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1/11 Found something interesting in @citrea_xyz's documentation - three specific research directions they're exploring that could reshape Bitcoin L2s. These aren't implemented features yet, but their approach to these problems shows depth of thinking about scaling Bitcoin https://t.co/1xqNxPLgPp
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2/11 🔍 RESEARCH DIRECTION #1: DECENTRALIZED SEQUENCER NETWORKS Most rollups today operate with a single transaction sequencer - Citrea is researching how to distribute this across multiple nodes. The Arbitrum outage of 2023 showed exactly why this matters 3/11 When the Arbitrum sequencer failed, the entire network stalled. Beyond just outages, centralized sequencers can front-run transactions, prioritize their own trades, and extract MEV at everyone else's expense
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4/11 The complexity they're tackling isn't just technical coordination. Their docs mention consensus mechanisms like Hotstuff and MonadBFT as potential approaches, but making these work while preventing sequencer collusion adds layers of challenge to an already difficult problem
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5/11 RESEARCH DIRECTION #2: PROTOCOL-LEVEL ATOMIC SWAPS 🔄 Instead of treating bridges as separate components, Citrea is researching how to make trustless atomic swaps part of the core protocol itself https://t.co/gM3vsprDGm 6/11 Most Bitcoin L2 bridges today are security nightmares waiting to happen - either trusting federations or wrapping BTC in contracts. Citrea's approach would eliminate third parties, making direct BTC↔cBTC transfers possible using HTLCs + BitcoinLightClient verification
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