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Operating under a 1-of-n honest assumption, the platform shifts the security paradigm from collective trust to individual oversight. The infrastructure is built on BitVMX, an optimistic verification framework where bridge operations are assumed correct unless challenged.

Users select an asset and destination, and the system surfaces routing options ranked by speed and cost before handing off to the appropriate bridge or swap mechanism.

At launch, Atlas supports BTC on-chain and Lightning routes, plus ETH, USDC, USDT and other tokens. Planned components such as Union Bridge, a trust-minimized BTC bridge powered by BitVMX, are expected to plug into Atlas without changing the user-facing workflow.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson declared that Cardano is rapidly becoming the primary development platform for Bitcoin script through the integration of BitVMX.

ADA’s price is also highly susceptible to whether they buy or sell in massive quantities, as evident in late February when they were disposing of their assets, and the asset plunged.

Ordinals can now bridge directly to the Cardano network. This new capability is part of a broader push by Input Output and Fairgate Labs under the BitVMX Alliance

A pivotal moment has marked the future of decentralized finance: for the first time, a Bitcoin Ordinals has been transferred and recorded on the Cardano mainnet, thanks to the interoperability protocol BitVMX, developed by Fairgate

To overcome some of BitVM’s initial limitations, developers proposed enhanced designs. One notable advancement is virtual CPU architecture. It generalizes the concept into a that runs on top of Bitcoin via an optimistic verification game.

Input Output (IOG) and Fairgate Labs revealed major Bitcoin DeFi advancements at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Las Vegas on May 27, 2025.

The on-chain transaction between Bitcoin and Cardano was facilitated by BitVMX, an interoperability protocol built using the BitVM programming language

This article explores how BitVMX works at a deep technical level. We explain how Cardano smart contracts can be compiled and used to power Bitcoin DeFi.

Charles Hoskinson claims Cardano is best suited for Bitcoin DeFi due to its smart contract support, formal governance, and decentralised treasury.