Today marks the beginning of a new chapter for Avail and the multichain era.
We’re thrilled to announce that Avail has acquired the leading chain abstraction protocol Arcana, including its technology and core team, and together we are building the most complete scalability stack in Web3.
Arcana’s proven infrastructure and talented builders are now fully embedded in Avail. With Arcana’s chain abstraction, wallet, auth, and MPC frameworks added to the Avail Stack and Avail’s proven expertise in scalability and modular infra, the stage is set for applications to scale seamlessly across chains.
Consider this more than an acquisition. It’s the acceleration of the Nexus Economy: a future where $AVAIL powers liquidity, execution, and access across a connected network of ecosystems.
Why this matters
The integration of Arcana into Avail supercharges development across DeFi, stablecoin adoption, RWAs, and tokenization. Anyone can now build and launch scalable, multichain apps faster on top of the Avail Stack, unlocking real economic growth for users, builders, and $AVAIL tokenholders globally.
It also powers the rollout of Avail’s flagship Nexus solution into widely adopted applications and ecosystems, including Ethereum, Optimism, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Hyperliquid, Scroll, Sophon, and Kaia. With an SDK already live and a highly anticipated Nexus Mainnet launching soon, the stage is set for developers and users to experience seamless multichain interactions for the first time without needing to think about RPCs, switching chains, or using bridges.
The New Nexus Economy Powering The Multichain Vision
Arcana joins Avail with this shared belief: the future of crypto and digital assets depends on seamless interoperability across chains, expanding further into traditional finance. Together, their strengths and vision complement the multichain solutions for:
- Developers to build once and scale everywhere, and be able to coordinate state and logic across environments without replicating contracts. Any environment, EVM, ZK, Optimistic, and sovereign chains: one ultra-simplified solution.
- Users to enjoy a frictionless in-app experience across chains and dApps. No bridging, no hassles of switching networks, or worrying about gas requirements. Access any asset, across any app on any chain in seconds.
- Institutions to trust a unified layer for tokenized assets, stablecoins, and real-world assets. Build global financial primitives with interoperability, compliance, and privacy as required.
This opens participation in the Nexus Economy, with $AVAIL at the center of all that activity. From clean UX, securing modular backends (MPC, ZK, TEE) to fueling solver infrastructure, $AVAIL is positioned to become the engine that drives the multichain economy forward.
For tokenholders, builders, and users, that means one thing: every new dApp, every liquidity flow, and every cross-chain interaction that flows via Nexus amplifies the value of the $AVAIL economy.
What’s Next: Tech, Token & Ecosystem
Arcana’s infrastructure was already trusted by 100+ developers, powering more than 2.5 million wallets and enabling over 5 million transactions. Going forward, Arcana’s MPC backend will complement Avail backends like ZK, providing a comprehensive class of protocols, making it ideal for managing high-value digital assets in crypto wallets and for institutional asset management.
As the Avail Nexus mainnet goes live (Q4 2025), unified balances, intent-driven execution, and frictionless in-app experiences will be available to users, fully powered by Avail’s multichain stack. Additionally, Arcana’s solver infra is also going to be part of the Avail Stack. That means Avail powers liquidity across all the chains. AVAIL stakers and partners will be able to participate, provide liquidity, earn yield, and be actively centred in the crypto-economic model.
The Token. The AVAIL token now takes center stage as the coordination mechanism of the multichain environment. $AVAIL is not just securing the network; it is aligning liquidity, execution, and access across chains. The Avail Foundation has acquired 100% of the XAR supply, and all $XAR holders can swap into $AVAIL at a 4:1 ratio. Distribution will unlock in two phases: 50% six months from today’s announcement and 50% after twelve months. $XAR holders will also receive staking rewards for the locked period. The reward will be calculated on a pro-rata basis for the duration it is locked in the swap contract and airdropped after 12 months. Arcana team tokens will vest over three years, ensuring long-term alignment with the Avail mission (for more, see the Arcana announcement here). More than a token swap, this marks the start of a comprehensive economic model and an early entry into what’s truly coming!
The Ecosystem. Avail already powers and collaborates with major partners and ecosystems: Lens, Sophon, Space and Time, Skate, Lumia, Rooch, and more. With 10 chains live and 50+ dApps in the pipeline, Avail has remained focused on expanding the multichain era. Avail Nexus enables connecting to more than just Avail chains. By bringing Arcana’s network of partners, DeFi solvers, and application builders into this fold, we’re creating a super-network where liquidity moves seamlessly, developers build once and scale everywhere, and users access any chain without friction.
For partners and users, nothing changes today, except that the platform you rely on just became stronger, faster, super-connected, and more ambitious.
Voices From the Founders
Well, the founders have been told by the community to get busy scaling the multichain universe instead of quotes-ing, so the intern hijacked this announcement. No quotes, no fluff, just facts. The TL;DR ends here. For the giga-brain 200 IQ version, catch all the founders and team on the AMA at Avail X on August 28, 2025, at 2 pm UTC.
The message is simple: Build with Avail. Build Once, Scale Everywhere.
The Avail Nexus Mainnet is coming.
