BitcoinOS (BOS), a protocol for Bitcoin rollups, achieved a significant milestone by successfully validating the first zero-knowledge (ZK) proof on the mainnet blockchain at 11:22 pm UTC on July 24. This breakthrough opens doors to enhanced functionality and scalability on the Bitcoin mainnet without necessitating alterations to the base layer of the blockchain.
In an interview with Cointelegraph, Edan Yago, co-founder of BOS, emphasized that this advancement marks a pivotal shift where Bitcoin transcends its traditional role as digital gold. The technology underpinning this achievement is BOS’s ZK Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge (zk-SNARK) verification software library, BitSNARK.
BitSNARK empowers developers to establish secure bridges for transferring Bitcoin (BTC) between the mainnet and layer-2 rollups with minimal trust requirements. Yago highlighted that with ZK-proofs on the mainnet, a single transaction can now encapsulate numerous underlying transactions, offering a new level of efficiency and scale.
Yago envisions this breakthrough as a step towards transforming the Bitcoin mainnet into an operating system capable of supporting diverse decentralized services like DAOs and DeFi applications. Unlike traditional