Web3 envisions unified liquidity and seamless interoperability across financial systems but today it's as fragmented as Web2. Espresso not only enables scalability, making it easy to transform any app into its own chain, but also enables them to communicate securely in real time.
Stephen Park
Stephen ParkOct 24, 2025
Is it just me or are there way too many blockchains out there? New ones keep popping up and the general public can barely keep track. Was this really the original vision of blockchain? A fragmented world where none of these systems talk to each other and end users are the ones who suffer. I sat down with @benafisch, co-founder of @espressosys, to talk about how Espresso is tackling this exact problem by building the infrastructure to connect all blockchain ecosystems and lay the foundation for a truly multi-chain future and tomorrow's digital economy. Let me know what you guys think!
Espresso Network is a base layer—a global database secured through a BFT consensus protocol, ensuring all data written to it remains available and is read consistently by anyone, serving as a source of truth for the ordered transaction logs of all its integrated chains.
Any web app can run as a chain on Espresso, just like Ethereum, but all chains on Espresso have fast finality: their transactions can be confirmed virtually in real-time. Today within seconds, in the future within milliseconds.
Once every dApp or token lives on chains that securely communicate with every other chain in real-time, the internet beocmes one unified liquidity pool, one global non-custodial exchange, with orders placed directly on the respective chains and settled cross-chain in real time.
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