Highlights from Andrey Fedorov’s latest STON.fi interview 👇
I went through the recent interview with Andrey Fedorov from STON.fi, and several points stood out.
The conversation wasn’t just about cross-chain swaps. It was really about where STON.fi and Omniston are heading next.
1. Cross-chain is about connecting liquidity
TON has a large user base and its own DeFi economy, but users don’t live on one chain.
Someone might have USDT on TON, another asset on Ethereum, and something else on TRON.
The goal of cross-chain infrastructure is to remove that liquidity boundary and make different ecosystems easier to access.
2. The end goal is that users stop thinking about chains
A truly chain-abstracted experience shouldn't require users to think:
Which network am I on?
Do I need to bridge first?
Which wallet do I use?
Where do I get gas?
The experience should simply be:
I have this.
I want that.
Give it to me.
Andrey's point was interesting: when people stop talking about “cross-chain swaps,” that could actually mean chain abstraction is working.
3. Why TRON?
The choice wasn't simply about social-media attention.
TRON has a huge stablecoin economy and significant liquidity, while also having fewer straightforward cross-chain options compared with the EVM ecosystem.
Connecting TON and TRON therefore made practical sense.
4. Omniston isn't just another bridge
STON.fi uses an intent-based solver network together with HTLCs.
The basic idea:
You express what you want.
Resolvers compete to execute it.
Cryptography helps make settlement safe.
As Andrey explained:
Competition determines who executes.
Cryptography determines whether settlement is safe.
The technical complexity stays underneath.
5. Wallet fragmentation is still a huge problem
USDT on TON, TRON and Ethereum may look like the same asset to users, but technically they're different assets on different chains.
Andrey even shared how he once opened his wallet, saw a zero balance, and then realized he was simply viewing the wrong network.
If that can confuse someone working in crypto, imagine a newcomer.
That's exactly the kind of friction chain abstraction needs to remove.
6. Telegram makes this even more important
Telegram users aren't necessarily opening the app because they want to do DeFi.
They're messaging, reading channels, joining communities or discovering something.
So financial infrastructure inside Telegram needs to hide the complexity.
Andrey's vision is that sending assets could eventually feel as natural as sending a message.
7. AI agents could be the next step
STON.fi is already making its documentation AI-friendly so developers can use AI agents to understand and integrate Omniston.
But the bigger opportunity is AI-driven execution:
You tell an AI what you want.
The agent understands your intent.
Omniston handles the execution.
Instead of manually choosing chains, routes and liquidity sources, users focus on the outcome.
8. STON.fi wants to be more than a TON DEX
This may be the biggest takeaway.
STON.fi = consumer product
A place for UX, distribution and real-world user flows.
Omniston = execution infrastructure
A B2B layer that developers, protocols and applications can build on.
The ambition is to connect TON, TRON, EVM and non-EVM ecosystems and become a broader execution layer.
So the bigger story isn't simply:
“STON.fi added cross-chain swaps.”
It's:
STON.fi is trying to make the chains disappear from the user experience.
You shouldn't need to know where the liquidity lives or how the route was executed.
You should just say:
“I have this. I want that.”
And the infrastructure handles the rest.
That was my biggest takeaway from Andrey Fedorov's interview. 👀
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