There are so many chains today, that weighing the pros and cons of each is too much of a headache. From established networks like Ethereum, Solana and Polygon PoS to emerging chains like MegaEth, Berachain, and Monad, we're witnessing an unprecedented proliferation of blockchain environments.

Developers dream of building applications that seamlessly span these chains. Users want to interact with their favorite apps across multiple chains without friction. Yet today's cross-chain infrastructure remains a labyrinth of complex messaging protocols and fragile bridging mechanisms.

Using cross-chain messaging protocols and bridges development is a nightmare today. Developers must navigate complex bridging protocols, manage security risks, and handle disparate chain architectures—all while trying to deliver a seamless user experience. Each cross-chain interaction becomes a potential point of failure, deterring innovation.

What if you could build across ALL chains? What if your application could exist everywhere, simultaneously?

SOCKET’s chain abstraction protocol & Agglayer, developed by Polygon Labs and other core contributors, are coming together to allow developers to:

• Compose contracts across chains without cross-chain messaging or bridging

• Provide users with a seamless transaction experience — users never need to interact on-chain directly or face gas, bridging, RPCs or other complexities.

All of this with the security of Agglayer.

How it Works

SOCKET protocol eliminates the complexity of using cross-chain messaging protocols. Builders compose contracts just like they do when contracts lie on the same chain, now however, async. They do this by building their app-gateway, or in simpler words by deploying their solidity contracts on SOCKET.

Users interact with the app via the app-gateway by simply sending signed messages that are processed in the gateway and then executed on-chain leveraging pessimistic proofs via Agglayer.

We have this example highlighted on our Github: This is what the app-gateway for something like this would look like and this for the onchain contracts.

New Abstracted Possibilities

This introduces a completely new way to build onchain applications and unlocks powerful use cases for builders.

One of these unlocks is Chain Abstracted Accounts: wallets and accounts are currently being built on the same old infrastructure — bridges. This means the same issues that have existed so far: isolated token balances, slow transactions, failing transactions & more such stuff.

Simply put, building in a bridge-out way makes the world end up looking exactly the same as this:

Bridging can only connect chains, not unify them -- it fundamentally isolates balances across chains. Its not a UX problem, its a deep rooted infra problem. For example: A user has 300 USDC on Arbitrum and 200 USDC on Base, and wants to buy a 500 USDC NFT on Solana.

Wallets & accounts can let go of the old bridging paradigm and instead embrace Chain Abstraction with SOCKET, resulting in a 10x improvement over anything possible today:

• Users have a "Chain Abstracted Balance", a unified balance across chains. No more isolated token balances across chains that users need to bridge between.

• Users can transact with all of their chain abstracted balance INSTANTLY, on any app or chain. Zero waiting for bridging of funds, no failures or stuck transaction, guaranteed execution

To learn more, check out:

• MagicSpend++, a framework for smart wallets to achieve this proposed by the SOCKET team.

• Check out how you can build it with SOCKET here

• And follow Enclave, who have built an implementation of MagicSpend++ on SOCKET

There are endless possibilities with Agglayer x SOCKET such as intent protocols, DeFAI agents, and more! For inspiration, check out some use cases here.

Get Abstracted

We're commemorating the Agglayer getting abstracted with a limited collection NFT.

Collect the piece, and gain the power to abstract all chains. Minting is capped at 5,000 so get on it:

SOCKET and Polygon Labs are simplifying ways to build onchain and we can’t wait to show you more.

Stay tuned for more updates as we roll out new features, integrations, and collaborations to bring chain abstraction to the forefront of the Ethereum ecosystem.

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