XION: The Invisible Blockchain Powering the New Internet

Key Takeaways

• New technologies begin to gain mass adoption when their inner workings become invisible. Like electricity and the internet, Web3 cannot become everyday infrastructure without abstraction that hides complexity from users.

• XION abstracts accounts, signatures, fees, devices, pricing, and interoperability at the protocol level, removing the very sense of using blockchain. This enables anyone to intuitively use Web3 services.

• XION is building real-world use cases through partnerships with global brands like Uber, Amazon, and Nike, delivering tangible value to both businesses and consumers through universal abstraction and apps like EarnOS.

• XION’s “Proof of Abstraction” model corresponds to the second stage of its four-step roadmap. Following this roadmap, XION aims to progress from the Age of Abstraction to the Age of Proof, and eventually to the Age of Unicorns—ultimately making blockchain invisible so that it becomes naturally embedded and used everywhere in the new Web3 internet.

1. Moving Forward by Becoming Invisible

1.1 Electricity & Internet: From Complex to Commonplace

The history of technology follows a recurring pattern. When a new and innovative technology first emerges, it is often the domain of a select few—experts and curious early adopters. Only those who understand the complex underlying mechanisms can truly grasp its potential. However, the moment when a technology starts to transform society and integrate into everyday life is when it becomes invisible. Once the technical complexity is abstracted away and users experience only the effects, not the mechanisms, the technology becomes part of daily life.

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Electricity in the late 19th century is a prime example of this transition. While groundbreaking inventions like Charles Brush’s arc lamp and Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb were impressive, they were difficult to use without an understanding of generators and direct current systems. Electricity remained the domain of professionals, far removed from the average household. What brought electricity to the masses wasn’t the technology itself, but the infrastructure that concealed its complexity. Alternating current transmission, transformers, and standardized wall outlets all served to hide the production and delivery of electricity from end users. People no longer had to think about how electricity worked; they simply plugged in and flipped a switch. Electricity had transformed from “technology” into “life,” becoming foundational infrastructure.

Source: NCSA Mosaic

The internet in the late 20th century followed a similar trajectory. The early internet, ARPANET, was designed for military and academic use and required a deep understanding of TCP/IP, packet switching, DNS, and command-line interfaces. What tore down this barrier for the general public was the emergence of web browsers like Mosaic in the early 1990s. Browsers hid the complex network protocols behind user-friendly interfaces, allowing anyone to access information with just a few clicks. As email, search engines, and other everyday applications emerged, the internet quietly transitioned from a complex technology to essential infrastructure.

Source: Crossing the Chasm

These examples illustrate the essence of technological adoption. The tipping point for mass adoption is not superior performance, but how effectively complexity is abstracted to deliver a simple user experience. As Geoffrey Moore discusses in Crossing the Chasm, there exists a gap—the “chasm”—between early adopters and the mainstream market. This gap stems from differences in expectations: early adopters embrace novelty and experimentation, while the mainstream prioritizes reliability and usability. To cross this chasm, a technology must stop being a specialist’s tool and instead become an invisible presence—something that anyone can use without technical knowledge. In the end, the defining feature of a dominant future technology platform is not just technical superiority, but the sophistication of the abstraction layers built on top of it.

1.2 The Dilemma of Web3 Mass Adoption

Today, blockchain and Web3 technologies are once again experiencing the growing pains that electricity and the internet once endured in their early stages. Despite being rooted in values like decentralization, data sovereignty, verifiable ownership, composability, and transparency, Web3 still faces a major hurdle: technical complexity. For the average user unfamiliar with cryptocurrencies and on-chain environments, trying to use a Web3 service means facing a series of daunting steps and unfamiliar concepts.

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Users must first choose and install one of countless wallets, then bear the burden of securely storing a 12- or 24-word seed phrase under the threat of potential hacks. Next, they must sign up on a centralized exchange (CEX), perform complex KYC, deposit fiat currency, and purchase a gas token compatible with their desired dApp. After transferring the token to a personal wallet, they may need to use a bridge to move assets across chains, all while navigating confusing signing requests during transactions. The entire onboarding process is complex and burdensome.

Such a steep learning curve and poor user experience are the biggest roadblocks to Web3 mass adoption. In fact, industry data shows that 95% of new users drop off, indicating that Web3 still remains a closed ecosystem tailored for a tech-savvy minority—the "crypto-native." No matter how advanced a DeFi service or how creative an NFT project may be, mass adoption is out of reach if most users can't even get past the starting line.

Ultimately, for Web3 to fulfill its true potential and reach billions of users, blockchain must become an “invisible infrastructure”—a technology that quietly works in the background, not one users have to directly interact with. Users should not even be aware of wallets, seed phrases, gas fees, or bridges. Instead, they should enjoy the benefits of Web3 naturally, through an intuitive and seamless user experience similar to Web2.

This is the philosophical turning point that XION, a Layer1 blockchain, embraces. By abstracting away blockchain complexity at the protocol level, XION aims to open the door to true Web3 mass adoption.

2. XION: Web3 Mass Adoption Through Generalized Abstraction

2.1 Burnt Banksy’s Provocative Vision: “Making Crypto Disappear”

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To understand the origin of XION, it’s essential to first look at the bold actions of its founder, Burnt Banksy. In 2021, he purchased a physical copy of the iconic graffiti artist Banksy’s piece Morons, live-streamed its burning, and then minted and sold it as an NFT for $380,000 (over 4 times its initial value). The act drew global media attention and sparked conversations around digital scarcity and ownership. While many dismissed it as performance art or viral marketing, it was, in reality, an experiment that exposed the structural challenges of Web3 technologies.

In the process of orchestrating this symbolic gesture—meant to amplify the meaning and utility of NFTs—Burnt Banksy came face-to-face with the painful complexity of blockchain. Even minting and distributing a single digital asset felt prohibitively difficult for the average user. This experience crystallized a critical realization: the gap between Web3’s potential and the harsh realities of its user experience was too vast to ignore.

Despite its revolutionary ideals, Web3 remained a walled garden for the technically inclined—a playground for crypto enthusiasts. Burnt Banksy concluded that fixing this problem required more than better features or sleeker UIs. Web3 needed to be reimagined from the ground up with the user at the center. The core insight: the true value of crypto—digital ownership, transparency, and trustless interaction—should be delivered without users needing to grapple with the underlying technical mess. That’s where XION’s philosophy, “making crypto disappear,” was born.

This philosophy is clearly reflected in XION’s technical architecture. In traditional Ethereum-based ecosystems, building a dApp means juggling wallets, accounts, key management, signatures, and complex components like ERC-4337 Paymasters or Bundlers. Developers often face a fragmented, inefficient stack, which results in disjointed and frustrating user experiences.

XION takes a different approach by integrating all of these functions directly into the protocol, offering a truly Simplified Tech Stack. Developers no longer need to cobble together external tools; they can focus purely on application logic, while the infrastructure handles account abstraction, signing, fees, and more out of the box. This lowers the barrier for developers and ensures a smoother, more consistent experience for users.

The idea of “making crypto disappear” doesn’t mean removing the technology—it means hiding the complexity, just as electricity and the internet are hidden behind everyday actions. Rather than bolting user-friendly features onto existing chains, XION takes a first-principles approach, redesigning the entire stack with mass consumer adoption as the single driving goal. Every technical decision is evaluated by one question: Does this make the end-user experience simpler and more intuitive? This unwavering commitment laid the foundation for XION’s core innovation—Generalized Abstraction.

2.2 Architecture of Generalized Abstraction

XION’s Generalized Abstraction is an infrastructure layer purpose-built to eliminate user friction in Web3 at the protocol level. Unlike fragmented approaches like Ethereum’s ERC-4337—which address specific problems (e.g., account abstraction) at the application layer—XION starts from the premise that complexity in user experience is interwoven across multiple domains: accounts, signatures, fees, interoperability, and more. XION internalizes all of this complexity within the protocol itself, enabling developers to build user-friendly dApps by default, without relying on third-party abstractions.

2.2.1 Native Account Abstraction: Meta Accounts Built into the Protocol

Traditional blockchain accounts—Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs)—are permanently tied to a single private key. Losing that key means losing access to your assets; leaking it means losing everything. To resolve this structural risk, XION introduces Meta Accounts, which implement Smart Contract Accounts (SCAs) at the protocol level.

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Meta Accounts decouple accounts from a single private key and allow users to create and log in using familiar Web2 methods—like email or biometric authentication—while still maintaining non-custodial control over their assets.

These accounts are made possible by modifications to the state machine that allow smart contract accounts to initiate and sign transactions. Before a transaction is executed, the state machine calls the Meta Account’s before_tx method to validate signatures and execute pre-programmed logic. After the transaction is processed, after_tx handles post-processing logic. This is implemented by modifying the protocol’s signature verification decorators, enabling flexible account-level control at the base layer.

This modular framework supports advanced features such as:

• Key Rotation: Users can periodically update the keys associated with their accounts, significantly reducing the long-term risks of key leakage or compromise. By rotating keys on a regular basis, accounts remain secure even in the face of delayed attack attempts.

• Rule Sets: Users can configure programmable rules for their accounts, such as daily transaction limits or recurring payment conditions. These rule sets allow automated compliance with user-defined conditions and offer a safer, more hands-free experience. Both individuals and organizations can gain fine-grained control over account operations.

• Key Weights: Different keys can be assigned different weights or permission levels. For instance, small transactions might require only one signature, while large ones could require multiple signatories. This allows for role-based access control, making Meta Accounts ideal for enterprise or team-based usage.

• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Meta Accounts support multiple authentication methods—email, biometrics, social login, and more. Users can combine these factors for added protection, tailoring their security settings to their own risk tolerance and convenience. This results in a secure yet flexible account experience.

2.2.2 Signature Abstraction: Embracing All Forms of Authentication

Signature abstraction further extends the capabilities of Meta Accounts. Traditional blockchains rely on specific cryptographic signature curves—such as Secp256k1 (used by Ethereum) or Ed25519 (used by Solana)—which in turn require users to adopt wallets that support those curves. This creates a barrier of entry and limits authentication options.

XION removes this limitation by adopting a curve-agnostic architecture. In addition to standard Web3 signature schemes, it supports Web2 authentication technologies such as Apple’s Secure Enclave, Android’s Secp256r1, and RS256 via JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). A single Meta Account can support up to 256 different authentication methods.

This unique approach is based on abstracting the underlying cryptographic mechanisms from the user interface. As a result, the system can seamlessly adopt new cryptographic standards without the need for protocol overhauls. This design makes XION a future-proof protocol, assuring users that their smart contract accounts will remain compatible and adaptable even as cryptographic technology evolves. It ensures long-term cryptographic survivability and positions XION to remain agile in the face of emerging cryptographic trends.

2.2.3 Device Abstraction: Seamless Experience Across Devices

Account and signature abstraction naturally lead to Device Abstraction. With XION, users no longer need to manually manage keys stored on specific devices. Instead, they can access their accounts securely and seamlessly across desktops, smartphones, and tablets using familiar authentication methods—like email, social login, or Face ID. This dramatically improves accessibility to Web3 services, creating an environment where users can interact with their digital assets freely, anytime and anywhere.

2.2.4 Fee Abstraction: Pay Transaction Fees in Any Token

Through its Global Fee Abstraction mechanism, XION enables users to pay transaction fees using any token they hold—not just the native token, $XION. When a user chooses to pay fees in a non-native token, the protocol automatically collects that token and swaps it into $XION on the backend. The exchange rate is determined using the time-weighted average price (TWAP) from decentralized exchanges (DEXs), eliminating the need for users to manually hold or manage a specific gas token.

At the core of this system is a Fee Collector, which accumulates various tokens used for fees. These are periodically converted into $XION and redistributed. The conversion process is powered by tools like asynchronous interchain queries (Async-ICQ), which fetch real-time price data from external DEXs and execute the swaps automatically. The collected $XION is then recycled back into the fee collector, playing a key role in managing the protocol's inflation rate.

This structure reduces user burden while simultaneously supporting the long-term economic sustainability of the network.

2.2.5 Payment Abstraction: Gas-Free User Experience

XION optimizes its fee model by categorizing transactions into two types:

• PlatformSend: For transactions involving asset exchange, the network deducts a fee as a small percentage of the transferred value. This allows users to transact using the assets they already own—without needing a separate gas token. Since attackers must also pay fees proportional to the value transferred, this model naturally defends against Sybil attacks.

• FeeGrant: For simpler, non-exchange interactions, developers can cover gas fees on behalf of users via FeeGrant. This enables a gasless experience, removing friction for onboarding and everyday usage.

This dual-layered fee abstraction provides developers with maximum flexibility. For instance, they can sponsor fees using their staking rewards or set up conditional sponsorships based on transaction frequency or volume. This composable model benefits both users and developers—enhancing UX while supporting the network’s long-term viability.

2.2.6 Pricing Abstraction: A Stable Economy Powered by USDC

By combining its many layers of abstraction, XION becomes the first Layer 1 blockchain to adopt USDC—a stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the US dollar—as its primary transactional currency. This allows dApps to price all products and services in familiar, dollar-denominated terms, giving users the ability to transact intuitively without worrying about crypto volatility.

This design significantly improves the onboarding experience by eliminating the structural burden of having to acquire a separate gas token. It also reduces reliance on the native token, minimizing exposure to price swings and speculative pressure, yet through the fee abstraction still having all the value transacted flow back to the native token. As a result, many of the complexities tied to token volatility and unfamiliar currency systems—common pain points in traditional blockchains—are effectively removed.

2.2.7 Abstracted Interoperability: Unifying All Chains Into One

XION’s Generalized Abstraction extends beyond a single blockchain—bringing its seamless user experience to every connected chain. Users can treat XION as their controller chain, executing operations on other blockchains (host chains) while continuing to interact through XION’s simple and intuitive interface. This approach eliminates one of the core challenges of a multi-chain world: account fragmentation, where users must manage different accounts across various chains.

Technically, this is enabled by mapping the user’s XION Meta Account to accounts on other chains. Each linked account is assigned a unique identifier composed of its native chain ID and account address. This allows seamless cross-chain identity mapping, all managed through XION’s unified interface.

Behind the scenes, package forwarding middleware and other system components enable this interoperability. The result is a multi-chain experience where chain boundaries disappear entirely at the user level, making cross-chain interactions feel as simple as single-chain usage.

2.3 XION’s Growth—Proven in Numbers

XION’s vision of Web3 mass adoption and its core innovation—Generalized Abstraction—has proven its potential through real-world metrics: user growth, ecosystem expansion, and investor confidence from testnet to mainnet. These results demonstrate that XION’s consumer-first design is working in practice—not just theory.

2.3.1 Investor Confidence: Backed by $36M in Funding

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From the outset, XION’s development team at Burnt has attracted strong investor support, securing funding from industry leaders such as Animoca Brands, Circle Ventures, Multicoin Capital, The Spartan Group, and Arrington Capital. XION has raised over $36 million to date, including a $25 million raise in April 2024, which signaled high market confidence ahead of mainnet launch.

2.3.2 Explosive User Growth and High Engagement

XION’s user numbers clearly reflect the power of abstraction-driven UX. By removing friction, the network has seen rapid and sustained adoption:

• Testnet Success: In January 2024, XION launched its testnet with Generalized Abstraction and gained over 100,000 users in 24 hours. Its pilot game, Crash Game, processed 2 million transactions and 11,000 requests per second within a day—proving both scalability and reliability. Within a month, total transactions surpassed 10 million.

• Post-Mainnet Momentum: As of mid-2025, XION has reached 800,000 monthly active users (MAU) and over 4 million unique wallet addresses. Importantly, XION ranks among the highest in daily active users (DAU) relative to market cap, showing that its growth is driven by real usage, not speculation.

These numbers validate the user appeal of features like Meta Accounts, passkey/Face ID logins, and USDC-based gas abstraction.

2.3.3 Developer & Ecosystem Expansion

XION has also rapidly grown a developer-friendly ecosystem:

• Projects & Partnerships: Over 200 projects are being built on XION, with more than 100 global brands—including Uber, Amazon, BMW, and Lacoste—leveraging XION’s EarnOS platform to integrate blockchain seamlessly into consumer experiences. EarnOS already boasts 4M users and has raised $5M in funding.

• Developer Support: XION supports builders with programs like the $12.6M Anti-Grant Grant Program, and the global startup competition Believathon and Proof of Concept. Its mobile toolkit DAVE makes XION accessible to over 18M mobile developers, serving as a vital entry point for mobile-first Web3 development and consumer adoption.

• Interoperability Scaling: XION is actively building out chain abstraction with over 50 major blockchains including Base, Axelar, Solana, Sei, Injective, and Hyperlane. This sets the foundation for a Superweb where users and assets can flow freely across chains without complexity.

Through sustained usage, developer traction, and investor backing, XION is proving that its user-centric, abstraction-first approach delivers tangible value. Post-mainnet, the numbers speak for themselves: XION is not just a blockchain—it’s a blueprint for making Web3 finally usable by everyone.

3. Web2 Enterprises Are Users of XION, Too

XION’s user base goes far beyond individual consumers. In fact, its true potential lies in onboarding large Web2 enterprises into the Web3 ecosystem. These companies are increasingly recognizing the value of blockchain—verifiable data, transparent customer relationships, and new marketing channels. XION removes the technical and regulatory barriers that typically prevent these organizations from tapping into Web3, offering them a direct path to adoption.

3.1 Advertising Reinvented: Verifiable Behavior & User-Owned Data

Today’s digital advertising ecosystem is dominated by platforms. Data is owned by intermediaries, while brands pay for metrics like clicks or impressions—many of which are unverifiable. Users have no control over their own data, and companies often fall victim to ad fraud and unreliable attribution.

Source: EarnOS

XION disrupts this asymmetric structure through EarnOS, a privacy-preserving advertising app built on XION. EarnOS allows users to verify their interests and behaviors and get rewarded directly—putting control and compensation in their hands. In 2025, EarnOS raised $5 million in funding from firms like EV3, Animoca Brands, and Laser Digital (Nomura), signaling confidence in a user-first ad future.

EarnOS enables companies to reward users not just for clicks, but for verifiable on-chain actions. For instance, a ridesharing company could provide incentives to users who can cryptographically prove that they’ve actually completed rides. This creates a new model of authenticated engagement, offering companies tamper-proof insights while giving users data ownership and compensation.

In this structure, users are no longer passive objects in the ad economy—they become active participants. They own their data, and they are compensated for its value. This is the economic empowerment Web3 promises, and XION provides the technical and economic foundation to make it real.

3.2 Global Brand Partnerships: Bringing Web3 to the Masses

XION’s innovation isn’t just theoretical. Over 150 global brands—including Uber, Amazon, BMW, Nike, Lego, The North Face, and Baskin Robbins—are already integrating XION into their businesses. These companies are harnessing Web3 technology not as a gimmick, but to unlock new customer experiences, transparent data systems, and measurable ROI in ways never before possible.

At the heart of these collaborations is XION’s guiding philosophy: “Making crypto disappear.” Even in B2B use cases, brands don’t need to understand blockchain to use it. They simply adopt XION like they would any other marketing or CRM tool—while the protocol quietly handles the technical complexity in the background.

3.2.1 Uber: Solving $1 Trillion in Ad Waste

A standout case is Uber, which spent over $4.3 billion on marketing in 2024, much of it lost to ad fraud and ineffective targeting. The current digital ad model is plagued by unreliable metrics (e.g., clicks, impressions) and strict data regulations (GDPR, ATT), making it harder to identify real users.

Using the EarnOS app built on XION, Uber tackled this issue head-on:

• Behavior-Based Targeting: Uber identified high-value prospects by encouraging users to verify prior ride history with competitors like Lyft or Bolt using zero-knowledge proofs—proving behavior without revealing private data.

• Direct User Rewards: Based on this verified activity, Uber offered rewards (e.g., giveaway entries) directly to users, bypassing ad platforms entirely and delivering value straight to participants.

• Ongoing Incentives: Uber continued to engage users with additional rewards based on post-onboarding activity, enabling long-term loyalty rather than one-time conversions.

The result, Uber obtained high-quality, tamper-proof behavioral data, dramatically improved ad spend efficiency, and delivered Web3 utility via email login—no wallet setup or gas fees required.

“Based on the results of the initial launch, I can easily see us 10xing [increasing] our spend with EarnOS as it’s the most effective funnel we have access to,”
— Harrison Kennedy, head of new growth for Uber Eats in Japan

3.2.2 Expanding Into Diverse Industries

Following Uber’s lead, XION is now transforming a wide array of sectors—from retail and real estate to social media and gaming:

Source: EarnOS

• Retail & F&B (Baskin Robbins, The North Face): These brands launched EarnOS-powered campaigns that rewarded real-world actions—like store visits or AR filter usage. Campaign reach increased by over 9,000%, showing extraordinary engagement.

• Marketplace (TradeOS): TradeOS is an AI powered marketplace infrastructure platform, powered by zkTLS verification to guarantee delivery of physical goods.

• Real Estate (FractIt Labs): FractIt Labs built a fractional investment platform on XION, enabling everyday users to buy, sell, and trade real estate shares as tokens. Thanks to Meta Accounts and gasless transactions, users with no crypto background can invest as easily as they shop online.

• Real Estate (Lazertaz): Lazertaz allows for landlords to manage their properties all in one place ensuring payments, conflicts, and communications are all taken care of through automated agents.

• Commerce (Droplinked): Droplinked connects brands affiliate programs with marketplaces and users, improving the visibility and success of those programs.

• Creator Economy (WRTH): WRTH is a collectibles marketplace, using XION to ensure provenance and verification of rare collectable items, such as comic books, sneakers, memorabilia, etc.

• Creator Economy (Talis Protocol): Talis offers a creator-first digital asset marketplace on XION. Creators can mint and sell digital works with just a few clicks. Fans can support creators via simple email signup, no wallet required.

• Creator Economy (Scogé): Scogé mixes the gamification of IRL events with a platform for designers to have digital representation of their physical goods.

• Prediction Markets (Kash): Kash is a 'flash' prediction market platform that is fully embedded into socials through XION's abstractions, and creates a new information layer for the internet.

• Prediction Markets (Buzzing Club): Buzzing Club introduces a platform-agnostic prediction layer to social media, where users can create prediction markets around trending topics.

• Social & Community (Mercle): Mercle is building a decentralized social platform where users control their digital identity, own their content, and earn transparent rewards. With XION’s architecture and seamless user interaction, developers can build social apps that prioritize user agency and data sovereignty.

• Gaming (God's Legacy): God's Legacy is AAA Mortal Kombat style game, utilizing XION to enable a novel engagement marketplace where external parties can wager on fights.

• Gaming (BlockX): BlockX is redefining blockchain gaming using XION’s infrastructure. With chain abstraction, developers enable cross-game interoperability, true asset ownership, and custom smart contract mechanics—all without compromising on user experience or gameplay flow.

• Gaming (Burnt Ghost Games): Burnt Ghost Games upends traditional browser games with a tokenomics loop that allows the players to maintain interactivity and fun.

• Gaming (Tilt): Tilt blends free-to-play and skill based wagering games, powered by a tokenized revenue sharing model.

• Gaming (DDream): DDream is an immersive combination of Galgame and AI, powering a new economy based on ownership and revenue sharing.

• Events (Aura): Aura is built for events, festivals, and exhibitions to simplify payments, attendee engagement and loyalty programs.

In this way, XION solves real-world problems across diverse industries without exposing blockchain on the surface, functioning as a practical Web3 solution that allows both Web2 and Web3 companies to immediately launch services in an on-chain environment.

3.3 Infrastructure for Trust: MiCA Compliance & Institutional Partners

The reason global brands confidently join the XION ecosystem isn't just its user-friendly tech—it’s the deep infrastructure of trust that XION has built over time. When adopting emerging technologies, enterprises are most concerned about three things: technical complexity, regulatory risk, and asset custody security. XION addresses all three—making Web3 adoption viable, safe, and simple for Web2 companies.

• Regulatory Clarity: XION was the first Layer 1 blockchain to comply with MiCA Title II, the European Union’s comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto assets. MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets) provides legal clarity on crypto issuance and services, focusing on investor protection and market stability. XION’s MiCA compliance offers a critical trust signal—especially for enterprises targeting the EU—by eliminating the legal uncertainty that plagues most blockchain platforms.

• Institutional-Grade Custody: XION has completed full integration with Anchorage Digital—the first and only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S.—and Fireblocks, which supports over 2,400 institutional organizations and secures more than $10 trillion in digital asset transactions. This means institutional players, such as asset managers and VCs, can now safely custody, stake, and trade $XION compliantly and safely. This dramatically strengthens the legitimacy and operational security of the XION ecosystem.

• Top-Tier Security Integration: XION has also partnered with Ledger, one of the world’s leading hardware wallet providers. This integration allows both individual and institutional users to secure their assets using familiar, battle-tested tools, while still accessing all of XION’s advanced capabilities.

Together, these three pillars—regulation, custody, and security—form a multi-layered trust stack that differentiates XION from nearly every other blockchain project. This allows global brands like Uber to view their XION integrations not as speculative risks, but as strategic business decisions with clear ROI. With XION, companies don’t have to become "crypto companies" to benefit from Web3.

4. Proof of Abstraction (PoA) & Community Power Behind It

Behind XION’s technology and successful market strategy lie an economic model and a strong community that make everything sustainable. The Proof of Abstraction (PoA) consensus mechanism and $XION tokenomics create a virtuous cycle in which user activity directly fuels the network’s economic value and security, while an enthusiastic community provides the energy that keeps the system running in the real world.

4.1 $XION Tokenomics: The Economic Model of Proof of Abstraction

To resolve the trade-off between security and accessibility that traditional Proof of Stake (PoS) faces, XION proposes a new consensus mechanism called Proof of Abstraction (PoA). Whereas PoS primarily bases influence on staked assets, PoA makes user experience the driving force behind both network security and value distribution.

PoA’s fundamental goal is not simply to secure the network; it aims to lower entry barriers through “abstraction” and accelerate mass adoption. The economic model therefore ensures clear incentives for all contributors to network growth—especially developers and dApps that onboard users.

4.1.1 Fee Mechanism: Converting Every Action into Value

XION’s fee model maximizes user convenience and channels every economic activity back into network value:

• Token-Agnostic Fees: One of the network’s core features is that users can pay transaction fees without holding the native $XION token. At the protocol level, an exchange mechanism lets users pay in whatever token they have—such as USDC—while the backend automatically converts it to $XION.

• Offsetting Inflation Through Fees: Fees collected from network activity are used to offset inflation. When growing user numbers and higher transaction volume generate more fee revenue than the new tokens minted for staking rewards, $XION is effectively burned, creating a deflationary effect. Increased user activity therefore leads to stronger token scarcity and price appreciation, reinforcing a powerful economic flywheel.

4.1.2 Inflation Design: A Staking-Focused, Stable Model

XION structures token issuance in two ways that distinguish it from typical PoS networks:

• Inflation Calculated Only on Staked Supply: Inflation is computed solely on bonded (staked) tokens, not the total supply. This reduces unnecessary token issuance and overall inflationary pressure, attracting participants committed to the network’s long-term health.

• Stable and Predictable Rewards: Thanks to this design, the annual percentage yield (APY) that stakers receive stays equal to the network’s inflation rate. This offers a more stable environment for participants focused on long-term security and growth rather than short-term speculation.

4.1.3 PoA’s Virtuous Cycle: The User–Security Symbiosis

Every PoA mechanism feeds into a “User–Security Symbiosis Rubric,” a self-reinforcing loop:

1. Developers Build Abstracted Apps: PoA incentives push developers to create “abstracted” apps that anyone can use with ease.

2. More Users Arrive: User-friendly apps remove complexity, naturally drawing more people onto the network.

3. Network Security and Value Rise: Increased users and transaction volume generate more fees and staking, strengthening the network’s economic security.

4. Developer Ecosystem Expands: A stronger network attracts new developers, who in turn refine abstraction technology and accelerate the cycle.

This is more than a technical loop; it acts as the growth engine for the entire $XION ecosystem.

Enhanced abstracted UX (↑ User Adoption) → Higher fee revenue (↑ Fee Revenue) → Lower net inflation or a shift to deflation (↓ Net Inflation) → Greater $XION scarcity and value (↑ $XION Value) → Stronger staking incentives and network security (↑ Network Security)

Ultimately, user activity itself becomes the core element that boosts the network’s security and economic sustainability, embodying PoA’s essence and serving as the backbone of XION’s economy.

4.2 Community—An Ecosystem Beyond Community Itself

Another pillar supporting XION’s growth is the powerful, organic community whose influence goes beyond what technology or an economic model alone can explain. With a huge presence across social media—including 650,000 members on Discord—XION treats the community not merely as a marketing target but as a core partner in building the ecosystem.

Founder Burnt Banksy emphasizes “authenticity” as the key to community building. Unlike hierarchical Web2 companies, a decentralized project must let every participant genuinely feel like part of the project. XION puts this philosophy into practice through several concrete community-driven programs.

4.2.1 Blaze Syndicate

The Blaze Syndicate is a community-led global initiative organized to expand the XION ecosystem and popularize Web3 technology. Active in more than 130 countries, it enables members to contribute through content creation, business development, technical support, educational resources, and community expansion.

Source: XION Blog

Participants start as Seeker and can climb through Envoy, Elect, and finally Crusader in a four-tier ranking system, steadily increasing their influence within the community. Rank is determined by activity level, contribution, and leadership; higher tiers come with greater responsibility and rewards. The top tier, Crusader, is made up of key figures who strongly share XION’s vision and directly shape the ecosystem’s direction.

The appeal of Blaze Syndicate goes beyond mere rewards: members get early access to XION’s nascent projects while simultaneously gaining a global network and real-world skills.

4.2.2 Community Spanning the Globe

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XION’s community extends far beyond digital spaces, building a powerful global network that translates into meaningful offline activities. For example, the local developer and community event in China, the Believathon held in Nigeria, and the XION House in India are prime examples of this worldwide presence, where the ecosystem grows by directly engaging with local developers and communities.

To systematically support these global initiatives, XION operates over 15 regional Twitter and Telegram channels, with dedicated moderators—organized through the Blaze Syndicate—leading each region. These moderators ensure communication is optimized for local language and culture. Notably, the Korean community has been growing steadily since mainnet launch, with active engagement on Twitter and Telegram.

These cases serve as strong proof that XION’s local-first global strategy is working effectively across regions.

5. XION, Forging the Invisible Infra for a New Web3 Internet

Just as electricity and the internet once did, today’s Web3 technology also faces challenges of complex concepts and inconvenient user experiences. To address this, XION proposes solving these issues by removing every technical barrier users encounter at the protocol level through what it calls Generalized Abstraction.

By enabling users to create wallets with just an email via meta accounts, pay fees with any desired asset without gas tokens, and avoid worrying about price volatility by using USDC, XION’s philosophy is clear: users should enjoy the benefits of blockchain without being conscious of it. However, this generalized abstraction is only a part of XION’s grand vision, positioned within the broader roadmap as the Age of Abstraction.

XION defines its journey toward a new blockchain-powered internet in four stages:

1. Age of Burning: The philosophical starting point, questioning the status quo of the digital world and sparking the flames of revolution.

2. Age of Abstraction: The stage of building the technical foundation that makes the new paradigm easily accessible to everyone.

3. Age of Proof: The stage of solving online trust issues, connecting blockchain technology to daily life, and building a decentralized knowledge verification graph.

4. Age of Unicorns: An era of explosive growth where anyone can build the next billion-dollar company on top of XION.

The Age of Abstraction is where the concept of generalized abstraction, discussed so far, is fully realized. In this stage, XION focuses on eliminating friction in user experience across accounts, signatures, fees, and device accessibility, ultimately pushing blockchain into the background as invisible infrastructure.

Specifically, the implementation of generalized abstraction through meta accounts, signature and device abstraction, and a USDC-based gasless model has led to significant achievements: surpassing 800,000 monthly active users and forging partnerships with global brands like Uber and Amazon. These results clearly demonstrate that XION has the potential to overcome Web3’s biggest adoption barrier—usability.

XION, which has been solving the usability problem, is now looking toward a more fundamental challenge—the Age of Proof, where digital trust itself is abstracted. The key technology that opens this age is zkTLS (zero-knowledge Transport Layer Security), which makes all internet data verifiable on the blockchain without exposing personal information.

zkTLS can be likened to a “digital notary that protects privacy.” For example, if a user needs to prove that they are a paid subscriber of a certain website, zkTLS mathematically proves “the fact that you are a subscriber” without revealing the user’s ID or payment details.

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This opens up new possibilities across industries such as marketing, recruitment, finance, and identity verification. Companies will no longer need to rely on uncertain click counts; instead, they can directly reward actual users of their services. Through competitions like Proof of Concept, XION supports the creation of new applications that leverage this technology, thereby redesigning the trust structure of the digital world.

In the final stage, the Age of Unicorns, XION aims to become the infrastructure for Web3 in the new internet era. Just as Amazon Web Services (AWS) powers most internet applications today, XION envisions itself as the backbone of the majority of future Web3 apps. On this foundation, XION seeks to play the role of a launchpad for Web3 entrepreneurs who want to harness the blockchain’s strengths—ownership, authenticity, and value transfer.

Ultimately, XION’s goal is to become the “unicorn of unicorns”—the platform that gives rise to more billion-dollar companies than any other.

Of course, the path toward such a grand vision is not without hurdles. While adopting USDC as the network’s base currency maximizes user convenience, it also creates high dependence on Circle—the centralized issuer—and the traditional financial system. If USDC were to depeg or the issuer came under regulatory pressure, the entire XION ecosystem could suffer.

In addition, the architecture that handles all abstraction at the protocol level has not yet been fully proven in terms of its long-term trade-offs regarding performance and development flexibility. Yet, these aspects are not merely weaknesses. XION aims to confront these challenges head-on and transform them into opportunities.

Through zkTLS technology, XION provides the foundation for entirely new types of applications that were previously impossible (e.g., verified behavior-based advertising), and through its vision of the “Age of Unicorns,” it offers developers the optimal infrastructure and incentives to build dApps more flexibly.

Furthermore, its “chain abstraction” integration strategy with Solana, BNB Chain, and others is a concrete plan to expand XION into a “universal entry point” to Web3, rather than remaining an isolated Layer 1. This mitigates dependency risks on specific assets or systems like USDC and enables all users—regardless of which chain they are on—to interact with the entire Web3 ecosystem through XION’s seamless UX. In particular, XION’s fee abstraction mechanism allows it to seamlessly accept other stablecoins, thereby reducing its reliance on USDC.

Ultimately, XION’s end goal is for technology to fade into the background, leaving users with nothing but a simple, seamless experience. This is how other transformative technologies have worked. Just as people don’t think about the power grid when turning on a light, or TCP/IP when opening a website, XION will have succeeded only when users are no longer conscious of “XION” or “blockchain” at all. The moment users simply engage naturally with apps and services—that is when XION’s vision becomes reality.

When blockchain becomes invisible, that is when it will truly be used everywhere. How quickly XION can bring this future forward is now the focus of attention in the crypto market.