The Onchain Economy Was Never Meant To Be Fragmented

By Andria Efstathiou 5 min read
The Onchain Economy Was Never Meant To Be Fragmented

The promise was simple: A global, open, unstoppable onchain economy where anyone can build, transact, and participate freely. 

Not “wrap here, bridge there, pray everywhere.” It was supposed to be one blockchain-powered internet of value.

A world where:

  • Users' assets move as easily as information on the internet.
  • All apps reach users everywhere by default.
  • Users don’t ask “what chain is this on?”. They just use it.
  • Devs don’t rebuild the infra, community, and liquidity from zero every time for each ecosystem.

The vision was always one unified onchain world, not many little isolated islands competing for mindshare.

But Today’s Onchain World Is Still Stuck In Fragment Era

Instead of one global onchain economy, we built siloed chain ecosystems. We focused on scaling blockchains and entered an era of chain proliferation, appchains, L2s, L3s, sovereign rollups. Each chain or protocol became its own scattered island, and every new launch created another silo.

What we have today:

  • Hundreds of blockchains and value locked in chain boundaries
  • Users stuck juggling chains, wallets, and gas tokens
  • Builders forced to redeploy apps everywhere
  • Bridges and wrappers acting as duct tape
  • Security risk every time liquidity moves
  • UX problems, fractured liquidity, and minimal growth

This isn’t just fragmentation, it's inconvenience. And it has put a ceiling on the “multi-chain world,” leaving it short of what was promised. 

The Way Out: A Unified Onchain Economy

When the internet scaled, users didn’t click “choose server.” They just used websites and apps. Onchain should feel the same.

The future is:

  • Apps scale across chains
  • Users move without thinking about where
  • Liquidity behaves like one global pool
  • Chains specialize, yet connect
  • Developers build once and reach users everywhere

The onchain economy grows fastest when everything talks, moves, and scales together.

Welcome to Avail….Scaling Access to the Onchain Economy. 

Introducing Avail Nexus

Not a bridge. Not a rollup. Not another place where liquidity goes to die. Avail Nexus unites it all as the coordination layer for the onchain world, letting developers build once, scale everywhere, and access everything. 

A new runtime that:

  • Unifies assets across chains
  • Executes intents across ecosystems
  • Let's apps interact with contracts anywhere
  • Handles gas, routing, and verification under the hood
  • Treats liquidity as a single global resource

So that, 
Your users see one world.
You deploy once.
You scale without boundaries.

This is what “onchain” was always supposed to feel like.

“Blockchain needs a system that connects all the elements so that apps, users, and liquidity can move freely and scale seamlessly. Avail envisions that, to turn the entire onchain world into one accessible network. Imagine a DeFi app where users can borrow on Arbitrum, with funds on Polygon, and use them to earn yield on BNB, all from one interface.”, says Anurag Arjun, Co-founder of Avail.

What Changes Now On, Powered by Avail

1) Unified Balances

Assets become one global balance, instead of being fragmented across chains.

Before:You have USDC on Arbitrum, ETH on Ethereum, SOL on Solana. To use any of it somewhere else, you bridge, swap, wait, worry.

With Avail: Imagine you have USDC on Base, but an opportunity appears for USDT on Solana. Previously, you would have to bridge your USDC from Base to Solana, wait for it to arrive, buy SOL for gas, swap USDC for USDT, and execute your trade only then. But with Avail, you can spend USDC instantly on Solana in one click. Your balances move like it's one network.

Liquidity becomes fungible. Value flows without friction.

2) Apps Access Across Chains

Apps can interact with any Nexus-supported chain, without needing to redeploy or migrate liquidity.

Before: Deploy on 5 chains → maintain 5 contracts → bootstrap 5 userbases and liquidity pools.

With Avail: Deploy once. Your app can serve users from all supported chains through the Nexus runtime (11+ chains and growing). So if your lending dApp lives on BNB, but users want to borrow from liquidity on Ethereum or TRON, they can instantly do so with Avail Nexus (without redeploying lending markets everywhere).

Apps scale like internet apps, not locked silos.

3) Frictionless UX

Before: Users face many hurdles due to bridging across chains, wrapping tokens, arranging for native gas tokens, waiting for a long time, and refreshing priority status or slippage, etc. 

With Avail: The technology underneath that powers things becomes invisible to the user. Only the frontend matters, making the user experience frictionless. So hold USDT on Ethereum → buy an NFT on Base → pay gas on Base even without holding ETH.

Let experiences finally feel like an enjoyable product, not a puzzle.

4) Intent-Driven Liquidity

Before: Apps need to bootstrap liquidity everywhere they deploy. Users move funds to chains manually. Liquidity pools need to be set up. 

With Avail: The network routes liquidity to fulfill user intents across ecosystems. Example: A new DeFi app launches on its own chain and has Avail Nexus integrated. Instead of begging users to bridge, liquidity from other chains fills orders instantly.

Remember, apps can launch anywhere and still access global liquidity day one.

And underneath all this seamless cross-chain access lies the foundation, Avail DA, the verifiable layer that will make the entire system truly trustless and scalable. In time, Avail DA will give appchains true independence without forcing fragmentation: verifiable data across chains, the ability to spin up dedicated appchains, and to scale with massive throughput and finality (with a 10-GB block capacity on the roadmap).

Imagine thousands of chain-specific worlds, games, payment systems, social economies, AI agents, all running independently yet tapping into global assets and liquidity through Avail Nexus, powered by the $AVAIL economy.

This is modularity for dApps without isolation. This is the birth of Liquid Apps. 

Prabal Banerjee, Co-founder of Avail, presents this at ETHGlobal 2025:

A multichain internet that finally feels like one network.

And binding this engine together is the $AVAIL token, the coordination asset as the economic backbone for a unified on-chain world.

The blockchain world does not need more fragmentation. It needs a system that unites.

Avail Nexus Mainnet is coming. The unified onchain economy begins.

Are you ready to scale your app on-chain?

If you’re a dApp builder and want to scale without multi-deployment hassles, reach out to our team for an insightful conversation on how to scale access to the onchain economy and to know more about Liquid Apps; coming soon. Drop us a DM on X and we will reach out. 

Start building with Avail, and access our docs. Or simply Try Nexus

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Avail Nexus Mainnet is coming, and you’ll want to be early.