Bitvm
Bitcoin DeFi Project BOB Raises Another $9.5M to Build BTC DeFi Infrastructure
The investment bring BOB's ("Build on Bitcoin") total funds raised to $21 million, following previous raises in 2024

Bitlayer's BitVM Bridge Debuts Its Mainnet, Offers Trust-Minimized Bitcoin DeFi
Central to the bridge is the YBTC token, pegged 1:1 with BTC, which enables BTC holders to engage in DeFi activities.

Bitcoin DeFi Project BOB Launches BitVM Bridge Testnet
The testnet debuts with support from a host of major crypto firms who will be operating nodes on the BitVM bridge, such as Lombard, Amber Group and RockawayX

Bitlayer Joins Forces With Antpool, F2Pool, and SpiderPool to Supercharge Bitcoin DeFi
Bitlayer has partnered with major Bitcoin mining pools to promote the adoption of BitVM, a technology enabling Bitcoin-native DeFi.

Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Deploys Bridge to Tackle Collateral Bottleneck of Using BTC in DeFi
Citrea deployed its Clementine Bridge on the Bitcoin testnet, using programming language BitVM2

Robin Linus: Scaling Crypto’s Premier Network
The developer behind BitVM is facilitating the building of more and more applications atop Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Developers Working With StarkWare, Blockstream Claim Breakthrough on New Features
The prestigious team of developers say that the new method for adding "covenants," while still in need of refinement, could bring greater programmability to the Bitcoin blockchain without requiring a notoriously difficult-to-pass upgrade known as a soft fork.

Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Aims to Make BTC a Programmable Asset With ZK Proofs, Raises $14M Series A
The goal of allowing greater utility on the Bitcoin blockchain is one of almost existential importance, according to Citrea.

Bitcoin Project BOB Maps Out How the Original Blockchain Could Take Over DeFi
The goal is to create trust-minimized bridges between itself and other layer-1 blockchains, according to the abstract of a new "vision paper" shared with CoinDesk.

Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Deploys BitVM-Based Bridge 'Clementine' on Testnet
Citrea's aim is to use Bitcoin as a settlement layer to make it "the foundation for the world's finance."
