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Weekly #23

📅 January 24, 2025

Finality Bridge by Bitlayer: From BTC to YBTC with minimal trust

BitVM: Performance-enhancing updates

Vishwa Voyager: a new zk-light client for minimal trust interoperability

Combining ordinals and fungible tokens, integrated with BitVM: Godlinals protocol

Succint Labs: SP1 Turbo Upgrades

Weekly #22

📅 January 17, 2025

Union Bridge Whitepaper: Enabling trust-minimized transfers powered by BitVMX

Sergio Lerner: on bridging challenges and BitVMX's new approach

Trust-minimized bridges on the rise: Babylon & Fiamma

Ola expands its ecosystem with OlaChain, Onis, and Massive

Weekly #21

📅 January 10, 2025

Dominik Harz: On Bridges, Network Effects, Cross Chain Security and more

Ephermal Dust PR & Bitcoin Core merge

BitVM: functionality enhancements update

Weekly #20

📅 January 03, 2025

New BitVM PRs available

Fungibility Challenges in BitVM2-based bridge: Fiamma

Trust-minimized Bitcoin Bridge: BOB x Fiamma

Weekly #19

📅 December 27, 2024

BitVM: new PR for performance improvement

Citrea: two new articles on Prover & Kumquat

Fiamma: discussing liveness and announcing Bridge v0.3.0

Weekly #18

📅 December 20, 2024

Fiamma: Bridge v0.2.0 unveiling + a new security analysis

LayerEdge: Bitcoin Scaling Showdown: With and Without Proof Aggregation

David Seroy from Alpen Labs explores Strata Bridge

On Un'Fe'd covenants for Bitcoin

Weekly #17

📅 December 13, 2024

Risc Zero announces ZKVM 1.2

Sergio Lerner: part of CoinDesk's 2024 Most Influential ranking

Chunker to official BitVM repository: BitLayer

BitVM Analysis: Symbolic Capital + Nubit

The BitVM paradigm, by Robin Linus

Weekly #16

📅 December 06, 2024

Sergio Lerner on BitVM2 bridge design

ZKP implementations on Bitcoin: nChain

Alpen Labs introduces Strata Bridge

PoC bridge with emulated covenants: StrakWare

Weekly #15

📅 November 29, 2024

Hoskinson: On BitVMX, Bitcoin and more

BitVMX's optimistic proving system is live

MPC-in-the-Head security weakness

Nubit: BitVM IDE launch

Fiamma: new verification layer unveiled

Weekly #14

📅 November 22, 2024

Kailua: unlocking fast finality for ZK apps

Citrea: unveiling the roadmap

The economics behind a BitVM bridge

Weekly #13

📅 November 15, 2024

Zulu: new Bitcoin L2 announced

Devnet Validators Wanted: Fiamma

Bitlayer contributions to BitVM: a compilation

Risc Zero: new framework announcement

Weekly #12

📅 November 08, 2024

Fairgate Labs: ZK proof verification on Bitcoin using BitVMX

Citrea Introduction: ZK rollups on the Bitcoin blockchain

Enforcing Bitcoin covenants without protocol changes with hash collision-based signature evaluation

Enabling rollups on Bitcoin with BitVM

Weekly #11

📅 November 01, 2024

THE PAPER THAT STARTED IT ALL TURNS 16

Bitlayer: Integration with Chainlink CCIP

Expanding Bitcoin's potential for DeFI: Fiamma & Babylon

Zulu: evolving beyond a passive store of value

Bitcoin L2: best practices for robust Layer 2 applications

Hybrid L2: enhancing scalability and efficiency for Layer 2

Weekly #10

📅 October 25, 2024

BitVMX: off-chain communication system

The BitVM Alliance is born: ZeroSync

Binius STARKs protocol: a deep dive

Bitcoin: the ideal platform for DePINs

Weekly #09

📅 October 18, 2024

FairgateLabs & RootstockLabs introduce BitVMX's off-chain comm system

BitVM enables SNARK verification on Bitcoin: Alpen Labs

Integrating BitLayer with Telegram Mini Apps: a tutorial

BitVM: optimizations to Groth16 verifier script

Weekly #08

📅 October 11, 2024

BitVMX releases its CPU source code

sCrypt: multiplication in Bitcoin Script

Exploring DePIN possibilities: Zulu Research

State of SNARK Verification with BitVM2

Dfns launches Givre, open source implementation of the FROST protocol

Weekly #07

📅 October 04, 2024

Union Bridge is here: a permissionless bridge powered by BitVMX

Strata: bringing ZK technology to Bitcoin

The current and future role of Layers on the Bitcoin ecosystem

Citrea: Scaling Bitcoin for mass adoption

LayerZero is now Live on BitLayer

Weekly #06

📅 September 27, 2024

A new Paper by Nick, Eagen and Linus on Shielded CSV

Citrea: Deploy of Clementine Project

Intro to zkCoins

Fiamma integrates with Euphrates, Babylon Devnet

Weekly #05

📅 September 20, 2024

Third part of the 'Optimizing Algorithms for Bitcoin Script' series by Martin Jonas has arrived

Why Covenants Matter

Zulu & Hivello: exploring DePIN and L2 solutions

Weekly #04

📅 September 13, 2024

Second part of the 'Optimizing Algorithms for Bitcoin Script' series by Martin Jonas is here

A new SoK paper introduces innovations and a refrence framework for L2 solutions

Starkware's Shinigami project: bringing computational integrity to Bitcoin's Script, no forks required

Zulu Network's latest partnership announced

Weekly #03

📅 September 06, 2024

Everything comes at a cost: exploring security tradeoffs Bitcoin Validating Bridges

UTXO Mgmt's 'State of the Bridges' report released

M31 Multiplication over Bitcoin with a new algorithm by Starkware

RISC Zero goes full Open Source mode

Citrea: Bitcoin as a DAL

Innovative approaches to OP_CAT

Weekly #02

📅 August 30, 2024

Bitcoin Virtual Machine defined a Bitcoin L2s framework

New paper by the BitVM team

Lightec Labs has received a grant from the ICP Foundation

TMul, an optimized tunable field multiplication script for bitcoin

Prevent the CATastrophe

Weekly #01

📅 August 17, 2024

Bitlayer discusses adaptor signatures

Lamport and Winternitz signatures to enable stateful Bitcoin scripts

Fiamma Chain announced BitVM2 implementation for ZKP verification

Robin Linus disclosure report on potential attack 'Dark Skippy'

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