Alpen Labs, which has raised $10.6 million in funding, is looking to scale the blockchain of the world's largest cryptocurrency with zero-knowledge proofs.
Zero-knowledge technology allows for data to be transferred securely and quickly between parties and is used to scale blockchains through rollups.
Such developments have been relatively absent historically from Bitcoin, whose core developers have focused on keeping the network simple in the interest of security.
However, the proliferation of the Ordinals protocol in early 2023 followed by the release of Robin Linus's BitVM have demonstrated the appetite for development on the network to increase Bitcoin's utility.
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