What is BATHRON?

BATHRON is a settlement kernel for Bitcoin.

It provides a shared settlement state anchored to Bitcoin.

• Bitcoin remains the source of truth. The chain reads Bitcoin — headers, payments, difficulty — inside consensus, with no oracle and no federation.
• Consensus maintains the settlement state. Deterministic block production, BFT finality in about a minute, private transfers.
• An open market provides native BTC liquidity. Settlement Providers compete on fees. The protocol never sells anything.

BATHRON is infrastructure. Applications are built on top of it.

Where to go next

• Getting Started — run a node, run a wallet, build on the chain.
• Learn — how the pieces fit together, starting with the architecture. No code.
• Build — the SDK and RPC API for developers.
• Reference — the details: transaction types, opcodes, invariants.

Status: experimental. A private testnet is running; a public testnet is next. Consensus additions are frozen before any mainnet.