Bitlayer, a Bitcoin -layer 2 built on BitVM -paradigmet, has collaborated with three of the world’s largest Bitcoin
Mining-Antpool, F2pool and Spiderpool-in a first-in-Sin-stroke collaboration to accelerate the real world adoption of BitVM, a breakthrough technology that focuses on enabling Bitcoin-native Defi.
Bitcoin’s ecosystem has been limping behind other layers 1s like Ethereum for years due to technical restrictions — Ice its lack of support for Turing-Complet Smart Contracts. Bitlayer’s BitVM paradigm addresses this by offering Bitcoin-equivalent security and teasing rel beation without changing Bitcoin’s core protocol or compromising its basic design.
But to transform this vision into reality requires collaboration between miners – the devices that create new blocks and validate transactions in exchange for BTC. This is exactly what this new partnership ensures.
The three mining pools that represent over 36% of Bitcoin’s Total Computing Power (Hashrate) agree to support non-standard transactions (NSTS) -Te critical piece of BitVM’s Challenge Response Mechanism, companies say. Their support removes a key bottle for BitVM implementation and brings the system closer to widespread use.
NSTs are transactions that are valid according to Bitcoin’s consensus rules, but are not forwarded by standard Bitcoin Core software, making them difficult to be confirmed on-chain without miners collaboration.
Under this partnership, Antpool, F2pool and Spiderpool earn as the Guardians of the BitVM bridge, ensuring that NSTs are reliably included in blocks and become part of Bitcoin’s unchanging headbok.
The BitVM bridge is a special tool that facilitates safe and reliable movement of BTC to other blockchain ecosystems-such as Rollups, cross-chain protocols and smart contracts-without relying on centralized intermediaries. It opens the door for wider Bitcoin Defi applications, while the network’s robust security guarantees are preserved.
“BitVM represents the most credible path to bring validation on chain to Bitcoin while maintaining its core security. This partnership solves the critical challenge in the last kilometer by getting non-standard transactions included on-chain,” said Kevin He, co-founder of Bitlayer, in a press release that was shared with Coindesk.
A win for miners
This is not only a milestone for Bitlayer-it is also a strategic victory for miners, especially as they face dwindling income due to BTC rewards per year. Blocks that are cut for half of that four years.
Andy, CEO of Antpool, noted that Bitlayers BitVM can help run new financial activity and fee -based income for miners.
“Built on BitVM allows Bitlayer BTC to flow into Defi and Layer 2-ecosystems. That means more use, more fees and long-term sustainability for miners,” Andy said in the press release.
Leon Liang, Chief Strategy Officer at F2pool, emphasized the importance of innovation and said, “We want to support high quality projects like Bitlayer that expands what Bitcoin can do.”
Spiderpool CTO Kenway spoke with the broader potential of Bitcoin as a platform for financial services and said, “This partnership lets us lock new opportunities for Bitcoin Defi. It improves Bitcoin’s tool while we strengthen the ministers’ central role in the ecosystem.”
The demand for Bitcoin Defi is growing rapidly
Bitlayer’s collaboration with Mining Giants follows recent integrations with large layers 1 -ecosystems such as SUI, Base, Arbitum and StarkNet. Together, these partnerships reflect a growing demand for secure, Bitcoin-native Defi Infrastructure that scales.
Bitlayer is actively boarding more validators and early adoptors to help secure and expand the BitVM bridge – and to build what could become the cornerstone of Bitcoin’s next development.
