Bitlayer is a Bitcoin-native Layer-2 platform built using the BitVM paradigm, offering fast, Ethereum-compatible smart contract functionality while anchoring its security directly to Bitcoin. It combines a PoS-based execution layer with rolling settlement to Bitcoin, delivering sub-second “soft” finality and Bitcoin-level “hard” finality via a challenge-based rollup settlement process . Bitlayer empowers scalable DeFi and DApp development on Bitcoin, enabling trust-minimized bridging, smart contracts, and high throughput without sacrificing decentralization or security .
