The internet wouldn't be what it is today if it were as fragmented as blockchain. Imagine if you needed to understand which network protocol a website was using before you could visit it, or if sending an email to someone on a different mail server required a manual bridging step. That's where crypto is now.

I believe cross-chain infrastructure is the abstraction layer that makes blockchain usable for regular people. The challenge isn't technical — bridges and aggregators exist. The challenge is design: how do you present route selection (speed vs. cost vs. security) in a way that doesn't require a PhD in DeFi? How do you communicate the state of a transaction that's simultaneously happening on two different blockchains? How do you build tools that are flexible enough for power users but opinionated enough to prevent mistakes?

At Ramp Network, I saw this problem from the on-ramp and off-ramp side. Users struggle to understand that the same token can exist on different networks with different properties. The names overlap, the concepts are alien, and the consequences of choosing wrong are real. This isn't a failure of user intelligence — it's a failure of design.

I've also seen it as a user. I've traded on ByBit, Coinbase, and Binance, used decentralized exchanges like Jupiter and StellaSwap, and bridged assets across chains. I know what the current experience feels like from the other side of the screen — and I know where it breaks. These are the problems I want to spend my time on — translating inherently complex systems into experiences people don’t need to think twice about.