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ᴀ ʙʀɪᴅɢᴇ ɪs ᴏɴʟʏ ᴀs ᴛʀᴜsᴛᴡᴏʀᴛʜʏ ᴀs ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴠᴇʀ ʙᴇʜɪɴᴅ ɪᴛ.
Let's take a look at how @GOATNetwork builds and checks its own.
The bridge is designed so every withdrawal is held open to challenge for at least a week, and any dispute is settled on Bitcoin. What a dispute examines is a proof. Those proofs come from Ziren, the zkVM built by the same core team that is building the bridge. Ziren also proves every batch of transactions on GOAT, and if a withdrawal claim is challenged, Bitcoin checks a single hash.
ᴡʜʏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴍᴀᴛᴛᴇʀs
The bridge rests on two assumptions. First, at least one honest participant checks the work during the challenge window. Second, nobody can produce a valid proof of something untrue.
That puts the prover inside the security model. If the equations behind a step allow more than one result for the same input, a dishonest prover could pick the result it wants and prove something that never happened, like a withdrawal nobody made. A challenger would find nothing wrong with the proof, because the flaw is in the equations.
So the prover's correctness matters as much as the challenge process around it.
ᴡʜʏ ʙᴜɪʟᴅ ɪᴛ ɪɴ-ʜᴏᴜsᴇ
One team answers for everything a withdrawal depends on, from the instructions the prover runs to the Bitcoin transactions that settle a dispute. It also sets priorities: under a bridge, a slow proof costs a short delay, while a forgeable one puts bitcoin at risk. So Ziren puts security ahead of speed.
ʜᴏᴡ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴠᴇʀ ɪs ᴄʜᴇᴄᴋᴇᴅ
No single method catches every bug, so Ziren is checked in several independent ways:
▸ Published design: the Ziren paper, on the IACR ePrint Archive since October
▸ Independent audit: Veridise audited the circuits by hand, with formal tools and fuzzing. Findings were fixed and re-verified; the report is public
▸ Adversarial research: since December 2025, Consensys Diligence and TU Wien, introduced by the Ethereum Foundation, have fuzzed Ziren and found five bugs, one fixed upstream in LLVM
▸ GOAT's bug bounty: 123 classified findings and 16 awards, all to be fixed before the bridge carries mainnet BTC
▸ Machine-checked proofs: Ziren 2.0 proves in Lean that 57 circuits are deterministic, across 104 theorems, which rules out the flaw described above for those circuits
ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏɴᴇsᴛ ᴘᴀʀᴛ: ᴘᴏsᴛ-ǫᴜᴀɴᴛᴜᴍ
In Ziren 2.0, the proof commitments are hash-based throughout. But hash-based is not the same as post-quantum. Two parts of the pipeline still use elliptic curves, the memory check and the final compression step for onchain verification, and both need replacing before the proofs can be called post-quantum.
And the bitcoin locked in any Bitcoin bridge sits behind Bitcoin's own signatures until Bitcoin upgrades.
On Ethproofs, Ziren 2.0 proves the average Ethereum mainnet block in 8.6 seconds on four GPUs. And Metis is bringing Ziren in as the prover for its Hybrid Rollup, so a second network will depend on the same code.
My take: if Bitcoin is going to settle agent-era commerce, trust starts at the prover, and GOAT Network is treating it that way.
ᴀɪ ɪs ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍɪɴɢ ᴀ ꜰʀᴏɴᴛ ᴅᴏᴏʀ ᴛᴏ ᴏɴʟɪɴᴇ sʜᴏᴘᴘɪɴɢ, ᴀɴᴅ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ꜰʟᴏᴡ ɪs ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ᴇxᴀᴄᴛʟʏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛ 👀
Start with what Adobe's holiday forecast (released September 28) says. In August 2026, AI-referred retail visitors converted at a rate 48% higher than non-AI traffic. And Adobe expects AI traffic to US retail sites to grow 130% year over year this holiday season, from November 1 to December 31.
The honest context: Adobe counts AI traffic as people clicking a link in an AI chat or browser service through to a store, and it calls the channel modest in overall volume. Deloitte's 2026 holiday survey found only 16% of US shoppers would let AI complete a purchase. So today the buyer is mostly still a person. The agent that pays on its own is the next step.
That is why GOAT Flow fits. It is @GOATNetwork checkout for businesses, built for both kinds of AI-driven shopper at once.
ᴡʜʏ ɪᴛ ꜰɪᴛs
▸ One page, two buyers: People pay by card, processed by Stripe, or in USDT or USDC on ten chains. AI agents pay in stablecoins. Every page carries agent.md and manifest.json, which tell an agent what you sell and how to pay you.
▸ No code to start: Payment links, any-amount or fixed-price, and product pages need no code. Developers can add a hosted or custom checkout, or API Payments, which lets agents pay per request.
▸ Your money stays yours: Crypto goes straight to your own wallet and is verified onchain, and GOAT Flow never holds your funds. Card payments are paid out to your own Stripe account.
▸ One place to manage it: The merchant portal shows all orders, reconciliation, refund requests and disputes.
▸ Under it, GOAT Network: Bitcoin-secured infrastructure for agentic commerce.
ɪs ᴀɴʏᴏɴᴇ ᴜsɪɴɢ ɪᴛ?
Two integrations went live in September, according to GOAT's newsletter. StableJack made its 96 market data endpoints payable by AI agents at 0.5 USDC per call. And on KULT's Agent Commerce layer, two AI agents completed a first paid job that was escrowed, independently verified and settled onchain.
At KBW 2026, GOAT's CEO walked through the flow with a client, Bloom Beauty: register, pick crypto or fiat, set a price, get an agent-readable checkout page.
ʜᴏᴡ ᴛᴏ sᴛᴀʀᴛ
1. Apply for a merchant account. Every application is reviewed.
2. Turn on two-factor authentication.
3. Add your business details and choose card, crypto or both.
4. Top up your fee balance. It is prepaid credit kept separate from your sales, and if it runs out, new orders can stop.
5. Create your link and share it.
GOAT says you can start as soon as today. Its guide also suggests running a test purchase on Testnet3 first, and fulfilling an order only once it shows as confirmed.
ᴀ ꜰᴀɪʀ ɴᴏᴛᴇ
Adobe's numbers describe the market, not any one shop, and a payment page does not send you traffic by itself. What it does is make sure that when an AI-referred shopper, or one day an agent, is ready to buy, there is nothing in the way.
Why I think that matters: if a growing share of visitors arrives from AI, the stores that are easy to read and easy to pay will benefit first.
sᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs: Adobe, Deloitte, GOAT Flow guide, GOAT newsletter
sᴇᴛ ᴜᴘ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴘᴀɢᴇ: goat.network/flow
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ᴀ ʙʀɪᴅɢᴇ ɪs ᴏɴʟʏ ᴀs ᴛʀᴜsᴛᴡᴏʀᴛʜʏ ᴀs ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴠᴇʀ ʙᴇʜɪɴᴅ ɪᴛ.
Let's take a look at how @GOATNetwork builds and checks its own.
The bridge is designed so every withdrawal is held open to challenge for at least a week, and any dispute is settled on Bitcoin. What a dispute examines is a proof. Those proofs come from Ziren, the zkVM built by the same core team that is building the bridge. Ziren also proves every batch of transactions on GOAT, and if a withdrawal claim is challenged, Bitcoin checks a single hash.
ᴡʜʏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴍᴀᴛᴛᴇʀs
The bridge rests on two assumptions. First, at least one honest participant checks the work during the challenge window. Second, nobody can produce a valid proof of something untrue.
That puts the prover inside the security model. If the equations behind a step allow more than one result for the same input, a dishonest prover could pick the result it wants and prove something that never happened, like a withdrawal nobody made. A challenger would find nothing wrong with the proof, because the flaw is in the equations.
So the prover's correctness matters as much as the challenge process around it.
ᴡʜʏ ʙᴜɪʟᴅ ɪᴛ ɪɴ-ʜᴏᴜsᴇ
One team answers for everything a withdrawal depends on, from the instructions the prover runs to the Bitcoin transactions that settle a dispute. It also sets priorities: under a bridge, a slow proof costs a short delay, while a forgeable one puts bitcoin at risk. So Ziren puts security ahead of speed.
ʜᴏᴡ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴠᴇʀ ɪs ᴄʜᴇᴄᴋᴇᴅ
No single method catches every bug, so Ziren is checked in several independent ways:
▸ Published design: the Ziren paper, on the IACR ePrint Archive since October
▸ Independent audit: Veridise audited the circuits by hand, with formal tools and fuzzing. Findings were fixed and re-verified; the report is public
▸ Adversarial research: since December 2025, Consensys Diligence and TU Wien, introduced by the Ethereum Foundation, have fuzzed Ziren and found five bugs, one fixed upstream in LLVM
▸ GOAT's bug bounty: 123 classified findings and 16 awards, all to be fixed before the bridge carries mainnet BTC
▸ Machine-checked proofs: Ziren 2.0 proves in Lean that 57 circuits are deterministic, across 104 theorems, which rules out the flaw described above for those circuits
ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏɴᴇsᴛ ᴘᴀʀᴛ: ᴘᴏsᴛ-ǫᴜᴀɴᴛᴜᴍ
In Ziren 2.0, the proof commitments are hash-based throughout. But hash-based is not the same as post-quantum. Two parts of the pipeline still use elliptic curves, the memory check and the final compression step for onchain verification, and both need replacing before the proofs can be called post-quantum.
And the bitcoin locked in any Bitcoin bridge sits behind Bitcoin's own signatures until Bitcoin upgrades.
On Ethproofs, Ziren 2.0 proves the average Ethereum mainnet block in 8.6 seconds on four GPUs. And Metis is bringing Ziren in as the prover for its Hybrid Rollup, so a second network will depend on the same code.
My take: if Bitcoin is going to settle agent-era commerce, trust starts at the prover, and GOAT Network is treating it that way.
ᴀɪ ɪs ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍɪɴɢ ᴀ ꜰʀᴏɴᴛ ᴅᴏᴏʀ ᴛᴏ ᴏɴʟɪɴᴇ sʜᴏᴘᴘɪɴɢ, ᴀɴᴅ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ꜰʟᴏᴡ ɪs ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ᴇxᴀᴄᴛʟʏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛ 👀
Start with what Adobe's holiday forecast (released September 28) says. In August 2026, AI-referred retail visitors converted at a rate 48% higher than non-AI traffic. And Adobe expects AI traffic to US retail sites to grow 130% year over year this holiday season, from November 1 to December 31.
The honest context: Adobe counts AI traffic as people clicking a link in an AI chat or browser service through to a store, and it calls the channel modest in overall volume. Deloitte's 2026 holiday survey found only 16% of US shoppers would let AI complete a purchase. So today the buyer is mostly still a person. The agent that pays on its own is the next step.
That is why GOAT Flow fits. It is @GOATNetwork checkout for businesses, built for both kinds of AI-driven shopper at once.
ᴡʜʏ ɪᴛ ꜰɪᴛs
▸ One page, two buyers: People pay by card, processed by Stripe, or in USDT or USDC on ten chains. AI agents pay in stablecoins. Every page carries agent.md and manifest.json, which tell an agent what you sell and how to pay you.
▸ No code to start: Payment links, any-amount or fixed-price, and product pages need no code. Developers can add a hosted or custom checkout, or API Payments, which lets agents pay per request.
▸ Your money stays yours: Crypto goes straight to your own wallet and is verified onchain, and GOAT Flow never holds your funds. Card payments are paid out to your own Stripe account.
▸ One place to manage it: The merchant portal shows all orders, reconciliation, refund requests and disputes.
▸ Under it, GOAT Network: Bitcoin-secured infrastructure for agentic commerce.
ɪs ᴀɴʏᴏɴᴇ ᴜsɪɴɢ ɪᴛ?
Two integrations went live in September, according to GOAT's newsletter. StableJack made its 96 market data endpoints payable by AI agents at 0.5 USDC per call. And on KULT's Agent Commerce layer, two AI agents completed a first paid job that was escrowed, independently verified and settled onchain.
At KBW 2026, GOAT's CEO walked through the flow with a client, Bloom Beauty: register, pick crypto or fiat, set a price, get an agent-readable checkout page.
ʜᴏᴡ ᴛᴏ sᴛᴀʀᴛ
1. Apply for a merchant account. Every application is reviewed.
2. Turn on two-factor authentication.
3. Add your business details and choose card, crypto or both.
4. Top up your fee balance. It is prepaid credit kept separate from your sales, and if it runs out, new orders can stop.
5. Create your link and share it.
GOAT says you can start as soon as today. Its guide also suggests running a test purchase on Testnet3 first, and fulfilling an order only once it shows as confirmed.
ᴀ ꜰᴀɪʀ ɴᴏᴛᴇ
Adobe's numbers describe the market, not any one shop, and a payment page does not send you traffic by itself. What it does is make sure that when an AI-referred shopper, or one day an agent, is ready to buy, there is nothing in the way.
Why I think that matters: if a growing share of visitors arrives from AI, the stores that are easy to read and easy to pay will benefit first.
sᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs: Adobe, Deloitte, GOAT Flow guide, GOAT newsletter
sᴇᴛ ᴜᴘ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴘᴀɢᴇ: goat.network/flow
AABams retweeted
Ask ChatGPT or Claude to buy something and they look in two places: the top-ranking websites, and the product feeds their platforms have contracts with.
Small and medium merchants are in neither. If an agent can’t find your products, it can’t buy them.
CEO @KevinLiu with @BitcoinNews on why we built GOAT Flow: to make your products readable, understandable, searchable and purchasable by agents.
→ goat.network/flow
AABams retweeted
GOAT on Socials has eight days left, with $250 USDT for 10 winners 🎁
Important: Follow us on all six platforms to be eligible.
Entries close November 18th.
GOAT on Socials is live: a 14-day campaign with $250 USDT in rewards for 10 winners 🎁
GOAT Network publishes content across LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and Medium.
Find a post, video or article you find particularly interesting, write an original X post about it with a link to the piece, and submit your post in the Campaigns Hub on Discord.
Full campaign details: goat.network/news/goat-on-so…
AABams retweeted
In the first century, Jesus Christ died and rose again. That was the greatest event then, and it remains the greatest event today.
He died, yet He raised Himself back to life. No ordinary man can do that! He conquered death and demonstrated that the grave does not have the final say.
Because He lives, we have the assurance that even though we may die, we will live again. His resurrection is our hope, our victory, and our assurance of eternal life.
Death has been defeated, and it will never have the final say over those who belong to Christ!
AABams retweeted
ᴀɪ ɪs ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍɪɴɢ ᴀ ꜰʀᴏɴᴛ ᴅᴏᴏʀ ᴛᴏ ᴏɴʟɪɴᴇ sʜᴏᴘᴘɪɴɢ, ᴀɴᴅ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ꜰʟᴏᴡ ɪs ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ᴇxᴀᴄᴛʟʏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛ 👀
Start with what Adobe's holiday forecast (released September 28) says. In August 2026, AI-referred retail visitors converted at a rate 48% higher than non-AI traffic. And Adobe expects AI traffic to US retail sites to grow 130% year over year this holiday season, from November 1 to December 31.
The honest context: Adobe counts AI traffic as people clicking a link in an AI chat or browser service through to a store, and it calls the channel modest in overall volume. Deloitte's 2026 holiday survey found only 16% of US shoppers would let AI complete a purchase. So today the buyer is mostly still a person. The agent that pays on its own is the next step.
That is why GOAT Flow fits. It is @GOATNetwork checkout for businesses, built for both kinds of AI-driven shopper at once.
ᴡʜʏ ɪᴛ ꜰɪᴛs
▸ One page, two buyers: People pay by card, processed by Stripe, or in USDT or USDC on ten chains. AI agents pay in stablecoins. Every page carries agent.md and manifest.json, which tell an agent what you sell and how to pay you.
▸ No code to start: Payment links, any-amount or fixed-price, and product pages need no code. Developers can add a hosted or custom checkout, or API Payments, which lets agents pay per request.
▸ Your money stays yours: Crypto goes straight to your own wallet and is verified onchain, and GOAT Flow never holds your funds. Card payments are paid out to your own Stripe account.
▸ One place to manage it: The merchant portal shows all orders, reconciliation, refund requests and disputes.
▸ Under it, GOAT Network: Bitcoin-secured infrastructure for agentic commerce.
ɪs ᴀɴʏᴏɴᴇ ᴜsɪɴɢ ɪᴛ?
Two integrations went live in September, according to GOAT's newsletter. StableJack made its 96 market data endpoints payable by AI agents at 0.5 USDC per call. And on KULT's Agent Commerce layer, two AI agents completed a first paid job that was escrowed, independently verified and settled onchain.
At KBW 2026, GOAT's CEO walked through the flow with a client, Bloom Beauty: register, pick crypto or fiat, set a price, get an agent-readable checkout page.
ʜᴏᴡ ᴛᴏ sᴛᴀʀᴛ
1. Apply for a merchant account. Every application is reviewed.
2. Turn on two-factor authentication.
3. Add your business details and choose card, crypto or both.
4. Top up your fee balance. It is prepaid credit kept separate from your sales, and if it runs out, new orders can stop.
5. Create your link and share it.
GOAT says you can start as soon as today. Its guide also suggests running a test purchase on Testnet3 first, and fulfilling an order only once it shows as confirmed.
ᴀ ꜰᴀɪʀ ɴᴏᴛᴇ
Adobe's numbers describe the market, not any one shop, and a payment page does not send you traffic by itself. What it does is make sure that when an AI-referred shopper, or one day an agent, is ready to buy, there is nothing in the way.
Why I think that matters: if a growing share of visitors arrives from AI, the stores that are easy to read and easy to pay will benefit first.
sᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs: Adobe, Deloitte, GOAT Flow guide, GOAT newsletter
sᴇᴛ ᴜᴘ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴘᴀɢᴇ: goat.network/flow
🤝 Paid partnership
ᴍᴏsᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴜs sᴄʀᴏʟʟ ᴘᴀsᴛ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴅᴀʏ ᴀɴᴅ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ sᴀʏ ᴀ ᴡᴏʀᴅ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ɪᴛ 👀
@GOATNetwork just turned that habit into a competition, and I think the idea is better than it first sounds.
It is called GOAT on Socials. It runs from November 4th to 18th, and $250 USDT is shared between 10 winners.
Here is what I like about it. GOAT does not only publish on X. Its interviews, product demos, explainers and research articles also go out on LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Medium, covering the bitcoin-secured infrastructure it is building for agentic commerce. The goal of the campaign is to bring that work to a wider audience, and it asks you to be part of that.
The assignment is simple. Pick one post, video or article from any of those channels. Write an original post about it on X: what it covers, what you learned, or why it is worth someone's time. Put the direct link to the original in your post. Then, drop your X post link in the Campaigns Hub on Discord. Before all that, follow GOAT Network on the platforms and engage with what is there, because it is hard to write something real about content you have not actually looked at.
ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴡᴀʀᴅs
Now the money, because people will ask. The $250 USDT splits like this:
▸ $70 for first place
▸ $45 for second
▸ $30 for third
▸ $15 each for seven more winners
Ten people in total share the pool.
Here is where it gets interesting. Submissions are judged on originality, quality, relevance and how well you present the GOAT content you picked. The rules are also clear about what will not count:
▸ Generic reposts
▸ Copied content
▸ Posts that share a link without meaningful commentary
Each X post has to highlight one specific post, video or article, with a direct link to it.
Read that again. A bare link will not win anything. Your voice is the entry. I like that rule. It rewards the people who actually engaged with the content.
ʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ʜᴏᴡ ɪ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴀᴘᴘʀᴏᴀᴄʜ ɪᴛ
First, I would pick the piece I could explain to a friend in two sentences. If I cannot do that, I probably have not understood it well enough to write about it yet.
Second, I would lead with the one idea that stood out, not a summary of everything. Summaries are what generic posts are made of.
Third, I would say who it is for. "Worth your time if you care about how AI agents will pay for things" tells a reader far more than "great content".
Fourth, I would double check the link. A channel's front page is not a specific post. The campaign wants the direct link to the original item.
ɴᴏᴛ sᴜʀᴇ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛᴏ ʟᴏᴏᴋ?
GOAT's recent work has covered AI agent payments with GOAT Flow, the BitVM3 bridge and its bug bounty, the Ziren zkVM and a post-quantum migration plan. See which of those are on the channels below and pick whatever grabs you.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/goatrol…
YouTube: youtube.com/@GOAT_Rollup
TikTok: tiktok.com/@goat_rollup
Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=…
Instagram: instagram.com/goatrollup
Medium: medium.com/@goat_network
The campaign closes on November 18th. Pick one thing, say something real about it and submit it.
Good luck to y'all.
ᴀɪ ɪs ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍɪɴɢ ᴀ ꜰʀᴏɴᴛ ᴅᴏᴏʀ ᴛᴏ ᴏɴʟɪɴᴇ sʜᴏᴘᴘɪɴɢ, ᴀɴᴅ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ꜰʟᴏᴡ ɪs ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ᴇxᴀᴄᴛʟʏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛ 👀
Start with what Adobe's holiday forecast (released September 28) says. In August 2026, AI-referred retail visitors converted at a rate 48% higher than non-AI traffic. And Adobe expects AI traffic to US retail sites to grow 130% year over year this holiday season, from November 1 to December 31.
The honest context: Adobe counts AI traffic as people clicking a link in an AI chat or browser service through to a store, and it calls the channel modest in overall volume. Deloitte's 2026 holiday survey found only 16% of US shoppers would let AI complete a purchase. So today the buyer is mostly still a person. The agent that pays on its own is the next step.
That is why GOAT Flow fits. It is @GOATNetwork checkout for businesses, built for both kinds of AI-driven shopper at once.
ᴡʜʏ ɪᴛ ꜰɪᴛs
▸ One page, two buyers: People pay by card, processed by Stripe, or in USDT or USDC on ten chains. AI agents pay in stablecoins. Every page carries agent.md and manifest.json, which tell an agent what you sell and how to pay you.
▸ No code to start: Payment links, any-amount or fixed-price, and product pages need no code. Developers can add a hosted or custom checkout, or API Payments, which lets agents pay per request.
▸ Your money stays yours: Crypto goes straight to your own wallet and is verified onchain, and GOAT Flow never holds your funds. Card payments are paid out to your own Stripe account.
▸ One place to manage it: The merchant portal shows all orders, reconciliation, refund requests and disputes.
▸ Under it, GOAT Network: Bitcoin-secured infrastructure for agentic commerce.
ɪs ᴀɴʏᴏɴᴇ ᴜsɪɴɢ ɪᴛ?
Two integrations went live in September, according to GOAT's newsletter. StableJack made its 96 market data endpoints payable by AI agents at 0.5 USDC per call. And on KULT's Agent Commerce layer, two AI agents completed a first paid job that was escrowed, independently verified and settled onchain.
At KBW 2026, GOAT's CEO walked through the flow with a client, Bloom Beauty: register, pick crypto or fiat, set a price, get an agent-readable checkout page.
ʜᴏᴡ ᴛᴏ sᴛᴀʀᴛ
1. Apply for a merchant account. Every application is reviewed.
2. Turn on two-factor authentication.
3. Add your business details and choose card, crypto or both.
4. Top up your fee balance. It is prepaid credit kept separate from your sales, and if it runs out, new orders can stop.
5. Create your link and share it.
GOAT says you can start as soon as today. Its guide also suggests running a test purchase on Testnet3 first, and fulfilling an order only once it shows as confirmed.
ᴀ ꜰᴀɪʀ ɴᴏᴛᴇ
Adobe's numbers describe the market, not any one shop, and a payment page does not send you traffic by itself. What it does is make sure that when an AI-referred shopper, or one day an agent, is ready to buy, there is nothing in the way.
Why I think that matters: if a growing share of visitors arrives from AI, the stores that are easy to read and easy to pay will benefit first.
sᴏᴜʀᴄᴇs: Adobe, Deloitte, GOAT Flow guide, GOAT newsletter
sᴇᴛ ᴜᴘ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴘᴀɢᴇ: goat.network/flow
🤝 Paid partnership
ᴍᴏsᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴜs sᴄʀᴏʟʟ ᴘᴀsᴛ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴅᴀʏ ᴀɴᴅ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ sᴀʏ ᴀ ᴡᴏʀᴅ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ɪᴛ 👀
@GOATNetwork just turned that habit into a competition, and I think the idea is better than it first sounds.
It is called GOAT on Socials. It runs from November 4th to 18th, and $250 USDT is shared between 10 winners.
Here is what I like about it. GOAT does not only publish on X. Its interviews, product demos, explainers and research articles also go out on LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Medium, covering the bitcoin-secured infrastructure it is building for agentic commerce. The goal of the campaign is to bring that work to a wider audience, and it asks you to be part of that.
The assignment is simple. Pick one post, video or article from any of those channels. Write an original post about it on X: what it covers, what you learned, or why it is worth someone's time. Put the direct link to the original in your post. Then, drop your X post link in the Campaigns Hub on Discord. Before all that, follow GOAT Network on the platforms and engage with what is there, because it is hard to write something real about content you have not actually looked at.
ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴡᴀʀᴅs
Now the money, because people will ask. The $250 USDT splits like this:
▸ $70 for first place
▸ $45 for second
▸ $30 for third
▸ $15 each for seven more winners
Ten people in total share the pool.
Here is where it gets interesting. Submissions are judged on originality, quality, relevance and how well you present the GOAT content you picked. The rules are also clear about what will not count:
▸ Generic reposts
▸ Copied content
▸ Posts that share a link without meaningful commentary
Each X post has to highlight one specific post, video or article, with a direct link to it.
Read that again. A bare link will not win anything. Your voice is the entry. I like that rule. It rewards the people who actually engaged with the content.
ʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ʜᴏᴡ ɪ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴀᴘᴘʀᴏᴀᴄʜ ɪᴛ
First, I would pick the piece I could explain to a friend in two sentences. If I cannot do that, I probably have not understood it well enough to write about it yet.
Second, I would lead with the one idea that stood out, not a summary of everything. Summaries are what generic posts are made of.
Third, I would say who it is for. "Worth your time if you care about how AI agents will pay for things" tells a reader far more than "great content".
Fourth, I would double check the link. A channel's front page is not a specific post. The campaign wants the direct link to the original item.
ɴᴏᴛ sᴜʀᴇ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛᴏ ʟᴏᴏᴋ?
GOAT's recent work has covered AI agent payments with GOAT Flow, the BitVM3 bridge and its bug bounty, the Ziren zkVM and a post-quantum migration plan. See which of those are on the channels below and pick whatever grabs you.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/goatrol…
YouTube: youtube.com/@GOAT_Rollup
TikTok: tiktok.com/@goat_rollup
Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=…
Instagram: instagram.com/goatrollup
Medium: medium.com/@goat_network
The campaign closes on November 18th. Pick one thing, say something real about it and submit it.
Good luck to y'all.
AABams retweeted
Ziren has one crucial job on GOAT: generate the proofs behind the network’s state, including the ones that will release BTC from the BitVM3 bridge.
Last week Ziren went live with its biggest upgrade to date, with the new core real-time proving Ethereum mainnet.
More on that, plus the rest of the week ⬇
AABams retweeted
🚨 HEGSETH SAID “CHRIST IS KING” AND THE ROOM EXPLODED.
He didn’t blink. He didn’t soften it. He said and he meant it. He’s right. nitter.gq/melgibsonikmb/status/2…
AABams retweeted
ᴍᴏsᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴜs sᴄʀᴏʟʟ ᴘᴀsᴛ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴅᴀʏ ᴀɴᴅ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ sᴀʏ ᴀ ᴡᴏʀᴅ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ɪᴛ 👀
@GOATNetwork just turned that habit into a competition, and I think the idea is better than it first sounds.
It is called GOAT on Socials. It runs from November 4th to 18th, and $250 USDT is shared between 10 winners.
Here is what I like about it. GOAT does not only publish on X. Its interviews, product demos, explainers and research articles also go out on LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Medium, covering the bitcoin-secured infrastructure it is building for agentic commerce. The goal of the campaign is to bring that work to a wider audience, and it asks you to be part of that.
The assignment is simple. Pick one post, video or article from any of those channels. Write an original post about it on X: what it covers, what you learned, or why it is worth someone's time. Put the direct link to the original in your post. Then, drop your X post link in the Campaigns Hub on Discord. Before all that, follow GOAT Network on the platforms and engage with what is there, because it is hard to write something real about content you have not actually looked at.
ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴡᴀʀᴅs
Now the money, because people will ask. The $250 USDT splits like this:
▸ $70 for first place
▸ $45 for second
▸ $30 for third
▸ $15 each for seven more winners
Ten people in total share the pool.
Here is where it gets interesting. Submissions are judged on originality, quality, relevance and how well you present the GOAT content you picked. The rules are also clear about what will not count:
▸ Generic reposts
▸ Copied content
▸ Posts that share a link without meaningful commentary
Each X post has to highlight one specific post, video or article, with a direct link to it.
Read that again. A bare link will not win anything. Your voice is the entry. I like that rule. It rewards the people who actually engaged with the content.
ʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ʜᴏᴡ ɪ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴀᴘᴘʀᴏᴀᴄʜ ɪᴛ
First, I would pick the piece I could explain to a friend in two sentences. If I cannot do that, I probably have not understood it well enough to write about it yet.
Second, I would lead with the one idea that stood out, not a summary of everything. Summaries are what generic posts are made of.
Third, I would say who it is for. "Worth your time if you care about how AI agents will pay for things" tells a reader far more than "great content".
Fourth, I would double check the link. A channel's front page is not a specific post. The campaign wants the direct link to the original item.
ɴᴏᴛ sᴜʀᴇ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛᴏ ʟᴏᴏᴋ?
GOAT's recent work has covered AI agent payments with GOAT Flow, the BitVM3 bridge and its bug bounty, the Ziren zkVM and a post-quantum migration plan. See which of those are on the channels below and pick whatever grabs you.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/goatrol…
YouTube: youtube.com/@GOAT_Rollup
TikTok: tiktok.com/@goat_rollup
Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=…
Instagram: instagram.com/goatrollup
Medium: medium.com/@goat_network
The campaign closes on November 18th. Pick one thing, say something real about it and submit it.
Good luck to y'all.
🤝 Paid partnership
ᴢɪʀᴇɴ 2.0 ɪs ʟɪᴠᴇ, ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴛ sɪᴛs ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴏꜰ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ's sᴛᴀᴄᴋ.
@GOATNetwork says every state transition of its zkEVM is proved by Ziren, and that its BitVM3 bridge is designed to settle on those proofs. So when ZKM, the team behind Ziren, replaces its proving core, it matters to GOAT. Here is what changed in short.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇᴅ
A zkVM runs a program and produces a proof that it ran correctly. Ziren 2.0 swaps the engine that produces those proofs for a new proof system called jagged-over-WHIR, rebuilt across 1,690 commits and documented in a design paper on the IACR ePrint Archive. Instead of one separate check per table, one combined check covers every chip's rules, and the data is stacked at its real size with no padding. Commitments are hash-based throughout. Programs that built for earlier versions build unchanged, in Rust, C and Go.
ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴜᴍʙᴇʀs
- Speed and cost: on Ethproofs, the Ethereum Foundation's open proving dashboard, Ziren proves the average Ethereum mainnet block in 8.6 seconds on a four-GPU cluster, at an average of $0.0061 per proof (as of Nov 3)
- Size: the final proof is about 284 KiB, however long the execution ran
- Checking: native verification takes about 25 milliseconds
- Scaling: a 358-million-cycle block took 51.3 seconds on one GPU and 16.7 on four
- Range: fifteen consecutive mainnet blocks proved end to end with two different execution clients, Reth and Geth
The path so far, per ZKM: production 1.0 in May 2025, an independent evaluation by ProofLab in September 2025, Ziren becoming the first zkVM to prove Geth without modifying the Go compiler in April 2026, the design paper in October 2026, and now 2.0.
ᴛʜᴇ sᴇᴄᴜʀɪᴛʏ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ
Determinism is machine checked in Lean: 57 chips, 104 theorems, all closed. The paper states more than 100 bits of interactive soundness at every proving stage and 93.5 bits of composite security for a whole block, and it lists the open items in one place. Soundness rests on the verifier and what it reads. A bug in the executor or GPU kernels yields a proof that fails to verify, not one that verifies falsely.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪᴛ ᴍᴇᴀɴs ꜰᴏʀ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ
- Cheaper, faster proofs matter to a network that proves every state transition
- A small, fixed-size proof is quick to check, which suits a proof-based bridge
- Security you can inspect: public benchmarks, Lean checks and published accounting
- A route toward Bitcoin: Ziren is developing a hash-based verifier for BitVM-style protocols, where a Boolean circuit checks the proof on Bitcoin only if a dispute arises
- Less friction: existing programs carry over
That hash based route also matters for GOAT's post-quantum plan. The pairing based wrapper is one of the surfaces GOAT's quantum-exposure inventory lists as exposed, and a hash based verifier is the intended replacement.
ʜᴏɴᴇsᴛ ᴄᴀᴠᴇᴀᴛs
These benchmarks are for Ethereum blocks, not GOAT's own workload, so GOATNetwork's numbers will differ. BitVM3 is still in development. And the figures come from ZKM's own paper and documentation, though the Ethproofs listing is public.
A team that has spent years putting security ahead of speed now has public speed numbers too.
Details: docs.zkm.io
ᴍᴏsᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴜs sᴄʀᴏʟʟ ᴘᴀsᴛ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴅᴀʏ ᴀɴᴅ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ sᴀʏ ᴀ ᴡᴏʀᴅ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ɪᴛ 👀
@GOATNetwork just turned that habit into a competition, and I think the idea is better than it first sounds.
It is called GOAT on Socials. It runs from November 4th to 18th, and $250 USDT is shared between 10 winners.
Here is what I like about it. GOAT does not only publish on X. Its interviews, product demos, explainers and research articles also go out on LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Medium, covering the bitcoin-secured infrastructure it is building for agentic commerce. The goal of the campaign is to bring that work to a wider audience, and it asks you to be part of that.
The assignment is simple. Pick one post, video or article from any of those channels. Write an original post about it on X: what it covers, what you learned, or why it is worth someone's time. Put the direct link to the original in your post. Then, drop your X post link in the Campaigns Hub on Discord. Before all that, follow GOAT Network on the platforms and engage with what is there, because it is hard to write something real about content you have not actually looked at.
ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴡᴀʀᴅs
Now the money, because people will ask. The $250 USDT splits like this:
▸ $70 for first place
▸ $45 for second
▸ $30 for third
▸ $15 each for seven more winners
Ten people in total share the pool.
Here is where it gets interesting. Submissions are judged on originality, quality, relevance and how well you present the GOAT content you picked. The rules are also clear about what will not count:
▸ Generic reposts
▸ Copied content
▸ Posts that share a link without meaningful commentary
Each X post has to highlight one specific post, video or article, with a direct link to it.
Read that again. A bare link will not win anything. Your voice is the entry. I like that rule. It rewards the people who actually engaged with the content.
ʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ʜᴏᴡ ɪ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴀᴘᴘʀᴏᴀᴄʜ ɪᴛ
First, I would pick the piece I could explain to a friend in two sentences. If I cannot do that, I probably have not understood it well enough to write about it yet.
Second, I would lead with the one idea that stood out, not a summary of everything. Summaries are what generic posts are made of.
Third, I would say who it is for. "Worth your time if you care about how AI agents will pay for things" tells a reader far more than "great content".
Fourth, I would double check the link. A channel's front page is not a specific post. The campaign wants the direct link to the original item.
ɴᴏᴛ sᴜʀᴇ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛᴏ ʟᴏᴏᴋ?
GOAT's recent work has covered AI agent payments with GOAT Flow, the BitVM3 bridge and its bug bounty, the Ziren zkVM and a post-quantum migration plan. See which of those are on the channels below and pick whatever grabs you.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/goatrol…
YouTube: youtube.com/@GOAT_Rollup
TikTok: tiktok.com/@goat_rollup
Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=…
Instagram: instagram.com/goatrollup
Medium: medium.com/@goat_network
The campaign closes on November 18th. Pick one thing, say something real about it and submit it.
Good luck to y'all.
🤝 Paid partnership
ᴢɪʀᴇɴ 2.0 ɪs ʟɪᴠᴇ, ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴛ sɪᴛs ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴏꜰ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ's sᴛᴀᴄᴋ.
@GOATNetwork says every state transition of its zkEVM is proved by Ziren, and that its BitVM3 bridge is designed to settle on those proofs. So when ZKM, the team behind Ziren, replaces its proving core, it matters to GOAT. Here is what changed in short.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇᴅ
A zkVM runs a program and produces a proof that it ran correctly. Ziren 2.0 swaps the engine that produces those proofs for a new proof system called jagged-over-WHIR, rebuilt across 1,690 commits and documented in a design paper on the IACR ePrint Archive. Instead of one separate check per table, one combined check covers every chip's rules, and the data is stacked at its real size with no padding. Commitments are hash-based throughout. Programs that built for earlier versions build unchanged, in Rust, C and Go.
ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴜᴍʙᴇʀs
- Speed and cost: on Ethproofs, the Ethereum Foundation's open proving dashboard, Ziren proves the average Ethereum mainnet block in 8.6 seconds on a four-GPU cluster, at an average of $0.0061 per proof (as of Nov 3)
- Size: the final proof is about 284 KiB, however long the execution ran
- Checking: native verification takes about 25 milliseconds
- Scaling: a 358-million-cycle block took 51.3 seconds on one GPU and 16.7 on four
- Range: fifteen consecutive mainnet blocks proved end to end with two different execution clients, Reth and Geth
The path so far, per ZKM: production 1.0 in May 2025, an independent evaluation by ProofLab in September 2025, Ziren becoming the first zkVM to prove Geth without modifying the Go compiler in April 2026, the design paper in October 2026, and now 2.0.
ᴛʜᴇ sᴇᴄᴜʀɪᴛʏ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ
Determinism is machine checked in Lean: 57 chips, 104 theorems, all closed. The paper states more than 100 bits of interactive soundness at every proving stage and 93.5 bits of composite security for a whole block, and it lists the open items in one place. Soundness rests on the verifier and what it reads. A bug in the executor or GPU kernels yields a proof that fails to verify, not one that verifies falsely.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪᴛ ᴍᴇᴀɴs ꜰᴏʀ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ
- Cheaper, faster proofs matter to a network that proves every state transition
- A small, fixed-size proof is quick to check, which suits a proof-based bridge
- Security you can inspect: public benchmarks, Lean checks and published accounting
- A route toward Bitcoin: Ziren is developing a hash-based verifier for BitVM-style protocols, where a Boolean circuit checks the proof on Bitcoin only if a dispute arises
- Less friction: existing programs carry over
That hash based route also matters for GOAT's post-quantum plan. The pairing based wrapper is one of the surfaces GOAT's quantum-exposure inventory lists as exposed, and a hash based verifier is the intended replacement.
ʜᴏɴᴇsᴛ ᴄᴀᴠᴇᴀᴛs
These benchmarks are for Ethereum blocks, not GOAT's own workload, so GOATNetwork's numbers will differ. BitVM3 is still in development. And the figures come from ZKM's own paper and documentation, though the Ethproofs listing is public.
A team that has spent years putting security ahead of speed now has public speed numbers too.
Details: docs.zkm.io
AABams retweeted
HABIBI ABDUL! 👊🏽
America belongs to Jesus, not Muhammad!🙏
I want Jesus, not Allah! I want the apostles, not Muhammad. I want the Bible, not the Quran!
Also…. I like my bacon! 🥓
I WANT A COUNTRY WHERE…
- The name of Jesus is praised — not Allah’s
- There is prayer in schools — not prayer mats
- The Bible is taught — not the Quran
- Built on the Ten Commandments — not Sharia law
- There are churches on every street corner — not mosques
- We hear church bells — not the call to prayer
- Christmas is the best season — not Ramadan
- There is peace — not violence and terrorism
- Our children would not have to wake up to prayer calls
- Our children can preach Jesus freely in the public square
- Our children will not be converted to Islam
- Our daughters will not be forced to wear a hijab
- Our children will not be killed and persecuted for their faith
I WANT JESUS, NOT ALLAH! 🙌
AABams retweeted
The GOAT Recap:
Ziren 2.0 is live. The zkVM at the heart of GOAT Network's proving shipped a new core this week - and with it, real-time proving of Ethereum.
Also: GOAT Network content on six more channels, a new community campaign, the October newsletter, and more.
🧵⬇
AABams retweeted
Adobe research shows shoppers sent by AI convert 48% better than other US retail visitors, and AI traffic is set to grow 130% this holiday season.
GOAT Flow makes your products findable and purchasable by AI agents as soon as today - card or crypto.
→ goat.network/flow
AABams retweeted
I really love this two.
So apparently when they got married, the man had no money and they had to live with the wife’s parents.
The wife worked and paid bills yet she never looked at him less or treated him like a nonentity.
In a world where marriage is a purely transactional calculation between men and women these days, this short video is a breath of fresh air
AABams retweeted
ᴢɪʀᴇɴ 2.0 ɪs ʟɪᴠᴇ, ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴛ sɪᴛs ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴏꜰ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ's sᴛᴀᴄᴋ.
@GOATNetwork says every state transition of its zkEVM is proved by Ziren, and that its BitVM3 bridge is designed to settle on those proofs. So when ZKM, the team behind Ziren, replaces its proving core, it matters to GOAT. Here is what changed in short.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇᴅ
A zkVM runs a program and produces a proof that it ran correctly. Ziren 2.0 swaps the engine that produces those proofs for a new proof system called jagged-over-WHIR, rebuilt across 1,690 commits and documented in a design paper on the IACR ePrint Archive. Instead of one separate check per table, one combined check covers every chip's rules, and the data is stacked at its real size with no padding. Commitments are hash-based throughout. Programs that built for earlier versions build unchanged, in Rust, C and Go.
ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴜᴍʙᴇʀs
- Speed and cost: on Ethproofs, the Ethereum Foundation's open proving dashboard, Ziren proves the average Ethereum mainnet block in 8.6 seconds on a four-GPU cluster, at an average of $0.0061 per proof (as of Nov 3)
- Size: the final proof is about 284 KiB, however long the execution ran
- Checking: native verification takes about 25 milliseconds
- Scaling: a 358-million-cycle block took 51.3 seconds on one GPU and 16.7 on four
- Range: fifteen consecutive mainnet blocks proved end to end with two different execution clients, Reth and Geth
The path so far, per ZKM: production 1.0 in May 2025, an independent evaluation by ProofLab in September 2025, Ziren becoming the first zkVM to prove Geth without modifying the Go compiler in April 2026, the design paper in October 2026, and now 2.0.
ᴛʜᴇ sᴇᴄᴜʀɪᴛʏ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ
Determinism is machine checked in Lean: 57 chips, 104 theorems, all closed. The paper states more than 100 bits of interactive soundness at every proving stage and 93.5 bits of composite security for a whole block, and it lists the open items in one place. Soundness rests on the verifier and what it reads. A bug in the executor or GPU kernels yields a proof that fails to verify, not one that verifies falsely.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪᴛ ᴍᴇᴀɴs ꜰᴏʀ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ
- Cheaper, faster proofs matter to a network that proves every state transition
- A small, fixed-size proof is quick to check, which suits a proof-based bridge
- Security you can inspect: public benchmarks, Lean checks and published accounting
- A route toward Bitcoin: Ziren is developing a hash-based verifier for BitVM-style protocols, where a Boolean circuit checks the proof on Bitcoin only if a dispute arises
- Less friction: existing programs carry over
That hash based route also matters for GOAT's post-quantum plan. The pairing based wrapper is one of the surfaces GOAT's quantum-exposure inventory lists as exposed, and a hash based verifier is the intended replacement.
ʜᴏɴᴇsᴛ ᴄᴀᴠᴇᴀᴛs
These benchmarks are for Ethereum blocks, not GOAT's own workload, so GOATNetwork's numbers will differ. BitVM3 is still in development. And the figures come from ZKM's own paper and documentation, though the Ethproofs listing is public.
A team that has spent years putting security ahead of speed now has public speed numbers too.
Details: docs.zkm.io
🤝 Paid partnership
ɴɪsᴛ ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴘᴜᴛ ᴀɴ ᴇɴᴅ ᴅᴀᴛᴇ ᴏɴ ᴇʟʟɪᴘᴛɪᴄ-ᴄᴜʀᴠᴇ sɪɢɴᴀᴛᴜʀᴇs. ʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪᴛ ᴍᴇᴀɴs ꜰᴏʀ ʙɪᴛᴄᴏɪɴ, ɪᴛs ʟᴀʏᴇʀ 2s, ᴀɴᴅ ᴡʜʏ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ ɪs ᴏɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴇᴡ sʜᴏᴡɪɴɢ ɪᴛs ʜᴏᴍᴇᴡᴏʀᴋ.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɴɪsᴛ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ
On October 27, 2026, NIST released the final IR 8547, Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards. Quantum-vulnerable public-key cryptography, including ECDSA and EdDSA, is deprecated after 2030 and disallowed after 2035. "Deprecated" means you can still use it but accept the risk. "Disallowed" means you cannot. NIST also notes that no cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer exists today. The most sensitive U.S. federal systems face earlier deadlines: 2030 for key establishment, 2031 for signatures.
ᴡʜʏ ʙɪᴛᴄᴏɪɴ sʜᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴄᴀʀᴇ
The schedule governs NIST standards and federal systems, not Bitcoin directly. But the math is shared. ECDSA and elliptic-curve schemes fall to Shor's algorithm on a capable enough quantum computer, and Bitcoin signs over secp256k1. Two draft BIPs, BIP-360 and BIP-361, exist, but neither is activated and Bitcoin has not specified a post-quantum scheme.
sᴛᴇᴘ ᴏɴᴇ: ᴀɴ ʜᴏɴᴇsᴛ ɪɴᴠᴇɴᴛᴏʀʏ
NIST tells organizations to start with a cryptographic inventory. An Applied PQC paper uses @GOATNetwork as the worked example for a Bitcoin layer 2 and maps seven surfaces:
1. Settlement outputs (secp256k1/Schnorr): exposed. Only Bitcoin can fix it.
2. Peg-in covenant (MuSig2): exposed. GOAT can only bound the risk within Bitcoin's output types.
3. Bridge proof system (Groth16/BN254 wrap): exposed at the wrap. GOAT and ZKM own it; a replacement has been introduced and measured.
4. Bridge commitments (Winternitz): already post-quantum.
5. Consensus keys (secp256k1): exposed until rotated. GOAT owns it; design published.
6. Execution accounts (ECDSA): exposed. Follows Ethereum.
7. EVM precompiles: pairing and curve precompiles exposed. Inherited from Ethereum; inventory taken.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ sᴛᴀɴᴅs ᴏᴜᴛ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ
- It did the inventory in public and named its exposed surfaces instead of hiding them.
- One surface, the Winternitz bridge commitments, needs no migration at all.
- With ZKM, it has introduced and measured a replacement for the Groth16 wrap.
- Its consensus-key rotation design is published, not just promised.
- It is clear on ownership: Bitcoin owns row one, Ethereum owns the last two, GOAT and ZKM own the bridge proof system and consensus keys.
ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʀᴀᴅᴇ-ᴏꜰꜰs, ɪɴ ɴᴜᴍʙᴇʀs
Per GOAT's design, moving consensus keys to ML-DSA-65 verifies faster (23 µs vs 173 µs) but signs slower (196 µs vs 46 µs) and is much larger: about 66 KB of commit signatures per block at 20 validators, against 1.3 KB. Publishing costs like these is what serious migration planning looks like.
ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴇssᴏɴ ꜰᴏʀ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ
Adding a post-quantum algorithm does not finish a migration until the old path is retired, because an attacker simply uses the old one. Retire the old path, or the upgrade protects nothing.
You can read the full inventory here
appliedpqc.io/blog-bitcoin-l…
ᴢɪʀᴇɴ 2.0 ɪs ʟɪᴠᴇ, ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴛ sɪᴛs ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴏꜰ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ's sᴛᴀᴄᴋ.
@GOATNetwork says every state transition of its zkEVM is proved by Ziren, and that its BitVM3 bridge is designed to settle on those proofs. So when ZKM, the team behind Ziren, replaces its proving core, it matters to GOAT. Here is what changed in short.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇᴅ
A zkVM runs a program and produces a proof that it ran correctly. Ziren 2.0 swaps the engine that produces those proofs for a new proof system called jagged-over-WHIR, rebuilt across 1,690 commits and documented in a design paper on the IACR ePrint Archive. Instead of one separate check per table, one combined check covers every chip's rules, and the data is stacked at its real size with no padding. Commitments are hash-based throughout. Programs that built for earlier versions build unchanged, in Rust, C and Go.
ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴜᴍʙᴇʀs
- Speed and cost: on Ethproofs, the Ethereum Foundation's open proving dashboard, Ziren proves the average Ethereum mainnet block in 8.6 seconds on a four-GPU cluster, at an average of $0.0061 per proof (as of Nov 3)
- Size: the final proof is about 284 KiB, however long the execution ran
- Checking: native verification takes about 25 milliseconds
- Scaling: a 358-million-cycle block took 51.3 seconds on one GPU and 16.7 on four
- Range: fifteen consecutive mainnet blocks proved end to end with two different execution clients, Reth and Geth
The path so far, per ZKM: production 1.0 in May 2025, an independent evaluation by ProofLab in September 2025, Ziren becoming the first zkVM to prove Geth without modifying the Go compiler in April 2026, the design paper in October 2026, and now 2.0.
ᴛʜᴇ sᴇᴄᴜʀɪᴛʏ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ
Determinism is machine checked in Lean: 57 chips, 104 theorems, all closed. The paper states more than 100 bits of interactive soundness at every proving stage and 93.5 bits of composite security for a whole block, and it lists the open items in one place. Soundness rests on the verifier and what it reads. A bug in the executor or GPU kernels yields a proof that fails to verify, not one that verifies falsely.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪᴛ ᴍᴇᴀɴs ꜰᴏʀ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ
- Cheaper, faster proofs matter to a network that proves every state transition
- A small, fixed-size proof is quick to check, which suits a proof-based bridge
- Security you can inspect: public benchmarks, Lean checks and published accounting
- A route toward Bitcoin: Ziren is developing a hash-based verifier for BitVM-style protocols, where a Boolean circuit checks the proof on Bitcoin only if a dispute arises
- Less friction: existing programs carry over
That hash based route also matters for GOAT's post-quantum plan. The pairing based wrapper is one of the surfaces GOAT's quantum-exposure inventory lists as exposed, and a hash based verifier is the intended replacement.
ʜᴏɴᴇsᴛ ᴄᴀᴠᴇᴀᴛs
These benchmarks are for Ethereum blocks, not GOAT's own workload, so GOATNetwork's numbers will differ. BitVM3 is still in development. And the figures come from ZKM's own paper and documentation, though the Ethproofs listing is public.
A team that has spent years putting security ahead of speed now has public speed numbers too.
Details: docs.zkm.io
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ɴɪsᴛ ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴘᴜᴛ ᴀɴ ᴇɴᴅ ᴅᴀᴛᴇ ᴏɴ ᴇʟʟɪᴘᴛɪᴄ-ᴄᴜʀᴠᴇ sɪɢɴᴀᴛᴜʀᴇs. ʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪᴛ ᴍᴇᴀɴs ꜰᴏʀ ʙɪᴛᴄᴏɪɴ, ɪᴛs ʟᴀʏᴇʀ 2s, ᴀɴᴅ ᴡʜʏ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ ɪs ᴏɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴇᴡ sʜᴏᴡɪɴɢ ɪᴛs ʜᴏᴍᴇᴡᴏʀᴋ.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɴɪsᴛ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ
On October 27, 2026, NIST released the final IR 8547, Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards. Quantum-vulnerable public-key cryptography, including ECDSA and EdDSA, is deprecated after 2030 and disallowed after 2035. "Deprecated" means you can still use it but accept the risk. "Disallowed" means you cannot. NIST also notes that no cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer exists today. The most sensitive U.S. federal systems face earlier deadlines: 2030 for key establishment, 2031 for signatures.
ᴡʜʏ ʙɪᴛᴄᴏɪɴ sʜᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴄᴀʀᴇ
The schedule governs NIST standards and federal systems, not Bitcoin directly. But the math is shared. ECDSA and elliptic-curve schemes fall to Shor's algorithm on a capable enough quantum computer, and Bitcoin signs over secp256k1. Two draft BIPs, BIP-360 and BIP-361, exist, but neither is activated and Bitcoin has not specified a post-quantum scheme.
sᴛᴇᴘ ᴏɴᴇ: ᴀɴ ʜᴏɴᴇsᴛ ɪɴᴠᴇɴᴛᴏʀʏ
NIST tells organizations to start with a cryptographic inventory. An Applied PQC paper uses @GOATNetwork as the worked example for a Bitcoin layer 2 and maps seven surfaces:
1. Settlement outputs (secp256k1/Schnorr): exposed. Only Bitcoin can fix it.
2. Peg-in covenant (MuSig2): exposed. GOAT can only bound the risk within Bitcoin's output types.
3. Bridge proof system (Groth16/BN254 wrap): exposed at the wrap. GOAT and ZKM own it; a replacement has been introduced and measured.
4. Bridge commitments (Winternitz): already post-quantum.
5. Consensus keys (secp256k1): exposed until rotated. GOAT owns it; design published.
6. Execution accounts (ECDSA): exposed. Follows Ethereum.
7. EVM precompiles: pairing and curve precompiles exposed. Inherited from Ethereum; inventory taken.
ᴡʜᴀᴛ sᴛᴀɴᴅs ᴏᴜᴛ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ɢᴏᴀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ
- It did the inventory in public and named its exposed surfaces instead of hiding them.
- One surface, the Winternitz bridge commitments, needs no migration at all.
- With ZKM, it has introduced and measured a replacement for the Groth16 wrap.
- Its consensus-key rotation design is published, not just promised.
- It is clear on ownership: Bitcoin owns row one, Ethereum owns the last two, GOAT and ZKM own the bridge proof system and consensus keys.
ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʀᴀᴅᴇ-ᴏꜰꜰs, ɪɴ ɴᴜᴍʙᴇʀs
Per GOAT's design, moving consensus keys to ML-DSA-65 verifies faster (23 µs vs 173 µs) but signs slower (196 µs vs 46 µs) and is much larger: about 66 KB of commit signatures per block at 20 validators, against 1.3 KB. Publishing costs like these is what serious migration planning looks like.
ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴇssᴏɴ ꜰᴏʀ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ
Adding a post-quantum algorithm does not finish a migration until the old path is retired, because an attacker simply uses the old one. Retire the old path, or the upgrade protects nothing.
You can read the full inventory here
appliedpqc.io/blog-bitcoin-l…
