On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 01:20:03PM -0700, Olaoluwa Osuntokun via bitcoin-dev wrote: > A technical specification for the Universe/Multiverse protocol can be found > here in the BIP: > https://github.com/Roasbeef/bips/blob/bip-tap-pr/bip-tap-universe.mediawiki. > > At a high level, a Universe server is used by clients to verify new asset > issuance, archive off-chain transaction data, and transmit proof information > for transfers. A Universe data structure is an authenticated merkle-sum > sparse merkle tree that maps an `(outpoint, scriptKey)` tuple to proof data. > A `scriptKey` is the protocol's version of the pkScript/scriptPubkey we all > know and love today. Looks like you're missing a citation to my scalable asset transfer work from 2017: https://petertodd.org/2017/scalable-single-use-seal-asset-transfer The key concepts in universes is very similar. -- https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org