F2Pool Launches Dual Layer Rewards with NAT, Entering the 'Coin Companion' Era for BTC Mining

On April 25, F2Pool, the world’s second-largest mining pool, announced that it will launch the NAT block distribution mechanism on April 27. Miners will be able to earn NAT rewards while mining BTC, officially expanding the dual-layer revenue model to leading mining pools. NAT (DMT-NAT) is positioned as a native companion asset of Bitcoin, sharing the same computing power, public chain, block, and address as BTC. Every ten minutes, approximately 386 million NAT tokens are produced per block, currently valued at about $100 per block, with a total market capitalization of around $100 million. NAT has become the highest market cap token in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Previously, SpiderPool was the first to support this mechanism, and with F2Pool’s integration, NAT is beginning to expand from a single mining pool to mainstream computing power entry points, promoting a new revenue model of ‘mining BTC + earning companion coins.’ Relevant analyses suggest that if the value of NAT continues to rise, it may partially offset the decline in miner income after the halving and explore new solutions to the Bitcoin network’s ‘security budget’ issue.