Hello Bitcoin Builders,
This week, Bitcoin Frontier Fund hosted their cohort 4 investor day.
Bitcoin investor days are the perfect place to highlight Bitcoin Builders. Let’s look at some of the teams (along with their X bios).
- Ducat — “Bitcoin-Native Stablecoin on Runes” 
- Magisat — ”The first Satoshi marketplace. Discover, collect, and invest in the future of Bitcoin with Magisat.” 
- Ordlify — ”Canva for #Bitcoin. No-code platform to create large recursive Ordinal collections & more. Now with 0 platform fees” 
- Satscreener — ”Real-time token aggregator for the Bitcoin ecosystem.” 
- BlockSurvey — “Experience next-gen Web 3.0 forms and surveys with BlockSurvey – a secure, privacy-centric alternative to SurveyMonkey and Typeform.” 
- DLC.Link — “Makers of dlcBTC, a safer wrapped Bitcoin.” 
- Moon — “Moon is a platform that allows you to pay with crypto everywhere Visa cards are accepted. Private. Secure. No fees.” 
- NeoSwap — “Transform what you own into what you want” 
Check out the Bitcoin Frontier Fund Investor Day video to learn more about each of these companies.
Layers
- Signal21 releases its Bitcoin L2 tracker. Similar to the Bitcoin Layers tracker, this page presents a centralized location to track different Bitcoin Layers. 
- ALEX, “the Finance Layer on Bitcoin,” gains traction after the hack—they now have surpassed a total trading volume of $1.86 billion. Also, the ALEX foundation hacker was found to be linked to the North Korean government. 
- Bitcoin Layers notes that over 60% of current and proposed Bitcoin scaling projects use the Ethereum Virtual Machine. This is an interesting trend to follow—how impactful will the EVM be on Bitcoin Layers? 
- Asigna officially achieved 200M in TVL in deposits across Stacks and major Bitcoin L1 Metaprotocols. 
- Lightspark and Nubank team up to bring the Bitcoin Lightning Network to many, many more. 
Other
- The euphoria around Bitcoin’s price is dampening, social sentiment suggests (via Cointelegraph) 
- Marathon Digital announces it is mining $KAS in addition to Bitcoin. They deployed their first Kaspa miner in September and have mined around $15 million worth of it since 

