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About Bitlayer
Analysis of 23 Mar 2026Bitlayer is a Bitcoin Layer 2 solution implementing BitVM technology to bring EVM-compatible smart contracts and DeFi to Bitcoin. Launched on mainnet in April 2024, Bitlayer uses an optimistic rollup architecture with fraud proofs anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain, inheriting Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work security.
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As of March 23, 2026, BTR trades at $0.189 with a market cap of $49.5M (rank #447) and $17.4M daily volume. The ecosystem spans 300+ dApps, 97M+ transactions, and 700K+ community members.
Bitlayer's BitVM Bridge enables trust-minimized bridging of native BTC as YBTC (Yield Bitcoin) across Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum, Sui, and Cardano. The team of ~70 developers is led by Kevin He (ex-Huobi head of blockchain, built HECO chain to $10B TVL) and Charlie Hu (ex-Polygon SEA head).
Backed by $25M from Franklin Templeton, Polychain Capital, and Framework Ventures at a $300M valuation, Bitlayer has integrated with major Bitcoin mining pools (Antpool, F2Pool, SpiderPool) representing 31.5% of Bitcoin's hashrate for BitVM transaction processing.
