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Bitlayer Presents with BitVM Bridge Mainnet: Transform Bitcoin into Secure and Affordable DeFi
Jakarta, August 2025 — Bitlayer, a revolutionary Layer-2 platform based on BitVM, officially launches BitVM Bridge Mainnet. This bridge offers a trust-minimized solution to bridge Bitcoin liquidity into the DeFi ecosystem, allowing users to lock BTC in BitVM smart contracts and receive YBTC, a token pegged 1:1 with BTC—broadening access to DeFi without the risks of centralized custodianship.
Key Advantages of BitVM Bridge:
Securing BTC through smart contracts with mechanisms to ensure honest participants can detect fraudulent attempts.
YBTC expands DeFi opportunities such as staking, lending, trading, and liquidity provision, similar to wrapped BTC—but without reliance on centralized entities.
Roadmap and Architecture: From V1 to the Future
Bitlayer has implemented a three-phase roadmap:
1. Phase 1 (PoS) — launched in April 2024.
2. Phase 2 (BitVM-based Rollup) — debut in 2025, facilitating full EVM smart contracts.
3. Phase 3 (High Scalability Ambitions) — targeting 20,000 TPS with confirmations in 3 seconds by the end of 2025.
Its architecture combines Proof-of-Stake consensus for speed and rollups that anchor security to the Bitcoin network—offering soft finality on L2 in seconds, as well as hard finality on L1 in days.
