{"id":21147,"date":"2025-04-08T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21147"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:03:50","slug":"rootstock-prepares-to-release-sdks-for-bitcoin-layer-2s-using-bitvmx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21147","title":{"rendered":"Rootstock Prepares to Release SDKs for Bitcoin Layer 2s Using BitVMX"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the oldest Bitcoin ecosystem projects is moving to the next stage of enabling developers to build layer-2 networks using its computational layer. <\/p>\n

Rootstock is one of many projects currently advancing the goal of bringing greater utility and interoperability to Bitcoin, which it is doing using “BitVMX”, a modified version of the BitVM programming language.<\/p>\n

Rootstock’s project is weeks away from releasing software development kits (SDKs), allowing developers to start producing their own Bitcoin layer-2s using BitVMX, founder Sergio Lerner told CoinDesk.<\/p>\n

SDKs are sets of tools enabling third-parties to build applications using a particular platform or framework.<\/p>\n

“We are very close to having all the pieces ready for people to start building their own solutions on top of BitVMX,” Lerner said in an interview.<\/p>\n

Rootstock’s BitVMX project harnesses the BitVM paradigm introduced by Robin Linus in 2023 as a design for how Ethereum-style smart contracts could be built on Bitcoin. This could then greatly improve Bitcoin’s scalability through enabling the building of faster, layer-2 networks with programmability similar to what’s possible on Ethereum and other blockchains.<\/p>\n

BitVMX Platform<\/h2>\n

Alongside BitVMX contributors Fairgate, RootstockLabs last year made a breakthrough in using BitVMX to verify a zero-knowledge SNARK<\/a> (Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge), an integral aspect of cryptography in many blockchain systems.<\/p>\n

The availability of tools for other developers to explore these capabilities further will drive competition and thus increase adoption, according to Lerner.<\/p>\n

“There is a difference between a product and a platform: a product is closed but a platform is something you can easily plug in to and develop your own ideas on top of,” he said.<\/p>\n

“BitVMX is becoming a platform, which means there will be a lot more competition: rollups and sidechains competing against each other and the ones that can find use cases for people to power their tools will win.”<\/p>\n

Lerner, a a Buenos Aires-based programmer, is best known for his research on Bitcoin in its early years and his later contribution to the development on Ethereum.<\/p>\n

He told CoinDesk he fears that Bitcoin will not fulfill the purpose for which he says it was created \u2013 becoming a “money for the people” \u2013 if it remains just a store of value.<\/p>\n

“If all BTC just end up in ETFs, they will all be controlled by financial institutions and there will be no more Bitcoin as we know it,,” he said.<\/p>\n

“So we all need to be making bitcoin payments and holding our own BTC in self custody. That’s why we thought creating layers for Bitcoin is the right approach and I think the key for this is BitVM protocols, especially BitVMX.”<\/p>\n

BitVMX Force<\/h2>\n

RootstockLabs and Fairgate have formed an alliance to expand Bitcoin’s utility using BitVMX, which also involves blockchain infrastructure engineering firm Input | Output (IO).<\/p>\n

“BitVMX Force” will focus on standardization and protocol enhancements to help smooth out future Bitcoin soft-forks and infrastructure improvements as they occur, according to an emailed announcement shared with CoinDesk Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“Rootstock and IO both have their own initiatives: Rootstock is building Union, which is a bridge between Bitcoin and Rootstock based on BitVMX and IO is working on a project to move assets from Bitcoin to Cardano and back again,” Fairgate CEO Jonatan Altszul said in an interview.<\/p>\n

“Fairgate is pushing this technology as well and we thought that together we will have more firepower, more strength, more capacity to create a larger community.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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