As developers gather for ETHDenver 2026, industry discourse around interoperability continues to gain prominence. Programming at the event highlights cross-network coordination and multinetwork execution as key themes in builders’ conversations.
For years, building cross-network DeFi has meant moving through a minefield of fragmentation. To let a user execute a simple swap or deposit, builders have been forced to manually stitch together disparate bridges, automated market makers (AMMs), money markets, and custom wallet logic. This bridge-first mentality creates fragile systems, introduces massive operational risk, and results in an unpredictable user experience.
Liquidity in crypto is large, but it is unevenly distributed. According to DeFiLlama, Ethereum alone holds roughly $55 billion in total value locked, while networks like Solana and BNB Chain hold under $10 billion each. That means capital is spread across separate ecosystems rather than pooled together.
For common trades on major networks, liquidity is strong. But when users move assets across networks or trade smaller tokens, they often face thinner pools, higher slippage, and more execution risk. For developers, this fragmentation makes it harder to guarantee smooth and predictable transactions.
Building from nearly a decade of infrastructure experience at the ICON Foundation, SODAX has completely moved from Layer 1 infrastructure to application-layer DeFi. It is now a cross-network execution coordination system.
The core value is simple: SODAX coordinates cross-network complexity through its infrastructure. This enables builders to deliver outcome-oriented financial actions under real conditions, while reducing reliance on external bridges and coordinating fragmented liquidity.
Why Execution Coordination Matters
When developers build multi-network applications, they use bridge protocols (like LayerZero or Wormhole) or aggregators (like LiFi or THORChain). Bridges were designed to move assets securely between networks. Aggregators were designed to optimize routing across multiple DEXs. Both serve these purposes effectively.
However, coordinating execution across networks end-to-end requires a different approach. Bridge protocols move assets from Point A to Point B, but don’t coordinate the trade execution or manage liquidity for the transaction. Aggregators route trades through third-party DEXs, which introduces reliance on external liquidity providers whose availability can vary during market volatility. Integrating these solutions often requires maintaining separate codebases for EVM and non-EVM environments.
SODAX addresses this coordination gap with a single cross-chain DeFi SDK that lets developers declare intended outcomes while SODAX coordinates the execution path and liquidity access across networks.
The SODAX Approach: Intents-Based Architecture
Beyond simply moving assets, SODAX ensures that transactions follow the same predictable process across different blockchains, so actions complete under real conditions instead of breaking midway.
At the heart of the SODAX SDK is an intents-based architecture. Instead of forcing the user, or the developer, to manage source and destination networks, handle wrapped tokens, or calculate gas across multiple networks, the SDK utilizes a lightweight API to route complex actions.
Users simply declare their intent, or the desired outcome of the transaction (e.g. swapping ETH on Arbitrum to USDC on Stellar). The SODAX solver engine coordinates the execution path to match those Intents to the optimal execution path.
This abstraction means that cross-network execution feels completely coherent to the end-user, even when the underlying systems are entirely disparate.
The Protocol-Owned Liquidity Advantage
To ensure that Intents are resolved predictably and efficiently, SODAX relies on native Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) deployed through its Money Market.
Currently featuring over $6M+ in protocol-owned liquidity across major assets like BTC, ETH, SUI, and XLM, SODAX reduces reliance on fragmented third-party liquidity.
For developers, POL provides access to a stable liquidity inventory with consistent pricing. You’re no longer at the mercy of yield farmers moving their capital elsewhere. End users get consistent, predictable pricing when they hit “swap”. This structural advantage provides more predictable performance.
Unified Access to 14+ Networks
While many competitors strictly cater to Ethereum and its Layer 2s, the SODAX SDK provides a single integration point that covers 14+ EVM and non-EVM networks.
Through one integration, builders gain access to:
- EVM Networks: Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Optimism, LightLink, and HyperEVM.
- Non-EVM & Specialized Networks: Sui, Stellar, Solana, ICON, and the Sonic hub-chain.
Support for Bitcoin, NEAR, Redbelly, Stacks, Aleo, Giwa, and Kaia is actively in development. This means developers can build applications that tap into liquidity on Solana (via Raydium) or Sui (via Cetus) without having to rewrite their smart contracts in Rust or Move.
Execution Performance: The Data Speaks
SODAX’s infrastructure is built on the Sonic hub-chain, a highly optimized, EVM-compatible Layer 1 that boasts approximately 200ms finality. This finality enables faster arbitrage, tighter price convergence, and highly reliable execution.
In Q4 2025, the SODAX network maintained an average intents resolution time of just 21.13 seconds. Execution times reflect typical conditions across integrated networks. SODAX is designed to behave predictably as network conditions change, with built-in recovery paths for partial failures.
This infrastructure translates to measurable cost advantages. In a recent competitive analysis (October 2025) comparing SODAX to a leading aggregator (deBridge), a $3,800 ETH swap from Arbitrum to Solana routed through SODAX saved the user $52 (1.37%) in total execution costs.
Key Performance Metrics:
- Fixed 0.1% frontend fee: No hidden post-quote fee additions commonly found in aggregators.
- 0.1% output variance: Predictable costs and highly reliable pricing for both small trades and whale transactions.
- MEV-protected routing: Safeguarding users from front-running and sandwich attacks.
- 20–30 second execution times: Moving across networks without the latency of traditional bridging.
Proven Production Integrations
The SODAX SDK is actively powering Web3 platforms. A typical integration takes roughly one week from exploration to deployment.
- Amped Finance: Deployed cross-network index pools on the Sonic network, utilizing the SDK to move from concept to full deployment in just 3-4 days. “Amped is a direct benefitter of this solving capability, because we can provide a new product with plenty of liquidity available,” said Dan Enright, founder of Amped Finance. “I’m excited for the potential of new developers coming to the network to be able to use the SDK developing more innovative DeFi products as well.”
- Houdini Swap: Integrated the SDK to access competitive cross-network execution and 50+ liquidity sources across EVM, Solana, and Sui ecosystems.
- Pyth Network: SODAX utilizes Pyth’s oracle price feeds for ICX/SODA across 100+ networks, establishing a critical foundation for lending protocols and collateral management.
- LightLink (L2): Used the SDK to let users access and use tokens from different blockchains (ie, SOL.LL) with trading liquidity attached. These ‘sodaVariant’ tokens effectively bootstrap their DeFi ecosystem without the massive overhead of building a proprietary bridge or liquidity for wrapped tokens.
- Hana Wallet: Integrated the SODAX SDK to offer in-app cross-network swaps without users ever seeing a bridge or wrapped token. Following the integration, weekly top-up volume surged nearly 9x, peaking at over $4,000 within weeks.
- Balanced: Successfully powering live cross-network swaps and unified liquidity access directly on their platform.
- Redbelly (in progress): Demonstrated the SDK’s flexibility by integrating cross-network execution within a highly regulated, KYC-compliant blockchain environment tailored for Real World Assets (RWAs).
The Developer Value Proposition
The SODAX SDK was built to get out of your way. It offers a plug-and-play JS/TS environment with comprehensive documentation designed for better onboarding.
Depending on your needs, you can use three distinct layers of the SODAX stack:
- Core SDK (Foundation Layer): Offers maximum control for custom logic. Tap directly into the intents-based solver, integrate with the money market, access bnUSD minting, and route across 14+ networks.
- Wallet SDK (Connection Layer): Streamlines multi-network wallet connectivity, featuring pre-built connection logic for both EVM and non-EVM environments.
- dAppKit (Experience Layer): Opinionated, production-ready React components for swaps, lending, borrowing, and wallet connectivity. Built on top of the Core and Wallet SDKs, this is the fastest way to launch cross-network features.
Build the Outcome, Not the Infrastructure
As SODAX targets $3M in monthly transaction volume and expands its ecosystem this quarter, the mission remains clear: developers should spend their time building incredible user experiences, not managing fragmented liquidity and volatile cross-network states.
SODAX provides the protocol-owned liquidity, the intents-based routing, and the multi-network coverage you need to deliver better decentralized finance to your users.