One of the main projects aimed at increasing the speed of the Ethereum network increases its work on the original blockchain of the world: Bitcoin.
Ethereum COUSTE-2 Starknet, in partnership with BTC Wallet Xverse, aims to offer a “complete challenge experience to Bitcoin users”.
Xverse said that he “will realize the time of DEFI-Off take-off of Bitcoin”, by integrating Starknet in the second quarter of 2025, in an announcement by email on Tuesday.
The partnership with Xverse intervenes in the middle of an increased research period on the Bitcoin scaling using Starknet.
The Starknet Foundation has published a new Bitcoin roadmap, which described how Starknet would remain fully active on Ethereum, while “becoming the Bitcoin execution layer”, “in order to scale the network” from 13 TPS to thousands “.
The developers have increasingly explored how to exploit security and the deep reserves organized in BTC to empower the wider world of Defi and Blockchain. The challenge was how to take up the relative lack of Bitcoin programmability compared to Ethereum and others.
Direction 2 as Starknet aims to solve this problem by acting as an execution layer, making the bulk of the ignition of treatment transactions, which are then finally given the purpose by Bitcoin regulation.
For many observers, the missing part is OP_CAT: an implementation offered to the Bitcoin network which could unlock the previously invisible programmability, which would be pivot at the disposal of DEFI.
Above all, OP_CAT could authorize evidence of zero knowledge, a cryptographic method to prove the validity of declarations without providing information which can compromise confidentiality.
OPCAT is not short of supporters, but its future as a proposal to improve Bitcoin (BIP) remains uncertain. However, the Starknet and Xverse plan is to make Bitcoin DEFI a reality even without it.
Xversse’s objective is to provide a Bitcoin DEFI experience in his portfolio using confidence hypotheses as the next great thing about zero knowledge until OP_CAT is adopted.
“Obviously, the end of the game is without confidence defined on Bitcoin,” said Xvese Ken Liao founder in Tuesday’s announcement. “It will always have any training wheels ” of certain hypotheses of trust, but it is always extremely exciting to provide the most precise overview so far on what the intuitive challenge on Bitcoin will look like and feel.”
