Collaboration between Miners and #Bitlayer : Why This is a 'Win-Win' for the Bitcoin Ecosystem

When top mining pools like Antpool, F2Pool, and SpiderPool announced their partnership with #Bitlayer , the entire crypto community recognized: the Bitcoin mining community is embracing the future of BTCFi. This collaboration of 'computing power and ecosystem' not only injects strong momentum into #Bitlayer but also opens up new revenue sources for miners, making it a 'win-win' scenario for the Bitcoin ecosystem.

For miners, cooperation means expanding revenue models. For a long time, miners' main earnings came from block rewards and transaction fees, and this partnership provides a new direction: as supporters of the computing power for the #Bitlayer network, miners can earn additional income by providing security guarantees; the user resources from mining pools can be seamlessly integrated into the Bitlayer ecosystem, allowing participation in DeFi activities to earn profits, forming a dual income structure of 'mining + DeFi'. This model can provide miners with a more stable cash flow during periods of significant price fluctuations in Bitcoin.

@BitlayerLabs has gained access to the Bitcoin ecosystem's most core resources—computing power and users—through cooperation with mining pools. Miners' participation enhances the network's security, especially in key aspects such as state submissions and challenge verifications, where the computing power support from mining pools makes the entire Rollup architecture more robust. At the same time, the large number of Bitcoin holders accumulated by mining pools are precisely the user groups that the Bitlayer ecosystem needs most; their involvement can quickly increase the ecosystem's TVL and activity.

The technical design of #Bitlayer makes this collaboration smoother. Its Rollup architecture places transaction execution on Layer 2, while finality is anchored to the Bitcoin mainnet, which aligns closely with the core interests of miners—ensuring that the security of the Bitcoin mainnet is not compromised while expanding Bitcoin's application scenarios through Layer 2. The trust-minimized cross-chain solution provided by BitVM Bridge allows Bitcoin held by miners to be safely converted into YBTC, enabling participation in lending, market-making, and other activities, further enhancing asset utilization.

The collaboration between @BitlayerLabs and mining pools essentially represents the integration of the 'security base of Bitcoin' and the 'financial application ecosystem'. Miners ensure network security with computing power, while Bitlayer creates new revenues for miners through the ecosystem; miners bring users and assets, and Bitlayer assigns new value to these assets.