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waking up to vitalik confessing to:
bitcoin zk rollups & trust minimized bridging AGAIN 🧡
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Our new research moves us closer to letting anyone help secure BTC deposited on Alpen.
We survey permissionless challenging on Bitcoin & introduce polynomial soldering: a more scalable, efficient component for challenging the validity of proofs.
HackMD: hackmd.io/@alpen/Skc1C7Rizg
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Readying Alpen and Bitcoin protocols for a post-quantum world and the cyber-AI era @tabconf.
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We expect AUSD to compete strongly for Bitcoin backed borrowing and lending on @AlpenLabs.
@Nick_van_Eck and team have been beasts.
Very much looking forward to growing AUSD on Bitcoin.
AUSD is coming to Bitcoin.
@withAUSD, Agora’s institutional-grade digital dollar is coming to Alpen for the financial services being built on Bitcoin.
Arriving with Alpen mainnet.
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stoked that @Nick_van_Eck & team are going after the build out of financial markets on Bitcoin
up only from here
AUSD is coming to Bitcoin.
@withAUSD, Agora’s institutional-grade digital dollar is coming to Alpen for the financial services being built on Bitcoin.
Arriving with Alpen mainnet.
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AUSD is coming to Bitcoin.
@withAUSD, Agora’s institutional-grade digital dollar is coming to Alpen for the financial services being built on Bitcoin.
Arriving with Alpen mainnet.
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We’ve completed the last major testnet update before mainnet.
The updates to Alpen and Strata (the orchestration layer) introduced a new fee model and Osaka support. Testnet now has feature parity with our planned mainnet system.
Next stop: mainnet. github.com/alpenlabs/alpen-e…
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Circle 🤝 @AlpenLabs
USDC and CCTP are coming soon to the first bitcoin anchored chain supported by Circle.
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It’s happening.
@USDC is coming to Bitcoin on @AlpenLabs.
CIRCLE’S $USDC IS COMING TO BITCOIN THROUGH ALPEN
Alpen is partnering with Circle to bring native, Circle-issued USDC and CCTP to its Bitcoin financial system when mainnet launches.
The integration will allow BTC holders to borrow, lend and trade using regulated dollar stablecoin liquidity without selling their Bitcoin or moving it to another network.
CCTP will connect Alpen with other supported networks, enabling USDC to move cross-chain without wrapped representations for swaps, payments and treasury rebalancing. x.com/AlpenLabs/status/21031…
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PSA 🚨 -- Shielded Bitcoin, ShieldedCSV, EVM, Simplicity, RGB, Arkade, (not) Trustless Vaults, UTEXO, Any other blockchain, etc all require a ZK verifier, also known as a bridge.
You either trust a federation or pursue a ZK verifier, period.
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ICYMI: huge research unlock here.
this work opens the door for practical, one-round *permissionless* challenges to claims about arbitrary computation on bitcoin. more details coming soon.
Our latest research reduces the offchain data required for garbled Groth16 verification on Bitcoin by more than 99.99%.
48 GB → under 2 MB.
eprint.iacr.org/2026/2100
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> the largest regulated stablecoin, $74B
> issued by an OCC-chartered company
> launching on bitcoin
> bringing dollars to BTC's financial markets on Alpen
> for institutions & individuals looking to do finance with BTC
ty for coming to my ted talk
USDC is coming to Bitcoin — through Alpen, in partnership with @circle.
Circle-issued dollar stablecoins for Bitcoin’s financial system, enabling BTC holders to borrow, lend, and trade without leaving Bitcoin behind.
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native USDC
composable with BTC
settled on bitcoin
USDC is coming to Bitcoin — through Alpen, in partnership with @circle.
Circle-issued dollar stablecoins for Bitcoin’s financial system, enabling BTC holders to borrow, lend, and trade without leaving Bitcoin behind.
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another day, another bottleneck squashed by 99.99%
Our latest research reduces the offchain data required for garbled Groth16 verification on Bitcoin by more than 99.99%.
48 GB → under 2 MB.
eprint.iacr.org/2026/2100
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This paper builds off work from @liameagen and ourselves at @AlpenLabs.
• GC's [1] enabled BitVM3.
• Argo [2] and Duty Free Bits [3] were optimizations.
This paper beings all of them together.
[1] eprint.iacr.org/2025/1485
[2] eprint.iacr.org/2026/049
[3] eprint.iacr.org/2026/476
Our latest research reduces the offchain data required for garbled Groth16 verification on Bitcoin by more than 99.99%.
48 GB → under 2 MB.
eprint.iacr.org/2026/2100
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Our latest research reduces the offchain data required for garbled Groth16 verification on Bitcoin by more than 99.99%.
48 GB → under 2 MB.
eprint.iacr.org/2026/2100
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your priors about safe bitcoin custody will be challenged in ways you probably cannot fathom
that includes HSMs, regulated custodians, and even some self-custody workflows.
we had to revisit every part of alpen’s protocol & code to ensure it’s designed for the AI-Cyber era
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