A core part of the Agglayer thesis is that general-purpose chains don't make sense. Without the Agglayer, chains need to build their own network effects (users, devs, liquidity). They need to be neutral and unopinionated to attract devs. This is bad! Bootstrapping liquidity is expensive and makes finding PMF harder. It's tough to distinguish your future users from farmers and to determine whether capital will stick around. Neutrality is expensive too: having 4 different lending protocols and 8 DEXs fragments liquidity across protocols on a chain, and depth and execution suffer. Then there's the overhead of running general-purpose chains: paying for protocol integrations, supporting a wide range of apps, all for a chain that will never be able to reach Internet scale. Doesn't matter if it's Base, Solana, etc. The Agglayer wants to kill general-purpose chains and allow builders to focus on building things that are differentiated. This requires the ability to share network effects across chains. As a dev, I should be able to build a hyper-performant DEX, or a game, or some social app, deploy it as its own independent blockspace, and tap into existing users and liquidity. @katana is a core part of this. An opinionated DeFi chain / on-chain asset manager that will bootstrap liquidity for the entire Agglayer ecosystem. The Agglayer is completely neutral: you'll be able to deploy a chain with any VM, any gas token, any DA, any proving system, any sequencing rules, and you'll never have to pay any taxes on your chain's profit or sequencer fees. Katana is a sharply targeted strategy to attract maximum liquidity to the AL. Excited to see it grow.