The Liquidity Fountain: How Agglayer Interoperability Grows Your Chain

Liquidity fragmentation is crypto’s version of the classic cold start problem. Every new chain needs to convince users to bridge funds over in order to grow, but the UX friction of bridging has historically made that difficult. This is one reason new projects often resort to unsustainable reward incentives for new users.  

Recent bridge improvements are solving this problem, but no solution is on the cutting edge of interoperability like the Agglayer. Agglayer chains are natively connected by a unified bridge, making the network feel like one big chain to users. That means new Agglayer chains get access to a built-in userbase who can use their chain with zero friction immediately. 

That’s a GTM game changer. It means:

• No more unsustainable rewards. 
• No more mercenary capital. 
• No more inertia stopping users from using your chain. 

We’ll explain below how Agglayer’s shared liquidity fuels your chain’s growth from the moment you launch.

How the Agglayer works

Agglayer is a neutral interoperability layer that sits on Ethereum and can connect any blockchain – L2s, sovereign chains, even non-EVM chains – using two core components:

1. Unified bridge: The Agglayer acts as the canonical bridge for every connected chain. L1 assets locked in the bridge behave like natively minted assets on all Agglayer chains, meaning no wrapping and no seven-day withdrawal times.
2. State transition proofs. Using ZK technology, state transition proofs act as the security layer that keeps Agglayer assets safe. Every Agglayer chain uses ZKs to prove that they can’t withdraw more than has been deposited, making bridge rugs impossible. Today, Agglayer is accomplishing this with pessimistic proofs, but full ZK is on the way.

Every chain plugs into the same bridge contract but can exit to any other chain, so transactions and messages move across chains in one hop, with finality enforced on Ethereum. For users, it feels like one unified chain. 

Agglayer’s network effects are your rocket fuel

From a builder’s standpoint, that connectivity is like network effects on steroids. Any new Agglayer chain immediately gets:

• Shared users: All wallets connected to any other Agglayer chain work on your chain automatically.
• Shared liquidity: Tokens on any Agglayer chain exist on your chain too, and are immediately available to trade on your DEX, provide collateral on your lending protocol, buy items in your game, etc.   
• Shared state: Cross-chain contract calls means apps on your chain can interact with apps on other Agglayer chains seamlessly, and that other apps can deploy on your chain instantly with no need for liquidity migration campaigns. 

In other words, when you’re on Agglayer, every other Agglayer chain is an onramp to your chain. That includes chains like Katana, the Agglayer liquidity hub that just launched with over $200 million in pre-deposits.

Plus, the Agglayer is tech-agnostic, so the growing list of Agglayer chains is potentially infinite. 

Any chain can connect permissionlessly, so your market of easily onboarded potential users is always growing. 

Getting started

Conduit is the easiest, most effective way to launch an Agglayer chain. We worked with the Agglayer and Polygon Labs teams to build the latest iteration of Agglayer CDK, which lets you build the chain with familiar OP Stack tooling but with native Agglayer connectivity. 

Launch your chain with Conduit and tap into Agglayer liquidity to start growing fast.