Any Action, Any Chain, Less than 1 Second
This is a mirror of a post I wrote on the Omni blog. You can read the original here.
Omni is nearly live on mainnet. With this launch, we’re taking our first steps towards our mission: to make the Ethereum ecosystem feel like a single chain again.
Developers can deploy applications on a single L2 while reaching users and capital from the entire Ethereum ecosystem, including Ethereum L1.
Users can interact with applications on any rollup without bridging, managing gas, or switching networks.
Omni Core, soon to go live on mainnet, delivers industry leading cross-chain messaging latencies. SolverNet, launching in 2025, will bring us closer to our vision of Any Action, Any Chain, Less than 1s.
Today we’re excited to share Omni’s roadmap towards subsecond latencies in 2025, and a longer term roadmap for going beyond that.
We invite the ecosystem to collaborate with us as we push the frontier of performance and interoperability in crypto.
Context
Latency is the great equalizer. Traditional Web2 UX research suggests that while 2 second actions retain 60% of users, 1 second actions retain 90%. Frontier UX on par with Web2 requires subsecond latencies.
Rollup interoperability latencies exist on a spectrum. From slowest to fastest:
Native Settlement (e.g., L2 to L1 withdrawals): up to 7 days
Finalized Settlement (2 Beacon Chain epochs): ~15 minutes
Fast Settlement (sequencer confirmation): ~5 seconds
Intents Based Architectures: ~2-3 seconds
Intents with Off-Chain Mempool: <1 second
Omni Core will deliver levels 2 and 3 at launch. In 2025, SolverNet will roll out level 4 and push toward level 5, where latency is bottlenecked only by solver execution times.
How Will Omni Get There?
Omni’s SolverNet is an intents based architecture for arbitrary actions across chains. It will begin to reduce latencies to 2-3 seconds in 2025.
But today, SolverNet is bottlenecked by source chain transaction inclusion – which ranges from 500ms to 2s for rollups. To break the 1s barrier, we will shift the SolverNet mempool off-chain.
By orchestrating intent requests in an off-chain P2P network, execution will only be limited by destination chain finality — unlocking sub-second interoperability.
Outlook
We’re working with build partners to integrate SolverNet into application frontends. These integrations will enable users to deposit into protocols regardless of where they currently hold their tokens.
The Omni <> Symbiotic integration is live on Devnet today, letting users deposit into Symbiotic vaults from any L2.
In addition to those integrations, here’s what’s coming throughout 2025:
Permissionless solvers
Permissionless protocol integrations
A generalized Typescript SDK to send requests from any frontend to SolverNet
Closing Thoughts
Ethereum’s core value proposition has always been about composability via the world computer. L2 fragmentation has chipped away at that vision. Slow interoperability, siloed liquidity, and awkward chain management make Ethereum feel disjointed.
Omni will change that with Any Action, Any Chain, Less Than 1s.
If you’re excited about breaking the 1s barrier for rollups and redefining the Ethereum experience, reach out to tyler@omni.network.