Rollups scaled Ethereum. But rollups didn’t scale users. Each L2 today is siloed, a self-contained execution island. To move assets, logic, or liquidity between them, we still bridge. We still wait. We still risk. Chain abstraction asks a different question: What if users didn’t have to know what chain they’re on at all? Let’s unpack why that shift changes everything. Why Today’s UX Is Fundamentally Broken Here’s how crypto works today: 1. A user lands on an app 2. App asks for wallet connection 3. Wallet asks for chain switch 4. User is now operating in one execution environment (e.g., Arbitrum) 5. Everything else is unreachable, unless bridged, swapped, or restaked This model mirrors Web2 tightly coupled frontends and backends. But crypto shouldn’t work like that. Because blockchains aren’t apps. They’re execution infrastructure. And users should never have to reason about that layer to interact with value. What Chain Abstraction Really Means Forget “multi-chain” marketing. - Chain abstraction means: - One wallet - One balance - One interface ...but assets and logic distributed across many chains It’s not about hiding the chains. It’s about making composability ambient. When a user wants to mint an NFT on Zora and stake on Lido, they shouldn’t have to switch chains, bridge ETH, or wait 12 minutes. The app should route the intent, abstract the rails, and settle trustlessly. Just like Stripe does for payments. Or AWS for compute. The Endgame: Execution-Agnostic Apps Chain abstraction unlocks a new design paradigm: Applications that span chains the same way websites span data centers. Here’s what becomes possible: = A game that stores items on Polygon, settles PvP on Arbitrum, and pays rewards via Base = A DeFi aggregator that routes trades through whatever environment has the best liquidity, not where your wallet is connected = A DAO with logic distributed across appchains, but governed from a single interface No chain switching. No manual bridging. No scattered UIs or broken sessions. One interface. Multiple execution layers. Zero friction. How We Get There To make this real, we need breakthroughs across three pillars: 1 Intents → Move from transactions to goal-based execution 2. Universal Accounts → Wallets that work across chains 3. Atomic Interop → Trust-minimized coordination across execution environments Chain abstraction isn’t just a feature — it’s a full-stack redesign of how users interact with blockchains. And the teams solving it today won’t just improve UX. They’ll own the entire ZK + modular future — by owning the rails everyone will use to build.