Odaily Planet Daily reports that Eli Ben-Sasson, CEO of StarkWare and co-founder of Zcash, stated on the X platform that in his first conversation with Michael Saylor, founder and executive chairman of Strategy, he explained Starknet's mission to promote the development of the Bitcoin economy. In addition, another topic they discussed was privacy. Saylor believes that Bitcoin should not have privacy features, or at least should not adopt a privacy model similar to Zcash, as this would give sovereign states a reason to ban it. Ben-Sasson disagrees. Ben-Sasson believes that it is possible to balance both, i.e., to provide privacy protection while allowing for key viewing. They also exchanged views on OPCAT. Saylor is concerned that changes

Gate News bot message, according to the official announcement from Gate on July 1, 2025: Gate will delist the trading markets for 36 tokens, including MOXIE, FRM, SSNC, LEGEND and other tokens' USDT trading pairs. Affected services include spot trading, quantitative grid, remaining coin treasure, and leveraged trading. The exchange will suspend trading services for these tokens on July 8, 2025, at 11:00 ( UTC+8. For users still holding these tokens, Gate will provide a repurchase service from July 22 to 28, 2025, with repurchase prices set individually for each token. The maximum individual compensation amount for IQ50, OPCAT, BCD, and BENDOG is 1000 USDT, while for other tokens it is 100 USDT. It should be noted that due to an anomaly on the PING chain, the withdrawal service for this cryptocurrency is currently not supported. The withdrawal function will be restored once the issue is resolved.

OPCAT advocate and co-founder of TaprootWizards believes that Trump's proposed strategic reserves may just be a negotiation tactic that requires convincing Congress. He likened this move to Trump's classic negotiation technique, starting with a ridiculous proposal and possibly retracting it in the end. This behavior is interpreted as pressuring Congress to request BTC reserves. The author is open-minded about this and finds it all very interesting.

Jinse Caijing reported that StarkWare CEO Eli Ben

StarkWare CEO expects that the major upgrade OPCAT of the BTC network will go live within 12 months. This will bring new features to BTC, including contracts, ZK-rollup, and L2 networks, making Starknet the first L2 network to conduct on-chain Settlement on both BTC and ETH.

On October 9th, MVC Technology Director and sCrypt founder Xiaohui Liu announced on Twitter that the Bitcoin sidechain MVC (MicrovisionChain) has made significant progress in research in the third quarter of 2024, and will focus on the following three aspects in the next six months: 1. Fully enable OPCAT opcode: MVC, as a Bitcoin sidechain, will utilize the OPCAT opcode to support Layer-1 smart contracts, enabling developers to build Turing-complete Decentralization applications (DApps) under the UTXO model. 2. SegWit Integration: The introduction of SegWit will improve transaction processing efficiency, reduce transaction fees, and optimize the execution of smart contracts, ensuring higher transaction throughput and security. 3. Merger mining research: MVC will further strengthen the security model of Decentralization by merging mining with Bitcoin, leveraging the security and Computing Power of the Bitcoin network, and attracting more miners to participate.

Odaily Planet Daily News StarkWare announced a partnership with sCrypt to explore the construction of a PoC bridge using OPCAT and ZK magic, and to explore the construction of a BTC-L2 specification bridge.