On the evening of April 17th, Binance Savings, One-click Buy Coin, Flash Exchange, Leverage, and Contracts were launched on the Omni Network (OMNI). Subsequently, OMNI was officially launched on coinbase.com and the Coinbase iOS and Android applications, sparking widespread attention and discussion.

At 8 pm that evening, PANews, in collaboration with Binance, conducted an AMA event for the launch of the new coin OMNI, inviting Graham, the business development manager of Omni, as a special guest. Graham shared many important details about the Omni Network during the AMA event, including its background, core product innovations, and future roadmap. The following is the transcript of this AMA event.

1. What is Omni? Please introduce Omni, the project's story, background, and team.

Omni Network: Omni is the first L1 blockchain secured through re-staking to ensure security. It aims to connect all Rollups and has been deeply optimized to achieve extremely fast speeds.

The Ethereum scaling solution based on Rollups reduces costs and increases throughput. However, this comes at the cost of fragmentation. Users and developers who previously shared a global platform on Ethereum L1 are now dispersed across various Rollups, posing an existential problem for the future of Ethereum. Omni aims to solve this problem by connecting all Rollups and having an extremely fast messaging layer, allowing users and developers to seamlessly move across all Rollups. With Omni, developers can build applications available across all Ethereum Rollups, enabling them to access the liquidity and users of all Ethereum. The inspiration for Omni is rooted in the belief that the world should have a neutral, open, and permissionless economic activity platform. While cryptographic technology has the potential to provide this, there is still a long way to go before this technology can provide it to mainstream audiences. Omni aims to leverage the latest innovations in scalability and simplify their use, driving the next wave of mainstream adoption of cryptographic technology. The contributing team is committed to building this platform over the next decade, as we firmly believe that this period will be one of the most transformative periods for the global economy in the next 100 years.

Omni was founded by Austin King and Tyler Tarsi, who met while studying computer science at Harvard University. Austin is the CEO of Omni Labs and is on his second entrepreneurial venture, with his first company being acquired by Ripple, while Tyler is the CTO of Omni Labs with a background in quantitative finance. Other team members come from teams such as Obol, Sei, Delphi, and Messari, all with deep understanding of cryptocurrencies.

2. What do you think are the main design highlights of Omni? What is its role in the ETH ecosystem?

Omni Network:

(1) The first L1 protected by re-staking: Omni is a Proof-of-Stake L1 chain protected by a combination of re-staked ETH and collateralized OMNI value. (2) Extremely fast: Omni is a new type of blockchain that combines the technologies of Cosmos and the Ethereum ecosystem. By obtaining security from $ETH and utilizing CometBFT for consensus, the Omni blockchain is able to achieve Ethereum-level security at extremely fast speeds. (3) Global Rollup connectivity: Omni aims to be the global connectivity organization for all Ethereum Rollups. This means it can connect to any Rollup, regardless of the virtual machine, programming language, or data availability architecture it uses. (4) Backward compatibility: Existing applications on L2 can be extended to all Rollups by integrating Omni. This means that Omni not only empowers new developers to build on all Rollups, but also allows existing applications to scale across the entire Ethereum.

3. What are your current views on the diffusion of the Ethereum ecosystem and Ethereum L2s?

Omni Network: The origin story of Omni is actually closely related to this issue. The team was previously building a DeFi protocol, which rapidly grew in TVL (Total Value Locked) (exceeding $50 million in 2 days). The team wanted to extend this application to all Rollups, but there was no way to do so without causing liquidity fragmentation. The founders of Omni saw an opportunity to create this connectivity infrastructure for Ethereum and began building a unified EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) so that developers could deploy in one place and access liquidity from all Ethereum L2s.

As L2 continues to expand, liquidity will further fragment. This was the theme behind building Omni and the initial inspiration for the product. Over the past few years, this prediction has become a reality due to the development of L2 SDKs (such as OP Stack, Arbitrum, Polygon CDK, etc.) and RaaS platforms (such as Caldera, Conduit, and AltLayer). We expect this trend to continue, and we are pleased to continue addressing liquidity fragmentation by providing a one-stop solution for application developers.

4. Omni adopts the technical innovation of re-staking developed by EigenLayer to ensure security. Can you share how Omni utilizes re-staking to enhance security? What are your views on the future development trends of re-staking in the coming months?

Omni Network: Over the past year, re-staking has become one of the fastest-growing areas in DeFi, accumulating over $10 billion in total locked value in early 2024. We have been working with the EigenLayer team for over a year to design this solution, and it has been a pleasure working with them as we are the first team to build a new type of blockchain network using re-staking.

As mentioned earlier, Omni is leveraging EigenLayer's re-staking module as the source of cryptographic economic security for our performance-optimized blockchain, allowing us to achieve a high level of security without sacrificing network speed.

In terms of future re-staking development, we are excited about all the developments in this area. We are working with major LRT protocols to drive the market's development. In fact, Omni is the first network to collaborate with LRT protocols using re-staking, and we will continue to break new ground in this area.

Overall, I believe we are entering a new era of DeFi, where LRT and yield-bearing assets will become the underlying assets of these protocols. I am looking forward to following this area and seeing what innovative products other teams will build, while also launching our own new products, which I believe people will be very excited about.

5. What are the highlights of Omni's roadmap? What are the team's goals for the next 6, 9, and 12 months?

Omni Network: At Omni, our focus is on building a series of dApps ecosystems that can benefit from Omni's core value proposition, which is to access the liquidity and users of all Ethereum. For developers interested in extending across all Ethereum L2s, please contact our team. We have people ready to assist developers in achieving scalability and becoming native applications globally. In terms of the roadmap, the team has already launched on the mainnet of EigenLayer and will roll out an EVM testnet with messaging capabilities in the coming weeks. Subsequently, the team plans to launch the mainnet in early summer and release a series of DeFi applications. The team is excited about the future path. If you or someone you know is interested in accessing liquidity across all Ethereum L2s by building applications on Omni, please contact me via TG/Twitter or reach out to other members of our team, and we will be happy to provide support.

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