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🧵 Introducing Chainless Apps: A New Paradigm for Verifiable Applications at Internet Scale, built with Web2 Capability and Web3 Trust. Get ready for a monumental shift in dApp development! 👇 TLDR: ✅ Chainless Apps decouple execution from trust and settlement ✅ App-specific

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Chainless Apps are designed to deliver Web2-like performance and user experience while preserving Web3-grade trustlessness and verifiability. ✅ Off-chain app logic (fast as Web2) ✅ Verifiable with zkVMs, AVSs, or TEEs ✅ Native asset/message routing via Agglayer We achieve

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This layered approach allows for app-specific sequencing, where each application can control its own transaction ordering and state evolution independently off-chain. This means higher throughput and responsiveness, unburdened by global blockchain consensus.

Central to Chainless Apps is the paradigm of verifiable off-chain computation. This framework allows execute application logic off-chain at high speeds. Subsequently, these off-chain computations are being replayed in #zkVMs or decentralized validation services (such as #AVS) to

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When it comes to trust, Chainless Apps offer unparalleled flexibility. Developers can choose from a range of trust models to best fit their application's requirements for security, cost, and performance. Options include: 🚀 zkVM Verifiable Compute such as @SuccinctLabs @RiscZero:

A key enabler of Chainless Apps' seamless experience is the @Agglayer. It unifies liquidity, users, and state across disparate blockchain networks, abstracting away the complexity of multichain interaction, including gas fees and bridging logic. This allows apps to treat the

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The Agglayer provides critical infrastructure for Chainless Apps, including: 🟣 Unified Bridge: A standardized interface for seamless asset and message routing across connected chains. 🟣 Pessimistic Proofs: A real-time token balance check preventing over-withdrawals and ensuring

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The Settlement Layer, typically Ethereum or eventually Agglayer itself, anchors off-chain execution and trust proofs onto a secure base blockchain. This provides full finality, dispute resolution, and long-term security for the application's state.

To demonstrate the power of Chainless Apps, we introduced zkSpot, a proof-of-concept high-performance spot trading application. zkSpot offers centralized exchange-like speed with verifiable execution and seamless cross-chain asset support. It's about "Use it like a CEX, trust it

The architecture of zkSpot exemplifies a high-trust Chainless App model. Its Execution Layer runs within a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) for speed. The Trust Layer then verifies each batch using a zkVM to generate a succinct proof of correctness. These proofs are validated

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Chainless Apps unlock a new class of user-facing applications previously infeasible under traditional blockchain constraints, such as 💡 real-time trading engines 💡 fast-paced multiplayer games 💡 socially interactive experiences that demand responsiveness, privacy, and

This framework generalizes ideas previously explored in the [A-Z]app Paradigm and aligns with the broader trend toward app-specific design patterns seen in systems like #vApps from @LayerZero_Core. We're building the foundation for scalable, trust-minimized, and interoperable

Chainless is a multistack path into Agglayer: 🟣 While CDK powers OP-Geth & Erigon rollups, 🟣 Chainless powers apps. You bring the app logic. We bring verifiability + interop. https://www.agglayer.dev/cdk

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🛠 Built for developers: → Web2-like dev experience → Bring your own execution stack → Choose your trust layer → No bridge logic required → Modular from day 1 Start building trustless apps without the blockchain baggage. Developers can now focus on application logic and

Learn more about Chainless Apps and dive into the technical details in our paper We will have further SDK announcements in the upcoming months, stay tuned! Arxiv Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.229... Agglayer Post: https://www.agglayer.dev/blogs... Blog Post: https://brian-seong.ghost.io/c...

Authors: 🟣 @BrianSeong99 @paulgebheim from @0xPolygon Acknowledgements: 👉 Abhishek Agarwal, @_bfarmer, @davidesilverman from @0xPolygon 👉 @0xRouss, @saugardev for zkHyperliquid Implementation 👉 @mrrongxin from @WPReadingClub 👉 @ellierdavidson from @EspressoSys 👉 Katie

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