The public chain drama is far from over.

In the past year, the public chain track has witnessed a series of 'revivals' in heat and topics. The rebirth journey represented by Solana, the rise of the Move ecosystem led by Sui, and the success of Hyperliquid even before its mainnet launch are all reigniting market imagination in their own ways.

At the same time, usability and liquidity have been elevated to an unprecedented height in this process. For this reason, Supra, which emphasizes 'integrated design' and has garnered a lot of attention in a short period of time, has gradually stepped into the spotlight.

From Oracles to Public Chains, Supra's Vision

If you feel unfamiliar with Supra, you must have heard of the well-known oracle project SupraOracles. Supra evolved from SupraOracles, as the team has in-depth research and unique designs for data on-chain and cross-chain. As the project's technical landscape continues to expand, the team gradually realized that merely focusing on the oracle module could not fundamentally solve the pain points of blockchain applications in terms of liquidity, randomness, security, and scalability. Thus, the vision of 'extending from oracles to a truly high-throughput and high-security L1 public chain' gradually took shape. According to official information, the reason Supra is firmly moving towards the public chain track is that they believe that only by integrating key modules such as oracles and on-chain randomness (dVRF), cross-chain communication at the underlying level can achieve a 'win-win' between performance and security. Once the oracle and automation services are unified at the L1 layer, developers will no longer need to interface with multiple networks or a large number of external protocols, nor will they need to consider various cross-chain or data security risks, which greatly facilitates the implementation of applications. Around this goal, Supra continues to strengthen its oracle capabilities while also making substantial technical preparations at the underlying public chain and consensus layer, aiming to create an 'integrated future.'

How does Supra build an integrated future?

The market is already tired of the old clichés of Lego—composability—and is more focused on safe, reliable, and complete systems. 'Integration' often means consolidating multi-layered, multi-module functions into the same network, achieving a balance between security, performance, and usability. For Supra, the core goal is to enable developers to fulfill their needs—including oracles, cross-chain communication, randomness (dVRF), and automation—on the same public chain, eliminating the hassle of frequent interfacing with external protocols or deploying sub-chains. Specifically, Supra lays a solid technical and economic foundation for the 'integrated future' through several key modules.

Vertical Integration

In traditional blockchain projects, the underlying layer often only provides core consensus, execution, and data availability, while other functions—such as oracles, cross-chain bridges, automated networks, and on-chain randomness—are handled by external third-party networks or protocols. Although this offers flexibility, it also leads to various integration issues. Developers may need to switch back and forth between multiple networks for compatibility and security audits, extending the development cycle and increasing security risks.

Supra incorporates these key functions directly into the L1 layer through the concept of 'Vertical Integration': sharing security guarantees in the same consensus environment, reducing the latency and risk of vulnerabilities in cross-network calls. For developers, this means that applications can conveniently call services such as random numbers, oracle data, and cross-chain communication in a highly unified ecosystem without needing to repeatedly interface with external protocols. More importantly, these services are all 'born' on the same blockchain, sharing the same security mechanism at the consensus level, significantly reducing the likelihood of global risks caused by the 'weakest link.'

In terms of practical implementation, Supra not only provides a complete set of native cross-chain and oracle solutions but also makes deep optimizations in data availability and automated execution, ensuring high throughput and sub-second confirmation through its self-developed parallel consensus protocol (Moonshot). As functionalities further expand, Supra's vertical integration can bring more feasibility and guarantees for complex multi-contract interactions, cross-chain transfers, and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) operations.

Supra Container

Driven by the blockchain application chain and Layer 2 ideologies, more and more teams hope to have independent governance models and economic systems. However, traditional approaches often require building a separate side chain or application chain, which means that project parties have to bear the costs of node operation, security audits, and liquidity maintenance themselves. Even with AVS and RaaS, for many small teams, it is still a 'thankless task,' and it is easy to create a 'silo effect,' making it difficult to share liquidity with other applications. Not to mention the previous disputes between the Degen team and Conduit, which led to the migration of the entire Degen L3.

To solve these problems, Supra has introduced the concept of 'Containers.' Containers act like a 'micro-chain attached to the mainnet,' allowing project parties to customize their token models, governance mechanisms, or economic incentive plans within the container, maintaining a relatively independent operational space. At the same time, the container maintains a high degree of interoperability with the Supra mainnet: on one hand, it can share liquidity pools and security consensus with the mainnet, and on the other hand, containers can also leverage the built-in functionalities of the main chain, such as oracles and cross-chain communication, for 'plug-and-play.'

This container model balances flexibility and security, satisfying the project's pursuit of independence while preventing liquidity from being fragmented across multiple chains. For developers, this means they can achieve customized operations similar to 'application chains' without having to bear the heavy burden of node maintenance or security responsibilities, thus saving a lot of repetitive costs.

IntraLayer: Decentralized Autonomous Agents

Blockchain applications often require an 'unattended' automated execution method: for example, the liquidation logic in collateral lending platforms, the triggering of options agreements, or even random drops in games. Traditionally, these functions might rely on external keeper networks or scripts deployed by developers to monitor contract states and execute operations. While this approach is feasible, it still presents potential centralization dependencies or network failure risks, and increases the integration burden on developers.

To this end, Supra has introduced the concept of IntraLayer, a 'Decentralized Autonomous Agent,' aimed at embedding Keeper/Executor-like functionalities directly onto the chain. In other words, nodes in the network can detect trigger conditions set by applications in a decentralized manner and then automatically execute corresponding contract logic. Thus, dApps only need to register their automated tasks on Supra without needing to hand over logic to external scripts or centralized servers.

Since both the triggering and execution are completed on L1, and combined with Supra's unified security and consensus mechanism, IntraLayer excels in reliability and security. Once an application entrusts complex automated workflows to IntraLayer, it can maintain a 'never offline' self-operating system with fewer personnel and resources, eliminating concerns about external keepers failing.

Efficient Proof of Liquidity (PoEL) and Dynamic Function Market Makers (DFMM)

In addition to achieving high integration in the tech stack, the public chain's 'integration' is also reflected in the synergy of the economic model and application ecology. Supra combines network security, node staking, and capital liquidity through the PoEL (Proof of Economic Liquidity) mechanism, encouraging quality capital to invest in Supra's mainnet and liquidity pool. This way, the security of nodes and the financial support for applications collaborate, forming a 'win-win' cycle.

Specifically, PoEL allows token holders to stake various digital assets into the Supra network to earn corresponding returns based on asset type and risk exposure. This not only helps the mainnet maintain better liquidity in more scenarios but also enhances the robustness of network consensus. With this capital aggregation effect, developers can more easily access depth and users when deploying new applications, thus expanding their business scale.

The 'Dynamic Function Market Maker' (DFMM) running in conjunction with PoEL is the core matching mechanism provided by Supra for on-chain trading and resource exchange. Unlike traditional AMMs, DFMM focuses more on dynamically adjusting market-making parameters based on the actual needs and real-time status of the network, thereby more effectively balancing capital utilization and liquidity distribution, and reducing impermanent loss or excessive slippage. Coupled with the low latency and high throughput provided by Supra at the consensus level, DFMM has the opportunity to support more complex DeFi scenarios such as derivatives trading and options market making. The combination of PoEL and DFMM can help new projects quickly connect to the liquidity and user resources of the mainnet. Compared to those public chain environments that 'have technology but lack capital incentives,' Supra's integrated design in the financial layer may provide more comprehensive support for developers.

Overall, Supra has built a highly integrated public chain from underlying technology to economic model through a series of innovations such as vertical integration, the Moonshot consensus engine, containerized design, IntraLayer decentralized agents, and PoEL and DFMM. For developers, this means they can easily use key functions such as oracles, cross-chain, automation, and randomness in a secure and efficient environment without the need to introduce third-party services or deploy cumbersome cross-chain bridges. For funders and nodes, PoEL provides good returns and security for quality capital, while the dynamic function market maker mechanism can drive the prosperity of more DeFi scenarios.

Token Economics

For any public chain, the token economic model is crucial. Supra's token is called SUPRA, and it is primarily used for paying transaction fees, network staking, and various applications such as data access. According to official information, SUPRA will also play an important role in the network's PoEL (Proof of Economic Liquidity) mechanism, encouraging more quality assets to enter the liquidity pool of Supra, ensuring the stability and security of the network. PoEL incentivizes participants to stake various digital assets in the Supra network, gaining corresponding rewards, enhancing the nodes' ability to resist risks, making the token not just a payment and governance tool, but a core element of network liquidity.

A team with a strong academic background

If the technical architecture reflects Supra's engineering strength, then the academic background further strengthens its voice in the field of cutting-edge cryptography. The project's Chief Research Officer is Dr. Aniket Kate, one of the inventors of the KZG commitment, a cryptographer. KZG commitment technology plays a key role in Ethereum's scaling roadmap and is an important piece of zero-knowledge proofs, while the addition of this scholar-type founder provides solid academic support for Supra's cutting-edge research and underlying innovation. According to official information, the team also gathers other researchers with profound experience in cryptography, distributed systems, decentralized storage, and more, enabling Supra's technical research and development to maintain a higher standard at both the algorithmic and implementation levels.

Backed by top-tier capital

In terms of financing, Supra has already received over $42 million in funding and attracted participation from several well-known institutions, including Coinbase, Hashed, UBO, and Animoca. These investors have extensive resources and industry influence in the blockchain field, which also helps with Supra's community building, ecological drainage, and subsequent market promotion. Additionally, according to official news, Supra has also collaborated with many well-known projects such as Apechain and Pulme Network to provide support.

A large number of community activities

To promote industry development, Supra has launched a $100 million Super dAPP competition, reserving tokens worth $100 million to support the top dApps built on the Supra platform. All winners of the competition will receive a portion of this fund to help their projects go live and achieve success.

While building underlying technology and community ecology, Supra also pays great attention to industry interaction and promotion. According to official information, the team participated in or hosted multiple blockchain summits and hackathons in 2024, and has held numerous AMAs within the community. Through these offline and online activities, Supra has not only attracted developers and community members from around the world but has also gained insights into more application scenario pain points in actual dialogues to better iterate the project roadmap.

Throughout the entire public chain track, high-performance, scalable, and secure single-chain solutions remain an ideal answer for many developers and users. However, in recent times, various implementation ideas and solutions have emerged in a complicated manner, creating fierce competition. The emergence of Supra injects new imagination into this track, as they choose to directly achieve full-stack integration at the L1 level, allowing oracles, cross-chain communication, randomness, and automation to be natively implemented on the mainnet, aiming to simplify development costs and integration risks. As Supra's mainnet gradually improves, whether this integrated framework can truly become a new benchmark for public chains awaits further testing by more practical applications and communities. But at least from the current design philosophy and architectural thinking, Supra is indeed on an innovative path that balances technological integration and economic interaction.

Reference reading: (Technical Guide: A Complete Explanation of the Supra Blockchain Technology Stack)