Solving Ethereum’s Multi Chain Fragmentation With a Single API
summary
Claims that on-chain finance already holds about $31B in RWAs and ~$400B including stablecoins, with 95% of stablecoin movement on Ethereum L2s and 30% on Base. Describes a five‑year LI.FI marketplace aggregating bridges, DEXs and trading venues, serving 1,200 partners and processing $80 billion across 90 million transactions. Introduces Composer, an on‑chain VM that compiles a TypeScript DSL into bytecode for atomic, cross‑chain user journeys and intent‑based flows.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 0:11Finance Is Coming On Chain
- 0:36RWAs and Stablecoins by the Numbers
- 1:00Why Fragmentation Is the Big Problem
- 1:19Being Grateful for the Progress
- 1:4495% of Stablecoin Movement on L2s
- 2:05Hundreds of Stablecoins and Counting
- 2:31The Cost of Fragmentation for Builders
- 2:55Mercenary Liquidity and Capital Rotation
- 3:17Time Lost on User Onboarding
- 3:38How Users Pay With Time, Money, and Dust
- 4:16Why Whales Keep Liquidity Stuck on L1
- 4:39Jumper and the Dust Problem
- 4:57Why Institutions Will Pick Their Own Chain
- 5:34The Internet Analogy: Outcome Oriented
- 6:00Why It Will Be Multi-Chain
- 6:24Intent Based Flows for the Next Wave
- 6:51What LI.FI Has Built Over Five Years
- 7:20Abstracting Away Complex Systems
- 7:54Serving TradFi With a Modular System
- 8:20Why We Need to Talk to the Chain
- 8:46Introducing Composer
- 9:14Typing User Journeys in TypeScript
- 9:51Seamless Journeys for Vaults and Cards
- 10:20Infrastructure That Scales: $80 Billion Processed
- 10:44The 1,200 Partners Using LI.FI
- 11:06Back to the Fragmentation Tax
- 11:33Why the Tax Grows Exponentially
- 11:57Stop Reinventing the Wheel
- 12:17Why Edge Cases and Data Matter
- 12:36Focus on Building Great Applications
- 13:03Closing
