Thanks to Red Sheehan and Veronika Kütt for reading the draft. Double thanks to Veronika for drafting our initial review on Babylon (not posted yet). I took a lot of stuff from that document and used it here. Basically anything italicized. We’ve been thinking a lot about bitcoin staking
Introduction Wrapped bitcoin tokens on EVM-based chains satisfy market demand for using bitcoin (BTC) on more expressive smart contract platforms. All wrapped versions of BTC come with various trust assumptions. Traditionally, wBTC has dominated market share for bitcoin-backed ERC-20 tokens on Ethereum. wBTC is custodied by a single party, BitGo.
What’s up layer 2 enjoyooors. I’m back from Nashville with a slight case of whatever has been going around. I feel like shit, still smell like cigarettes, but man, I’m feeling quite optimistic. The previous Bitcoin conference felt very gloomy. All of the new “Layer 2” projects
At Bitcoin Layers, we are developing risk analysis frameworks for a variety of Bitcoin scaling protocols, ranging from Lightning Network to upcoming sovereign rollups. Earlier this week, we announced a generalized framework for assessing, and defining, Bitcoin scaling protocols. Today, Bitcoin Layers now has a v1 website. Together with Red
LX Research Labs raises funding from UTXO Management I’ve been bullish on the concept of “rollups” on Bitcoin for a few years now. A little while back, I remember telling people about the idea of a “Zcash rollup on top of Bitcoin” and how it could drastically improve how