Espresso Is Quietly Fixing the Part of DeFi Everyone Pretended Was “Fine” For years we accepted a broken reality: • 12–15 minute Ethereum finality • 7-day optimistic rollup withdrawals • liquidity scattered across isolated chains • bridging UX that feels like a trust fall • cross-chain apps held together with duct tape Everyone built “solutions.” No one fixed the core problem. Then @EspressoSys showed up and rebuilt the rails from scratch. HotShot BFT gives the ecosystem what it never had: ~6 second deterministic finality, globally distributed nodes, and enough throughput to make rollups operate in real time. And the shared sequencer changes everything: Rollups can finally share ordering, liquidity, and state —without sacrificing Ethereum-grade security or relying on centralized operators. The result is the closest we’ve ever been to a unified chain experience: • cross-chain actions that feel local • atomic swaps without brittle bridges • unified liquidity instead of siloed pools • no waiting days, minutes, or retries Ecosystems are already moving in: ApeChain, RARI, Polygon CDK, OP Stack teams, NodeOps, Cartesi, Airchains and more. $90M+ secured, 551K wallets touched, billions in volume routed. @espressoFNDN isn’t “another chain.” It’s the missing backbone that makes multichain finally feel seamless. Someone finally fixed the rails not the bridge.