Blockspace Media has acquired Bitcoin Layers, an unbiased information platform monitoring metrics throughout Bitcoin’s layer-2 and scaling ecosystem, as the corporate expands past journalism into information and intelligence merchandise.
The acquisition brings Bitcoin Layers’ analysis and on-chain analytics immediately into Blockspace’s content material and product suite, together with a forthcoming information dashboard designed to trace adoption, whole worth locked (TVL), and exercise throughout Bitcoin L2s and different scaling platforms, the corporate wrote to Bitcoin Journal.
Bitcoin Layers will function Blockspace’s first proprietary information product, with plans to increase protection to bitcoin-related equities, ETFs, and extra market intelligence choices within the coming yr.
Bitcoin Layers maintainer Janusz will stay concerned as an advisor following the acquisition.
“Blockspace is greater than a Bitcoin publication,” said William Foxley, co-founder of Blockspace. “We’re constructing a platform to cowl the investable panorama of Bitcoin-related belongings. With Bitcoin Layers becoming a member of Blockspace, we’ll be working immediately with traders, token foundations, and Bitcoin startups to raised perceive actual on-chain consumer metrics.”
Based on Bitcoin Layers information as of January 14, greater than 361,830 BTC, price over $34.5 billion, is at present locked throughout Bitcoin bridging protocols, layer-2 networks, and different scaling options.
Whereas the market has grown quickly, it stays fragmented, with “L2” typically used as a catch-all time period for a variety of architectures and belief fashions.
“Bitcoin Layers established itself because the premier analysis platform for Bitcoin layer-2s and bitcoin-backed belongings throughout chains,” Janusz mentioned. “By integrating with Blockspace, we will increase our information platforms to assist traders and protocol builders deeply perceive consumer developments, whereas persevering with to coach customers on the architectures behind the protocols they work together with.”
Blockspace’s use of Bitcoin Layers tech
The corporate mentioned they plan to make use of Bitcoin Layers information to raised differentiate the rising L2 ecosystem for each retail and institutional traders, highlighting distinctions between rollups, sidechains, federated fashions, and different scaling approaches.
Further metrics protecting bitcoin-adjacent public firms and monetary merchandise are anticipated to roll out in 2026.
The acquisition additionally reinforces the corporate’s give attention to technical infrastructure and scaling analysis. Most of the initiatives tracked by Bitcoin Layers have been featured at OPNEXT, Blockspace’s technical convention, with the subsequent occasion scheduled for April 16, 2026, in New York.
The corporate mentioned it’ll construct on its present studio and analysis initiatives whereas creating new data-driven merchandise for traders and builders throughout the Bitcoin ecosystem.
