Particle Network is solving Web3’s fragmentation of users and liquidity through chain abstraction. Particle Network provides an account-based infrastructure—Universal Accounts—allowing users to transact using assets held on any number of chains without bridging, managing multiple gas tokens, or switching between chain-specific wallets; thereby unifying Web3’s user experience.
Particle Network’s native token, PARTI, sits at the foundation of Particle’s chain abstraction stack, with specific roles including:
Universal Gas Token. PARTI serves as Particle Network's native gas token and base gas token used by Universal Accounts. All gas fees paid by users on any chain—and across any dApp integrating Universal Accounts— are ultimately settled on $PARTI.
Universal Liquidity Token. PARTI also serves as a settlement and intermediary token for Liquidity Providers (LPs) within Particle Network, allowing them to have a stake in every cross-chain atomic swap and allowing them to earn swap fees.
Staking & Governance. PARTI holders can participate in ecosystem voting within Particle Network, contributing to and determining the direction of network development. This also achieves native decentralization at a governance level.
To achieve chain abstraction, Particle Network relies on three core infrastructural components:
Universal Accounts: ERC-4337 smart contract accounts that aggregate transactions from multiple origin chains, unifying a user’s balance across ecosystems.
The Particle Chain: A Layer 1 blockchain that handles end-to-end coordination and settlement of cross-chain transactions executed by Universal Accounts.
Universal Liquidity: A network of liquidity providers integrated with the Particle Chain to fulfill cross-chain transactions, automating the traditional bridging process.
Particle Network has raised over $20M across four private rounds, selling a total of 24.39% of the token supply at the following prices: $0.03 (Pre-Seed), $0.04 (Seed), $0.08 (Pre-A), $0.15 (Series A).
As of March 25th, 2025, the total and max supply of PARTI is 1,000,000,000 and the circulating supply upon listing will be 233,000,000 (23.30% of the total token supply).
Key metrics (as at March 25th 2025)
1. What is Particle Network?
1.1. Project Mission & Value Proposition:
Project Mission: Particle Network’s mission is to unify the perpetually fragmented Web3 ecosystem as it continues to scale to thousands of chains and suffers from exponentially degrading user experiences. Universal Accounts are designed to give users a single, chain-agnostic balance—usable across any chain without bridging—enabling seamless access to applications and liquidity across the entire ecosystem without the traditional overhead.
Visualization of Web3’s fragmentation (Source: Particle Network Whitepaper)
Value Proposition: Particle Network’s core value proposition is unifying all onchain balances, effectively eliminating any felt fragmentation for end-users, and doing so in a non-custodial, decentralized setting. As Web3 continues to fragment across chains and user experience becomes increasingly complex, Universal Accounts abstract away chain-specific friction; yielding a user experience similar to that of a single chain, although in a multi-chain environment.
1.2. Project Key Highlights:
The project has successfully delivered across all fronts—narrative, product execution, user traction, revenue generation, and token value capture—and stands as a leader in each of these areas.
Particle Network launched a chain-abstracted app on Mainnet: Launched in December, UniversalX was the first application built on Particle Network’s Mainnet, marking it as the first within the chain abstraction category.
Particle Network was one of the core leaders in the space who defined and brought chain abstraction to the forefront: Since Q1 2024, Particle Network defined chain abstraction as a design and drove significant research in the vertical (e.g. Messari, Shoal Research, Four Pillars).
1.3. Existing Products:
Universal Accounts: Are Particle Network’s core infrastructural product; integrated within applications to drive balance unification, coordinated by the Particle Chain. It is the primary developer-facing product, integrated into both third-party dApps and Particle Network’s native applications, like UniversalX, a chain-agnostic trading platform (consumer-facing product).
Universal Accounts’ balance unification property (Source: Particle Network Whitepaper)
Particle Network’s product stack (Source: Particle Network Whitepaper)
UniversalX: A chain-agnostic trading platform, allowing users to trade any onchain token from 14+ EVM chains, or Solana, with a single, unified balance. UniversalX is the first, and currently primary implementation of Universal Accounts.
Since launching its V2 in late January, it’s seen more than $430M in volume, all driven by Universal Accounts and Particle Network’s chain abstraction stack.
Particle Network’s first Mainnet dApp, UniversalX (Source: Particle Network Whitepaper)
Following the launch of PARTI, as Particle Network continues into the subsequent phases of its roadmap, Universal Accounts will become available for integration within third-party dApps across every major vertical (e.g. gaming, NFTs, DeFi, and so on).
2. Technical Infrastructure
Collectively, the three components (Universal Accounts, The Particle Chain & Universal Liquidity) enable the chain-abstracted user experience described earlier. A user’s Universal Account can surface available balances from multiple origin chains—such as 5 USDT on Base and 5 USDT on Arbitrum—and use them to define a destination transaction requiring the combined total, like purchasing an NFT worth 10 USDT on Solana.
Universal Accounts aggregate both the origin chain operations and the destination chain operation into a single signature. This unified transaction is then coordinated by the Particle Chain and fulfilled through Particle Network’s Universal Liquidity infrastructure.
Visual representation of a chain-abstracted transaction flow (Source: Particle Network Whitepaper)
3. Token sales and economics
3.1. Token Distribution:
3.2. Token Release Schedule:
4. Roadmap & Updates:
4.1. Completed Milestones:
4.2. Current Roadmap:
Q1 2025:
Launch UniversalX V2, overhauling its trading features.
Launch $PARTI, the economic foundation of Particle Network’s chain abstraction stack.
Q2 2025:
Launch UniversalX V3 introducing advanced trading features, such as limit orders.
Kickoff strategic collaborations with Tier-1 dApps to begin integrating Universal Accounts, in anticipation of roadmap Phase 2.
Q3 2025:
Open Universal Account SDKs to a select group of third-party dApps.
First cohort of integration partners go live across verticals such as DeFi, AI, trading, and stablecoins.
Q4 2025:
Second cohort of Tier-1 Universal Account integrations go live.
Aggressive developer marketing ahead of roadmap Phase 3.
Q1 2026:
Universal Accounts become permissionless for any dApp or chain to integrate.
Particle Network’s Roadmap. Source: https://whitepaper.particle.network
4.3. Commercial and Business Development Progress:
Ava Labs: Particle Network will deploy its chain within the Avalanche L1 ecosystem and simultaneously connect all of its disparate L1s through Universal Accounts.
Li.Fi: Li.Fi powers a significant portion of swap quotes used within UniversalX, Particle Network’s flagship dApp.
Everclear: Everclear drives rebalancing for Particle Network’s Universal Liquidity system, improving the efficiency and cost of cross-chain liquidity usage.
Camp: A Layer-1 blockchain for IP that intends to use Universal Accounts to improve ease of onboarding for ecosystem apps (bringing in users without bridging).
BNB Chain: Universal Accounts natively support BNB Chain and will drive chain abstraction throughout its ecosystem.
Avail: A data availability network being used as a flagship option within Particle Network’s future AggDA infrastructure within its L1.
Numerous other public blockchains including Arbitrum, Base, Manta, Linea, Berachain, Sonic, Polygon, Mode, and Conflux: Initial cohort of blockchains which Universal Accounts support, initially through UniversalX.
5. Community: