Blockspace Media has acquired Bitcoin Layers, an impartial knowledge platform monitoring metrics throughout Bitcoin’s layer-2 and scaling ecosystem, as the corporate expands past journalism into knowledge and intelligence merchandise.
The acquisition brings Bitcoin Layers’ analysis and on-chain analytics instantly into Blockspace’s content material and product suite, together with a forthcoming knowledge 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 knowledge 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,” stated William Foxley, co-founder of Blockspace. “We’re constructing a platform to cowl the investable panorama of Bitcoin-related property. With Bitcoin Layers becoming a member of Blockspace, we’ll be working instantly with traders, token foundations, and Bitcoin startups to higher perceive actual on-chain consumer metrics.”
In line with Bitcoin Layers knowledge as of January 14, greater than 361,830 BTC, value 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 property throughout chains,” Janusz stated. “By integrating with Blockspace, we will increase our knowledge platforms to assist traders and protocol builders deeply perceive consumer tendencies, 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 stated they plan to make use of Bitcoin Layers knowledge to higher 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 corporations and monetary merchandise are anticipated to roll out in 2026.
The acquisition additionally reinforces the corporate’s deal with technical infrastructure and scaling analysis. Most of the tasks 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 stated it’s going to construct on its current studio and analysis initiatives whereas growing new data-driven merchandise for traders and builders throughout the Bitcoin ecosystem.