Bitlayer is a Bitcoin Layer 2 infrastructure project that describes itself as the first Bitcoin Layer 2 built on Bitcoin Finality, using OpVM, BitVM Bridge, and RtEVM to provide a native Bitcoin Layer 2 environment. Bitlayer's Twitter Score is 88 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #8,829 (top 5%) among 485,508 tracked accounts.
Bitlayer was co-founded by Kevin He and Charlie Hu. The project raised a $5 million seed round at an $80 million valuation in March 2024, led by Framework Ventures and ABCDE Capital, per public disclosures. Bitlayer subsequently closed a $9 million extension to its Series A in October 2024, led by Polychain Capital and Franklin Templeton, bringing total funding to $25 million. Additional backers include StarkWare, OKX Ventures, Alliance DAO, and UTXO Management.
Bitlayer launched its Mainnet-V1 on April 15, 2024, and by October 2024 more than 280 decentralized applications had deployed on the network. Bitlayer announced a $BTR token sale on CoinList scheduled from July 31 to August 7, 2025, offering up to 20 million tokens at $0.15 to $0.20 each. Bitlayer has also announced the discontinuation of its BitVM Bridge service, with functions set to be disabled after June 3, 2026.
Bitlayer has published 1,755 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 521 accounts, totaling 1,770 mentions, reflecting active engagement within the Bitcoin and broader crypto ecosystem. Bitlayer has 800,483 followers as of August 2026 on the platform.
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The accounts that follow Bitlayer include 344 founders, 103 angel investors, 231 influencers and 37 VCs, among them Laura Shin, Tarun Chitra, Eric Wall, Mario Nawfal, Matthew Graham and Imran.