When you open one on-chain application after another, do you also feel a sense of 'it seems lively, but in reality, it's quite fragmented'?

Solana, Arbitrum, zkSync... assets jump across different chains, but the experience has never truly been coherent. Transferring assets across chains, opening positions, swapping currencies, and market making are cumbersome processes, slow speeds, and high costs.

DeFi has been talking about breaking down barriers for many years, but the 'distance between chains' has never truly been bridged.

This time, zkLink wants to do something very different.

In May, zkLink released a brand new roadmap: they are not just looking to 'cross-chain', but want to create an AI-driven trading network—permissionless, zero protocol fees, peer-to-peer, allowing AI to run trades, negotiate, and move funds on its own, making cross-chain not just a 'bridge' issue, but a structural reconstruction.

This is not just an imagination. This is a plan. By 2025, they aim to complete the white paper, PoC cross-chain protocol verification, and open-source the core of the protocol; by 2026, they will initiate global Alpha/Beta testing and build a developer ecosystem.

Behind this is the joint endorsement of leading institutions such as Coinbase Ventures, OKX Ventures, Crypto.com, Republic Crypto, SIG, and Arrington Capital, and the platform token $ZKL has also been listed on Bybit, Gate.io, Bitget, Hashkey Global, and Coinone, gradually coming into the view of more users.

This is not just a technical upgrade, but zkLink's redefinition of its entire platform: from spot, contracts, to Launchpad, SuperApp, all modules will operate around this set of AI x cross-chain 'underlying engine'.

No noisy airdrops, no overheated narratives, only a steadily built task system, staking mechanism, and LP incentives, truly connecting funds, users, and the protocol.

zkLink is not here to tell stories, but wants to use new technological logic to piece together a complete picture of the multi-chain world.

Whoever can connect the nodes of liquidity will master the rhythm of DeFi.

zkLink may still be in its early stages, but this experiment of AI intervening in DeFi is worth our attention together.