Bitcoin has made a lot of progress in the last couple of years, with the emergence of Layer-2 projects such as Stacks, Rootstock and Merlin Network enhancing its capabilities to support basic smart contract functionality. Those projects are striving to create a new generation of Bitcoin-native DeFi applications, play-to-earn games and NFTs, but they face a number of challenges in pursuing this dream. Many of these new Bitcoin L2s are unable to interoperate with each other, leading to problems around ecosystem fragmentation. It’s with these challenges in mind that a new project, which leverages the unique capabilities of the EOS
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