BATHRON: programmable settlement anchored in Bitcoin

Programmable settlement
anchored in Bitcoin.

Build contracts, instruments, markets and applications around facts every BATHRON node can verify.

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Facts, not opinions

Bitcoin already proves things. Now a contract can use them.

Bitcoin records facts that contracts can verify. BATHRON carries the relevant Bitcoin headers in consensus, so every node evaluates the same evidence.

Mining difficulty

The mining difficulty recorded at a given Bitcoin height.

Block height

How far the chain has advanced.

Median time

Bitcoin's own clock, resistant to a single miner's timestamp.

Confirmed payments

A payment to a given script, included and buried in Bitcoin’s chain.

How Bitcoin facts are verified →

Programmable settlement

Write the conditions. The network enforces them.

Settlement on BATHRON is described in script and carried out by consensus. The same primitives compose, so a single agreement can depend on a Bitcoin fact, a secret and a deadline at once.

Covenants

Constrain what a spend is allowed to become.

Hashlocks

Release value against the reveal of a secret.

Timelocks

Make an outcome depend on time, absolute or relative.

Signatures and attestations

Verify a signature over any message, including one from an outside source.

Confidential transfers

Move value without publishing the amount.

Covenants, attestations and confidentiality →

One protocol, many applications

What becomes possible.

Mining difficulty instruments

Agreements that settle on Bitcoin's own difficulty, with no outside reporter involved.

Payment-driven escrows

Value that releases when a Bitcoin payment is confirmed and settled deeply enough.

Programmable financial agreements

Terms, deadlines and outcomes written once and enforced by the network.

Open markets and cross-chain flows

Pairs quoted by whoever holds inventory, settled against linked conditions.

The full application map →

A network of distinct roles

Three roles, kept apart on purpose.

Consensus Operators

Secure the network, order transactions and finalize them. One operator, one vote.

Settlement Providers

Create the services and settlement flows that people actually use. They compete, and they come and go.

Builders

Compose applications and instruments on top, choosing their own interfaces and their own terms.

No consensus operator chooses which application may be built.

Bitcoin remains the anchor

The anchor is Bitcoin, and it stays where it is.

M0 originates from Bitcoin destruction verified by consensus. Protocol conversion moves value from M0 into M1, the unit used for settlement.

Bitcoin remains the monetary anchor. BATHRON verifies its history directly and provides the programmable settlement layer built around it.

Why Bitcoin is the final asset →

Markets, as one application

A pair exists because someone quotes it.

A provider with inventory can publish offers for a pair. Other providers can quote the same pair independently. Markets emerge from available inventory and executable settlement conditions, not from a listing decision.

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