Beyond Digital Gold: Bitcoin’s L2 Expansion in 2026
A new article by Ribhav Modi explores how Bitcoin is evolving beyond “digital gold” in 2026 through Lightning, Stacks, Rootstock, and emerging rollup designs, highlighting BitVM as a key experiment in enabling more expressive computation.
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Bitcoin L2s: How Bitcoin Is Becoming More Than “Digital Gold” in 2026
When I first got into Web3, Bitcoin felt like a finished story. It was “digital gold.” You bought some, maybe dollar cost averaged a bit, watched the price, and that was it. If you wanted to build apps, NFTs, DeFi, or anything interactive, you went to Ethereum or another smart contract chain. Bitcoin was the quiet, reliable asset in the background, not the platform you built on.