In the past, users often faced complex parameter judgments and step-by-step execution when performing on-chain operations across multiple protocols (such as Uniswap V3, Curve, Aave, etc.). The traditional approach required users to have a comprehensive judgment ability regarding protocol characteristics, transaction costs (such as Gas), slippage risks, operational paths, and to manually complete multiple interaction steps. For ordinary users, this not only presents a high cognitive barrier but also comes with significant operational pressure. The "intention-driven" model introduced by DeFAI aims to provide structural improvements to this pain point. Its core capability lies in integrating scattered on-chain operations into a one-stop, personalized service process through natural language interaction, semantic analysis, execution path planning, and automated execution. Users only need to express their needs in simple terms (such as "I want to use some USDC more safely and reduce operational complexity"), and the system will automatically complete multi-protocol collaborative operations based on preset strategy models, ensuring user preferences and platform availability, thereby enhancing the interaction experience and efficiency. This not only significantly lowers the entry barrier for using Web3 but also reserves a good interface for the "compliant access" of various types of users in the future. At the same time, such intelligent agent mechanisms also raise a series of issues that need to be addressed seriously: including the transparency of agent behavior, the correctness verification of user intentions, the explainability of intelligent execution, and the traceability and legality of operational behavior under regulatory frameworks. Therefore, DeFAI's positioning should not be simplified to "on-chain strategy optimization tool" or some form of technical efficiency overlay. More accurately, it represents an attempt at a fundamental reconstruction of the Web3 user experience architecture: whether it is possible to build a new type of on-chain operation experience that is "automated, trustworthy, and universally accessible" while ensuring openness and the spirit of decentralization.

After years dominated by a "Layer2 Rollup-Centric Roadmap," the most significant feature of Ethereum's technological development in 2025 is the renewed focus on enhancing Layer1's foundational performance. The successful implementation of the Dencun upgrade on March 13, 2024, introduced an innovative "Blob" data storage mechanism through EIP-4844 (Proto-Danksharding), fundamentally reshaping Ethereum's economic landscape. The emergence of Blobs reduced the cost of Layer2 submitting data to Layer1 by over 90%—transaction fees plummeted from an average of $25 before the upgrade to below $0.10. This cost revolution quickly ignited explosive growth in the Layer2 ecosystem, with the number of protocols using Blobs daily skyrocketing from about 10 to over 50 within months after the Dencun upgrade. However, this significant technical success also brought about unexpected economic consequences. With the surge in Layer2 activity and the dramatic drop in transaction fees, on-chain activity and network revenue for Ethereum Layer1 significantly shrank. Data from September 2024 showed that Layer1's network revenue plummeted 99% from a peak of $35.5 million on March 5 of the same year to just $578,000. The reduction in on-chain activity directly weakened the ETH burning mechanism introduced by EIP-1559—this mechanism applies deflationary pressure on ETH by destroying a portion of transaction fees. According to Etherscan data, the daily average burn of ETH dropped from thousands at its peak to a historical low of just 25.47 ETH on September 7, 2025. As Layer1 economic activity contracted, the supply dynamics of ETH fundamentally reversed, exposing it to inflation risks and raising deep concerns within the community about Ethereum's long-term economic sustainability. In response to the challenges posed by the shrinking Layer1 activity, the Ethereum Foundation officially announced the ambitious "Scale L1" strategy in August 2025. The core goal of this strategy is to address its inherent shortcomings in transaction processing performance (with Ethereum Layer1's TPS around 20, far below the thousands of TPS of high-performance public chains like Solana) while maintaining Ethereum's core advantages of decentralization and high security, in order to attract users with stringent requirements for transaction finality and security to conduct more transactions on Layer1.

Canton Network is a public blockchain for assets built specifically for multi-party applications, aimed at solving the toughest collaborative problems in the real world: sharing data and business processes among multiple organizations while maintaining data controllability, privacy, compliance, security, real-time performance, and consistency.