Chainway & Citrea founder, Orkun Kılıç, explains how his team at Chainway is building the first ZK rollup on Bitcoin: Citrea.
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0:00 Intro
1:50 From Eth to Ordinals to Rollups
4:00 What is a Rollup?
7:30 What differentiates Citrea?
9:15 Using inscriptions to post data to Bitcoin
12:10 Optimizing beyond Ordinals
15:30 BitVM enabling a Bitcoin Bridge
16:30 How does Clementine work?
19:40 Does BitVM get more pragmatic?
21:20 Progress on Implementation
24:20 ZK proof verifier R&D
26:00 OP_CAT and soft forks
27:10 The Sequencer Problem
29:50 Competition from other rollups
32:20 Citrea to lead Bitcoin programmability
34:00 Just how scalable is a rollup?
35:05 Using Bitcoin as the token
37:40 Where does Citrea go from here?
40:10 Resurgence in Bitcoin development
