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OP_CAT: The Missing Piece for BTC L2s?

Category: Bitcoin Ecosystem -> Other

Type: article

https://www.bankless.com/what-is-op_cat-toward-bitcoin-l2s-with-covenants

OP_CAT, or "Operation Concatenate," is an opcode in Bitcoin's scripting language that allows to build new Bitcoin related solutions, like L2 networks, but it has to be reactivated in the protocol first - consensus is needed. "StarkWare has plans to leverage OP_CAT for bringing zero-knowledge (ZK) scaling to Bitcoin to enable advanced financial instruments and apps on the network. "