi

Rarimo Launches Wrapless BTC Collateral Protocol

StarkWare & Kakarot Bring ZK Proofs to Everyday Devices

News #46

📅 July 04, 2025

BitVMX: Building Bitcoin’s Off-Chain Computation Stack

Citrea Powers BitVM2 SNARK Verification and Readies Mainnet Rollup

DFINITY Proposes Bitcoin Smart Contracts on Internet Computer

BOB Launches BitVM Bridge Testnet for Native Bitcoin DeFi

StarkWare Unveils Nexus x S-two for zkVM 3.0

News #45

📅 June 27, 2025

Garbled Circuits: the next big thing in Bitcoin scalability

BitVM2 Powers Trustless Bitcoin Bridges with Mainnet Verification

Union Bridge Enables BTC-to-Rootstock Transfers with BitVMX

GOAT Network Scales BitVM3 Using Label Forward Propagation

Running Cardano Contracts on Bitcoin via BitVMX + RISC-V

Citrea Calls for Bitcoin-Native Apps in ₿app Manifesto

BOB Brings Secure Bitcoin DeFi via BitVM2 Interoperability

News #44

📅 June 20, 2025

BitVM3 Slashes On-Chain Data with Off-Chain SNARKs

Bulltime’s Deep Dive: BitVM3 vs. Its Predecessors

TOOP: Trustless Bitcoin Asset Transfers via BitVMX

StarkWare Backs OP_CAT MEV Impact Study

GOAT Network Debuts Bitcoin-Native zkRollup Economics

News #43

📅 June 13, 2025

Introducing TOOP: a significant advancement in trust minimizing transfer protocols for assets originating on Bitcoin into other blockchains

Bitlayer Executes First BitVM Bridge on Bitcoin Mainnet

Cardinal Protocol Bridges Bitcoin to Cardano DeFi

News #42

📅 June 06, 2025

Fairgate at Bitcoin 2025: Bridging Ordinals and discussing TOOP & ESSPI

Citrea Upgrades Clementine with TOOP and Garbled Circuits

First Bitcoin–Cardano On-Chain Transaction Confirmed

Babylon Executes First Full BitVM Unhappy Path on Mainnet

BOB Launches Explainer Series on Hybrid Layer 2s and BitVM

Charles Hoskinson: Cardano is the Dev Hub for Bitcoin Script, through BitVMX

BitVM Reducing Costs and Complexity in Cross-Chain Bridges

Bitcoin DeFi: silently becoming the next big thing

News #41

📅 May 30, 2025

Ordinals Cross the Chain: First Bitcoin-to-Cardano Bridge Goes Live

Meet Cardinal: Trustless Ordinals Protocol for Cross-Chain DeFi

On Cardinal: A case study

Bitlayer Partners with Bitcoin Mining Pools Covering 40% Hashrate

BitVM Proposes Fix to Bitcoin’s Historical SPV Merkle Tree Bug

BOB Joins BitVM Alliance, Contributes to Verifier & Bridge Researc

Nubit’s Thunderbolt Protocol Reimagines Bitcoin Smart Contracts

News #40

📅 May 23, 2025

BitVMX Unveils 2025 Roadmap for Scalable Bitcoin Computation

Fiamma Launches Beta Testnet for Multi-Chain BitVM2 Bridge

Robin Linus on OP_CTV & OP_CSFS Benefits for BitVM

Coinbase Highlights ZK Identity for Enhanced User Privacy

News #39

📅 May 16, 2025

Fiamma Co-Founder on BitVM as Bitcoin’s Trustless Settlement Layer

Igra Labs Flags Centralized Risks in L2s, Highlights BitVM’s Potential

BitVM Updates Blake3 Implementation for SP1 Compatibility

Bitlayer and Sui implement trust-minimized BitVM Bridge

News #38

📅 May 09, 2025

How LayerEdge Uses BitVM for Trustless Bitcoin Settlement

Debate Grows Over Corporate Influence and OP_RETURN Expansion in Bitcoin

Ola Unveils ZKP Platform for Trustless Bitcoin Interoperability

Return of the OP_RETURN: Bitcoin, Explained Podcast Breaks Down Controversial Proposal

NVK on Stephan Livera Podcast: BitVM’s Role in Bitcoin Self-Custody and Layer 2s

News #37

📅 May 02, 2025

Bitlayer’s BitVM Bridge Goes Live on Monad Testnet

Computing on Bitcoin Talks Debuts with Deep Dive on BitVMX and ESSPI

Jeremy Rubin Proposes Safer, Simpler Fix for BitVM Bridge Design

OP_NET Brings Native Smart Contracts to Bitcoin Layer

Symbiosis Finance: BitVMX Unlocks Native Bitcoin Bridging for DeFi

News #36

📅 April 25, 2025

Citrea’s Clementine Whitepaper Unveils Trust-Minimized BTC Rollup Bridge

Fairgate Drops New BitVMX Deep-Dive Videos

Hoskinson: Ethereum’s RISC-V Pivot Endorsement

5 Reasons RISC-V Powers BitVMX Best

Bitlayer Co-Founder Calls for Bitcoin L2s to Learn from Ethereum

News #35

📅 April 17, 2025

RISC Zero Unveils R0VM 2.0 with Major Performance Boosts

BitVMX Gains Traction with Ecosystem Recognition and SDK News

Hoskinson: Cardano Is Built for Bitcoin DeFi

Lerner: Improving BitVMX with Bitcoin Soft-forks

Bitlayer Co-Founder Calls for Bitcoin L2s to Learn from Ethereum

Hemi AMA Sheds Light on zk-Proofs and BitVM Tunnels

News #34

📅 April 11, 2025

FairgateLabs, RootstockLabs and IOHK announce BitVMX FORCE

Delbrag: proposed enhancement to BitVM-style constructions

Alexei Zamyatin on True Rollups and BitVM2’s Future

BOB Integrates with deBridge for Cross-Chain Expansion

Starkware's ColliderVM: enabling smart contracts on Bitcoin

News #33

📅 April 04, 2025

Cardano: enabling Bitcoin DeFi via BitVMX & Lightning Hydra

BitLayer unveils BitVM bridge

On BitVM's evolution and relevance: Kevin He

Citrea: Bitcoin's fee mechanism proposal

News #32

📅 March 28, 2025

Moving forward on R0VM: RISC Zero

L2s with on chain verification: Kevin He

Introducing OP Kailua: zkVM opcode for efficient on chain verification

OP Kailua also trasitioning into a ZK Rollup: BOB

News #31

📅 March 21, 2025

On Finality Bridge: Charlie Hu, Bitlayer

BitVM's role on BOB development

Discussing Bitcoin's potential upcoming upgrades: Galaxy Research

Scaling Bitcoin via BitVM-based L2: GOAT Network

BOB + Fiamma: BitVM Bridge launch on testnet

BitcoinOS announces release of BitSNARK 0.2

News #30

📅 March 14, 2025

Withdrawable signatures in Fiat-Shamir with aborts constructions: Paper

Becoming Bitcoin's execution layer: Starknet

Enabling DeFi, keeping the code: Innovations on the Bitcoin blockchain

New MPC with Two-Phase Commit: IKA

RISC Zero: partnership with BOB & zKM improvements

Celestia, here we come: Bitlayer

News #29

📅 March 07, 2025

Introducing ESSPI: a BitVMX milestone for improved efficiency

BOB: BitVM bridge and accelerator community launches

Pushing BitVM forward: BitLayer Strategic Integration Frameworks

MPC: implications for security and scalability

Fireblocks & BOB - MPC Wallet within BTC DeFi

News #28

📅 February 28, 2025

Succinct: enabling zk fraud proof on OP Stack

Reducing input-dependent communication in MPC: a new approach

Integrating Boundless to enable ZKPs on Bitcoin: BitLayer

Introducing SHARP technology for devs: Atlantic, by StarkWare

BitVM Status Report, by BOB

Nubit: a new formal verifier announced at ETHDenver

News #27

📅 February 21, 2025

BitVMX introduces the Multi Exchange Handler

Strata: Blake3 optimization

On Bitlayer's Finality Bridge: Bitcoin Magazine

Exploring and contrasting BitVM 1-of-N trust model

On BitVM, ZK and more: The Rollup Podcast

New Bitcoin Economy Conference Videos released

Introducing GOAT Network

Clementine's update: Citrea

On the importance of Zero- Knowledge: LayerEdge

News #26

📅 February 14, 2025

Finality Bridge testnet launched: Bitlayer

BitVM2 to Bitcoin: BOB

Brevis' Pico 1.0: a modular zkVM

BitVM: security and decentralization for a trustless financial future

News #25

📅 February 07, 2025

BitVM state of the art: Bitcoin Economy Conference

Muneeb Ali: On BitVM, BitVM2 and OP_CAT

Fairgate's new YouTube Channel

Trustless Bitcoin Defi via BitVM: Nubit & Lombard

BitVM update: smaller script size, optimized stack usage

LayerEdge: Incentivized testnet Airdrop

MPC with Blind Computation: Nillion

News #24

📅 January 31, 2025

Gotta claim them all: Pokemon Battles with BitVMX

Challenge Protocol: enhancing security for Fiamma's Bitcoin bridge

On the evolution of BitVM: Bitlayer

ZKPs + BitVM to enhance Syscoin's blockchain

Improving scalability and security for blockchains: StarkWare

On Succint's exploit SP1 zkVM vulnerability

News #23

📅 January 24, 2025

Finality Bridge by Bitlayer: From BTC to YBTC with minimal trust

BitVM: Performance-enhancing updates

Vishwa Voyager: a new zk-light client for minimal trust interoperability

Combining ordinals and fungible tokens, integrated with BitVM: Godlinals protocol

Succint Labs: SP1 Turbo Upgrades

News #22

📅 January 17, 2025

Union Bridge Whitepaper: Enabling trust-minimized transfers powered by BitVMX

Sergio Lerner: on bridging challenges and BitVMX's new approach

Trust-minimized bridges on the rise: Babylon & Fiamma

Ola expands its ecosystem with OlaChain, Onis, and Massive

News #21

📅 January 10, 2025

Dominik Harz: On Bridges, Network Effects, Cross Chain Security and more

Ephermal Dust PR & Bitcoin Core merge

BitVM: functionality enhancements update

News #20

📅 January 03, 2025

New BitVM PRs available

Fungibility Challenges in BitVM2-based bridge: Fiamma

Trust-minimized Bitcoin Bridge: BOB x Fiamma

News #19

📅 December 27, 2024

BitVM: new PR for performance improvement

Citrea: two new articles on Prover & Kumquat

Fiamma: discussing liveness and announcing Bridge v0.3.0

News #18

📅 December 20, 2024

Fiamma: Bridge v0.2.0 unveiling + a new security analysis

LayerEdge: Bitcoin Scaling Showdown: With and Without Proof Aggregation

David Seroy from Alpen Labs explores Strata Bridge

On Un'Fe'd covenants for Bitcoin

News #17

📅 December 13, 2024

Risc Zero announces ZKVM 1.2

Sergio Lerner: part of CoinDesk's 2024 Most Influential ranking

Chunker to official BitVM repository: BitLayer

BitVM Analysis: Symbolic Capital + Nubit

The BitVM paradigm, by Robin Linus

News #16

📅 December 06, 2024

Sergio Lerner on BitVM2 bridge design

ZKP implementations on Bitcoin: nChain

Alpen Labs introduces Strata Bridge

PoC bridge with emulated covenants: StrakWare

News #15

📅 November 29, 2024

Hoskinson: On BitVMX, Bitcoin and more

BitVMX's optimistic proving system is live

MPC-in-the-Head security weakness

Nubit: BitVM IDE launch

Fiamma: new verification layer unveiled

News #14

📅 November 22, 2024

Kailua: unlocking fast finality for ZK apps

Citrea: unveiling the roadmap

The economics behind a BitVM bridge

News #13

📅 November 15, 2024

Zulu: new Bitcoin L2 announced

Devnet Validators Wanted: Fiamma

Bitlayer contributions to BitVM: a compilation

Risc Zero: new framework announcement

News #12

📅 November 08, 2024

Fairgate Labs: ZK proof verification on Bitcoin using BitVMX

Citrea Introduction: ZK rollups on the Bitcoin blockchain

Enforcing Bitcoin covenants without protocol changes with hash collision-based signature evaluation

Enabling rollups on Bitcoin with BitVM

News #11

📅 November 01, 2024

THE PAPER THAT STARTED IT ALL TURNS 16

Bitlayer: Integration with Chainlink CCIP

Expanding Bitcoin's potential for DeFI: Fiamma & Babylon

Zulu: evolving beyond a passive store of value

Bitcoin L2: best practices for robust Layer 2 applications

Hybrid L2: enhancing scalability and efficiency for Layer 2

News #10

📅 October 25, 2024

BitVMX: off-chain communication system

The BitVM Alliance is born: ZeroSync

Binius STARKs protocol: a deep dive

Bitcoin: the ideal platform for DePINs

News #09

📅 October 18, 2024

FairgateLabs & RootstockLabs introduce BitVMX's off-chain comm system

BitVM enables SNARK verification on Bitcoin: Alpen Labs

Integrating BitLayer with Telegram Mini Apps: a tutorial

BitVM: optimizations to Groth16 verifier script

News #08

📅 October 11, 2024

BitVMX releases its CPU source code

sCrypt: multiplication in Bitcoin Script

Exploring DePIN possibilities: Zulu Research

State of SNARK Verification with BitVM2

Dfns launches Givre, open source implementation of the FROST protocol

News #07

📅 October 04, 2024

Union Bridge is here: a permissionless bridge powered by BitVMX

Strata: bringing ZK technology to Bitcoin

The current and future role of Layers on the Bitcoin ecosystem

Citrea: Scaling Bitcoin for mass adoption

LayerZero is now Live on BitLayer

News #06

📅 September 27, 2024

A new Paper by Nick, Eagen and Linus on Shielded CSV

Citrea: Deploy of Clementine Project

Intro to zkCoins

Fiamma integrates with Euphrates, Babylon Devnet

News #05

📅 September 20, 2024

Third part of the 'Optimizing Algorithms for Bitcoin Script' series by Martin Jonas has arrived

Why Covenants Matter

Zulu & Hivello: exploring DePIN and L2 solutions

News #04

📅 September 13, 2024

Second part of the 'Optimizing Algorithms for Bitcoin Script' series by Martin Jonas is here

A new SoK paper introduces innovations and a refrence framework for L2 solutions

Starkware's Shinigami project: bringing computational integrity to Bitcoin's Script, no forks required

Zulu Network's latest partnership announced

News #03

📅 September 06, 2024

Everything comes at a cost: exploring security tradeoffs Bitcoin Validating Bridges

UTXO Mgmt's 'State of the Bridges' report released

M31 Multiplication over Bitcoin with a new algorithm by Starkware

RISC Zero goes full Open Source mode

Citrea: Bitcoin as a DAL

Innovative approaches to OP_CAT

News #02

📅 August 30, 2024

Bitcoin Virtual Machine defined a Bitcoin L2s framework

New paper by the BitVM team

Lightec Labs has received a grant from the ICP Foundation

TMul, an optimized tunable field multiplication script for bitcoin

Prevent the CATastrophe

News #01

📅 August 17, 2024

Bitlayer discusses adaptor signatures

Lamport and Winternitz signatures to enable stateful Bitcoin scripts

Fiamma Chain announced BitVM2 implementation for ZKP verification

Robin Linus disclosure report on potential attack 'Dark Skippy'