Recently, while reviewing the evolution directions of major DeFi ecosystems, a very obvious phenomenon was discovered—the needs of users are beginning to break through the limitations of a single chain.

Many people now want to do things that have long surpassed simple exchanges and lending. They want to automatically reinvest LP yields from Chain A to Chain B, manage collateral scattered across multiple chains in a unified way, and automatically allocate funds based on real-time interest rates on different chains. These operations sound very reasonable, but what is the reality? It all relies on manual work—manual cross-chain transfers, manual calculations, manual execution. This is time-consuming and prone to errors.

The root cause of the problem is actually very clear: liquidity is tightly locked within the boundaries of a single chain. Smart contracts only recognize their own chain, cross-chain calls are cumbersome and prone to security issues, and yield data cannot be synchronized in real-time. This directly leads to a series of capability deficiencies—

Cross-chain reinvestment cannot be done, collateral cannot be unified across chains, and automatic rebalancing is out of the question. For advanced users and protocol developers, these limitations are really frustrating. What do they truly want? To turn liquidity into something programmable, like code that can automatically execute across chains, and can be flexibly combined into various complex strategies.

But the chains themselves do not proactively provide this capability. That’s why, when seeing some projects exploring cross-chain liquidity programming, they seem to have a lot of potential—if liquidity can be liberated from the constraints of a single chain, allowing it to be truly programmable, composable, and capable of cross-chain automatic operation, the gameplay of DeFi will undergo an essential expansion.