According to ChainCatcher, CoinDesk reported that the Bitcoin ZK Rollup protocol Citrea has deployed its BitVM-based bridge Clementine to the Bitcoin testnet.
The Citrea team describes Clementine as a “trust-minimized two-way peg,” essentially a way to lock Bitcoin on the main chain and then mint an equivalent value of Bitcoin tokens to use on Citrea; to reverse the process, the token needs to be burned, and the Bitcoin can then be withdrawn on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Clementine leverages BitVM, a computing paradigm introduced last year by Bitcoin developer Robin Linus that is ultimately designed to allow Ethereum-style smart contracts to be implemented on Bitcoin while also paving the way for zero-knowledge computing.
