{"id":23232,"date":"2025-04-22T16:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=23232"},"modified":"2025-04-22T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:47:09","slug":"arch-labs-raises-13m-in-funding-for-bitcoin-based-smart-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=23232","title":{"rendered":"Arch Labs Raises $13M in Funding for Bitcoin-Based Smart Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/learn\/what-is-defi\/\">decentralized finance<\/a> (DeFi) developer Arch Labs raised $13 million in funding toward building &#8220;ArchVM,&#8221; which the developers say will provide smart-contract functionality on the original blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>The funding round, which valued the company at $200 million, was led by Pantera Capital, <a href=\"https:\/\/chainwire.org\/2025\/04\/22\/arch-labs-announces-13m-funding-round-to-launch-a-native-bitcoin-virtual-machine\/\">according to an announcement on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arch&#8217;s plans to enable decentralized applications and protocols natively on Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>ArchVM will handle off-chain computations to enable &#8220;Turing-complete smart contracts at the Bitcoin base layer&#8221; and provide Solana-like transaction speeds, Arch Labs said in the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of introducing smart contracts to Bitcoin began to gather steam in October with the release of the BitVM computing language. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/04\/08\/rootstock-prepares-to-release-sdks-for-bitcoin-layer-2s-using-bitvmx\">Numerous projects are now using BitVM<\/a> as the basis for bringing smart contracts to Bitvcoin via layer-2 networks or bridges. Arch&#8217;s aim is to avoid the need to bridge assets to layer-2s, which could present additional risks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin decentralized finance (DeFi) developer Arch Labs raised $13 million in funding toward building &#8220;ArchVM,&#8221; which the developers say will provide smart-contract functionality on the original blockchain. The funding round, which valued the company at $200 million, was led by Pantera Capital, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Arch&#8217;s plans to enable decentralized applications and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-23232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}