A collection of highlights from the month in Bitlayer

This month, Bitlayer reached one of the most significant milestones on its decentralization roadmap: TGE. While this marks the beginning of a new chapter, bringing both fresh opportunities and considerable challenges, our team continues to build relentlessly, with clear priorities and strategic plans already in motion.

Beyond the release of our governance token $BTR, we achieved several other key accomplishments this month:

• A strategic collaboration with Solana
• Successful completion of our Launchpads token sale
• Multiple integrations of YBTC.B going live
• Secured extensive media coverage with over six exclusive founder interviews in leading crypto outlets

Worth highlighting is the publication of the Reflexivity Research report on Bitlayer, which offers a comprehensive analysis of Bitlayer’s business strategy, ecosystem growth, and technical architecture. Tailored for both institutional and retail participants interested in Bitcoin DeFi and infrastructure innovation, the report provides valuable insights into Bitlayer’s technology, vision, and roadmap, highly recommended for a detailed read.

Let’s dive into this month’s developments!

🔥This Month’s Top Stories

Bitlayer Released $BTR Tokenomics and TGE

The $BTR is the governance token of the Bitlayer ecosystem, playing a critical role in governance, and incentives within the ecosystem. You can check out more details about $BTR here.

You can trade $BTR on Binance Alpha, Kraken, Bitget, CoinList, Gate, Kucoin, MEXC, LBank, Bitpanda, Coinone, PancakeSwap, and Bitzap. We can expect more listing platforms.

Reflexivity Research Institutional Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of Bitlayer’s business strategy, ecosystem growth, and technical architecture for a dual audience of institutional and retail stakeholders interested in Bitcoin-based DeFi opportunities and infrastructure evolution.

“Outlook: Bitlayer is on track to launch its Mainnet V2 (rollup architecture) in Q2 2025, marking Bitcoin’s first full-featured rollup L2 and a major milestone in Bitcoin’s evolution. This upgrade will solidify Bitlayer’s technical foundation (with EVM compatibility, advanced proving mechanisms, and flexible data availability options) and likely spur a new wave of Bitcoin-focused DApps and liquidity. Going forward, Bitlayer’s strategy involves continued multi-chain integration, utilizing technologies like CCIP (Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol), to connect Bitcoin with leading smart contract networks, with an initial focus on a trust-minimized bridge between Bitcoin and Ethereum. The ultimate vision is a thriving Bitcoin DeFi (BTC-Fi) ecosystem where Bitcoin’s vast value can participate in lending, trading, yield farming, and more, all secured by Bitcoin’s proof-of-work integrity. If successful, Bitlayer could become a cornerstone of Bitcoin’s next chapter: a scalable financial platform that marries Bitcoin’s security and liquidity with the programmability of modern DeFi.”

Bitlayer & Solana

Bitlayer joins forces with Kamino Finance and Orca to bring YBTC to Solana, unlocking native yield, speed, and composability for Bitcoin holders.

With this new strategy extension, YBTC’s global adoption will be accelerated, and offers several features designed for ease of access and flexibility for Solana ecosystem users:

• Maximized Yields: Through Kamino’s institutional-grade earn vaults, YBTC.B users can enjoy auto-compounding and optimized BTC-denominated returns, effortlessly growing their assets, while also benefiting from better quotes on Kamino Swap compared to swapping solely on a decentralized exchange.
• Seamless Trading: Orca’s Concentrated Liquidity Market Maker (CLMM) ensures zero-slippage swaps between YBTC.B and other mainstream assets, empowering users to dive into the Solana DeFi wave.

• Asset Freedom: Redeem native BTC at any time with efficient, frictionless cross-chain operations, maintaining full asset sovereignty.

  

🚀More Updates and Events

• $5M Launchpad Funding Milestone: Bitlayer has successfully secured $5 million in aggregate funding through a series of oversubscribed public token rounds conducted across leading crowdfunding platforms. This consecutive capital infusion demonstrates robust market confidence in Bitlayer’s positions as the leading Bitcoin project.

  

• YBTC.B: YBTC.B is expanding its ecosystem map. Now you can explore YBTC.B vault and related products on Folks Finance, Momentum, Cetus Protocol, and Navi.

  

• Binance Booster Campaign: Phase 3 concluded on Aug 29th. We are excited to announce more campaigns in the upcoming weeks.

• Anthony Pompliano Capital Markets Dialogue: This institutional-focused discussion explored Bitlayer’s role in bridging Asian retail liquidity with Western institutional capital flows, featuring quantitative analysis of TVL as a valuation metric and the regulatory pathway for Bitcoin ETF staking mechanisms.

  

• Wu Blockchain Exclusive Interview: In an exclusive technical breakdown, Kevin He explained the projects’ unique fraud-proof arbitration system and hybrid security model combining Bitcoin’s checkpointing with Ethereum’s battle-tested settlement logic.

• CoinNess Interview: Charlie Hu disclosed key development milestones and strategic roadmap advancements for Bitlayer’s ecosystem evolution.

• The Boss Code Interview: Bitlayer co-founder Charlie Hu sat down with the host to explore the biggest limitations in Bitcoin that no one talks about, and what it will take to unlock the next era of Bitcoin-powered innovation.

• Conviction 2025 Conference Recap: Bitlayer co-founder Kevin He took the stage with global Bitcoin innovators to explore The Rise of the Bitcoin DeFi Ecosystem at Conviction 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City.

  

• Bitlayer Korea Meetup Recap: co-founders Charlie Hu and Kevin He shared the Bitlayer vision, followed by the Solana x Bitlayer bridge announcement and a lively panel with Solana ecosystem builders from Superteam KR and Orca. The evening wrapped up with builders exchanging ideas, winning rewards, and forging new connections.

  

🛄 Job Opening

Zero-Knowledge Engineering Recruitment

Bitlayer is actively recruiting ZK specialists to enhance its proof aggregation system and develop novel recursive STARK verifiers.

📊Network Metrics Snapshot

• TVL: $310.28M (Source: DeFiLlama）
• Cumulative Addresses: 784,379
• Transaction Volume: 77.19M (+11% MoM)

🔜What’s Next?

As you may have gathered from the updates above, Bitlayer’s focus going forward will be on expanding the YBTC family assets ecosystem and delivering more yield-bearing products and strategies for both institutional and retail BTC holders, enabling tangible, real yield opportunities. You can expect a growing number of integrations and partnerships in the coming months.

On the technology side, development continues at full speed. As the pioneer building on the BitVM paradigm, we are actively working on Bitlayer Network Mainnet V2, a high-performance Bitcoin rollup designed to meet growing user demands and deliver an exceptional on-chain experience for mass adoption.

There’s much more underway. Follow our official channels to stay updated with the latest developments.