Best Crypto to Buy: Smart Money is Following Bitcoin Hyper’s $32.7M Presale Raise

Altcoins with infrastructure narratives are again beginning to pull attention, with NEAR Protocol (NEAR) up 14.13% in 24 hours and 66.19% across the past week, a move driven largely by growing interest in high-throughput Layer 1 alternatives to Ethereum.

While new Layer 1s and Layer 2s built the basis of the last run, Bitcoin repeatedly seems to be left behind, trapped in a low throughput of around 7 transactions per second, leading to the “Store of Value” position that BTC seems trapped in. Unlike newer blockchains, Bitcoin has no native support for smart contracts or decentralized applications, leaving the innovative side of crypto to Ethereum, Solana, and, more recently, NEAR. Bitcoin has the market cap but not the utility.

The Bitcoin Hyper project seems on the verge of changing that. HYPER has raised $32.7 million so far during the presale, with a simple yet powerful statement: bring Solana’s speed and low costs to Bitcoin and unlock the massive idle capital in Bitcoin for payments.

Bitcoin Hyper is currently in presale at $0.01368 and also offers 36% staking APY to early holders.

How Bitcoin Hyper Mixes Solana with Bitcoin

Bitcoin Hyper is a Layer 2 network that is purpose-built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. The simplest way to explain it is that it integrates the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) for smart contract execution, while using Bitcoin for transaction settlement.

The core technical components include the SVM execution layer, a Canonical Bridge, and Bitcoin Layer 1 as the settlement anchor. By integrating the Solana Virtual Machine, Bitcoin Hyper offers lightning-fast, low-latency execution of smart contracts and decentralized applications.

In short, you could use HYPER to make payments in retail, with sub-cent fees and instant payment, with the transaction eventually settled on Bitcoin in a batch transaction, taking advantage of the original cryptocurrency’s security.

Once the protocol is launched, you can deposit BTC into the bridge, which mints equivalent tokens on Layer 2 and allows them to be withdrawn back to native BTC at any time.

While payments seem the perfect use case, Bitcoin Hyper can also bring support to DeFi applications such as swaps, lending, and staking, NFT platforms, gaming dApps, and developer tools (including an SDK and API for building scalable smart contracts in Rust), effectively bringing Bitcoin to a level playing field with Ethereum and Solana. All gas fees are paid in HYPER.

The project’s smart contracts have already been audited by Coinsult and SpyWolf, suggesting the presale may be entering its final stages.

Why HYPER Could Be the Best Crypto to Buy Ahead of Mainnet

HYPER token listings are targeted for later in 2026 at the completion of the presale, which means buying the token now is a way to get involved ahead of exchange purchases.

The Bitcoin Layer 2 area is a less crowded part of crypto than Ethereum L2s, with builders on ETH competing for the same developer pool and the same DeFi liquidity. A Bitcoin-native payments layer is targeting a different question: can the world’s largest crypto network process a coffee payment, or run a DEX, without routing through a chain Satoshi never built?

This year will see the mainnet launch, including the Canonical Bridge for BTC deposits and withdrawals, and the integration of the Solana Virtual Machine for dApp support. Ecosystem expansion includes listing on major centralized and decentralized exchanges, the onboarding partner projects across DeFi, gaming, and NFT sectors, and establishing a DAO governance framework.

The roadmap is front-loaded with execution rather than ambiguity and targets the largest market in crypto. Bringing payments back to Bitcoin also returns BTC to the goals it began with all those years ago.

Even reasonable success in HYPER’s world suggests a market cap well above the current $32 million.

Solving The Bitcoin Payment Problem

Bitcoin Hyper is not the first project to attempt a Bitcoin Layer 2, but what distinguishes it is its specific technical approach: using the SVM. As we can see from NEAR’s 66% weekly gain, the market takes notice of infrastructure that can handle throughput at scale.

Bitcoin, with 60% market dominance and the deepest liquidity pool in crypto, is the obvious foundation for a global payments layer, but it has always been hamstrung by the 7 TPS ceiling.

Bitcoin Hyper’s answer is to move execution off-chain entirely, settle on Bitcoin, and use Solana’s virtual machine to do the heavy lifting. With HYPER turning into one of the biggest presales of 2026, the idea is beginning to capture the market.

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