Introducing a New Paradigm for Blockchain Apps: Chainless Apps for Agglayer

Too many blockchain apps are forced into a trade-off between providing a seamless user experience and maintaining core Web3 trustlessness.

Users are often burdened with managing wallets, paying gas fees, and navigating complex bridging processes, all friction which hinders broader adoption. At the same time, traditional blockchains, while ensuring trustlessness through global re-execution, face limitations in scalability.

Chainless Apps, a paradigm shift for Agglayer, give the speed and familiarity of Web2 apps alongside the verifiability and trustlessness of Web3. 

This application architecture fundamentally changes how decentralized applications are built. By separating key functions into distinct, composable layers: execution, trust, bridging, and settlement.

Read the whitepaper to dive deeper into the technical architecture and possibilities of Chainless Apps.

Chainless apps > appchains 

The core idea is to decouple execution from verification. 

Most application logic executes offchain for speed and scalability, then is verified and settled onchain for security. This framework leverages app-specific sequencing, allowing each application to control its own transaction ordering and state evolution independently, offchain.

A critical component enabling this is verifiable offchain computation, performed by a prover or small group, who provide a proof (like a ZK proof or TEE attestation) that others can verify cheaply. This preserves trustlessness while massively improving throughput.

Chainless Apps leverage shared cross-chain infrastructure, specifically Agglayer, for unified messaging, asset bridging, and settlement. Agglayer enables chain-agnostic asset and message routing, abstracting away the complexity of multi-chain interaction, including gas fees and bridging logic. Agglayer unifies liquidity, users, and state across chains, making them feel like a single, coherent system.

This architectural shift results in fast, Web2-like UX with Web3-grade verifiability. The finality of the application state can be tied to a base blockchain, such as Ethereum, for long-term security and dispute resolution.

This framework unlocks a new class of applications and use cases, previously challenging under traditional blockchain constraints:

• Verifiable Web2 Apps on Agglayer: Enabling developers to build applications with Web2 performance that are verifiable and leverage the unified Web3 ecosystem provided by the Agglayer.
• Private institutional finance systems: Agglayer addresses challenges like fragmented liquidity, cross-chain interoperability risks, bridge security risks, and high costs that impact areas like Real World Assets (RWA). By providing a trustless mechanism for unifying liquidity and state without introducing new security assumptions, Agglayer can enable unified markets and secure, cost-efficient RWA applications.
• Verifiable Games: High-performance games can run logic off-chain with actions recorded as state transitions, verified using verifiable compute mechanisms like zkVMs.
• Verifiable Oracles / zkTLS: Enabling trustless consumption of HTTPS data in smart contracts without trusted intermediaries.
• Applications currently envisioned for other trust mechanisms (like those discussed in relation to Eigenlayer) can also be built within the Chainless App framework, leveraging flexible verification mechanisms and modular trust models.

The future is aggregated

Agglayer is designed to aggregate sovereign chains, unifying liquidity, users, and state into a single environment. It aims to be a neutral public good that is minimal and non-invasive. This aggregated approach, powered by ZK proofs, allows chains to maintain their sovereignty while benefiting from seamless cross-chain interoperability.

Just like TCP/IP unified disparate networks to create the internet we know today ,Agglayer aims to unify Web3, enabling applications to scale and reach the size of the entire network. The Agglayer abstracting away multi-chain complexity allows developers to focus on building innovative applications and gives users an experience that feels like interacting with a single blockchain.

To learn more, dive into the Chainless Apps Whitepaper.