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one of the loudest stories on my radar this month. From a low of $0.0165 in June to an all-time high of $1.447, this token pulled off close to an 80x move in under four months. Today it sits around $1.30, still up over 200% in the last 30 days. Numbers like that grab attention fast, and my feed has been full of "$2 breakout incoming" calls. Before jumping in, I wanted to check whether the price is backed by real usage, or running purely on hype.
​What Bitway Actually Does
Bitway is built around Bitway Ledger, a Bitcoin-compatible Layer 1 that lets users interact with DeFi using native BTC (SegWit and Taproot addresses) instead of wrapped tokens like WBTC. On top sit two products: Bitway Earn, a yield platform for stablecoins, and Bitway Lending, which lets users borrow against native BTC using Discreet Log Contracts, without handing custody to a centralized party. On paper, this is a real problem worth solving. Billions in Bitcoin sit idle because most DeFi requires wrapping BTC first, adding bridge and custodial risk. So the vision isn't the issue. The question is whether the current price already reflects years of future success that hasn't happened yet.
​The Valuation Math
Here's where it gets interesting. At current prices, Bitway's market cap sits around $3.6 billion, with only about 2.7 to 2.8 billion of its 10 billion total supply in circulation. That means the fully diluted value is closer to $13 billion, and roughly 72% of total supply is still scheduled to unlock over the coming years, a serious overhang to keep in mind.
​Now compare that to actual usage. Bitway Earn holds around $74 million in TVL, up about 30% over the last month, so growth is happening. But the protocol generated roughly $498,000 in fees over the past 30 days, with only around $103,000 counted as actual protocol revenue. Annualized, that works out to around $1.2 million in revenue.
A $3.6 billion market cap against roughly $1.2 million in annual revenue is an extreme multiple—trading at around 3,000 times revenue by any standard, traditional markets or crypto. Even against TVL alone, the market cap is roughly 48 times the value actually locked, well above what's typically considered a healthy range for yield-focused DeFi products.
​What's Actually Driving the Price
A big part of this rally traces back to two catalysts: Binance listing a BTWUSDT perpetual contract in early June, and a "Booster" incentive program offering a fixed BTW reward pool to users who deposit USDT into Bitway's vaults. Both are legitimate growth drivers, but they're also the kind of incentive-driven demand that tends to fade once rewards dry up, not the same as organic, sticky usage.
​BTW Isn't the Only Player Here
This is the part that changed my view the most. Native Bitcoin DeFi is a growing category, not a Bitway exclusive. @BabylonLabs_io is already building staking and lending infrastructure with major integrations, and is widely seen as the current frontrunner. #OpNet is bringing smart contracts directly onto Bitcoin's mainnet. ZEST Protocol offers native BTC collateral vaults with a similar non-custodial approach. Bitway's edge is bundling Ledger, Earn, and Lending into one ecosystem, but "biggest valuation" and "category leader" aren't the same thing here.
​So, Overvalued or Not?
Based purely on price action, BTW looks stretched in the near term. An 80x run in four months, low trading volume relative to market cap, a massive future unlock schedule, and a valuation disconnected from current revenue all point to a token priced well ahead of its fundamentals.
​That said, overvalued doesn't mean it can't go higher. If the Bitcoin-native DeFi narrative keeps gaining traction and TVL keeps climbing, sentiment alone could carry the price further, especially while incentives are active. On the other hand, if those incentives wind down and the market starts pricing in the unlock schedule, a sharp pullback wouldn't be surprising.
​For me, this sits in a "respect the momentum, question the valuation" zone. Great narrative, real infrastructure, but a price tag already banking on a lot of future success that hasn't been proven yet.
​This is my own research and analysis, not financial advice. Always do your own research before making any trading decisions.
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