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Citrea Upgrades Clementine with TOOP and Garbled Circuits

Citrea is advancing Clementine v2 by integrating Garbled Circuits and Fairgate’s TOOP, eliminating collateral and liquidity needs for Bitcoin bridges. This upgrade promises a cheaper, trust-minimized, and more scalable cross-chain solution.

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🔗 R&D for Clementine v2: Eliminating Collateral and Liquidity Requirements with Garbled Circuits and TOOP

Today, we’re introducing our approach to improving Clementine using Garbled Circuits and Transfer of Ownership Protocol (TOOP) by constructing a SNARK verifier circuit with logic gates.
We're also announcing the open-sourcing of this garbled SNARK verifier to help accelerate research into Bitcoin bridges that don't require trust, collateral, or liquidity constraints.