Other team will use CTV if its available although prefer TXHASH which is explained as the next step by OP.
There are lot of things that are discussed privately and other team is also willing to issue a grant for a proof of concept on signet that uses CTV for Ark.
This is misleading. Atomic Finance and Lava use discreet log contracts. Failure of one project does not show anything about demand for discreet log contracts and improvements with covenants.
Yes multiple projects are based on BitVM.
Its not misleading. Vaults can even be built using pre-signed transactions.
The demo uses a simple CTV vault with single hop. There are several ways to setup a vault with CTV.
It wasn’t light in 2022 when you were interested to activate APO and built a vault demo using it. Co-author of APO supports CTV+CSFS as a soft fork.