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2024 - Week 43

Hey everyone, a new edition of the Fairgate Weekly is here! Take a look at the latest, most relevant articles from the Disputable Computation ecosystem.
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A new article by Kevin Wahle's from Fairgate Labs. In this article Kevin explores the BitVMX off-chain communication system, focusing on its implementation and practical applications.

bitvmx.org/knowledge
🔗 BitVMX off-chain communication system: Protocol Implementation and Practical Applications
Take a closer look at the channel architecture within BitVMX. These channels handle both incoming and outgoing data, facilitating message exchanges between nodes while ensuring smooth interaction between the async and sync components of the system.

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ZeroSync announces the formation of the BitVM Alliance.

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Bitlayer analyzes the Binius STARKs protocol, focusing on reducing computational complexity and improving the scalability of STARK-based systems. It outlines several optimizations for verifying proofs more efficiently, enhancing the protocol’s practical application in secure, decentralized environments.

bitlayer.org/blog
🔗 Binius STARKs Analysis and Its Optimization
Distinguished from elliptic curve-based SNARKs, STARKs can be viewed as hash-based SNARKs. One of the main challenges contributing to the current inefficiency of STARKs is that most values in actual programs are relatively small, such as indices in for loops, boolean values, and counters.

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Zulu Research explores how Bitcoin’s decentralization, security, and transparency make it an ideal platform for Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN). The article emphasizes Bitcoin’s ability to support robust, transparent, and tamper-resistant systems, suitable for decentralized infrastructure initiatives.

medium,com/@miroblog
🔗 Zulu Research | Why Bitcoin is an Ideal Platform for DePIN
Bitcoin always finds a way to make itself newly relevant in surprising ways. While maintaining its core use case as a decentralized store of value, ingenious creators build new applications on top that may never have crossed Satoshi’s mind. Today, that’s DePIN, or Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks.

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