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“They forked the whole forest. So we forked them.”

Layer Two Labs clones the entire crypto forest onto Bitcoin — an Ethereum here, a Zcash there — and they do it all in the open, on GitHub. It's a beautiful thing to watch: a thousand altcoins, regrown as honest Bitcoin branches.

So we did the single most natural thing in all of nature. We forked them.

In a forest, a fork isn't theft. It's how one branch becomes two. Their open source was our seed; we're simply the next growth ring.

Treechains — sidechains grafted onto Bitcoin as living branches.

Everything can be grown on Bitcoin based software.

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Target

Alpha

23rd august 2026

block 963,648 ✓

Beta

20th september 2026

block ∼967,688

Mainnet

31st october 2026

block ∼973,728

grown.

The first branch has taken. Everything can be grown on Bitcoin based software — and it just started. Step into the forest →

We didn’t just fork them — we mined them. On 23 Aug 2026 a single Bitaxe won block 963,648 — the genesis of LayerTwo Labs’ own eCash Alpha fork — and stamped it /layertree-ecash/. The first block, the first 25 in a row, 43 of the first 47.
▸ Watch the 3D story · see it on-chain

L3L / Plate 02 · Dendrochronology — Core Sample

Count the rings.

We bored a core out of the old-growth Bitcoin trunk. Every ring is a year of honest growth — wide rings were good rain, narrow rings were winter, and the scars are exactly what you think they are. Run your cursor across the grain to read the wood.

Core sample L3L-01 · awaiting survey

Hover a ring to date it. Field botany tip: start at the heartwood and work outward — the tree did.

rings surveyed 00 / 18