According to Foresight News , GOAT Network, a Bitcoin native zkRollup project, has officially launched the GOAT BitVM2 testnet V3. This testnet uses BitVM2 technology as the final adjudication layer, aiming to enable Bitcoin to participate in financial activities without relying on escrow, committees, or multisignature trust assumptions. Its core architecture utilizes zero-knowledge validity proofs to ensure correct execution and anchors the ranking results to the Bitcoin mainnet. Withdrawals and disputes are ultimately adjudicated by Bitcoin mainnet rules.
Testnet V3 features key optimizations such as off-chain execution, Bitcoin-pegged ordering, and Bitcoin-adjudicated withdrawal and dispute resolution mechanisms. It will later introduce BitVM2-GC to significantly reduce challenge costs, making security assumptions verifiable in reality for the first time. Furthermore, GOAT Network has built a complete technology stack including Type-1 zkEVM, a decentralized ordering mechanism, and its self-developed zkVM proof engine, Ziren.
