The Agglayer is being developed as an interoperability protocol for unifying chains by aggregating proofs, checking chain states, and settling on Ethereum. Using ZK proofs, the Agglayer offers safe cross-chain communication, asset transfers, data sharing, and unified liquidity across several chains, much like TCP/IP revolutionised the internet.
Pessimistic proofs, which introduced a fundamental security technique that allows the protocol to successfully unite chains with multiple security models, went live on the Agglayer mainnet on February 3, 2025. By applying a default degree of scepticism to all chains, whether or whether they make use of pessimistic proofs or zero-knowledge proofs
Agglayer expanded its function as a unifying interoperability layer in Q1 2025 by integrating with consumer application, protocol, and infrastructure layers. These collaborations show that there is an increasing need for safe, low-friction cross-chain capability by expanding Agglayer's reach across virtual machines, security models, and use cases.
Tria made their all-VM chain abstraction stack available to Agglayer on January 7, 2025, allowing for unified user and liquidity access across many execution environments, including EVM, Solana VM, MoveVM, and others.
SOCKET Protocol joined the Agglayer ecosystem on February 5, 2025, to power chain abstraction for developers creating asynchronous, cross-chain dApps. By utilising Agglayer's security through pessimistic proofs and SOCKET's app-gateway design, developers can create contracts across chains without the need for conventional bridging or messaging infrastructure.
Karate Combat's new L2 presence on Hedera via UPLAYERTWO served as the foundation for the integration of Agglayer for KARATE token access across multiple chains on February 19, 2025. With Agglayer as the official interoperability layer, KARATE is no longer restricted to a single chain, enabling users from different ecosystems to engage in Karate Combat's decentralised sports entertainment platform.
Rome EVM will accept Agglayer as its canonical bridge to Ethereum, simplifying cross-chain token transfers and messaging, and Rome Protocol integrated Agglayer on February 25, 2025, to bridge Ethereum and Solana in a zk-enabled, high-performance environment.
Key Insight
1. Pessimistic proofs were deployed on the Agglayer mainnet on February 3, 2025, allowing the protocol to securely combine chains with disparate security models. Tria, SOCKET Protocol, Karate Combat, and Rome Protocol are among the Agglayer integrations.
2. Spiko and QuickSwap both saw increases in their TVL QoQ of 28.9% and 72.5%, respectively, while Polygon PoS DeFi TVL concluded Q1 at $744.8 million.
3. With a 23.3% QoQ increase in supply to $2 billion, the stablecoin industry became the largest category by number of active addresses on Polygon.
4.While average daily transactions amounted to 3.4 million, an 8.0% rise QoQ, average daily active addresses on Polygon PoS jumped to 546,000, a 4.4% increase QoQ.
Agglayer's roadmap continues to expand its concept of safe, low-latency interoperability across a variety of blockchain platforms.
1. Upcoming events include: Agglayer v0.3 (Q2, 2025): It is planned to add complete multistack functionality, allowing any EVM-compatible chain to join through Agglayer.
2. Agglayer v0.4 (H2 2025): Designed to provide quick interoperability with sub-5-second finality, hence boosting user experience and real-time application performance.
