EOS founder BM (Daniel Larimer) said that with the help of the latest Mandel roadmap and Contract Pays hard fork. EOS should be able to mirror the Bitcoin RPC API and transaction structure, thereby opening the world of BTC infrastructure and Lightning Network to EOS. RPC compatibility similar to ETH is also under development.
Earlier news, EOSIO will carry out the Mandel hard fork: new configurable WASM restrictions, contract payments, configurable blockchain parameters and other functions.