Month: April 2025

By May 7, all U.S. citizens are supposed to have their federally required “Real ID” so that they can travel by air or enter a federal building. But what about using them to register to vote to ensure they are legally present in the country and eligible to vote in our elections?

The SAVE Act, introduced by Republican Texas Rep. (and University of Virginia alumnus) Chip Roy, recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives and now is awaiting action in the Senate. The SAVE Act, among other things, would require proof of citizenship for voter registration in federal elections and strengthen verification processes to ensure voter rolls only contained eligible citizen voters.

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Presenter: Charles Gitonga Producers:  Frenny Jowi in Nairobi with Tom Kavanagh, Victor Sylver, Yvette Twagiramariya and Bella Hassan in London Technical Producer: Philip Bull Senior Producer: Paul Bakibinga Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

Matt and Amine, co-founders of Arch Network, discuss their recent $13M Series A led by Pantera Capital, how their technology enhances Bitcoin programmability, and their unique approaches to virtual machine architecture and validator consensus.

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Matt and Amine, co-founders of Arch Network, join us to talk about their recent $13M Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital. They explain how Arch differentiates itself from other Bitcoin L2s by enabling programmability on Bitcoin with their custom VM and FROST/ROAST threshold signature schemes. The founders discuss their approach to solving Bitcoin's programming limitations, creating a dynamic validator system that can scale over time, and building applications like DEXs and prediction markets directly on Bitcoin. They also share insights from their testnet phase and outline their roadmap toward mainnet launch.

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# Notes:

- Arch raised $13 million led by Pantera Capital

- Uses FROST/ROAST for dynamic validator sets

- Custom VM inspired by Solana's architecture

- Aims for instant finality vs Bitcoin's 10 minutes

- Uses transaction dependency graph for rollbacks

- Mainnet launch expected around June/July 2025

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:35 Pantera Capital raise

01:57 Building Arch last 2 yrs

04:04 VC finally funding BTC dev

07:37 Arch ecosystem

09:07 Arch dev verticals

13:25 Distributed validator set

15:04 Arch ad read

15:36 Arch Virtual Machine

17:33 Developer adoption new VM

20:19 Builder reception

21:50 Testnet learnings

24:26 Under the hood of Arch

25:51 Bitcoin MEV

29:05 Apps for Arch

31:14 Migrating L1 assets to Arch

33:27 Wen Arch token

35:09 The future

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