Sequence (acq. by Polygon Labs)

🚨 BIG NEWS: We're combining our universal intents platform with Foresight's prediction market built on Katana! This integration solves the big challenges that prediction markets face, from complex wallet setup, chain & token fragmentation, and multi-step transaction flows. With Trails, users can fund positions in Foresight from any token, wallet, or chain in just 1-click. It's time for prediction markets to be far more accessible. Dive into the details: https://trails.build/fsln

We're partnering with Katana to solve DeFi fragmentation with 1-click cross-chain liquidity and real yield. DeFi adoption has long been held back by crypto fragmentation. Liquidity scattered across chains, tokens, & wallets leaves assets idle & user journeys broken before they even begin 😩 This fragmentation slows adoption of vault-bridged assets (vbAssets), which rely on liquidity moving freely across chains. So we're here to change that. 🚄 Trails provides the complementary transaction rails that allow liquidity to travel cross-chain in 1-click, facilitating greater adoption of vbAssets. ⚔️ Katana turns that liquidity into productive capital with deep pools and real yield. By connecting cross-chain liquidity directly to Katana’s vaults and core apps, Trails strengthens the Katana flywheel. More portable liquidity means more deposits into vaults and deeper liquidity across the ecosystem, which expands the demand for vbAssets and reinforces Katana’s economic engine. We're powering all cross-chain bridge, swap, & deposit flows with Trails, so users can fund opportunities or enter vaults from any EVM chain, wallet, or token in 1-click. By handling intent orchestration, routing, & settlement behind the scenes, we are transforming multi-step transactions into a seamless user flow with full chain abstraction within the Katana app. Key benefits for users: ➤ 1-click access to real yield from any token or wallet on any EVM chain ➤ Better swap rates, lower slippage, and deeper liquidity through integrated DEX routing with core apps such as Sushiswap ➤ A unified experience with a single interface and a single confirmation ➤ Future access to vKAT staking and ecosystem governance Key benefits for developers: ➤ Stronger liquidity flows into @katana apps through reduced drop-offs ➤ Full chain abstraction with complete control over branding & UX ➤ Native routing across any DEX for best execution ➤ Out-of-the-box ERC-4626 vault support ➤ Easy expansion into NFT mints, staking flows, governance, and more Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gcu3pCBF

Trails early access keys just dropped! 🚀 Signed up before Dec 3? Check your inbox. We'll be rolling out more waves soon. Get on the list → https://trails.build/ Join the community on Telegram → https://lnkd.in/gEAfisPd

It’s been six days since we introduced Trails. In reality, it has been about eight years in the making. Over that time, we kept seeing the same pattern. People had value scattered across chains and tokens. They wanted to buy an item, fund a vault, or move money, and ran into gas they did not have, networks they did not understand, and extra steps they never signed up for. Most of them dropped off. We didn’t. Ethereum today is an ecosystem of chains rather than a single network. That richness is powerful for builders, yet fragmentation makes a simple request like “pay 100 USDC” surprisingly hard. Trails is our answer. Trails delivers universal transaction rails that let an app accept crypto from anyone on supported chains in one user confirmation. The user says what they want to do and what they want to spend. Trails looks across their balances, finds a route, and quietly handles any bridging, swapping, and execution in the background. 1-click to completion.  All a builder has to do is drop in a small widget or API and instantly gain support for transaction flows from many chains without rewriting their app each time. Trails coordinates the bridges, DEXs, and protocols and delivers exactly what the app expects at the destination, so users can pay with any token from any chain. The story behind the product is pretty simple. We want Ethereum to feel like one network again. We want developers to spend less time wrestling with fragmentation and more time designing experiences people love. We want someone who has never used crypto before to press “Buy,” confirm once, and know it just worked. Six days in, I’m proud of what the team has created and grateful for integrators like Circle, partners like Katana and Foresight, and the countless developers already exploring what Trails can do. As Ethereum continues to mature and new chains and ecosystems come online, our job is to keep this experience simple: 1-click transactions with any wallet, any token, any chain.

Introducing Trails: the universal intents platform for 1-click crypto transactions. Pay, fund, swap, earn, deposit, or accept payments in any token, on any chain, with any wallet. Crypto transactions should feel like internet-native commerce. Now they finally do. Crypto has a triple fragmentation problem where value is fragmented across many tokens, wallets, and chains. Trails unites them all. Any token → any wallet → any chain → 1-click Most wallets, bridges & swaps only solve part of the journey. Trails solves the entire flow: ➤ No token mismatches ➤ No failed checkouts ➤ No gas headaches Just 1-click and it works. Trails integrates with Circle CCTP, Katana & Foresight. USDC gets low-slippage, instant cross-chain transfers and 1-click transacting across apps, chains & wallets. Katana users can bridge, swap & deposit into yield vaults from any chain or token in a single step with vKAT staking & governance integrations on the way. Foresight enables anyone to launch or join markets on real-world sporting, crypto, and other general events through a social-first prediction platform that rewards users for sharing their convictions. A unified, frictionless onchain experience is finally here. Learn all about it: https://trails.build/blln

Ethereum is becoming financial infrastructure because it has what Wall Street needs: predictable settlement, audit-ready data, clean user paths. Ex-BlackRock exec Joseph Chalom confirmed it in a recent CoinDesk interview: "Ethereum is the infrastructure for Wall Street." They're adopting what we built. Not the other way around. This tracks with what I've been seeing over the past few months, from Stripe Tour to Chainlink Labs's SmartCon. Traditional finance and onchain infrastructure are converging toward the same goals: predictability, auditability, clean user flows. As builders scale these systems, the user experience across finance platforms is about to get significantly better. That's what makes this moment exciting. The Sequence team will be at Devconnect in Buenos Aires this week. If you're working on RWA distribution, index exposure, or multi-rail settlement, let's connect 👋