CoinVoice recently learned that the Bitcoin Layer 2 project Bitlayer announced the completion of a US$5 million seed round of financing. This round of financing was jointly led by Framework Ventures and ABCDE Capital. Participating institutions include StarkWare, OKX Ventures, Alliance DAO, UTXO Management, Asymmetric Capital, Dozens of institutions including Kenetic Capital, Pivot Global, Web3Port, Mindfulness Capital, C6E Capital, PAKA, Comma3 Capital and Kronos Ventures, as well as well-known Web3 entrepreneurs such as famous Bitcoin OG&KOL Dan Held, Messari CEO Ryan Selkis and Lianchuang Dan McArdle participated cast.
It is reported that Bitlayer is committed to becoming the computing layer of Bitcoin and is the first Bitcoin security equivalent Layer 2 based on the BitVM paradigm. Bitlayer plans to launch the first version of the mainnet on April 5 and launch the ecological incentive program Ready Player One. [original link]