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We describe progress toward the superconformal bootstrap of the 6d (2,0) SCFTs. The first step was achieved in [2506.08094], where we used the twist of 6d (2,0) SCFTs to W-algebras to extract an infinite set of protected CFT data. As an application, we demonstrated the consistency of this information with protected higher derivative corrections in the holographic dual on AdS_7 x S^4/Z_o. A second advance was made in [2601.15407], where we derived a reduced superblock formalism to more efficiently constrain unprotected CFT data in the analytic and/or numerical bootstrap. We outline an application of these tools to the analysis of composite 1/2-BPS operators, which are naturally defined in the W-algebra and are dual to bound states in M-theory.