GOAT Network has accumulated 34 BTC to establish an ecological pilot fund, taking the lead in driving Bitcoin ecological incentives with native BTC

This article is a submission from GOAT Network and does not represent the views of ChainCatcher, nor does it constitute any investment advice.

The Bitcoin native zkRollup network GOAT Network has announced that the project team has purchased a total of 34 BTC over the past year as a long-term strategic reserve to support ecological development. The reserve is now officially disclosed, and the first Ecosystem Pilot Fund is launched.

The fund aims to accelerate the sustainable development of Bitcoin native zkRollup applications, with funds primarily allocated for protocol liquidity construction, community incentives, and developer contribution rewards.

GOAT Network is the first Bitcoin Layer 2 project to officially use its own BTC reserves for ecological incentives. In contrast, many other Bitcoin ecological projects only issue their own tokens for incentives and have not truly realized native earnings paid in BTC. For top liquidity providers, BTC earnings are essential. GOAT's approach demonstrates its unique commitment to ecological construction in the Bitcoin Layer 2 space.

As of now, the fund has invested over 2 BTC for community user rewards. In addition to liquidity support, community users can also earn BTC rewards through the on-chain Gas revenue mechanism. The Artemis Finance protocol on GOAT Network currently offers an annual percentage rate (APR) of over 7% for BTC and a total APR of over 87%. Users can earn rewards through staking and earn points for future airdrops: https://artemisfinance.io/stake-goat?from=home

Related initiatives have propelled GOAT Network to rank among the top in terms of activity across all Bitcoin L2s, with daily trading volumes as follows:

• GOAT Network: 51,000

• Botanix: 15,000

• Corn: 8,880

• BOB: 55,000

• Bitlayer: 42,000

• Rootstock: 46,000

• Bouncebit: 59,000

GOAT Network is still in the early stages of its Alpha mainnet launch. With the continuous expansion of ecological partners, the complete realization of Bitcoin security through BitVM technology, and the increase of BTC earning products, the network is expected to continue accelerating growth.

To encourage more developers and community members to participate in construction, GOAT Network has also launched several ecological tasks:

• Complete the One Piece Season 3 task to earn points and unlock BTC blind boxes:
  https://onepiece.goat.network/invite

• Participate in ZKM and GOAT Network GitHub code contribution tasks to earn developer points:

• https://github.com/ProjectZKM

• https://github.com/GOATNetwork

The 34 BTC Ecosystem Pilot Fund is just the starting point of its native incentive system. A complete Ecosystem Development Fund is in preparation, which will include open funding applications, milestone-based support, and incentive mechanisms for long-term contributors, expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2025 with an initial scale of tens of millions of dollars.

Kevin Liu, a core contributor of GOAT Network, stated: "Our BTC reserves are the ammunition for ecological development. This initiative continues our recent launch of the BTC Yield Dashboard—the world's first chain-level BTC sustainable earnings product suite. By directly binding earnings to BTC and locking in long-term capital reserves, we have chosen a long-termism path prioritizing infrastructure over chasing short-term speculation."

The timing of GOAT Network's launch of the 34 BTC Ecosystem Pilot Fund is also crucial, as the Bitcoin economy is entering a new phase. With the listing of Bitcoin spot ETFs and institutions continuously accumulating BTC, the next key question is: how to achieve sustainable earnings from these holdings? Currently, there is still a lack of truly native, institutional-level solutions in the market. Most networks use their own tokens for incentives, which are often highly volatile and exhibit significant inflation, rather than incentivizing with BTC.

GOAT Network's use of native BTC (rather than its own tokens) to initiate ecological incentives not only demonstrates a genuine commitment to "betting with real money" but also establishes a sustainable incentive framework for liquidity providers. This aligns with the core spirit of Bitcoin and makes GOAT the most natural path for institutions and digital asset treasuries to securely deploy funds, earn returns, and participate in network growth.

Jason, the head of the Avalon Finance ecosystem, a leading BTCFi application on GOAT, stated: "GOAT's approach of supporting the ecosystem with BTC reserves is exciting. It sets a new benchmark for how the network can support builders and the community without deviating from the spirit of Bitcoin."

As for "why now," the answer is becoming increasingly clear: as Bitcoin block rewards continue to halve, the network needs more trading activity and real application scenarios. Bitcoin Layer 2 will drive this wave of applications, and GOAT has taken a key step by putting BTC into actual operation.

Two weeks before the release of this Ecosystem Pilot Fund, GOAT Network launched the BitVM2 Beta testnet, becoming the first Bitcoin Layer 2 to achieve real-time proofs in a production environment. The system achieved 5 provers in parallel and real-time proofs in under 3 seconds, marking an important step in the sustainability of Bitcoin financial infrastructure. GOAT is leading the expansion of Bitcoin from "store of value" to "sustainable earnings" and "decentralized infrastructure," truly empowering users and developers.

With BitVM2 achieving real-time proofs in a production environment, GOAT Network has made all peg-out proofs on-chain, data-driven, visualized, and verifiable, truly grounding zkRollup from narrative to technical baseline. From now on, zkRollup should not just be a label but should become the new standard of "real-time, complete, and verifiable."

Users can now view the complete proof process of each withdrawal operation in real-time on this page:
https://bitvm2.testnet3.goat.network/proof