[StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson: Open source prover Stwo is expected to launch the mainnet in Q1 next year] On November 13, the Bitcoin Next Summit hosted by Bitlayer officially opened in Bangkok. The core topics of this summit are the next upgrade of Bitcoin and BTCFi. Among them, StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson said at the summit that StarkWare is in a leading position in many fields including Cairo, Stwo (STARK Two) and Bitcoin research. At present, StarkWare's open source prover Stwo (supporting OP_CAT) validator has been launched on the Bitcoin testnet, and the team has set up a $1 million fund for OP_CAT research. In addition, Eli Ben-Sasson also revealed that the Stwo mainnet is expected to be launched in Q1 2025. At today's Bitcoin Next Summit, many first-line Bitcoin ecosystem builders and industry leaders will share their deep insights on the forefront of Bitcoin technology and the next upgrade, and jointly discuss the current BTCFi pattern and trends.