The founder of Stacks, a blockchain designed to scale bitcoin, hinted that the network's next major upgrade is on the horizon.
Stacks, a blockchain that aims to scale bitcoin, is nearing the launch of its next major upgrade.
According to an X post by Muneeb Ali, co-founder of Stacks and CEO of Trust Machines, which builds applications on bitcoin and its related networks, the network's upcoming sBTC token may be released as early as next month.
"Early December is the target and that seems on-track for sBTC v1 with more upgrades coming to it in January and onwards," Ali wrote.
Stacks describes sBTC as a solution to bitcoin's "write problem" — the difficulty in writing data directly to bitcoin's main chain, which is necessary for applications in decentralized finance. According to an announcement by Stacks, its sBTC will "enable smart contracts to programmatically send sBTC to a BTC address, where it can peg it out as BTC."
In essence, sBTC will serve as a competitor to other forms of wrapped bitcoin that are used in decentralized applications, such as wBTC and cbBTC, which are both offered by centralized custodians. According to Stacks, sBTC's novel decentralized two-way peg will unlock value by providing an alternative that aligns more closely with the decentralized ethos of bitcoin.
Although its ownership has changed since the whitepaper was published, Stacks' sBTC whitepaper describes wBTC as "being entrusted to a single custodian and hence antithetical to Bitcoin ethos." In contrast, the whitepaper describes sBTC as "a decentralized pegged BTC asset that is operated by a fully permissionless, decentralized, dynamic set of participants that are economically incentivized to operate the peg properly."
"Layer-2s can upgrade bitcoin rails...There can be all sorts of use cases that are deployed there and the capital is more productive — it will make bitcoin more valuable," Ali told The Block in an interview earlier this year in March.
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