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Vanadium will make programming apps to run on hardware signing devices almost as easy as programming on your desktop. Here are the slides for my talk at @BTC Prague /dev/hack/day: It's a change of paradigm: you will no longer need to wait for the vendor to implement a missing feature before it's possible to use it with your hardware signer. You can build it yourself!
The Script Army Knife OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY OP_CAT OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK OP_AMOUNT OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY image This is a minimal set of opcodes that can implement virtually any of the interesting constructions that I've seen discussed and researched in the last few years. In fact, I'd challenge anyone to find a compelling construction that cannot be implemented with these opcodes. The exception is of course some extremely complex operation that cannot fit in a block (or is impractically large) without a custom opcode. Examples are Snark verifiers, BLS signatures, quantum-resistant signatures, other advanced crypto, etc.). However, for those advanced use cases, MATT fraud proofs (enabled by CCV+CAT) might be a viable substitute for many applications, allowing to get the benefits of those constructions on layer 2 without exposing layer 1 to cryptography that is considered too novel. Each of these opcodes is simple, has at least a draft implementation, and they are all very composable with each other, and with any possible future Script updates.
What happens in Vegas, hopefully doesn't stay in Vegas. See you on Thursday! image
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My talk at @The Bitcoin Conference is Thursday 29th May 1:30pm in the Developer Zone. Let's chat about useful opcodes. image