2025-06-12 –, 6 - Side Stage
Ethereum has a bunch of rollups as part of the scaling roadmap. What about... Bitcoin?
This talk will focus on the extreme challenges of using Bitcoin as the data availability layer, the properties of BitVM-based bridges, and various trade-offs. You will be surprised to see what is possible (and what is not).
In this talk, we will go over the following points regarding Bitcoin Rollups (and more):
- What is a Bitcoin Rollup, by definition
- How to use Bitcoin for Data Availability
- Namespacing for DA layers, mining transactions, tricks
- Consensus & non-consensus limitations of Bitcoin
- Current architectures of Bitcoin bridges
- What is BitVM
- How BitVM-based bridges will work on a high level
- Main improvements & drawbacks of BitVM-based bridges
