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Self Proposed Open Task: Apply ZK to create a trust-minimized (1 of N) BTC bridge to Ethereum. #57

Closed elementlabs-rl closed 5 months ago

elementlabs-rl commented 5 months ago

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Self Proposed Open Task: Apply ZK to create a trust-minimized (1 of N) BTC bridge to Ethereum.

Executive Summary

BitVM is an open source project started by a Swiss non-profit organization called ZeroSync. Pending further research and development, BitVM could potentially bridge BTC to other blockchain systems in a trust-minimized (1 of N) way. It relies heavily on recent advances in zk-SNARKs. It also invented an approach to create a global key-value store on Bitcoin using Lamport signatures.

We plan to help build an Ethereum integration to BitVM which would help bridge BTC over to Ethereum in a trust-minimized way. This is a more decentralized offering than existing solutions relying on multi-sigs. No relationship with ZeroSync or other contributors of BitVM should be presumed. This is intended as an independent effort to contribute to an open source non-profit project.

This project is in line with PSE’s goal of supporting new cryptographic primitives, with the potential of further strengthening Ethereum as a decentralized ecosystem.

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NOOMA-42 commented 5 months ago

forwarded to ESP instead.