Introduction

Despite rapid growth, the Web3 ecosystem remains fragmented – wallets, assets and identities are often siloed across blockchain networks, dApps, and devices hindering fluent user experience and adoption. The vast potential of Web3 is constrained by fragmentation, leading to –

• Friction-laden Onboarding – Cumbersome wallet onboarding, overwhelming management of ecosystem-specific tooling, and protocols.
• Fragmented Assets – Asset fragmentation across EVMs, and non-EVM ecosystems, hinder fluent UX.
• Gas Barriers - Managing and acquiring gas tokens impeding initial adoption

Moreover, fragmentation has introduced a host of challenges, such as the complexity of aggregating reputations, disjointed and inconsistent user engagement, and difficulties in maintaining user retention. These issues create significant barriers to a seamless and cohesive user experience across various platforms.

Unchained – Modular Chain Abstraction

Tria has built Unchained, a modular chain abstraction AVS L2 to strategically streamline critical imperfections of the current multi-chain environment. This redefines the user and developer experience through two profound ways –

Developers reach the entire Web3

Tria's plug-and-play chain abstraction SDKs allow developers to enable Web3 users to connect any wallet and use any asset on their dApp. The SDK comes with social logins, phone and email or DID-based logins. Users don't need to bridges, pay gas, or worry about dApp-wallet compatibility.

End-user experience

Tria’s chain abstraction enables users to connect their wallets, and use assets on any dApp in any ecosystem – EVM and non-EVM seamlessly. No need multiple wallets, bridging from one network to the other, or managing gas tokens. These journeys leverage abstracted gas and unified liquidity, aka chain-abstraction, where –

Gas Abstraction – all tokens are universal gas tokens

Unified Liquidity – use any asset, on any dApp or chain directly

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Cross-chain vs Chain-Abstraction

Interacting with Ethereum and Alternative Virtual Machines like (Solana, Cosmos, Aptos, etc.) present significant challenges. The strategy of horizontally scaling Ethereum through a rollup-centric roadmap has led to a fragmented user experience (UX) for both users and developers. Users often face multiple prompts and transactions to engage with various chains — a complexity that increases with more chains. To effectively scale, it is essential to provide a unified and straightforward experience across all chains.

Chain Abstraction is a higher-level concept that abstracts away the underlying chain, allowing users to use any blockchain network, without having to switch networks, bridge tokens, managing multiple gas tokens, and more. Chain abstraction harmonizes user interaction across multiple networks, dissolving the intricacies of multi-chain engagement into a single, coherent user experience using gas abstraction and liquidity unification. By enabling this, users no longer face the cumbersome task of switching networks, authenticating multiple transactions, managing gas tokens on each network, or bridging and swapping tokens independently to use them across applications. They are empowered to use any token across any dApp within any EVM and non-EVM network through a unified interface.

Unchained

Unchained is a modular Chain-abstraction AVS Layer 2 built on Cosmos SDK with dual-execution EVM compatibility. Unchained strategically streamlines critical aspects of the current multi-chain environment, specifically addressing the following complexities that often impede user adoption:

• Friction-laden Onboarding – Cumbersome wallet onboarding, management amongst different ecosystems contend with UX-complexity in device portability.
• Fragmented Asset Landscape – Asset fragmentation across various EVMs, as well as non-EVM ecosystems, hindering UX and asset management.
• Inherent Gas Barriers - Managing unique gas tokens per blockchain impedes initial user adoption and is frustrating for natives. (EVM/non-EVM)
• Granular Control and Programmability – No permissioning systems to exhibit native security and programmability in EOA and non-EVM accounts.
• Disjointed User Engagement – Disconnect between dApps, ecosystems, and their users.
• Fragmented Reputation – Reputation is traditionally tied to independent user wallets spread across independent blockchains, hindering portability and continuity of on-chain history management.