In the past few weeks, Kevin🌿, CEO of ZKM and co-architect of GOAT Network 🟡, has published five core articles explaining his vision behind BTCFi, its architecture, and how it can be made sustainable 🟡 Let's recap each piece and take a look at what ties them together 👇

1/ Is BTCFi Dead? Absolutely Not. This piece responds to growing skepticism around BTCFi following token underperformance and project misalignment: x.com/kevinliub/stat… Kevin🌿 breaks down why BTCFi is not only still alive - but hasn’t even truly begun. He explains why

Kevin🌿 2/ Why is GOAT Network 🟡 so Unconventional? Here, Kevin🌿 explains the deliberate - and often counter-consensus - decisions that shaped GOAT Network and ZKM’s direction: x.com/kevinliub/stat… 🔸 Choosing MIPS over RISC-V 🔸 Dismantling BD and marketing early to focus on

Kevin🌿 GOAT Network 🟡 3/ Does BTC Really Need “Fi”? This article answers the question by profiling real BTC holders - from mining couples and sovereign funds to DeFi users and newcomers: x.com/kevinliub/stat… Each has different needs, but they share one concern: custody and trust. Kevin🌿

Kevin🌿 GOAT Network 🟡 4/ Where Does Native BTC Yield Come From? Kevin🌿 details how native yield can arise not from token emissions or trading platforms - but from actual economic activity secured by Bitcoin: x.com/kevinliub/stat… The model: 🔸 BTC pays gas fees on L2 🔸 Sequencers earn BTC

Kevin🌿 GOAT Network 🟡 5/ What is the Significance of Bitcoin L2's? This essay positions Bitcoin L2s as more than just scaling solutions. They are economic testgrounds and amplifiers for the Bitcoin mainnet: x.com/kevinliub/stat… Unlike Ethereum L2s, which compete for liquidity, Bitcoin L2s can

🚀🔥 Just witnessed House of ZK’s Ethproofs Summit in Berlin Berlin Blockchain Week 🐻➡️ June 7-22, 2025 — a next‑level gathering with ZK heavyweights Stephen Duan, Norbert Vadas, Carlo Modica, Dominik Schmid & more 🧠⚡️ Panel deep‑dives on zkVM interoperability, real‑time Ethereum proofs & unlocking

ZKM Co-founder DAC Economy sharing his rich experience on the Ethproofs Summit stage, promoting our novel Entangled Rollup design and explaining why Ethereum.org should move towards a multi-ISA approach to snarkification 🟠

That's a wrap on House of ZK's Ethproofs Summit at Berlin Blockchain Week 🐻➡️ June 7-22, 2025 🫂 Thanks again to our incredible sponsors - ZKsync (∎, ∆), Linea.eth, ZKM, ZkCloud - for making this event possible and to the Ethereum Foundation for their invaluable help in organizing 🤝

A succinct answer: 𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔫𝔬 Excerpt from Stephen Duan: “ 𝘔𝘐𝘗𝘚 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘡𝘒 𝘔𝘐𝘗𝘚 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘐𝘗𝘚 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘔𝘈𝘋𝘋𝘜/𝘔𝘚𝘜𝘉𝘜 𝘦𝘵𝘤., 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭

Full houses in Toronto and Berlin! LFGOAT! GOAT Network 🟡 ZKM House of ZK

There’s been a lot of hype around RISC-V lately in the context of Ethproofs approach to Ethereum.org SNARKification - but what most miss is this: if Ethereum adopts a RISC-V zkVM, MIPS is already in the room. Both RISC-V and MIPS are load/store architectures with similar

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ZKM will work closely with fellow builders from Ethereum Foundation Ethproofs to prove the Golang EVM, which is an important block of guest diversity and multi-client philosophy to enshrine zkEVM.

яobin linus Ariel Gabizon my Liam Eagen Ekrem BAL We had a discussion about the setup reuse. notion.so/BitVM3-Discuss… Any reviews are appreciated.

zkGM ☀️ zkMIPS 1.0 set the bar for general-purpose zkVM performance on CPU, but we’re not stopping there. Watch this space 🟠

Our initial zkMIPS 1.0 release proved that MIPS-based zkVMs can hit best-in-class benchmarks on CPU. We made it open-source, production-ready, and immediately useful for building trust-minimized applications on Ethereum and Bitcoin. But proving performance isn’t static - it

What are the tradeoffs behind today’s zkVMs and proof systems? 🟢 At House of ZK’s Ethproofs Summit, this panel brought together leading builders to unpack the cryptographic, engineering, and ecosystem decisions defining the next generation of zkVMs. Featuring: 🔹

It was inevitable.