As Bitcoin continues to mature beyond its foundational role as a decentralized digital store of value, infrastructure gaps persist in enabling accessible, Bitcoin-native application ecosystems that unlock its utility. Mezo addresses this as a Bitcoin Layer2 infrastructure project positioning itself as an economic layer—expanding Bitcoin’s use cases while retaining its core security guarantees. Unlike many Bitcoin economic layer focuses on facilitating a closed-loop Bitcoin economy that does not treat Bitcoin solely as a long-term “savings technology” but integrates its token across a network of dApps.

Central to Mezo’s design is the HODL Proof points program, a mechanism that leverages the idle Bitcoin of network participants. Users contribute idle holdings rather than requiring active mining or staking in a traditional Proof-of-Stake (PoS) validation context. Instead, contributors earn HODL Proof scores, with longer holding periods unlocking increasing multipliers applied to their earned points.

While technical details remain constrained, Mezo’s core architecture ties its utility-focused infrastructure on a Bitcoin-native way, ensuring all operations and assets ultimately anchored to Bitcoin’s mainnet to inherit its immutability and censorship resistance as a foundational Layer2 design choice.