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BATTLE for Bitcoin: Capital-Efficient Optimistic Bridges with Large Committees
Sergio Demian Lerner, Ariel Futoransky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06468 https://

BATTLE for Bitcoin: Capital-Efficient Optimistic Bridges with Large Committees
We present BATTLE for Bitcoin, a DoS-resilient dispute layer that secures optimistic bridges between Bitcoin and rollups or sidechains. Our design adapts the BATTLE tournament protocol to Bitcoin's UTXO model using BitVM-style FLEX components and garbled circuits with on-demand L1 security bonds. Disputes are resolved in logarithmic rounds while recycling rewards, keeping the honest asserter's minimum initial capital constant even under many permissionless challengers. The construction is fully…