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In the early morning office, risk management director Chen Wei stared at the continuously expanding funding gap on the screen, cold sweat dripping from her palms. The cross-chain lending protocol she managed is experiencing the second large-scale liquidation delay this month—Ethereum's gas fees soared to 500 gwei, Solana's transactions failed due to state bloat, and the verification nodes of emerging public chains lost response at critical moments. Collateral assets worth $2.7 million are continuously accumulating bad debts below the liquidation line, and she feels like a paramedic with her hands tied, helplessly watching the fire spread.
The current DeFi liquidation field is trapped in a profound "infrastructure paradox": the more complex financial applications we build, the limitations of the underlying public chains become the source of systemic risk. This $100 billion liquidation market is actually built on three irreconcilable contradictions:

Fund manager Zhang Wei, who manages over a hundred million dollars in assets, is currently facing a dilemma. Her institution needs to diversify its Bitcoin holdings into multiple DeFi protocols across different chains to generate returns, but in just the past six months, her team has experienced three security incidents involving cross-chain bridges, resulting in cumulative losses exceeding 1.5 million dollars. After each incident, the technical team submits thick analysis reports, but the conclusion is always the same — this is not a coincidence, but a systemic flaw in the current cross-chain infrastructure. Zhang Wei realizes that what she needs is not another high-yield promise, but a truly reliable cross-chain solution.

At three in the morning, Li Ming, the head of risk control for the DeFi protocol, was awakened by a series of alarms. The ETH price plummeted by 12% within five minutes. When he hurried to log into the platform to initiate the liquidation process, he found that over 8 million dollars worth of collateral assets had fallen below the liquidation line—but due to network congestion and skyrocketing Gas fees, all liquidation bots were paralyzed. This was only the fourth large-scale bad debt event he had experienced in his career, but it might be the most serious one. In the highly volatile cryptocurrency market, the existing blockchain's liquidation delays are like chasing a sports car with a horse-drawn carriage on the highway, always a deadly beat behind.

Xiao Li is the head of a small encryption project team. In the current multi-chain ecosystem, which is thriving like mushrooms after rain, he has deep concerns behind the vibrant scenes of projects flourishing across various chains.
As the multi-chain ecosystem becomes increasingly complex, Xiao Li has found that ecological construction and collaboration have become enormous challenges in front of him. Projects on different chains are like isolated islands; although each has its unique advantages and user groups, it is difficult to achieve effective linkage and collaborative development. Xiao Li's project wants to expand to other chains but faces numerous challenges such as technical integration difficulties and high user acquisition costs, as if there are invisible walls blocking his progress. Moreover, the existing cross-chain solutions on the market are either questionable in terms of security or provide a poor user experience, putting him in a dilemma during decision-making.

Xiao Zhang is a developer keen on exploring new technologies. In the booming cryptocurrency market, he keenly perceives that the multi-chain ecosystem has become an irreversible trend. Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Solana, and various other chains are bustling with activity, resembling a vibrant commercial street, attracting a large number of developers and users.
However, while enjoying the opportunities brought by the multi-chain ecosystem, Xiao Zhang also deeply feels the many hidden problems within it. One time, he needed to perform a cross-chain operation but found it as difficult as finding an exit in a maze. The process was so complicated that it was frustrating, with every step requiring careful operation, and the costs were so high that he exclaimed, 'It hurts to spend this money.' As a developer, he also encountered challenges when deploying applications across multiple chains, as if he were repeatedly building the same structure in different cities, leading to constantly increasing costs and risks snowballing out of control.

Old Li has been closely following the development trends of DeFi (Decentralized Finance). Recently, he discovered that Somnia, a new emerging project, has unique innovations in its liquidation mechanism, especially the value capture mechanism of the SOMI token, which impressed him. However, Old Li also has doubts: can this seemingly sophisticated mechanism really operate stably and create value in the complex crypto market?
In Somnia's liquidation mechanism, SOMI plays a crucial Gas role, akin to 'blood,' and its value capture mechanism contains unique and exquisite economic logic. This mechanism is like a carefully designed precision instrument, with each part closely connected, collectively maintaining the balance of the entire ecosystem.

Old Chen is a senior lending investor in the crypto world. Over the years, he has struggled in this field full of opportunities and risks, witnessing the wild growth of DeFi from the rise of 'liquidity mining' in 2020 to the magnificent formation of the 'stable yield' track in 2024. However, during the investment process, Old Chen has been deeply troubled by a thorny issue, which is the many problems existing in the liquidation process of DeFi.
Once, the market suddenly encountered severe fluctuations, like a sudden storm, and the price of collateral plummeted like free fall. Old Chen was anxious because he knew that according to the second-level or even minute-level liquidation times of most public chains and Layer 2, this was undoubtedly like a time bomb that could explode at any moment, bringing huge bad debt risks to the lending protocol. It is like Old Chen driving a race car on the track, but the braking system responds slowly. Each delay makes him anxious, fearing that a small mistake could lead to disaster.