quick look at @HermesOmnichain + @MaiaDAOEco : crosschain liquidity, ve(3,3) upgrades, and the subtle art of not fragmenting your ecosystem the eco centres around two tokens: - HERMES is inflationary, used to reward LPs and can be burned for voting power - MAIA is staked to earn a share of burned hermes and used to vote on gauge emissions instead of locking tokens like classic ve(3,3), users either burn HERMES or stake MAIA to vote for gauges those votes direct emissions and earn trading fees from staked LP tokens in each gauge (some prefer le burn mechanics over lockups) liquidity is unified on Arbitrum: - backed by balancer and uniswap pools - concentrated in one place but accessible from any supported chain through layerzero - users from any chain can interact without needing to bridge - projects can rent liquidity on arbitrum instead of fragmenting it across multiple deployments they also built Talos, their dynamic LP manager: - automatically rebalances and adjusts concentrated LP positions - helps LPs stay within range and earn more without constant micromanagement - turns manual LPing into a more automated and optimized yield strategy latest upgrade improves UX and routing: - integrated paraswap and across routing directly into the swap page - users can swap tokens crosschain, opt into talos strategies, and stake LPs into gauges all in one flow - supports many tokens and chains with fast execution and no hidden UI fees - routing often beats jumper, which makes it more competitive and sticky Maia also became the exclusive intents relayer for Across: - they fill intents requests and redirect the earnings back into bribes on their own gauges - this captures external value and loops it back into the ecosystem to reward aligned behavior the mechanics are well thought out rewards go to those who provide value liquidity stays deep and accessible and the protocol doesn’t rely on hype just clean, aligned infrastructure mucho excited to see how they continue to develop going forward for fixed and dynamic strategies check them out here: https://app.maiadao.io/strategies linn out: this post was written in collab with Maia/Hermes to help educate the masses (they said pls educate them linn and so linn did so)