GOAT BitVM2 Whitepaper Released, Slashes Challenge Period to One Day

New York, New York, May 7th, 2025, Chainwire

The GOAT Network announces the release of the GOAT BitVM2 whitepaper, a groundbreaking advancement in Bitcoin’s Layer 2 scaling solutions. The whitepaper, now available at https://goat.network/BitVM2-whitepaper, introduces a major breakthrough: reducing the original BitVM2 14-day challenge period to just one day, significantly enhancing efficiency and security for Bitcoin zkRollups.

Key Highlight: GOAT BitVM2’s accelerated dispute resolution, enabled by a multi-round challenger selection mechanism, achieves effective finality in under one day. This addresses critical inefficiencies in BitVM2’s challenge process, marking a pivotal step toward production-ready Bitcoin bridges.

Core Innovations:

• Cryptoeconomic Security: Dual-slashing mechanisms deter operator misconduct, ensuring robust protection against double-spend attacks.
• Incentive-Aligned Economy: Fraud bounties reward successful challengers, boosting participation and honest dispute resolution.
• Universal Operator Model: Rotates operators across roles (sequencer, prover, challenger), balancing costs and earnings to enhance decentralization and resilience.
• Fastest zkVM: GOAT’s in-house zkMIPS is the fastest production-ready zkVM in the industry, optimizing proof generation, lowering costs, and ensuring verifiability.

The GOAT BitVM2 protocol leverages Bitcoin as a settlement layer and a decentralized sequencer network for computation, supporting arbitrary-amount peg-outs via atomic swap under a 1-of-n honest node assumption. This release positions GOAT BitVM2 as the most secure and efficient Bitcoin zkRollup protocol to date, driving broader adoption for scaling Bitcoin and converting Bitcoin from a passive asset to an active asset.

For more details, users can access the whitepaper at https://goat.network/BitVM2-whitepaper. Media inquiries: contact@goat.network

About GOAT Network

GOAT Network is the first Bitcoin-native ZK Rollup engineered to deliver sustainable, native BTC yield through a breakthrough combination of in-house zkMIPS (the fastest production-ready zkVM), a practical BitVM2 challenge model (reducing the challenging period from 14 days to less than 1 day), and Bitcoin’s first Decentralized Sequencer network.

Addressing real demand from BTC holders seeking transparent, risk-adjusted yield, GOAT introduces a full BTCFi product suite (2%–30%+ APY) spanning earning, trading, and playing. Its novel economic design enables trustless yield generation from gas fees, MEV, and miner rewards—eliminating reliance on unsustainable token farming.

Website: GOAT.network

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