Excited to continue working on Bitcoin Layers 🧡 I’ve received funding from StarkWare (the creator of @Starknet), Alpen Labs, and Lightspark to maintain the @BitcoinLayers open-source repository. @StarkWareLTD, @AlpenLabs, and @spark have done extensive R&D on bitcoin scaling, and I’m excited to work with them on improving bitcoin’s L2 transparency dashboard and other research-focused products. With the upcoming (and previous) launches of various L2 schemes, sidesystems, and improved two-way peg designs, *now* is the best time to research bitcoin L2s. My goal remains the same: ensure users, and developers, understand the tradeoffs for all bitcoin layers that exist. I’ll be maintaining the Bitcoin Layers’ repository in addition to my role with @btcinsider__. This funding sees me working on the project through early 2026. And reminder, I am the only active contributor to the project. Everything is open-source. PRs and creating issues are welcome!

There’s probably a few questions as @redvelvetzip and I raised money to work on this. Red is taking the company forward to work on consumer products and I’m focusing on the research side independently.

Personally excited (and relieved? lol) that I get to work on this again, even if it's just going into early next year. My immediate goals are to create tools that onboard more researchers to the project.

And, I'll be working on a path forward for the project to ensure its sustainability.

Lastly, here’s a link to Bitcoin Layers’ transparency dashboard. It displays non-equity investments that have been given to previous and current maintainers of the project: