Building Services Beyond the Lightning Network — Inside Arkade's Programmable Bitcoin Layer

About this episode

Andrew "Kukks" Camilleri discusses Arkade's general-purpose off-chain environment for Bitcoin scaling.

Most Bitcoin scaling projects pick a lane. Arkade refuses to. In this conversation, Ark Labs' Andrew "Kukks" Camilleri explains why Arkade is a general-purpose off-chain environment where you can express your own unlocking scripts — multisig, hash-lock contracts, and more — without opinionated rails like built-in Lightning. He and Shinobi unpack the cosigner trust model, trusted execution environments, and how users can self-deploy signers to remove the possibility of incorrect execution. Grab your copy THE 2036 ISSUE👇 https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/pages/the-2036-issue 🔶 Shinobi — Bitcoin Magazine 🔶 Andrew "Kukks" Camilleri — Ark Labs Chapters: 01:01 — What Is Ark? Single Output, Multiple Owners 01:50 — Batch Creation, Intents & VTXOs 02:46 — Forfeit Transactions and Connector Outputs 03:35 — The Virtual Mempool and Off-Chain Transfers 04:43 — Arkade vs Second: A Different Direction 05:35 — A General-Purpose Off-Chain Environment 06:32 — Extending Beyond Bitcoin's Base Layer 07:36 — The Cosigner Trust Model and Enclaves 09:11 — Self-Deployable Signers, Marketplaces & Lightning Swaps 11:38 — Enforcement, Fallbacks & What Ships Next #Bitcoin…

People in this episode

Host: Shinobi

Guest: Andrew "Kukks" Camilleri

Topics covered

• Bitcoin scaling
• off-chain environment
• cosigner trust model
• self-deployable signers
• programmable Bitcoin

Keywords

• Arkade
• Lightning Network
• multisig
• hash-lock contracts
• trusted execution environments

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ark Labs, Bitcoin Magazine

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