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B² Network ticker B2

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  • 5 reviewed developments
  • 40 cited sources

Summary

Two chains run B² today. User transactions go to the B² rollup (chain ID 223), built from Optimism's OP Stack: one sequencer makes a block every 2 seconds, batches are posted as blob data to B² Hub (chain ID 213), and one state commitment per 600 rollup blocks follows on the Hub. B² Hub runs B²'s forks of the Ethereum proof-of-stake clients Geth and Prysm, with 12-second blocks and a closed validator set. B²'s docs describe another design, with zero-knowledge proofs and data committed to Bitcoin under a time-locked challenge; that commitment page reads TODO and no live deployment was found. B² also says the Hub moved to a Proof of Signal plus Stake consensus in September 2025, yet on 27 September 2026 the Hub explorer still showed 12-second blocks from three fee recipients. 2561215212831

Design

System
SidechainB² markets itself as a Bitcoin layer 2 and its docs describe a zero-knowledge rollup that settles on Bitcoin. The running mainnet is an optimistic rollup built from Optimism's OP Stack (chain 223) whose parent chain is B²'s own B² Hub (chain 213), a proof-of-stake network that runs B²'s forks of the Geth and Prysm clients and is operated by a small permissioned group. Bitcoin checks neither chain, and BTC arrives through a custodial bridge. With its own consensus and a custodial bridge to Bitcoin, B² is filed as a sidechain.
Settles to
BitcoinBTC enters from Bitcoin through B²'s bridge after six Bitcoin confirmations, and B² says Hub state is periodically committed to Bitcoin Taproot outputs. Bitcoin does not validate B² blocks or enforce withdrawals; the rollup's batches and state commitments go to B² Hub, B²'s own chain, not to Bitcoin.
Settlement family
Bitcoin family
Scarce resource
Other
State model
Accounts
Finality
Other
Who makes blocks
The rollup has one sequencer: the node guide sends every transaction to a single sequencer endpoint on a third-party hosting domain, and B² lists staking to become a sequencer only as a future use of B2. B² Hub shows 2,046 equal-weight validator keys, all active since its first epoch in April 2024 with none added since, and 50 Hub blocks sampled on 27 September 2026 paid only three fee-recipient addresses. Bitcoin Layers reports three permissioned Hub validators with undisclosed identities.
Fork choice
The rollup has no open fork choice: nodes follow the sequencer's blocks and later check them against batch data posted to B² Hub. B² Hub's forked Prysm client follows the chain with the most validator votes, then finalizes checkpoints, but only among its closed validator set, so a few operators decide the canonical Hub chain. Nothing in the reviewed setup lets Bitcoin's most-work chain override either chain.

Qualifications

Tradeoffs

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Emphasizes
Scalability Contested
Gives up
Decentralized operation and trust-minimized custody: one sequencer orders rollup blocks, a small permissioned group runs the parent chain that holds the rollup's data, rollup nodes are configured to trust B²-hosted parent-chain endpoints, and BTC on B² depends on a custodial multi-party signing wallet rather than on Bitcoin's rules.B²'s docs and posts say the network inherits Bitcoin's security through Taproot commitments and proofs. Bitcoin Layers says it currently inherits no security from Bitcoin, and this review found no Bitcoin-enforced check of B² state or withdrawals, so the security corner is not listed and the reading is marked contested. Scalability here means cheap EVM execution kept off Bitcoin, not a measured rate.
Full node at home
Practical at home 121320B²'s rollup node guide asks for 4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM, a 1 TB NVMe drive and a two-way internet connection it lists as 100 MBps, which a home machine can meet. The guide sets the node to trust B²-hosted Hub endpoints for parent-chain data, and no guide for running an independent Hub node was found, so a home node rechecks rollup execution but not the Hub operators. Hub blobs expire after a fixed window, about nine days under the Hub's consensus settings; B² publishes a recovery runbook for nodes that fall behind it.
Throughput claims
  • Unclassified: 200 2830Unclassified; do not compare.Milliseconds from submission to a pre-confirmation reply, as claimed by B² for its Pulsar engine; a latency claim, not a transaction rate.B²'s post mentions a stress test of 1 million transactions, but gives its results only as an image, states no hardware, network or method, and does not tie the figure to that test. A pre-confirmation is an early promise from validators, not settlement; B²'s own post says it still needs on-chain confirmation. B²'s Hub explorer still showed 12-second blocks from three fee recipients on 27 September 2026, so whether the engine behind this claim serves the live rollup was not confirmed.
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Scaling layers

No scaling layer recorded in this profile.

Capabilities

Capabilities of B² Network: how each one is provided, or its research status
CapabilityHow it is providedNotes and sources
Account abstractionStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Atomic swapsUnknownNo protocol-level trust-minimized swap was found. EVM contracts could implement hash-locked swaps, but none was reviewed, and any swap involving BTC on Bitcoin still depends on the custodial bridge.
Authenticated data publicationUnknownNot yet assessed under this row's current definition.
Light clientsUnknownNot yet assessed under the current definitions; no light client for B² was found. B² describes threshold-signature light clients for the Hub as a feature, but no implementation was reviewed, and the Hub's validator set is closed. 1
Native staking or delegationStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
On-chain governanceStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Parallel executionStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Payment or state channelsUnknownNo payment or state channel layer anchored to B² was found.
Programmable spendingNative (protocol or core-team software) Earlier definitionContracts run on an EVM with Cancun-era rules active from genesis, written in Solidity with standard tools. Bitcoin wallet users can act through smart accounts from Particle's BTC Connect, which B²'s guide says was deployed on testnet. 101116
Protocol-verified messagingStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Reversible transfers or recoveryUnknownNot yet assessed under the current definitions; the earlier review found no protocol feature for cancelling, delaying or recovering payments. The rollup page describes account recovery and revocable sub-accounts as part of its zkEVM account design, and B²'s agent accounts are said to support social recovery, but no cited source shows either live on mainnet. 13
RollupsUnknownB²'s tokenomics lists staking across other rollups on B² Hub as a future use of B2, but no rollup other than B²'s own was found settling on the Hub. B² itself is not a rollup on Bitcoin; see the class note. 14
Shielded transfersStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Signed partial offersUnknownNot yet assessed under this row's current definition.
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Structured assessment pending
The shared review has not assessed this feature for any chain yet (Account abstraction, Native staking or delegation, On-chain governance, Parallel execution, Protocol-verified messaging and Shielded transfers). That does not mean it is absent, and a chain’s profile may already describe it.
Unknown
The review has not established this for this chain under the current definition; the note beside it says why. Unknown is not absent and not a low score. A feature reads “Not present” only when a source shows it is absent.
Earlier definition
Payment or state channels, Programmable spending and Rollups keep the earlier definition until the next fact-check. There, “Native” does not separate the protocol from core-team software, “Ecosystem software” does not say who publishes it, and “Partial” does not say which layer.
Reading across rows
The list of capabilities is incomplete. Do not read these rows as a chain leading or lagging overall.

Definitions, schema version and review history

Ecosystem & custody

Ecosystem products for B² Network
Product typeStatusNotes and sources
Automated market makersThinGlowSwapGlowSwap publishes B² mainnet addresses for a concentrated-liquidity AMM with a swap router and position manager, and DefiLlama tracks it on B² as a Uniswap V3-style exchange. Whether any other exchange operates on B² was not established, and GlowSwap's operator and liquidity were not reviewed. 3234 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Issuer-native stablecoinsUnknownB² announced its BTC-backed U2 stablecoin as launched on 1 September 2025, but its docs give no U2 contract address; the explorer shows a token named U2 Stable Coin with three holders. USDT and USDC on B² are bridged: neither Circle's nor Tether's network lists name B². 4725303536 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Algorithmic stablecoinsUnknownNo algorithmic stablecoin with material usage was verified. The explorer shows satUSD, named Satoshi Stablecoin V2, a third-party dollar token whose design was not reviewed and is not assumed to be algorithmic. U2's docs describe a mint path that uses derivative hedges, but the only U2 token found had three holders. 426 As of Sep 27, 2026.
BridgesFirst-partyB² official bridge (Bitcoin to B²), Meson, Symbiosis, Hyperlane, Echo Bridge, TeleSwapB²'s bridge takes BTC from Bitcoin after six confirmations; its guide still said on 27 September 2026 that withdrawal is not yet available, and the bridge app itself could not be checked because B²'s site is region-blocked here. Meson's own list shows B² with BTC, USDC, USDT, ETH and POL. DefiLlama lists the other routes, which were not reviewed. Risk: Bitcoin cannot enforce this bridge, and B²'s bridge guide says its withdraw function is not yet available, so no documented official route returns BTC from B² to Bitcoin. Bitcoin Layers says deposits go into a multi-party signing wallet managed by B² and a custodian, with fewer than five individual signers publicly announced, and that a central party can immediately upgrade specific system contracts. The custodian Cobo announced in 2024 that it co-manages B²'s bridged assets with B² using multi-party signing. Other BTC tokens on B², such as uBTC, uniBTC and stBTC, rely on their own custodians. 82629313334 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Block explorersFirst-partyB² Network explorer (Blockscout), B² Hub explorer (Blockscout)Both explorers run Blockscout software on B²-operated sites and read B²'s own chain data; they are not an independent check of the operators. The rollup explorer is configured as an optimistic rollup whose parent chain is the Hub. Other explorers were not reviewed. 7222324 As of Sep 27, 2026.
Hardware walletsUnknownSee custody rows: Trezor and Ledger recognize the B2 token only as a token on BNB Smart Chain, a copy on another chain. Neither lists the B² network itself or the BTC used as gas on it, and B²'s docs name no hardware wallet, so hardware-wallet use on B² is undocumented rather than ruled out. 373839 As of Sep 27, 2026.

Hardware-wallet custody

Hardware-wallet custody for B² Network
Device makerStatusWhat users can and cannot do
LedgerUnknownSame as native: UnknownCannot: Find B² Network among the networks in Ledger's asset registry
Cannot: Rely on a Ledger coin page for B² or B2: every page tried returned 404, and the readable first page of Ledger's supported-assets list does not name itLedger's asset registry lists BSquared Token (B2) on BNB Smart Chain under the contract address B²'s guide gives. That is a token copy on another chain, not custody on the B² network or of the BTC used as gas there, so it does not count here. Signing B² transactions through a general EVM wallet paired with a Ledger was not documented by Ledger or B² and was not tested. 9383940 As of Sep 27, 2026.
TrezorUnknownSame as native: UnknownCannot: Use a Trezor-listed B² network: Trezor's BSquared Network page lists only BNB Smart Chain
Cannot: Find Trezor guidance for the BTC used as gas on B²Despite its BSquared Network title, Trezor's page is a token page for B2 on BNB Smart Chain, which a Trezor Safe 3, 5 or 7 can hold through Trezor Suite, MetaMask or Rabby; that token copy does not count as custody on B². B² runs an EVM, so using a Trezor with B² itself through MetaMask or Rabby may work, but neither Trezor nor B² documents it. 37 As of Sep 27, 2026.

Public data

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Public-data lookups for B² Network
LookupStatusWhat it covers and its limits
Address or accountNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
Tokens and assetsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
NFTsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
TransactionsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.

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Sourced developments

Developments: Review overdue Reviewed Sep 27, 2026; next review was due Oct 7, 2026, 12:00 UTC.

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Sources

Oldest dated source check: Source checked Sep 27, 2026 Next check due Oct 27, 2026.

All 40 sources were checked in the last 30 days.

  1. Core Modules Overview (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  2. B² Hub (Layer 1.5 PoSg Consensus) (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  3. B² Rollup (Bitcoin Layer2) (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  4. U2 Stablecoin (BTC-Collateralized Settlement Layer) (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  5. B² Nodes (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  6. B² Commitment (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  7. Basic information (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  8. Bridge to B² Mainnet (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  9. Add B2 token on BNB Chain (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  10. Write a contract (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  11. Integrate Particle Account Abstraction (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  12. Deploy a rollup node (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  13. OP-Geth Catch-Up & Recovery Runbook (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  14. Tokenomics (external site)B² Network Documentation · retrieved
  15. nodes/rollup.json (mainnet rollup configuration) (external site)B² Network (GitHub) · retrieved
  16. nodes/genesis.json (mainnet genesis) (external site)B² Network (GitHub) · retrieved
  17. B2Token.sol (external site)B² Network (GitHub) · retrieved
  18. pulsar (external site)B² Network (GitHub) · retrieved
  19. b2-committer (external site)B² Network (GitHub) · retrieved
  20. B² Hub consensus configuration (beacon API) (external site)B² Network · retrieved
  21. B² Hub active validators (beacon API) (external site)B² Network · retrieved
  22. The B² Network Blockchain explorer (external site)B² Network (Blockscout) · retrieved
  23. B² Network explorer configuration (external site)B² Network (Blockscout) · retrieved
  24. b2hub mainnet explorer (external site)B² Network (Blockscout) · retrieved
  25. Explorer token search for U2 (external site)B² Network (Blockscout API) · retrieved
  26. Explorer ERC-20 token list (external site)B² Network (Blockscout API) · retrieved
  27. Explorer list of state commitments posted to B² Hub (external site)B² Network (Blockscout API) · retrieved
  28. Hub explorer list of recent B² Hub blocks (external site)B² Network (Blockscout API) · retrieved
  29. Cobo Partners with B² Network to Enhance Advanced Bitcoin Layer 2 Infrastructure with Co-Managed MPC Custody Solution (external site)Cobo · retrieved
  30. B² Network on Medium (RSS feed) (external site)B² Network · retrieved
  31. Bsquared Network review (content/layers/bsquared.ts, source of bitcoinlayers.org/layers/bsquared) (external site)Bitcoin Layers (GitHub) · retrieved
  32. Contract Address (external site)GlowSwap Docs · retrieved
  33. Meson supported chains and tokens (relayer API) (external site)Meson · retrieved
  34. Protocols dataset (external site)DefiLlama · retrieved
  35. USDC contract addresses (external site)Circle · retrieved
  36. Supported Protocols (external site)Tether · retrieved
  37. BSquared Network wallet (external site)Trezor · retrieved
  38. Ledger crypto-assets service, tokens with ticker B2 (external site)Ledger · retrieved
  39. Ledger crypto-assets service, network list (external site)Ledger · retrieved
  40. Ledger Supported Coins & Tokens (external site)Ledger · retrieved

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