Welcome to LayerBTC
Bitcoin is the world’s most secure and decentralized settlement network, yet its base layer was never designed for the rich, consumer-grade experiences modern financial products require. Over the past decade a patchwork of Layer-2 and side-chain solutions—Lightning, Liquid, Stacks, RSK, Ark, and more—has emerged to fill specific gaps. The result is fragmentation: developers juggle multiple APIs, incompatible asset formats, inconsistent UX patterns, and divergent security assumptions just to ship a single product.
The Developer’s Dilemma
Scaling vs. Sovereignty Higher throughput often means relinquishing Bitcoin’s native trust model or imposing custodial trade-offs.
Feature Velocity vs. Complexity Adding asset issuance, custody logic, or privacy primitives demands deep protocol expertise, slowing time-to-market.
UX Expectations vs. Protocol Realities Users expect instant, mobile-native payments and familiar recovery flows—features that are painful to assemble from low-level tooling.
Transparency vs. Privacy Some use cases demand auditable records, while end users still want optional privacy—forcing devs to build parallel stacks or exclude markets.
Why BTC LayerBTC
LayerBTC is based on a simple belief: developers shouldn't have to choose between Bitcoin's security model and delivering a smooth, modern user experience.
Rather than building another monolithic blockchain, LayerBTC provides a modular Layer 2 toolkit that connects proven Bitcoin extensions—such as Lightning for speed, Taproot Assets for native tokens, and secure vaults based on multisig logic—through a unified developer experience. The project is currently under active development.
As part of its long-term vision, LayerBTC will also introduce a native token, currently available through an ongoing presale. This token will play a key role in powering the OmniBTC ecosystem and supporting its continued development. Proceeds from the token presale will be used to fund technical progress, audits, infrastructure, and community growth.
Goal
How OmniLayer Addresses It
Preserve Bitcoin’s trust assumptions
All modules settle on main-chain Bitcoin; no new consensus layer, no native token.
Reduce integration overhead
Clean, language-agnostic SDKs abstract low-level cryptography and network plumbing.
Unlock real-world asset use cases
Taproot Asset support enables stablecoins, loyalty points, and tokenized credentials with Lightning compatibility.
Deliver Web-level UX
Auto-managed channels, drop-in UI components, vault recovery flows, and latency targets < 1 s.
Enable optional privacy
CoinJoin, route blinding, and Silent Payments can be activated where needed without forcing a one-size-fits-all model.
By bringing these capabilities together under one open and extensible framework, LayerBTC aims to become the go-to Layer 2 foundation for developers building Bitcoin-powered applications that combine security, usability, and flexibility.
The following sections explore the challenges LayerBTC is designed to solve, the principles behind its architecture, and the modular tools available to developers.
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