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Computing on Bitcoin #26
February 14, 2025 - Week 7

Hey everyone, welcome to our 26th edition of the Computing on Bitcoin News, sharing with you our curated selection of the scene's most relevant articles on everything that's going on in the ecosystem.
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01
Finality Bridge testnet launched: Bitlayer

Bitlayer has launched the testnet for its Finality Bridge, a Bitcoin Layer 2 solution built on BitVM. The bridge enables trust-minimized BTC minting, yield generation, and cross-chain programmability.

cryptonomist.ch
🔗 Layer-2 of Bitcoin: launched the testnet of Bitlayer Finality Bridge
The Finality Bridge by Bitlayer addresses some critical security and trust issues encountered in previous generations of BTC bridges.
In particular, it leverages the power of smart contracts and BitVM protocols to allow users to mint Yield BTC with minimal trust assumptions, and enjoy integrated returns through staking, liquidity mining, and lending, within the Bitlayer ecosystem and on other blockchains..

02
BitVM2 to Bitcoin: BOB

BOB, in collaboration with Fiamma Labs, has prototyped a trust-minimized BitVM2 bridge to Bitcoin as part of its Hybrid L2 strategy. A testnet launch is planned for early 2025, followed by audits and mainnet deployment.

03
Brevis' Pico 1.0: a modular zkVM

Brevis introduces Pico v1.0, a modular zkVM designed for scalability and interoperability. It enhances zero-knowledge proof efficiency for blockchain applications, enabling secure and trust-minimized computation.

livebitcoinnews.com
🔗 Brevis Unveils Pico v1.0 a Modular zkVM for Scalability
Pico’s glue-and-coprocessor modular design joins a general-purpose zkVM with fast, application-specific circuits. Unlike regular zkVMs that use basic precompiles, Pico offers adaptable circuits to handle many different tasks. This new method cuts down the time to generate proofs and shrinks the numbers used to process old blockchain data by 35 times.

04
BitVM: security and decentralization for a trustless financial future

Nubit and Lombard explore Bitcoin’s potential for a trustless financial future, emphasizing the role of BitVM in enabling secure and decentralized transactions. The article discusses innovations in Bitcoin’s programmability and cross-chain interoperability.

medium.com/nubit-official
🔗 Unlocking Bitcoin’s True Potential: Lombard and Nubit’s Vision for a Trustless Future
Bitcoin has historically been viewed as a store of value rather than an active financial asset in decentralized ecosystems. However, with the emergence of LBTC, BitVM, and the potential for trust-minimized BTC staking, the landscape is shifting. This session provided deep insights into the future of Bitcoin as a programmable financial layer, unlocking yield-bearing opportunities and security innovations without compromising its core decentralization principles.

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