Arch Network
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Bitcoin Capital Markets Infrastructure Backed by @PanteraCapital and @Multicoin.
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We’re excited to share that Pantera Capital is leading our $13M Series A to help Arch Labs build the permissionless financial rails for a Bitcoin-denominated world. This funding brings us closer to unlocking Solana-like speed for Bitcoin apps, tapping into the $1T+ Bitcoin economy.
Arch Network488,118 views • 1 year ago
In the beginning, there was Bitcoin, and it was good. The promise of peer-to-peer electronic cash was suddenly here. Immutable. Censorship proof. Decentralized. The hardest currency ever known. Satoshi and the early Bitcoiners were intrepid digital explorers. They debated over its future as they pushed its boundaries and experimented with its scripting abilities, from Colored Coins to Mastercoin. However, Bitcoin’s initial limitations soon became apparent. Then came the Great Schism: When Vitalik and his ETHers left to create their own faction. The potential of digital gold seemed buried, as others explored a new universe of blockchain opportunities. Still, even while grounded, Bitcoin builders kept looking to the stars. Segwit activated liftoff for Bitcoin L2s like Lightning Network and stacks.btc. The Taproot upgrade brought improved privacy, scalability, and smart contract functionality. Then, the prophet Casey had a breakthrough: Ordinal Theory. Suddenly the age of Ordinals and Runes was upon us — as well as an exploding ecosystem of true believers in Bitcoin programmability. The Taproot Wizards, led by the sage Udi Wertheimer, and Trevor (TO) and his , slicing their way to justice and peace. The bespectacled Billy 🐱 army, sending $BDC to a billy, and Leonidas 🧡 $DOG, with his free and fair $DOG pack howling their way to the moon. Just a few of the many contributors who, through all their trials and tribulations, have sought a better Bitcoin. Now, they have the chance to unite to support a new hope for the BTC galaxy: Arch, the bridgeless platform for smart contract-like execution on Bitcoin. Those who choose to accept this mission will form the next generation of intrepid BTC explorers: The Archstronauts. Earn XP and rise through the ranks while building the backbone for Bitcoin DeFi and other Bitcoin dApps. And like past voyagers before, you may just have the chance to uncover rare and valuable treasures along the way. Archstronauts, your journey begins now ...
Arch Network80,801 views • 1 year ago
Solana-like performance, powered by Bitcoin. Since UTXOs are processed in parallel for non-overlapping states, Bitcoin is inherently suited for parallel execution. Our founder Matt | Arch explains how the ArchVM leverages this to deliver sub-second blocks and true scalability for Bitcoin.
Arch Network29,203 views • 7 months ago
Let’s make this clear: Arch is not an L2. The label gets thrown around because people see our custom execution model, and assume a familiar category. But categories only help when they reflect how a system actually works. Calling Arch an L2 only creates confusion about what the architecture is doing. L2s require that users bridge or wrap their assets in order to access greater programmability. They maintain a separate state machine that only syncs back to Bitcoin, if ever, when transactions are posted back as post commitments or proofs on the base layer. Their transactions aren’t dependent at all on what is happening on the Bitcoin base layer, since their execution and validator lives entirely elsewhere. The ArchVM works differently. ・The same validators that approve the transactions within the ArchVM also have proportional key shares within Arch’s FROST + ROAST cryptography on Bitcoin. ・State changes are reflected accordingly, with a real-time mempool indexer and a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) that keeps track of the state transitions on arch and the corresponding asset transfers on Bitcoin to ensure they remain atomic. ・Its rollback/reapply method ensures state consistency, allowing Arch to give applications a pre-confirmation, allowing users to break away from the user experience issues that come with Bitcoin’s slow block times. That’s how Arch can bring financial logic to UTXO-based assets on Bitcoin, keeping actions taken within our suite of apps and aligning them at every stage with the base layer. Developers can coordinate activity, enforce rules, and build onchain applications without introducing wrapped assets, bridging models, or security assumptions that force users to move their assets elsewhere. It’s a model unlike anything Bitcoin has ever seen… and unlocking a form of Bitcoin programmability that has never been feasible until now.
Arch Network13,575 views • 6 months ago
Technology is only one part of the equation. Building the future of finance also requires deep financial expertise. Josh-TheLoanCyborg✍️💰 explains how Arch ensures global compliance and delivers the safest yield through a team of experienced financial professionals 👇
Arch Network11,849 views • 7 months ago
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