👨🏻🏫 New Bitcoin Whiteboard: State of bridging and ZK verification on bitcoin. 👨🏻🏫
Chapters
00:00 Overview
06:02 Garbled Circuits Magic
11:17 Supporting Multi-Chain.
12:34 Added Trust Cross-chain (Bridging To Ethereum). 15:00 Security Council
We've successfully demonstrated garbled circuit-based verification on Bitcoin Signet.
In preparation for Alpen Testnet III launch, we ran an end-to-end sequence showing how a single honest operator can protect every sat that enters Alpen.
Read more ↓
mempool.space/signet/tx/89d4…
We've successfully demonstrated garbled circuit-based verification on Bitcoin Signet.
In preparation for Alpen Testnet III launch, we ran an end-to-end sequence showing how a single honest operator can protect every sat that enters Alpen.
Read more ↓
We've successfully demonstrated garbled circuit-based verification on Bitcoin Signet.
In preparation for Alpen Testnet III launch, we ran an end-to-end sequence showing how a single honest operator can protect every sat that enters Alpen.
Read more ↓
mempool.space/signet/tx/89d4…
We've successfully demonstrated garbled circuit-based verification on Bitcoin Signet.
In preparation for Alpen Testnet III launch, we ran an end-to-end sequence showing how a single honest operator can protect every sat that enters Alpen.
Read more ↓
The full dispute settled with minimal onchain interaction.
Far smaller footprint, lower cost, at a fraction of what our previous BitVM2-based designs required for the same guarantee.
William Swanson joins Alpen Labs.
Co-founder of Airbitz (now Edge), a pioneer in self-custodial Bitcoin wallets trusted by millions worldwide.
Now he's helping us build what's next for Bitcoin on mobile. Unveiling 🔜.
STRC showed the demand for Bitcoin fixed income.
What's coming with Alpen → Bitcoin-native fixed income → Backed by verifiable Bitcoin loans.
Transparent collateral. Real cash flows. Better economics.
William Swanson joins Alpen Labs.
Co-founder of Airbitz (now Edge), a pioneer in self-custodial Bitcoin wallets trusted by millions worldwide.
Now he's helping us build what's next for Bitcoin on mobile. Unveiling 🔜.
STRC showed the demand for Bitcoin fixed income.
What's coming with Alpen → Bitcoin-native fixed income → Backed by verifiable Bitcoin loans.
Transparent collateral. Real cash flows. Better economics.
BTC credit could compete with the Eurodollar system.
→ Eurodollars created a global credit layer around USD
→ BTC credit could create one around Bitcoin collateral
A transparent, globally accessible challenger is emerging • Chapter 7 of 7
Financial markets don't emerge from protocols alone.
They require the tooling stack that developers and fintechs can build on with confidence.
We've partnered with @wakeuplabs to deliver the infrastructure stack needed to unlock financial markets on Bitcoin.
Building programmability onto Bitcoin requires new infrastructure paradigms.
We've been partnering with @AlpenLabs to help make this possible across:
• Explorers
• Multisig tooling
• Wallet integrations
• Testnet validation
Read the full story below ↓
Building programmability onto Bitcoin requires new infrastructure paradigms.
We've been partnering with @AlpenLabs to help make this possible across:
• Explorers
• Multisig tooling
• Wallet integrations
• Testnet validation
Read the full story below ↓
unpopular opinion: we’re about to enter a golden era of safe DeFi
cost of superhuman audits, fuzzing, formal analysis & verification are rapidly collapsing
it’s wild
PSA: I now consider *all* of DeFi unsafe.
Coding agents are superhuman at finding vulnerabilities, and smart contract security is too asymmetric: defenders need to fix every bug while attackers need just one exploit to steal funds.
