Goat's greatest innovation is allowing static value assets like #BTC to access future returns in advance.
Currently, many L2 chains for BTC offer good interest rates for staking.
📌 But only Goat can achieve this: by staking BTC, you can directly access future returns. For specific gameplay, see below.
Other L2 or Bitcoin products rely on whole coin holdings, with returns tied to a future point, which cannot be split or used in advance, creating severe liquidity dead ends.
@GOATRollup has created a brand new splitting mechanism: by separating BTC holding returns into two parts—pBTC (principal) and yToken (future return rights).
🔸 The process is as follows:
You hold BTC → collateral staking → generate future returns → the system immediately splits out this portion of future return rights (yToken).
🔸 What is the benefit?
> Sell yToken on the market to cash out future returns in advance.
> Hold pBTC to continue holding, for trading, lending, NFT minting, or other BTCFi applications.
🔸 This set of small tricks from GOAT allows you to fast forward to mastering the Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms; once you learn it, you can slowly tackle monsters!
To ensure the economic sustainability of this system, GOAT has also introduced a structural mechanism innovation: operator role rotation + cross-cycle self-subsidy model.
GOAT nodes do not permanently hold one role but rotate between Sequencer (sorter), Prover (verifier), and Publisher:
> When the node is a sorter: can earn transaction fees + MEV + yToken return rights.
> When the node is a verifier/publisher: must bear the costs of computation and data publishing.
Through cyclical rotation, the profits and losses between different node roles can achieve self-balancing over time.
This means that GOAT's incentive model does not rely on large-scale inflation issuance and does not require continuous external subsidies.
🔸 This structure also has an invisible benefit: lowering the threshold.
Small and medium nodes no longer need to bear the long-term high fixed duty burden, as everyone will rotate.
Those who have been running long enough will find the system will self-adjust the costs and returns; short-term arbitrage roles that come in will not gain any benefits, naturally not affecting overall security.
The core support of this structure is the technical layer BitVM2 + zkMIPS, combined with GOAT's self-developed multi-round challenger mechanism, compressing the challenge time from 14 days to 1 day, greatly enhancing security and user experience.
This ZK system has now entered the Alpha mainnet phase, paired with a yield dashboard, lending platform Avalon, and NFT trading market GOATible, forming a complete closed loop for BTCFi.
So what is @GOATRollup's background? Such a mechanism would be a hacker's ATM without strong technical support; you need not worry about this, as Goat's founder is Kevin Liu, co-founder of Metis and ZKM.
@kevinliub's recent social media remarks have greatly increased my goodwill; he is approachable, willing to listen to community opinions, and welcomes negative comments, emphasizing a down-to-earth approach.
In terms of financing, led by OKX Ventures, participating institutions include https://t.co/13svC5KG18, Polygon Ventures, Amber Group, and Metis Foundation, with the financing amount around $5 million.
Finally, according to the roadmap of the GOAT Network, the public testing mainnet and TGE are the most important things this year, which means the token will be launched!
📍Goat is the BTC L2 project I am most looking forward to; I have been tracking it since last year, and it is finally about to launch!