GOAT Network Purchased 34 BTC as Pilot Fund to Support Liquidity Incentives and Community Growth

BitcoinWorld GOAT Network Purchased 34 BTC as Pilot Fund to Support Liquidity Incentives and Community Growth GOAT Network , the Bitcoin-native zkRollup offering sustainable BTC yield, has announced that it has gradually accumulated 34 BTC over the past year as a long-term strategic reserve to support its ￰5￱ the project officially disclosed this reserve for the first time, while formally launching its Ecosystem Pilot ￰6￱ fund is designed to accelerate the sustainable development of Bitcoin-native zkRollup ￰7￱ BTC will be primarily used to support protocol liquidity, community incentives, and developer ￰8￱ move by GOAT Network marks the first time a Bitcoin Layer 2 network has committed its own BTC treasury to ecosystem ￰9￱ other Bitcoin ecosystem projects have at times emitted their own tokens, they have not delivered native BTC yield — a must for the largest and most successful liquidity ￰10￱ its own BTC treasury demonstrates a commitment to sustainable ecosystem building that’s unique in the Bitcoin Layer 2 ￰11￱ date, more than 2 BTC from the fund has already been deployed toward community user rewards.

That’s in addition to BTC deployed into liquidity pools, and community user rewards derived from onchain gas fee ￰12￱ Artemis Finance protocol on GOAT Network currently offers more than 7% BTC APR and more than 87% total ￰13￱ can stake to earn yield while collecting points for future airdrops: ￰0￱ These moves have fueled some of the highest adoption metrics among all Bitcoin L2s, per daily transaction volume: GOAT Network: 51,000 Botanix: 15,000 Corn: 8,880 BOB: 55,000 Bitlayer: 42,000 Rootstock: 46,000 Bouncebit: 59,000 With GOAT Network just a few months into its alpha mainnet stage, the network expects to see accelerating growth, as it builds its list of ecosystem partners, adopts full Bitcoin-native security via BitVM technology, and expands its list of BTC yield ￰14￱ Network has also launched a range of ecosystem participation tasks to encourage builders and contributors to get involved: Complete missions in One Piece Season 3 to earn points and unlock BTC mystery boxes: ￰1￱ Contribute to ZKM and GOAT Network GitHub repositories to earn developer contribution points: GOAT Network emphasized that this 34 BTC Pilot Fund is only the beginning of its BTC-native incentive framework.

A full-scale Ecosystem Development Fund is in the works, featuring open grant applications, milestone-based support, and long-term builder rewards—powering sustainable innovation across the Bitcoin ￰15￱ GOAT Network Ecosystem Development Fund will go live in Q4 2025, at a starting value in the tens of millions. “Our strategic reserve represents a war chest to support ecosystem growth, and follows the recent launch of our BTC Yield Dashboard, the world’s first suite of sustainable, chain-level Bitcoin yield products,” said Kevin Liu, Core Contributor for GOAT Network. “By tying yield generation directly to Bitcoin and locking in long-term reserves, we are playing the long game – infrastructure-first, rather than chasing short-term hype.” The timing of GOAT Network’s 34 BTC Ecosystem Pilot Fund is critical because the Bitcoin economy is entering a new ￰16￱ ETFs launched and institutions accumulating BTC, the next major question is how to generate sustainable yield on these ￰17￱ now, there is no native, institutional-grade solution for this—most networks incentivize with their own tokens, which are volatile and inflationary—rather than providing incentives paid in ￰18￱ committing native BTC (rather than its own token) to bootstrap ecosystem incentives, GOAT Network is demonstrating real skin in the game, while creating a sustainable framework for liquidity ￰19￱ not only aligns with Bitcoin’s ethos, but also positions GOAT as the most natural pathway for institutions and digital asset treasuries to deploy capital securely, earn yield, and contribute to network growth.

“It’s inspiring to see GOAT lead with conviction by committing its BTC treasury to ecosystem growth,” said Jason, Ecosystem Lead for Avalon Finance, one of the top BTCFi dApps on GOAT Network . “This move sets a new standard for how networks can support builders and communities while staying true to Bitcoin’s ethos.” As for “why now”, the answer is clear: as block rewards diminish with halvings, the Bitcoin network needs more transactional activity and more use ￰20￱ Layer 2s will drive this next wave of adoption, and GOAT is leading by putting actual BTC to work ￰21￱ announcement comes just weeks after GOAT Network unveiled its BitVM2 Beta Testnet , introducing sub-three-second real-time proving across five provers, a major leap toward sustainable Bitcoin-based financial ￰22￱ Network is at the forefront of expanding Bitcoin’s utility beyond a store of value, offering sustainable yield opportunities and a decentralized infrastructure that empowers users and developers ￰23￱ recent launch of GOAT Network’s BitVM2 Beta Testnet means users can withdraw instantly without waiting for delayed proofs, and operators don’t have to lock up excess capital while waiting for transactions to finalize.

Additionally, developers can build apps that actually scale under real-world conditions, handling high traffic without ￰24￱ the first Bitcoin Layer 2 to implement real-time proving in a production environment, GOAT Network has made every peg-out proof fully data-driven, visualized, and verifiable — turning zkRollup from a narrative into a verifiable ￰25￱ this point on, “zkRollup” should no longer be just a label, but a baseline defined by real-time, complete, and provable ￰26￱ can now view the full proof generation process for every peg-out — not just a generic “success” message — through the live UI: ￰2￱ For more information visit: ￰3￱ GOAT Network on X: ￰4￱ View the GOAT BitVM2 Whitepaper ￰27￱ GOAT Network GOAT Network is the first Bitcoin-native ZK Rollup engineered to deliver sustainable, native BTC yield through a breakthrough combination of in-house zkMIPS (the fastest production-ready zkVM), a practical BitVM2 challenge model (reducing the challenging period from 14 days to less than 1 day), and Bitcoin’s first Decentralized Sequencer ￰28￱ link This post GOAT Network Purchased 34 BTC as Pilot Fund to Support Liquidity Incentives and Community Growth first appeared on BitcoinWorld and is written by Blockchainwire