Now open Twitter and scroll through, and you will see a bunch of so-called 'Web3 projects': either issuing tokens to speculate on concepts or copy-pasting L2 and chain games. But to be honest, most of them are like apps, not infrastructure.
What can truly support the next generation of Web3 architecture is not a single project, but a 'system-level existence' that can connect multiple chains, multiple states, and multiple ecosystems together.
The more I understand Hemi, the more I feel it is not a project, but an operating system-level existence.
You might say, isn't the metaphor of an operating system too grand? Let's first think about what the core function of an operating system is.
Manage resources (CPU, memory, storage)
Allocate permissions (multi-user security mechanisms)
Provide abstraction (so programmers do not have to deal directly with hardware)
Schedule program execution (multi-task concurrency)
Then let's see what Hemi has done in the Web3 world:
It manages multi-chain resources: BTC states, ETH contracts, data from other chains;
It provides a permission model: define behavior triggers through contract call conditions;
It builds an abstraction layer: you do not need to know how BTC works, just call the state interface;
It unifies cross-chain logic scheduling: you can perform multi-chain behavior linkage within a single contract.
Doesn't it sound like Web3's 'multi-chain operating system'? And its execution core is that HVM.
More importantly, Hemi takes state as the subject, rather than assets.
Traditional Web3 systems are 'token first': you need money to act. But Hemi is 'state first': as long as the state is satisfied, it can trigger contracts.
For example:
BTC wallet receives funds, → triggers ETH airdrop;
Executed DAO proposals on the Polygon chain, → grants permissions to a certain role;
Reaches interaction threshold on multiple chains, → contract automatically releases the next phase of functions.
This design is very much like a 'system scheduler'; you set the rules, and it automatically runs the program.
For developers, the biggest difference about Hemi is:
It does not require you to 'rewrite for it',
but rather lets you 'integrate what already exists on top of it'.
Just like when we use an operating system, we do not need to redesign the mouse or keyboard, but simply call the API to get it done.
In Hemi, you can use Solidity or interact with BTC through the hBK toolkit, and you can even listen to state changes from other chains.
This is a completely different development paradigm.
So I think Hemi is not a competitor of a specific track; it is the 'coordination layer' across all chains.
If Bitcoin is memory, Ethereum is CPU, and Polygon is an expansion card...
Then Hemi is that operating system that connects, schedules, and manages everything.
You do not need to understand all its internal details, but you will find that more and more actions on chains in the future are completed within its core.
Web3 does not need the next blockbuster DApp; Web3 needs an operating system that can truly coordinate multiple chains, trigger intelligence, and integrate states.
