According to @muneeb, 2024 provided a first glimpse of Bitcoin DeFi and the start of an on-chain bitcoin economy, and current work by Stacks developers and other projects targets making BTC fully self-custodial for L2s and DeFi. source: @muneeb on X, Sep 11, 2025. For trading, this post directs attention to Bitcoin Layer 2 and Stacks (STX) development milestones around self-custodial BTC flows as the near-term narrative to monitor. source: @muneeb on X, Sep 11, 2025.

According to ZachXBT, he is not currently investigating any projects related to Bitcoin Ordinals or Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions. He believes that most of these projects are fraudulent or scams, and therefore, not worth his time or effort.