One of the major projects aimed at increasing the speed of the Ethereum network is to ramping its work to the original blockchain in the world: Bitcoin.
The Ethereum Layer-2 Starknet, in collaboration with the BTC Wallet Xverse, aims to deliver a “full Bitcoin experience.”
Xverse said “achieve the Defi-off moment of Bitcoin,” by joining Starknet with Q2 2025, in an email announcement on Tuesday.
The partnership with Xverse came in the middle of a period of increasing research on bitcoin scaling using Starknet.
The Starknet Foundation has published a new Bitcoin roadmap, describing how Starknet stays fully active in Ethereum, while the “Being Layer of Bitcoin implementation,” with the aim of scoring the network “from 13 tps to thousands.”
The developers further explore how to tap the security and deep reserves held at the BTC to empower the wider defi and blockchain world. The challenge is how to meet the Kaba -child lack of bitcoin program compared to Ethereum and so on.
Layer 2S such as Starknet aims to meet it by playing as a layer of implementation, making heavy raising processing transactions, which is eventually given the end by negotiating with bitcoin.
For many observers, the missing piece is OP_CAT: a suggested implementation on the Bitcoin network that can be unlocked to this day invisible programmability, which will be important in the provision for the defi.
Crucially, OP_CAT may allow proof zero-knowledge, a method of cryptographic that confirms the validity of statements without offering information that can compromise privacy.
OPCAT is Not short supportersBut its future as a Bitcoin (BIP) improvement proposal remains unsure. However, Starknet and Xverse’s plan is to make the bitcoin defi reality without it.
Xverse’s goal is to provide a Bitcoin defi experience in its purse with its assumptions as the next big thing in the proof that zero-knowledge until an time OP_CAT has been adopted.
“Obviously, the endgame is unbelievable defi in Bitcoin,” Xverse founder Ken Liao said in a Tuesday announcement. “It will still have ‘training tires’ of some trust assumptions, but it is still strictly eager to deliver the most accurate previews to what the intuitive defi to Bitcoin will look and feel.”
