DeFi isn’t just Ethereum anymore. It’s thousands of chains, rollups, appchains, and ecosystems, each one carving out its own niche. DeFi is definitely growing. This growth also brings fragmentation.

Liquidity, state, and users are more siloed than ever. Developers are forced to make increasingly difficult trade-offs. Every new venue means another custom integration, constant upkeep, and complex workarounds.

The problem? The bigger DeFi gets, the harder it is to actually take advantage of that growth, for devs and users alike.

Spicenet is not here to fit DeFi into one box or create another standard no one will care about. Instead, we’re using fragmentation as leverage and turning the chaos of DeFi into a new opportunity.

It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Win

The way most apps interact with DeFi today is through a growing maze of one-off integrations. Every chain, every venue, every opportunity comes with its own stack of requirements. You can’t just plug in – you have to rebuild and redeploy.

For apps, this creates a trap. Each decision locks you into a set of constraints. Migrations are risky and expensive, but staying on one chain is even riskier. Rewriting contracts to access new liquidity or user bases takes time and effort, pulling resources away from actual growth.

For users, this sprawl feels like friction. Often, your attention is splintered across ecosystems, with the best opportunities locked away on a chain you don’t use. Managing to stay on top does require a level of obsession and we have taken that as a given, but it shouldn’t be this hard to win.

Most solutions billed as solving fragmentation have only deepened the problem. Bridges introduced new risks, we have dozens of new standards no one uses, and often a prerequisite to interoperability is having to build on a new chain (because this one chain will make it all go away).

Take a DeFi app on Citrea. If it wants to access liquidity or users on Base, it’s not just a matter of turning on a feature. Devs have to rebuild contracts, manage deployment across multiple environments, and split their attention and liquidity across chains.

Every attempt to fix fragmentation has tried to convince users and developers to pivot to a new standard to erase the complexity. What’s actually needed is a solution that meets you in your current environments and connects you to the broader DeFi ecosystem with minimal overhead.

Spicenet is a network that brokers connections and unlocks outcomes, without asking apps or users to change the way they operate.

Stop Trying to Fix Fragmentation

We’ll never get to a final standard that unifies everyone under the same paradigm. It’s just not how incentives work in this space.

Spicenet is taking a different approach. We’re not asking anyone to change their stack or pick a new chain or adopt the same standard. Instead, Spicenet lets you make your own choices and still connect to every chain and app that matters.

New chains will keep launching. Developers will keep building new primitives. Users will keep moving. Products that want to stay competitive need a way to meet all of them, instantly. Spicenet makes that possible. As DeFi keeps expanding, we’re helping you expand with it.

Create Better Financial Outcomes

So what is Spicenet, exactly?

It’s the brokerage network for DeFi: a coordination layer that routes and settles execution across ecosystems.

Spicenet runs as a ledger. We deploy adapters (smart contracts) to chains, defining our network map and turning isolated venues into connected ones. Adapters can be deployed permissionlessly or through a partnership. Either way, once deployed, the chain becomes reachable through Spicenet.

Our key products are Spice Edge (execution) and Spice Flow (distribution). Apps that integrate Edge and/or Flow get instant access to chains with adapters.

Spice Edge is a composable execution API/SDK that connects your app and assets to the top liquidity venues, financial instruments, and yield sources across integrated chains. The benefits?

• You get access to new venues across chains,
• You can turn that access into better outcomes for your users,
• And you can be more competitive than ever with sharper execution and UX from a single integration.

Spice Flow is an API/SDK for scalable distribution that makes your app and assets feel native to users anywhere. With this product, you get:

• Reach, so you can scale your app to any chain,
• Better UX, making swaps, staking, and deposits native across ecosystems,
• Growth, by cutting costs and expanding faster through a single interaction and no fragmented liquidity or UX.

In essence, Spice Edge and Spice Flow are designed to replace multiple custom builds and allow for more efficient execution and distribution across DeFi.

Spicenet Is For DeFi

What matters in DeFi isn’t ideology. It’s outcomes. Spicenet makes that happen.

Our vision is simple: make DeFi a playground where everyone can win.

We’ve been in this space long enough, as builders and users. We’ve tried to build around these issues but ended up wasting time and resources. Spicenet is our contribution to DeFi: a set of products that enable the kind of access we needed and still need.

We’ve raised a $3.4M seed round led by HackVC and backed by leading firms and angels. We’re already working with partners across chains, apps, and infrastructure, such as Babylon, Citrea, Hemi, Injective, and Pharos. Many more are coming – we’re fully committed to this.

Our roadmap is dropping next week. Big things are coming. In the meantime:

If you’re a chain, you can partner with us.
If you’re an app, you can start integrating Spice Flow today.
For everyone else, you can join our community on Twitter or Discord and shape the future of DeFi with us.

Let’s build together. 🌶️