Fragmentation of UX is one of the biggest problems that crypto faces right now

In the future, I believe users will interact with crypto through intents to achieve any desired outcome with a single click abstracting away all complexity

Here's the specs:

https://paper.light.so?af

At the core of the protocol is the Light Layer - a "thin" layer designed to facilitate cross-chain transactions for achieving any desired outcome: automatically routing authorized assets/transactions filled by off-chain actors guaranteeing the best execution on the user's behalf.

It sits a layer below other interoperability protocols and facilitates user-defined intents / solver-filled transactions so that the friction is invisible, and is responsible for clearing and settlement of off-chain actors beneath.

Not all intents are equal.

There are different granularity of intents (from generalized to RFQs), and not all are executable by off-chain actors, and can be asynchronous or conditional.

Therefore, there needs to be a different authorization flows depending on each use case.

The end goal is to be holistic and not be opinionated in any way, supporting all tx formats and arbitrary function calls across chains - through "programmatic atomicity", it achieves each execution step while ensuring the necessary authorization of assets or conditions are met.

However, realistically speaking, this is extremely hard to achieve user adoption - from a client / interface-side perspective, most wallets right now require multiple prompts for signing N signatures or authorizations.

This is a bottleneck for adoption for any kind of generalized system, as there will likely to be little order-flow for such a new and different approach - the current authorization flow is not fit to the current standards meaning high cost of barrier.

Light aims to overcome this through aiming for an "end-to-end" solution where we provide a full stack "chain abstraction" experience and GTM w/ flagship products + distribute modular SDKs in order to achieve an ideal seamless experience for the end user for a unified experience.

At the end of the day, users want convenience and usability -  I believe there to be an "invisible" middleware that automatically facilitates cross-domain txs - the "Visa" of crypto, where authorization is specialized, but settlement is routed through for any desired execution

Lightpaper

Introducing Light: a new approach to tackle EVM UX fragmentation.

Light enables users to seamlessly interact with any EVM chain (including L2, L3s) as if you're using one single network. 

The goal is to make using Ethereum a smooth experience everywhere.


More chains, more problems

It's increasingly becoming painful to have to bridge/refuel to use a new chain. Bridging takes you out of the flow, it's slow and cumbersome. And it's only going to get worse as the number of L2/L3s increase.

Here's some things Light can do right now:

1. Network abstraction

Light enables you to instantly interact across chains seamlessly, and pay gas in ANY asset you hold across chains.

Here's a quick demo: Sending USDC on Arbitrum & Optimism, while paying gas w/ USDT on Polygon, all in one transaction.


2. Cross-chain asset management

When using Gnosis Safe, you typically have to create a new wallet for each chain, resulting in different addresses.

With Light, you can create a single smart wallet w/ the same address across all chains, it all just "works".


3.  Batch tx execution

Transfer or move any number of assets, regardless of chain, simultaneously all in one go.

Send your tokens & NFTs in any underlying chain with a single signature that works across chains.


We've built a fully integrated tech stack to provide the best cross-chain experience for the end user, aligning w/ open standards like 4337 and 7579.

The aim is for anyone to spin up support for any new chain in seconds soon.

And it's all built fully through open source.

We're fully 100% open source under Apache-2.0.

Check us out on Github: https://github.com/LightDotSo/LightDotSo


Try the public demo, and give us feedback!

https://light.so/demo


And sign up for the private beta waitlist below! (powered by @deformapp)

https://waitlist.light.so
