2024.9.16 - 2024.9.22

2024.9.21

Shielded CSV white paper release: https://github.com/ShieldedCSV/ShieldedCSV/releases/latest/download/shieldedcsv.pdf, Twitter link: https://x.com/n1ckler/status/1837194004552655077. The paper uses BitVM as a bridge for the payment system, utilizing recursive proofs to complete the transaction history proof of CSV.

2024.9.20

The BitVM official project has merged the PR TMUL Optimization #99 submitted by the Citrea team @citrea_xyz (https://github.com/BitVM/BitVM/pull/99), reducing the modular multiplication operation from 73.2k to 69.3k. This, in turn, decreases the Groth16 verifier size from 1.43GB to 1.36GB, achieving an improvement of about 5%.