What to Know:

• Bitcoin’s constraints on throughput and programmability cap mainstream utility. A performant L2 with Bitcoin settlement is the logical unlock.
• Bitcoin Hyper pairs SVM-speed execution with ZK-verified settlement on Bitcoin, targeting fast, low-cost transactions and DeFi.
• The $HYPER presale is nearing $27M raised, signaling strong interest ahead of mainnet milestones and initial listings.
• Using the current $0.013265 price, our forecast for $HYPER goes to a 1.9x high in 2025 and 6.5x in 2026 if roadmaps land.

Bitcoin still moves like a freight train: unstoppable over distance, painfully slow up close.

Block space is scarce, fees spike when demand pops, and native programmability is minimal. That leaves everyday payments clunky and DeFi on Bitcoin mostly stitched together with workarounds. Those constraints are tolerable for a store-of-value narrative. They’re a drag on mainstream utility.

For reference, Bitcoin ranks 22nd among the fastest blockchains by TPS, which is far below industry standards. Solana ranks second on the same list.

Layer-2 solutions are the obvious release valve. Payment channels handle throughput but struggle with complex logic and liquidity routing. Sidechains help, then trade off security assumptions.

The real unlock is an L2 that processes high-throughput transactions and settles back to L1 with strong guarantees. Builders get speed and programmability. Users get cheaper, near-instant finality without abandoning the Bitcoin security umbrella.

This is the gap Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) is trying to close. The project proposes an L2 architecture that batches transactions, uses zero-knowledge proofs for validity, and periodically commits state to Bitcoin.

Execution rides on a Solana-style virtual machine for throughput, with a canonical bridge to move $BTC in and out trustlessly. If it ships as planned, the stack aims to make Bitcoin programmable at scale – fast payments, convenient on-chain trading with staking flows, and full DeFi rails tied back to $BTC.

Macro doesn’t hurt either. With Bitcoin hovering near cycle highs this year and institutional demand sticky, anything that expands $BTC’s utility surface tends to catch flows. A credible L2 narrative aligned to Bitcoin’s brand strength has a shot at outsized attention.

Bitcoin Hyper: Solana-Speed Execution Meets Bitcoin-Grade Settlement

Bitcoin Hyper’s ($HYPER) blueprint starts with a canonical bridge that verifies Bitcoin block headers and transaction proofs, then mints equivalent assets on the L2. The execution layer uses an SVM-compatible environment to push throughput while fees stay low.

Hyper batches transactions, proven with ZK cryptography, and anchors the resulting state roots to Bitcoin for settlement. Withdrawals reverse the path and release $BTC on L1 after proof validation.

The design targets three user wins: speed, cost, and programmability – without straying from Bitcoin’s security philosophy.

If executed, this architecture invites real apps. Payments clear in seconds. Orderbooks and automated market markers operate without gas anxiety. Yield farming and structured products become feasible for $BTC holders who never wanted to leave the Bitcoin orbit.

Developer momentum matters here: an SVM toolchain lowers friction for teams already fluent in that ecosystem, while $BTC settlement keeps the conservative crowd onside. That mix – familiar dev experience plus Bitcoin trust – is the project’s most pragmatic wedge.

Competition exists. Lightning remains the OG for peer-to-peer payments. Other Bitcoin-adjacent stacks chase programmability with different compromises. But none of them offer the comprehensive solution that Hyper confidently pitches.

Thinking about joining the ecosystem? Learn more about what Bitcoin Hyper does.

Bitcoin Hyper is cleaner: keep settlement on Bitcoin, use a high-throughput Solana VM for execution, and prove correctness before committing. In a market where latency and user costs decide winners, that’s a sensible bet.

Visit $HYPER’s website for more.

Hyper’s Presale Economics and Realistic Upside Potential

Momentum is there. The $HYPER presale is now at $26.99M, supported by a run of larger buys as the cycle grinds higher.

That’s sizable traction for an early-stage L2 with a technical roadmap and a clear narrative tied to Bitcoin’s growth, which recommends $HYPER as one of the top crypto presales of 2025.

The token price is now sitting at $0.013265 per $HYPER, with staking rewards at 43% .

From that base, our price prediction for $HYPER maps two checkpoints: a potential 2025 high at $0.02595 if initial listings and early dApps land on schedule, and a 2026 high at $0.08625 if incentives and governance broaden participation. At today’s price, that implies 1.9x growth potential in late 2025 and 6.5x in 2026, respectively.

Of course, crypto makes no guarantees. What could go wrong? Execution risk. Building a performant rollup and secure bridge on Bitcoin is not a trivial task. Other stacks chase the same mindshare. If $BTC chops for months, risk budgets thin across the board.

Offsetting that, the thesis is simple: extend Bitcoin’s utility without diluting its core promise. If Bitcoin Hyper proves the tech and ships real apps, capital tends to follow utility.

Hyper targets a Q4 2025-Q1 2026 listing window, so the presale train doesn’t have much fuel left. And based on the project’s value proposition and investor support, $HYPER could become the next crypto to explode in 2026.

Get your $HYPER today.

This isn’t financial advice. DYOR and manage risks wisely before investing.

Authored by Aaron Walker, NewsBTC: https://www.newsbtc.com/news/next-crypto-to-explode-bitcoin-hyper-l2-could-change-bitcoin

Bitcoin is days from printing another daily “death cross” — the 50-day simple moving average slipping beneath the 200-day — but analyst Kevin (Kev Capital TA) argues the label misleads more than it informs.

In a November 12 video breakdown titled “BTC Daily Death Cross — How It Works And What To Expect,” he contends that every daily death cross of this cycle has coincided with the late stages — and, in practice, the lows — of multi-month corrective phases. “Don’t fall for the posts that say, ‘Oh my god, death cross on the daily, we’re going down 80%.’ That’s not how these have played out,” he says. “Remember, moving averages are lagging indicators […] the move that caused the cross has already occurred.”

What The Bitcoin Death Cross Means

The framing is data-driven and distinctly cyclical. This market, he stresses, has not behaved like 2017 or 2020–2021, when vertical advances never allowed the 50-day to undercut the 200-day during the advance. Instead, 2023–2025 has featured long pauses of 114 to 174 days, with price grinding sideways-to-down before pushing higher again.

Each of those pauses bent the 50-day lower long enough for a cross, and each cross clustered near the end of the corrective window. “This cycle we have seen these consistent, right, 150, 160-plus days of corrective periods […] and with that causes the moving averages to act differently,” he says.

Kevin revisits the three prior crosses. In 2023, after the brutal post-$30k range that followed the breakout from bear-market lows, the death cross “marked the lows […] basically the end of the correction.” Bitcoin chopped for roughly a month, then embarked on what he calls “the biggest rally of the cycle,” carrying from roughly $25k to $73k as altcoins “went berserk […] 5x to 8x, some 10x.”

The 2024 instance came after the mid-cycle top in March and a year-long grind into the US election window. A single “16% candle on one day” stabbed into the lows a few days before the cross; the cross itself arrived after the damage, followed by two months of chop and then a Q4 recovery bid amid “the election exuberance” and a “dovish” turn in Fed rhetoric, pushing Bitcoin “to about $110k.”

The third case, in Q1 2025, was even cleaner. As markets corrected from late-December/early-January peaks amid tariff fears and froth, the 50-under-200 print “literally marked the bottom of the correction,” with an immediate recovery. He characterizes 2025 as a year of reclamation rather than expansion: “We barely made a new all-time high […] that’s just kind of been 2025 in a nutshell,” which explains “why sentiment is just so bad.”

The core mechanism is lag. Because the 50- and 200-day SMAs average past prices, their cross reflects a move already completed. “Almost 100% of the time when a death cross occurs, you do get a retrace back up into your moving averages,” Kevin says, adding that the key question is whether Bitcoin’s bounce merely tags that cluster or reclaims it with authority.

He highlights a specific line in the sand: “Can it reclaim the $106.8k level on weekly closes? If Bitcoin can reclaim its daily moving averages […] and its $106.8k level on weekly closes, Bitcoin should have the opportunity at making a new all-time high.” Failure would argue that “the four-year cycle just played out normally and Bitcoin just had a really weak cycle,” with altcoins never delivering a classic “alt season.”

What Comes Next For BTC?

The analyst leans into the present confusion. He notes a schism among four-year-cycle adherents over whether the clock should be measured from the bottom or from the halving, and he points to evidence of distribution from long-term holders: “Whales that have been holding since the Satoshi era [are] offloading their Bitcoin.”
Even so, he frames spot resilience as non-trivial: “Pretty surprised that Bitcoin is still hanging around at $105k given the fact that it’s had that much sell pressure […] back in earlier days when Bitcoin was topping out and whales were offloading, Bitcoin was going through 50% corrections.”

The broader macro backdrop is part of the story. This has been “a restrictive monetary policy environment where liquidity was being sucked out of the system and rates were just too restrictive,” with AI-led equities absorbing risk flows. “The NASDAQ and S&P have been making new all-time highs for multiple years,” he says, while the Russell “barely broke out to a new all-time high a few weeks ago.” In other words, crypto’s underperformance is not isolated.

What comes next, in Kevin’s view, is a clean market test. The daily death cross is “a day or two away,” likely into the weekend, and traders should expect a response toward the moving averages. The decisive stage is whether price can then clear the stack — “our 200 SMA, our 200 EMA, our 100 EMA, and even this 50 SMA” — and convert the $106.8k weekly close level back into support.

“If we can do that […] Bitcoin absolutely has an opportunity to go make a new high,” he says. “If we can’t […] then obviously things are not going to be looking too good.” He cautions that incoming macro prints and central-bank rhetoric could “throw a wrench into things,” but he returns to the same empirical anchor: “This has happened three times this cycle already. Here’s exactly how the data works. Here’s what’s happened.”

The punchline is less apocalyptic than the name implies. Four death crosses in one cycle is unprecedented for Bitcoin during an advance, and the last three coincided with late-stage corrective lows rather than trend collapses. As Kevin puts it: “The death cross everyone fears has marked every bottom so far.” The signal that “refuses to kill Bitcoin” is set to flash again; the pathology of the move afterward — rejection at the averages versus a decisive reclaim and weekly hold above $106.8k — will tell the real story.

At press time, BTC traded at $103,540.

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Cash App’s New Feature Lets People Pay with Bitcoin — Even If They Don’t Own Any

Cash App is making bitcoin more usable for everyday payments. Starting today, the app will let you pay with Bitcoin instantly — even if you don’t hold any — by automatically converting your USD balance on the app into bitcoin for the merchant.

In a series of app features announced today, the app will now spend bitcoin locally, pay in USD over the Lightning Network, and send or receive stablecoins. All these updates are part of Cash Releases, the platform’s first bundled launch of new features, the company shared with Bitcoin Magazine.

With the new ‘Bitcoin Payments with USD’ feature, users can make instant bitcoin payments even if they don’t hold BTC. Cash App will automatically convert USD from a user’s balance into bitcoin for the merchant.

In other words, this makes Bitcoin payments accessible to all 58 million monthly users of Cash App without taxable events or decreasing their Bitcoin holdings.

Square merchants benefit too, with no fees or chargebacks, and the network operates without middlemen. Users can choose any payment path — USD to USD, BTC to BTC, BTC to USD, or USD to BTC — all powered by the open Bitcoin network. It will encourage merchants to ask customers to pay in bitcoin to avoid card fees.

The system works wherever bitcoin is accepted, connecting millions more users to fast, low-cost, borderless payments.

Cash App’s bitcoin map

On top of this bitcoin payments feature, Cash App rolled out a Bitcoin Map. Following Square’s bitcoin payments launch, the map shows where local merchants accepting BTC are located, letting customers pay instantly via Lightning QR codes.

About 20% of Americans are open to using bitcoin for daily transactions, the company said, and Cash App wants to make that transition seamless for both consumers and businesses.

In addition to all this, Cash App is introducing stablecoin support. Customers can now send and receive digital dollars globally. 

Stablecoins maintain a one-to-one value with the U.S. dollar while enabling near-instant transfers. Cash App will automatically convert received stablecoins into USD.

“Bitcoin was created to be peer-to-peer cash, and Cash App is building tools to make it work as intended — fast, open, and borderless,” said Miles Suter, Bitcoin Product Lead at Block.

When asked about stablecoins and whether they might compete with Bitcoin, Suter told Bitcoin Magazine that “legacy fiat systems are Money 1.0: slow, expensive, closed systems with banking hours and borders. Bitcoin is Money 2.0, the ultimate goal: truly decentralized, open, and permissionless. Stablecoins are Money 1.5, a pragmatic tool and a meaningful improvement from traditional financial rails, but we don’t see them as a competitor to bitcoin.”

He described stablecoins as a complementary tool for users, offering speed and stability while bitcoin remains the platform’s foundation.

Cash App will also enhance their Auto Invest feature, the company said. Scheduled bitcoin purchases now carry no fees or spreads, making it easier and more affordable for users to invest regularly. 

“Standard one-time purchases have fees and spreads,” Suter said, “but we’ve built an entire ecosystem of ways to stack sats for free, like Auto Invest, Paid In Bitcoin, and Round Ups. The goal is giving customers multiple options to build their bitcoin position affordably.”

Since 2018, Cash App has helped over 24 million active users buy bitcoin, with features like Paid In Bitcoin enabling automated conversion of direct deposits into BTC.

Bitcoin payments via Square

Earlier this week, Square rolled out Bitcoin payments for U.S. sellers, allowing roughly 4 million merchants to accept BTC through their terminals with no processing fees until 2027. 

The system enabled instant transactions via the Lightning Network, first piloted at Compass Coffee in Washington, D.C. Merchants could receive Bitcoin, convert it to USD, or automatically convert part of daily sales into BTC. 

When asked about criticism that platforms like Square or Cash App might be centralizing Bitcoin, Suter said, “If you want access to the fiat banking system today, you need a centralized provider. The end goal is self-custody, which is why we built Bitkey. We’re building auto-sweeps to self-custody that will roll out later, and deep Bitkey integration with Square is coming in 2026 for self-custody of funds you receive as payments or convert from daily card sales.”

Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc., formerly known as Square, has evolved into a full-stack Bitcoin company spanning payments, mining, open-source software, and self-custody solutions. 

Through subsidiaries like Cash App, Bitkey, Proto, Spiral, and Tidal, Block is driving Bitcoin adoption across both consumer and developer ecosystems. 

The company holds over 8,780 BTC and continues to deepen its integration with Bitcoin, aligning its business strategy with the network’s long-term growth. 

According to Suter, the company envisions Bitcoin becoming everyday money and a universal financial infrastructure enabling truly global commerce.

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