Bitcoin Hyper’s presale has surged past the $9M milestone, helped by a wave of large buys – including a record-breaking $161K purchase and several other $50K+ entries.
This frenzy is fueled by a long-standing but straightforward problem: Bitcoin’s painfully slow transaction speed and unpredictable fees.
At roughly seven transactions per second (TPS), $BTC is outpaced by almost every major smart contract chain. In peak demand (such as the Runes minting rush ), fees jump from a couple of dollars to $100+, pushing everyday payments and smaller trades out of reach.
Meanwhile, networks like Solana can process 65K+ TPS with little to no costs, powering DeFi, gaming, and meme coin markets.
Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) aims to close that gap by introducing a Layer-2 ecosystem, making Bitcoi