2 posts tagged with "vtxo"

One of the most promising opportunities introduced by Ark is the ability to lift Bitcoin-native contracts onto off-chain trees. Payment channels are an ideal candidate to showcase this potential.

Building on insights from Brandon Black, we present a generalized method for Ark clients to collaborate with Ark Servers to release liquidity ahead of the expiration of the shared output that commits to a Virtual Tree of Bitcoin transactions kept off the chain, also known as VTXOs (Virtual Transaction Outputs) tree.