Despite unlocking Ordinals and BRC20, the real pathway to Bitcoin DeFi remains a mystery.
Chad Masterson – co-founder of OP_NET – believes an all-new Bitcoin L1 metaprotocol is needed for the job, which he says will “change Bitcoin without changing Bitcoin’s code.”
Today, we covered:
- Chad’s bitcoin price target this cycle
- Why Chad isn’t bullish on Bitcoin L2s yet
- How OP_NET improves on Ordinals as a metaprotocol
- Deploying smart contracts into Bitcoin L1 transactions
- Why devs are foolish to keep building with Casey Rordarmor’s framework
- https://x.com/chadmasterxbt
- https://x.com/opnetbtc
TIMESTAMPS:
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0:00 Trump: The Crypto President
2:05 Bitcoin will win “the most”
3:57 Bitcoin to $250k, Solana to $1000
5:08 Institutions and nation-states now run the market
7:58 Are Bitcoin native assets going to boom?
10:10 Bitcoin maxis will never adopt Ordinals
11:30 Why Chad isn’t bullish on Bitcoin L2s
13:40 Bitcoin L2 landscape is oversaturated
16:00 What is OPNET? A metaprotocol for Bitcoin programmability
18:10 “DeFi on Bitcoin is a generational trade”
21:51 Building on Ordinals wasn’t working
27:00 OPNET can do a lot more than Ordinals
28:55 Deploying smart contracts directly into Bitcoin L1 transactions
30:50 Any developer can build with OPNET
32:35 Prioritizing functionality over interoperability
36:40 The strongest principle of Ordinals adoption
38:00 The OP20 Standard: a smart contract and account-based standard
43:00 BRC20 is a “meta-meta protocol”
45:30 OPNET lets you do everything on Ethereum, on Bitcoin
47:05 Stop building within Casey’s framework!
50:00 No financial benefit for Bitcoin L1 builders
53:40 How will OPNET achieve integrations and adoptions?
55:15 OPNET infrastructure is built out
57:45 Abu Dhabi Blockchain Center supports OPNET!
1:00:50 “We’re trying to change Bitcoin without changing Bitcoin’s code”
1:03:25 3 basic options to scale Bitcoin
1:06:10 RWAs should live on Bitcoin
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