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

Alpen Labs introduces Glock, a new cryptographic primitive for verifying offchain computation on Bitcoin using garbled circuits and DV-SNARKs. Glock aims to overcome BitVM’s cost and complexity, offering up to 1000× cheaper verification with minimal staking.

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🔗 Glock: A new standard for verification on Bitcoin

Over the last few months, Alpen Labs’ focus has rapidly evolved to a new frontier of minimal-trust verification on Bitcoin. Next week, we will unveil Glock, short for garbled lock or garbled circuit-based lock. Glock is a new cryptographic primitive that creates a new standard for verifying offchain computation on Bitcoin, with minimal onchain cost.