How will Cycle Network ignite a storm of adoption for Web3 assets and applications?

Author: bms

When Circle rang the NASDAQ in June 2025, the mass adoption of stablecoins moved away from the "proof of concept" label for the first time and had real capital market coordinates. As Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle, said at TOKEN 2049, "We are moving towards a world where the flow of assets is as chainless and borderless as sending emails." Today's multi-chain environment is still like a gateway in the dial-up era: developers patch around to be compatible with chains, and users jump back and forth between wallets, networks, and gas fees. Web3 assets urgently need an infrastructure upgrade similar to cloud-native for Web2 - encapsulating the underlying complexity into a unified abstraction layer, so that application innovation is no longer bound by the boundaries of the chain, and the friction caused by multiple chains to asset issuance and application needs to be completely smoothed out.

In the past two years, the explosive growth of Layer 2 and application chains has made on-chain assets seem to "bloom everywhere." However, for the end users, in the cross-chain financial topology, Web3 assets face not just simple transfer delays, but a set of overlapping systemic issues:

1. The "multiple constraints" at the capital level

If institutional funds want to deploy synchronously on networks such as Ethereum, Berachain, and Sonic, they must repeatedly go through the cycle of "locking → minting → unlocking → reminting"; each state transition is exposed to gray rhino risks such as reentrancy in bridging contracts, beacon delays, and finality.

• The compliance perspective is sharper: When a stablecoin or securitized asset operates across multiple chains and jurisdictions, it often needs to meet both "source of funds" and "destination of funds" KYC/AML reporting requirements simultaneously. If a business or individual fails to report synchronously, they may face asset freezes at best, or money laundering charges at worst. Additionally, some countries require that overseas on-chain assets that return to the domestic market must be re-entered into the local capital account.

2. User Experience and Developers' "Protocol Vision Obscuration"

For the C-end, the "transaction signing → network switching → gas calculation → waiting for confirmation" sequence essentially exposes the internal complexities of the protocol to the user; once cross-chain transactions are involved, additional awareness of information noise such as "mapped token discount, liquidity depth on the bridge, oracle timeliness," etc., is necessary. The result is: the composability of funds is fragmented, and the friction rate between chains sharply increases.

Developers face "three-way coupling damping" when calling multi-chain liquidity, and they need to manually handle the asynchronous replenishment of Gas fees, the rollback boundaries of flash loans, and the depth differences in Merkle Proofs; even with the help of universal bridges, they must always pay attention to Router reordering and Sequencer congestion.

Due to the differences in security models, there is a paradox of "shortest logical stack ≠ lowest trust stack" in contract calling paths: what seems like a simple exchange between 2 chains is actually extended to N + 1 potential attack surfaces.

Currently, the industry has formed three approaches around "allowing assets to be issued anywhere and used anywhere," each targeting different aspects of inter-chain friction.

·Everclear focuses on "Net Intent" - it uses the Netting Solver to offset excess paths locally, helping institutions reduce rebalancing and hedging costs when deploying across multiple networks;

·Particle Network starts from account abstraction, unifying identities, signatures, and authorizations from different chains into a single interface with Universal Account, eliminating the mental burden of users switching wallets and networks back and forth.

·One Balance focuses on real-time Portfolio + lightweight cross-chain exchange, consolidating tokens, LP positions, and NFTs from various chains into a single total asset view, with built-in native routing to support small amount chain swaps. Each of the three has its own strengths, yet all still rely to varying degrees on underlying bridging or decentralized liquidity.

Recently coming into the public eye, Cycle Network, incubated by Yzi Labs and led by Vertex Ventures under Temasek, has chosen to dig one layer deeper: by using Verifiable State Aggregation to consolidate multi-chain states into a unified secure consensus, allowing for both "settlement finality" and "liquidity depth" to converge, providing an abstract foundation similar to "cloud-native" for upper-layer applications to freely call upon the aforementioned three categories and more innovations.

3.1 Innovative MultiChain Settlement Layer

Cycle Network is a "multi-chain settlement layer" designed to eliminate multi-chain friction. Through its self-developed Verifiable State Aggregation technology and Symbiotic security consensus, it aggregates the states of over 20 networks, including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Berachain, and Monad, into a unified settlement surface, allowing users and developers to access cross-chain assets without relying on traditional cross-chain bridges.

3.2 The Core Advantages of the Cycle Network

The core advantage of Cycle Network lies in hiding the complex cross-chain process within the underlying protocol: with Verifiable State Aggregation and Rollin/Rollout API, users only need to sign once to complete asset transfers within any dApp, completely eliminating the need to understand bridges, network switching, or gas tokens, thereby removing the cognitive and operational barriers of traditional cross-chain operations.

At the same time, Cycle abstracts ETH, BTC, stablecoins, and even RWA assets on both EVM and non-EVM chains into the same liquidity pool through a unified settlement layer and liquidity routing, enabling free calls of any asset on any chain, allowing developers to combine multi-chain assets just like calling an API.

In simple terms, Cycle has built a gate at the confluence of multiple rivers - the water no longer gets entangled at the source, just raise the gate, and the assets flow down naturally.

3.3 Product In-depth Analysis: Both B-end and C-end Are Making Efforts

Good news for B-end developers: Chain Abstraction SDK is quickly implemented.

For developers, Cycle Network has launched the Cycle SDK, which is essentially a set of development tools that encapsulates Verifiable State Aggregation capabilities into an easily accessible package. Developers only need to introduce the Rollin / Rollout module in their contracts or servers to upgrade single-chain applications to truly abstract DApps within ≤ 1 day, without the need to manually write bridging logic or maintain multiple sets of front-end network switching. The SDK includes automatic liquidity routing, unified gas estimation, and Symbiotic shared security verification, while also providing Webhook and Subgraph for projects to conveniently monitor multi-chain transactions in real-time and manage risks in the background.

Practical application scenario case:

The popular "Goose Raising" mini-game application on TikTok: Golden Goose

Golden Goose is the most representative C-end DeFAI application of the Cycle ecosystem: it turns "chain abstraction + gamification" into a practical income entry point, allowing Web 2 users to obtain on-chain earnings with just one click, without the need to switch networks or prepare gas. The platform is divided into Game Mode and Pro Mode: the former packages the income strategy into a goose-raising game, combining an NFT growth system and a circular reinvestment mechanism; the latter integrates structured strategies such as stable interest rate spreads, LP mining, and lending arbitrage to provide returns.

Someone on TikTok described: Golden Goose is like an automatic dividend "on-chain vending machine": you just need to drop a "start" button, and the complex cross-chain gears behind the scenes quietly operate, packaging the liquidity and strategies from multiple chains into profit eggs, rolling from the output port into your hands—without the need to understand wallets, switch networks, just collect the money. (Be mindful of the risks.)

4.1 Why Stablecoins and RWAs Have Become a Global Focus

· Risk aversion and liquidity demand: As global macro volatility intensifies, fiat currency inflation and capital controls create a strong demand in the market for USD-denominated assets that allow for on-chain real-time settlement. According to the latest data from Coingecko, the circulating market capitalization of stablecoins has surpassed 250 billion USD.

· Asset digitization accelerates: Regulatory sandboxes and on-chain settlement pilots are continuously being implemented, with Real-World Assets such as real estate, accounts receivable, and government bonds being viewed as the most certain track for blockchain implementation.

· Cost and Transparency Advantages: On-chain transfers and settlements have average transaction fees that are an order of magnitude lower than traditional cross-border systems, while programmability provides instant verifiable underlying data for auditing and compliance.

How does the multi-chain settlement mechanism of 4.2 Cycle become the infrastructure for stablecoins and RWA?

4.3 From Past "Fringe Experiments" to Specific Application Scenarios

Multi-chain stablecoin settlement gateway: Issuers can mint USDC on Chain A and map equivalent assets to Chain B without a bridge through the Cycle settlement layer, completing merchant payments with zero slippage. For users, the payment path is no different from traditional card payments.

RWA secondary market matching: Assuming that Tokenized national debt is issued on the OP Stack chain, institutional market makers can manage positions on the Berachain side and quote on the Arbitrum side, with the underlying net settlement completed by Cycle aggregation, avoiding the price difference risk caused by bridging delays.

Cross-border payroll / supply chain settlement: Enterprises pay salaries in stablecoins in LATAM, and suppliers cash out local fiat currency instantly in SEA. Through Cycle's automatic path optimization and batch netting, it can save over 50% in fees and reduce the settlement time to 1-2 business days compared to traditional SWIFT.

4.4 The Long-Term Impact of the Cycle on the Track

Cost curve shifts down: The marginal cost of multi-chain issuance and settlement approaches zero, significantly lowering the issuance threshold for RWA.

Increased liquidity depth: A unified liquidity routing reduces fragmentation, allowing stablecoins and RWAs to serve as collateral or payment mediums on more chains.

Compliance Bridge Improvement: Standardized API and verifiable status proof provide real-time data interfaces for auditing agencies and regulators, accelerating the formation of compliance frameworks.

5.1 Quantitative Opportunities: From "Niche DeFi" to "Trillion Dollar Real Assets"

· DeFi user base: According to DeFiLlama's 2025 data, there are less than 20 million active wallets on the entire network; if the multi-chain barrier is completely eliminated, referring to the penetration curve of mobile payments from early testing to widespread adoption, an exponential growth to 100 million – 150 million in five years is not an exaggeration.

· Stablecoin Market: The latest total market cap has exceeded USD 250 B; if the annual global cross-border payment volume is USD 150 T (McKinsey, 2024), even a 1% migration on-chain would represent USD 1.5 T of available settlement flow for the settlement network;

· RWA Potential: The BCG report estimates that the on-chain real asset scale could reach USD 16 T by 2030; these assets require a secure, low-friction cross-chain liquidity layer.

5.2 Revenue Structure: Multiple Source Cash Flows rather than Single Point Games

C-end: For example, Golden Goose has generated over $200,000 in in-app purchases and strategy sharing in the first two quarters of 2025; as daily active users and reinvestment rates continue to rise, this growth curve is the most rapid;

B-end: Cycle SDK adopts a hybrid model of subscription + transaction commission; once more DApps entrust settlement to Cycle, SDK fees and enterprise customized services will bring predictable annual revenue;

Infrastructure: Although the inter-chain settlement fee for Rollin / Rollout starts low, as more than 20 chains connect simultaneously and daily cross-chain volume rises to tens of millions or even billions of dollars, its "infrastructure tax" will become the most robust cash flow.

Key points: The income side presents a three-tier progression of C-end consumption (quick money) + B-end subscriptions (steady money) + infrastructure taxation (long tail), avoiding reliance on a single hit product or airdrop speculation.

5.3 User Funnel: Allow Web2 to Naturally Flow to On-chain

Cycle is not "just another cross-chain bridge," but rather it makes the logic of cross-chain bridges an invisible public base, which naturally turns it into a lever for overlaying traffic entry.

When the promotion side first gains exposure through TikTok and X videos, the audience is guided to the site using the "Wallet Installation" landing page. After that, one-click binding and fiat direct charging allow customers to activate their accounts; each level of the funnel establishes quantifiable KPIs, enabling precise iteration of marketing budgets and product optimization, rather than relying on airdrops to attract attention.

When new liquidity flows into Cycle through Rollin / Rollout, it not only directly contributes to transaction fees but also increases the strategy capacity and yield of C-end products; higher yields attract more C-end users and capital, driving liquidity to continue expanding. At the same time, the yield demonstration will attract developers to adopt Cycle SDK, reusing the same settlement layer in scenarios such as DEX, lending, chain games, and payment gateways—more developers lead to higher capital turnover rates, lower transaction fees, and a faster flywheel.

Cycle Network announced that it will launch the public test of the Cycle Liquidity Hub this week, opening the underlying liquidity pool to any user holding USDC or USDT. Unlike traditional liquidity mining, which locks funds into a single protocol, the funds in the Liquidity Hub will be directly injected into Cycle's multi-chain settlement buffer, serving as real-time clearing reserves for Rollin / Rollout.

As of mid-June, the Cycle mainnet has secured over $400M in TVL through Symbiotic's shared security mechanism, firmly ranking among the top three in the Symbiotic network, and becoming one of the most core multi-chain settlement networks under its re-staking system. This means that the multi-chain liquidity and settlement operations supported by Cycle are running on a highly secure foundation backed by real assets.

This means that Cycle users are not just participants but co-builders of the settlement network: your stablecoin not only seeks returns but also provides deep liquidity for the multi-chain settlement system, directly enhancing the capital efficiency and safety redundancy of all DApps.

From the era of dial-up to mobile connectivity, from check clearing to real-time payments, every reconstruction of infrastructure is an upgrade of the value transfer paradigm. In the world of Web3, the real "popularization storm" does not arise from a single protocol or hot narrative, but from the joint evolution of underlying trust and experience.

Cycle Network is offering a brand new answer at this pivotal moment: to reshape the interaction paradigm through chain abstraction, break liquidity barriers with unified settlement, and build a multi-chain clearing network without bridges on the vision of 'any asset, any chain, one click'—allowing the flow of value on the chain to no longer be a technical gamble, but a part of everyday life.

When stablecoins and RWA become the main force of on-chain assets, and the new generation of users seamlessly access Web3 through games, content, and payments, Cycle not only provides a pathway but also becomes a high-speed channel of trust that freely traverses between multiple chains.

In the future, Web3 applications will no longer ask "which chain," but will become as habitual as using electricity or the internet, simply existing as "it's just there." And that invisible yet powerful value pathway will likely be called Cycle. The era of cloud-native on-chain has already begun.