Redesigning #BTCFi from the Ground Up: GOAT's Rotation Mechanism for Universal Operators #Bitcoin began as a trustless, decentralized network. But over time, many so-called innovations have quietly reintroduced central points of control. At #GOATNetwork, we go one step further. We redesign not just sequencers, but all core roles into a unified, rotating system that ensures fairness, resilience, and true decentralization. The key idea in our economic design is to unify sequencers, provers, and challengers under a single umbrella called the universal operator. Every operator stakes tokens in L2 and rotates through all roles over time. Here’s what this achieves: 🔹 No single-role dominance Operators don’t stay as sequencers who earn fees or provers who bear costs forever. Instead, they rotate across roles, ensuring that everyone shares both the upside and the responsibility. 🔹 Balanced incentives If you spend this epoch proving or publishing at a cost, you are more likely to sequence and earn in the next. This kind of cross-subsidization smooths out income volatility and keeps incentives aligned. 🔹 Lower barriers to entry Even if proving is resource-intensive, smaller operators can still join. They know they will not be required to prove every time. They can earn from other roles in the meantime, which opens up participation and enhances decentralization. 🔹 Censorship resistance If one operator goes offline, the system simply rotates the role to another participant. There is no single point of failure and no permanent dependency on a specific sequencer. In essence, GOAT Network turns the fragmented roles of #Layer2 into a collaborative, rotating ecosystem of staked operators. It is not just #decentralization in name. It is decentralization in practice. This approach prevents role specialization from creeping back in and reintroducing centralization. GOAT becomes the first Bitcoin-native ZK Rollup with true incentive-layer decentralization, not only at the protocol level but at the economic layer as well. The future of BTCFi demands more than performance. It requires trustless participation at every level. GOAT is building exactly that. 🌐 Read more: