CatVM: There and Back Again CatVM is the first permissionless bitcoin bridge, allowing scaling in layers with no liquidity requirements, decentralized trading of ordinals and runes, and much more CatVM is powered by OP_CAT and Quantum Cats🐱 gmeow! 👉 catvm.org/catvm.pdf

today we’re launching the Wizard Portal! 🚀 🧙‍♂️buy with USDC, SOL, or ETH. any wallet, any chain 🧙‍♂️or buy with Apple Pay, no wallet required 🧙‍♂️no downloads, installs, or seed phrases 🧙‍♂️FAST confirmations! 🧙‍♂️exclusive for @TaprootWizards and @QuantumCats link and details below👇

wanted to share something we’ve been working on at @TaprootWizards i’ve been unhappy with the hoops people have to jump through to collect our assets so we decided to fix this the new marketplace for Taproot Wizards and Quantum Cats is coming soon 🧙‍♂️🐱

goodbye “QuantumCatsXYZ” say hello to @QuantumCats thanks @XHandles

Quantum Rijndael

free airdrop for @TaprootWizards and @quantumcats holders! the phygitals team went out of their way to add ordinals wallet support so wizard and cat holders can get a FREE TOKENIZED POKEMON CARD (as always, be safe: don’t sign any ordinal transactions when claiming airdrops)

gave a talk in Hong Kong about OP_CAT earlier this month this will give you an intro to: - what we're trying to do - why - why now talk title was "You Can Just Do Things"

Head of Blockstream Research (@blksresearch), Andrew Poelstra, explains OP_CAT and how this proposed opcode could lay the groundwork for advanced covenant mechanisms, bringing greater security and flexibility to Bitcoin self-custody.

Bitcoin R&D, unfiltered. We’re putting @ercwl, @lawmaster, @EliBenSasson, @niftynei & more in a room to debate Bitcoin’s future. From ZK rollups to OP_CAT, no topic is off-limits. You’ll want to be there 👇

WAIT, MORE GOLDEN CAPES????? cat#1445 just EVOLVED with a Taproot Wizards Golden Cape. as a reminder, holders of golden cape cats may redeem them for a Taproot Wizard 👀 is there a (limited) amount of golden capes still hiding?...

all the entangled cats have been returned to their owners! this isn’t even their final form 👀🐱

RELEASE THE CATS!!! the entangled @quantumcats owned by Taproot Wizards minters will be returned to their owners tomorrow (monday) around 11am ET (in approximately 18 hours from the time of this post) their mission to activate OP_CAT continues 👀

to anyone wondering: i haven’t sold a single Quantum Cat into the massive, unprecedented liquidity the collection enjoyed over the last week or so in fact i have bought more do whatever you want with that information

There are only 189 @quantumcats listed. These two are not. They are already entangled. FOMO 🔜

🗳️ Both OP_CAT and OP_CTV have their own pros and cons, but which #Bitcoin upgrade would you want implemented?

I’m gonna try to share OP_CAT updates more regularly. Here’s what happened recently and where we think things are headed: --- last month i went to consensus in hong kong, taking a hiatus from my usual twitter trolling: meeting face to face with protocol & app devs and miners to gauge sentiment on OP_CAT (in some cases requiring Chinese translators in order to conduct the meetings) on the l2 protocol development side: OP_CAT would mean a massive unlock for l2 protocol developers (STARKs is the most talked about example, but every l2 benefits tremendously from a generalized covenant, including bitvm, ark and even lightning) my impression is that l2 developers are extremely thirsty for this capability, and understand what OP_CAT does quite well. this applies to teams both in the east and west on the app side: mostly met & discussed with lending app developers which seems to be the most prevalent on the application side. the discussions i've had suggests demand for borrowing and lending with BTC on the motherchain, not just for retail defi but in b2b contexts aswell from miners: traditionally, miners are not as tuned in to protocol design as other stakeholder groups. but in the asian mining industry, OP_CAT has been well-recognized for some time now due to initiatives like fractal which already amassed 50% merge-mining hashrate that's not to say that these groups fully understand what OP_CAT does yet, however they seem surprisingly interested to learn more about what OP_CAT can mean for the baselayer in terms of chain activity it is clear there's an appetite for more educational material here, esp. events that bridge the gap between asia and the west — stay tuned for updates on this topic i really do think 2025 is the year of the covenant, and our best bet to oil the softfork upgrade machinery before we're stuck knee-deep in institutional ossification but this is going to require deeper cross-industry collaboration than what we're normally used to, as core is no longer in the business of driving consensus changes - with much broader community agency

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good things come to those who wait 🧙‍♂️