Three months ago, while organizing my cryptocurrency wallet, I found myself pondering over the Bitcoin that had been lying dormant for three years—it felt like a silent piece of digital gold, seemingly unable to generate more value apart from passively waiting for market fluctuations. Until a friend sent me a screenshot of an interaction on the Bitlayer testnet: he deployed a simple NFT contract with a small amount of Bitcoin and surprisingly made back five times the transaction fee through cross-chain trading within three days. This detail was like a pebble thrown into still water, making me realize for the first time that the value of Bitcoin might be released in ways beyond mere 'holding.'

With a mindset of trying it out, I began to study this Layer 2 project based on BitVM. What initially attracted me was that it solved a contradiction that had troubled me for a long time: wanting to stay within the secure base of Bitcoin while also craving the flexibility to operate like on other public chains. The cleverness of Bitlayer lies in its approach of not touching the underlying Bitcoin code but instead building a 'parallel computing layer' using zero-knowledge proofs—much like installing an external graphics card on an old computer, preserving the stability of the host while enhancing graphics processing capabilities. I tried to transfer some Bitcoin through its cross-chain bridge and found that not only were the transaction fees only 1/20 of the native chain, but I could also directly invoke familiar Solidity contracts. This 'low-threshold migration' experience encouraged someone like me, who is not technically inclined, to dare to try DeFi mining. @BitlayerLabs

Now, when I open the Bitlayer ecological panel and see over 300 active projects and an average of 150,000 transactions per day, I suddenly understand why it was able to lock in $550 million in assets within six months. This is not just simple hype, but a leap from 'read-only' to 'interactive,' much like the early days of the internet—when Bitcoin is no longer just a cold asset symbol but can carry creators' NFTs, traders' contracts, and developers' innovations, its value boundaries are being redefined. And Bitlayer is precisely one of the key drivers pushing open this door. #Bitlayer