What Is Bitlayer (Coin: BTR)?
Bitlayer (BTR) is a Bitcoin-native Layer 2 platform designed to bring smart contract functionality and high scalability to the Bitcoin ecosystem—without compromising on security.
Key Highlights:
Security + Programmability
Bitlayer is built on BitVM, providing Bitcoin-equivalent security while enabling Turing-complete smart contracts. It supports multiple virtual machines (EVM, SolVM, Cairo VM, MoveVM), making it versatile and developer-friendly.
Bridging BTC to DeFi
Through its BitVM Bridge, Bitcoin (BTC) can be locked and represented as Peg-BTC (e.g., YBTC). This token can then be used across DeFi platforms like Sui, Arbitrum, Base, and others—enabling yield, lending, and more.
Major Ecosystem Partnerships
Bitlayer has aligned with huge Bitcoin mining pools—Antpool, F2Pool, and SpiderPool—to support the non-standard transactions (NSTs) critical for BitVM’s operations.
It's also integrated with several major networks like Sui, Base, Arbitrum, Starknet, Sonic, and Plume.
