Introducing Twine, the multichain settlement network.

Apps and users can use Twine to access liquidity on any chain they like, with no required opt-in for chains.

One chain to Twine 'em all .

Bridges today are notoriously famous for getting hacked. We’ve suffered from over $2.8B in hacks just through bridges, according to DefiLlama. The agony of hacks in multiple cross-chain protocols just within the last month is still fresh in our minds. Users don’t deserve this!

Fragmentation is a problem that our industry has been fighting for almost as long as the industry has existed. We’ve progressed from using shady centralized exchanges to multi-sig/third-party bridges to transfer value between chains, but the problem still persists.

Similarly, the current cross chain paradigm is limited in its User Experience (UX) and Developer Experience (DevX) due to the inherent isolation present in blockchains.

There’s a rising trend of opt-in based interoperability solutions like AggLayer, Superchain, etc. which solves these problem within the chains opted into their protocol, but at a much larger social cost.

A chain opted into AggLayer can't access another chain from Superchain. This will take us from the world of fragmented chains to fragmented ecosystems, which brings us back to the same problems.

We realized that the ideal solution with the best security and experience for users and developers looks something like this:

A unified non opt-in platform connected to multiple chains so that they can perform multi-chain equivalent operations with single chain experience without compromising the security.

Enter Twine

Twine is a multi-settlement network that enables aggregation of chains for seamless UX and DevX without any chain opting in.

Instead of settling on a single base layer, Twine settles on multiple base layers like Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, etc. This means users can access Ethereum, Solana, and Bitcoin liquidity, all from a single platform.

Twine unlocks a new paradigm for cross chain app developers by encapsulating assets from multiple chains into a single chain. Now devs can focus on what they should really focus on; innovating at the application level.

Along with a seamless DevX, users now don’t need to hop between multiple chains to perform transactions. For example, a Uniswap deployment on Twine allows for swaps between an asset from Ethereum and another from Solana without any changes.

An intuitive framework to describe Twine is a trust-minimized and programmable CEX.

Traditional CEXs are trusted in nature, but provide the best UX for assets from multiple chains. However, we need to eliminate the trust assumptions. Otherwise...

In this way, Twine is not competing for the small onchain market of users, liquidity, and activity. Its aim is to bring the CEX users on-chain and explode the on-chain activity.

CEX users are the lowest hanging fruit for onchain adoption. If we can't onboard them, we've got some serious issues as an industry.

We are super thrilled to be building Twine. With the strong comeback of Solana, rise of Bitcoin L2s, exponential growth of TON, and, of course, the great Ethereum based chains, there couldn’t have been a better time to be building towards the vision of unifying these heterogeneous ecosystems.

This is extremely important because we need the onchain experience to keep improving, not degrading, even in the midst of a chaotic rise in the number of blockchains.

We'll be releasing various in-depth documents and articles soon describing Twine in details. Stay tuned and join our community!

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