https://citrea.xyz/

- Type 2 zkEVM.
- Sequencer with a block producing privilege, inscribing state roots on Bitcoin to finalize ordering.
- Prover + light client both via scanning Bitcoin blockspace.
- Full and light nodes.
- Bitcoin Settlement via BitVM.

This seems like a real step forward for BTC, if it checks out.

As far as I can tell this is fraudulent marketing. The Bitcoin chain can't verify the proofs, so it's not a rollup (which is what zkEVM means)
https://docs.citrea.xyz/future-research/trustless-settlement

You could make a rollup on bitcoin if you added proof verification opcodes, but bitcoin currently doesn't have them

Made reality.eth. Building Backstop Layer2 https://backstop.technology  Mainly post about goats.

Also on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/goat.navy

I mean, the headline claim is false and you have to spend ages wading through the docs to find out that it's false.

If a team doing this is "well respected" them you're respecting the wrong people.

The team are reasonably well respected, and the documentation seems to point that this isn't trustless. So not sure i agree with "fraudulent", but yes we need to see some code.