Welcome back to The Gwart Show!In today’s episode we are joined by the Alpen Labs team, a group of ZK dreamers working on SNARK-based verification of a second layer on top of Bitcoin. We hit all the big topics, like the current state of BitVM bridging, thoughts on sequencers, building a moat, Coinbase launching cBTC and EVM compatibility!
Follow our guest on Twitter: @david_seroy @simanta_gautam
00:00 Start
00:31 Intro
01:20 Current projects
02:13 Applications on Bitcoin
04:16 Bictoin L2 landscape
10:36 Current state of BitVM bridges
14:35 Learnings from EVM
19:12 Bitcoin sequencers
23:54 Unilateral exit
31:31 Data availability
35:41 Walled garden L2's
41:28 Aplen's edge in the market?
46:16 Privacy
49:51 The wider L2 landscape
58:25 Roll-up tokens
1:01:11 Sequencer fees
1:03:13 Coinbase launching wrapped BTC
1:08:27 EVM compatibility
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