We’re at a turning point in Bitcoin’s history. The first phase was invention: decentralized money. The second was recognition: Bitcoin as digital gold. Now comes the third — Bitcoin as a programmable, DeFi-ready financial platform.
With the first BitVM, the trust-minimized bridge, YBTC, and Bitcoin rollups, @BitlayerLabs is giving Bitcoin all the tools it needs to compete with — and perhaps surpass — other DeFi ecosystems.
This is not about replacing Ethereum or Solana. It’s about Bitcoin finally playing to its strengths in security and decentralization, while removing its limitations in scalability and composability.
In a few years, we may look back at Bitlayer’s launch as the moment Bitcoin stopped being just a passive store of value and became the backbone of a new, global financial system.
