{"id":55596,"date":"2022-01-10T12:04:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T10:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55596"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:20:50","slug":"developers-of-the-internet-computer-complete-the-first-phase-of-integration-with-the-bitcoin-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/developers-of-the-internet-computer-complete-the-first-phase-of-integration-with-the-bitcoin-blockchain\/","title":{"rendered":"Developers of the Internet Computer complete the first phase of integration with the Bitcoin blockchain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nonprofit DFINITY Foundation, which is advancing the Internet Computer ecosystem, announced the completion of the first phase of deploying ICP smart contracts on the Bitcoin network.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-lang=\\\"en\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">1\/ <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#BTC<\/a> \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ICP?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#ICP<\/a> direct integration (\ud83d\udeab\ud83c\udf09)<a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dfinity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@dfinity<\/a> cryptographers &#038; engineers hackin&#8217; over holidays and weekends\u2026 phase 1 \u2705 to unlock smart contracts on BTC <\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Phase 1: Threshold ECDSA signatures (see demo)<br \/>\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f Phase 2: BTC<>ICP testnet<br \/>\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f Phase 3: BTC<>ICP full integration <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/KEfJpx0c8q\\\">pic.twitter.com\/KEfJpx0c8q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DFINITY Foundation (@dfinity) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dfinity\/status\/1480259013455400961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">January 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In the first of three stages, the developers enabled generation of threshold signatures <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-ecdsa-in-bitcoin\">ECDSA<\/a>, used for Bitcoin transactions.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The next steps involve creating a testnet and the full integration of the Internet Computer network with the first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The team <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/developers-to-integrate-the-internet-computer-ecosystem-with-the-bitcoin-blockchain\">began<\/a> work on the &#8216;direct integration of the Internet Computer with the Bitcoin blockchain&#8217; in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>DFINITY noted <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/vitalik-buterin-says-cross-chain-bridges-are-vulnerable-to-51-attacks\">Vitalik Buterin&#8217;s opinion<\/a>, who supported the concept of a multichain ecosystem but pessimistically assessed the prospects of cross-chain bridges due to security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the developers, their solution fully aligns with the views of the co-founder of the second-largest cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In December, the Psychedelic Studio <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/developers-of-the-internet-computer-to-launch-cross-chain-bridge-with-ethereum\">announced the launch of the inter-network protocol<\/a> to enable interaction between the Internet Computer network and the Ethereum blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nonprofit DFINITY Foundation, behind the development of the Internet Computer ecosystem, announced the completion of the first phase of deploying ICP smart contracts on the Bitcoin network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[847],"class_list":["post-55596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-dfinity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55598,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55596\/revisions\/55598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}