Mintlayer

Mintlayer (ML)

What is Mintlayer?

What is Mintlayer (ML)? Mintlayer is a layer 2 solution that allows users to build a decentralized finance ecosystem rooted in the established network of the Bitcoin blockchain opening Bitcoin to DeFi, smart contracts, atomic swaps, NFTs, and dapps. Mintlayer is a protocol focused on developing a decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem that leverages the Bitcoin and Lightning Network. The company’s vision is to develop a platform to deploy smart contracts on the BTC blockchain, which will eventually give rise to a decentralized exchange (DEX). Mintlayer is opening up new ways for the DeFi sector to integrate with Bitcoin to enable real-world financial use cases on the Bitcoin blockchain. Mintlayer USP - Atomic Swaps While other projects are trying to enable DeFi on Bitcoin, Mintlayer is the only protocol that enables direct 1:1 swap of Native Bitcoin for other tokenized assets Minted directly on Mintlayer. With these atomic swaps on Mintlayer, there are no intermediaries, peg-in, wrapped, or federated tokens. No other project has approached asset swaps in this manner, and it enables users to use native Bitcoin for financial instruments without counterparty or intermediary risk. Additional Features: -Unlike Ethereum, users can choose any token to pay transaction fees. -With Turing incomplete smart contracts, Mintlayer reduces the risk of contract failure and increases outcome predictability. This feature also reduces on-chain congestion. -It has an access control list or Access control list (ACL) for improved compliance with security tokens such as whitelisting/blacklisting addresses and such functionalities. -With multi-token transfers in a single transaction, Mintlayer makes aggregated payments a reality.

Key Facts & Snapshot

• Symbol: ML
• CoinGecko id: mintlayer
• Market cap rank (CoinGecko): #2501
• Categories: Smart Contract Platform, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Ethereum Ecosystem, Real World Assets (RWA), Proof of Stake (PoS), Bitcoin Sidechains, SideChain
• Circulating supply (snapshot): 228,301,886
• Total supply (snapshot): 400,000,000
• Max supply (snapshot): 600,000,000
• All-time high (USD, CoinGecko): $0.9883 (Jan 11, 2024)
• All-time low (USD, CoinGecko): $0.006524 (Mar 30, 2026)

Market (USD snapshot)

• Market cap (USD, snapshot): $1.57M
• 24h volume (USD, snapshot): $135.39K
• Fully diluted valuation (USD, snapshot): $2.75M
• 24h price change (snapshot): +0.09%

Community & code (CoinGecko)

• Telegram members (CoinGecko): 24,838

Contract addresses (by platform)

• ethereum: 0x059956483753947536204e89bfad909e1a434cc6

Official & Community Links

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