When a team says they’ve “launched on Ethereum,” they usually mean they’ve deployed on one chain. That used to be enough. Ethereum was once the gravitational center of liquidity, developer activity, and composability. However, that center no longer exists.
The on-chain economy has fractured. Users don’t live on one network anymore, and capital doesn’t either. Activity now spans Solana, BNB Smart Chain, Avalanche, Fantom, Base, Arbitrum, Blast and dozens of other L1, L2, and L3 environments.
So, when a team deploys only to Ethereum, it is leaving a significant amount of potential usage and users on the table.
Most teams building in web3 understand the scaling problem. Few understand the distribution problem.
Blockchains weren’t designed for user distribution. Each chain is an isolated environment with its own execution, consensus, and liquidity. Every new deployment is effectively a new app. You can copy the contracts, but you can’t copy the state.
That’s why teams spend months expanding to other chains only to discover they’re maintaining multiple, desynchronized versions of their own product. Each deployment has:
Different liquidity pools
Different governance tokens
Different reward schedules
What was once a unified protocol becomes a collection of semi-related silos.
The irony is that this fragmentation increases with growth. As an app gains users, demand rises on other chains, pushing the team to “go multichain”, which only compounds the fragmentation problem they were trying to solve.
Many teams claim to be multichain. What they really mean is: “We’ve redeployed our contracts multiple times and manage the chaos manually.”
This is replication, not abstraction. Replication breaks one of the foundational properties that made blockchains valuable in the first place: atomic composability.
On Ethereum, composability was simple: if two contracts existed on the same chain, they could interact atomically. Liquidity and logic were interoperable by default. That property is lost the moment you fragment across chains.
You can bridge assets or messages, but you can’t bridge ecosystems and liquidity.
Chain abstraction is often discussed as a UX improvement, but it’s more fundamental than that. It lets your smart contract code run across execution environments.
The core idea is simple: applications should exist once and be reachable from anywhere. This requires three properties:
Run in one place: a single canonical source of truth for application logic and state transitions, regardless of where the user originates.
Execution interoperability: the ability for that application to interact with other contracts across heterogeneous environments.
UX consistency: users shouldn’t experience different products depending on which wallet or chain entry point they use.
Chain abstraction isn’t about routing transactions through a universal RPC. It’s about making the chain layer not matter.
The end state is the same as the internet’s evolution from servers to the cloud. The infrastructure is still there, but it’s abstracted away from application logic.
If your app lives only on the Ethereum mainnet, you’ve decided to rely on growth only from Ethereum-based users.
Consider:
The fastest retail growth in crypto over the last year has happened on Solana.
The most aggressive scaling experiments are happening on Base and Optimism.
NFT volume, memecoin liquidity, and social app adoption are distributed across L2s and non-EVM chains.
An Ethereum-only deployment means:
You’ve priced out many global users.
You’ve excluded liquidity that never leaves non-EVM environments.
You’ve given up interoperability with the fastest-growing capital flows in crypto.
While these things might not have been predictable when you started building your app, Sig.Network’s ability to make your app native everywhere mitigates the risk of your app stalling in growth as these trends continue.
The opportunity cost of deploying solely on one chain will continue to increase, so the question for builders becomes: “How do we stay native everywhere?” This is the shift Sig.Network was designed for.
With Sig.Network, an application deployed on any chain becomes natively multichain. It doesn’t require redeploying contracts or rewriting logic, and it doesn’t create copies of state. Instead, it extends the app’s reach across chains, maintaining atomicity, performance, and UX consistency.
The developer experience doesn’t change. The user experience gets radically simpler.
For developers: one deployment, unified state, no bridges.
For users: one interface, global access, zero awareness of the underlying chain.
This is what internet capital markets actually require: a base layer where liquidity, users, and assets flow freely between applications, not between blockchains.
To be clear, Sig.Network isn’t trying to replace Ethereum or other chains. We’re seeking to more seamlessly connect developers and users across crypto, and push the industry closer to mainstream adoption.
Ethereum will remain foundational, but it’s on-chain reach is inherently constrained. We saw the internet outgrow single servers. We’ll see on-chain systems outgrow single chains.