There is not even a moment to mourn for Bitlayer and Babylon. The next one to rush to the battlefield is the rising star of the Bitcoin community Bitcoin Thunderbolt @ nubit_org officially launched on the mainnet On April 15th, the Bitcoin Thunderbolt network was officially launched on the mainnet. The news was disclosed by HSBC in an official press release: 1. Technological impact and characteristics: Affected by this soft fork, UTXO has been packaged, and the activity and miner profits on the Bitcoin chain have reached historic highs in 21 years, surpassing the era of inscriptions! Bitcoin Thunderbolt was jointly initiated by miners from the Satoshi era, Bitcoin Whale, and core technology teams (including Nubit), introducing the following technological upgrades through a soft fork: UTXO Bundling: Merge without spending UTXO, implicitly expand BTC performance by 300%, and test TPS up to 45 transactions per second. OP-CAT: Restart the script operation code that has been disabled by Satoshi Nakamoto. If I remember correctly, Ethereum (ETH) was originally an OP-CAT project, but it was later changed to a standalone blockchain due to script operations being disabled. It can be said that it is the ancestor of smart contracts. access mechanism Currently, the Thunderbolt network is only open to users who have obtained Boosting Codes. (Maid herself doesn't have a code yet. I hope the project team can send me one so that I can continue to review!) This code is distributed in limited quantities through the community by core contributors such as Nubit, and comes with rare BTC native airdrop rewards. Bitcoin Thunderbolt vs. Babylon（Cosmos） vs. Bitlayer（EVM）： Significant difference 1. Nubit is a self upgrading solution for the Bitcoin community, with legitimacy Initiated jointly by miners from the Satoshi era, Bitcoin Whale, and core technology teams (including Nubit), with academic paper support. Babylon is actually Cosmos, and Bitlayer is actually Ethereum. Cosmos and Ethereum are PoS networks, with ecosystems relying on staking and models leaning more towards Ponzi rather than Bitcoin native. Maid believes that the POS mechanism, which means the token TGE will have to pay "interest" to TVL providers in the future, is the fundamental reason why using POS to solve the Bitcoin expansion problem is difficult to sustain 2. Native BTC participates in the ecosystem Bitcoin Thunderbolt supports on chain issuance and trading of native BTC assets, with all assets directly anchored to the Bitcoin main chain without the need for cross chain bridges. Babylon and Bitlayer's BTC assets are essentially assets mapped across chain bridges, relying on third-party trust mechanisms. 3. Support interaction between native inscriptions and runes Bitcoin Thunderbolt supports native interactions between inscriptions and runes, with all data stored directly on the Bitcoin main chain. The inscription and rune functions of Babylon and Bitlayer rely on cross chain assets, essentially mapping data and cannot fully guarantee decentralization. 4. The only main chain expansion solution recognized by the BTC developer community!! Bitcoin Thunderbolt is a main chain expansion solution recognized by the Bitcoin OG community, which significantly improves the main chain throughput capacity through OP-CAT and UTXO Bundling. Babylon and Bitlayer are essentially extensions of Cosmos and Ethereum, and are not directly related to the Bitcoin main chain. 5. Community incentives and fair distribution Bitcoin Thunderbolt uses Boosting Code for fair distribution, with an open and transparent admission mechanism that cannot be tampered with. The asset distribution mechanisms of Babylon and Bitlayer essentially rely more on centralized institutions, resulting in lower costs of wrongdoing and difficulty in ensuring fairness.