Bitlayer’s blockchain storage and state management provide a robust foundation for scaling Bitcoin smart contracts with efficiency and decentralization. Bitlayer implements a layered state management system that supports pruning for light nodes and full archival storage for nodes aiming to maintain complete transaction history. Pruning involves removing historical state data that no longer impacts ongoing contract computations, drastically reducing storage burdens for operational nodes while keeping validation secure through fraud proofs. Archival nodes maintain full on-chain and off-chain data for auditing, analytics, and historical access, essential for enterprise and developer use cases. The protocol’s storage engines optimize state storage by utilizing Merkle trees and succinct proofs, permitting efficient validation of contract states without downloading full data sets. This duality allows ecosystem participants to choose trade-offs between storage capacity and network security assurance. The native $BTR token finances ecosystem participants maintaining these critical infrastructure roles, such as archival node operators and storage providers. This approach enables Bitlayer to support a growing suite of decentralized applications without compromising Bitcoin’s security and decentralization tenets. Engage with @BitlayerLabs to delve deeper into how #Bitlayer innovates storage with $BTR driving its resource economics and sustainability.