According to Foresight News, StarkWare has announced its plans to support Bitcoin scalability. The company's Starknet will subsequently support both Bitcoin and Ethereum scalability. To facilitate this, StarkWare is launching a $1 million application fund, open to those contributing to this research.
The company has stated that Bitcoin scalability has been a long-discussed topic within StarkWare. The Bitcoin community's OP_CAT technical proposal is sufficient to support STARK scalability. StarkWare publicly supports OP_CAT, and its funding will be used to promote research into OP_CAT, its benefits, and safe adoption methods. StarkWare will publicly release a repository demonstrating several primitives based on OP_CAT, indicating its support for the OP_CAT proposal.