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Advancing Bitcoin into the Agentic Era.

[Fairgate @FairGateLabs]

Our article series on Bit2 key features continues to expand! Today, we keep digging on the relevance of speed and latency for agentic commerce.

In the agentic realm, latency equals money. The faster a payment confirms, the faster an agent moves on.

Credit cards take 1–7 seconds. Internet round-trip latency is under 200ms. That gap has always existed because the infrastructure between them wasn't designed to close it.

Bit2 targets 400 milliseconds, the industry benchmark for agentic payments. It gets there by separating what needs to happen now from what can happen later.

Heavy cryptographic computation moves off the critical path. Pre-confirmations are bonded and enforceable. Users never wait for proving.

Fast because it's lazy. By design.

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The latest edition of Computing on Bitcoin News is here!

Discover our curated selection of articles regarding Bitcoin scaling, programmability, and more.

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Proud to see @bitvmx powering the next generation of Bitcoin interoperability.

Union Bridge represents years of research around fraud proofs, optimistic verification, and trust-minimized design finally becoming tangible infrastructure.

[Rootstock @rootstock_io]

BIG: Union Bridge is now live on Rootstock Testnet.

Built on @bitvmx, it replaces trusted intermediaries with cryptographic enforcement. Withdrawals verified and challenged directly on Bitcoin. No fixed signers. No committees.

"The point isn't that Union Bridge is invulnerable. It's that the attacks that have historically destroyed bridges, the majority trust failures, are no longer on the table," says @SDLerner, Co-founder and Scientific Advisor, @RootstockLabs.

This is an early, experimental release focused on validating core bridge flows and usability.

Access Union Bridge on Testnet via Atlas: https://t.co/BX3wbolvAz

[Fairgate @FairGateLabs]

The Ninth entry in our series on the features defining Bit2 and the agentic economy is here!
Today, we’re going back to the roots: Peer to Peer Payments

Bitcoin started as a tool for individuals. Direct transfers, pseudonymous addresses, no one in the middle deciding what gets through.

That's harder to find today. Transactions are categorized, filtered, sometimes excluded. Not by protocol, but by the infrastructure sitting between users and the chain.

Bit2 is built around a simpler premise: the payment layer shouldn't know what it's carrying.

On-chain commitments reveal nothing. Validity is enforced by cryptography. No intermediary with the ability to inspect, interpret, or deny.

Commerce between individuals, and between machines, the way it was meant to work.

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Check out our latest edition of Computing on Bitcoin News, with the most relevant and exciting projects being built in the scene.

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[Fairgate @FairGateLabs]

The latest entry in our series on the features defining Bit2 is here! Today, we focus on speed.

Some agentic interactions can't wait: Streaming payments, sensor data, shared infrastructure access.

Machines exchanging value continuously need settlement in milliseconds.

Payment channels are built for exactly that. So we built them directly on top of Bit2.

Opening or closing a channel: 4 bytes of L1 data. Lightning needs ~1000 weight units for the same. Two orders of magnitude more efficient at the base layer.

Global throughput and millisecond-range settlement. Not a trade-off: both.

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A new edition of Computing on Bitcoin News is out!

Discover the most recent developments shaping the landscape.

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The agentic economy has shifted from thesis to reality.

New protocols. New payment primitives. Agents operating as full economic actors.

We build at this layer. Agentic Economy Briefing is our monthly dispatch to track what's taking shape.

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[Fairgate @FairGateLabs]

Our latest article on Bit2 design is out! This time, we focus on the importance of verifiable payment proofs.

In human commerce, a payment is complete when both parties agree.

In agentic commerce, machines, smart contracts, and autonomous systems need to verify payment outcomes independently without asking anyone, without callbacks, without trust assumptions.

A payment that can't be proven to a third party isn't a primitive you can build automation on.

Bit2 produces globally verifiable, non-interactive payment proofs. Senders can prove a receiver accepted. Receivers can prove a specific invoice was paid. Any third party can verify, no interaction required.

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Check out the latest edition of Computing on Bitcoin News!

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Every week we share the best selection of articles, projects and updates on the Bitcoin programmability and scalability ecosystem.

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Whether a payment is worth making depends on what it costs to make it.

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In agentic commerce, milliseconds of compute, microservice calls, sensor data, energy usage, fees that seem small at human scale become structural barriers at machine scale.

Most systems tie transaction costs to two things: locked liquidity or L1 bandwidth. Both get expensive under volume.

Bit2 decouples from both. Thousands of transactions share a single L1 commitment. No persistent liquidity lockups. Fees reflect actual resource usage, and almost nothing else.

Sixth entry in our series on the features defining Bit2 and the agentic economy already upon us.

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Happy Friday everyone!

Take a look at our latest edition of Computing on Bitcoin News, where we share the best and most relevant updates in the scene.

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In agentic commerce, payments are continuous, parallel, and machine-generated.

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A network that congests under load makes entire categories of economic activity unviable.

Microtransactions, API calls, sensor data, energy coordination. All of it breaks if throughput fails.

Bit2 approaches scalability differently: No routing liquidity, no centralized sequencer, no per-transaction proof requirement in the common case. Execution is local, time-stamping is parallelizable, and throughput scales without competing for shared resources.

Fifth entry in our series on the features defining Bit2 and the agentic economy already upon us.

Check out how we are shaping the agentic blockchain for the future that’s already here.

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Check out this week's Computing on Bitcoin News edition!

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Discover our selection of curated articles on everything Bitcoin Computing related.

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Most payment systems assume your wallet is always online, always watching.

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Hardware wallets exist precisely because keys should be able to stay offline for weeks, months, years.

These two models coexist in tension. Bit2 resolves it.

Client-side validation removes time-critical dependencies entirely. No monitoring requirements, no reaction windows. The only thing you need to preserve is your state data, and that can be backed up asynchronously, without pressure.

Fourth entry in our series on the features defining Bit2 and its key role in the agentic economy.

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Happy Friday everyone!

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Take a look at the latest and hottest in the Bitcoin programability and scalability scene, all compiled in our Computing on Bitcoin News update.

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We sit at the base layer of crypto infrastructure, and from here, the view is clear.

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AI agents are becoming economic actors. They're initiating actions, procuring resources, and transacting continuously, globally.

And the financial rails to support them are being shaped right now. At Fairgate, we're building them.

The future is closer than it looks.

Agentic Economy Briefing is our monthly newsletter to follow it closely.

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Network fees get all the attention. But in most payment systems, the real cost is invisible.

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Capital locked in channels, liquidity pools, shared UTXOs are funds that can't be put to work elsewhere.
That opportunity cost has to be recovered somehow. Over time, it ends up in fees.

As agentic commerce scales, this becomes a structural problem, not a rounding error.

Bit2 decouples payment throughput from collateral requirements. Transaction costs reflect actual resource usage, not the price of immobilizing capital.

Third entry in our series on the features defining Bit2 and the agentic economy already upon us.

[Fairgate @FairGateLabs]

This week's edition of Computing on Bitcoin News is out!

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Find the latest and hottest news on Bitcoin scalability, programmability and more.

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