While everyone is simplifying Bitlayer as 'Bitcoin's DeFi infrastructure', the real truth is:
🔥 Bitlayer is transforming BTC into a dual-engine driven super architecture with BitVM cross-chain bridge, YBTC, and Bitcoin aggregation—where the underlying settlement resembles the dollar settlement system and Layer 2 execution operates like the Visa high-speed payment network!
If traditional narratives only see 'BTC can participate in DeFi', then you completely underestimate Bitlayer's grand ambition: it aims to make Bitcoin the underlying settlement currency of global finance while achieving internet-level throughput speed.
1. Why does Bitcoin need a 'dual engine'?
Layer 1 Bitcoin is too secure but too slow, only suitable for ultimate settlement;
Global payments, transactions, and composite finance require high throughput and low latency;
The core innovation of Bitlayer is: satisfying both of these needs simultaneously with aggregation and cross-chain mechanisms.
2. BitVM Cross-Chain Bridge: A trust-minimized 'settlement gateway'
Common cross-chain bridges can easily become targets for hackers;
Bitlayer's BitVM mechanism essentially allows cross-chain proofs to be executed directly under Bitcoin's native security architecture;
It is a blockchain version of the dollar settlement system, ensuring the cross-chain flow of BTC is secure and worry-free.
3. High Throughput Bitcoin Aggregation: Reconstructing the payment network
Aggregation allows Bitcoin to no longer be limited to 7 TPS performance;
Bitlayer enables DEX, lending, NFT, and AI computation to run at high TPS through a composable Layer 2 architecture;
This is Bitcoin's Visa network moment.
4. YBTC: From asset to 'payment fuel'
Ordinary people think YBTC is just 'yield-bearing asset';
In a true sense, it transforms BTC into reusable payment fuel;
Once BTC becomes yield-bearing on Layer 2, both fund retention rates and liquidity will increase significantly.
Conclusion
The value of Bitlayer is not 'creating DeFi for BTC', but transforming Bitcoin into a super currency system with a dual-engine settlement layer + payment layer through cross-chain + aggregation + yield-bearing assets.
Do not underestimate Bitlayer any longer; it is not repairing Bitcoin but upgrading BTC to become the digital central bank currency of the world.