Weekly #23
January 24, 2025 - Week 4
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Bitlayer introduces Finality Bridge, a trust-minimized Bitcoin bridge enabling BTC to YBTC minting with minimal trust. It integrates DeFi features like liquidity mining, staking, and lending within the Bitlayer ecosystem.
https://blog.bitlayer.org/
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Introducing Finality Bridge: A Trust-minimized Bridge for Bitcoin
As the inaugural step toward the realization of the Bitlayer rollup, the Finality Bridge facilitates the secure migration of Bitcoin into the Bitlayer ecosystem, enabling it to be seamlessly integrated into BTCFi, a rapidly expanding decentralized financial infrastructure for Bitcoin.
Two BitVM updates improve performance: the G2 elliptic curve group check optimization was merged, and multi-scalar multiplication (MSM) now uses the GLV algorithm. These reduce the number of chunks from 196 to 26, script size, and computation costs.
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Vishwa Network introduces Vishwa Voyager, a unified zk-light client for trust-minimized blockchain interoperability. It integrates with BitVM frameworks, leveraging zero-knowledge proofs to ensure secure cross-chain communication without intermediaries.
medium.com/vishwanetwork
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Introducing Vishwa Voyager: The Unified zk Light Client for Trust-Minimized Interoperability
Bitcoin, the most secure blockchain, and other widely adopted ecosystems, such as Ethereum, operate in silos, limiting their combined potential and introducing significant fragmented liquidity. This gap underscores the need for a trust-minimized cross-chain message relayer and verifier — a component that allows seamless, secure, and verifiable interactions between these ecosystems without compromising decentralization.
Nubit introduces Goldinals, a protocol unifying Bitcoin assets by combining ordinals and fungible tokens. Integrated with BitVM, it enhances asset management, enabling secure, efficient, and programmable transactions on Bitcoin.
https://medium.com/nubit-official
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Introduce Goldinals: A Unified Protocol for Bitcoin Assets
Bitcoin’s asset ecosystem today is burdened by fragmented standards like BRC-20, Ordinals, and Runes. Each operates in isolation, relying heavily on centralized indexers and custodial solutions, which limit interoperability, hinder innovation, and make building on Bitcoin unnecessarily complex.
Goldinals changes this. Conceptualized by Domo (the creator of BRC-20) and implemented by Nubit, it’s designed to unify and standardize Bitcoin-native assets, setting the foundation for a more cohesive, efficient, decentralized, and programmable ecosystem.
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