At three in the morning, I stared at the nearly flat curve on the exchange's candlestick chart, my fingertip hovering over the 'Sell' button for half a minute. This is the third month I've held Bitlayer, during which I've experienced two sharp declines, and the community has gradually gone from initial enthusiasm to silence, with some starting to shout, 'This is just a worthless token.'

In fact, my initial investment was purely accidental. Last year, at a blockchain salon, I ran into a tech guy with a backpack, his laptop screen displaying a dense array of code, labeled in the corner 'Layer2 Expansion Test Version 47.' 'Current public chains are either as slow as a snail or ridiculously expensive,' he adjusted his glasses, 'but what Bitlayer is doing with sharding and parallel processing can speed up transaction confirmations while keeping gas fees down to a few cents.'

At that time, I thought it was just a tech geek's self-indulgence, until earlier this year when I stumbled during a cross-border transfer — transferring a small amount of dollars using a certain public chain not only took two hours for confirmation but also consumed 15% in fees. That night, I pulled out the white paper that tech guy had given me and suddenly understood the significance of 'dynamic sharding' and 'cross-chain interoperability' in Bitlayer's mainnet: it’s not just a concept; it is genuinely addressing the most painful user issues of 'speed' and 'cost.' #Bitlayer

I didn't sell. Instead, I added to my position during the pullback.

Last month, Bitlayer completed cross-chain testing with mainstream public chains, achieving a stable transfer speed of 1.2 seconds and transaction fees that are less than a tenth of traditional Layer2. Even more surprisingly, its number of decentralized nodes has tripled in six months, which means the network's security is genuinely improving. Community members have started sharing screenshots of using it for small high-frequency trades, and discussions have emerged about the possibility of building decentralized applications on it.

Now looking at that candlestick chart again, although it hasn’t skyrocketed like some coins, behind that curve is an increasing number of developers deploying contracts and more ordinary users starting to use it for transfers and payments. Perhaps the value of blockchain has never been in short-term fluctuations, but in the technological breakthroughs that can truly be implemented — just like what Bitlayer is doing, turning the slogan 'blockchain is user-friendly' into everyday reality. @BitlayerLabs