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Wrap Up 2024: A Year of Progress and Excitement

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December 30, 2024
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Looking back at 2024, we feel proud and excited. From publishing two foundational whitepapers to enable universal computation bitcoin followed by the creation of BitVMX, we have turned ambitious ideas into reality and we are just getting started.

A Review of the BitVM2-based "Linus24" Bridge

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December 02, 2024
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In this article, we apply our four-properties taxonomy (Consensus Validation, Interactivity, Anchor, and Finality) to the recently published BitVM2 Bridge. These findings were shared with the BitVM Alliance but are analyzed here more rigorously using our taxonomy.

The Security Tradeoffs of Validating Bridges

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September 06, 2024
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Building a secure bridge is one of the most difficult tasks in the crypto ecosystem. While there have been new developments in Bitcoin bridge designs, such as schemes relying on BitVM2 or BitVMX, the core problem remains the same.