Bitcoin Defi sees an increase in mining post despite the decrease in TVL

The ROOTSTOCK platform, the decentralized financing (Defi) on Bitcoin, has witnessed a sharp increase in network security and mining participation in the first quarter of 2025, even with cooling activity.

Integrated mining participation increased to the highest level ever by 81 %, an increase of 56.4 % in the fourth quarter of 2024, driven by merged major mining pools and SpiderPool, according to the “Root Case” report in Messenger of 2025, and shared with CointeleGRAPH.

The interest of the growing miners has strengthened the root root power of more than 740 Exhashes per second, bypassing a total of the Bitcoin network registered in October 2024. As a result, the network is now considered a “mature stage” of integrated mining growth.

The increasing security coincided with a 60 % decrease in transaction fees, which improving the user experience and determining the root mode more competitively in the ecosystem of the Bitcoin 2.

“As BTCFI continues to grow, Rootstock is in a good position for broader accreditation through basic upgrades such as 60 % reduction in transactions fees, as well as continuous investment in education programs and incentives,” said Andrew Yang, a Messari analyst.

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DEFI TVL drops from ROOTSTOCK

Despite the mining teacher, the DEFI’s ecological system in Rootstock witnessed a decrease in TVL value (TVL) During Q1 2025, with bitcoin (BTC)-TVL, which was ranked 7.2 %, decreased and the TVL, provided in US dollars, decreased by 20 % a quarter of a quarter to 179.9 million dollars.

Although TVL was briefly peak at $ 244.6 million in January during the Bitcoin prices, it is heading down of March, which reflects a wider market cooling.

For perspective, Defi TVL also witnessed a sharp decrease of 27 % in the first quarter, severely hit the uncertainty in the macro and exploited $ 1.4 billion, According to To a report from DAPPRADAR.

Stablecoin Market has also undergone ROOTSTOCK noticeable changes. Usdt (USDTStablecoin remained in value, with $ 3.8 million and market share 27.5 %. However, its hegemony decreased dramatically from 41.3 % in the fourth quarter of 2024.

By the end of the Q1, no stablecoin did not lead more than 30 % of the Stablecoin market in Rootstock.

The active headlines decreased by 26.5 %, and new addresses decreased by 54.7 %, although daily transactions increased slightly by 4.3 %, reaching an average of 11524 per day.

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Rootstock sees progress on the development interface

On the Development Front, the platform activated the promotion of lovell 7.0.0 Ethereum (EVM) virtual device (EVM) Compatibility and performance of the smart nodes.

Rootstock has also expanded its ecological system through integration with Layerzero and Meson Finance and launched initiatives that focus on developers, including the new Hackathon and the improvements to the governance platform, ROOTSTOCKCOLCTIVE.

On May 1, Alexei Zamyatin, co -founder of The Bitcoin Layer 2 on Bitcoin, said that the first Defi company to launch a range of easy -to -use products on Bitcoin “wins the entire market” 300 million Blockchain users.

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