zkBTC One-Pager

zkBTC is creating a powerful and vibrant ecosystem for the broader Bitcoin Community

Bitcoin’s Predicament

Scalability Limits

Bitcoin’s architecture, while secure and decentralised, struggles with scalability, limiting transaction throughput and innovation.

Smart Contract Functionality

The absence of native smart contract support restricts Bitcoin's utility and adaptability in a rapidly evolving digital asset ecosystem.

Community Divide

The rise of Ordinals, Runes & BRC-20 tokens on Bitcoin has intensified debates over network scalability and fees, leading to a rift between purists and progressives.

Current Landscape

In an attempt to combat this, a growing cohort of Bitcoin sidechains/Layer 2s have emerged in recent years. However, none of these solutions have thus far been able to truly capture the imagination of the Bitcoin community and achieve significant adoption.

Further, current solutions are either not positioning to be future-proof with the emergence of upcoming Bitcoin-native technological advancements, or they are doing so in a way which is confining them to the theoretical realm in the meantime - thus not proactively helping to solve Bitcoin’s current issues.

The zkBTC Approach

zkBTC is creating a powerful, vibrant ecosystem for the broader Bitcoin community. Here’s how:
  • Scalable Ecosystem: Leveraging Polygon zkEVM, zkBTC removes barriers for the Bitcoin, Ordinals, Runes and BRC20 communities, enabling unrestricted innovation and growth without compromising on performance.
  • Strategic Deployment: With cutting-edge technology, zkBTC provides immediate solutions to Bitcoin’s pressing challenges, ensuring adaptability and future integration with Bitcoin-native advancements.
  • Trustless Integration via ZK Rollups: zkBTC will be trustlessly plugged into Ethereum at launch via ZK Rollups. R&D is currently underway for ZK Rollups to Bitcoin, which will be implemented once production-ready.
  • Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20 Focused: Core to the mission of zkBTC is to foster a vibrant and utility-rich ecosystem for Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20 tokens, in addition to BTC. In doing so, Bitcoin-centric innovation will be able to thrive and accelerate in terms of adoption without compromising the core value propositions of the base Bitcoin chain.
  • BTC Gas Optionality: Upon further evolution, zkBTC users will be free to utilise various versions of BTC for gas (subject to governance). This includes trustlessly-bridged native BTC once zkRollups to Bitcoin are implemented.

Infrastructure & Service Providers

Polygon zkEVM

Gateway FM

ShapeShift

THORChain

Lunar Digital Assets

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