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🔗🔗 Why is being cross-chain important for Prosper 🔗🔗 Today we would like to talk about one of the main Prosper feature that is often disregarded because is does not provide a direct user functionality : our cross-chain development. This year more than ever before, we've witnessed what was already predictable a few years back : the boom of alternative chains. The Crypto space is now composed of many projects handling their own blockchain and providing a wide variety of services and support to other projects. These projects themselves have contributed to bringing a lot of users and investors to cryptos in general. Although Ethereum is still unavoidable, those chains are very far from anecdotal and will keep developing in the near and long term future. We deeply believe that being connected to as many of these chains as possible is crucial and that only projects represented on multiple chains will thrive. Tapping on users and investors of these ecosystems is a big opportunity for Prosper to multiply its potential reach of course. But for Prosper, it's also about the liquidity. And that's very, very important. Because that's where previous and non cross-chain Prediction markets failed, or will fail. To functionate properly, a Prediction market needs to make sure its prediction pools receive as much liquidity as possible. Higher volumes guarantee the usability of the pool, its stability and the trustability of its outcome. We are convinced that being able to aggregate liquidity on multiple chains is the key to solving that fundamental issue of Prediction markets. So why isn't everyone doing it ? Because it's hard. Porting and integrating our code on each chain requires a tremendous amount of work, as each chain has its specificities and own structure. Maintaining it when it's deployed also requires a lot of efforts, as you could witness during our test launches on Polygon and Avalanche. And these were the visible tips of the months of development we invested in it. We'll talk more about what on-chain liquidity aggregation is and how it works in the future, but we felt like the community needs to understand how much being cross-chain is important and why we prioritized it compared to more user friendly, easier to grasp features.