The Bitlayer, a layer of Bitcoin 2 developed in the paradigbon of Bitvm, cooperated with three of the world’s largest Bitcoin
Mining Pools-Antpool, F2Pool, and Spiderpool-in a first-of-its-kind collaboration to accelerate the real world of BITVM’s adoption, a breakthrough technology dedicated to enabling bitcoin-native defi.
The Bitcoin ecosystem has been left in other layers 1 such as Ethereum for many years due to technical limits-especially its lack of support for complete intelligent contracts. Bitlayer’s Bitvm Paradigm It is addressed by offering Bitcoin’s equivalent security and completion without changing Bitcoin’s main protocol or compromising its foundation design.
But making a vision of reality requires cooperation of miners – the creatures who create new blocks and prove transactions in exchange for BTC. That is precisely what this safe partnership is.
The three mining pools, which represent more than 36% of the total power of Bitcoin (hashrate) computing power, agreed to support non-standard transactions (NSTS)-a critical piece of the BITVM’s challenge mechanism, the companies said. Their support removes a major bottleneck in the Bitvm deployment and approaches the system to widespread use.
NSTs are transactions that are valid under the Bitcoin consensus rules but have not passed by the default bitcoin core software, making them difficult to confirm on-chain without a miner cooperation.
Under this collaboration, Antpool, F2Pool, and Spiderpool will serve as Bitvm Bridge carers, ensuring that NST is reliable included in the blocks and become part of Bitcoin’s unchanged ledger.
The Bitvm Bridge is a special tool that facilitates BTC’s safe and reliable movement with other blockchain ecosystems-such as rollups, cross-chain protocols, and intelligent contracts-not relying on centralized mediators. It opens the door for greater Bitcoin Defi applications while maintaining a stable network security guarantee.
“Bitvm represents the most credible path to bring on-chain validation to Bitcoin while maintaining its basic security. This collaboration will solve the critical final challenge of obtaining non-standard transactions with On-chain,” said Kevin He, Bitlayer’s co-founder, in a press release shared with Coindesk.
A win for miners
It’s not just a milestone for Bitlayer-it’s a strategic win for miners as well, especially as they face revenue reduction due to BTC’s rewards cut in half every four years.
Andy, CEO of Antpool, noted that Bitlayer’s Bitvm could help drive new economic activity and revenue based on miners.
“Built on BITVM, Bitlayer allows BTC to flow to the DeFI and Layer 2 ecosystem. This means greater use, more fees, and long -term maintenance for miners,” Andy told the press release.
Leon Liang, chief strategy officer at F2Pool, emphasized the importance of change, saying, “We want to support high quality projects like Bitlayer that expands what Bitcoin can do.”
Spiderpool CTO Kenway has spoken of Bitcoin’s wider potential as a financial service platform, saying, “This cooperation gives us to unlock new possibilities for Bitcoin Defi. It enhances the utility of Bitcoin while strengthening the central role of the miners in the ecosystem.”
Demand for Bitcoin Defi is growing rapidly
Bitlayer collaboration with giant mining follows recent integrations with major layers 1 ecosystem such as SUI, Base, Arbitrum, and Starknet. Together, these partnerships reflect a growing demand for safe, bitcoin-native defi infrastructure scales.
The Bitlayer is actively riding more validators and early adopters to help secure and expand the BITVM bridge – and to develop what could be the foundation of the next Bitcoin evolution.
