BITCOIN SEASON 2: Solving the Bitcoin Builder’s Dilemma with Arch Network

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Matt and Amine, co-founders of Arch Network, discuss their recent $13M Series A led by Pantera Capital, how their technology enhances Bitcoin programmability, and their unique approaches to virtual machine architecture and validator consensus. You're listening to Bitcoin Season 2. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 7,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Matt and Amine, co-founders of Arch Network, join us to talk about their recent $13M Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital. They explain how Arch differentiates itself from other Bitcoin L2s by enabling programmability on Bitcoin with their custom VM and FROST/ROAST threshold signature schemes. The founders discuss their approach to solving Bitcoin's programming limitations, creating a dynamic validator system that can scale over time, and building applications like DEXs and prediction markets directly on Bitcoin. They also share insights from their testnet phase and outline their roadmap toward mainnet launch. Follow our guests: @0xfinetuned @proofofmud # Notes: - Arch raised $13 million led by Pantera Capital - Uses FROST/ROAST for dynamic validator sets - Custom VM inspired by Solana's architecture - Aims for instant finality vs Bitcoin's 10 minutes - Uses transaction dependency graph for rollbacks - Mainnet launch expected around June/July 2025 Timestamps: 00:00 Start 00:35 Pantera Capital raise 01:57 Building Arch last 2 yrs 04:04 VC finally funding BTC dev 07:37 Arch ecosystem 09:07 Arch dev verticals 13:25 Distributed validator set 15:04 Arch ad read 15:36 Arch Virtual Machine 17:33 Developer adoption new VM 20:19 Builder reception 21:50 Testnet learnings 24:26 Under the hood of Arch 25:51 Bitcoin MEV 29:05 Apps for Arch 31:14 Migrating L1 assets to Arch 33:27 Wen Arch token 35:09 The future - 👉 Brought to you by Arch Network! Arch brings the speed of Solana & the best of crypto UX to Bitcoin. Tap into the rich app ecosystem on Arch & try out the testnet while you’re still early! Visit arch.network to learn more. - 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is produced Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:49.6	Welcome back to Bitcoin Season 2. Today I've got the two co-founders of Arch Network on the show.
0:56.7	Yes, also the sponsor of Bitcoin Season 2.
1:00.0	I'm really excited to talk to Matt and Amin about Arch.
1:03.3	They made a big announcement yesterday morning, raised $13 million from Pantera Capital.
1:08.6	Let's kick it off.
1:15.8	Okay. 13 million from Pantera Capital. Let's kick off. Okay, Matt, I mean, welcome to Bitcoin Season 2.
1:19.1	This time as both sponsor and guest.
1:22.9	Welcome, guys.
1:23.9	Thanks for having us.
1:25.2	It's been quite a whirlwind 24 hours, I imagine. You guys announced
1:29.7	a $13 million raise series A led by Pantera. How do you guys feel right now? We've been
1:38.8	preparing for this for about a month. So it's good that it's here. It's finally out of the way so we can get back to
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