{"id":75180,"date":"2023-03-07T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=75180"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:12:09","slug":"rollkit-unveils-infrastructure-for-deploying-rollups-on-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/rollkit-unveils-infrastructure-for-deploying-rollups-on-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Rollkit unveils infrastructure for deploying rollups on Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rollkit team has built a modular framework to support <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-rollups-and-how-do-they-scale-ethereum\">rollups<\/a> (rollups) on the Bitcoin blockchain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'>\n<p dir='ltr' lang='en'>You can now run a sovereign rollup on Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the first research integration of Bitcoin as a data availability layer for sovereign rollups. ?<a href='https:\/\/t.co\/HpebxIz3fE'>https:\/\/t.co\/HpebxIz3fE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rollkit (@RollkitDev) <a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/RollkitDev\/status\/1632438374513676288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async='' src='https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class='wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow'>\n<p>\u201cRollkit enables developers to build rollups with arbitrary execution environments that inherit Bitcoin&#8217;s data-availability guarantees and resilience to reorgs,\u201d the project participants noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to them, the technology allows optimizing block space, reducing fees, and opening a path to DeFi solutions on the resources of the Bitcoin network.<\/p>\n<p>Rollkit said the project was made possible thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-taproot\">Taproot upgrade<\/a>, and the path to a solution was demonstrated by <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-nfts-how-the-ordinals-project-is-shaping-the-bitcoin-blockchain\">the Ordinals protocol for issuing NFT<\/a> on the Bitcoin blockchain. The latter demonstrated how arbitrary data can be published in blocks. It remained only to implement two functions: submitting and retrieving rollups, the developers noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-conversation='none' data-lang='en'>\n<p dir='ltr' lang='en'>How did we do it? ?<\/p>\n<p>Ordinals showed us it was possible to publish arbitrary data to Bitcoin. We saw this and decided to follow a similar process.<\/p>\n<p>At its core, all that was needed was two functions: one to submit rollup blocks, and another to retrieve them. <a href='https:\/\/t.co\/u6etICUAtg'>pic.twitter.com\/u6etICUAtg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rollkit (@RollkitDev) <a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/RollkitDev\/status\/1632438398928687104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async='' src='https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rollkit supports configurable execution environments, including <span data-descr='Ethereum Virtual Machine, the Ethereum virtual machine' class='old_tooltip'>EVM<\/span>, CosmWasm and Cosmos <span data-descr='development toolkit' class='old_tooltip'>SDK<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>For testing the integration, the project team used a local Bitcoin testnet and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/developers-unveil-alpha-version-of-ethereum-compatible-ethermint-protocol\">Ethermint<\/a> to run the EVM.<\/p>\n<blockquote class='wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow'>\n<p>\u201cRollkit announced that it is releasing research tools that will enable sovereign rollups on Bitcoin&#8217;s L1 for data availability. I am excited about this development,\u201d said Munib Ali, CEO of Blockstack.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-conversation='none' data-lang='en'>\n<p dir='ltr' lang='en'>Rollkit (<a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/RollkitDev?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>@RollkitDev<\/a>) announced that they\u2019re releasing research tools to enable such sovereign rollups that benefit from Bitcoin L1 for DA. I\u2019m excited about this development!<\/p>\n<p>See this from <a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/lightcoin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>@lightcoin<\/a>: <a href='https:\/\/t.co\/0VsEYDdUQe'>https:\/\/t.co\/0VsEYDdUQe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 muneeb.btc (@muneeb) <a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/muneeb\/status\/1632783403987632142?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>March 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async='' src='https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Celestia Labs startup developed the Rollkit platform, carving it out as a standalone business line.<\/p>\n<p>Back in October 2022, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/celestia-project-raises-55-million-to-launch-modular-blockchains\">raised $55 million<\/a> in a round led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rollkit team built a modular framework to support sovereign rollups on the Bitcoin blockchain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1179,277],"class_list":["post-75180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-layer-2-solutions","tag-scaling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75182,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75180\/revisions\/75182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}