21+ Partners Integrate with Alpen Labs on Testnet III

Alpen Labs has made significant progress in its mission to build Bitcoin-native DeFi infrastructure. The company announced that more than 21 partners have begun integrating on Testnet III, its latest testing environment built on Bitcoin Signet.

The goal is to stress-test the Strata bridge, Alpen's core infrastructure piece that uses a 1-of-N trust model for Bitcoin transactions. This means only one operator in the entire set needs to be honest for the bridge to remain secure, a lower trust assumption than most bridges in crypto.

Testnet III features a garbled circuit-based Bitcoin verifier, a cryptographic technique that allows computation to be verified without revealing underlying data. This could enable stronger privacy and security guarantees than traditional approaches.