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Today we release BABE, a new Groth16 proof verification protocol for Bitcoin. It improves the state-of-the-art by three orders of magnitude in setup and storage costs.
eprint.iacr.org/2026/065.pdf
BABE (BAbylon-BErkeley) is a synthesis of two key ideas:
Witness encryption on
BitVM2 suffers from a huge on-chain fee of > $15,000. BitVM3 dramatically reduces this to be less than $100, but the off-chain costs are very significant: terabytes to store the garbled circuits and hours of compute and communication to set things up. Bulky.
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