Currently, the multi-chain DeFi landscape is flourishing, but at the end of the day, 'cross-chain' remains a huge gap.

The information, assets, and experiences between chains are disconnected, and the ideal form of DeFi is still far from being realized.

The new roadmap released by zkLink this time is one of the few players truly 'laying the groundwork'.

It proposes a vision that sounds a bit crazy:

To build a peer-to-peer, zero-protocol-fee, permissionless AI agent trading network.

In simple terms, it means allowing AI to autonomously complete trading, negotiation, and cross-chain collaboration without human intervention, while supporting high-frequency, low-latency trading needs—fundamentally solving the ceiling problem of multi-chain interaction efficiency.

Currently, this system has entered the core protocol development stage, with a white paper, PoC validation, and protocol open-source expected to be completed by 2025, and global testing and developer ecosystem construction to begin in 2026.

The backing lineup is also not to be underestimated: Coinbase Ventures, OKX Ventures, Crypto.com Ventures, Republic Crypto, SIG, Arrington Capital, BigBrain Holdings, and others have already invested.

Moreover, the platform token $ZKL has already been listed on several mainstream exchanges, including Bybit, Gate.io, Bitget, Hashkey Global, and Coinone. Its voice is gradually being established.

More importantly, this is not a single-function development, but zkLink is building the 'underlying engine' for the future of the entire platform, which will support multiple modular applications, including spot trading, contracts, Launchpad, and SuperApp.

It does not rely on airdrops to create buzz, but rather builds its own liquidity closed loop step by step through task incentives, LP mechanisms, and staking systems.

This is not just a tool or a bridge; it is more like the starting point for reconstructing multi-chain trading logic.

After all, in this fragmented world of liquidity,

whoever can grasp the 'nodes between chains' can master the rhythm of the entire ecosystem.

zkLink may not have delivered the final answer yet, but its AI x cross-chain experiment is worth every Builder interested in the future keeping a close eye on.